"At the beginning of the country, the wind and rain were formed, the world was determined by a hundred battles, and the kings were mediocre."
In the founding war of the Qing Dynasty, many princes with outstanding military achievements emerged, and Duoduo, who was called by Qianlong as "the most meritorious of the founding kings", was the most memorable one, you can say that he was an executioner, but he did make indelible contributions to the unification war of the Qing Dynasty.
1. The young son guards the stove
Duo Duo was the fifteenth son of Nurhaci of the Qing Dynasty, and since the sixteenth son, Fei Yangguo, was almost ignored, Duo Duo was actually nurhaci's youngest son, and his mother was Nurhaci's favorite woman, Concubine Abhay.
As early as the fifth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1620), Nurhaci deposed Daishan as the crown prince and established Amin, Mang Gultai, Huang Taiji, Dege Class, Yue Chen, Zilharang, Azig, Dodo, and Dolgun as heshuo Erzhen to discuss state affairs, at this time Dodo was only six years old, but he had become a heshuo Erzhen who participated in state affairs, which shows that Dodo was loved by his father Nurhaci from an early age.
In the New Year's Day pilgrimage of the ninth year of the Mandate of Heaven, Dodo was already in the sixth place, even higher than his brother Dolgun. Moreover, judging from Nurhaci's series of arrangements for the flag, the Khan king had the idea of letting his young son guard the stove.
At that time, Nurhaci gave the fifteen collars with the yellow flag in his hand to his young son Dodo, and the remaining fifteen collars were under his command, thus establishing the status of the yellow flag as the head of the three banners. In addition, Nurhaci also gave the fifteen collars of the yellow flag to Azig, and the other fifteen collars to Dorgon, and confessed that after his death, he would also give the remaining fifteen collars of the yellow flag in his hand to Dodo, which was actually equivalent to making Dodo the owner of the yellow flag.
Judging from the series of canonizations of Dodo during the Mandate of Heaven, Nurhaci did have the idea of "keeping the stove with his young son", that is, passing the Khan's throne to his young son Dodo. However, at that time, Duoduo was young, and it was not enough to deter many highly accomplished brothers, so that Emperor Taiji succeeded to the Khan's throne.
2. Meritorious service
After Emperor Taiji succeeded to the throne, Duoduo began to show his military talent, and Tiancong followed Emperor Taiji in his crusade against the Doroth Department in the second year, and received the title of "Erke Chuhur". Since then, Dodo has participated in many wars against the Mongol tribes, Korea, and the Ming Dynasty, and has a good performance, and the Emperor Taiji commented on this younger brother: "The younger brother of the younger brother, that is, he can win, is commendable. ”
In the first year of Chongde, Emperor Taiji proclaimed himself emperor in Shengjing and established the Great Qing Dynasty, and Duoduo was named the Prince of Heshuo Yu for his merits, becoming the six princes of Heshuo alongside Daishan the Prince of Li, Zilharang the Prince of Zheng, Dolgun the Prince of Rui, Hauge the Prince of Su, and Yue Tuo the Prince of Cheng. Although Dodo was later demoted to Baylor, the young Baylor was greatly discredited.
In April of the sixth year of Chongde, Emperor Taiji sent the Prince of Zheng, Zilharang, the King of Wuying County, and Duoduo to Jinzhou to replace Dolgun and launch the Battle of Songjin, in which Duoduo besieged Songshan for half a year, and in March of the following year, Duoduo led an army to attack Songshan and capture Hong Chengyu, and then the Jinzhou defender Zu Dashou also surrendered the city, which made Duoduo famous and was reinstated as the King of Yu County.
In August of the eighth year of Chongde, Emperor Taiji died in Shengjing, and then Duoduo and his brother Azig supported his brother Dorgon to inherit the throne, but there were two yellow banners and two blue flags to support Prince Hauge of Su, who was helpless, and Fu Lin, the younger son of Emperor Taiji, succeeded to the throne for the Shunzhi Emperor, and Dorgon obtained the status of auxiliary government.
After Dorgon took over the military and political power, he regarded his two brothers Azig and Duoduo as humerus and entrusted them with heavy responsibilities, which made Dorg shine in the unification war after the Qing Dynasty entered the Customs.
