Qianlong lived at the age of 89, which is the longest-lived among the ancient emperors, in 89 years, Qianlong included a total of 43 concubines, many of these concubines did not survive Qianlong, before Qianlong died, they have already taken a step ahead, even Qianlong's sons, many were killed by Qianlong, and the number of surviving Qianlong is not much.
At the time of Qianlong's death, only 9 concubines were alive in the harem, and among these people were two fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls, who were only included in the harem a year before Qianlong's death, and after Qianlong's death, their fate was completely left to Jiaqing to decide, how did Jiaqing treat them?
The two Qianlong concubines who were closest to Jiaqing
After Qianlong's death, the outcome of those concubines who are still alive can actually only be decided by Jiaqing, as for how Jiaqing will treat them, it can only be decided according to the relationship between them and Jiaqing.
Jiaqing's birth mother was Concubine Wei Jia, and after Empress Nala was snubbed by Qianlong because of her hair cut, Concubine Ling quickly ascended to the throne, although she did not become an empress, she ruled the harem in the name of the imperial concubine and became the lord of the harem in the actual sense, and it was precisely because Concubine Ling was deeply favored by Qianlong that Jiaqing would become Qianlong's successor.
Wei Jia gave birth to two sons to Qianlong, namely Jiaqing and Yongxuan, when the two sons were young, Wei Jiashi had too many things to deal with, and he gave Jiaqing and Yongxuan to Wanfei Chen and Yingfei Balin to raise, after Wei Jia's death, the two adoptive mothers directly raised the two until the big wedding to rest.
According to this situation, the intimacy between Jiaqing and his younger brother Yongxuan and his mother Wei Jiashi may not be as close as that between him and his adoptive mother, just like Yongzheng said at that time, "It is not as good as raising grace", and who a person has more contact with since childhood, he will naturally be more intimate with whom, which is the common sentiment of people.
In addition, the brotherly relationship between Jiaqing and his younger brother Yongxuan is also good, so the relationship between Jiaqing and Yongxuan's adoptive mother is also relatively harmonious, which directly determines the attitude of Jiaqing to the two adoptive mothers after he ascended the throne. From the perspective of intimacy alone, we can understand that after Qianlong's death, Jiaqing must be the best for Concubine Wan, and secondly, it should be for Concubine Ying. As for how to make a good law, we will talk about it in detail below.
First of all, let's talk about Wanfei, Wanfei is only 5 years younger than Qianlong, in the Yongzheng period she was already married to Qianlong, is one of Qianlong's earliest concubines, but since Wanfei married Qianlong, basically Qianlong has never favored Wanfei, which is related to Wanfei's personality, and also related to Qianlong himself, after all, everyone prefers beautiful women, and Qianlong does not love Wanfei.
After Qianlong was named a concubine in the fourteenth year of Qianlong, she remained unsupported for more than forty years, until Qianlong was promoted to all concubines in the fifty-ninth year of Qianlong, and Princess Wanfei officially became a concubine, but at this time she was already an old man in her sixties.
Princess Wanfei accompanied Qianlong for more than seventy years in her life, but she did not give birth to a son and a half daughter, which is enough to see that Qianlong was indeed not enough to love her, but as one of Qianlong's earliest concubines, Qianlong's arrangement for Wanfei's later years was quite thoughtful, and after Qianlong had secretly appointed Jiaqing as his successor, he also handed Jiaqing over to Concubine Wan to raise, presumably paving the way for everything that happened later.
Thanks to the fact that Princess Wanfei had the grace of nurturing Jiaqing, so after Qianlong's death, Jiaqing was the best for Concubine Wan, and Princess Wan also became the highest status among the 9 concubines who were still alive in Qianlong, jiaqing promoted her to imperial concubine, and directly treated her as an imperial concubine, and did not allow the minister to have any disrespect for concubines.
Princess Wanfei lived until the twelfth year of Jiaqing before she died, and her old age was quite comfortable, she was 92 years old when she died, she was the longest living of all the concubines in Qianlong, and from the perspective of her later situation, it was indeed quite good.
Yingfei was 20 years younger than Qianlong, in the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong was promoted to Yingfei, Jiaqing was promoted to Yingguifei in three years, Qianlong was more fond of her, after Qianlong's death, Jiaqing also because she was the adoptive mother of her younger brother Yongxuan, she was particularly concerned about taking care of her, originally according to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, Yingfei should let her adopted son Yongxuan retire after Qianlong's death, but Jiaqing, in view of her nurturing grace for Yongxuan, left her in the Forbidden City for the elderly.
Five years after Jiaqing's death, that is, a year after Qianlong's death, Yingfei followed Qianlong and died at the age of 70, if she had not died so early, presumably Jiaqing would have taken more care of her, but unfortunately she left early, and it was also a great regret to be blessed to enjoy.
Two concubines who had a fairly good relationship with Jiaqing
In addition to the best treatment of Concubine Wan and Concubine Ying, among the concubines who were alive at the time of Qianlong's death, Concubine Wang and the Egui people Xilin Jue Luoshi were also well treated, the reason was that there was some inseparable relationship between the two of them and Jiaqing or Jiaqing's adoptive mother.
For example, Concubine Huan has an important relationship with Jiaqing, her daughter Ten Princesses was particularly favored before Qianlong was born, Jiaqing this brother is also quite good to his sister, very fond of sensible sisters, is to see the face of her sister, even if Concubine Huan has done a lot of wrong things, it is still a good ending.
After Qianlong's death, Jiaqing quickly cleaned up Hezhen, as the tenth princess of Hezhen's daughter-in-law, played an important role at this time, looking at the face of the tenth princess, Jiaqing promised to leave the whole body of Hezhen, and did not implicate Fengsheng Yinde. In the same way, after Qianlong's death, Concubine Huan also received jiaqing's kindness because of the existence of her daughter Ten Princesses, otherwise I am afraid that the end would be very miserable.
In the eleventh year of Jiaqing, Concubine Huan died at the age of 61, and although Qianlong was very dissatisfied with Concubine Huan, who often made mistakes, after Qianlong's death, Jiaqing had a very good attitude towards her, and Concubine Huan was able to spend her old age in peace, which was also quite lucky.
The Egui people are the descendants of Ortai, originally the family background is very strong, but with the fall of Ortai, the Egui people have not been welcomed by Qianlong, in the Qianlong dynasty, the Egui people were not favored, until Qianlong's death, the treatment of the Egui people changed.
To say that the reason why Egui people can get Jiaqing's kindness, the main reason is that the relationship between her and Jiaqing's adoptive mother, Princess Wanfei, is relatively close, the two have a deep affection, when Princess Wanfei died, the Egui people were devastated, it can be seen that the feelings between the two are indeed deep, and it is for this reason that Jiaqing will treat the Egui people well.
In the thirteenth year of Jiaqing, Eguiren died at the age of 76, Jiaqing specially ordered to allocate 1,000 taels of silver to bury Eguiren, in the noble level, Eguiren is the most solemn funeral scale, which shows that Jiaqing's arrangement for his later years is really good.
The remaining five concubines who do not have a strong sense of existence
To say that among the nine concubines who Qianlong was alive, the most desolate were definitely the two young girls that Qianlong married a year before his death, they were Shougui and Jin Concubine Fucha, who were only fifteen or sixteen years old when they married Qianlong, and as a result, Qianlong died the next year, leaving the two alone in the empty house, which was extremely desolate.
What is even more tragic is that Shou Gui died in Jiaqing in fourteen years, and there are very few records of her in the historical records, there is almost no sense of existence, even what her name is, and she was only in her twenties when she died, which is really regrettable.
Princess Jin is slightly better than Shou Gui is to live longer, she experienced the Three Dynasties of Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang, in the Daoguang period, she was also named the Imperial Ancestor Jin Concubine, lived until Daoguang three years before she died, at the age of forty, she became the last person to be buried in the tomb of Qianlong Concubine, her life was also very short, only a little stronger than the sense of existence of Shou Gui.
The other three concubines who did not have a strong sense of existence were Fangfei Chen, Gong concubine Lin and Bai Guiren Bai, among the three, Fangfei was the highest rank, but after Qianlong's death, there was basically no news, Jiaqing was really general to her, and finally died in Jiaqing in the sixth year, at the age of 52.
Concubine Lin also received a period of favor during Qianlong's reign, when Qianlong even raised the flag for his family, but unfortunately this favor lasted for a long time, so her rank stayed in concubine, Jiaqing for ten years, Gong Concubine died at the age of 73.
Bai Guiren Bai was born in Han Chinese, and married to Qianlong with his sister Yi Concubine, which can be regarded as a sister flower, but because of personality reasons, Qianlong loved her sister more and paid little attention to Bai Guiren. Eight years after Jiaqing, Bai Guiren died at the age of 73, and he did not have much sense of existence in his life.
epilogue
Overall, after Qianlong's death, Jiaqing's attitude towards his surviving concubines was still good, although jiaqing treated them differently because of the different degrees of closeness of their relationship with Jiaqing, but overall, Jiaqing was also relatively safely arranged, and the nine surviving concubines were able to die well and did not suffer too much torture!
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