In August of the eighth year of Chongde (1643), a great event happened in Shengjing Palace: Taizong died suddenly while sitting! The ninth son of Emperor Taizong, Huang Taiji, ascended the throne with the help of his uncle, Regent Rui Dourgen, and changed to Shunzhi. In September of the first year of Shunzhi (1644), he went to Beijing from Shenyang and held an accession ceremony at Taihemen, becoming the first emperor after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs.
Fu Lin ascended the throne at the age of 6, and grew up under the guidance of his resourceful and arbitrary uncle Dourgen and his widowed mother sourdrang queen. During the seven years of Dourgen's regency, in the process of unifying the whole country by force, the Qing court sent troops to hunt down the peasant rebels of Li Zicheng and Zhang and the anti-Qing forces of Nanming, and implemented ethnic high-pressure policies such as shaving, changing clothes and enclosure. After Dourgen's death, Shunzhi began to get rid of his puppet status, and was punished by dismissal and titles, retiring from the temple to enjoy posthumous title, and losing his family wealth. In order to strengthen the imperial power, he abolished Wang Baylor's old practice of managing the affairs of various ministries and adopted a series of measures to ease ethnic contradictions, such as stopping enclosure and relaxing the escape law. Although Shunzhi wanted to do something, he was attracted by the culture of the Central Plains, but he lost in the contest with the old ministers who opposed sinicization in the DPRK because the powerful political forces he led had not yet formed around him.
Political frustration made the emperor shunzhi indulge in love with his sister-in-law Dong Eshi. With the contact with the Buddhist monk Mu Chenyu and others, he had the idea of escaping into an empty net. When his beloved imperial concubine Dong Eshi died, his spiritual support completely collapsed and his health went from bad to worse. At the age of 24, he was infected with smallpox and died soon.
The emperor shunzhi was in office for less than 18 years. He died in Heaven, in good luck, and built the Emperor, Wen, Dade, Shengren and Ren. Temple name sai-jo. The ashes were buried in Zunhua, Zhili, the "Xiaoling Mausoleum" in the Eastern Qing Dynasty.