As we all know, the main way for the Qing Emperor to choose concubines was to select women, these show girls were not selected at once, some of them had to be selected many times, and those who passed the primary election would become a named show girl, and then participate in the re-election, such as Guangxu's Empress Xiaodingjing (Cixi's niece) participated in the draft six times. However, there was a famous showgirl in the Qing Dynasty who encountered a sudden situation, and the emperor died, so she remarried to the prince, and gave birth to 13 children in 22 years, which can be called the most fertile woman in the Qing Dynasty, she is the Prince of An Yue Lesan ji Fu Jin Hesheli clan.
1. The rising star of the yellow flag giant
The Herschel clan came from a very prominent family, namely the Zhenghuangqi Herschel clan, in fact, this family was engaged in writing work at the beginning, for example, Herschel's grandfather Shuo se and uncle Zu Shifu entered the Nei Hongwen Academy because they were fluent in many languages, became university scholars, and were given the title of "Bakshi". In fact, this "Bakshi" title is similar to "Baturu", military attaches with military merit are given the title of "Baturu", and those literate civilian officials are given the title of "Bakshi".
However, at that time, the Manchurian family all started with military merit, only by establishing merit on the battlefield could they win the title, obtain real power, and enter the central department of power, you are a civilian official, no matter how mixed, that is, a writer, Heschel's father Sony is the same, Sony inherited his father's excellent cultural genes, proficient in Many Languages of Manchuria and Mongolia, and entered the HongwenGuan.
In fact, Sony also knew that if he wanted to promote the family rank, he must go to the battlefield, so he abandoned his pen and became a first-class bodyguard of the Emperor Taiji, and then followed the Emperor Taiji to the south and the north, making a lot of military achievements, becoming a powerful minister of the two yellow flags.
On the ninth day of August in the eighth year of Chongde, Emperor Taiji suddenly collapsed in the Qingning Palace, and there was no heir designated before his death, so the Manchu Qing magnates launched a power struggle around the succession to the throne.
At that time, the Rui Prince Dorgon and the Prince of Su Hauge were deadlocked, and the two Yellow Banner Ministers, represented by Sonny, Aobai, and Tan Tai, advocated that the son of the former emperor (mainly Hauge) should succeed to the throne, and even ordered the two yellow flag generals to surround the Chongzheng Palace at the expense of the army, in the face of this situation, Dorgon had to make concessions, advocating that the six-year-old prince Fu Lin inherit the throne as the Shunzhi Emperor.
At the beginning of Shunzhi's succession, the regent Dorgon seized power in the court and frantically suppressed those who opposed him, including Soni, Aobai and others. However, Sonny, Aobai and others all made meritorious contributions to the imperial court, and although they were sentenced to death many times, they were eventually spared. After the Shunzhi Emperor came to power, these two yellow flag ministers who had originally supported them were reused, such as Sonny, who became the minister of parliament and the minister of the interior, concurrently served as the chief minister of internal affairs, and became the chief Manchurian minister of the Shunzhi Dynasty.
2. Remarry the prince's named show girl
In the seventeenth year of Shunzhi, Sony's daughter Herschel participated in the Eight Flags Draft, successfully passed the primary election, and became a name showgirl. If there is no accident, with the origin of the Herschel clan, she will have a great chance of passing the re-election and being elected to the harem by Shunzhi and becoming the imperial concubine of the Qing Dynasty.
However, planning is always not as fast as changing. On the seventh day of the first lunar month of the following year, the Shunzhi Emperor, who was only 24 years old, died of an infection with smallpox, and the Kangxi Emperor who succeeded him was only eight years old, not yet the age of marrying a wife. Therefore, this Herschel could not become an imperial princess, but even so, Herschel did not have to worry, because her father Sony had been promoted again.
It is said that before Shunzhi died, he designated the third son of the emperor Xuan Ye to inherit the throne, and at the same time ordered four ministers, Soni, Suksaha, Shubilong and Aobai to assist in the government, and in this way, Soni became the first assistant of the imperial court above ten thousand people under one person.
Since Sony became the first assistant, this Herschel mansion has been much livelier, and for a while, the traffic is busy, competing to celebrate, and the people looking for this first assistant are even more endless. However, Sony first had to consider the marriage of his daughter, he had to choose a suitable family for his daughter, it happened that Prince An Yue Le Fujin had just died, so Sony locked his eyes on Yue Le's body.
What is the origin of this Yue Le?
It turned out that Yue Le was the grandson of Nurhaci, the son of Abatai the King of Raoyu County, and was a cousin of the Shunzhi Emperor. Yue Le's father, Abatai, made great achievements in the war of the founding of the Qing Dynasty, but he was not born well, and his mother Ilgen Jue Luoshi was only a concubine by Nurhaci's side, although he ranked high, but his power was far inferior to Azig, Dolgun, and Dodo' younger brothers, so Abatai's life was extremely depressed.
