On the third day of the first lunar month of the 40th year of Qianlong, the Forbidden City was very lively, and with the joyful atmosphere of the New Year, Concubine Yikun gave birth to a little princess, she was the youngest daughter of Qianlong, Princess Hexiao. The 65-year-old Qianlong was in tears, weeping with joy, and being able to add another daughter must be a gift from heaven to himself, and Qianlong will also receive all kinds of graces from this young girl.
1. The palace maid was fortunate to ascend to the throne
Princess Xiaoxiao's mother, Princess Wang, was a cloaked woman from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who participated in the draft in Qianlong twenty-eight years and became a palace maid, serving the master of the Qianlong Emperor's biological mother, Empress Chongqing (Empress Xiaoshengxian), and the clever and well-behaved Wang clan left a deep impression on the empress dowager, so the empress dowager introduced Wang to her son Qianlong, and in this year, Wang was named Yongchang and began to become a small lord in the Forbidden City.
In the following eight years, there was a violent tremor in the Forbidden City, and the empress of the mother's world, the Nala clan, fell out of favor due to hair cutting, allowing the concubine to be promoted to imperial concubine and become the new lord of the six palaces. During this period, the Wang clan also followed qianlong on a southern tour and witnessed the fall of the Empress Nala clan, however, life was like a dream, everything was a cloud of smoke in the past, and the Wang clan at that time did not understand this truth.
In the thirty-sixth year of Qianlong, wang became the most concerned woman in the Forbidden City, and in this year, she was successively named Yonggui and concubine, became the head of the inner court of the harem of the Qing Dynasty, and opened the channel for upward promotion, since then, the Wang clan has been more and more favored by the Heavenly Son of the Great Qing Dynasty, and was lucky to conceive a dragon fetus in the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong.
2. The mother is a female noble scepter
In fact, as early as when Princess Hexiao was still in her mother's belly, Qianlong had high hopes for her, and crowned her mother Wang Shijin as a concubine, and after the birth of Princess Xiaoxiao, countless rare treasures were sent to Yikun Palace, and for a while, Concubine Huan became the focus of attention of the whole palace.
At that time, Concubine Huan could be said to be the most beautiful woman in the Forbidden City, and under the grand favor, it was inevitable that she would be satisfied, and if she was slightly unsatisfactory, Concubine Huan sprinkled her anger on the palace women around her, and even personally beat a palace girl to death. You must know that Concubine Huan herself was also born as a palace girl, and after The Phoenix Tengda, she actually forgot the caution and difficulty of being a palace girl at the beginning, and as soon as this matter came out, Qianlong was very shocked.
Qianlong originally wanted to punish Concubine Huan fiercely, but when he thought of his young daughter and filial piety, his men spared no mercy, only demoting Concubine Huan to concubine and compensating the family of the palace lady who had been killed. Princess Hexiao was once taken away from Concubine Huan, but the princess was inseparable from her mother at a young age, and finally had to be sent back to Concubine Huan, so it was not long before Princess Huan returned to the concubine position.
3. The Emperor refers to marriage and good fortune
In the forty-fifth year of Qianlong, Princess Hexiao was already six years old, and in this year, Qianlong assigned his daughter the title of Fengsheng Yinde (丰绅殷德). In this regard, Zhao Dingzhen, a writ of Yanxing, once recorded: "He yan, the Manchurians belong to the yiwei, do not rise and destroy, and are extremely favored. He was cunning and cunning at greeting the thirty-first year of the year, and was the governor of the Nine Doors of TheHubu Shangshu, and was betrothed to his son with the most beloved six-year-old imperial daughter. ”
Hexiao's initial title was Princess Heshuo, and it was obvious that she was favored enough to make her father Qianlong break the ancestral system, and sure enough, Qianlong made Hexiaojin a Princess of Gulun.
During the Qing Dynasty, only the daughter born to the empress would obtain the title of Princess Gulun, and the daughter born to the concubine could only be named Princess Heshuo, which showed that Qianlong made an exception for this daughter, and Qianlong also let Hexiao marry in a golden-roofed palanquin, which was a treatment that concubines did not necessarily enjoy.
