The empress, as the emperor's spouse, is the "mother of a country" and has a very noble status. After Qin Shi Huang established a centralized feudal imperial system, the emperor became the co-lord of the world, but there was no record of Qin Shi Huang's empress in history, which also made Lü Yan of the Western Han Dynasty the first empress with historical record. The close relationship with the emperor also made the empress and the empress position hot, becoming a link between the imperial power and the subordinates on the trade of power.
Those who can become empresses are almost not from famous and prestigious families, so they are generally extremely stable. But where there is standing, there is also waste in nature. In the Qing Dynasty, there was an empress, although she was born into a famous family, but she ended up being deposed as a result, and she also became the only empress who was deposed in the 276 years of the Qing Dynasty, and its final outcome was even more confusing, and there was no mention in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
She is borzigit. Speaking of the Borjigit clan, everyone is familiar with Empress Xiaozhuang, as well as Xiao Yu'er in the film and television drama, dorgon's favorite concubine. But in fact, as the royal family of Mongolia, the Borjigit clan Mendi Xuanhe, from the Golden Family, has long been the ruler of the Mongols, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty they occupied the Horqin steppe and other places. The relationship with Hou Jin (Daqing) was very close, and there was a practice of intermarriage.
In 1644, with the help of Wu Sangui's rebellion, the Qing army defeated Li Zicheng's peasant army in a piece of stone and entered the Central Plains, after which the Shunzhi Emperor ascended the throne in Beijing. As a means of stabilizing the defense, the regent Dorgon followed the old practice and set up a family affair for the Shunzhi Emperor. That is the Borjigit clan in our article, the niece of the actual Empress Xiaozhuang, the daughter of Wu Keshan, the Prince of Zhuoliktu of the Horqin Clan of Mongolia.
Shunzhi was eight years old, and the Shunzhi Emperor turned 14 years old. Wu Keshan escorted his daughter Borzigit from the Mongolian steppe to the city of Beijing, and in August of that year, the two were married, and the Borzigit clan was naturally made empress. It is said that the two are the age of the dragon and the tiger, and the Borzigit clan was born with a natural beauty, which could have been ear-to-ear grinding and raised eyebrows, but before they could think that soon after the two got married, there was a contradiction and separated.
What is the reason for this? Originally, as the empress Borjigit clan who was born into a noble family, she was jealous by nature, and the Shunzhi Emperor himself was quite lustful, although in the impression left to us by the film and television drama, the Shunzhi Emperor favored Concubine Dong E, but in fact, in 24 years of life, the emperor only had 32 concubines and empresses, and the heirs left as many as 14. And an empress who likes to be jealous, although there are Mongol forces behind her, but for the Shunzhi Emperor, it is naturally like a man's back. In the end, only two years later, in August of the tenth year of Shunzhi, the empress was deposed by the Shunzhi Emperor and demoted to Concubine Jing. After that, in the official history of the Qing Dynasty, it was like a mud cow entering the river, and there was no record.
So what happened to the deposed empress Borzigit later, which will no longer be recorded in the history, and what will be the end of her?
During the Qing Dynasty, although Korea was dissatisfied with the Qing court, it was afraid of Yu Dorgon's two conquests and finally chose to submit to the Qing. As a vassal state, Korea had frequent economic and political exchanges with the Qing Dynasty, paying tribute almost every year. The North Koreans compiled the past into a book, so the North Korean "Yan Xinglu" has become an important historical material for studying this dusty past.
In the records of the Yan Xinglu, after the Borzigit clan was abolished as a side chamber and the Mongol royal family lost face, although the Shunzhi Emperor chose the Borjigit clan of the Horqin tribe as the queen in the eleventh year of Shunzhi, Wu Keshan, the father of the Borjigit clan, did not swallow this anger, but chose to go to Beijing in the thirteenth year of Shunzhi, together with eight Mongol princes and ministers such as Badali, the prince of Horqin Shetu, and also coerced four princesses who had already married the Mongolian royal family.
For such a diplomatic act that is very likely to trigger the Mongol tribes to choose rebellion, it is said that the Shunzhi Emperor should attach great importance to it. Unfortunately, the Shunzhi Emperor at that time was extremely fond of Concubine Dong E, and put his body and mind on Top of Princess Dong E, and also made her an imperial concubine; as a compromise, the Qing court had to promise Wu Keshan and other Mongolian royal families to bring the deposed Borjigit clan back to Mongolia, and the two were in fact "separated" - that is, divorced. The emperor was forced to divorce the empress, which can be said to have lost the royal face of the Qing court, and naturally it was omitted from mention in the manchu history books and records, but for the Korean history book "Yan Xinglu", there was no such need to avoid secrecy, and this matter was also recorded in 1510.
After the abolition of the Borjigit clan divorced the Shunzhi Emperor and returned to the Horqin Department, according to the "Yan Xinglu", she was already pregnant with Liujia at this time, pregnant with the dragon heir of the Shunzhi Emperor; but even so, the unsatisfactory marriage of the first time and the unladylike encounter did not prevent her from marrying someone else, and after marrying someone else, she finally lived a happy life.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Republic of China, Zhao Erxun
Yan Xinglu, North Korea