Originally Posted by
Doc Kwok
My guess is that if he did succeed, then he would indeed abolish the Qing customs - not because of any loyalty towards the Han, but rather to cement the idea that he had defeated them in everyones' minds.
I wonder what kind of emperor he would have become? My guess is that he would behave much like Zhu Yuanzhang, ruthless and paranoid, killing all his enemies, real and imagined. The result would, ironically, probably indeed be very much like a Ming dynasty Mark II, though the Ming loyalists would thoroughly deny it.