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Duoduo was born in the 42nd year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty. He was the 15th son of Nurhaci, the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty. His biological mother was Abahai, a member of the Ulanara clan. She was the daughter of Mantai, the Beile of the Ula tribe. She was the fourth and last empress of Nurhaci.

Because of her beauty and adaptability, Taizu loved her very much. Even though Abahai's uncle Bujantai broke the alliance several times, Taizu did not change his original intention.

The three sons born to Abahai were favored by Taizu, especially Duoduo. In the fifth year of Tianming, he had not achieved any achievements, but he had already become the leader of the Eight Banners, and then he was given a total of 30 Niulu under Nurhaci, while Ajige and Dorgon were given 15 Niulu each.

Among all the brothers, Dodo's Prince Yu's Palace was the closest to the Khan's Palace.

However, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse in the eleventh year of Tianming. Not only did Nurhaci die, but his biological mother Abahai was also required to be buried alive with him. Overnight, Duoduo became a helpless orphan and a weak ruler.

"Although Huang Taiji was elected Khan by the beiles, he was constrained in every way under the Eight Banners system."

"First, the population, property, and land must be equally divided among the eight families. Second, the military and political affairs of the Eight Banners are unified, and the soldiers and civilians are unified. The military and political affairs of each banner are managed by the Beile, the leader of each banner, and they are not subordinate to each other."

"Therefore, Huang Taiji only obtained very limited Khan power. Although he had the nominal title of Khan, he was no different from a Beile of the Zhenghuang Banner. Not only that, his authority was seriously challenged by the other three Beile."

"So, Huang Taiji began to cultivate the four young beiles and improve their political status and voice by establishing military merits, so as to achieve the goal of suppressing the three big beiles and strengthening the centralization of power."

"As one of the four young beiles, Duoduo lived up to Huang Taiji's expectations. In the second year of Tiancong, when he was only 15 years old, he followed Taizong to attack the Chahar Dorlot tribe for the first time, and he showed his military talent. He was awarded the title of Erke Chukhur for his bravery in battle."

"In the third year of Tiancong, Huang Taiji took a detour through Mongolia and attacked the weak areas of the Ming Dynasty's Jizhen defense zone."

"Duoduo, who accompanied the expedition, first led a small army with Manggurtai and Dorgon to besiege Hanerzhuang City, forcing it to surrender. Then he served as the rear guard in the Battle of Guangqumen and defeated the attack of the remnant Ming army. He thus accumulated rich practical experience and gradually grew into an outstanding general who could stand on his own."

"In the fifth year of Tiancong, he followed Huang Taiji to besiege Dalinghe City, and Duoduo led the Zhengbai Banner as the rear support."

"When the Ming army from Jinzhou arrived at the bank of Xiaoling River and began to station troops, Huang Taiji personally led 200 cavalrymen to meet them, and the Ming army retreated in defeat."

"Duoduo led his troops in pursuit, and when he approached Jinzhou, he fell off his horse, but he remained calm, seized the military school's horse, returned safely to the battle line, and with the main force, captured the fortified city of Dalinghe, destroying the 4 Ming troops who came to support."

"In May of the ninth year of Tiancong, the 22-year-old Duoduo was ordered to take command for the first time and led his troops to the Ningjin area to contain the Ming Dynasty's reinforcements."

"Duoduo sent Gushan Ezhen Ashan with 400 soldiers as the advance force. They were attacked by the troops of Zu Dashou, a great general of the Ming Dynasty. Ashan quickly passed on the message;"

"Upon learning of this, Duoduo immediately led a large army to rush to the rescue and defeated the troops of Zu Dashou, a great Ming general, at Daling River. Afterwards, Huang Taiji praised the event highly and led the other beiles to welcome him outside Wuli Gate in Shengjing."

"While expanding the territory, Huang Taiji imprisoned Amin and Manggurtai, and held the three banners of the Plain Yellow, Bordered Yellow, and Plain Blue, which indicated that the Khan's power had been greatly strengthened."

"In 1636, Huang Taiji changed the reign title to Chongde and founded the Qing dynasty. He recognized the merits of his brothers and nephews, and conferred the title of Heshuo Yu Prince on Duoduo, ranking fourth, after Daishan, Jirgalang, and Dorgon."

