Ancient society has always advocated many children and many blessings, three wives and four concubines have become a common imagination, especially in the royal family, those princes are surrounded by groups of beards, but there are always exceptions to everything, and there is no shortage of dedicated princes in ancient times, such as the eighth son of Qianlong and Yongxuan, the prince of Shuoyishen, who is going to talk about this article.
In the winter of the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong, after more than twenty years of careful consideration, Qianlong finally decided to establish a crown prince, and at that time Qianlong had five sons who hoped to inherit the throne, namely the eighth son of the emperor, Yongxuan, the eleventh son of the emperor, Yongxuan, the twelfth son of the emperor, Yong yan, the fifteenth son of the emperor, and the seventeenth son of the emperor, Yongxuan. Yongxuan was the eldest of the surviving princes of Qianlong at that time, however, according to the rumors of the Korean emissaries, this prince was "indulgent in wine, had a foot disease, and was undesirable" and "sexually obedient, and repeatedly lost his will".
Why did they have such an evaluation of Yongxuan? Moreover, in the author's opinion, this evaluation has a little deviation, that is, "indulging in wine color", Yongxuan, who is disabled, may have the habit of alcoholism, but it is a bit biased to say that he is addicted to female color.
On July 15, 11th year of Qianlong, Yongxuan was born in the Forbidden City, and his birth mother was the Shujia Emperor's noble concubine Jin. The Jin clan was originally only a concubine of Qianlong's submerged residence, and after Qianlong succeeded to the throne, she was given the title of Jia Concubine, and was deeply favored, and gave birth to four princes, namely the fourth son of the emperor, Yongxuan, the eighth son of the emperor, the ninth son of the emperor, and the eleventh son of the emperor, Yongxuan.
It was by virtue of the merit of giving birth to four princes that the Jin clan was posthumously honored as an imperial concubine and buried in the Yuling Underground Palace.
In fact, shortly before Yongxuan was born, Empress Xiaoxian had just given birth to her concubine (the seventh son of the Emperor) Yong chun, and Qianlong was bent on passing the throne to his concubine, and the premature death of the emperor's second son, Yong Lian, had shattered this hope, but the birth of Yong Xuan once again ignited the plot of the concubine in Qianlong's heart, and it was obvious that Yong Chun was the best candidate for the throne in Qianlong's heart. In contrast, Yongxuan received much less attention, and, when Yongxuan was a child, an accident caused the prince to fall ill, and from then on, there was no hope of inheriting the throne, even if the emperor's seventh son, Yongxuan, died of smallpox shortly after.
Perhaps because of this leg disease, Yongxuan became obedient and did not like to interact with people, until a woman appeared, she was the official woman who served Yongxuan, Wang Shi, named Yuying. Wang Shi came to Yongxuan's side to serve before he got married, and Yongxuan found that this woman was well-behaved and sensible, even if her legs and feet were inconvenient, she did not slack off in the slightest, and Yongxuan gradually fell in love with this woman from a palace girl. It didn't take long for Wang to become Yongxuan's concubine, Gege.
Yongxuan knew that according to the ancestral system, wang clan could not become his concubine Fujin, because soon qianlong named Zhang Jiashi, the daughter of the university scholar Yin Jishan (that is, the one who was on the high school list of the Yongzheng Dynasty), to him as Concubine Fujin, but although Yongxuan did not have the power to choose Concubine Fujin, he had the right to choose who could procreate for himself. According to records, Yongxuan had only two sons in his lifetime, namely the eldest son Mianzhi and the second son Mianmao, both of whom were born to the Wang clan, and it was with these two sons that the Wang clan was given the title of Yongxuan Side Fujin.
Among Qianlong's many sons, Yongxuan belonged to the unpleasant one, and Qianlong's favorite ones were the eleventh son of the emperor, Yong Yao, and the fifteenth son of the emperor, Yong Yan, who were crowned princes in the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong, and in the qianlong dynasty, the oldest Yongxuan was always a county king (Yi County King), and it was not until after Jiaqing took over that he gave this brother the title of prince.
During Jiaqing's reign, although Yongxuan made some minor mistakes, he did not go out of line overall, and in addition, in the eighteenth year of Jiaqing's Lin Qing Incident, Yongxuan's father and son performed positively and won Jiaqing's praise, and Yongxuan's son Mianzhi won a county king title for this. However, what people did not expect was that Yongxuan in his later years had offended Long Yan because of something that had nothing to do with him.
Ten years after Daoguang, Yongxuan heard that Daoguang had left Yiwei, the eldest son of the Emperor, who was seriously ill, alone in the Yuanmingyuan, and Yongxuan, as an elder, was very anxious and immediately rushed to the Yuanmingyuan, and without Daoguang's permission, he entered the garden to visit his nephew Yiwei.
However, unexpectedly, after Daoguang heard this, Long Yan was furious and ordered Mianzhi's official position to be deposed. After this incident, Yongxuan remained sullen and unhappy, and died less than two years later at the age of 87, thus setting a record for Yongxuan, who was the longest-lived prince in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, Diary of the Chengzheng Yuan