Fourth, the marriage of the fragrant concubine left regrets
Xiangfei refers to concubines Rong and Zhuo of the Qianlong harem. Originally the daughter of a nobleman of the Hui clan, he was married to the Hui chief Huo Jizhan, who was very fond of him after Qianlong put down the rebellion of The Great and The Zhuo clan into the harem. As a foreign woman, He Zhuo likes to ride horses and gallop on the battlefield, and happens to be in line with Princess Xiao and himself, often accompanying Qianlong on hunting, and Zhuo is very fond of this little princess and regards her as his own.
Fifty-three years after Qianlong, just one year before marrying Princess Xiaoxiao, Princess Rong and Zhuo died of illness in the palace, and before they died, they gave gifts to the treasures around them, and the most received was Princess Hexiao. Perhaps, He Zhuoshi regretted not being able to see the princess get married, and wanted to make up for it in this way.
Fifth, the scenery marries people to recognize hidden dangers
In the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong, Princess Hexiao beautifully married Fengsheng Yinde, the son of Hezhen, and held a grand banquet at the Yongshou Palace, the dowry was ten times more than that of the Main Duke of Hejia, and on the day the princess got married, the officials all took Ruyi and rushed to send it to the princess's palanquin, even the old Ah Gui of the first cabinet could not avoid it.
Unlike ordinary princesses, Princess Xiaoxiao received a relatively systematic royal education from an early age, and the second empress of Jiaqing, Empress Xiaoherui, had been a servant of Princess Hexiao when she was a child, so Princess Hexiao did not cultivate the squeamishness of a royal daughter, but was very knowledgeable.
According to the "Miscellaneous Records of the Xiaoting Pavilion", one winter when the snow was flying, FengSheng Yin De was childlike and couldn't help but go to the snow to play, and Princess Xiaoxiao was very angry after seeing it, and said: "Ru Nian has passed the crown, and is still a foolish child play? FengShen Yinde quickly knelt down and asked the princess for forgiveness, and the princess hurriedly lifted up Fengsheng Yinde, and the two went to the room to study together.
Moreover, Princess Hexiao also had a far-sighted view, and after marriage, she found that her father-in-law and Yan duo had committed acts of greed for money and perverting the law, so she said to Fengsheng Yinde: "Ru Weng loves the Emperor's father Houde, and there is no report, but there is a day to see, and I am worried about Ru." He is afraid that his wealth will not be secured, and I will be tired! ”
Sixth, a flashy dream comes to naught
Sure enough, after Jiaqing took over the government, he immediately sent Hezhen to prison, and Princess Xiaoxiao cried and rushed to the palace to intercede, although the princess and Jiaqing were not born of a mother, but Jiaqing loved this sister very much from childhood, so he sent a kind heart, leaving a whole corpse for Hezhen, and did not pursue Fengsheng Yinde, but left half of the Mansion for his wife to live.
The princess once gave birth to a son for Fengshen Yinde, but unfortunately this son died prematurely at an early age, and in order to continue the incense, the princess had to let Fengsheng Yinde take a few concubines. However, at this time, FengShen Yinde had already seen the glitz of life, and his attitude became more and more negative, and he was sent by Jiaqing to serve in Uria Sutai. In the frontier land, it was very cold and bitter, and coupled with the fact that Fengsheng Yinde's body was already heavy and difficult to return, Princess Xiaoxiao begged her brother to let her husband return to Jingshi to recuperate, and Jiaqing finally agreed.
However, what is unexpected is that shortly after fengshen Yinde returned, he died of illness at the age of 36. At that time, Jiaqing sent Yinghe to pay tribute, and also rewarded the princess with 5,000 taels of funeral expenses, and paid a pension according to the duke's rank, which can be said to have given her sister full face. It is worth mentioning that Yinghe sent by Jiaqing was once favored by Hezhen and wanted to marry his daughter to him, but was rejected by Yinghe's father Debao.
After the death of Fengsheng Yinde, Princess Hexiao took her two daughters and her stepson Fu'en and spent another eighteen spring and autumn seasons, and died of illness in the third year of Daoguang at the age of 49. The Daoguang Emperor was very sympathetic to the tragic experience of this aunt and personally came to the tomb of the princess to pay tribute, it can be said that Princess Hexiao was favored by the emperors of the Three Dynasties.
However, just because of her father Qianlong's marriage arrangement, Princess Hexiao suffered from the misery of life, and her old age was miserable, not so much because of fate, but rather because of the creation of people!
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, Miscellaneous Records of the Pavilion, Records of the Yongxian