Every dynasty will have some famous and prestigious families, which is the inevitable result of the development of the times, history is always moving forward, there will be prosperity and decline, people live in history, the same is true, ups and downs, are common things, but between the ups and downs, there will always be a lot of intriguing things, let future generations savor.
For example, the four major families during the Qing Dynasty are a very unique historical development result, of which the Tong family, once known as the "Tong Half Dynasty", is enough to see how much influence it has during the Qing Dynasty, but their family has a very worthy of scrutiny, that is, in the Nine Sons and Sisters, they initially supported the old eighth, but later became supportive of the old fourth Yongzheng, what is the reason? Let's elaborate.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the four major families of the Manchu Qing Dynasty</h1>
If it comes to the big family of the Qing Dynasty, there is no doubt that the Ai Xin Jue Luo family of the royal family is the largest, but the eight major families or four major families we usually say are all about the Ai Xin Jue Luo family. For example, during the Qing Dynasty, the eight major families generally referred to the Fucha clan, the Nala clan, the Niuhulu clan, the Tong Jia clan, the Guar Jia clan, the Ma Jia clan, the SuoQiLuo clan and the Hesheli clan.
However, if you have to say that there are four major families, it is necessary to continue to select four of the eight major families, the difficulty is actually a bit large, but history can always be sorted according to the things that have happened, such as the four major families are the same, according to the talents and strength of the eight major families at that time, we generally think that the four major families should be the Niuhulu clan, the Fucha clan, the Herschel clan and the Tong Jia family.
Why is it that these four families can be called the stronger of the eight families? The reason is actually very simple, the main thing is that the talents produced are really important to the development of the Qing Dynasty at that time. For example, the Fucha family, from the Kangxi period to the Jiaqing era has always been a wealth of talents, never stopped, representative figures are Ma Qi, Fu Heng, Fu Kang'an, Mingrui, Empress Xiaoxian, Mi Sihan, etc., simply from so many outstanding talents and the long duration of the family's prosperity, we can see that this family is indeed worthy of the name.
The Niuhulu family was not far behind, and there were empress xiao zhaoren, as well as shunzhi personally selected the assistant ministers Shu Bilong and the minister Er Yidu, who played a very important role in the history of the Qing Dynasty, which was indispensable and should not be underestimated.
The Heschel family also produced empresses, such as Empress Xiaochengren, and the ministers were also very good, such as the assistant minister Sonny in the Kangxi Period, and Sony's son Soetu, who we can see everywhere when we look at the history of the Qing Dynasty.
The last one is the Tong Jia family, the importance of the Tong Jia family in the history of the Qing Dynasty can be seen simply from a title "Tong Half Dynasty", basically many famous courtiers and empress concubines in that era have more or less related to the Tong Jia family, such as his family is only an empress, there are Empress Xiaokangzhang (Shunzhi Empress), Empress Xiaoyiren (Kangxi Empress), well-known ministers also Tong Guogang, Tong Guowei, Long Keduo, etc., these people casually put forward, the status in the Qing Dynasty is not to be underestimated.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, the development history of the Tong Jia family</h1>
As for the historical development of the four major families, we mainly study the Tong Jia clan today, the historical origin of this family is relatively long, and it is necessary to start from the process of Nurhaci's establishment of Houjin, at that time Nurhaci was also self-made, and as a result, he met Tong Jia's ancestors Tong Yang and Tong Yangzhen brothers who already had a certain economic strength, and they felt that what Nurhaci did was promising, so they poured their hearts into helping Nurhaci.
Because of the financial support of the brothers, Nurhaci has developed rapidly and soon has a certain strength, at this time Nurhaci feels that it is time to repay the favor, so he marries the Manchu woman to Tong Yangsheng as a wife, so the two families began to have a deeper contact, in addition to his wife, Nurhaci also gave Tong Yangsheng an errand to do to make his life better. Originally, both brothers had errands to do, but the younger brother Tong Yangzhen had a bad fate and was killed by prisoners, leaving only one son, Tong Tulai.
Tong Tulai took over the heavy responsibility left by his father and began to continue to fight for the Qing Dynasty, as a result, this guy was a rare warrior, deeply loved by the imperial court, and even more fortunately, his daughter was actually favored by the Shunzhi Emperor, so he also became shunzhi's father-in-law, and his daughter also became an empress, that is, the first empress of the Tong Jia family, Empress Xiaokangzhang.
Once the luck is good, it will continue to be good, the Tong Jia family is like this, Empress Xiao Kangzhang married Shunzhi and the Shunzhi Emperor and gave birth to Xuan Ye, that is, the later Kangxi Emperor, you say that tong Jia clan does not want to prosper in this way.
