The real life of yuan Chunwang, the eldest boss in "Yanxi Raiders", is not only the brother of the Qianlong Emperor, but also the biological son of the empress. The empress dowager was the Qianlong Emperor's biological mother Qian Shi, but only because she sacrificed herself to save her husband in the Taihang Mountains, she was defiled by bandits and gave birth to Yuan Chunwang, and only after returning to Beijing was she nominally given death under the arrangement of the Yongzheng Emperor, who was grateful for her great kindness, but in fact she changed her name and changed her surname to Niu Cobalt Lu.
The plot setting of the Qianlong Emperor's birth mother for the Qian clan in the "Yanxi Raiders" obviously refers to the record of the Yongzheng Emperor's han edicts in the real historical archive "Yongzheng Dynasty Han Dynasty Decree Compilation", and the Yongzheng Emperor enthroned concubines after he ascended the throne, and enfeoffed the Qian clan as Concubine Xi. As we all know, Concubine Xi was the birth mother of the Qianlong Emperor, and later Empress Chongqing (posthumous title: Empress Xiaoshengxian).
[On February 14 of the first year of the Yongzheng Dynasty, the Imperial Decree was issued: Empress Dowager Zun decreed: Lateral Fu Jinnian clan was crowned as a noble concubine, lateral Fujin Li clan was crowned as Qi concubine, Gege Qian was sealed as Xi concubine, Gege Song clan was crowned as Yu concubine, and GeGe Geng clan was made a concubine.] 】
However, in the Qing Shilu officially compiled by the Qing Dynasty and the Qing History Draft edited by the elders after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, all relevant records about Concubine Xi/Empress Chongqing were revised to Niu Cobalt Lu.
The Qing Palace sealed concubines, the custom is that the titles do not coincide, so a Concubine Xi will never be sealed to two different people, so there is only one answer, Qian is Niu Cobalt Lu Clan, Niu Cobalt Lu Clan is Also Qian Clan. The Qianlong Emperor was suspicious by nature, wide on the outside and jealous on the inside, and was mean and unsentimental to his courtiers, but throughout his life, he was extremely filial to the empress dowager Niu Cobalt Lu clan, and never had the slightest doubt, only because the empress dowager was indeed his biological mother whose blood was thicker than water.
In the "Raiders of Yanxi", the empress dowager relayed the story to Wei Yongluo, and then relayed to the Qianlong Emperor by the Qinggui noble lu wanwan: "On the trip to the Taihang Mountains, the Qianlong Emperor's birth mother Qian Shi, dressed in princely costumes, led the Yongzheng Emperor to pursue the troops, and was abducted and defiled by mountain bandits." After that, the fact is that Qian Shi was pregnant, and after giving birth to Yuan Chunwang in the Taihang Mountain farmhouse, in order to conceal the fact of losing his virginity, he discarded Yuan Chunwang and the princely costume of the golden python robe together. Returned to the capital.
The Yongzheng Emperor was grateful for her righteous act of sacrificing her life to save her husband, and for the sake of her son Hongli, who was intended to be the heir, he could not have any "stains" that were questioned by the royal family and the world, so he "gave death" to the Qian clan, and let her continue to live in the name of the "Niu Cobalt Lu Clan".
Yuan Chunwang was mistaken for a dragon son and a grandson by the peasant family who raised him, and after going to the capital to find his father, he was deliberately retaliated against by Yin Yu, the prince of Lian, because of this set of princely costumes, and became a eunuch, so he was full of resentment and deliberately retaliated, and planned a series of conspiracies against the imperial family.
In the last episode of "Yanxi Raiders", the truth has been clearly confirmed: when Yuan Chunwang was completely defeated, the empress dowager changed her face as soon as she heard "Taihang Mountain" and pleaded with the Qianlong Emperor to let Yuan Chunwang live: "Don't... Don't execute him. Emperor, just listen to What Lady Eun said this time. The look and the words were so mournful that they had never been seen before.
Only because Yuan Chunwang was indeed not the "Ai Xin Jue Luo Royal Family" that he thought he was, but the empress dowager (Qian) was born after being defiled by mountain bandits, and was the half-brother of the Qianlong Emperor.
Even at this time, the empress dowager could not bear to deceive her two biological sons, and with the expressions and words within her ability, she made everything clear and implied: "Yuan Chunwang could have married and had children like ordinary people and lived in peace." However, because of a misunderstanding, he was persecuted and became a waste. He used all means and fought all his life to take revenge, but he hated the wrong person, complained about the wrong person, and then ended up empty, pitiful, really pitiful!" 」
The Qianlong Emperor thought about it and came close to understanding all the truth, so he finally spared Yuan Chunwang's life.
Otherwise, even Prince Hongzhi was killed by poisoned wine, and Yuan Chunwang, as the culprit of all things, even if he was also of imperial blood, how could he survive? Why would the empress dowager pity a prince who was not her own?
Yu Zheng's first Qing Palace drama "The Great Qing Harem" already had a similar setting, during the Jiaqing period, when the Tianli Sect attacked the imperial palace, the Daoguang Emperor, who was still the crown prince, was able to escape with the help of the Fu Jin Niu Cobalt Lu Clan. Niu Cobalt Lu was outside the palace for five years, and he had a son. After the Daoguang Emperor ascended the throne, she returned to the palace and was given the title of Concubine Quan, and later gave birth to the Xianfeng Emperor and became Empress Xiaoquan. The illegitimate son of Empress Xiaoquan entered the palace to find his mother under the pseudonym "An Xuechen" as an imperial doctor.
"The Harem of the Qing Dynasty": Empress Xiaoquan and her son An Xuechen
Therefore, it is also not unusual that this setting is now used in "Yanxi Raiders" as a producer. Yuan Chunwang is the new "An Xuechen". With Wei Yongluo's temperament, she had already fulfilled her old feelings for Yuan Chunwang before, and after she was promoted to imperial concubine, why would she allow this culprit to live? Only because she could not afford to provoke the empress dowager no matter what, she had been protecting Yuan Chunwang's life.
As for the qianlong emperor's birth mother suspected case, the plot of the "Yanxi Raiders" TV series, on the basis of real history, the treatment in the play is a very clever blank technique. Whether it is the Qian clan or the Niu Cobalt Lu clan, and even the two of them are originally the same person, are left to the audience to guess for themselves, and it just fits the real history, which is really wonderful.