Modern people may not be very clear about the love history of ancient emperors, the emperor sits in the harem of three thousand, although there is rarely an unforgettable true love of life and death, but there are also some touching and profound love, in recent years, the fire of "Yanxi Raiders" and "Ruyi Zhuan" let the audience have a little understanding of Qianlong's love history.
For example, the Qianlong Emperor and the original empress Fucha clan, when Qianlong was still the fourth son of the emperor, the dignified and beautiful Fucha clan was given to Hongli by Yongzheng, and after marriage, the two had a strong affection and respected each other, and after Qianlong took the throne, the Fucha clan was established as the empress of the Middle Palace. Unfortunately, the heavens did not follow people's wishes, the Fucha clan gave birth to two sons and two daughters, but the two sons died one after another, which gave the Fucha clan a heavy blow, sullen and unhappy all day, and finally depressed, the deceased Fucha clan made Qianlong miss for a lifetime.
Qianlong's heart must have a place for Empress Fucha, and after her death, according to the custom, the position of Empress of the Middle Palace could not be vacant for a long time, and the Uranara clan was made empress. This person is also the harem "old man", at the age of seventeen married to the Prince of Bao Hongli as a side Fujin, after entering the palace, the Uranara clan was named a concubine, the title means "Peace and Tranquility", but no one can expect that a quiet woman can do great rebellious things in the future, causing Qianlong to be furious, did not officially abolish her empress position, but after her death, she was only buried in the specifications of the imperial concubine, and did not hold three years of national filial piety, which can be said to be "not abolished and abolished", and even there is no successor portrait in the historical data.
According to the records, Qianlong's fourth southern tour, a number of concubines followed, just in the process of this southern tour, the empress turned her eyes, after returning to the palace, although the empress was not beaten into the cold palace, but there was no empress treatment, was taken back the treasure, cut the maid, when she died, there were only two palace women around, this is the last promised treatment, the emperor disregarded the etiquette, so treat the empress of the middle palace, it is abnormal. What happened between the two in the course of their southern tour that made the husband and wife turn against each other for many years? Qianlong gave the statement that the empress cut her hair and was rebellious, but it seemed impossible to be credible based on the emperor's words alone. On this matter, later generations have given a lot of speculation.
One of the theories is that the mercurial Qianlong hunted in Jiangnan, the empress persuaded many times, Qianlong did not listen, the empress cut off her hair, Qianlong thought that the empress was insane, the other was to spoil the concubine and kill his wife, there was a concubine in the harem, who was deeply favored by Qianlong, qianlong intended to make her an imperial concubine, which was strongly opposed by the empress. In addition to Qianling's affection for the late Empress Fucha, qianling did not have too deep feelings for this successor, and in any case, the Uranara clan really provoked the emperor's anger. Thirty years after Qianlong, the two turned against each other, and in the thirty-first year of Qianlong, Empress Uranara died, and the love and hatred between the two empresses became a mystery for future generations.
The position of empress dowager of the Middle Palace was once again suspended, so that the imperial concubine Wei Jiashi was the highest-ranking concubine in the harem, and Qianlong did not make her empress, but Wei Jiashi took the same position as the empress in the harem, and took the honor of the imperial concubine to control the affairs of the six palaces, and performed the duties of the empress for ten years. In fact, the position of empress can also be suspended for a long time under special circumstances, Qianlong belongs to the fifteenth son of the emperor Yongyan as the crown prince, if the Wei Jia clan is established as the empress, then the mother clan behind the Wei Jia clan may be the only one in the dynasty. Wei Jiashi was a concubine who had the most children and children for Qianlong, and during the reign of the harem, she did not make a mistake and was deeply pleased by Qianlong, and the Qianlong Emperor called her "the leader of the Lan Palace" in the elegy commemorating Wei Jiashi.
Thirty years after Qianlong, the empress fell out of favor for four months, Ling Guifei was promoted to imperial concubine, that is, the above-mentioned imperial concubine and Ling Guifei, Wei Jia was originally a Han family woman, surnamed Wei, was the daughter of the internal management leader Wei Qingtai, after entering the palace, she was named Wei Guiren, and then carried by the Qianlong Emperor into Manchuria with the yellow flag, that is, "raising the flag", after three years in charge of the harem, once the imperial concubine was given a pair of scissors by the Qianlong Emperor, according to the "Palace Entry List", when the Qianlong Emperor received a Western tribute, it was a scissors for foreign tribute. When Empress Nala cut her hair with scissors, why would Qianlong now give the imperial concubine a pair of scissors?
Western scissors are a rare thing, and qianlong is not wrong to give to Aifei, but the emperor's mind has always been unpredictable, and the real intention of the Qianlong Emperor may be to let the imperial concubine remember the matter of Empress Nala in that year, to abide by her duty and not to interfere in the emperor's decision. Fortunately, the imperial concubine Wei Jiashi did as he wished, for ten years to manage the harem, orderly, safe and sound, Wei Jia's son Yongyan was also very contentious, Qianlong thirty-eight years, the fifteen brothers born of Wei Yongyan as the crown prince, that is, the future Jiaqing Emperor. However, it was precisely because of this that Wei Shi could not become an empress.
Qianlong was a famous longevity emperor in history, reigned for sixty years, at the age of eighty-seven, and almost all of his concubines died before Qianlong, forty years after Qianlong gave him scissors from the Wei clan, and the imperial concubine died of illness at the age of forty-nine. On the third day of September in the 60th year of Qianlong, the Qianlong Emperor proclaimed the fifteenth son of the Emperor, Yongyan the Prince of Jia, as the crown prince and posthumously named the crown prince's biological mother, Emperor Lingyi, as Empress Xiaoyi, and the mother and son received this honor, becoming the biggest winners in the palace.