Chapter 22 Chapter 4 Mysterious Cases of the Qing Palace——The Ambiguous Relationship Between Dorgon and Xiaozhuang

This incident exposed the biggest mystery in the history of the Qing Palace: Why did Dorgon recommend Shunzhi as emperor?Did he have any secret deal with Shunzhi's mother Xiaozhuang?Regarding this matter, Taiwanese historian Mr. Gao Yang, after some research in historical materials, finally came to a conclusion: Dorgon and Xiaozhuang have long had a beautiful love, and the matter has been confirmed, and this matter Huang Taiji didn't know. This is the end of Gao Yang’s research. This research result has caused a split in the historians. There are two schools of historians. One school believes that since the two people have a real relationship, they should have a certain marriage contract. This is not without evidence. , There are many records in the history books and poems at that time.For example, there is a book called "The Unofficial History of the Qing Dynasty" that says: Dorgon often ran to Huang Taiji's house when Huang Taiji was fighting on the front line, so he had a beautiful love with his sister-in-law Xiaozhuang, After Huang Taiji died, the two fell in love even more fiercely.Later, Fan Wencheng came out and said that he could be a matchmaker.The most bizarre thing is that the first thing Fan Wencheng wanted to convince was Emperor Xiao Shunzhi. He told Xiao Shunzhi: The current regent Dorgon is your father, and the queen is your mother. Your father and your mother love each other so much that they want to live together. There is such an unofficial history record in "The Unofficial History of the Qing Dynasty", so historians speculate that there may be a de facto marriage between Dorgon and Xiaozhuang.In addition, Zhang Huangyan, an anti-Qing poet at that time, also wrote some poems. It is said that these poems were written about the grand wedding scene in the palace at that time.In short, historians of this school believe that Empress Xiaozhuang once married Dorgon.

Another school of historians believed that Xiao Zhuang did not marry Dorgon based on orthodox historical materials such as the "Manuscripts of Qing History". So did Empress Xiaozhuang marry Dorgon?To clarify this question, we must first answer two questions.First question: If Empress Xiaozhuang married Dorgon, why did she marry him?Second question: If she didn't marry Dorgon, why didn't she marry him?If you look closely at this period of history, you will find that it is almost identical to the story of Abahai in the previous article.When the old Khan Nurhachi died, Abahai had become the center of power. Similarly, when Huang Taiji died, Xiaozhuang also became the center of power.At that time, Abahai voluntarily wooed Dabeile Daishan and Huang Taiji, not really loving these two people, but hoping to get the support of these two people to keep her three sons and her three banners People and horses.Imagine that if Abahai successfully wins over these two people, then she will have the Five Banners.

The same historical problem was put in front of Xiaozhuang.When her husband Huang Taiji died, or before her husband died, Xiaozhuang had to consider such a question: What should I do to keep my son's throne?Obviously, once Huang Taiji died, the most powerful person would be Dorgon. If Dorgon wanted her son Xiao Shunzhi to die, it would be a piece of cake. If he wanted to push Xiao Shunzhi to the throne, he would be able to push To ascend the throne, Xiaozhuang must win Dorgon's support.Mr. Gao Yang believes that the fact that the two have an affair is completely in line with historical logic and realistic logic.

Think about it, Dorgon might have become the emperor, but because Huang Taiji strangled his mother to death, he lost such an opportunity. He must have hatred and resentment towards Huang Taiji in his heart, but he couldn't show it , if revealed, it is dangerous. Although this hatred and resentment cannot be revealed, he can show his love to his sister-in-law.In other words, Dorgon has the desire to conquer Xiaozhuang in order to vent his resentment.Empress Xiaozhuang also had the desire to conquer Dorgon because she needed the support of such an ally to protect his son.Thus, the two of them formed a wonderful emotional combination of "you can't live without me, and I can't live without you".For Dorgon, every time he went to find Xiao Zhuang, he had a mentality of taking advantage of it and taking revenge; for Xiao Zhuang, every time she had a good time with Dorgon, it was a threat to her son's safety and herself. position has been further consolidated.

From this we further analyze: Is it necessary for Xiaozhuang to marry Dorgon?It should be because she was not married, because she was worthless if she married.Dorgon's family has a lot of concubines, and they are all young girls, while Xiaozhuang is old and decrepit, wouldn't marrying him add to the trouble?But if she didn't marry, she would be the empress dowager, with an extraordinary status.For Dorgon, having an affair with the empress dowager was such an exciting thing. If he married at home and became his wife, this excitement would disappear. So from the perspective of historical logic, the two of them should have a tacit understanding, a relationship in which I know what you want and you know what I want.The two parties have an emotional connection with each other—both are extremely smart people, there is no need to say much, as long as they do what should be done, both parties will be safe.So the Qing Empire entered a very wonderful period. At this time, Emperor Shunzhi was just six years old. He was an unfortunate emperor, a sad emperor. He was just a puppet, and everything had to be arranged by others.This wonderful relationship between Dorgon and Xiaozhuang has contributed to the unprecedented unity within the Qing Dynasty, because this wonderful relationship has given Dorgon a sense of accomplishment when he went to conquer the city as the regent—— There is a sense of accomplishment when going out, and there is also a sense of accomplishment when you come back.

When the Qing Dynasty was in such a wonderful period, the famous incident of "rushing to the crown and becoming a beauty" broke out, and a violent conflict broke out between Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui.