She was a slave of the Imperial Family of the Qing Dynasty, entered the Imperial Palace as a teenager, became a palace maid, she was fortunate to be favored by XianFeng, became the emperor's concubine, but because of laughing with the eunuchs and was beaten into the cold palace, she washed her face with tears, began to re-examine herself, and finally seized the opportunity to regain the favor of the Heavenly Son, giving birth to the last prince of the Qing Dynasty. However, the death of her son dealt a heavy blow to her, and after that, she lived a dull life in the harem and became a noble concubine who had gone through four dynasties...
In the early years of Xianfeng, the Great Qing Dynasty was not at peace, the southern Hong Xiuquan led his Taiping army to swarming up, but at this time the palace was a peaceful atmosphere, in the vast Forbidden City, there was a teenage palace girl, her surname was Xu Jiashi, was born in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a clothed slave, the father's sincerity was just a small leader.
Although Xu Jia's birth was low, but it looked like a closed moon shy flower, like the flower in the royal garden that was waiting to be released, it was generally difficult for a palace girl of this posture to escape the emperor's eyes, at that time Xianfeng was just in her early twenties, it was the time when she was full of spirits, and sure enough, a chance encounter made Xu Jiashi enter the world of the Xianfeng Emperor, she was no longer the palace girl who only promised, Xianfeng gave her the title of Mei Changzai.
To say that this Xu Jia clan is not only beautiful, but also very pleasing to the emperor, it did not take long for her to be promoted to a nobleman from time to time. However, this Xu Jia clan had a kind of arrogance in his bones, and if he was slightly unhappy, he made some very reasonable moves. For example, if the emperor did not spoil her for several days, she took the palace maid and abused her. What's more, Xu Jiashi was even more talking and laughing with the eunuchs, but he didn't know that this move was looked at by the emperor.
Sure enough, on a certain day in the fifth year of Xianfeng, Xianfeng ordered Xu Jiashi to be demoted to Changzai, and it seems that Xianfeng is still angry, and in the following month, Xu Jiashi was demoted continuously, all the way to the official woman, and Xu Jiashi returned to the starting point. At this time, she finally saw the emperor's dragon power, but unfortunately it was too late, she had already been beaten into the cold palace.
For xu jiashi at that time, it should be difficult to have a chance to make a comeback, but it just so happened that this Xianfeng was a relatively soft-hearted emperor, and he seemed to feel that the punishment for Xu Jiashi was a bit heavy, so he promoted him to Mei Changzai. Xu Jiashi was a very intelligent woman, and she knew that Xianfeng's move showed that the emperor still had not forgotten himself, so she seized the opportunity to regain the favor of tianzi by using a bedchamber, and was immediately promoted to the title of Mei Gui.
On the fifth day of February in the eighth year of Xianfeng, good news came out of the palace that Xu Jiashi actually gave birth to a prince for Emperor Xianfeng, and it should be known that before that, Xianfeng had only one son, that is, the emperor's eldest son Zaichun (Tongzhi Emperor). The birth of the emperor's second son undoubtedly added a touch of vitality to the Forbidden City, and also heralded that Xianfeng had the right to choose in terms of heirs.
However, what people did not expect was that the second son of the emperor died shortly after birth, which was a very big blow to Xu Jiashi, and although Xianfeng crowned her as a concubine, it could not make up for the trauma of losing her son. Three years later, Xu Jiashi suffered another heavy blow, xianfeng died of illness at the age of 31 in the Rehe Palace, and Xu Jiashi, who was only 25 years old, instantly became a widow.
Fortunately, the rulers represented by Ci'an and Cixi did not embarrass the woman who was once favored by the former emperor, and not only honored Xu Jia as the imperial concubine, but also posthumously named the second son of the emperor born to Xu Jia as the king of Mercy County, so that Xu Jia's heart was slightly relieved.
After that, Xu Jiashi lived a plain life of a princess in the harem, which although materially abundant, but the spirit felt empty, as it was, Xu Jiashi died in the sixteenth year of Guangxu at the age of 55.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Wenzong of the Qing Dynasty