Tracing China: Through history, dialogue between ancient and modern

Chapter 291 The Secret of Dorgon and Xiaozhuang

Emperor Qianlong failed to escape in the end, and was symbolically beaten by Nurhachi and Huang Taiji.

Just because of this Qianlong's six trips to the south of the Yangtze River, squandering money, caused the financial crisis of the Qing Dynasty.

Kangxi was scolded, Daoguang Xianfeng was kicked, Qianlong was beaten...

The rest of the emperors were in a mess.

I don't know that the "adventure" of their Aixinjueluo ancestors may suddenly land on their heads with a wave of hands.

There is only one person who is not afraid in the face of danger.

That is Yongzheng.

This former fourth elder brother Yinzhen was calm and composed, with an expression worthy of all the people in the world.

Nurhachi and Huang Taiji also have vision.

Knowing that he couldn't find anything to do with Yongzheng, he turned his eyes and focused on Shunzhi, who became a monk and became the emperor.

This Aixinjue Luo Fulin, like Kangxi, succeeded to the throne at the age of six.

He also experienced the situation where the government was controlled by the minister Dorgon. Later, Qian Kun was arbitrary, but when he was in his 20s, he became a monk and died at the age of 24.

For Shunzhi.

For the first emperor to enter the customs.

Lin Feng didn't have a good impression, because he was the one who single-handedly caused the "Ten Massacres in Yangzhou" and other tragedies in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Fulin, why did you give up the excellent throne and go to that gloomy mountain temple instead?"

Huang Taiji looked at his son and spoke.

Huang Taiji can be regarded as a hero, but his son actually went to become a monk when he was in his prime.

Who can bear this?
"Amitabha!"

Shunzhi clasped his hands together and read leisurely:
The world is like a mountain from the forest, and the bowl is everywhere for the king to eat.Gold and white jade are not precious, but cassock and shawl are difficult.

I am the lord of the land, mountains and rivers, worrying about the country and the people.Thirty-six thousand days in a hundred years is less than half a day's leisure for a monk's family.

When you come, you are confused and when you go, you are confused, and you can walk around the world once.I am who I was before I was born, and who I am after I was born.

I am the one who grows up, and who is the one who is blindfolded?It is better not to come and not to go, when you come, you are happy and when you go, you are sad.

There are many worries about joys and sorrows, and who knows if a day is free.If you can handle Daseng's family affairs, it's not too late to look back.

In the world, it is difficult to compare with a monk, who is free from worries and comfortable.The mouth is clear and delicious, and he often wears patchwork clothes.

The five lakes and the four seas are honored guests, all because of planting Bodhi in the past.All of them are real arhats, wearing third-class clothes like the Tathagata.

Rabbits and birds fly east and west, so don't be scheming.A hundred years of world events and three more dreams, a game of chess in thousands of miles.

Yu opened the Jiuzhou Tang and released Jie, and Qin swallowed the Six Kingdoms and Han ascended the throne.There are many heroes in ancient and modern times, and the north and south hills lie on the earth and mud.

The yellow robe was replaced by the purple cassock, just for the sake of one thought.I am a monk from the West, why was I born in the emperor's family?

I have not been free for 18 years, and I will ask for a rest when I go south and north.

I want to let go and go back to the mountains, who cares about Qianqiu and Wanqiu.

This is a "Shunzhi Return to the Mountain Poem", which is very famous, in which the artistic conception of seeing through the world is empty and profound.

Huang Taiji was dissatisfied, "Fulin, no matter how many profound meanings of Buddhism you have understood, but you are the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and your status is related to the common people of the world. If you do this, don't you feel that the world is chilling?"

"I have made myself perfect, but I have suffered for the world!"

"As soon as you become a monk and leave, you are at ease, but have you ever thought about your own prince?"

"Because of you, Xuanye ascended the throne at the age of six, and the government was manipulated by Oboi..."

Faced with a lot of accusations.

Shunzhi was unhurried, still with the attitude of a Buddhist monk, "Father, Fulin is not filial, but do you know how Fulin got here?"

Huang Taiji was silent.

After a long time, Huang Taiji seemed to think of something, and said, "Is it related to Dorgon?"

Shunzhi, "Fulin was six years old, and Dorgon was the regent. He controlled the court for 16 years. He knew that he fell and died from a horse injury. In this world, Fulin began to have the final say. However, Fulin's favorite The concubine died one after another..."

Unspoken.

Shunzhi has been under tremendous mental pressure since he succeeded to the throne.

It wasn't until he came into contact with Buddhism that he gradually settled down in his heart, and that mountain temple was his final destination.

Huang Taiji seemed to understand his son's difficulties, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Lin Feng couldn't bear it anymore.

He stood up and said, "Senior Shunzhi, but you have been on the throne for two years, and you have issued a bloody order that six heads will not be left behind, which directly led to the infamous "Ten Massacres in Yangzhou" and "Three Massacres in Jiading."

"At that time, did you have any psychological pressure?"

"Do you know how later generations describe you? In the mainstream view, you, Emperor Shunzhi, have always been regarded as the most brutal monarch in the Qing Dynasty."

