Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty died at the age of six and died at the age of twenty-four. Whether he died of illness or a monk, it was a relatively sudden thing that he was not the emperor anyway. There certainly wasn't much thought about his future heirs.
Although the Shunzhi Emperor was young, the early marriage of the Qing Dynasty prevailed, and there was no shortage of twenty-four-year-old Shunzhi harems, and there were not many children. According to statistics, the 24-year-old Shunzhi had 4 empresses, 7 concubines, 9 concubines, and 17 Gege (not daughters are concubines). There are also 8 princes and 6 princesses in the descendants. But how could it be the turn of the six-year-old third brother Xuan Ye to become emperor?
First of all, although Shunzhi has 8 princes, in terms of ranking, only the old second Fuquan can compete with Xuan Ye. The emperor's eldest son Niu Niu died less than 100 days after his birth, and Prince Rong, the fourth son of the emperor born to Concubine Dong, did not live for more than three months. The fifth son, Chang Ning, was only four years old at the time, so the only candidates who could be considered were the second son Fuquan and the third son Xuan Ye.
Fu Quan was one year older than Xuan Ye, one nine years old and one eight years old. If it is said that both virtuous and unxian are nonsense, Shunzhi once asked Fuquan: What do you want to do when you grow up? As a result, Fuquan said: I want to be a virtuous king. The Shunzhi Emperor was surprised. So to say Xian, the one-year-old Fu quan is more sensible.
The reason why Xuan Ye was able to win in the end was not for anything else, it was entirely because of his great fate.
In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, the Kangxi Emperor, who was less than eight years old, sat on the dragon chair. When the ministers prostrated themselves to the new king, if their eyes were good, they could find that the little emperor had some sparse hemp seeds on his face, which were probably the most valuable hemp seeds in ancient times, because they had only become emperors since they had become emperors.
During the Qing Dynasty, there was a vicious disease called acne. In today's parlance, it's smallpox. Smallpox in the Qing Dynasty was even more frightening than AIDS in modern times, and this vicious infectious disease was almost incurable and could only be resigned to fate. Therefore, the court of the Qing Dynasty often had the tradition of going out of the palace to avoid pox, so if you can't afford it, hide it.
The TV series "Kangxi Dynasty" has a plot of Kangxi having smallpox at the beginning, and this is also the case. As soon as Kangxi was born, he caught up with the smallpox epidemic and had to go out of the palace to avoid pox. But by the time he was two years old, he was not spared and was infected. The great Kangxi survived from the hands of the God of Death, but it was not Su Ma Lama who was waiting for him, but his nanny, Cao Xi's wife Sun Shi. Cao Xi is the chinese poet and great-grandfather of Cao Xueqin.
Kangxi's succession is also thanks to one person, that is, the missionary Tang John from Germany. John Tang has been living in China since the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, and is not only a Chinese master, but also called "Righteous Father" by Empress Xiaozhuang. Therefore, the Shunzhi Emperor followed Tang Ruowang and called "Marfa" as grandpa. Not only that, from beginning to end, Shunzhi admired John Tang's knowledge and almost obeyed him, only one thing, and finally the Shunzhi Emperor chose Buddhism for himself, not Catholicism.
In the matter of Li Chu, it was Tang Ruowang's words that made Xiaozhuang and the Shunzhi Emperor make their final determination: people who had had smallpox were immune to this disease for life, and such a king could bring long-term prosperity to the Qing Dynasty.
The disease of smallpox has long been conquered by modern medicine in modern times, but in the Qing Dynasty, its power must be dizzying. Because of his immunity to smallpox, he was blinded by a "emperor of the ages", so it is said that talent is a matter of later, first of all, it is said that Kangxi's fate is good luck.