Tong Tulai had two sons, Tong Guogang and Tong Guowei, who were also used by Kangxi because of the prosperity of the family and various relationships, but Tong Guogang, like Tong Yangzhen, died in the Battle of Ulanbutong in the 29th year of Kangxi, leaving only Tong Guowei to continue to contribute to the prosperity of the family.
Tong Guowei is also a powerful character, he has two daughters, both married to the Kangxi Emperor, one became Empress Xiaoyiren, one became a concubine, so that the status of Tong Jia can be said to have reached its peak, so it is called Tong Half Dynasty, and more than half of the officials in the basic imperial court are their Tong Jia clan.
However, at this time, the nine sons of the nine sons of the concubine happened, kangxi's nine sons for the throne that is fighting for the head and blood, once this kind of thing happens, it is necessary to take sides, and Tong Guowei chose the old eight who looked the most promising to win when he stood in line, but the old eight was finally out, and it is conceivable that Tong Guowei's fate is naturally not good.
However, after all, how to say that Tong Guowei is also Kangxi's father-in-law, so Kangxi did not execute him, but dismissed him from his post and let him go home to retire, living until he died of illness at the age of 58, and the ending was not too miserable.
After Tong Guowei's death, the burden continued to be handed over to his son Long Keduo, who learned from his father's lesson and resolutely did not dare to take sides in the nine sons and wives at will, but always maintained a neutral attitude, which made Kangxi very fond of it, and Kangxi needed such a minister at that time.
In the fifty years of Kangxi, Kangxi directly promoted Long keduo to the viceroy of the nine doors, and after becoming the viceroy of the nine doors, Long Keduo had a higher consciousness of politics, and he saw the matter of the nine sons taking the wife more thoroughly, and he maintained a position of wall grass, to see who had the advantage and was liked by Kangxi, and to follow whom, at this time Yongzheng was basically on the verge of success.
Longkeduo saw that Yongzheng was only one step away from the throne, so he sent assists everywhere, and at the time of Kangxi's death, Longkeduo also showed extreme support for Yongzheng, but later when the Eight Ye Party forced Yongzheng, Longkeduo once again showed his position on the wall, making people very elusive about what he was thinking.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, why the Tong Jia family initially supported the eight brothers and then supported the four brothers</h1>
Why did Tong Jia support Lao Ba from the very beginning of Tong Guowei to the later Long Keduo supported Lao Si Yongzheng? In fact, the reasons are still more complicated, but the main ones are nothing more than the following points.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, the reason for supporting the eight brothers</h1>
At first, Tong Guowei supported Brother Baba because he felt that his brother Tong Guogang's death in the Battle of Ulanbutong was inseparable from The responsibility of Soe-e-tu, so he fought with Soe-e-tu, and Soe-e-tu supported the second brother of the crown prince, so Tong Guowei wanted to oppose Soe-e-tu, but to support the Eight Brothers who were relatively famous and popular at that time.
Of course, in addition to personal grudges, there is also a very important reason is that Lao Ba has great political talent, in that case at that time, it was obviously the most promising person to win, so betting on Lao Ba was the best choice at that time, but the world changed too quickly, and Tong Guowei could not imagine the ending.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, the reason why Longkeduo supported Yongzheng</h1>
Longkodo had seen his father's support for the eight brothers, of course, he would be a lot more cautious, at that time it was obvious that the eight brothers had gone, and had little to do with the wife, longcodo would not continue to support him no matter how stupid. At that time, Yongzheng just happened to be the most promising, in other words, most people will make the same choice as Roncodo, to support Yongzheng, it is equivalent to gilding themselves, why not?
However, even if he supports Yongzheng, Roncodo is still in a wait-and-see state, doing things cautiously, worried that if he accidentally embarks on the path of his father Tong Guowei, it can be seen from this that Roncodo's political consciousness is already much higher than that of his father's generation, but some of the good qualities of people are naturally less.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
Roncodo did show a high enough political consciousness in the early stages, but later because of the influence of power, he gradually lost himself, and finally embarked on a road of no return, so that the prosperity of the Tong Jia family gradually began to crisis, which is really sad and lamentable. But throughout history, in fact, it is so, where is there any evergreen tree, any family has had a glorious moment, there will be a moment of decline, the cycle of history, and who to bypass?
The four major families of the Qing Dynasty did pay a lot for the construction of the Qing Dynasty during the Qing Dynasty, and it is not difficult to see from the history of the rise and fall of tong Jia's family that in such an era, they can support the old eight to support the old fourth Yongzheng, the main reason is for mingzhe to protect himself, which seems to be the main theme of each era!
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