In a word, Shunzhi couldn't refute.

"Amitabha!"

Shunzhi tried his best to suppress the complicated emotions in his heart, "Mr. Lin, in the second year of my succession, Dorgon had the final say on all major government affairs. The so-called massacre you said was not my original intention."

All responsibility was shifted to Duo ErGun.

However, is it established?
After all, Dorgon is a courtier, and Shunzhi is the upright emperor. Who do you not blame for this pot?

The conversation between the two aroused Huang Taiji's interest, "Mr. Lin, what exactly is the so-called massacre you are talking about?"

Every time he looked back at that period of history, Lin Feng felt stuffy in his heart, with an indescribable suffocation.

Tragedy [-]: Ten days in Yangzhou.

When the Qing army entered the customs and attacked Yangzhou City, Shi Kefa led the people of Yangzhou to stop it. After failing to defend the city, the Qing army massacred the people in Yangzhou City. This massacre lasted for ten days, hence the name "Yangzhou Ten Days".

Later generations have records of that time: "The piles of corpses are piled up, brothers and feet are pillowed together, the blood enters the water and turns into five colors, and the pond is flat", "front, back, left, and right, burned everywhere", "the corpses in the city are like a mess", etc. It is said that at that time, except for a few residents who escaped before the city was destroyed and some people who hid deeply survived, almost all of them were massacred, and the number of corpses collected by monks alone exceeded 80.

Tragedy [-]: The Three Massacres in Jiading.

As the most brutal monarch of the Qing Dynasty, the second tragedy committed by Emperor Shunzhi was the "Three Massacres in Jiading". It happened after the Qing army captured Jiading in 1645. Three massacres".

It is said that when the city of Jiading was broken, Li Chengdong ordered the massacre of the city. Among the citizens, there were countless people who hung beams, threw themselves into wells, threw themselves into rivers, and lost their limbs. Women were even raped. Once they resisted, their hands would be nailed to the door. on, and then commit adultery.The massacre was divided into three times and lasted for a day until the corpses blocked the river, and more than 3 people were killed.

The Qing soldiers committed such heinous crimes. As their monarch, Emperor Shunzhi naturally had to bear the greatest responsibility. Although he did not kill, these tragedies would naturally fall on him, so he is called the most brutal monarch in the Qing Dynasty.

It's just that Huang Taiji didn't pay attention to these situations told by Lin Feng.

Huang Taiji, the second emperor of the Qing Dynasty, just said indifferently, "Fulin, it is because of the serious crime of killing and torture that you became a monk and repented?"

interesting.

Are the tens of thousands of people who died in the south of the Yangtze River not worthy of attention at all?
As if in the eyes of Huang Taiji.

The death of many people in the south of the Yangtze River is not as important as his son becoming a monk.

Lin Feng wanted to ask, Huang Taiji, is your heart made of iron?

Shunzhi didn't explain anything.

I just keep showing a shameful expression, rolling the beads alone, chanting "Amitabha!" over and over again.

Take a few deep breaths.

Lin Feng was also trying to calm down, and asked, "Senior Shunzhi, 200 years later, the matter of Dorgon and Empress Xiaozhuang has always been an unsolved mystery. Are you in that era, can you help future generations?" , to unravel this century-old mystery?"

Huang Taiji, who was still ignoring the common people just now, couldn't calm down immediately.

He pulled Shunzhi up, blushing, "Fulin, what did Dorgon do?"

Shunzhi was still like a stubborn tree, refusing to explain.

Huang Taiji looked at Lin Feng again, "Mr. Lin, why do your future generations have secrets about Dorgon and Xiaozhuang? What's hidden in this?"

At this time, Huang Taiji probably felt a piece of green floating over his head!
Lin Feng was also afraid that the world would not be chaotic, so he said directly, "It is said in later generations that Xiaozhuang married Dorgon?"

Huang Taiji's face was distorted by anger.

The woman he loves the most, actually married his ambitious brother after his death?
The Shunzhi Emperor next to him was also twitching at the corner of his mouth.

Lin Feng said.

Are you pretending to be dumb?See how long you can hold it.

What Lin Feng said was actually not nonsense, according to the information he found.

It is true that Xiaozhuang married Dorgon, and it was a formal marriage, not cohabitation in secret.

Why not write history books?This starts with the customs in the early days of the Qing Dynasty.

Before entering the customs, the Qing Dynasty was still a nomadic people. Their custom was that after a man died, brothers married his wife and took possession of his property, while raising his children.This is a normal thing among nomads.

Why is there such a custom that the Han people cannot understand?

This is because the ability of farming people to resist natural disasters is far better than that of nomads, so they can settle down, reproduce and raise their offspring in peace of mind, and develop civilization. Therefore, the material living standards of farming people and the level of civilization development are far ahead.

Before the Manchus entered the customs in the Qing Dynasty, the living environment was quite harsh. A family without a man, women and children could not survive.They have been running around for their livelihood all year round, so they don't have the time to deal with Confucian culture, and they don't understand the "waste of resources" such as sticking to one end.The only thing they need is to survive and reproduce.

