History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
Princess Gulun and Princess Xiaoxiao, born in the forty years of Qianlong, the emperor's beloved daughter; the emperor's brother's beloved sister.
How much love? And a few examples.
Princess Hexiao's mother, Wang Shi, is a white flag person. He entered the palace at the age of seventeen, and Feng Yong was always there, when Qianlong was twenty-eight years old.
That is to say, after she entered the palace for twelve years, she gave birth to her precious daughter, the Tenth Princess of Qianlong.
For more than a decade, like most concubines in the palace, she was waiting for the emperor's arrival. During this period, she devoted herself to serving the emperor's birth mother, the empress dowager, and was quite pleased with the empress dowager, and often spoke her good words in front of her son.
Qianlong was a filial piety, how could he not listen to his mother's words? As a result, Wang was given the title of Yonggui on the 27th day of the first month of the 36th year of Qianlong; ten concubines in the beginning of October of that year; more than two years later, she became pregnant with a dragon seed; and a few months later, she became a concubine.
In the forty-third year of Qianlong, she committed a major crime rarely seen in the Qing Palace.
She ordered a palace maid to be beaten to death.
How rare is it?
Qianlong wrote in the edict on her disposition, "Yesterday Concubine Yi summoned the woman in the Palace to death, and the incident was shocking... In the former concubine, there was a bad temperament, beating the maid, causing those who were in a hurry... There has never been a concubine who has beaten a woman to death."
That is to say, although there were concubines who beat the palace women and caused the palace women to die lightly, they directly beat the palace women to death, which was the first time in the world.
Qianlong used himself as an example to prove that even if he was an emperor, he could not be willful--and as the lord of the world, he held the power of life and death, and never tasted the anger of any moment, and erected a castration monument under the staff. Don't the princes know it? In the past, the little eunuchs Hu Shijie and Ruyi often had annoying things before this. However, it is punished lightly. Twenty cane rebukes. There are very many and no more than forty.
At most, I beat the disobedient little eunuch on four big boards, and I would never poison my hands. You're doing something I didn't dare do now. If you are not dealt with, where is the King's Law?
Concubine Huan was demoted to a concubine as a sign of punishment. The eunuchs in her palace did not stop the "tyranny" of their masters in time, and "the chief eunuchs Guo Jinzhong and Liu Liang were seriously convicted, and they were stripped of their belts and fined money and grain for two years; the other eunuchs on duty were fined for one year." Because it is to carry the pot for the concubine, half of the punishment is paid by the concubine. "The woman who was beaten was given a hundred taels of silver by her concubine and buried in her parents."
Maybe some people are disappointed, I still think how much punishment is it, isn't it a demotion penalty... Human life is at stake, and that's how it's handled?
Are people the emperor's favorite concubines? What else do you want? Let her pay for it? Long live Shane!
What's even funnier is that in less than a year, he was promoted to concubine again.
The reason for this is that for Qianlong, a sixty-seven-year-old man, it is only because the lovely daughter born of Concubine Huan has given him infinite comfort in life.
As the edict says, "His offense is not light, and he remembers that he once had a princess..."
It can be seen that the Tenth Princess is really a noble concubine. If she had not given birth to this daughter and killed the palace maid, fate must have been different.
The Tenth Princess was not only a noblewoman of Concubine Huan, but also a nobleman of Hezhen and her husband Fengshen Yinde.
After Qianlong's death, the Jiaqing Emperor captured Hezhen. Many ministers demanded that this most heinous guy be put to death, but the Tenth Princess begged her brother to give him face so that he could leave a whole corpse.
Washu was able to commit suicide by Bai Aya, otherwise, he was afraid that there would be hundreds of people in the vegetable market who would hold up silver to buy his meat to eat.
Also because of the face of his wife, although his father died, Feng Shen Yinde was not greatly affected, and all kinds of treatment were still enjoyed... Although he was later thrown to the frontier as an official, he eventually returned to the capital and died here under the intercession of his wife.