Last year's popular TV series "Ruyi Zhuan" told us about the Deception and Intrigue of the Qing Court Harem, although this is only a TV series adapted from a novel, the content has been processed and the main history is very different, but it can also glimpse the cold side behind the palatial palace. In fact, there is an important character in the novel, and she does not appear in the TV series, she is the concubine. This concubine was not only Qianlong's favorite concubine in his later years, but also had a vicious heart, which could be described as a fierce role in the harem.
Concubine Wang's name was Wang Shi, from the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner of the Wrapping Family, such an identity, so that wang clan into the palace in the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong, was only given the title of Yongchang. Although in the thirty-third year of Qianlong, she was promoted from Chang Zai to noble, but soon became a nobleman. Qianlong was still very polite to his concubines, unlike the later Daoguang Emperor, who demoted his concubines to the throne at every turn. Wang's demotion, the history books do not record the specific reasons, we will guess according to later developments, it is likely that it is her own evil deeds.
Qianlong had many concubines, and there were also many favored women, who were not concerned about Wang And hung her for eight years. Wang Shi is very ambitious and is not willing to be a bald palace. The emperor did not pamper himself, and she thought of taking the route of the empress. As a result, Wang often found opportunities to accompany the empress dowager to chat, not only to express filial piety, but also to show his embarrassing situation intentionally or unintentionally.
How shrewd the Empress was, she was accustomed to this situation. However, she was also from a very low origin, and when she was waiting for Yongzheng, her status was not high, nor was she favored, and she was not less angry with Empress Uranara and Nian Guifei. Therefore, out of sympathy, she still advised Qianlong, hoping that the rain and dew would be evenly exposed and give the young concubines more opportunities. In this way, Qianlong, who had always been filial and obedient, began to pay attention to the Wang family.
Wang Shi waited for the opportunity he had long been looking forward to, and even more so hard to please Qianlong, thus embarking on the road of continuous promotion. From the thirty-sixth year of Qianlong, when Wang Shi was re-enthroned as a Yonggui, in just three years, she was promoted to concubine and even to concubine.
In addition to the efforts of Wang Shi herself, she was able to rise so quickly, because she was already pregnant in the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong. At this time, Qianlong was 64 years old, and no baby had been born in the palace for a long time. Being able to become a father again at such an advanced age, Qianlong naturally looked at Wang Shi with admiration. Although she was born the following year as a princess, qianlong was still overjoyed. Because she brought hallucinations to Qianlong, thinking that she was still young and still had a strong vitality.
This princess was Qianlong's favorite ten princesses. According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, only the daughters born to the empress could be named Princess Gulun, and the daughters of the other concubines could only be named Princess Heshuo. However, Qianlong broke with the convention and crowned the Tenth Princess as Princess Gulun and Princess Xiao. Princesses of the Qing Dynasty often had to marry Mongols, which was also an important means of maintaining the Manchu and Mongolian families. However, Qianlong was reluctant to marry the princess far away, and early on promised her to fengsheng Yinde, the son of the number one favorite and Yan.
It can be seen how high the status of Princess Hexiao is in Qianlong's mind. In his later years, Qianlong had a grumpy and moody personality, and often lost his temper for some small things, but as soon as he saw Princess Hexiao, his face immediately turned cloudy and sunny. Therefore, when Qianlong was angry, the next people were busy looking for the princess.
The princess was loved by her father, and The princess Wang shi naturally became overwhelmed. In the forty-third year of Qianlong, she actually beat one of her own palace girls to death. It should be known that the palace women of the Qing Dynasty are different from the palace women of the Ming Dynasty, who are sold to the royal family as slaves and cannot be buried in their hometown after death. The qing dynasty palace women were selected from the Eight Banners, and after serving the royal family in the palace for a period of time, after learning various rules, they could also go out of the palace to marry. To put it in layman's terms, their names with their concubines as master servants are actually the relationship between employment and employment.
When Qianlong learned of this, he was also greatly angered, and he indignantly said that there had also been incidents in the palace where concubines had forced the palace women to die. But after all, it was still the palace women who couldn't think straight, looked for short-sightedness, and the matter of directly killing the palace women like Concubine Huan had never happened in the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, Qianlong praised himself for his benevolence, even if the eunuch was at fault, he had never been killed, usually twenty with a staff, and at most forty.
For concubines, Qianlong demoted her to the position of concubine. For the palace maid, compensate her family for one hundred and two silver. It's really about lifting the stick high and then gently lowering it. Imagine the parents of the palace maid, full of hope, sending their young and lively daughters into the palace, but they are greeted with a cold corpse, and a hundred taels of silver that are even colder than the corpse. The murderer is only a symbolic punishment and has little effect on it.
But in the imperial society, to whom does this make sense? Moreover, after a year, the Wang clan regained the status of a concubine, still relying on the princess and enjoying the life of wei zuofu.
Later, when Concubine Huan met Qianlong, who had abdicated as Emperor Taishang, in the first year of Jiaqing, she was very late. This was a great sin in ancient societies and could even be put to death. However, after Qianlong lost his temper, he only canceled the reward for concubines. Counting up, concubines should be the concubines who made the most mistakes in the harem of the Qing court. However, because of the trump card of the Tenth Princess and the favor of Qianlong, she still lived leisurely and self-reliantly, and did not die until the eleventh year of Jiaqing, and also lived to be 61 years old.