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1643, Zhang captured Hengzhou, Zhu fled to Guangxi and died in Cangwu. Shortly after Emperor Long was crowned Emperor, Zhu Youlang was crowned Wang Gui.
1646, the dragon emperor was killed, and there was no emperor in the Ming dynasty. As the saying goes, "a country can't live without its owner for a day." According to the inheritance rules of the Ming Dynasty at that time, only Zhu Youlang was left among the male descendants of Emperor Long. In the profile of Emperor Li Yong, he began to claim the title of Emperor Li Yong in Zhaoqing, Guangdong. At that time, Tang also proclaimed himself emperor in Guangzhou, and the two began to kill each other and compete for the so-called orthodox position.
It took only 40 days for the Qing soldiers to wipe out the Tang dynasty, and Zhu Youlang was forced to flee to Guangxi, where he was displaced and had a very bad life. The Li Yong regime also joined forces with the peasant army to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but there were too many contradictions between them and they cheated each other. In particular, the peasant army suffered from bullying and exclusion, and could not unite with the outside world. In this way, it was defeated by the Qing army, and then the peasant army broke away from the regime and fought against the Qing dynasty alone. Zhu Youlang lost all his hard-won territory. 1659, Zhu Youlang fled to Myanmar. 1622, Wu Sangui led the troops into Myanmar. At this time, the internal turmoil in Myanmar made Wu Sangui unable to resist, so he had to hand over Zhu Youlang. Wu Sangui trapped him in Kunming and executed Zhu Youlang in Kunming. To sum up, through a brief introduction to Li Yong, we can see that Li Yong is not suitable to be emperor to some extent.
When the Qing army hit Yunnan, Emperor Li Yong, Zhu Youlang, had no choice but to flee to Myanmar. In Mandalay, the capital of Myanmar, Emperor Li Yong met with King Manda of Myanmar.
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As for the end of Emperor Li Yong, we should start with his escape. After he fled to Myanmar, he was taken in by the local people, but the treatment was not good. He lived in a woodshed and endured poverty and humiliation.
In the second year of Li Yong's life in Myanmar, Wu Sangui led the Qing army into Myanmar. At that time, Myanmar was in some turmoil, and he could not resist Wu Sangui at all. He could only agree to his request, and launched an army to surround Zhu Youlang's residence and lied to him that he would take the oath with him. Zhu Youlang's men came out one by one and were killed one by one. Finally, Zhu Youlang knew he couldn't escape, so he wrote a letter to Wu Sangui, hoping to save his life, but Wu Sangui didn't accept the contents of the letter.
After reading the letter, Wu Sangui began to urge the king of Myanmar to hand over the emperor Li Yong. The helpless king of Myanmar had to send troops to bring Zhu Youlang out, and then Wu Sangui escorted him to Yunnan and imprisoned him in Kunming. To sum up, ignorance of people is an important reason for Li Yong's bad ending.
After catching Emperor Li Yong, Wu Sangui originally planned to escort Zhu Youlang back to Beijing for execution, but he was afraid of being robbed by anti-Qing people on the road, so he applied to the court to take Zhu Youlang to Zhu Hang, Kunming. Wu Sangui also ordered Kunming magistrate of a county to burn all coffins, and then the next day Wu Sangui picked up a few bones and returned to Beijing to testify. Later, Yunnan people used the grave as an excuse to find some Zhu Youlang's ashes and buried them in Taihua Mountain. As a result, Emperor Li Yong was killed in Kunming.