Since the ancient emperors have a lot of affection, it is also because they feel that people who do great things cannot stick to the love of their children, and most of the harem concubines are also for the purpose of passing on the generations, so occasionally one or two likes, but also depends on each other's identity status, with a strong political color.
But there is such an emperor in history, he favored Dong Efei alone, and even ended up depressed for her, that is Shunzhi, but some people are also curious, since he loved Dong Efei so much, how could he still have 14 children with other concubines.
1. The first emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Ai Xinjueluo Fulin
Ai Xin Jue Luo Fu Lin was the ninth son of Huang Taiji, and he was relatively lucky to be born, and Huang Taiji laid the foundation for him and established the Qing Dynasty long before he was born.
According to common sense, the throne is generally inherited to the emperor's favorite son, but Fu Lin has been very afraid of Huang Taiji since he was a child, and every time Huang Taiji wants to hug him or be close to him, Fu Lin will show that he is afraid of his hands and feet, and does not dare to come closer.
Over time, Emperor Taiji's attitude towards Fu Lin was inevitably cold, and he felt that such a timid son could not achieve great things, so Fu Lin's succession to the throne was not the meaning of Emperor Taiji.
Fu Lin's succession was actually more like a political arrangement, after the death of Emperor Taiji, the eldest son of the Emperor and his brother Dorgon were arguing over the throne, and the forces on both sides were equal, so in order to be able to weigh this issue.
Dorgon proposed that the ninth son of the emperor, Fu Lin, ascend the throne as emperor, and he and the emperor's eldest son assisted the government, so Fu Lin became a pawn of Dorgon and ascended the throne as emperor, called the Shunzhi Emperor, but at that time he did not have any real power in his hands.
Since Fu Lin ascended the throne at the age of 6, basically the major affairs of the imperial court are decided by Dolgun and others, and he can't say anything when he is young, and the taste of becoming an emperor but being overpowered by others is really uncomfortable, Fu Lin is still very eager for power, hoping that one day he can really sit firmly in the country.
This opportunity also came quickly, and within a few years, the eldest son of the emperor and Dorgon and others died one after another, and in the year when Fu Lin was 12 years old, he finally took the throne, although he spent a long 6 years, he was also the earliest emperor to succeed to the throne.
We may not have heard of any great deeds of the Shunzhi Emperor, but in fact, there are still many problems shortly after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, and these problems cannot be solved overnight, so Shunzhi can only say that it has also done a lot of things that are beneficial to the country, but the utility will not be seen for a while and a half.
First of all, Fu Lin learned from the experience of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and in fact, after the Manchus entered the customs, the Central Plains were still mostly Han, so if they tried to suppress the Han people, they would inevitably be resisted.
Therefore, Shunzhi changed his previous policy and began to advocate the equality of Manchu and Han, and even used Han officials very much in the imperial court, so that the Han people no longer worried about their own lives, so the voice of resistance was relatively small, after all, no matter who was the emperor, the people only cared about their own dietary life.
In addition, Shunzhi attached great importance to the connection with the Mongolian, Tibetan and other frontier peoples, he knew Mongolia and Tibet very well, and also believed in Lamaism, so he pursued the policy of favoring lamas since the Emperor Taiji, and several concubines in his harem were also married to the Mongols and other tribes.
Second, pampering Concubine Dong E to the extreme and finally depressed
The life of the Shunzhi Emperor was relatively short, and his most memorable thing was his deep affection, and since the ancient emperors, there were very few emperors who loved a concubine like this, and this concubine was Dong Efei.
Dong Efei is a Manchurian Zhengbai Bannerman, the daughter of the minister Eshuo, from a young age, talented and intelligent, like to read, can write a good hand, shunzhi thirteen years into the palace, Dong Efei was shunzhi at a glance, quite a bit of love at first sight meaning, in August of the same year she was named "Xianfei", that is, the Great Fu Jin of the Western Palace, equivalent to the emperor's wife.
In ancient times, the rules for women to enter the palace were very strict, even if the emperor liked it, he also saved the number of ceremonies, so generally those who were promoted to concubines had children and daughters, and it was extremely rare for concubines like Dong Efei who had just entered the palace to become concubines.
A month later, Shunzhi even named her an imperial concubine on the grounds of "minhui duanliang, who has not yet been above Dong E'e's clan", and held a ceremony for her to be crowned as an empress, and also granted amnesty to the world, because in history, there is only one Dong Efei in the world because of the amnesty of concubines, which shows that Shunzhi's love for Dong Efei is already beyond everyone.
In ancient times, most of the concubines were mothers and sons, but Dong Efei was different, she could be said to be the representative of the son by mother, Dong Efei gave birth to his fourth son to Shunzhi soon after, Shunzhi was very happy, looking at how this child liked it.
So he was given a birth ceremony, and his battle was almost like that of a concubine born to the empress, and then he pardoned the world again, so he thought that the throne of Shunzhi might be biased in favor of this son.
But unfortunately, this child's life was thin, and it was not long before he died, Shunzhi ordered him to be posthumously named the Prince of Heshuorong, Dong Efei was already weak because of the birth of the child, and later saw her son die in her heart, and even died with the child shortly after, only 22 years old.
After losing his beloved son and his most beloved concubine, Shunzhi was very sad in his heart, and even wanted to give up the throne and choose to become a monk, or many people persuaded him to let go of this idea, but since then Shunzhi has been bent on Buddha, the whole person is like a walking dead, and finally died when he was depressed, at the age of only 24, he was a very short-lived emperor in history.
Third, as the emperor, he cannot help himself
Although Dong Efei died, her life was very exciting, and her love with Shunzhi also touched many people, but many people studied Shunzhi's life and found that he actually had 14 children.
When people think about problems according to modern thinking, there will be deviations, thinking that Shunzhi only loves Dong Efei alone, he should spoil her exclusively, why would he have children with other women.
We all know that most of the emperors in ancient times were three wives and four concubines, and for them heirs were very important, so Shunzhi already had other concubines before Concubine Dong, and Shunzhi's first son was born to his concubine Bashi, named Ai Xinjueluo Niu niu, but this child only lived for 89 days before dying.
Later, Shunzhi had the second son of the emperor, Ai Xinjueluo Fuquan, and the third son of the emperor, Ai Xinjueluo Xuanye, who was the Kangxi Emperor as we later became familiar, and his brother Fuquan spent his life helping Xuan Ye manage the government, and the two had a very good relationship; Shunzhi also had the fifth son of the emperor Ai Xinjueluo Changning after the death of the fourth son of the emperor, and he also assisted Xuan Ye in many meritorious achievements during the Kangxi period.
The sixth son of the Emperor, Aisin Kyora Kisu, died of illness at the age of 7, the seventh son of the Emperor, Aisin Kyora Takashi, died of illness at the age of 20, and the eighth son of the Emperor, Aisin Kyora Yonggan, died at the age of 8.
In addition to these eight princes, Shunzhi also had six princesses, except for the second princess and Princess Shuo Gonggong, who married Guarjia Nardu when she was 15 years old, the other 5 princesses died young, and the oldest was only 8 years old.
Shunzhi's children are ill-fated, so after Shunzhi has Dong Efei, he can not no longer take concubines, which is contrary to the ancestral system, although he loves women, but Shunzhi is the king of a country, or to take The Jiangshan Sheji as the mainstay, and it is obviously not applicable to marry only one wife.
In ancient times, there were no sound medical conditions, and most of the children of the royal family would die early due to external conditions such as diseases, so it was reasonable that Shunzhi still had so many children after having Dong Efei.