When Nurhaci died, Emperor Taiji forced Abahai to be buried, so why didn't Dorgon resist?
In this article, I will talk to you about this topic.
Abhay, of the Uranara clan, nurhaci's fourth concubine, was dorgon's biological mother, and the history books record that Abhay was beautiful and resourceful, and was quite pleasing to Nurhaci.
But after the eleventh year of the Golden Mandate of Heaven (
Tomorrow A.D. 6, 1626 A.D
The young Abhay died shortly after Nurhaci's death.
To this day, the cause of Abhay's burial has always been a mystery in the field of historiography, although at that time the Jurchens had "
Martyrdom
"The old custom. However, as with the traditional burials of the Han Chinese before, the martyrs of the monarch were almost all low-status concubines who left no heirs, such as Deinze and Azigen, who were buried with Abahai.
Before his death, Abahai was already Nurhaci's wife, a concubine, with the status equivalent to that of an empress, and gave birth to three sons for Nurhaci, all three of whom were also very good. In particular, Dorgon, who once became the regent of the Qing Dynasty, was not an emperor but was better than an emperor.
That being the case, what caused Abahai's death in the first place, and why did Dorgon not resist his mother's death in the first place?
Regarding the death of Abahai, the Records of Emperor Taizuwu clearly records:
Hou Rao Fengzi, however jealous, was displeased with the emperor, although it changed organically, it was eventually controlled by the emperor's ming. After the fear of national turmoil, he said to the kings: "In the end of my life, I will be martyred." ”
This attributes Abhay's death to her jealousy, and Nurhaci fears that after her death, Abbahai will be in chaos, so she leaves a last word for her to be buried.
However, the author believes that this reason seems reasonable, but in fact, it cannot withstand scrutiny.
First of all, if Nurhaci was worried about Abahai's rebellion after his death, then why didn't he execute her before she died to avoid trouble, instead of waiting for her to be buried after death ?
Here we can refer to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for killing Lady Hook Yi
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Secondly, Abhay had previously been exiled by Nurhaci for being rumored to have had an affair with the Great Belladesan, but only a little over a year later, Abhay was recalled by Nurhaci, and his status was the same as before.
In addition, when Nurhaci was seriously injured, he also summoned Abhay to come overnight, but it is not known what the two talked about. But it can also be seen from this that how could Nurhaci, who loved Abahai so much before his death, bear to let her be buried?
Finally, Nurhaci had already put Abahai's three sons in charge of the military and political affairs of the Two Banners. You know, as a woman, if Abhay really has the idea of chaos, then her three sons will be her biggest backers. If this is the case, why did Nurhaci arrange such an arrangement to increase Abahai's strength, is this not a contradiction?
Therefore, Abahai's death is definitely not Nurhaci's decision, but the conspiracy of Huang Taiji and others, so why did Huang Taiji force Abahai to die? This involves an old custom of the early Manchurian Jurchens that after the death of the father, the son can remarry the stepmother.
Abahai and Nurhaci were more than thirty years apart, and when Nurhaci died, Abhay was only thirty-six years old. Nurhaci had already made arrangements for Abahai's fate after his death, and he had also said that he would let Daishan remarry Abhay and teach her three sons. Although there was an affair between Abhay and Daishan in the later period, the author does not believe that the pure-natured Daishan would do such a thing
You know, at that time, it was Deinze who was nurhaci's concubine and childless, and the loss of power of Abhay and Daishan had no benefit to her, and she could not even avoid the tragic fate of martyrdom because of this. Therefore, the author believes that Deinze's denigration of Abahai and Daishan is most likely to kill people with a knife, and the person who borrowed her knife is Huang Taiji.
At the beginning, Nurhaci had decided that Houjin would implement the eight-baylor deliberative system, and there was a nine-year mandate of heaven (
1624 AD
On New Year's Day, the eight belles prostrated to Nurhaci at the OctagonAl Hall are from the Manchu Old Archives:
When the time came out of the Imperial Octagonal Hall, the Great Belle prostrated first, followed by The Entegle Led by the Mongol Baylor, the third Amin Belle, the fourth Mang gultabel, the fifth fourth Baylor, the sixth Azig brother, the seventh Dodo ago, the eighth Abate brother, Dudu a brother, the ninth Yueto a brother, the Shuoto a brother. The tenth Fushun erzhu and The Western Uriya led the prostrations of Korean and Han officials, and the eleventh Unagh Bakshi led the eight banners of Mongolia to kowtow.
The above people were the most core of Houjin at that time, from which we can see that at that time, several major heavyweight Baylor of Houjin all appeared, namely Daishan, Amin, Mang Guertai, Huang Taiji, Azig, Dodo, Abatai and Dudu, Yue Tuo, and Shuoto.
Among them, Yue Tuo and Shuo Tuo are the sons of Daishan, and if Daishan continues to marry Abahai, then Azig and Dodo will naturally become a party of Daishan. In this way, Daishan will be supported by at least four of the Eight Banners, in which case no one will be able to compete with Daishan for the Khan's throne after Nurhaci's death, which is the last thing Emperor Taiji wants to see.
So, in order to weaken the power of Daishan, he plotted the death of Abbahai
So when Emperor Taiji and others forced Abahai to be martyred, why didn't Dolgun intervene to stop it? In fact, the reason is also very simple, at that time, Dorgon was only 15 years old and it was difficult to compete with the Emperor Taiji, and through the above list, it can also be seen that Dorgon is not the lord of a banner, and the strength is even less than that of the Emperor Taiji, in that case, Dorgon can save his life is already good, what ability does he have to save his mother?