"Prince Zhuang Taizu Jianye will be sent out of the division, ascending to the throne, planning and planning, and the Zodiac Zhou urgently calls him Xiao Yong."
He was once the second most important person in Jianzhou Jurchen, second only to his elder brother Nurhaci, known as the Second Governor, and he joined forces with his brother Nurhaci to destroy the lord of Nukan Wailan, who killed his father's enemy, Tulum City, and also conquered the Hunhe Tribe, Dong'ebu, Su Kesu Hubu and other tribes, unifying the Jianzhou Jurchens. However, this generation of tyrants is not willing to be subordinated, even if this person is his brother, so he chooses to stand on his own mountain, compete with his brother, and finally embark on a road of no return...
1. Brothers who depend on each other for their lives
Shulhaqi was the third son of Takshi, the commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard, and his mother was Emuqi, the eldest daughter of Wang Gao, the commander of the Jianzhou Right Guard. When Shulhazi was five years old, his mother unfortunately died, and his father, Takshi, married another wife, named Sister Hadanara ( Hadanara ) , a stepmother who was mean and provoked Takshi to alienate the nurhaci and Shulhazi brothers.
At that time, Shu'erhaqi was not very old, so he went with his brother Nurhaci to the deep mountains and old forests to collect mushrooms, find pine nuts, and then went to the Fushun market to exchange money to subsidize the family, but even so, in exchange for the stepmother's cross-eyed cold pair. Forced to be helpless, the 10-year-old Shulhazi and his brother Nurhaci ran away from home and lived in the home of their maternal grandfather Wang Gao.
Wang Gao can be said to be a big figure in jianzhou jurchens, who is dissatisfied with the Ming court's oppression of jurchens and has always rebelled against the ming court's rule, while his relatives Jue Chang'an and Tukeshi father and son are loyal to the imperial court. In the second year of the Wanli Dynasty, Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, led an army to attack Gulezhai, and the Shu'erhaqi brothers were treated as young dings, and subsequently, their maternal grandfather Wang Gao was captured by their grandfather Jue Chang'an and handed over to the imperial court, and Wang Gao was executed by Ling Chi.
In the eleventh year of the Wanli Calendar, Shu'erhaqi's grandfather Jue Chang'an and father Takshi were mistakenly killed by the Ming army in the rebellion, and Shu'erhaqi and his brother Nurhaci immediately left the Ming army and returned home, and a seed of revenge gradually sprouted in the hearts of the two brothers.
Shulhaci and his brother Nurhaci began a difficult business relying on the thirteen pairs of armor left by their father (another saying that the armor was donated by Nurhaci's father-in-law, Talmbayan), after which Shulhachi fought alongside his brother Nurhaci and in just a few years, they successively recovered the jianzhou departments.
In the fifteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, Nurhaci built a city on the third floor southeast of Hulanhada, promulgated state affairs, and called himself Shule Beyler, and Shulhaqi was promoted to be Baylor, second in status after his brother Nurhaci, becoming the second person.
2. The leader of the state who is gradually becoming suspicious
Beginning in the twenty-third year of the Wanli Calendar, Shulhaqi came to Beijing twice to pay tribute, and these two times went south to open Shulhaqi's vision, and the Ming court also took advantage of these two opportunities to greatly envelop Shulhaqi, imposing a rich gold and silver silk, and also granting Shulhaqi the senior military position of commander.
Mingting's co-optation gradually led to a change in Shulhaqi's attitude, and he began to be dissatisfied with his subordinate status under his brother, he dreamed of one day replacing his brother and becoming the number one Jurchen of Jianzhou, and Mingting used Shulhaqi's ambitions to contain the increasingly powerful Nurhaci.
