Since ancient times, some people have left their names in history after death, and some people have been left behind for thousands of years, I don't know how many of them have been scandalized, and how many people have been seriously beautified, Meng Guzhe is a woman who has been seriously beautified, she was originally insignificant in Nurhaci's life, but her mother is precious and enjoys thousands of glories behind her.
01 Meng Gu Zhe zhe and Ye He old daughter
Menggu Zhezhe, of the Yehenara clan, also known as Menggu or Menggu's sister, was the daughter of Yehebu Dongcheng Bele Yang Jibang.
Speaking of Ye Hebu, perhaps the most impressive thing for everyone is the old woman of Ye He who "can rise up the world and perish the world", and some film and television dramas set Meng Guzhe zhe as the sister of Ye He's old woman, in fact, they are not a sisterhood.
Menggu Zhezhe came from the Yehebu of the Jurchens of Haixi, and belonged to one of the four divisions of The Hulun, and in the early years of the Wanli Calendar, two shrewd and capable leaders appeared in the Yehebu, two brothers, Qing Jianu and Yang Jiping, who built the east and west cities in Yehebu, becoming the West City and the East City Belle respectively, so that Ye He gradually prospered.
In the tenth year of the Wanli Dynasty (1582), the Haixi Jurchen Hada Ministry Belle Wangtai died, followed by serious civil unrest in the Hada Department, taking this opportunity, Yehebu seized the leadership of the Haixi Jurchen and became the ally of the Haixi Jurchen Four Ministries.
Menggu Zhezhe is the daughter of Yehe Dongcheng Belle Yang Jiping mentioned above, or a relatively young daughter, in addition, Menggu also has two older brothers, one named Narin Bulu and the other called Jintaishi. In addition, that Xicheng Belle Qingjianu also had many sons, one of whom was named Buzhai, who gave birth to a daughter, that is, the famous old woman Yehe, the woman who said that "the world can prosper and the world can perish".
From this point of view, Meng Guzhe and Buzhai should be related to uncles and brothers and sisters, so Ye He's old daughter should be Meng GuZhezhe's cousin niece.
02 Empty Cheque - Qin Jin's Good
In the tenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1582), that is, the year of the death of the old king of Hadabe, Wang Tai, Nurhaci, who was only 24 years old, came to Yehebu, and at this time, Yehebu was in a rising state and would soon become the ally of the four Jurchens of Haixi, and Nurhaci was different.
Although Nurhaci was the eldest son of the Jianzhou Left Guard commander Takshi, he was expelled from his home in his early years and forced to join the Tong family, relying on the Tong family's help, and only had a little bit of manpower, but this point could not be compared with the strong Andi Yehebu, so the fallen boy and the son-in-law Nurhaci very much hoped to get the support of Yehebu and wanted to find a big tree.
After coming to Yehebu, Yang Jiping was surprised to see Nurhaci's skeleton, there was no one in the world, he was a rare talent, and he had to give his youngest daughter Menggu Xu to him, at this time Menggu was only eight years old. Nurhaci also wanted to lean over his thighs and proposed to marry Yang Jiping's eldest daughter, so that he could get married immediately, but Yang Jiping said that the eldest daughter was unremarkable, and the younger daughter looked extraordinary, so she was worthy of Nurhaci, so Nurhaci had to agree.
Regarding whether Yehebel Yang Jiping had mated his younger daughter Mengguxu to Nurhaci, the author had some doubts, because at that time, Nurhaci was not important at all, and Tangtang Yehe Dongcheng Belle would forcibly give his precious daughter to a disgraced door-to-door son-in-law?
Even if Yang Jiling really wanted to ration his youngest daughter Mengguxu to Nurhaci at that time, it was just a blank check.
Because Menggu was only eight years old at that time, there are still a few years to go before the adult marriage, who knows what will happen in these years, moreover, here Yang Jiping only promised to give his daughter Menggu Xu to Nurhaci, all this depends on Nurhaci's creation, if Nurhaci is not mixed up, Yang Jihao will still marry Menggu to him?
