In October of the fifth year of Shunzhi (1648 AD), Hong Chengzu returned to Beijing after five years as the governor of Jiangnan in Nanjing, and began to work in the center of the Qing government. The following year, Dorgon intended to write a manuscript of the History of Emperor Taiji, that is, he was preparing to write a biography to the late Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty. At this time, the Qing government had been in the customs for six years, basically wiping out the anti-Qing forces in most parts of China, leaving only the Yongli small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty surviving in that small place in Yunnan. Now we can organize manpower to write a personal biography of the former emperor, which is also a major event in educating the people and setting an example for the Spring and Autumn.
Emperor Taiji was the older brother of Dorgon and the father of the Shunzhi Emperor. As the uncle of the Shunzhi Emperor and the overseer of the country as the regent of the emperor's father, Dorgon realized that the matter could not be postponed any longer. The emperor has grown up and is about to take over the throne. As he grew older, he already had his own ability to govern independently, had his own ideas, and had his own political views on many things, which became more and more difficult to control, and the relationship between his uncle and nephew began to slowly become a little tense. Editing the history of the Emperor Taiji can not only give an account of the great deeds of the former emperor's life, but also ease the tension between himself and the emperor's nephew.
To compile the imperial taiji history, it is necessary to have a group of highly respected ministers to undertake this work, and the specific candidates have been preliminarily determined, namely Fan Wencheng, Gang Lin, Qi Chongge, Feng Quan, Ning Guanmei, Song Quan, and Hong Chengzuo, who recently returned from Jiangnan. Although these seven people were all subordinates from the Ming Dynasty, they themselves had the ability to revise historical manuscripts, not only were they knowledgeable and knowledgeable, but they were also titled scholars of Hanlin University, and they were honest and honest officials, loyal to the Great Qing, and were rare experts in governing the country. More importantly, they were all Great Ming ministers who tried everything possible to win back when Emperor Taiji was alive, and in the era of Emperor Taiji's eastern conquests and western conquests, these people were accompanied by Emperor Taizong's side, witnessed his style of governing the country, and let them compile the history of Emperor Taiji, which was the most suitable candidate.
The Shunzhi Emperor attached great importance to this matter, and wrote a special edict for the compilation of the "Draft History of Emperor Taizongwen", which read: "The hereby revises the records of Emperor Taizongwen and chooses to open the museum on the eighth day of the first month of the sixth year of Shunzhi. Emperor Fuyu Zhitu, Sui You Jianji, where a generation rises, it will be the history of a generation, so as to promote it to future generations, and it is a sincere task. Emperor Taizongwen reigned for seven years. However, the manifestation of virtue, the grandeur of martial arts, as well as the orders to reward and punish, and the precepts of the scriptures, are all the great scriptures and laws of the country. Er, etc. audit notes, compile and revise the compilation, still be diligent and diligent at night, go to the details, do not exaggerate to be untrue, do not paranoia to abolish the public, do not neglect to cause omission, and do not slack off to drown the years. Respect the decrees of a generation, and forever become a constitution of ten thousand years, and each of them is the heart of the heart, with the vice-righteousness. Thanks. ”
This edict of the Shunzhi Emperor can be said to be a concise and concise, but also very powerful and majestic text, which has both emphasis and a high degree, "Where a generation rises, it will be the history of a generation, so as to promote it to future generations, and it is a sincere and important task." That is to say, don't look at this as a writing job, but it concerns the national fortunes of our future generations in the Qing Dynasty, the most important of the important tasks, and the Dafa of national rejuvenation. At the same time, the Shunzhi Emperor also put forward high requirements for the leading groups involved in the compilation work, and each of you should "not exaggerate and be untrue, not paranoid to abolish the public, not neglect to cause the omission, and no slack to drown the years." "Carefully compile it, let it become a pillar to protect the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, and don't live up to my hard heart." It can be seen how attentive the Shunzhi Emperor is to this matter.
At the beginning of the compilation work, Dorgon summoned these Ministers, who were involved in the compilation work, many times in his busy schedule, and his purpose was very clear, that is, to require the ministers involved in the compilation to do as he asked. At this time, Dorgon was the regent of the emperor's father, who was in charge of the Qing Dynasty, and he had supreme power in the entire Qing government. Many times, his power even exceeded that of the Shunzhi Emperor, although he did not have the name of the emperor, but he had the power of the emperor, killing and plundering, basically he alone had the final say, and was a high-powered courtier. Most of the time, when Shunzhi was not yet in power, these ministers took dorgon as the leader and did not dare to be a little disobedient to his words. Fortunately, Dolgun xiong was brilliant and extraordinary, and he was single-minded in his work of sleeping and forgetting to eat for the Great Qing Dynasty. At his insistence, the Great Qing not only entered the customs and occupied the Central Plains, but also gradually created a new situation with a thousand meteorological conditions, showing the glorious side of Dolgun as a capable subject. Therefore, everyone is quite handy and very pleasant to get along with.
