Most of the Qing Emperors' drafts were within the Eight Banners, so there were often flag girls with vascular relationships who were selected into the harem, for example, the Kangxi Harem had four pairs of sisters, namely Empress Xiaochengren and Concubine Ping, Empress Xiaozhaoren and Wen Concubine, Empress Xiaoyiren and Emperor Huihui, Concubine Yi and Guo Guiren, among these four pairs of sisters, the closest to Kangxi were Empress Xiaoyiren and Emperor Huigui' sisters.
Let's take a look at the family lineage of Empress Xiaoyiren and The Noble Concubine of Emperor Wuhui.
Empress Xiaoyiren and Emperor Huihui came from the Tong Jia clan, and their great-grandfather Tong Yangzhen submitted to the imperial court as early as the Nurhaci period, after which the Tong clan began to fight on the battlefield, but this Tong Yangzhen did not have a good end, he was later captured by the Ming general Mao Wenlong, and then sent to the Beijing division and executed by Ling Chi.
However, Tong Yangzhen had a granddaughter who was included in the harem by the Shunzhi Emperor, who was the Kangxi Emperor's biological mother, Empress Xiaokangzhang, the aunt of Empress Xiaoyiren and The Noble Concubine of the Emperor Huihui. After Kangxi succeeded to the throne, the Tong clan instantly became a hot foreign relative, and Empress Xiaoyiren and Tong Guowei, the father of Emperor Hui's concubines, became a pint officer, an official to lead the internal ministers, and over time, the Tong clan was countless eunuchs in the dynasty, and there was a situation of "Tong Half Dynasty".
Empress Xiaoyiren, who only served as empress for one day
In the fifteenth year of Kangxi, Empress Xiaoyiren was elected to the harem and became one of the many concubines of her cousin Kangxi's harem, and in the second year of Empress Xiaoyiren's entry into the palace, Kangxi was enfeoffed with the sixth palace, and Empress Xiaoyiren was crowned as a noble concubine, becoming the first noble concubine of the Qing Dynasty, second only to Empress Xiaozhao of the Middle Palace.
However, unexpectedly, half a year after Empress Xiaozhao was made empress, she died of illness at Kunning Palace. Subsequently, Empress Xiaoyiren, who was then a noble concubine, became the woman with the highest rank in the harem, and naturally assumed the heavy responsibility of ruling the sixth palace. Empress Xiaoyiren gave birth to a daughter in the twenty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the eighth daughter of the Emperor, but the little princess lived for less than a month before dying.
In order to appease his beloved wife, Kangxi entrusted the sons born to other concubines to Empress Xiaoyiren to raise, including the emperor's fourth son Yin Chan, who later became the famous Yongzheng Emperor.
In fact, Empress Xiaoyiren had the opportunity to be made empress as early as the twentieth year of Kangxi, but Kangxi, who had been mourned twice, was reluctant to be re-established, so Empress Xiaoyiren was only promoted to imperial concubine, but even so, Empress Xiaoyiren did not complain a little, but still did her best to take care of the harem.
However, what people did not expect was that in early July of the twenty-eighth year of Kangxi, the news of Empress Xiaoyiren's serious illness suddenly came out of the palace, and after learning the news, Kangxi immediately returned to the palace, and after obtaining the consent of the empress dowager, he issued an edict to make Empress Xiaoyiren empress, but only one day later, Empress Xiaoyiren died of illness in Chengqian Palace.
As a result, Empress Xiaoyiren became the shortest-reigning empress of the Qing Dynasty.
The noble concubine of the Emperor Huihui who nurtured the merry son of heaven
After Empress Xiaoyiren's death, Tong's glory in the harem quickly disappeared, and for this reason, the following year Kangxi took Empress Xiaoyiren's sister, Emperor Hui's concubine, who was also Kangxi's cousin. After entering the palace, although there was no official title, she enjoyed the treatment of concubines, which was not much different from the fourth concubine of Kangxi (Hui Yi Derong). Moreover, Emperor Wuhui's concubine was young and was a cousin of Kangxi, so in the long run, her future was very good.
Facts also proved this, Kangxi thirty-nine years, in the tenth year of the palace of the Emperor Huihui, she was registered as a noble concubine, at that time the Kangxi harem no longer had an empress, the imperial concubine, the noble concubine was already the highest rank, and the empress dowager was still the only noble concubine, naturally the ruler of the harem.
This situation lasted until the sixty-first year of Kangxi, and in the spring of that year, Kangxi met Emperor Hongli in the Yuanmingyuan by chance, and immediately took him into the palace to raise him. In order to take care of Hongli's living, Kangxi specially found two high-ranking concubines, The Noble Concubine and the Concubine He, which showed the importance attached to this grandchild.
After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, Emperor Wuhui's concubine was honored as the Imperial Concubine for raising the Hongli Calendar, and after Qianlong succeeded to the throne, she was supported by the rank of empress dowager, and was honored as the Imperial Ancestor Shouqi Emperor Guifei. To this end, Qianlong also deliberately built the Imperial Noble Concubine Garden near Jingling for the two old concubines who had raised him.
Emperor Hui's concubine died of illness in the palace at the age of 76 in early April of the eighth year of Qianlong.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, Eight Banners