The way for the emperor of the Qing Dynasty to marry concubines was mainly to select draft women, and in the process of selecting women, some people were branded by the emperor and became losing the draft women. However, the relatively good show girls among these losers have the opportunity to marry royal relatives, which is also a good ending. Today, the author wants to talk about a failed draft girl in the Qing Dynasty, and what people did not expect was that this unsuccessful draft girl actually gave birth to the Great Qing Tianzi, her name is Wanzhen, and her surname is Yehenara.
In the First Historical Archive, "Miscellaneous Items in the Palace", there is a list written on big red paper, which details Wanzhen's family lineage, according to the list, Wanzhen is a woman from Manchuria with a blue flag, belonging to the leadership of Enxiangzuo, and her father is the former Taoist Huizheng, who lives in the West Fourth Arch Building.
Although Wanzhen's family lineage is not very prominent, it has an advantage that other showgirls do not have, her sister is Xianfeng's favorite concubine Yifei, from this point of view, Wanzhen is also enough to be elected to the inner court. At the beginning of the fifth year of Xianfeng, Wanzhen, who was only 15 years old, participated in the Eight Flags Draft held by the imperial palace, but she thought that she would be successfully shortlisted, but she was branded by the emperor and became a missed draft girl. However, according to the arrangement of her sister Concubine Yi, Wanzhen married the brother of the emperor of the dynasty, the Seventh Master Yizhen.
In the ninth year of Xianfeng, Yizhen, who was then the king of Alcohol County, married Wanzhen as Concubine Fujin, and the two were very affectionate after marriage, and in the third year (Xianfeng eleventh year), they gave birth to a daughter, after which Wanzhen continued to work hard and gave birth to four sons for Yizhen in a row. However, the five children born to Wanzhen only became one, and it was the one who became alive that was "lucky" to be the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
It was thirteen years in Tongzhi, and not long after Wan Zhen gave birth to her next son Zai Xiang, bad news suddenly came out of the palace, and the 19-year-old Tianzi Tongzhi Emperor died of illness. Since the Tongzhi Emperor had no heirs, the heir had to be chosen among the relatives of the Near Branch, and what was unexpected was that Wanzhen's son Zai Xiang was chosen, of course, most of which was the meaning of Wanzhen's sister Empress Dowager Cixi.
The election of his son as the Son of Heaven was supposedly a great joy, but it was not. Zai Xiang succeeded him as emperor, which meant that he was henceforth the son of the Xianfeng Emperor, no longer the son of Yi Zhen and Wan Zhen, which was unacceptable to any father or mother. However, at that time, the situation was controlled by Empress Dowager Cixi, and Wanzhen and his wife had no chance to refute it, and could only watch as their three-year-old son Zai Xiang was carried into the palace, and from then on, the name of the Great Qing Dynasty was changed from Tongzhi to Guangxu.
Although Zai Xiang was not Wanzhen's only child, it was the only surviving child of Wanzhen, which was crucial. Since his son Zai Xiang was carried into the palace, there was almost no chance of seeing each other again. Coupled with the fact that at this time, her husband Yizhen had a new favorite, that is, Liu Jiashi of The Side Fujin, which caused great harm to Wanzhen's body and mind.
After that, Wanzhen spent 22 spring and autumn in the thought of her son, died in the twenty-second year of Guangxu, and her only son Guangxu was admitted to the palace to visit before her death, but at this time it will be a farewell, Wanzhen helplessly closed her eyes and left the world that left herself alone for half a life.
After Wanzhen's death, Guangxu issued a decree to quit the dynasty for eleven days, calling her the Emperor Bunsheng Concubine, although she was the emperor's biological mother, she could not enjoy the name of empress, which was also the biggest sadness!
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Qing Shilu, Miscellaneous Items in the Palace