Qing Palace drama is a very popular film and television drama genre in recent years, and has even become a very widely influential cultural phenomenon, from the "Yongzheng Dynasty" and "Huan Zhu Gege" in the last century, to the "Yanxi Raiders" and "Ruyi Zhuan" in previous years, etc., the characters of the Yongzheng Emperor, Xiao Yanzi, Wu Ah Ge, Wei Yongluo and so on created in these film and television dramas are also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In particular, Wei Yongluo is more because of his daring style of acting, which is yearned by many women, and has become the kind of person that girls want to be in their hearts, living vigorously and happily. However, in real history, did Wei Yongluo really live like this?
The historical prototype of Wei Yongluo was empress Xiaoyi Chun of the Qianlong Emperor, named Wei Jiashi, born in 1727, whose father was Wei Qingtai, the internal steward of Zhengwupin under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Wei Qingtai was mainly responsible for the management, the supply of snacks and fruits and liquor, liquor, sauce and vinegar and other items needed within the palace, although the official position was not very high, and the things handled were not very important, but how to be considered "his own person", loyalty was very high and reliable, so his daughter Wei Jiashi thus entered the harem of the Qianlong Emperor.
The age at which Wei Jia entered the harem should be between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, because in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the imperial palace chose only girls of this age, and at the beginning Wei Jia was only an ordinary girl, but later because of her outstanding posture, at the same time, she was clever and clever, down-to-earth and diligent, and was appreciated by the Qianlong Emperor's wife Empress Xiaoxian (Fucha).
Therefore, in the "Yanxi Raiders", Wei Yongluo, who had just entered the palace as a palace maid, received a lot of help from Empress Fucha, which is indeed historical. After being introduced by Empress Xiaoxian, Wei Jiashi soon gained the favor of Qianlong, and when she was nineteen years old, she was named one of the three concubines," "Ling Concubine", and her position in the harem was quite important, ranking first among the three concubines.
In the Book of Poetry, it is said that "RuGui Ruzhang, Ling Ling Wang", "Ling" is an extremely beautiful and elegant word, and this title of Ling Concubine also reveals elegance in honor. By the time qianlong was thirty years old, the 38-year-old Wei Jiashi had been promoted to "Ling Guifei", and in the absence of an empress, he had become the de facto lord of the six palaces, and his status was extremely prominent.
Even the grace of Wei Jia alone also benefited the whole family, her father Wei Qingtai, who was originally a Zhengwupin official, rose from the position of internal pipe leader to the head of the internal affairs office of Zheng Erpin, and her brothers also had official positions granted to them, the Qianlong Emperor not only granted official positions to Wei Jia's relatives, but also helped solve the housing and debt problems, and also gave away many shops and houses that could "automatically generate money" and other industries, which showed that Qianlong really loved Wei Jia to the extreme.
From 1757 to 1766, in less than ten years, Wei Jia gave birth to six children for the Qianlong Emperor, of which four sons and two daughters, and the second son, Yuanyan, was the later Jiaqing Emperor. Wei Jia died in 1755 at the age of 49 and was buried in Yuling.
More than a hundred years later, a warlord carried out a tomb robbery activity against Yuling, but accidentally found the body of Wei Jiashi, at this time it was still alive, but it looked very strange, and the accompanying doctor conducted an autopsy and found that the real cause of death of Wei Jiashi was poisoning. Wei Jiashi was already the first person in the harem before her death, and the only person who could poison her was obviously Qianlong, that is, because the cause of Wei Jia's death was discovered, people knew how ruthless Qianlong was.
Reference: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty