The Great Talent of The Qing Taizu Nurhaci (10 • You Die and Live for the Throne)

Since ancient times, the succession to the throne in history has been full of mysterious stories, even sword and light sword shadows, bloody rain and wind. For example, the "Change of Xuanwu Gate" by Li Shimin, the King of Qin in the Tang Dynasty, the "Candlelight Axe Shadow" by Zhao Kuangyin, the Grandfather of the Song Dynasty, and so on. So after Nurhaci's death, what are the stories about the continuation of the throne?

At the time of Nurhaci's reign, his son's struggle for the Khan's throne had begun to appear. It is mainly concentrated in the middle of the four baylors or sometimes called the "four kings". Each of the four great bayes had heavy troops, was rich and powerful, and had accumulated military merit, superior to their brothers. Among the four baylors, due to different situations and different backgrounds, they show their respective advantages and disadvantages. For example, Amin is the son of Surhaci, his father died of sin, he has been implicated, mainly because he is not Nurhaci's parent, can not talk about the inheritance issue, in fact he did not participate, this is not to say that he has no ideas, but the blood relationship is a layer of difference, self-knowledge is not possible, wisely avoid this matter, but also interesting. Mang Gultai was born to concubine Fucha, because he was brave and resourceful, not liked by his father, and there was little possibility of being an heir. Only Dai Shan and Huang Taiji were left with the same conditions. Daishan's advantages are that he is a leader, has many military merits, is generous, and is quite popular; where he is deficient, his ability is mediocre, he often makes mistakes, and he is not appreciated by his father. Emperor Taiji was wise and courageous, shrewd and strong, and was superior to his brothers in fighting wars, using tactics, and strategizing; he dared to fight and rush in battle, was not afraid of sacrifice, and showed extraordinary courage; he was meticulous in his handling of affairs, prudent in his speech, followed the rules, and rarely made mistakes. All this has won the favor of his father, and he loves him like "heart and liver" and "eyeballs". The brothers secretly exerted themselves and performed many dramatic events. Nurhaci is also very annoyed.

At the beginning of March of the seventh year of the Mandate of Heaven (1622), Nurhaci summoned All beylers and explicitly declared that those who succeeded him as king would be elected by the Eight Banners of Belle, "Those who have the ability and virtue to receive the counsel may succeed me." This is the message to his sons that he no longer appoints an heir, but that the Eight Banners and Shuo Belle have agreed to jointly elect the heir. The sons understood their father's intentions, and with the principle of succession of the heirs, no one dared to provoke an incident, and the dispute over the throne of the heirs and khans was temporarily put to rest.

In the eleventh year of the Mandate of Heaven (tomorrow, 1626), on August 11, 1626, Nurha died unexpectedly at the age of sixty-eight.

A generation of heroes, the founders and founders of the future Qing Dynasty, quietly passed away. Before his death, he had already made clear instructions for state affairs and his descendants, and until his death, he would not leave any more last words. Nurhaci's body was placed in a coffin, carried by the ministers of The Beyler in shifts, and arrived in Shenyang at the beginning of the night, where it was placed in the palace. At this time, the most concerned thing for the ministers of Beyler was whether the old Khan had left a political will when he was alone with the grand concubine Abbahai at the time of his death, that is, to whom Nurhaci had passed the Khan's throne.

Grand Concubine Abhay hesitated nervously for a long time. In the end, the last words of the old Khan King were spoken: the fourteenth son Dolgun would inherit the Khan's throne, and the Great Belle would assist him in the government, and when Dolgun became an adult, he would return to the government on behalf of the good.

Such an outcome may have been expected, but it was clearly not in keeping with the wishes of most of the Baylor ministers present at the time. Therefore, the voices of questioning Abba hai continued. The Ministers of Baylor seized one of the fatal weaknesses of The Great Concubine Abbahai: when the Khan King Died, only Abbahai was by his side, and no one else could testify by his side, so that the mouth of the Grand Concubine alone could not prove that such a will was true.

Therefore, the four great Belledesan, Amin, Mang Gultai, and Huang Taiji urgently convened a meeting that was very important to the future political situation of Houjin. After the meeting, the four baylors made an announcement, pushing the drama of the succession of the reserve to a climax. First, they denied the deathbed of TheOdorgun, the Grand Concubine. Instead, he conveyed to Abahai another last word dictated by the old Khan king to the four great beylers: In the end, I will be martyred! The sudden and major change surprised the officials present at the time! Princess Abhay was thirty-six years old at the time, in her prime, and her three sons, Azig, were now adults at the age of twenty-two, Dorgon was only fifteen, and Dordog was thirteen. Out of nostalgia for the world and concern for his beloved son, Aba Hai did everything in his power, hoping that things would turn around. But Zhu Belle did not budge, and the kings insisted: "The first emperor (referring to Nurhaci) has a destiny, and even if he does not want to change it, he cannot change it!" The concubines, at their strong insistence, had to give in. So she put on her dress and all kinds of jewelry, and couldn't help but weep bitterly, pleading: "I have served the emperor since I was twelve years old, and I have been rich in food." For twenty-six years, I could not bear to leave him, so I went underground. My second youngest sons, Dorgon and Dolgun, look forward to grace. The kings agreed with their mouths and took on the responsibility of nurturing. Nurhaci committed suicide on August 12, the day after Nurhaci's death, at the age of seven Chinese New Year's Eve. His body was placed in the northwest corner of Shenyang city in the northwest corner of Shenyang, and then buried in Shenyang's East Shizuitou Mountain (today's Pillar Mountain), called Fuling, because it was in the east of Shenyang, so it was commonly known as "Dongling".

Qing Dongling

Also martyred at the same time as the concubines were Azigen and Dainza. They are inferior, have nothing to do with the overall situation, and voluntarily die, not persecuted.

In fact, forcing the death of the concubine is a victim of the Khan's position competition. During Nurhaci's lifetime, he did not appoint an heir and established the principle of joint selection. At that time, the most ordered successors, as mentioned above, were daishan, long-standing, and powerful; second, emperor Taiji, who was outstanding in talent and prestige; third, Dorgon, because of his father's favor, although he was fifteen years old, already had the strength of the red and red flags with his thirteen-year-old brother Dodo, and his mother, Nurhaci, was favored by Nurhaci, was in her prime, and was multi-changeable, had the strength of two sons, and with the status of a grand concubine, she could control the situation. This poses a threat to others vying for the Khan position. With the interests converging, the four Baylors joined forces to put the concubine to death. They said that the former emperor had a "last word", which was not seen in the written word, but was only transmitted orally, and they did not know when and where to leave the last words, so it was difficult to distinguish between true and false. However, after more than ten years of research by many scholars, it has been determined that the death of the concubine was persecuted by Dai Shan, Huang Taiji and others, and there is no doubt.

However, political struggles have always been brutal, and in this way, the fifteen-year-old Dorgon was deprived of the possibility of ascending the throne by Emperor Taiji, who later became the regent of the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. The Shunzhi Emperor hated Dolgun very much, and demoted Dolgun to the rank of Empress Borzigit as a Concubine of Jing, and expelled Dolgun's mother, Concubine Abhay, from the Temple, and posthumously claimed all honorific titles.

After the funeral of Nurhaci and the concubine, and after internal strife and secret head, a compromise was finally reached, and Nurhaci's eighth son, the fourth Belle Emperor Taiji, was elected as Khan, becoming the legitimate heir to his father's Khan's throne, for Emperor Taizong of Qing. He changed his name to Tiancong. Since then, Houjin has entered a new historical period.

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