She was the daughter of a Nobleman of the Mongol Tribe, married Emperor Taiji at the age of Miao, and gave birth to the youngest daughter of Emperor Taiji, she followed the Shunzhi Emperor from the dragon into the pass, came to the bustling Beijing Division, and lived in the golden and brilliant Forbidden City. However, the daughter she gave birth to became a victim of political struggle and was eventually killed by Kangxi...
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, in the northern frontier of Our country, there was a famous Mongol tribe called the Chahar Department, which gradually rose under the leadership of Lin Dan Khan and had the potential to unify Mongolia. However, just as Lin Dan Khan was constantly expanding outwards, he encountered a fierce enemy, he was the Later Jin Emperor Taiji.
After Emperor Taiji succeeded to the throne, he launched three wars against the Chahar department, forcing Lin Dan Khan to leave Qinghai and eventually die at Dacaotan. Subsequently, the remnants of the Chahar clan submitted to Houjin, and thus Lin Dan Khan left behind eight beautiful Fujin, almost all of whom married into the Houjin royal family, two of whom were also included in the palace by the Emperor Taiji, namely the later Concubines of Lintong Palace and the Lady Concubines of Yanqing Palace.
In the fifth year of Chongde of the Qing Dynasty (1640), a tribal leader named Qile Ji Tugu Yingsaisang of the Chahar Ministry also submitted to the imperial court, and then, Qilei Clan, who was in the midst of his old age, offered his daughter Qilei Clan to Emperor Taiji, and Huang Taiji smiled and accepted it, and took the beautiful Qilei Clan into his pocket.
Just one year after the Qi Lei clan entered the palace, she gave birth to a daughter for Emperor Taiji, who ranked fourteenth among Emperor Taiji's daughters and was also the youngest daughter of Emperor Taiji. However, because the background of the Qilei family is far inferior to that of the concubines of the five palaces, she is always a concubine in the harem.
After the Qing Dynasty entered the Customs, the Qi Lei clan, who was a concubine, followed Shunzhi to the Beijing Division, and in the tenth year of Shunzhi, the Cining Palace built by the Shunzhi Emperor for Empress Xiaozhuang was completed, and then the Qi Lei clan lived in the Cining Palace with Xiao Zhuang and other concubines of the Emperor Taiji. It was also in this year that the daughter born to the Qilei clan was given the title of Princess Heshuo and married Wu Yingxiong, the son of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi.
Wu Sangui was originally a General of the Ming Dynasty stationed at Shanhaiguan, and later surrendered to the Qing court and became a pawn of the Qing army in attacking the Central Plains, and later made great achievements in the Qing Dynasty's war to unify the whole country. The Qing court recruited Wu Sangui's son Wu Yingxiong as a donkey, one was to entrap Wu Sangui, and the other was to use Wu Yingxiong as a hostage to contain Wu Sangui, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
However, what is unexpected is that in the thirteenth year of Kangxi, Wu Sangui raised the banner of anti-Qing, and princess Heshuo Kechunchang and Wu Yingxiong, who were in the capital division, were in a very dangerous situation, and sure enough, it was not long before Kangxi ordered the beheading of his uncle Wu Yingxiong and his cousin Wu Shilin. Princess Heshuo Kechun and Wu Yingxiong's other children were imprisoned.
In the twentieth year of Kangxi, the Qing court successfully pacified San Francisco, and then Kangxi ordered the two young sons born to his aunt and Princess Shuo Ke Chunchang to be killed, so that Princess Heshuo Ke Chunchang truly became a "lonely family". This is the cruelty of political marriage, and if you are not careful, you may suffer misfortune for the whole family.
Regarding the Qilei clan herself, the historical records do not record the year in which she died, but in the fourteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Empress Xiaozhuang heard that the mother of the Qilei clan was more than ninety years old, still alive, and living with her son Samadhi in the Chahar Department, so she warned the army not to rob their belongings, from which it can be seen that the Qi lei clan was still alive at this time.
As for the daughter of the Qilei clan, Princess Heshuo Ke Chunchang, she lived until the forty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty, at the age of 63, and in addition, this Heshuo Ke Chunchang Princess also had a title, that is, Princess Jianning.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Qing Shilu, Four Genealogies of the Qing Imperial Family