However, Abatai finally gave birth to a good son, and he was the fourth son, Yue Le.
Yue Le's emergence came after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, he entered the river with Prince Hauge of Su and beheaded Zhang Xianzhong, the king of the Great West, and was thus given the title of Belle by Jin. After Shunzhi pro-government, Yue Le was even more highly used by his cousin Shunzhi, and was promoted to the title of county king, listed as a parliamentary minister, in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Works, Yue Le gradually became a supporter of Shunzhi's reform and Sinicization. In the fourteenth year of Shunzhi, Yue Le, who was in charge of the Zongren Mansion, was promoted to the title of Prince of An, and even before Shunzhi died, he had the idea of passing the throne to Yue Le.
After Kangxi succeeded to the throne, the conservatives had the advantage, and Yue Le's status declined, but he was after all a royal family member, and it was still an excellent choice to be able to marry his daughter to him. Therefore, under the Zhang Luo of Sony, his daughter Hesheli married Yue Le, the Prince of An, and became Yue Le's third successor Fu Jin.
3. Prince Fujin, who gave birth to thirteen children
After Kangxi succeeded to the throne, Yue Le the Prince of An was once snubbed and suppressed by conservatives, but gold always shone because Yue Le was a rare general among the qing royal family. In the thirteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the San Francisco Rebellion broke out, and Yue Le was reinstated, and he was made a general of Dingyuan Pingkou and led the Eight Banners to attack Wu Sangui.
Based on experience, Yue Le formulated a correct operational strategy, first leading the Qing army to pacify Jiangxi, cutting off the connection between Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong, and then leading the army to attack Hunan. Subsequently, Yue Lebanshi returned to the dynasty, and Kangxi personally came to Lugou Bridge to greet the uncle and asked him to take over the Zongren Mansion again.
Yue Le not only has unlimited scenery on the battlefield, he is not idle in the reproduction of his descendants, according to statistics, after sony's daughter Herschel married Yue Le, in 22 years, she gave birth to 13 children to Yue Le, almost always on the road to childbirth, it can be seen that Yue Le is very fond of this wife. Thanks to the efforts of the Herschel clan and other concubines, Yue Le became a very prosperous royal family with 20 sons and 23 daughters, a total of 43 children, and his fertility was strong enough to be compared with Kangxi.
Among Yue Le's daughters, two had to be mentioned.
One was the second daughter born to Fujin Nala, who was adopted by the Shunzhi Emperor as an adopted daughter and given the title of Princess Heshuo Roujia, married to Geng Juzhong, the younger brother of Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingnan, and Princess Heshuo Roujia and Geng Juzhong gave birth to a daughter (Geng), who married Nalan Shushu, the son of nalan Mingzhu, a powerful minister of the Kangxi Dynasty.
The other was the seventh daughter of the Lateral Fujin Wu Lahan Jelmen clan, who married Guo Luoluo Mingshang and gave birth to a daughter, who later married Yin Yu, the eighth son of Kangxi, and became Yin Yu's concubine Fujin.
Yue Le's two granddaughters (Geng and Guo Luoluo), although the marriage is good, but they are all members of the Eight Ye Party, Geng's husband Nalan Yushu died in the late years of Kangxi, but Yongzheng succeeded to the throne and changed his tombstone to "The Tomb of Infidelity and Filial Piety", and Guo Luoluo's husband Yin Yu, not to mention, was directly imprisoned to death in the fourth year of Yongzheng, which is the cruelty of the royal political struggle, even if it is noble, as a loser, it will also plague the full door.
In addition, Yue Le's third successor, Fu Jin, had a well-known niece, the daughter of the Minister of the Interior, Kabula (the elder brother of the Hesheri clan), the granddaughter of Sony, who was made empress in the fourth year of Kangxi, and she was Kangxi's original consort Empress Xiaochengren.
Zichen said:
Herschel's life was happy, just imagine, if she had been incorporated into the harem and became Shunzhi's concubine, after Shunzhi's untimely death, Herschel would have been widowed for the rest of her life, which would be too cruel for a woman.
Marrying Yue Le, Prince an, Herschel not only can get the favor of her husband, but also have children and grandchildren, even if the husband has unsatisfactory places, she can also support her husband without hesitation, sometimes, we are always pursuing a prominent position, rich and glorious, but ignore the warmth and coldness of human feelings, do not know, sometimes it will backfire, plain together, more can show a happy life.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Holy Ancestors, General Genealogy of the Eight Banners of Manchurian Clans