A "Yanxi Raiders" has made many audience friends have great curiosity about the real history of Concubine Wei Jia. In the play, Wei Yongluo was initially only a palace maid by Empress Fucha's side, but later she not only succeeded in avenging her sister and Empress Fucha, but even won the emperor's endless favor and the power to associate the sixth palace. And along the way, he taught many concubines with bad intentions.
In fact, whether it is Wei Yongluo in "Yanxi Raiders" or Wei Wanwan in "Ruyi Zhuan", their historical prototypes are Wei Jiashi, the concubines of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. The highest position that Wei Jia was enthroned during his lifetime was an imperial concubine personally granted by Qianlong, and he also had the power to associate the six palaces. After the Nala clan broke off and fell out of favor, the affairs of the Qianlong harem were handled by Wei Jia, the imperial concubine. Although she did not really become an empress, wei Jiashi did not lack the honor of being an empress alone.
In the tenth year of Qianlong, Wei Jiashi first appeared in the records of the history of the Qing Palace, and at that time he was canonized as a Wei nobleman. Soon after Wei Jia was crowned a nobleman, he was immediately given the title of concubine by Jin. Such a speed of promotion is extremely rare among the concubines in history, and the promotion from a nobleman to a concubine represents that the Wei Jia clan has the power to become the lord of the palace. And it took only fourteen years for Wei Jiashi to be promoted to the position of noble concubine from being fortunate to be promoted by Qianlong.
Twenty-one years after Qianlong, Wei Jia gave birth to qianlong's first child, the later Princess Gulun and Jing. In the following ten years, he gave birth to four sons and two daughters for Qianlong, not only the most fertile of Qianlong's concubines, but also the concubine who gave birth to the most imperial heirs in the history of the Qing Dynasty. Wei Jia's favor can be seen from the number of heirs, and the pregnancy of October is equivalent to Wei Jia's almost no stop in the most favored decade.
On the winter solstice of the 38th year of Qianlong, Qianlong secretly made Yongyan, the fifteenth son of the emperor born to Concubine Ling, the crown prince. However, because the Qianlong Emperor was too long-lived, Wei Jia did not see Yongyan ascend the throne, nor did he enjoy the honor of empress dowager. Although Wei Jiashi acted as the empress dowager of the Sixth Palace, she was never officially made empress.
In the history of the Qing Dynasty, there were only two empresses born in the Han Military Banner, one was the Qianlong Emperor's concubine Wei Jiashi, who was posthumously honored as Empress Xiaoyi chun after her death because she was the birth mother of the Jiaqing Emperor. The other was Tong Jiashi, the biological mother of the Kangxi Emperor, who was also posthumously honored as Empress Xiaokangzhang after her death. The rulers of the Qing Dynasty paid attention to their origins, and even if they were favored by the Wei Jia clan and gave birth to so many heirs for the Qianlong Emperor, they still could not get rid of their origins.
As early as Sun Dianying excavated the Imperial Tomb of the Qing Dynasty, it was found that the corpses in the remaining coffins in the Imperial Tomb had long since decayed, but Wei Jia's body remained intact. Later expert research also showed that the reason why Empress Xiaoyichun's body was not decomposed was because the corpse contained a large amount of arsenic, which was the arsenic used at that time. This also shows that Wei Jiashi is most likely to have taken arsenic cream before his death. Only about this point, the history books do not record, but one thing that can be determined is that the body is not decomposed, if not long-term use leads to chronic poisoning, or the dose of arsenic is extremely large.
And the only person in the palace who had the power to let Wei Jia, who was an imperial concubine, take arsenic cream was the Qianlong Emperor. Many people have called Qianlong fiercely on this matter and can treat their favorite concubines in this way. Although many scholars have their own different views on this matter, a large number of arsenic has been detected in Wei Jia's body, which is indeed an ironclad fact.