However, Dorgon still had selfish intentions in revising the "Draft History of Emperor Taizongwen", so why did he have selfish intentions? He certainly did not want to record his things that were not on the table in this historical manuscript, and let posterity point to his back and scold him. In addition, there is another thing that cannot be left unnoticed. Dorgon's mother, Abahai, was the daughter of Ulabel Slowtai, who married Nurhaci at the age of twelve in November of the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli calendar (1601 AD), and was Nurhaci's side Fujin. Later, because the ambiguous relationship between the boss Fucha and Daishan was exposed, Nurhaci was angry and gave the Fucha clan a green hat to Hugh. In this way, Dorgon's mother, Abahai, became a veritable Grand Lady. And because Nurhaci is a full thirty-one years older than Abhay, he belongs to the typical old husband and young wife. In addition, Nurhaci has been fighting in all directions for many years, and the two people have gathered less and more, which has laid the groundwork for later events.
In the first month of 1626, the 68-year-old Nurhaci personally led a large army to attack the Ming Dynasty, but he did not want to meet his nemesis Yuan Chonghuan, who was beaten by Yuan Chonghuan and had to withdraw his troops back to the division. Within a few days, because of the poisonous sores on his body, he reported to Marx. At this time, the 35-year-old Emperor Taiji seized the opportunity to lead several slightly older Baylors into Abahai's harem, convey the "Emperor's Last Words" to Dorgon's mother, Abhay, and force Abahai to obey Nurhaci's will and be martyred. At this time, Abba hai was only 36 years old, which was the age of great style, and Dorgon was only 14 years old. She knew that the "last will" conveyed by Huang Taiji was false, and out of her unfair treatment of herself and the concern for her three more children, she did everything to prevaricate, hoping that things would turn around, but Huang Taiji, for political purposes, eventually forced Abhay to commit suicide. After Emperor Taiji came to power, he believed that Abahai's unwillingness to obey his father's "last name" and his unwillingness to be martyred was a manifestation of disobedience to the ancestral system and women's morality, so there were many accusations.
For Dorgon, who was also the regent of the Qing Dynasty at this time, he was unwilling to let his mother fall ill of the history books and let posterity blame him. If he were not the regent, he might not have the right to interfere in the matter. But now that he has this right, he can't watch his mother being tainted in the history books, and how can a son be so unfilial to his mother! Therefore, he called Gang Lin, Fan Wencheng, and Qi Chongge, the editors-in-chief of the "History of Emperor Taizong Wen", to his office, and so on, and the central meaning was to let these three people delete their mother Abhay's reluctance to be martyred from the book of Taizong's history manuscript, and in addition, they also had to revise and write some things that were not conducive to themselves.
Fan Wencheng, Gang Lin, and Qi Chongge were all Han Chinese who had entered the Qing camp very early, and it can be said that they spared no effort to be radical in helping the Manchu Qing attack their mother country, the Ming Dynasty. During the Emperor Taiji period, they were the Han courtiers relied on by the Manchu Qing government, and by the Time of Dolgun, they were staunch supporters of Dorgon's policies. To some extent, they had forged a deep revolutionary friendship with Dolgun, and at the same time believed that the Qing Dynasty would achieve one victory after another under Dorgon's leadership. These people have a better sense of political smell than a dog's nose. At that time, Dorgon was only 37 years old, rich and powerful, and it was the most passionate grade in life. According to Nurhaci's 68-year-old age at the time of his death, Dorgon could continue to rule for 31 years, and even if Fufu came to power in the future, Dorgon was the supreme ruler of the Manchu Qing.