At the same time, Li Chengliang, the re-employed Liaodong general, also tried his best to woo Shu'erhaqi, and let his son Li Rube marry Shu'erhaqi's daughter as a concubine, and the two sides formed a children's family. In the thirty-third year of the Wanli Calendar, Shulhaqi's wife died of illness, Li Chengliang sent a rich sacrifice, and with the support of the Ming Dynasty, Shulhaqi decided to change his situation and challenge his brother Nurhaci.
In March of the thirty-fifth year of the Wanli Dynasty (1607), Temuthei, the lord of the Feiyou City of the Jurchen Varkhabe of the East China Sea, requested to return to Jianzhou, and Nurhaci sent his younger brother Shulhaqi, his sons Chu Ying, and Daishan to meet him, but on the way back he was ambushed by the Ula tribe. There were only more than three thousand people in Jianzhou and more than 10,000 in the Ulabu, and in the face of this situation, Shulhaqi actually retreated to the side and watched his nephew Chu Ying and Daishan bravely kill the enemy, which showed that at this time, Shulhaqi was still a subordinate of his brother on the surface, but in fact he did not obey orders.
Upon returning to Jianzhou, Nurhaci ordered the punishment of Shulhazi's subordinates Changshu and other generals, and stripped his brother of command of the army, pushing him out of the highest military leadership.
3. The tragic end of the brothers' opposite purpose
From the second most powerful figure in Jianzhou to the nominal leader, Shulhazi felt that he could not coexist with his brother Nurhaci, so he planned to open up a new base area with his eldest son Altuna and his third son Zasaktu to The Black Rip Wood southeast of Tieling.
Seeing that his brother was on a road of no return, Nurhaci first dissuaded him, and when the dissuasion failed, ordered the execution of his brother's two sons, Altuna and Zasaktu. When Nurhaci also wanted to execute Amin, the second son of his younger brother Shulhazi, Emperor Taiji and others interceded, and Amin was spared death.
At this time, Shulhazi really saw his brother's means and felt that he was powerless to fight against him, so he returned to Jianzhou's account. However, Nurhaci did not give his brother another chance to repent, and ordered his brother Shulhazi to be imprisoned in the dark room, locked with chains, leaving only two small holes to transmit food.
In the thirty-ninth year of the Wanli Calendar (1611), after two years in captivity, Shulhazi died in the seclusion at the age of 48. At the same time, a dangerous figure appeared in Jianzhou, he was The eldest son of Nurhaci, Chu Ying, who had been arrogant and did not pay attention to anyone since he was established as the heir to the Khan's throne, and was eventually imprisoned and executed by his father Nurhaci in 1615.
4. Unexpected prominent families
Although Shulhaqi was imprisoned to death, his two sons Amin and Zilharang were highly valued by the imperial court, especially Zilharang was later made the Prince of Heshuo Zheng by Emperor Taiji, and after Emperor Taiji's death, Zilharang was appointed to assist the government, becoming the only uncle except Dolgun.
In the forty-third year of Qianlong, Zilharang was appointed as one of the Eight Iron Hat Kings in the early Qing Dynasty, becoming the only Iron Hat King who was not a descendant of Nurhaci.
Moreover, Prince Zheng's lineage was very prominent throughout the history of the Qing Dynasty, and even produced two empresses, one was Xianfeng's original empress Xiao Dexian, Who was the granddaughter of Ur Gong'a, the prince of Zheng Shen, and the other was the only empress of Tongzhi, Empress Xiao Zheyi, who was the granddaughter of Duanhua the Prince of Zheng.
Zichen said:
Shulhazi made a significant contribution to the unification of the state and became the second most important person in the state, but at the same time he was not willing to bow to his brother Nurhaci, so he had the idea of plotting to split, which eventually led to the tragic end of being imprisoned and killed. Fortunately, his sixth son, Zilharang, undertook the mission of shouldering the glory of Shulhazi and became the most prominent descendant of Shulhazi, and Shulhazi should also be comforted if he knew it.
References: "Manchu Old Archives", "Qing History Draft", "Records of Emperor Taizuwu"