"Twenty-four histories, how many palace tragedies, how many Xiao Wall disasters!" To a certain extent, this sentence reflects the sinister political struggle within the royal family, and the plot of such a scene is always staged in a loop, and many people have lost their lives for it. Among Nurhaci's 16 sons, there were two princes who were executed due to political struggles, one was Nurhaci's eldest son Chu Ying, and the other was Nurhaci's younger son Fei Yangguo, who was even executed by Ling Chi, the only prince of the Qing Dynasty who was executed by Ling Chi.
1. Confused birth mother
Fei Yangguo was the sixteenth son, the youngest son, of Nurhaci, and was born in October of the fifth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1620).
According to the "Four Genealogies of the Qing Dynasty", Fei Yangguo was born to Nurhaci's second Dafu Jin Fucha clan (GunDai), and in December of the ninth year of Tiancong (1635), he was executed by Ling Chi for the crime of being involved in Mang Guertai and Dege.
In fact, this argument is untenable.
The step-concubine Fucha was originally the wife of Nurhaci's cousin Qi Zhun, Who died early before marrying Nurhaci, her age should be similar to Nurhaci, by the time of the fifth year of the Mandate of Heaven, she was already an old woman of about sixty years old, how could she give birth to a young son for Nurhaci?
Therefore, there is a high probability that Fei Yangguo's birth mother is not a Fucha clan, but possibly a concubine of Nurhaci.
Moreover, the real time of Fei Yangguo's death is not very consistent with the record of the "Four Genealogies of the Qing Royal Family".
According to the Jade Tablets, Fei Yangguo had at least six children, all of whom were born to The IlgenJue Luo clan (daughter of Baturu ilan) of The First Son, Na Qin, was born in October of the sixth year of Tiancong (1632), the second son, Cai Gui, was born in the first month of the first year of Chongde (1636), the third son Ah Qin was born in May of the third year of Chongde (1638), and the fourth son, Ya Qin, was born in June of the fourth year of Chongde (1639).
The two daughters, one was born in March of the fifth year of Tiancong (1631) and the other was born in August of the sixth year of Chongdeok (1641).
If Fei Yangguo was executed in December of the ninth year of Tiancong for the crime of Mang Gultai. Then, the provenance of his at least three children does not make sense, how did the third son, the fourth son, and the second daughter come from?
Obviously, according to the birth period of Fei Yangguo's second daughter, at least around the fifth year of Chongde (1640), Fei Yangguo was still alive and was subsequently executed for sin, and his death should be between the fifth year of Chongde (1640) and the eighth year of Chongde (1643, the year in which Emperor Taiji died).
2. Confusing causes of death
There are very few records of Fei Yangguo in the historical records, so he gives people the feeling of a very mysterious prince. Of course, there is a reason for the lack of records.
First of all, Feyango was born to a certain concubine and did not have a strong maternal background, so he was not valued by the royal family and his father Nurhaci. Second, Fei Yangguo is a loser in the political struggle, and as a loser, it is certain that the information will be extensively deleted.
Since Fei Yangguo was not executed in December of the ninth year of Tiancong, what crime did he commit?
During the reign of Emperor Taiji, one of the most tragic incestuous plots within the imperial family was the case of mangkuertai, mangguji, and dege three brothers and sisters, after this incident, the positive blue flag of Mang guertai and dege brothers was taken away by huang taiji, if Fei Yangguo belonged to the positive blue flag, or had a good relationship with the Mang guertai brothers, then he was most likely implicated.
In ancient society, as a prince of heaven and nobility, his honor was not comparable to that of ordinary people, even if he committed a crime, he would not be sentenced to capital punishment, and since Fei Yangguo was sentenced to capital punishment, then the case he committed should be a case such as rebellion.
3. The prince who was lost in history
Now that Feyango was condemned for his sins, what about his descendants?
According to historical records, FeiYangguo's third son Aqin and fourth son Yaqin died at an early age, and the first son, Naqin's son Amurtu, died until the second son, Cai gui's grandson Niyaha (Feiyango's great-grandson), Niyaha became the only surviving descendant with Feyango's blood.
In the fifty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Kangxi ordered the restoration of the ancestral records of the descendants of Mang Guertai and Dege and changed to the status of a red belt. Taking this opportunity, Niyaha, who was a third-class bodyguard, requested that the clan of the clan also be restored, to which Kangxi replied: "This matter is known, but it is not heard. Fei Yangguo, the grandson of Taizu, was condemned to death for a major crime. So he restored Nyaha's clan and gave him a red belt.
Based on this time, we can make a judgment:
First, since Niyaha took advantage of Kangxi's opportunity to restore the ancestral status of the descendants of the Manggurtai and Derg brothers, he also requested the restoration of the clan, that is to say, Fei Yangguo was most likely executed by being implicated in the case of the Manggurtai brothers.
Second, although Kangxi knew about this incident, the specific circumstances were no longer clear. That is to say, the Fei Yangguo case, at least in the Kangxi Dynasty, has become an unsolved case, and as for why Fei Yangguo was executed, it is difficult for even Kangxi himself to say clearly.
So, what about the descendants of Fei Yangguo, whose ancestral status has been restored?
As we mentioned just now, during the Kangxi Dynasty, Niyaha became the only descendant with the Feyango bloodline, and Niyaha himself was not prosperous, and there was no son to inherit the incense. Therefore, in the sixty-first year of Kangxi, Kangxi passed on the seventh son of the Ninth Brother Yinyu to Niyaha and inherited the incense, that is, Kangxi gave his grandson Sibao to Fei Yangguo's great-grandson Niyaha as his stepson.
However, the descendants of the Four Protectors who had been passed on to Nyaha also did not prosper, and ended up in extinction during the Daoguang years.
Zichen said:
Nurhaci's sixteenth son, Fei Yangguo, can be said to be Nurhaci's most mysterious son, and although there are few historical records of him, he is real. What crime did this poor prince commit that year, allowing Emperor Taiji, who was deeply involved in the art of power and scheming, to seize the opportunity? In this regard, even the Kangxi Emperor himself could not understand it, and it was even more difficult for us in this world to understand.
However, history is a little girl dressed up by others, we can roughly depict the life trajectory of this Taizu Zi according to clues, coupled with the imagination of his crimes, it will become much more fulfilling, which is the wonderful point of history, always leaving plenty of imagination space for future generations.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Four Genealogies of the Qing Imperial Family, Jade Tablets