After all, the marriage contract does not necessarily have to be counted, I did not see that yehe old woman, was promised seven times to successfully marry, and yehe could not do it.
03 Beautify the girl
Truth be told, things are indeed impermanent. In the second year after Menggu was allowed to marry Nurhaci, that is, in the eleventh year of the Wanli Calendar (1583), Li Chengliang, the general of the Liaodong Army of the Ming Dynasty, designed the killing of the brothers Yehebel Qingjianu and Yang Jibang, and subsequently, Menggu's brother Narin Bulu and his cousin Buzhai became the Baylor of the Eastern and Western Cities of Yehebu respectively.
Also in this year, Nurhaci's grandfather Kyaw Chang An and his father TakShi went to the city of Gule to persuade Atai (Nurhaci's uncle), who wanted to oppose The Ming Dynasty, but was killed by the Ming army by mistake, Nurhaci recorded his hatred on the head of the city lord of Tulum, Nikan Wailan, and started his entrepreneurial path with thirteen pairs of armor.
In the same year, nurhaci and Menggu Zhezhe's father was killed by the Ming army, and they can be said to have the same disease.
Have to admire the poisonous vision of Menggu's father Yang Jiling, his son-in-law Nurhaci is indeed a rare talent, in just five years, Nurhaci has conquered most of the tribes in Jianzhou, in the fifteenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1587), Nurhaci built the palace in Hulan Nangang, Feiala City, calling himself jurchen Shulebelle, becoming a force that cannot be despised in the Jurchen tribe, at this time, many tribes began to deliberately subordinate this jianzhou talent.
In April of the sixteenth year of the Wanli Dynasty (1588), the leader of the Hada tribe, Hu Ergan, married his daughter Amin to Nurhaci, and hada was an old rival of Yehebu, seeing that Hadabu had the upper hand, Yehebu was also anxious, so Yehe Dongcheng Bellena Lin Bulu obeyed his father's original promise, and in September of this year, he married his sister Menggu to Jianzhou.
For Menggu himself, the historical records (Draft History of the Qing Dynasty) have this description:
"Hou Zhuang is wise and wise, the tone of the words is gentle, the reputation is not liked, the bad words are heard, and the pleasure does not change. It is not good to be slanderous, not to believe in slander, not to hear in the ear, not to speak falsely. Do not anticipate foreign affairs, and sincerely worry about things. ”
On the surface, these descriptions are full of praise, but in fact, there is a problem, for example, a woman, whether she encounters a good thing or a bad thing, always does not change her face, and even some people scold her, and still be very happy, is this normal? It's definitely not normal.
How much affection does a woman who has no preferences have for her husband? Therefore, the author believes that Menggu does not want to marry Jianzhou at all, and she does not have much affection for Nurhaci.
As for Nurhaci's treatment of Menggu, there are also many descriptions in the historical materials, saying that after Menggu's death, Nurhaci was desperately injured, ordered four maids to be martyred for him, and buried Menggu's ashes in the courtyard for three years to accompany himself, in fact, most of this is a kind of exaggeration in order to raise the status of his mother after the Emperor Taiji succeeded to the throne.
As we all know, when she married into Jianzhou in 1588, Nurhaci's Dafujin was Fuchagundai, Menggu was only a side Fujin, Fuchagundai occupied the position of Dafujin for more than thirty years, until his death, after the death of Fuchagundai, replaced her by Dolgun's mother Abahai, Menggu had never been a Dafujin, from beginning to end, he was just a side concubine.
Moreover, throughout his life, Menggu only gave birth to one son to Nurhaci, that is, the eighth son, Emperor Taiji, in contrast, the Yuan Concubine Hahana Zaqing gave birth to three, the successor concubine Fuchagun dai gave birth to three, and the eldest concubine Abahai also gave birth to three, so Menggu may not have received much favor from Nurhaci at all, just one of Nurhaci's many side Fujin, and that's all.