"In the same year, Huang Taiji attacked Korea. As the vanguard, Duoduo led 1000 people and followed Gabushixian's troops from Shahebao to the Korean capital, besieging the Korean king tightly. Then he defeated the Korean reinforcements and forced Korea to submit to the Qing Dynasty."

"However, the psychological trauma caused by the loss of his father and mother in a short period of time undoubtedly had a significant impact on Duoduo's character. Coupled with his increasing prominence, he became more impulsive and repeatedly disobeyed Huang Taiji."

"As early as the second year of Tiancong, Duoduo entrusted Ajige to act as a matchmaker for him without consulting Huang Taiji, intending to marry his uncle Abutai."

"In the third year of Chongde, Prince Rui Dorgon led his army to attack the Ming Dynasty. The princes, ministers and Huang Taiji, who was avoiding smallpox, all went to see him off. However, Duoduo used the excuse of avoiding smallpox to have fun with prostitutes in his mansion."

"Third, on New Year's Day in the fourth year of Chongde, all the ministers presented rare treasures to Emperor Taizong, but Duoduo presented a lame horse."

Li Bai: The long-accumulated contradictions finally broke out in May of the fourth year of Chongde. Huang Taiji summoned the kings, beile and ministers to the Chongzheng Hall to discuss Duoduo's crime of retreating without a fight in October of the third year of Chongde.

In the end, not only was one third of the Niulu taken away from Duoduo, but his title was also demoted two levels, from Heshuo Prince to Duolo Beile.

After that, although Huang Taiji still relied on this younger brother who possessed outstanding military talents, Duoduo did not disappoint him.

In July of the sixth year of Chongde, in the Battle of Songjin, Duoduo made great contributions. He set an ambush at Gaoqiao between Xingshan and Songshan, which led to the annihilation of the Ming army in Xingshan and fundamentally reversed the situation on the battlefield. The following year, he and other beiles attacked Songshan City and captured the Ming commander Hong Chengchou alive.

When Huang Taiji rewarded people according to their merits, he promoted Duoduo to Prince Duoloyu, but Taizong was unable to restore his princely title throughout his reign.

The main obstacles to Huang Taiji's centralization of power were the three great beiles, Daishan, Amin and Manggurtai, but that did not mean there were no conflicts with the beiles of other banner owners.

The implementation of the white and yellow color separation after Huang Taiji ascended the throne raised the political status of the two yellow flags, which was beneficial to Huang Taiji's group while restricting the growth of the two white flags. Not only did the two white flags obtain fewer captured people and property, but Dodo and Ajige, who were the leaders of the two white flags, were excluded from the highest power class. This caused a long-term and sharp contradiction between the yellow and white flags, which laid hidden dangers for the political situation of the Later Jin and the early Qing Dynasty.

In the eighth year of Chongde, Huang Taiji passed away suddenly. The two sides were deadlocked over the successor and almost went to war. Finally, with the mediation of Daishan and Jirgalang, all parties reached an agreement. Huang Taiji's ninth son Fulin succeeded to the throne, and Jirgalang and Dorgon served as regents.

Although Dorgon ranked later, his strategy was better than Jirgalang. With Dodo's support, he quickly squeezed out Jirgalang, forcing him to instruct all ministers in the first month of the first year of Shunzhi that everything should be reported to Prince Rui first.

What followed was the liquidation of the Hauge group. In the first year of Shunzhi, Dorgon, on the one hand, divided and suppressed the two yellow flag ministers, and on the other hand, caught Hauge slandering him behind his back, seized the Seven Niulu to which Hauge belonged, and demoted him to a commoner. In the same year, although his title was restored, his political influence was no longer the same.

In the fifth year of Shunzhi, Hauge was imprisoned for some reason and later committed suicide in the place of imprisonment. Dorgon thus took sole control of the military and political power.

In March of the first year of Shunzhi, the Dashun Army approached the city. Emperor Chongzhen knew that he was powerless to save the situation, so he hanged himself on Coal Hill. Li Zicheng occupied Beijing and began to recruit Wu Sangui, the general of Ningyuan in the Ming Dynasty.
Wu Sangui weighed the pros and cons and decided to surrender to Li Zicheng.

