In fact, there is a very uncommon sense fact in the category of Nanming history, that is, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin who is almost unknown to everyone, is related to himFirst-hand Ming Fang historical materials are basically not preserved.
The only thing I can think of at the moment are the two letters of help from Li Dingguo to Zheng Chenggong preserved in the Ming and Zheng historical materials "The Records of the First King", and part of one of them is written like this."He is not ashamed of his thin talents, he is wrong to take on a huge responsibility, and he is ordered to be captured, and the brief book is contained in the special expedition. Those who are entangled with the Quartet Town are also the spirits of the Son of Heaven. The Confucian chief of the Hakka Xiyue Punishment Treacherous, the true captive of the Hengyang Owl in midwinter, has been turbid for nine years, and has only served for the imperial court. However, the current emperor should be transported to shelter Fu, and he did not dare to say that he had the permission to plan, and he wanted to see that there was no difficulty in extinguishing his ears
The princes under the Son of Heaven claimed that Li Dingguo's cultural level should be quite high, and the content of the other two letters can be summarized as Li Dingguo's invitation to Zheng Chenggong, asking him to enter Guangdong, and according to Zheng Chenggong's reply, the two families still have plans to marry."As for the marriage discussion, I am happy to hear my fate, and I can only accept it. The younger brother and the youngest daughter have already made a promise, and there is a brother's daughter, who wants to support the carrot. The younger brother is a family, although the daughter of the brother is not a daughter, but the matter must be bright, and he does not dare not tell the truth, but he is choosing"There's nothing else of value.
The first-hand historical materials of the Southern Ming Dynasty that are barely related to Li Dingguo include the 12th year of Yongli included in the "Ming Dynasty Archives Collection".Qingyang Wang Ma Weixing and others are strictly punished, and soldiers from all walks of life are not allowed to catch horses in battle"Other than that, it doesn't seem like there's really much.
So this also leads to a problem, Li Dingguo, a general who has to be mentioned in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, many questions about him are still debatable, or so to speak, he is still a confusing figure. What was his relationship with the Yongli court? What is his level of education? What was the situation of the shogunate of Li Dingguo? Li Dingguo conquered Guilin, killed the king of Dingnan, Kong Youde, although the battle of Hengzhou did not achieve the ideal results, but killed the prince Nikan, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu defeated Sun Kewang's rebels in Jiaoshui, there will inevitably be a war report, similar to "for the recovery of Guilin to capture the puppet official and puppet king Fu Fafei to report the great victory" such a document remains, which must record the specific deployment and actual losses of the Ming and Qing armies in Guilin and Hengzhou.
If these documents are reproduced in the world, some details about the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty will inevitably be supplemented. There are even some notes written by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty that can provide some details, such as the question of Li Dingguo's surname, is Li Dingguo also a "national surname"?
For example, the evaluation of Li Dingguo in "The Interpretation of the History of Southern Xinjiang".Although Dingguo started to be disturbed, it was able to break the party and serve the king, and it has always been uninterrupted and never surrendered. To the heavens to see its sincerity, pray for death to die, can be described as virtuous. Push its late festival, but you can't kill a Ma Jixiang for regrets; If you want it to save the sunset of Deng Lin and resist the heavenly soldiers in a corner, it is too harsh. Quan's said: Qu Weng Mountain's inscription Li Xianwu Wang Ancestral Cloud: Those who have never given surnames are only Jin Wang Xian; It is said that the country is also determined. Biography of King Gui of the Ming Dynasty: After the death of the king, the big book said: Li Dingguo died, and his son surrendered to his subordinates; And then the final volume. However, the pawn of the country is about the king. Dingguo can also be blinded. Alack! King Li Jin is to Yongming, Huang Jingnan is to King Yun, and Zhang Sima is to Lu Jianguo".Naturally, there is no need to say much, and naturally it must be to praise Li Dingguo's loyalty to the emperor.
