It is often said that it is the most ruthless imperial family, and it is not too much to describe the political struggle of the royal family. Of course, even as daughters, those princesses who were considered to be golden branches and jade leaves sometimes suffered the same misfortune of being politically implicated, such as Mang Guji, the third daughter of Nurhaci, who was involved in the internal strife of the royal family and ended up being executed. The fate of the princess we are going to talk about today is the same, and her end is that she was killed by Kangxi.
1. The second daughter of Baylor from a noble birth
Princess Makata of Gulun Wenzhuang, the second daughter of Emperor Taiji, was born on the ninth day of the first month of August in the tenth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1625), the mother of Empress Xiaoduanwen, the first empress of the Qing Dynasty.
Makata's mother, Empress Xiaoduanwen, is known as Zhezhe, who married from Horqin to the distant Jianzhou as early as 1614 on the orders of his parents, when Emperor Taiji had already married and had children, and there were at least two Fujin, namely the Fujin Nyūrō clan and the Flanfujin Uranara clan.
Although Zhe Zhe married Emperor Taiji earlier, somehow, in the first eleven years after her marriage, she did not produce anything, and not a single child was born.
The reason for this, the author believes: At that time, the Jurchen tribes were fighting, and the main contradiction was reflected before the various tribes, and the Mongol tribes outside the contradiction were naturally not taken seriously. Later, with the establishment of Nurhaci and the unification of the Jurchen tribes, the main contradictions in Manchuria shifted to the outside, and at this time, the importance of some Mongol tribes was highlighted, such as Zhezhe's mother's Horqin department. This change in the situation was particularly evident in the inner courtyard of the Emperor Taiji, whose first two Fu Jin Niu Hulu clan and Uranara clan were missing and more likely to be abandoned, and then the next to ascend to the throne was Zhe Zhe, who had a background in Horqin.
So we see that Zhe Zhe was not only designated by Emperor Taiji as the new Great Fu Jin, but also began to have children, and the second daughter Makata was born in this background.
2. At the age of 11, she was crowned Princess Guren
In the second year of Macata's birth, her father Huang Taiji sat on the throne of Houjin Khan, and her mother Zhezhe became the Zhonggong Dafujin, and since the first two Fujins of Huang Taiji did not receive the title of empress, Macata became the first princess of Huang Taiji to have the status of concubine.
However, no matter how good the birth, as the eldest daughter of the concubine, Makata still could not survive the fate of political marriage, but under the protection of his mother, Makata still spent a happy childhood life.
Since Emperor Taiji succeeded to the throne, he turned his attention to Mongolia, and the biggest threat to him at that time was Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar Department, so from the sixth year of Tiancong, Emperor Taiji led the Eight Banners Iron Horse to continuously attack the Chahar Department, and drove Lin Dan Khan to the Grass Beach in Qinghai, and the poor Lin Dan Khan was not an opponent of The Emperor Taiji after all, and finally died of smallpox.
After the death of Lin Dan Khan, the Chahar department had no main backbone, and his Fujin and children were helpless, so they chose to submit to Emperor Taiji. After the tribal conquest war, it was a matter of the distribution of the spoils of war, and Lin Dan Khan, who was as beautiful as a flower, not only had his own people, but also had a large amount of property.
For example, the Great Belle Daishan disliked the highest-ranking but thin-wealthed Empress Dowager Nang and refused to accept her, but instead favored the rich Empress Sutai, but the Emperor Taiji gave Sutai to Zilharang in advance, and in order to appease Daishan's dissatisfaction, Emperor Taiji gave him Princess Taisong, the sister of Lin Dan Khan.
Of course, Emperor Taiji also took advantage of this to take in two widows of Lin Dan Khan, one was the empress dowager, and the other was Dou Tumen Fujin.
In addition, Emperor Taiji would also make personnel arrangements for the Chahar Department, and he would place the Chahar Department in Yizhou, set up the Eight Banners of Chahar on the left and right wings, and set up the capital and vice capital to govern. At the same time, Emperor Taiji also made Lin Dan Khan's youngest son, Ezhe (born to Empress Sutai), the Prince of Chahar, and decided to marry his second daughter Makata to him.
In the first year of Chongde, the 11-year-old Makata was crowned princess of Gulun by her father Emperor Taiji, and then married the eldest son of Lin Dan Khan, Erzhe. However, it may have been the perennial war that devastated Erzhe's body, and the young prince died in 1641, the fifth year after his marriage.
At that time, Makata was only 16 years old, but he was facing the fate of becoming a widow. However, there was a custom in Manchu and Mongolian society called "brothers die and their wives and sisters-in-law", according to which Makata remarried to Ezhe's younger brother Abu Nai.
Abu Nai was the widow of Lin Dan Khan and Nang Nang Fujin, and the young prince was still relatively obedient in his early years, inheriting his brother's title of prince according to the orders of the Qing court, and marrying his sister-in-law Makata. But after growing up, he gradually understood what happened to his parents, his father Lin Dan Khan was forced to die in Qinghai by Huang Taiji, and his mother Namu Zhong (Nang Fu Jin) was included in the harem by Huang Taiji, which was a huge shame for him, and a seed of revenge gradually sprouted in this prince.
3. The Princess of the Qing Dynasty who was killed and her whole family
In the eighth year of Shunzhi (1651), Abu Nai inherited the title of Prince of Chahar, if at this time he was still more jealous of his brother-in-law Shunzhi, then after Kangxi succeeded to the throne, Abu Nai's rebellious heart completely sprouted.
In the second year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Makata, the princess of Gulun Wenzhuang, died at the age of 39. Subsequently, Abu Nai refused the hajj for various reasons, and kangxi, seeing that this uncle was not very obedient, ordered that Abu Nai's title be stripped of his title as prince and replaced by Abu Nai's son Bourni, who himself was imprisoned in Shengjing.
Bourni was the son of Makata, the eldest princess of Abu Nai and Gulun Wenzhuang, and in addition to him, he had a son named Robzang. Logically, these two are cousins of Kangxi, have a certain vascular relationship, and should be relatively close, but the Bourney brothers have fully inherited the restless personality of their father Abu Nai.
In the fourteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, taking advantage of the rebellion of san Francisco, the two brothers Bourni and Robzang launched a rebellion and planned to go to Shengjing to rescue their father Abu Nai. At that time, the main force of the Qing army was fighting against San Francisco in the south, and the Yang Qilong Rebellion had just occurred in the capital, and for a while the Qing court was not easy to deal with the two brothers, but the brothers had great ambitions, but they were not material for war at all, and Kangxi sent Wang Ezza of Xin Commandery and the old general Tuhai to quell the rebellion in less than two months.
After the rebellion was quelled, the three fathers and sons of Abu Nai were executed by order of Kangxi, and after this battle, the Qing Dynasty's dominance in southern Mongolia was fundamentally established.
Zichen said:
Princess Makata of Gulun Wenzhuang was the eldest daughter of Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, and her mother was Empress Xiaoduanwen, the first empress of the Qing Dynasty, who was only 11 years old and was crowned princess of Gulun, which can be said to be extremely noble.
However, she was also entrusted by her father Emperor Taiji with a political mission, marrying the Chahar Ministry and becoming a pawn in the surveillance of the Chahar Department. Moreover, after Makata's death, her husband Abu Nai and his two sons betrayed the court and were eventually sentenced to capital punishment, fortunately, This scene was not seen by Macata.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty, Chronicle of the Princess Mansion