In many TV dramas, we will see Kangxi's concubine Yifei, a concubine who has a very good relationship with the emperor almost at any time. Kangxi liked to visit privately, during which he only brought a few personal guards, even if he was so lightly dressed, he still had to take Concubine Yi with him, which showed the extraordinary relationship between the two.
During the reign of the Kangxi Emperor, a total of three empresses were appointed, and unfortunately, three empresses died one after another, and the empress was the most important position in the harem. However, after losing his own empress one after another, Kangxi was discouraged and decided not to make an empress again. Thus there was no queen in the harem for more than thirty years.
Without an empress, the affairs of the harem still had to be handled by someone, so the four concubines who were closest to the emperor undertook this task, they were Huifei, Yifei, Defei, and Rongfei. The four concubines held absolute power in the harem at different times, and although they did not have the name of the queen, they did the truth of the queen. The protagonist we are going to talk about today is one of these four concubines, that is, Concubine Yi.
Among the four concubines, Huifei was the first concubine to hold power in the harem, but because Huifei wanted her son to become the crown prince, she chose to take sides in politics, including his own brother Mingzhu, who also sided with the eldest brother at that time. As a result, he provoked Kangxi's anger at the matter of the crown prince, and the eldest brother lost Kangxi's favor with his mother Concubine Hui. When Kangxi died, Concubine Hui was also alive, but she was far away from the strife of the court, and she spent her old age with her son.
Secondly, defei, who was Yongzheng's mother and empress dowager during the Yongzheng Emperor. This empress dowager has a very good temper and no moral character, which has been unanimously praised by everyone.
Finally, our Concubine Yi, although She gained kangxi's greatest favor during her reign, would always be taken with her to the emperor. However, after the emperor's death, he was madly targeted by Yongzheng. It is said that Yongzheng should also call Yifei a mother concubine, after all, it is his father's beloved concubine, but why does Yongzheng want to do this?
It is also said that Concubine Yi's own son, Yin Yu, is also the old ninth. Yin Yu was an important backbone of the Eight Ye Party, and after Yongzheng ascended to the throne, he did not rush to deal with the Old Eight, after all, the power of the Old Eight was still very strong. He first aimed the spearhead at The Eighth Master's loyal follower, Yin Yu. As Yin Yu's mother, Concubine Yi, naturally she was not spared.
When Kangxi had just died, the 58-year-old Concubine Yi was also seriously ill and could not get out of bed. But the emperor's funeral still had to go, Yifei let people carry to kangxi's funeral, as the empress dowager's concubine was very humble to let Yifei's palanquin walk in front of her, because this position had always been like this during Kangxi's lifetime, Yifei did not think much or shirk, but this scene was seen by Yongzheng, but directly said that Yifei did not know the order of respect and inferiority. An elder was said by the junior, and his face was naturally hanging, and Princess De wanted to defend Concubine Yi, and the emperor who saw the anger had to give up.
When Yongzheng transferred Lao Jiu to the border guard, Yin Yu wanted to go into the palace to meet his mother who was seriously ill, but Yongzheng was not allowed, and Concubine Yi could not bear to see her son kneeling outside the door, but opened the door to look at her son, but was ordered by Yongzheng to think about it behind closed doors.
Four years later, Yongzheng successfully killed Lao Ba and Lao Jiu, and When Concubine Yi learned of this, she was already discouraged, and was driven out of the palace by Yongzheng, and finally died depressed.