However, when Wu Sangui arrived in Luanzhou, he learned that his father Wu Xiang had been severely tortured and his concubine Chen Yuanyuan had been taken away by Li Zicheng's general Liu Zongmin. He broke with Li Zicheng in anger, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and returned to Shanhaiguan.

After learning about this, Li Zicheng led his troops to attack Shanhaiguan from three directions: Dongluocheng, Xiluocheng, and Beiyicheng. When Wu Sangui was in danger, Duoduo and Ajige, under the order of Dorgon, led 10,000 cavalrymen each to attack from the South Water Gate and the North Water Gate respectively, catching Li Zicheng off guard. The peasant army was defeated and fled. Duoduo and Ajige continued to pursue them to the east of the city, and finally won the battle of Shanhaiguan. The remnants of Li Zicheng fled back to Beijing. Duoduo and Ajige were ordered to pursue the remnants of Li Zicheng and returned only after reaching Guguan.

After this battle, the Qing regime took this as an opportunity to establish its capital in Beijing, and Duoduo and Ajige were promoted to princes for their merits.

"Although the Qing Dynasty established its capital in Beijing, there were still three regimes: Hongguang, Dashun and Dashi. For this reason, Duoduo, as Dorgon's right-hand man, was successively ordered to lead his troops to fight in various places."

"Western Suppression of the Rebel Army: In the first year of Shunzhi, Dorgon sent Duoduo and Ajige to the west to completely eliminate Li Zicheng's forces."

"However, Ajige changed the marching route without authorization, missing the opportunity to fight. Dorgon had to change the battle plan and ordered Duoduo to take the Henan route to meet Ajige in Xi'an to attack the Dashun Army from both sides, and then move eastward to conquer Jiangnan."

"Duoduo's troops were unstoppable all the way, forcing the Dashun Army to retreat to Tongguan."

"In the second year of Shunzhi, when the red cannons of the Qing army were in place, Duoduo deployed his troops into two camps, front and back, and launched a general offensive, attacking the Dashun army from both sides. Li Zicheng saw that the situation was hopeless and retreated to Xi'an."

"Soon after, the commander of Tongguan surrendered, and Duoduo led his troops to capture Xi'an, forcing Li Zicheng to flee."

"Marching into Jiangnan: In the second year of Shunzhi, after defeating the Dashun Army, Duoduo moved to Jiangnan and approached the city of Yangzhou, but surrounded it without attacking. Firstly, he respected Shi Kefa who was holding on and waiting for reinforcements, and secondly, the red cannons for attacking the city had not yet arrived."

"Faced with the Qing army's persuasion to surrender, Shi Kefa, with the determination to fulfill his loyalty, sternly refused. In the end, Duoduo led his troops to capture Yangzhou City. Shi Kefa would rather die than surrender, and was killed three days later."

"Soon after, Duoduo captured Nanjing, and the Hongguang Emperor was captured by the rebel general Liu Liangzuo and handed over to the Qing army, marking the demise of the Hongguang regime."

"Duoduo immediately accepted the order to change Nanjing into Jiangnan Province and set about establishing a sound bureaucratic system. He wrote to the emperor and requested the appointment of 373 officials below the rank of governor of Jiangning and Anqing, and stationed heavy troops of the Eight Banners in various important towns and roads. While stabilizing the order in Jiangnan, he also prepared to continue southward to sweep away the anti-Qing armed forces and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in various places."

"Northern Expedition to Mongolia: In the third year of Shunzhi, Tengjisi and Tengjite of the Sunite tribe of Mongolia in the northern desert broke the alliance and defected to the Khalkha tribe."

"Dorgon personally appointed Duoduo to go to war, and Chengze County Prince Shuo Sai followed him. Duoduo arrived at the place where Tengjisi and others were stationed, and led his troops to go around them from behind and occupy the dangerous pass."

"After learning about this, Teng Jisi and his men immediately fled. Duoduo sent troops to pursue them overnight and captured them on the third day."