04Dependent
On September 27, 1603, the thirty-first year of the Wanli Calendar, Menggu died of depression in the memory of his mother, at the age of 29.
Some people may wonder, why did you die at a young age?
First of all, Menggu's marriage is not satisfactory, she does not want to marry to Jianzhou at all, which is the root of her encounter without any change in expression, that is, she does not care about anything.
Secondly, in the twenty-first year of the Wanli Calendar (1593), Yehebu and Jianzhou turned their faces, gathered nine allied forces to attack Nurhaci in a big way, but did not want to be easily defeated by Nurhaci, and the body of Menggu's cousin Buzhai (Yehe's old daughter's father) was also divided into two by Nurhaci, only half of it was returned, from then on, Yehe and Jianzhou formed a hatred of not sharing heaven, Menggu sandwiched between her husband and mother's family, and its situation was difficult to imagine.
Again, after the Battle of Guleshan in the twenty-first year of the Wanli Calendar, Nurhaci married several wives, for example, in the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli Calendar (1601), he married the princess of Ulabu, and abhay, who was only 12 years old, was somewhat inferior to this young and beautiful and scheming woman.
In the end, Menggu especially wanted to see his mother before his death, Nurhaci sent someone to Yehe to pick up his mother-in-law, but was rejected by his brother-in-law Narinbulu, it can be seen that until his death, Menggu's heart was always in Yehe, and he never saw his mother before his death, which aggravated her condition.
05 Behind the glory
After Menggu's death, Nurhaci first buried her ashes in the courtyard for three years, let four maids bury her, and Nurhaci did not drink alcohol or eat meat for a month, which seems to be quite important. Of course, it is not okay not to pay attention to it, who made the son of Menggu later Huang Taiji the Great Khan.
Three years later, Menggu was buried in Nyayaman Hill, and in the ninth year of the Mandate of Heaven (1624), Menggu moved to the city of Liaoyang, and after Emperor Taiji succeeded to the Khan's throne, he built a Fuling tomb for his father Nurhaci and buried his mother Menggu in Fuling.
In fact, in the identity of Menggu's previous side Fujin, if it were not for her son Emperor Taiji who inherited the Khan's throne, she would not be eligible to be buried with Nurhaci, and only three were eligible, one was the Yuan Concubine Tong Jia Clan, one was the Stepfather Fucha Clan, and then the Grand Concubine Uranara Clan.
That is to say, Menggu was buried in Fuling as the biological mother of the Great Khan (Emperor), and the real wife status was the Fucha clan and the Uranara clan, however, these two women, one (Fucha clan) was withdrawn from Fuling by Dolgun to offend Taizu, and although Dolgun's mother Uranara was also buried in Fuling, her empress title was pursued by the Shunzhi Emperor after the pro-government, only Menggu, alone enjoyed the glory of the empress, at first, the emperor Taiji posthumously honored her mother as Empress Xiaociwu, Menggu became the first woman of the Qing Dynasty to be honored.
In the first year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Menggu was renamed Empress Xiaocigao, and was crowned by the emperors of Yongzheng and Qianlong, and finally the title was "Xiaoci Zhaoxian Jing Shun Ren Hui Yi Deqing Xiancheng Tianfu Shenggao Empress".
06 Conclusion
Empress Xiaocigao is a woman full of mysteries, and we still don't know what kind of personality she has, but we have reason to believe that she is a woman who has been seriously beautified, in fact, Menggu is not as perfect as people think, nor is she as favored as people think.
She was just an ordinary member of Nurhaci's side Fujin, because her son Emperor Taiji inherited the throne and enjoyed the glory behind her, but even so, so what? Menggu's life is not happy, it can be said that it is very difficult, she is sandwiched between her husband and her mother's family, suffering, look at her life expectancy, twenty-nine years old, it is the time of the good years, she died like this.
Meng Guzhezhe, the first empress of the Qing Dynasty to be honored, a woman who was heavily glorified.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Manchuria, Records of Emperor Wu of the Qing Dynasty, Old Manchu Archives