So even the blind can see how strong Dorgon's political vitality is. Therefore, with regard to the several comments put forward by Dorgon on the compilation of the imperial Taiji history manuscript, Fan Wencheng, Gang Lin, and Qi Chongge spared no effort to add or delete. What is addition or deletion? That is, the content that Dorgon had named and proposed to be deleted should be deleted from this Taizong record as soon as possible, and the content that Dolgun had requested to be added to this record as soon as possible intact. In order to satisfy Dorgon, they also added and deleted some of the contents of the history of the Emperor Taiji's living in the Shengjing period recorded before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Customs, and some things that had a bad impact on Dorgon were either not written, or black and white were reversed, bad things were written as good things, small things were written as big things, and many things were written in the Records of Emperor Taizong. This practice completely subverted the compilation principles that the Shunzhi Emperor had originally assigned to them, and not only made Emperor Taizong's records feel more unrecognizable, but also abandoned the principle that the compilers used the public for personal gain. The reason why these people did this was mainly due to the pressure of Dolgun, that is, with Dolgun's support, they did so, and no one dared to say anything about them. But things often backfire, and it always comes at a cost to come out of the mix.
On December 31, 1650, Dorgon was destined to leave his life in the old calendar, and on this day, he died on a hunting trip, and finally Chinese New Year's Eve nine years old. As the saying goes, when people take tea, they will die and die. With Dorgon's death, a political contest between manchu nobles was rekindled, and since Dorgon was dead, all the ministers who followed Dorgon were listed by Dolgun's political enemy Zilharang as a purge strike. The compilation of the "History of Emperor Taizongwen" was also stopped, and the seven Han ministers who participated in the compilation were dismissed from their posts and sent to prison. Their crime was to delete and revise Emperor Taizong's records and add or subtract from emperor Taizong's annals. Ganglin, the head of the leading minister of letters who was identified by Dorgon as a confidant minister, was executed, and he was favored by Dorgon's trust during his lifetime. Ganglin was honest and self-disciplined and talented, but was executed by the opposition because he was trusted by Dorgon. They want to completely eliminate dorgon's poison.
The other executed was Qi Chongge, as well as Feng Quan, Ning Quan, Song Quan, and others who were also purged from the government because they were favored by Dorgon. Fan Wencheng was retained by the opposition because Dorgon had been alienated and hostile to him for a while. The biggest hot figure in the case of the "Draft History of Emperor Taizong Wen" was Hong Chengzuo, who was not only unscathed in this political campaign to eliminate the poison of Dolgun, but also benefited a lot, and successfully put himself out of the matter and reaped the benefits.
Why can Hong Chengzu be alone? First of all, thanks to Hong Chengzu's own way of being an official. As Hong Chengzuo, who had experienced the fierce struggle in the official arena during the Ming Dynasty, he had long cultivated his own set of official survival philosophy, that is, he must not stir himself into the whirlpool of party struggle. Although Hong Chengzuo was heavily valued by Dolgun, mainly in terms of work relations, the two did not have much intersection in private, so there was no personal feeling in it, let alone a party. In this regard, Hong Chengyu has been cautious and has his own bottom line and firewall.
Secondly, after the Qing Dynasty entered Guannei, after the capital was set in Beijing, Hong Chengzu was released as the governor of Jiangnan, and he spent five years in Nanjing leading the suppression of the anti-Qing forces in Jiangnan, and did not have much intersection with Dolgun in work. Moreover, during his time in Nanjing, he had a strong work ability and outstanding work performance, which was deeply praised by the superior departments and surrounding comrades. It can be said that he made great efforts and efforts to pacify the Jiangnan region of the Great Qing Dynasty. This was also understood by Dorgon's political enemy Zilharang, and the Shunzhi Emperor was even more aware of this.
In addition, soon after Hong Chengzuo returned to Beijing to work, he was ordered by the imperial court to join the compilation team of the "History of Emperor Taizongwen", his working hours were short, and in the two years of work, he was also alone, did not cling to any forces, and was still very politically clear, how could such a person be killed or abandoned! Not only can it not be killed, but it must continue to be used. Therefore, the Shunzhi Emperor still trusted Hong Chengzu more.
So, should the "History of Emperor Taizong Wen" continue to be written in the end? Of course, it is necessary, after all, the Shunzhi Emperor regarded it as a major event in the qing dynasty to carry forward the past and open up the past and the Spring and Autumn Dynasties. In the first month of the ninth year of Shunzhi, the compilation of the "History of Emperor Taizongwen" was restarted, and the Shunzhi Emperor ordered Hong Chengzuo, Xifu, and others to be the president of the compilation, organized a writing team of 26 people, and also wrote a foreign and sprinkled xiongwen in his own handwriting, so that these literati could compile this Great Classic Dafa that inherited the past and the future, and the content of the edict and the meaning of the first writing were not far from ten, and they were also very high.