In the history of the Qing Dynasty, there are many impressive emperors, such as Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, etc., and I don't know that there is such an empress who is more famous than these emperors, this empress is the famous Empress Xiaozhuangwen during the Qing Dynasty, and even the Kangxi Emperor has to stand on the side when it is mentioned.
She had watched Kangxi grow up and assisted his grandmother who was in charge of the Qing Dynasty, and she was also the concubine of Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, but she did not like Empress Xiaozhuang when Emperor Taiji was alive, but Dorgon was obsessed with her, so why? After reading the restoration of Empress Xiaozhuang, I understood the reason.
There is a huge age difference, and there is a generation gap with Huang Taiji
Empress Xiaozhuangwen was born in the steppe of Horqin, was a member of the Borjigit family, and was born quite noble, and it is said that Empress Xiaozhuang was also a rare beauty when she grew up, but when she was 13 years old, due to political reasons, the two families needed to be married, so Empress Xiaozhuang married the leader of the Qing army at that time, Huang Taiji, and became a side Fujin.
It is reasonable to say that since the life of marrying Empress Xiaozhuang of Huang Taiji should be very honorable, plus she is from a famous and prestigious family, Huang Taiji will certainly attach importance to and love her, but in fact, on the contrary, Huang Taiji not only did not love Empress Xiaozhuang very well but has always been very cold to her, even if Empress Xiaozhuang has given birth to three princesses for him, it is difficult to mention Huang Taiji's interest in her.
The reason for this is mainly that the two have a huge age gap, when marrying Huang Taiji, Empress Xiaozhuang is only a 13-year-old girl, while Huang Taiji is already a person in her thirties, the two have an age difference of 21 years, and it is precisely for this reason that the two have a certain generation gap and estrangement, both lack of common words, and are not the object of each other's ideals, so the two people's weak feelings are also excusable.
The second is to find a direct relationship with Empress Xiaozhuang's appearance at this time, at this time Empress Xiaozhuang because she is still young, whether it is appearance or figure is not mature, from the restoration of Empress Xiaozhuang, the young Xiaozhuang is more like the appearance of a child, with a baby fat face, the facial features are also very three-dimensional, and there is some sense of majesty between the eyebrows, such an image is naturally not the ideal type of woman in the heart of the Emperor Taiji, what he likes is as gentle and lovely as Hai Lanzhu, and this is exactly what Empress Xiaozhuang does not have.
However, as Empress Xiaozhuang grew up, she gradually began to be more feminine and more feminine, whether it was appearance or figure has become more mature, coupled with her slightly cute face, but also a beauty, which is why after the death of Emperor Taiji, his brother Dolgun coveted Empress Xiaozhuang, and even obsessed with her.
First came in, only fifth
Then again, Emperor Taiji finally ascended the throne after years of hard work, and after this, it was natural to grant the concubines in his harem one by one, whose position depended on which one Emperor Taiji preferred, this first was undoubtedly Empress Xiaozhuang's aunt Zhe zhe, followed by Emperor Taiji's favorite concubine Hai Lanzhu, all the way down to the last is Xiaozhuang, you know, she is not the last to enter the palace, but she got the last title, which shows that the Emperor Taiji's feelings for her are very general, Maybe it was just a political marriage between two families, and there might be no feelings for her.
However, an important reason for Xiaozhuang to be able to gain a firm foothold later was that he gave birth to a son for Emperor Taiji, that is, the later Shunzhi Emperor Fulin, although there were not many concubines in the harem of Emperor Taiji, and many sons were also born, but this was not born of his concubine, to say that the sons born to Concubine Zheng, there were only one or two, including those who died when they were young, for example, Hai Lanzhu gave birth to an heir for him, but unfortunately failed to grow up healthily and died early due to illness.
And The birth of Fu Lin just made up for this gap, what is unexpected is that the future throne of the Qing Dynasty actually fell on this eight-year-old child, because in the eighth year of Chongde, Emperor Taiji died of illness, the emperor's seat was vacated, according to the rules since ancient times, there must be a son of Emperor Taiji to inherit, usually, it is generally the eldest son born in the first line who is the first heir, that is, the Prince Suwu at that time.
However, such an arrangement, Empress Xiaozhuang agreed, after all, she also had heirs, it was certainly impossible to watch other people's sons inherit the throne, so they joined forces with Dorgon and other major family forces to operate in private, and finally the other princes were forced to give up the throne under pressure, and it was under The arrangement of Empress Xiaozhuang that the eight-year-old Fu Lin ascended the throne and became the later Shunzhi Emperor.
In order to protect shunzhi's throne, he bent down and married Dorgon
Although Fu Lin had already become the Shunzhi Emperor at this time, this emperor was only nominal, and the real power was actually Dolgun, who only regarded Shunzhi as a puppet emperor, controlling the qing dynasty's political power in this way, and when the time was ripe, he would naturally abolish him and become the monarch of the Qing Dynasty himself.
Empress Xiaozhuang had also anticipated this, so in order to keep her son's throne, she made a decision, that is, to marry Dorgon, so that he would not compete with his son for the throne, and at the same time did not have the name to compete.
In addition, the description of this matter in history is different, there are rumors that before the Shunzhi Emperor ascended the throne, Dorgon wanted to usurp the throne, not like giving the throne to Shunzhi, but Empress Xiaozhuang was the woman he had always loved, and it was not good to hurt her heart, weighing it again and again, Dorgon chose to give up the throne, but he made a request to Empress Xiaozhuang, that is, to marry him, forced by the political pressure at that time and the influence of various factors, Empress Xiaozhuang also had no choice, and finally married Dorgon inexplicably.
After this, Dorgon must have been very good to Empress Xiaozhuang, after all, at this time, Empress Xiaozhuang had grown into a mature and stable woman, whose charm was difficult for Dorgon to resist, but he was extremely disgusted with Shunzhi, if it were not for the presence of his mother, this throne would already be his Dolgun's.
Not to mention that Shunzhi was not his own child, so he often suppressed him, which led to the young Shunzhi always living in a repressed mood, so that later Dorgon died, and even dug up his grave and whipped the corpse, which shows how much the Shunzhi Emperor hated him, but fortunately, the qing dynasty regime eventually fell into the hands of the emperor Taiji's heirs.
epilogue
In the final analysis, Dorgon's defeat was due to his own greed for beauty, if he could be ruthless, perhaps the world of the Qing Dynasty would be his, and on the other hand, Empress Xiaozhuang was undoubtedly a very outstanding woman, sacrificing her own happiness for her son, and later assisting the Shunzhi Emperor to take power.
After the death of Shunzhi, he also assisted his grandson, the Kangxi Emperor, to build the Qing Dynasty, and it is no exaggeration to say that the Qing Dynasty can have the later development of Empress Xiaozhuang, and such a stoic and resourceful woman is enough to make people deeply admire.
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