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Chapter 34 Bedside Politics 7
The emperor who did not bury his grandmother for 30 years
In the 26th year of Kangxi (1687), the 75-year-old Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang passed away.However, this old man who made outstanding contributions to the Qing Dynasty was not buried by Kangxi. Originally, according to the convention, Xiaozhuang should be buried with Huang Taiji in Zhaoling Mausoleum outside the pass, but in fact, Xiaozhuang has been parked next to Xiaoling Mausoleum in Shunzhi. On the other hand, it was not until the third year of Yongzheng (1725), 27 months after Yongzheng served his father's funeral, that the construction of Zhaoxi Mausoleum was started.

For more than 30 years, Kangxi never buried his grandmother. Although Yongzheng later explained that Kangxi and his grandmother had a deep relationship and could not bear to bury her, but due to emotion and reason, this statement still did not make sense.In the traditional Chinese funeral etiquette, the most important thing is "to be buried in the soil for peace".Only deep feelings should be buried in the earth as soon as possible, but Kangxi did not do this, there must be a hidden secret in it.

According to historical records, when the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was dying, she told Kangxi that Taizong's mausoleum had been buried for a long time, and that Empress Xiaoduan had been buried together, so she should not rebuild the ground for herself.Besides, I still miss Shunzhi and Kangxi father and son, so I hope to have an Anling near the Xiaoling Mausoleum of Shunzhi.Of course, this is just a one-sided statement by the historian, and it is unavoidable to beautify the Queen Mother, so it is difficult to believe it all.

After Xiaozhuang's death, Kangxi insisted on keeping filial piety for his grandmother in the palace for three years. Later, because of the opposition of many ministers, he only wore filial piety for two years.The reason why Kangxi did this was out of filial piety and out of ulterior pain.This is to be said from Huang Taiji Bin Tianxi.After Huang Taiji's death, he left behind a 6-year-old child Fulin, a helpless wife, and a brother Dorgon who was coveting.Fulin's mother, Xiaozhuang, worked hard to make Fulin the new emperor. The delicate ending of this power struggle is inseparable from the efforts of Fulin's mother.

At that time, Dorgon was the one who was most capable of succeeding to the throne, but why he was willing to let a hairy child be the emperor, it is necessary to mention Fulin's mother, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang.In order to preserve Huang Taiji's career, Xiaozhuang had to do something against ethics. Although the matter of marrying Dorgon has not been verified, it must be inevitable to lose his virginity.

This made Xiao Zhuang unable to be buried with Taizong due to secular etiquette, but this was a family scandal, and he couldn't explain it clearly. Although Kangxi understood the empress dowager's difficulties in his heart, he could only suffer from being dumb.This probably explains why Kangxi was reluctant to bury him after wearing Xiaozhuang for two years.

In the seventh year of Shunzhi (1650), the seven-character quatrain "Jianyi Palace Ci" written by Zhang Cangshui caused a sensation, from which we can also get a glimpse of the reason why the Queen Mother refused to be buried.

The Shangshou cup is the honor of Heyong, and there are many gates in the Palace of Compassion and Ning.

The Spring Palace entered the Xinyi Note yesterday, and the big ceremony is to celebrate the marriage of the Empress Dowager.

Ye Ting still talked about the family of Ce Yan, who wonderfully chose the widow and boudoir as the mother.

The dream of pepper sleeping returns to the cloud and rain, and the shrimp is mistaken for the dragon.

This poem quickly spread among the people, but if it is true that Xiaozhuang married Dorgon and made the regent the "Royal Father" as said in the poem, then there should be an imperial edict to announce it to the world, but But no such information came from the palace.Therefore, the relationship between Xiaozhuang and Dorgon became one of the mysteries in the early Qing Dynasty.

There has been no reliable historical evidence to confirm the relationship between Xiaozhuang and Dorgon, but from the speculation of clues, future generations can also draw some conclusions.

Xiao Zhuang was born in the 41st year of Wanli (1613). When she was 13 years old, she took refuge in Huang Taiji. At that time, Dorgon was only 14 years old. It is not impossible for the two to get along with each other since childhood. matter.But Huang Taiji married Xiaozhuang away. It is also possible that Dorgon used his power to force Xiaozhuang to marry out of revenge, or because the old relationship is still unfinished.

There is also a saying that after the regent Dorgon killed his political enemy Hauge, he married Hauge's Fujin, the Borzigit family from the Horqin Mongolian grassland.However, the folks spread false rumors. It is said that the current empress dowager, the Borzigit family who also came from Horqin, married Dorgon. The literati also wrote articles and made up various legends, vividly depicting the marriage between the empress dowager and the regent.The imperial edict of the great marriage recorded in the unofficial history is obviously a literary style, and it is fabricated by a good person, so it is not credible.

No matter how it is recorded in the history books, Xiaozhuang was buried 30 years later.The dynasties of the Qing Dynasty respected her so much that they sang their merits and eulogized her, and they also put her first in the mausoleum sacrifices. If there was such a thing as the empress dowager marrying, why could the Qing Dynasty humiliate itself?Some people think that it was because the rulers of the Qing Dynasty felt that this incident was disgraceful, so they destroyed the relevant files and deleted the records in the historical records.It is said that during the Qianlong period, when Ji Xiaolan was sorting out the archives of the Qing palace, she felt that this incident insulted the dignity of the royal family, so she asked the emperor for approval to delete this part of the content from the archives. Since then, no one has mentioned this incident.However, the story of the queen's marriage is widely circulated.

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