"The daughter who marries out, the water that is spilled out", in feudal thinking, once a woman becomes a family, she has already broken off from the family that gave birth to her, and naturally she is no longer blessed by the family. But there have been some exceptions in history, such as The Shunzhi Emperor's first empress, Meng Guqing. She was born noble, the daughter of the powerful prince of Mongolia, and her aunt was Empress Xiaozhuang, who was made empress in the same year she entered the capital, and the first half of her life can be described as very smooth.
However, her noble origin did not allow her to always be smooth, and after entering the imperial palace, Meng Guqing was only an empress for 3 years before being deposed by the Shunzhi Emperor, becoming the only deposed queen of the Qing Dynasty. Fortunately, her family was very powerful and spoiled her, and took her back to Mongolia, and even gave birth to the son of the Shunzhi Emperor in Mongolia.
Faced with political marriage, the Shunzhi Emperor was dissatisfied
The marriage between Meng Guqing and the Shunzhi Emperor was a political marriage led by Empress Xiaozhuang and Dorgon. At that time, Empress Xiaozhuang hoped to choose a noble girl in her family to marry the Shunzhi Emperor, and use this political marriage to help the Shunzhi Emperor get more help from her own family, while Dorgon chose Meng Guqing because she believed that the Manchu-Mongolian marriage would help consolidate the power.
Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, mongolia's strength has been very strong, in order to win over the Mongols, to avoid them from falling to the remnants of the Ming Dynasty or disobeying their own rule, the Qing imperial family used the Manchu-Mongolian marriage method to tie Mongolia and itself to a boat. Dorgon advocated the continuation of the Manchu-Mongolian marriage for the same reason.
Unfortunately, the marriage between the Shunzhi Emperor and Meng Guqing did not promote the Manchu-Mongolian relations further in the original direction, but indirectly caused the deterioration of manchu-Mongolian relations. Soon after the marriage, rumors of discord between the two began to circulate inside and outside the palace.
In fact, the marriage between the Shunzhi Emperor and Meng Guqing was indeed unhappy, and there were many contradictions between the two people. The first contradiction is that the two people's life concepts are seriously incompatible.
The Shunzhi Emperor was the third emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and from an early age he was indoctrinated with the idea that frugality was a virtue and advocated a simple life. And Meng Guqing, who grew up with thousands of pets, has long been accustomed to extravagant days, especially after becoming an empress, she believes that she has become the most honorable woman in the whole world and should enjoy the best of everything. The Shunzhi Emperor also advised Meng Guqing many times, and the final result was that the two men fell into endless quarrels.
The discord of the concept of life made the Shunzhi Emperor lose patience with Meng Guqing, and Meng Guqing, who had been sought after since childhood, not only did not realize the seriousness of the problem, but began to interfere more and more in the life of the Shunzhi Emperor.
During the discussion with the courtiers, the emperor was resolute
During the feudal society, the emperor had three palaces and six courtyards, and there were many concubines, and it was impossible to guard a person like a jade. Meng Guqing felt that since the Shunzhi Emperor had married herself, she should not be close to other concubines, so she repeatedly asked the Shunzhi Emperor not to be fortunate with other concubines, which made the Already dissatisfied Shunzhi Emperor even more upset.
For the Shunzhi Emperor, marrying Meng Guqing as empress was only to stabilize his own Jiangshan Society, but now Meng Guqing was delusional to dominate his own life, which was beyond his tolerance. What's more, he has always had a grudge against Dorgon, and Meng Guqing just happened to be the empress chosen by Dorgon, and whenever he thought of this relationship, the Shunzhi Emperor was even more bored with Meng Guqing.
After three years of marriage, the intolerable Shunzhi Emperor revealed to the ministers that he had the idea of abolishing the queen, which was soon strongly opposed by the ministers. Shortly after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Government was eager to integrate into Han society, attached great importance to many traditions of the Han people, and in the feudal society during the han rule, no matter what mistakes the empress made, as long as the emperor was deposed, it would cause serious damage to the emperor's reputation.
In order to advise the Shunzhi Emperor not to cause evil consequences due to a momentary intention, the Qunchen repeatedly wrote a joint letter requesting the Shunzhi Emperor to abandon the idea of abolishing the empress. The Shunzhi Emperor's attitude was very resolute, and he rebuked his subjects, believing that these people only used this opportunity to leave a reputation as loyal subjects in history, and did not listen to the persuasion of their courtiers.
The Shunzhi Emperor cited Meng Guqing's "guilt", believing that as an empress, she had no ability to manage the harem, was arrogant and stubborn, and that he and she had been separated since their marriage, and could not continue the marriage in name.
After the end of the year, he returned to his mother's house to find out that he was pregnant
For these questions raised by the Shunzhi Emperor, the courtiers also heard a little, but most people thought that the Shunzhi Emperor could divide the eastern and western palaces, and then choose an empress who actually managed the harem. After all, Meng Guqing's status is special, even if she herself behaves badly, the Shunzhi Emperor should also give the Mongol tribes a face, even if it is to raise her as an idle person in the harem.
In the face of repeated dissuasion from his subjects, the Shunzhi Emperor was even more annoyed, but he also knew that the relationship with the Mongol tribes still needed to be maintained, so he did not directly reduce Meng Guqing to a commoner, but demoted her to a concubine.
In the eyes of the Shunzhi Emperor, this practice had already given the Mongol tribes a lot of face, but Meng Guqing's "princess temper" could not bear the humiliation of the Shunzhi Emperor. After learning of his depose, Meng Guqing quickly left the capital and fled back to Mongolia.
Many ministers were puzzled by the Shunzhi Emperor's decision to insist on the abolition, and they were aware of the importance of the Mongol tribes to the Qing government, and the fact that Meng Guqing was favored within the Mongol tribes was known to the world, so most of the courtiers did not dare to stop her. It wasn't until Meng Guqing returned to Mongolia that she discovered a very serious problem: she was pregnant.
Previously, the Shunzhi Emperor claimed that the two people had separated, but this did not mean that the two had never had sex together. After consulting with her family, Meng Guqing decided to give birth to the child, but she refused to return to the palace.
Growing up on the steppe, Meng Guqing did not adapt to the life of the imperial palace at all, nor did he understand many of the actions of the Shunzhi Emperor, not to mention that the Shunzhi Emperor had already deposed her posthumous throne, and with Meng Guqing's pride, it was impossible to go back to make peace with him.
epilogue
However, the Shunzhi Emperor, as emperor, could not allow his flesh and bones to be left out, not to mention that Meng Guqing finally gave birth to a son. In order to regain the child, the Shunzhi Emperor sent people to Mongolia many times to try to take Menggu Qing's mother and son back to the palace, and these people were all blocked by the Mongol tribes. The Mongols directly stated that if the Shunzhi Emperor had to take Mengguqing's mother and son back to the imperial palace, the Mongol tribes would send troops to stop them.
At this point, the Shunzhi Emperor had to give up the idea of taking back Mengguqing's mother and son, and the mother and son were able to stay away from the political struggle of the Qing imperial palace. Throughout Meng Guqing's life, although he was born noble, he was inevitably constrained by others, but fortunately, his mother's family attached importance to it, and finally he was able to live peacefully on the grassland he was familiar with and loved.
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