Many people are puzzled, Hong Chengchou worked hard for the Qing Dynasty, why didn't the Qing Dynasty even give him a title?There is only one possibility for the answer, that is, even the Qing Dynasty himself looked down on Hong Chengchou.
When Hong Chengchou died, it was the fourth year of Kangxi, and the Qing Dynasty did not give him a nickname until two years later, in the sixth year of Kangxi, and sent him an inscription, the content of which is also a bit yin and yang. The inscription says that the Qing Dynasty wiped out the 130,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty in Jinzhou in one go, and captured you Hong Chengchou. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, in order to repay our nurturing grace, you Hong Chengchou has been active, killing all sides for us in the southwest region, with a good attitude, and we are very satisfied.
It stands to reason that like this kind of memorial article, at least try to give some face, but the Qing Dynasty gave Hong Chengchou no face at all, it is completely a tone of teaching people, quite a bit of a tone between a devil and a translator, but this attitude is actually normal, Hong Chengchou was once the governor of Jiliao in the Ming Dynasty, and was captured by the Qing army after the defeat of Songjin. People have long been successfully persuaded by Fan Wencheng to surrender, and since then he has shaved his hair and changed his clothes to start working for the Qing army, and he sold this life very really, when he was serving as the Jiangnan Economic Strategy, he wantonly hunted down and killed anti-Qing people, such as Huang Daozhou and Chen Zilong, these people were all killed by him.
At that time, the Southern Ming Dynasty was merging with the Qing Army, and Li Dingguo of the Southern Ming Dynasty had won successive battles, and the situation was very good. Just when the Qing army was about to negotiate peace, Hong Chengchou took the initiative to stand up and resolutely oppose peace. After serving as the governor of the five southwestern provinces, he tried to find a way to drag Nanming, and then all kinds of coercion and temptation were divided. In addition, Nanming himself was also a mess internally, and within a few days, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo had internal strife, and the Qing army completed the turnaround at once, which was also the historical event highlighted in the commendation article awarded by Kangxi to Hong Chengchou later.
But in fact, the Qing Dynasty also used and guarded against the rebel generals of the previous generation, such as Wu Sangui, who had an army in his hand, and could use it, and he had to keep a hand, so the titles given were quite high, but people like Hong Chengchou who were desperate and did not pose much threat, the Qing court did not need to hide it at all, and after people like Hong Chengchou were used up, they were worthless. So after helping the Qing army pacify the southwest, Hong Chengchou didn't even get a viscount, and the Qing Dynasty only gave him a third-class light car lieutenant who did not enter the stream.
In the Qianlong period, Hong Chengchou, a minister of the Ming Dynasty who betrayed and surrendered in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the Hanchen who made the greatest contribution to the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, was also whipped by Qianlong. Emperor Qianlong personally wrote: Although Hong Chengchou sacrificed his life for the Qing Dynasty, as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, in terms of major rights and wrongs, it is definitely not an excellent positive example. In the end, with a wave of his hand, he was filmed into "The Legend of the Second Minister" and became an officially recognized traitor of the Qing Dynasty. For such a person, the Qing court naturally did not need to give him any title.