After watching the palace fight drama on TV, we learned that not every woman has the opportunity to enter the palace to serve the emperor, but to pass the draft, and these people in the draft are all identities, there are officials in the family who have the opportunity, most of the concubines favored by the emperor are from a good family, it can be seen that the favor of the harem women is closely related to the power of the previous dynasty family. In ancient times, surnames were very important, and it distinguished between the nobility of personal identity and the prosperity of the family.
During the reign of the Daoguang Emperor, there was a concubine, she was the Hersheli clan, which was a Manchu surname, belonging to the Manchurian Yellow Banner and the Yellow Banner, which was the oldest surname of the Manchu people, and one of the most important and powerful Manchu families in China during the Qing Dynasty.
During the Kangxi Dynasty, many high-ranking ministers and the famous Naran zhide were all descendants of zhenghuang, and the original empress of Kangxi was the Hersheli clan. From here, we can see that this concubine has the same surname as the Kangxi Empress, and it is conceivable that her identity must be extremely noble, and the family power must be not small.
This concubine was a noble concubine, a concubine who was selected into the palace in the same draft as Empress Xiao Quancheng, Concubine Xiang, Concubine Chang, and Concubine Zhen. She was crowned a nobleman from the moment she first entered the palace, with a noble surname power, the starting point is much higher than other draft women, and she can leap into the noble as soon as she enters the palace, and it can also be seen that the Daoguang Emperor's impression of this nobleman is still good.
When she first entered the palace, she did get the favor of the Daoguang Emperor, but the good times were not long, and when she wanted to increase her power in the harem and consolidate her position by relying on her noble surname, the Xiang Concubine and the Empress Xiao Quancheng who entered the palace with her were pregnant with the dragon fetus. The Daoguang Emperor did not have many heirs, and he was very happy to have two children at once, and he named Xiangfei and Empress Xiao quancheng as concubines, and the status of Xiangfei and Empress Xiaoquancheng also surpassed that of Mu Guiren.
The Daoguang Emperor also began to ignore the Mugui people, the Mugui people have not been pregnant with heirs, in the harem, the new people are endless, the freshness will soon disappear, and the Mugui people gradually lose the grace of the Daoguang Emperor. In this way, it was not until the tenth year of Daoguang that she waited for the opportunity and was enthroned as a concubine.
Originally, I thought that a good time had come, but in the eleventh year of Daoguang, when everything that had been done to crown the Hescher clan as a concubine was ready, the Daoguang Emperor suddenly ordered her to be demoted to a nobleman, and at this time, the jing concubines who entered the palace three years later than her had already surpassed her status.
The problem is that after being demoted to a nobleman, the bad news did not stop. In the same year, the Herschel clan was successively demoted by the Daoguang Emperor to the rank of Mu and then to an official woman, and from a concubine to an official woman, the Herschel clan was demoted to four consecutive ranks. This was also a precedent that had never been seen before, what had she done wrong to be degraded by the Daoguang Emperor like this. This history is not recorded, but it must have done a lot of wrong things and offended the Daoguang Emperor before he would be so demoted.
On the fifth day of April in the twelfth year of Daoguang, on the third day of the herschel clan being demoted to an official woman, the official woman of the Yanxi Palace fell into the water and died, this official woman was exactly the Herschel clan who was tragically demoted, and the matter of falling into the water, many people speculated that she was demoted to the fourth level in a row, becoming a joke in the palace, feeling annoyed and angry, so she jumped into the water to end her life, and soon after the incident, the Daoguang Emperor issued a decree to posthumously honor the Herschel clan as a good promise.
One of the oldest surnames in Manchuria, the Hersheli clan is a rising star among the Eight Banners family, which reached its peak during the Kangxi dynasty of the Qing Dynasty. Originally had such a noble status, in the harem should be smooth sailing, but Herschel turned himself into a joke, became the laughing stock of everyone in the palace at that time, was demoted in the harem, even the fourth level of her is the only case, but also has such a noble surname, to Herschel also brought shame.