Palace women is a unique group in the Qing Dynasty palace, although this group is not as large as people think, but the fate of these women is variable, it is not certain which one is favored by the emperor, staged the legend of the sparrow into a phoenix, today the author wants to tell the kangxi harem of the most fortunate palace girl, she was lucky to be favored by Kangxi, gave birth to six children, the son also inherited the throne of the Qing Dynasty, she is Empress Xiaogongren.
Empress Xiaogongren was born on March 19, 19 March 17 of Shunzhi. Empress Xiaogongren's great-grandfather was named Ebugen, who lived in hada and returned to the country at the beginning of the country, and it is said that this Ebugen was raised in the palace by the Qing Taizu Nurhaci when he was young, and was regarded as a son and nephew, so Yongzheng only called him "the old clan of the dynasty and the famous entrepreneur" in the edict issued to his mother's family, in fact, this is not the case at all.
Empress Xiao Gongren's grandfather was named Eshan, who served as the head of the dining room, and later became the minister of the interior, although the official position was quite high, but what could not be erased was that the Wuya clan was clothed by the Internal Affairs Office, and most of its family members served as the dining room manager and bodyguard in the Internal Affairs Office, which was obviously far from the "old clan" and "creation masters". Of course, this is just a saying adopted by Yongzheng in order to improve the status of his mother's family.
In February of the twelfth year of Kangxi, the 13-year-old Wu Yashi (Empress Xiaogongren) entered the palace through the draft of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and became a palace maid, and she was soon favored by Kangxi when she entered the palace with an extremely outstanding appearance, and after some pampering, she became a concubine (low-level concubine) in the Kangxi harem.
Wu Ya clan is lucky, in the following ten years, she has always been favored by the Kangxi Emperor, from the kangxi seventeenth year to give birth to the fourth son of the emperor Yin Chan, until the Kangxi twenty-seventh year gave birth to the fourteenth son of the emperor Yin Zhen, wu ya clan in ten years actually gave birth to six children, it can be seen that during this period the U ya clan should be more favored, even in the middle and late years (50 years old), Kangxi will still let the Uya clan sleep, Kangxi really cares about this woman.
With the merit of giving birth to six children, Wu Yashi's value in the Kangxi harem doubled, first in the eighteenth year of Kangxi was a separate canon as a concubine, and two years later he was promoted to a concubine, becoming one of the four concubines. Moreover, although the survival rate of the children of the Wuya clan was only half (there were three who lived to adulthood), the quality was still very high, the fourth son of the emperor Yin Chan and the fourteenth son of the emperor Yin Zhen were the most outstanding among the many sons of Kangxi, and Princess Gulun Wenxian was also a talented woman.
What Wu Yashi did not expect was that her two sons, Yin Chan and Yin Zhen, later became the focus of the struggle to seize the concubine, and belonged to two factions, and finally the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan, won the victory for the Yongzheng Emperor. After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, his brother Yinzhen, who had been his political enemy, was stripped of military power and imprisoned, which to some extent affected the mother-son relationship between Yongzheng and his birth mother, Wu Yashi.
After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, although Wu Yashi was honored as empress dowager of Renshou, there were a series of unreasonable actions, such as refusing to be crowned empress dowager, refusing to move away from Yonghe Palace, refusing to accept the worship of ministers, etc., obviously not giving his son Yongzheng a good look. As a result, only half a year after Kangxi's death, the news of the death of the empress dowager came out of the palace.
Regarding the death of Wu Yashi, there was a rumor that Yongzheng forced his mother, and Yongzheng even issued an edict to explain it:
"For forty years, he has been blessed with filial piety and deep joy from his mother, saying that he can sincerely serve filial piety and that the concubines in the palace have this filial son, all of whom are celebrated by the queen mother, and who are now known to everyone in the palace."
"Before the mothers and concubines in the palace now, they were all full of courtesy and respect, and now the mothers and concubines are also very grateful to each other, is there a moment when the mother's queen gave birth to me and the heart of the mother and the admiration of the children is a little slack? If you are filial to the world, is it still lacking in Gan? And what was stingy before the kindness? The reverse thief adds the name of the mother, and this is even more delusional that someone in the dream slanders and this person, and the reverse book adds the name of the brother."
Judging from Yongzheng's explanation, the relationship between him and his mother Wu Yashi seems to be very good, but judging from the series of unusual actions of Wu Yashi after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, it seems that this is not the case. It is speculated that the relationship between the original Wuya clan and his son Yongzheng was not as bad as imagined, and it should still be very good, but the seclusion of the fourteenth brother Yin Zhen after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne stimulated the Wuya clan to a certain extent, and then there would be an unusual move later.
In September of the first year of Yongzheng, Empress Xiaogongren, who had just died more than three months ago, was buried with Kangxi in the Jingling Underground Palace, and finally buried with her favorite man as she wished.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, General Genealogy of the Eight Banners of Manchurian Clans