In the wild history, there is a saying about the death of Empress Xiaoxian, who was originally accompanied by Qianlong, saying that Empress Xiaoxian fell into the water and died on her way to the south because she discovered Qianlong's shame. In fact, this is just Zhang Guan Li Dai, the Qianlong harem does have a concubine who was drowned by the water, she is not Empress Xiaoxian, but a concubine.
Cheng's concubine Niu Hulu was born into a rather prominent family, and her great-grandfather was the famous Kangxi Dynasty Minister of the Interior, Aling'a, the younger son of the Kangxi Dynasty's auxiliary minister, Shu bilong, who originally did not have the qualifications to inherit the duke, and the original successor of the duke of Shu Bilong was the third son, named Faka.
This Fakha was the brother of Empress Xiaozhao and a mother of Princess Wen, and who knows, Alinga was very dissatisfied with the inheritance of the title of this half-brother, so he tried everything to slander this brother. For example, at the funeral of Concubine Wen, Alinga went so far as to say that her brother Faka had had an affair with her sister-in-law, which was later proven to be false, and Kangxi also gave him some punishment.
However, this Alinga was so capable that he was highly valued by Kangxi, and later snatched the Duke from his brother Faka. Moreover, this Alinga's wife Wu Yashi was not an ordinary person, she was the sister of the Kangxi Dynasty Princess De (Empress Xiaogongren), that is, Alinga was Yongzheng's uncle.
However, In the Kangxi Dynasty, Alinga was an out-and-out Party of The Eight Masters, and once offended the Prince of Yong, Yin Chan, which made Yin Chan like a fish in his throat. After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, although Alinga had died, Yongzheng ordered that his tombstone be engraved with the words "Tomb of Alinga who is not subject to the emperor and is violent and greedy".
For Alinga's second son, Arsun A, the grandfather of Concubine Cheng, who was also a cousin of Yongzheng, Yongzheng ordered him to be beheaded. Later, when the Qianlong Emperor succeeded to the throne, the Cheng concubine's family was rehabilitated, but at this time, their family was already a person, and it was not as good as before. For example, Makoto's father, Mukden, is only a leader and a second-class bodyguard, and Cheng's entry into the palace provides an opportunity for the revitalization of the family.
In the twenty-second year of Qianlong, The 13-year-old Concubine Cheng entered the palace, and the first Lan Guiren lived with Concubine Shu in the Yongshou Palace. What is unexpected is that this concubine can also be regarded as the emperor's woman, but those eunuch palace women seem to look down on her, according to records, cheng concubine's clothes were stolen by eunuchs more than once, taking money for exchange, and this eunuch who stole Cheng's concubine's clothes was eventually punished and punished to be a slave in armor.
According to historical records, although After Cheng Concubine entered the palace, she was not promoted for a long time, and even demoted to Changzai, she accompanied Qianlong many times to patrol the Rehe River and the Mulan Paddock, which shows that Qianlong still has this woman in her heart. This was finally confirmed in the forty-first year of Qianlong, when Cheng Concubine was finally crowned as a concubine, but the next year, the Empress Dowager Chongqing collapsed, and the canonization ceremony was not completed until the forty-fourth year of Qianlong.
At the beginning of the forty-ninth year of Qianlong, Cheng Concubine followed Qianlong to the picturesque Jiangnan, and one night on the way back, Cheng Concubine, who was cooling off by the side of the boat, unfortunately fell into the water and eventually died. Regarding the death of Cheng Concubine, whether it was her own fall into the water or the murder of others, we also do not know, but judging from the outcome of her death, during the period of time when she fell into the water, she was not rescued in time, which proves that there may be no one around Cheng Concubine at that time.
In any case, this Imperial Princess of the Qing Dynasty actually passed away in such a way, and had to make people's glasses fall, from the moment of her death, what family revitalization, what personal honor and disgrace, all turned into nothing, had to let people sigh to that sentence: Once entering the palace door is as deep as the sea, a curtain of dreams is in vain!
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty