"If the Qing Dynasty is prosperous, Emperor Taizong yan drives, with the young lord of the sixth age, safely ascending the throne, Dolgun and other loyal auxiliaries, even Er Dagger is not alarmed." As for the Ming Society, he was sent out by Dolgun and spit on the Hara. ”
Speaking of Dorgon, most people only pay attention to his exploits in leading the Eight Banners into the Central Plains of Guandingding, but rarely mention his descendants, this generation of tyrants who were in the early Qing Dynasty, how about the descendants? Unfortunately, he had only one unaccounted for daughter. Of course, there is also a adopted son who has passed on.
1. The young man who lost his mother and the true head of the young man
In the fifth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1620), a major political event occurred in the Golden Kingdom, and in this year, the Great Belle Daishan was deposed as crown prince. Subsequently, Amin, Mang Gultai, Huang Taiji, Dege Class, Yue Chen, Zilharang, Azig, Dodo, and Dolgun were established as Heshuo Erzhen, and the Manchurian republic system of state administration was formed.
At this time, Dorgon was only eight years old, and his younger brother Dorgon was only six years old, and he actually joined the ranks of Heshuo Erzhen who participated in the state affairs.
In fact, the abolition of the substitution has a lot to do with Dorgon's birth mother, Abahai. Abahai was Nurhaci's fourth concubine, married Nurhaci at the age of 11, was pampered, gave birth to three young sons of Azig, Dorgon, and Dodo, and sat on the throne of Dafujin after the death of his concubine Fucha.
As Nurhaci grew older, he began to make a series of arrangements for the aftermath, "After a hundred years of my life, my young sons and Dafujin were handed over to the eldest brother for adoption", Daishan established the status of khan's heir, and also shouldered the responsibility of taking care of Nurhaci's young son and Dafujin. It is this sentence that gives Abahai a clear direction that his future is related to the hand of daishan.
Subsequently, the contact between Dafujin Abahai and DabeiDaishan became more frequent, so that there was a five-year denunciation of the Mandate of Heaven, and Nurhaci's concubine Deinze denounced the ambiguous relationship between Dafujin Abahai and Dabeil Daishan. After the investigation, Nurhaci ordered abba Hai to be deposed and deposed as the crown prince of Daishan.
In August of the eleventh year of the Mandate of Heaven (1626), Nurhaci fell ill and died in Shenyang. What people did not expect was that then Daishan, Huang Taiji and other princes Belle took a false edict and ordered the grand concubine Abahai to be martyred for the Great Khan, even if Azig and Dodo each received a banner, Nurhaci also explicitly mentioned that he wanted to leave the cattle in his hand to Dolgun, but the three brothers of Dolgun were still young after all, and could not compete with their distinguished brothers.
In exchange for the care of their sons by these princes, Abhay died, a year when Dorgon was only 14 years old. After Emperor Taiji succeeded to the throne, in order to achieve his goal of being exclusive to the south, he constantly suppressed the three major belles of Daishan, Amin, and Mang gultai, and placed great weight on several young brothers such as Zilharang and Dolgun, and Dolgun quickly grew into a wise commander of the Eight Banners, giving the name "Morgen Daiqing", which means intelligent commander.
2. The regent who holds the young lord
In the eighth year of Chongde (1643), on the ninth day of the first month of August, Emperor Taiji suddenly died in Qingning Palace, and no heir was appointed before his death. Subsequently, the Manchu Qing magnates launched a fierce confrontation over the succession to the throne.
At that time, there were two people who were most qualified for the competition, one was The Prince of Rui, Dorgon, and the other was the Prince of Su, Hauge.
Dorgon was backed by two White Flag generals, as well as the support of two brothers Azig and Dordor, undoubtedly representing the most powerful force in the Eight Banners at that time. However, Hauge did not hesitate to let go, he was the eldest son of Emperor Taiji, the lord of the blue flag, and the support of the two yellow flags left by his father, which was another powerful force that could compete with Dorgon.
The attitudes of the two men had an important impact on the situation, one was Prince Daishan, who had two red flag backgrounds, and the other was the blue flag lord Zheng Prince Zilharang, although these two forces did not have the possibility of ascending to the throne, they did not give explicit support and seemed to be more neutral. Thus, for a moment, a stalemate arose.
If Dorgon forcibly succeeds to the throne, it is very likely that there will be a situation of disaster against Xiao Wall, after all, the two Yellow Banner Ministers have already struck a sword and made it clear that they want to inherit the throne with the son of the former emperor. In desperation, Dorgon took a step back and proposed that his ninth son Fu Lin inherit the throne, and as such, the six-year-old Shunzhi Emperor was born.
This plan temporarily maintained the balance of power among the Manchurian nobility, and Dorgon took the opportunity to gain the position of regent, further expanding his power.
3. The regent of the emperor's father who has thin heirs
At the end of the fifth year of Shunzhi (1648), Dorgon became more and more powerful, and took a step forward, becoming the regent of the emperor's father, and even "the people who used the honor guard, music and guard were arrogant and supreme", and even the regent edict at this time, Dorgon called himself "Yuan", as if he had become a veritable emperor.
But even so, Dorgon never took that step, why? Perhaps it has something to do with the thinness of its heirs.
No one knows how many wives and concubines Dorgon had, but according to relevant historical records, at least 11 of them were recorded. Of these 11 wives and concubines, there are a few that we have to say.
When Dorgon was 13 years old, he married a Fujin, the granddaughter of Ming Amberle of korqin and the daughter of Gisang Arzhai. The events of this Mongol woman who married Dorgon in her early years are hardly recorded, and she did not receive the status of concubine Fujin (正妻) at all, because Dorgon's wife was another woman from Korqin.
She was the son of Princess Shonomu (孝庄) the Prince of Horqin Andongzheng and the niece of Xiaozhuang. She married Dorgon in the ninth year of Tiancong (1635) and was given the title of Heshuo Concubine Fujin the following year, becoming Dorgon's wife.
Although this Borjigit woman only lived for more than twenty years, she was posthumously honored as the First Princess of Jingxiao Zhonggong Palace, and even briefly posthumously honored as Empress Jingxiao Zhonggong after Dorgon's death. However, Dorgon's wife also had no birth record.
In addition, in the first month of the seventh year of Shunzhi (1650), shortly after the death of Princess Jingxiao Zhonggong Zhenggong, Dorgon married Prince Hauge's Fujin Borjigit clan into the door and became the fifth wife of Dolgun Fujin, who was no one else, she was the sister of Princess Jingxiao Zhonggong Zhenggong.
None of these Fujins, who were from the Mongol nobility, were able to bear children for Dorgon. However, Dorgon did have a recorded daughter named Donggo, who was said to have been born to Dorgon's concubine Lee, the daughter of Lee Shisu of joseon.
In December of the seventh year of Shunzhi, Dorgon died of illness in Kara, and was immediately liquidated by the Shunzhi Emperor, who ordered that Dorgon's daughter Donggu and his adopted son Dolbo be placed under the custody of Doni, the king of Xin County.
Because Dorgon was childless, he adopted his younger brother Dolbo's son Dolbo as his adopted son, and King Dorne of Shingun was also dodo's son (eldest son), and handed Overgo and Dolbo under the custody of Doni, which shows that the royal family still has some room for Dolgun's only bloodline, and the two children have not been stripped of their clan status, they are still members of the royal family.
However, this turned out to be the only record of Dong Gu in the historical records, and after that, the only bloodline of this Dorgon was not followed, how did she end up? Did he die early, or was he married somewhere?
In today's Hohhot city there is a Kejing Princess Mansion, according to the "Princess Mansion Chronicle", here was said to be dorgon's great-granddaughter lived, although only a local record, the credibility is not 100%, but it provides us with a point, Dorgon's daughter Dongguo, most likely married to Mongolia.
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Manchu-Mongolian marriages were very frequent, and a large number of clan daughters were married to Mongolia, and the Shunzhi Emperor would never put this sister by his side, and when he saw her, he would think of Dolgun, who would make himself shadow, so it was very likely that Dongguo would be married to Mongolia by the Shunzhi Emperor.
Zichen said:
Dorgon was a controversial figure in the history of the Qing Dynasty, and although he was liquidated, his exploits were affirmed, just as Qianlong said, "Driving the ancestral car into the capital and achieving the great cause of unification is the most meritorious."
However, the regent who had been in the political arena of the Qing Dynasty had thin heirs, and the whereabouts of his only daughter, Dong Curao, were also unknown, which had to be regretted. However, judging from the situation at that time, even if the dorgon heirs prospered, they could not hide from the fate of being liquidated, so it was better to look at it than not, but it was not concerned, as for the merits and demerits, only to be commented on by future generations.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Taizong, Chronicle of the Princess Mansion