First of all, the three Brothers of Dolgun defeated Li Zicheng's peasant army in one fell swoop at the Battle of Shanhaiguan in the first year of Shunzhi, and then, under the guidance of Wu Sangui, they went south in one fell swoop and captured the city of Beijing, and soon after the Qing Dynasty moved the capital to Beijing and began to rule in the Central Plains.
On the orders of the regent Dorgon, Duoduo and his brother Azig attacked from the north and south, attacking Li Zicheng's peasant army in Shaanxi. In the first month of the second year of Shunzhi, Duo Duo occupied Xi'an, and Li Zicheng led the remnants to flee to the Huguang region, and the Dashun regime was basically eliminated. Subsequently, Duoduo's troops marched south to the Jiangnan region, targeting the Hongguang regime in Nanjing.
In April of the second year of Shunzhi, Duo Duo led an army to capture Yangzhou, executed the Southern Ming governor Shi Kefa, and created the appalling "Ten Days of Yangzhou", and the Southern Ming Gate was opened, because of this bad deed, Duo Duo was criticized by the world and was called an executioner. On May 16, Duo Duo captured Nanjing, captured The Hongguang Emperor, and then sent the Hongguang Emperor to Beijing, where the Shunzhi Emperor personally welcomed his uncle Duo Duo, who had returned triumphantly, and promoted him to the title of Prince of Heshuo Deyu.
In the third year of Shunzhi, Duoduo led troops to suppress the rebellion of the Mongolian Sunit Department Tengjisi and Tengjite, and in the fourth year of Shunzhi, he was made the Prince of Deyu, the assistant government, at this time, Duoduo's prestige reached its peak and became the actual second person in the Qing court.
3. The stars will fall
The monthly profit is a loss, and the extreme of things must be reversed, which makes sense. Although Dodo was invincible on the battlefield, he could not resist the invasion of the disease, and in the sixth year of Shunzhi (1649), Dodo died of smallpox at the age of 36. At that time, Dorgon was suppressing the rebellion of Jiang Ou in Shanxi, and when he heard the news that his brother Duoduo was seriously ill, he immediately ordered The Banshi to run to the capital with a cry.
Dorgon's death caused Dorgon to break his arm, and dolgun was his brother, and Dorgon had this reaction, which is also a common human feeling.
Sure enough, just a year after Duoduo's death, Dolgun died of illness in Kara City at the age of 39, and the generation of tyrants who had been in the political arena of the early Qing Dynasty fell. Soon thereafter, however, the Shunzhi Emperor liquidated Dorgon, who was implicated in being Dorgon's younger brother and demoted to the rank of King of the County.
In the first month of the 43rd year of Qianlong, Qianlong rehabilitated Dolgun and at the same time restored Duoduo's title of prince, and enshrined Duoduo in the ancestral hall of King Shengjingxian, and the tablet was enshrined in the Temple of Enjoy tai.
Note: Duo Duo has three Main Chamber Fujin, and the highest status is the second, she is Dazhe Fujin. Dazhe was the daughter of King Sonomu of the Horqin Clan and Princess Horqin, and was in a half-sister relationship with Empress Xiaoduanwen and Dolgun Fujin Batma, that is to say, Huang Taiji and Dolgun and Duoduo were not only brothers, but also brothers-in-law.
In addition, the three brothers also had a concubine, he was the Prince of Su, Hauge, who had a Fujin (Borjigit clan) who was also the daughter of Sonom, the king of Korqin County, who was later taken into the pocket of Dorgon and became Dorgon's fifth wife Fujin.
Zichen said:
Duo Duo, the Prince of Heshuo Yu, can be said to be a very important figure in the history of the Qing Dynasty, and has made unborn meritorious achievements for the unification war of the Qing Dynasty, but this prince also has a lot of affairs, such as Duo Duo took a fan wencheng's wife and wanted to take it and marry her.
Although Fan Wencheng was a Han Chinese, he offered a lot of good advice for the Qing Dynasty to enter the Central Plains, and besides, Fan Wencheng not only represented the Han bureaucrats in the dynasty, but also countless Han people behind him.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Qing Shilu, General Genealogy of the Eight Banners of Manchurian Clans