Was it right or wrong for Yuan Chonghuan to kill Mao Wenlong?

No matter what Mao Wenlong's faults are, the sin is not death. Yuan Chonghuan's move undoubtedly made the relatives painful, the enemy fast, the most obvious example is that after Mao Wenlong was killed, his two sons Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were dissatisfied, and no one could control it, and soon launched a rebellion, and finally crossed the sea with a large number of European-style cannons to surrender Houjin, and the two and the cannons they brought made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty.

The right or wrong of Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong has always been controversial in the art world, the so-called benevolent see the benevolent, and the wise see the wise. Yan Chongnian in "Sixty Years of the Death of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty" published by Zhonghua Book Company believes that Yuan Chonghuan was not wrong to kill Mao Wenlong. Fan Shuzhi, a professor of history at Fudan University, argued that Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong was not without mistake in "Power and Blood: Officialdom Politics of the Ming Empire" published by Zhonghua Book Company.

Yan Chongnian and Fan Shuzhi are both masters of Ming and Qing history. The author then put together the different views of the two and let the reader judge for himself. Yan Chongnian's views in the text are taken from the twenty-ninth lecture "Supervising Ji Liao" and the thirtieth lecture "Cutting Mao Wenlong" in "Sixty Years of the Ming Dynasty and Qing Xing", and Fan Shuzhi's views are taken from "Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong" in "Power and Blood: Officialdom Politics of the Ming Empire".

Yuan was killed by Emperor Chongzhen, in my opinion, first of all, he used the power in his hands to kill people casually, and it was hateful to kill generals who were on an equal footing with him! weakened themselves. Selling rice and helping the enemy is really hateful. The drama said that if you boast about Haikou, you are not wronged if you are late.

Yuan Chonghuan must have made a mistake in killing Mao Wenlong: first, although Yuan Chonghuan is the chief soldier, Mao Wenlong is the deputy chief soldier, and he is only one level lower than Yuan, and it is his fault that Yuan killed Mao Wenlong without consulting the imperial court; Second, Mao Wenlong has a great restraining force on the Houjin, and has a great effect on the imperial court against the Houjin, after Yuan killed Mao Wenlong, the Houjin surrounded the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty almost perished ahead of schedule.

is not wrong, I personally think that Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong is a matter that is both in line with national law and military regulations. But I have to say that the killing of Mao Wenlong did have a great impact on the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin.

Yes, because Mao Wenlong's military ability was very strong at that time, it would be better to have his naval strength in the Ming Dynasty.

I think Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong was wrong, and it was a very fatal mistake. Because of this mistake, it led to two particularly serious consequences, the first is that after Mao Wenlong's death, the Phi Island he photographed and guarded by the gods gradually escaped the control of the Ming Dynasty, and the effect on the Houjin disappeared. It is because of this appearance that Houjin has no worries and initiates changes.

If Mao Wenlong didn't die, Hou Jin wouldn't dare to do it at all.

The second point is that after Mao Wenlong died, his son and his subordinates all defected to Houjin after the rebellion, which also had a very big impact on the strategic deployment of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong. Maybe Mao Wenlong really deserves to be killed, but it should definitely not be Yuan Chonghuan who kills him. Mao Wenlong's subordinates have always recognized people and organizations, so after he died, no matter how Yuan Chonghuan tried to appease his subordinates, he did not let them submit.

Later, they rebelled with Mao Wenlong's son, and there was no way to recover the situation in Liaodong.

In fact, Mao Wenlong, as a hero in troubled times, he does not want to serve the court and recover Liaodong like Yuan Chonghuan, he does not have such feelings for his family and country, but this person exists, but he has a certain value. Killing him can't be said to be wrong, but the timing is really wrong. Yuan Chonghuan actually didn't want to kill him at the beginning, but just wanted to restrict his rights through some means, but Mao Wenlong relied on his rights to ignore him and disobey him.

It's just that because the Manchu Qing Dynasty was relatively strong at that time, and the Ming army in Liaodong was relatively weak, it was not the best time to kill him at this time, but the so-called raising tigers for trouble, if he was allowed to develop like this, then his future is really difficult to say. After he died, all of his generals took the initiative to join the Manchus, and to be honest, if he didn't, they might have taken refuge in the Manchus together, so keeping him was also a scourge.

I think he was really wrong, because it was precisely because he killed Mao Wenlong that led to the indirect demise of the Ming Dynasty, and it also led to the destruction of his family.

Yuan Chonghuan is a military general who is a very well-known stupid staring at the source in Chinese history, and he has long been unaccustomed to Mao Wenlong, so he really killed Mao Wenlong, which is not his fault.

It's really wrong, because Mao Wenlong is suspected of being framed, and he is a general soldier who serves the country loyally, so he is really wrong.