It is a popular custom among many nomadic peoples to marry a sister-in-law after death.

They have no concept of things like chastity.

For example, Genghis Khan's first wife was snatched away by other tribes, and she was snatched back several months later. Later, Genghis Khan still respected her as the first queen.

For a nation with low productivity, it is good for everyone to let brothers marry their own widows, get their own property, and raise their own children, because only in this way can the offspring of the dead man reproduce, and the entire nation The population can thrive.

Even for women of the Han nationality in ancient times, only those with good conditions can stay widowed and never remarry.

In the really poor, or in the era of sharp population decline, women remarry everywhere, and many are even forced to remarry.

After the Southern Song Dynasty, a large number of aristocratic women began to observe chastity and not marry.

In fact, this situation is not very common.

In the late Qing Dynasty, widows who did not remarry could be granted chastity archways. Although there are many chastity archways, it is precisely because not every widow has one that it shows its preciousness. It can be seen that not the vast majority of widowed women.

After Huang Taiji died, Concubine Zhuang, who had nothing to rely on, was probably worried about being asked to be buried. After all, Manchus have such a custom, and Huang Taiji treated Dorgon's mother in the same way.

In the end, Concubine Zhuang's son was helped to the throne, she got rid of the threat of death, and attached herself to Dorgon, the most powerful man at that time, which was a lucky thing for her.

According to the folk records at that time, as well as the historical records of Lee's Korea, Xiaozhuang and Dorgon were officially married.

As for Xiaozhuang, he should be quite willing to marry Dorgon.

According to the Manchu tradition at that time, once married, Fulin was considered Dorgon's son.And Dorgon's later behavior basically regarded Fulin as his own son.

However, the environment has changed, and cultural traditions have also changed.

Fulin had several Han teachers, and was influenced by Han Confucianism, and began to feel that mother and uncle were together as a beast.

As a young man, he couldn't accept this kind of thing at all, and Dorgon was very strict with him, and he didn't follow the etiquette of a monarch and minister, so he began to hate Dorgon, thinking it was a shame.

In history, when encountering such a thing that the emperor felt ashamed of, the emperor would inevitably revise the history books.

For example, after the Jingkang disaster in the Song Dynasty, Song Gaozong had to add ten years to the age of his mother, Empress Dowager Wei, in order to conceal everything that happened after her mother was taken away by the Kingdom of Jin.

Even Li Shimin, a wise man, would not be calm when he saw that the Xuanwu Gate incident written by the official historian was too real, and he would be satisfied only by trying to change the history to be more beneficial to him.

So after Huang Taiji died.

For the future of Xiaozhuang and his son, according to the ancestral system of the Manchus, it is perfectly normal for Xiaozhuang to marry Dorgon.

Perhaps Xiaozhuang's feelings for Dorgon are much better than those for Huang Taiji, because Dorgon gave her everything she wanted, as well as a sense of security.

None of these Huang Taiji were given to her.

She should be more grateful and dependent on Dorgon, and has some fawning.

The way she later assisted Kangxi in governing is more likely to be learned from Dorgon.

Down with these words.

Is Huang Taiji indifferent?
not at all.

After all, he is a generation of heroic emperors, and he wants to save face!
What's more, think about it, whenever night falls, in the deep palace, the woman I love the most is crushed by my brother...

And Huang Taiji himself can only lie in the grave.

It drives you crazy just thinking about it.

So the next plot is to ask questions to his son Shunzhi to determine the relationship between Dorgon and Xiaozhuang.

Shunzhi still refused to say.

But judging from his expression, it was obvious that he also acquiesced.

Since then, the secret of Dorgon and Xiaozhuang has finally come to light.

"Dorgon, you are simply not as good as a beast—" Huang Taiji looked up to the sky and roared like a wild beast, his eyes full of resentment.

but.

A pair of big hands firmly pressed down on his shoulders, and it was Nurhachi who walked up to him and said word by word, "Dorgon is a minister who has made great contributions in stabilizing the situation in the Qing Dynasty."

Huang Taiji said unwillingly, "But Dorgon, how dare he?"

Nurha Equator, "If there is no Dorgon, can the Qing Dynasty rule the Central Plains? It's just a Xiaozhuang!"

This sentence is very Nurhachi.

What kind of bloody plot, what kind of women, what kind of relationship between uncle and sister-in-law... In the eyes of Nurhachi, none of them are as important as the Qing Dynasty.

The aggrieved Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and said nothing more.

Facing this ups and downs of the plot.

The modern people who eat melons all expressed that it was too enjoyable. After all, no one thought that the unsolved mystery of Dorgon and Xiaozhuang was actually such a plot.

"It's no wonder that in modern times, we don't know the relationship. This period of history has really been revised!"

"Nonsense, can Emperor Shunzhi not change it?"

"It's true, my mother and uncle are married, and if word spreads, people will laugh out loud."

"The reason why Shunzhi became a monk is probably Alexander."

"I have to say, Aixinjueluo's family has a lot of bloody plots."

"Hey, every emperor alone can make an 80-episode long series."

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(End of this chapter)