"Duoduo led his troops to pursue the victory and defeated the two sons of Khalkha Tushetu Khan and the fourth son of Shuolei. After negotiations, Tushetu Khan and Chechen Khan Shuolei sent envoys to apologize and pledge their loyalty."

"Based on his outstanding military exploits in a series of operations such as the march to Shanhaiguan, the elimination of the Dashun regime, and the march to Jiangnan, and his firm support for Dorgon in attacking his political enemies, in the fourth year of Shunzhi, Duoduo ushered in the most glorious moment of his political and military career and was promoted to Prince Deyu, the assistant to the emperor, with a status second only to the regent Dorgon."

"In the sixth year of Shunzhi, Dorgon, who was in Shanxi, learned that Duoduo had unfortunately contracted smallpox, and immediately returned to the court. When he arrived at Juyongguan, Duoduo unfortunately died at the age of 36. He was later buried in Dabei Kiln outside Jianguomen, and the old place was called Miaojiadi."

"In March of the seventh year of Shunzhi's reign, Shunzhi ordered the erection of a stele for Prince Deyu Duoduo, the regent, to list Duoduo's achievements."

"In December of the same year, the battered Dorgon fell off his horse while hunting and died of his injuries. Shunzhi began to liquidate the Dorgon group. As a result, Duoduo was demoted to a prince. In the tenth year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, he was posthumously named Tong. In the first month of the forty-third year of Emperor Qianlong's reign, his title of Prince of Yu was restored and his family name was inherited. He was allowed to be worshipped in the Imperial Ancestral Temple and enshrined in the Shengjing Xianwang Temple."

Su Shi: Duoduo advised Dorgon to become emperor, or to recommend Daishan to ascend the throne.

But Duoduo's real purpose was to ascend the throne himself, and he even brought out Nurhaci's will to find a way to seize the throne.

But it is obvious that neither Dorgon nor Daishan supported him. One said that Prince Su Haoge was listed in the will but it did not take effect, and the other said that Dorgon was humble and turned the power to Huang Taiji's son.

This passage clearly exposed Duoduo's ambition to become emperor, but he was stopped by his own brother. Therefore, he became jealous of Dorgon and often sabotaged him from then on.

In theory, Ajige, Dorgon and Dodo are brothers from the same father and mother. They should unite and form a joint force. Dorgon took good care of his older and younger brothers.

But Duoduo was a bad teammate. He often caused trouble for his brother and was always busy trying to sabotage Dorgon.

Dorgon was outstanding since childhood and was deeply loved by Nurhaci.

As the youngest legitimate son of Nurhaci, Duoduo was also very much loved. At the age of 8, he was ranked among the eight great governors and beile.

Before Lao Nu died, he arranged for Duoduo to be in charge of the most powerful Plain Yellow Banner, and Ajige to be in charge of the Inlaid Yellow Banner. Dorgon was not yet the Beile, the leader of the banner, which shows how much he doted on this youngest legitimate son.

This made Duoduo develop a spoiled and self-willed character. Coupled with the sudden death of his parents and a sudden change in his fate, he became even more impulsive, which laid the groundwork for his life tragedy.

But at that time they were not too old, enough to be controlled and divided by Huang Taiji.

Dorgon and Dodo were both young men with great military achievements during the reign of Huang Taiji, and were appointed prime ministers and kings.

Ajige was suppressed by Huang Taiji because Huang Taiji's second concubine was divorced by Emperor Taizu.

Huang Taiji stripped him of his title and gave the title of Beile to Dorgon in order to divide the three brothers.

In the fourth and sixth years of Tiancong, the scheming Huang Taiji renamed the two flags controlled by Dorgon and Duoduo as two white flags and swapped the two brothers, which further deepened Duoduo's dissatisfaction with Dorgon.

In fact, the root cause was that Huang Taiji was wary of and distrustful of the three sons born to Abahai, so he used all means to eliminate the three's covetousness for the throne and at the same time consolidate his own imperial power.

After Huang Taiji's death, Dorgon became the regent and Shunzhi's father, and took good care of his younger brother Duoduo, making him the commander-in-chief and restoring his princely title. (End of this chapter)