One day in August 1643 A.D., I woke up in the morning and everything was as usual.
Emperor Taiji of the 52-year-old Qing Dynasty got up and went to the court according to the custom, and after a tiring night, he was still reading the recitals at the Qingning Palace, and then suddenly died on the warm fire. Using current medicine to analyze Huang Taiji at that time, it may have died of cerebral hemorrhage caused by high blood pressure.
Huang Taiji's family is a nomadic people, he began to graze with his father Nurhaci from a young age, learning to pull a bow to fight, Huang Taiji is smart and not afraid of hardship, he has trained a good skill, and his body is very strong.
The sudden death of Huang Taiji came too suddenly, and his body had been very good before this, and there were no obvious signs, so Huang Taiji did not leave any wills, and the question of succession did not make arrangements in advance.
In this situation, there was a power vacuum, and the powerful figures of the regime, Dorgon and Hauge, had a fierce struggle for the throne, so they sharpened their knives to the throne.
Hauge and Dorgon are both warriors who can fight well and have great military achievements, and both of them will govern the country and the army, and the strength of the two people is equally comparable.
Both men wanted to use their powerful military power to overwhelm each other, and the 34-year-old Hauge was the eldest son of Emperor Taiji, the Prince of Agzu, who had great military achievements, talent and prestige, and began to cry out louder for a while.
Brother Hao has three banners of positive yellow, yellow and blue, and has an absolute advantage in military strength, which is also his biggest capital for the throne. In addition, during the reign of Emperor Taiji, Hauge also carried out drastic Sinicization reforms, which was also one of his advantages.
In the context of slow Sinicization, the concept of "the eldest son of the emperor, as a great unification" has slowly taken root in people's minds. The clan elders led by Emperor Taiji's second brother also sided with Hauge.
The yellow flag and the yellow flag were the personal hands of Emperor Taiji, and the ministers of the two yellow flags resolutely elected the son of Emperor Taiji to succeed to the throne.
However, during the reign of Emperor Taiji, in order to strengthen his military strength, he intentionally or unintentionally let the princes of the clan have a certain amount of military power, and the most powerful person here is Prince Rui Dolgun, that is, the fourteenth brother of Emperor Taiji.
Dorgon has two major backers: the white flag and the white flag, and his brother Azig and younger brother Dorg are also very strong in the army, which makes him fully powerful and Hauge.
In this analysis, it seems that if Dorgon does not nod, even if Haug sits on the throne, it will be difficult to sit firmly.
The two men were evenly matched, did not give in to each other, to the point of drawing swords at each other, this kind of khanship dispute can really make the Manchurian nobles have a headache, for a while do not know who is more suitable.
In the end, everyone came up with a compromise plan: Dorgon and Hauge did not touch the Khan's throne, but chose a successor from among the other sons of the Emperor Taiji.
Emperor Taiji had a total of 11 sons, of which 4 died prematurely, and everyone chose to go, combining the pros and cons, so the supreme Khan position fell to the 6-year-old noble Fu Lin, which was later the Shunzhi Emperor.
Shunzhi's birth mother, Concubine Zhuang, was a princess of the Mongolian Horqin tribe, and Shunzhi's smooth succession was also related to the fact that he had half of his mother's Mongolian blood, and Princess Zhuang was the later famous Empress Xiaozhuang.
Sandpiper clams compete, fishermen win! Using this idiom to describe the dispute between dorgon and Hauge, Shunzhi is the most appropriate.