Emperor Taiji had a total of eleven sons, but only four of them could have the status of prince, namely the eldest son Hauge, the second son Shuosai, the third son Fu Lin and the fourth son Bo Mu Bo Guo'er, these four princes participated in the preamble tooth because of the high status of the birth mother, enjoyed the status of concubine, and the other seven did not participate in the prelude tooth because they were not adults or their birth mother was a concubine. Among them, the second son Shuo Sai only lived for 27 years before he died, but he was also designated by Qianlong as one of the eight iron hat kings in the early Qing Dynasty, becoming the youngest iron hat king in the Qing Dynasty.
1. The sweat of a man who was born and lost his mother
Shosai's mother, Yehenara, was a concubine of Emperor Taiji, but the first husband of the Yehenara clan was not Emperor Taiji, but from Khalkama of the Ula Tribe, a member of the Beyler clan of the Ula Tribe, who was adopted by the Yehe chieftain Jintaishi from an early age, and when he grew up, Jintaishi married the female yehenara clan to him.
In fact, this Yehenara clan is also related to Huang Taiji, and the father of Yehenara is named Anab, a brother of the same clan as Jintaishi, so yehenara is a cousin of Huang Taiji. However, at that time, the war between the tribes considered the survival of the tribe, and the family affection had to stand on the side, JinTaishi was still the uncle of the Emperor Taiji, and Jianzhou had not yet destroyed Ye He.
In 1619, houjin attacked Yehebu, and Yehenara's husband Khalkama was executed by Nurhaci, who immediately gave Yehenara to his son Emperor Taiji, who took his cousin Yehenara into his pocket and became a concubine.
On December 24, 1628, in the second year of Tiancong (1628), the Yehenara clan gave birth to a fifth son for Emperor Taiji, who was named Shuosai. However, for some reason, soon after, emperor Taiji abandoned the Yehenara clan and gave it to the minister of the interior, Zhan Tushetu, as his wife, and later, Zhan Tushetu was wounded and killed by a tiger while hunting, so the Yehenara clan remarried to the light car capital Dalhu.
It can be seen that Shosai's mother, Yehenara, married four times in her life and remarried three times, and was a very poor woman.
2. The Prince of the Great Qing Dynasty who has made outstanding military achievements
In the year when Shuosai was 15 years old, his father Huang Taiji died suddenly, in fact, from the perspective of birth, Shuosai also had the qualification to compete for the throne, but his birth was not as good as that of The Fifth Palace of Chongde, Fu Linyu Bomu Bogol, and his mother was abandoned by his father, so Shuosai lost the throne.
In the first year of Shunzhi, Shuo Sai entered the city of Beijing from Long, and then Xiaozhuang was the master and married nalashi, the daughter of feiyangu, the capital of the light car.
However, the newlywed Yan'er Shuosai did not have time to enjoy a good and happy life, but followed Duoduo, the Prince of Yu, to the battlefield, who was not yet twenty years old, and the Qing prince showed his talent in military affairs, defeating Li Zicheng's peasant army, and Shuosai's uncle Duoduo successively pacified Shaanxi and Henan, and then Shuosai transferred to the Southern Ming Hongguang regime.
In May of the second year of Shunzhi, Shuo Sai followed the Qing army led by Duo Duo, the Prince of Yu, into Nanjing, destroyed the Hongguang regime, and since Shuo Sai left Beijing, he successively fought against the peasant army and the Southern Ming army, winning more than one hundred and fifty consecutive victories, and Jiangnan and Zhejiang were also pacified. In October, Shuo Sai triumphantly returned to Beijing, and the Shunzhi Emperor personally rewarded the brother, rewarding him with 2,000 taels of gold, 20,000 taels of silver, and horse harnesses.
After that, Shuosai led an army to conquer the Mongol Sunit department and the Tukou in Tianjin, and successfully annihilated them, and defeated the thieves in Shanxi in the sixth year of Shunzhi, and Shuosai, who had made great achievements in battle, was promoted to prince by the imperial court. However, in the following year, due to the hauge incident, Shosai was demoted to the rank of king of the county.
3. Prince Heshuo, who died young
After Shunzhi pro-government, Shuosai was highly valued, and Shunzhi not only promoted him to the title of Prince of Heshuo Chengze, but also made him manage the affairs of the military department, granted him the title of parliamentary minister, and became a royal family relative with unlimited scenery, knowing that Shuosai was only twenty years old at this time.
However, for some reason, such an excellent royal family member quickly fell in just a few years.
On the fifth day of december in the eleventh year of Shunzhi, Shuo Sai died of illness in his royal palace in Taipingcang Hutong, Beijing, at the age of twenty-seven. After Shosai's death, the title of prince was inherited by his son Boguoduo and changed his title to Prince Zhuang. However, Boguoduo's heirs were not rich, and he died in the first year of Yongzheng, and there was no son around him to inherit the title, so Yongzheng ordered his fifteenth brother Yunlu to inherit the title of Prince Zhuang, which was equivalent to passing Yunlu to Boguoduo as an heir, and in this way, Yunlu became the grandson of Shuosai.
In the forty-third year of Qianlong, Qianlong was appointed as the founding of the Eight Iron Hat Kings, and Shuo Sai was selected, thus only living for 27 years, he became the youngest Iron Hat King of the Qing Dynasty.
Zichen said:
Some people think that the Iron Hat King of Shuosai has a lot of moisture, and I dare not agree with this. As the son of Emperor Taiji, Although he was not very old, he was very talented in military affairs, and he accompanied his uncle Duo Duo, the Prince of Yu, to pacify Shaanxi and Henan successively, and destroyed the Hongguang regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, Shuo Sai was not only proficient in martial arts, but also very good at Wenzhi, a rare general of the Qing Dynasty who was both literate and martial, he could write poetry and painting, especially good at landscape painting, and his paintings were even highly affirmed by famous artists, which was very rare in the environment of all the forces at that time.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, General Genealogy of the Eight Banners of Manchurian Clans