It quotes an inscription by Qu Dajun".Quan's said: Qu Weng Mountain's inscription Li Xianwu Wang Ancestral Cloud: Those who have never given surnames are only Jin Wang Xian; It is said that the country is also determined. "Qu Wengshan is Qu Dajun, Qu Dajun's inscription translates to be the person who was given the surname of the country (Zhu), only Li Dingguo is virtuous, and it is also mentioned that Li Dingguo's nickname is Xianwu, but I don't know who gave Li Dingguo after entering the Qing Dynasty".Li Xianwu Wang Temple
This shows one point, Li Dingguo was already given the surname Zhu at least when he was named the king of Jin, that is, it is not right to call him Li Dingguo, he should be called Zhu Dingguo, the king of the Ming Dynasty, and even not only the surname, but also the name.
This is not without basis. Huang Zongxi's "Yongli Chronicle" once mentioned "".However, it has been renamed the king of Jingjun, and the surname of the country is Zhu Chaozong; Dingguo said Li Rujing, and Wenxiu said Liu RuoqiIt can be seen that in the early days of contact with the Yongli court, Sun Kewang had already been given the surname Zhu and Zhu Chaozong, but it is also clear here that Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were only given names, and they were not given surnames. It is clearly recorded in the Qing historical materials that Zheng Chenggong gave the surname".And Quanzhou has Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Hongkui pretending to be Dingguo Gong, Zheng Zhibao pretending to be Cheng Jibo, and his son Zheng Chenggong pretending to be surnamed Zhu, and Zheng's relatives are each called the thief head and civil and militaryHowever, the historical materials about the battle with the Yongli court in the southwest do not mention that the old general of the Great Western Army was given the surname by the Yongli court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and his real name is called when he encounters it.
However, after Li Dingguo welcomed the Yongli Emperor into Yunnan, his power was like the sky, and he was promoted from the king of Xining to the prince of Jin, and even when the army was defeated in 1658, it was still there".The palace was all dressed up, but did not get what to do. At that time, dozens of people in Qianshu were sighing to each other, thinking that if the saint drove away, he would have a life's road, Fang Jinshu was prosperous, Xunzhen was like a cloud, and the king of Gongchang was full of Zunyi, if fortunately Shu was trying to with, the perfect strategy was also. Although the discussion was boiling, and everyone was afraid of the king of Jin, no one dared to speakIt can be seen that if Li Dingguo really got the emperor's surname, it would probably be in these two years, but the "History of An Longyi", also written by Qu Dajun, did not mention that Li Dingguo was given a surname.
Of course, there is also a possibility, that is, Li Dingguo was indeed not given a surname, and his surname was still Li from beginning to end. The historical material of the Southern Ming Dynasty "Records of the Late Emperor and Ming Dynasty" once mentioned a conversation between Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu after the defeat of Sun Kewang".My generation was forced by the ** filthy officials, so they rebelled, overturned the court society, we are not responsible for the country, the country is not responsible for us, now it is the younger brother of the Emperor Lie, if you work together to protect it, if you restore the Central Plains with Yunnan and Guizhou, at that time you will be crowned with your wife and son, and you will return to your hometown, and you will also have to go back to history, if you only act indiscriminately with the King of Qin, even if you call the king the prince, you must not return to the right in the end, but my generation today takes the King of Qin as Dong Zhuo, and I am afraid that Dong Zhuo will come after another Cao Cao"Who Cao Cao is here, needless to say.
We can also know from this that after Sun Kewang's defeat, Li Dingguo certainly had some tendencies to be big, but there were still forces in the court to contain him. Therefore, the prince who has been canonized as the king of Jin is already the emperor's grace, how can he expect to give his surname? If you really have to give a surname, wouldn't you have taken the road of Sun Kewang again? That Liu Wenxiu".I am afraid that Dong Zhuo will come after another Cao CaoThe worry has become a reality, so it can be said that Li Dingguo's title to the king of Jin may be the biggest concession made by the royalist faction of the Ming Dynasty in the imperial court. And Qu Dajun's so-called "surname" may just be a synonym for the king. But again, since most of the first-hand historical materials and official historical materials of the Yongli Imperial Court have disappeared, everything is just speculation.