Throughout Chinese history, almost every dynasty has had a meritorious master and a general who cannot die well, but the only one who has been promoted to the throne, dismissed from the temple, and whipped is probably Dolgun.
Aisin Kyora Dolgun (November 1612 – December 1650), the fourteenth son of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Nurhaci and the second son of Abhay. Ming Wanli was born in Hetuala (the old town of Xinbin County, Liaoning Province) in the 40th year of the Ming Dynasty, and was an outstanding military figure in the early Qing Dynasty.
In the first year of the Mandate of Heaven (44th year of the Ming Dynasty, 1616), Nurhaci established houjin and launched an attack on the Ming Dynasty two years later. In the fifth year of the Mandate of Heaven (48th year of the Ming Dynasty, 1620), Nurhaci deposed Prince Daishan and established "Amin, Mang Gurtai, Huang Taiji, Dege Class, Yue Zhen, Zilharang, Azig, Dodo, and Dolgun as Heshuo Erzhen" to discuss state affairs. Since then, Dorgon has been involved in state affairs at the age of eight.
In the eleventh year of the Mandate of Heaven (1626), Nurhaci died of illness and Abba hai was forced to be buried, when Dorgon was only 15 years old. In the second year of Tiancong (Ming Chongzhen, 1628), Dorgon accompanied his brother Emperor Taiji into Chahar, Mongolia. In the third year of Tiancong (Ming Chongzhen II, 1629), Dolgun followed Emperor Taiji from Longjing Pass into the Ming border, and together with Belle Mang Guertai and others, captured Hanerzhuang and approached Tongzhou. In the fourth year of Tiancong (Ming Chongzhen III, 1630), Dorgon and Mang Gultai broke the Ming army. In the fifth year of Tiancong (4th year of Ming Chongzhen, 1631), Dolgun personally led an army to attack the Daling River, and Zu Dashou sacrificed Jinzhou to surrender. In February of the ninth year of Tiancong (the eighth year of Ming Chongzhen, 1635), Dolgun led 10,000 elite troops to the Yellow River Loop area to recruit chahar troops. At the same time, after obtaining the Yuan Dynasty's imperial jade seal, Dorgon presented the jade seal to the Emperor Taiji, and the group of courtiers therefore asked the Emperor Taiji to honor him as emperor. In the third year of Chongde (ming chongzhen eleventh year, 1638), Dolgun marched south to the Ming Dynasty.
However, such a military scientist who had made great achievements in battle and made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty was promoted to the imperial household, dismissed from the temple, and whipped to death. Speaking of which, we have to start with Dorgon's mother, Abahai. Abhay was Nurhaci and his favorite concubine, so Dorgon was also very popular with Nurhaci and intended to let him inherit the position of Great Khan. After Nurhaci's death, Abhay was forced to be buried. At that time, Dorgon was far inferior to Emperor Taiji in terms of battle merit and strength, and coupled with the fact that Daishan's two sons strongly supported Emperor Taiji, Dorgon lost the throne. Meanwhile, Dorgon has been haunted by the forced burial of his mother, Abahai. As a result, Dolgun Taoguang cultivated obscurity, won many battle achievements, and gradually gained the trust of the Emperor Taiji, while also beginning to weaken the hostile forces against his mother in the past. Wait for the right moment and covet authority. After emperor Taiji's death, several of Dorgon's major initiatives exposed his political ambitions.
First: 6-year-old Fu Lin succeeded to the throne. After the death of Emperor Taiji, Dorgon claimed that the emperor's greatest enemy was the emperor's eldest son Hauge. Hauge and Dorgon were evenly matched, and with the support of Daishan and Zilharan, they became Dorgon's greatest threat. Weighing the pros and cons, Dorgon chose to succeed to the throne. On the one hand, it can effectively prevent Hauge from becoming emperor; on the other hand, Fu Lin is a small child and easy to control. For Dorgon, Fulin was simply keeping the throne for him so that he could have more time to fight against his own hostile forces.
Second: After Fu Lin succeeded to the throne, Dorgon was extremely laissez-faire. On the one hand, Dorgon allowed Fu Lin to have fun and did not ask the teacher to teach him; on the other hand, Dorgon asked the little emperor to go to the regent's palace to ask him for peace, and did not take the little emperor seriously at all.
Third: Dorgon's attitude towards his former enemies Hauge and Zilharan. Zilharang first advocated the establishment of Hauge as emperor, and then agreed to make Lifulin emperor, but never supported Dorgon. Therefore, Dorgon cleverly convicted Zilharan from the center of power and replaced him with his own brother Dordor. At the same time, Dorgon used various means against Hauge, deposing him as a commoner and putting him to death in prison. After eliminating the two main political enemies, Dorgon became the regent of the Emperor's father. Prior to this, Shunzhi, in order to appease Dorgon, gave him the title of regent of the emperor's uncle. Now from the emperor's uncle regent to the emperor's father regent, the ambition is clear.
In November of the seventh year of Shunzhi, Dorgon went out to hunt gubeiwai, fell on a horse and fell on his horse while hunting, and in early December, Jiu Xue fell in the city of Kara outside Gubeikou, at the age of thirty-nine. The Shunzhi Emperor was shocked and mourned, and led the prince's ministers to serve five miles outside the Dongzhi Gate to welcome the body of Dorgon. The emperor honored Dolgun as "Emperor Of Maode Shudo Guangye Dinggong An Min Li Zheng Zheng Yi Emperor", the temple number chengzong, and the funeral ceremony was according to the emperor' ceremony. Not long after Dorgon's death, his political enemies came out one after another to overturn the case and expose his great rebellion, and the two white flags SukhShaha saw that the momentum was not right and turned against him. Dorgon's fourteen counts were all capital crimes, and the Shunzhi Emperor, who had long hated him to the bone, complied with the "will of the people" and thoroughly investigated them, cutting them, deposing the temple, digging up the grave, opening the coffin, and whipping the corpse. Later, the Qianlong Emperor Dolgun overturned the case, restored his title, and restored his mausoleum. At this point, the Qing dynasty's evaluation of Dolgun has a new conclusion.
Although Dorgon did not claim the title of emperor during his lifetime, his various actions reflected his true intention of rebellion. This also became the main reason for his death to be promoted to the clan room, dig up the grave, and whip the corpse, and it was also an inevitability.