The most representative favorite concubine of the middle of the Qianlong Dynasty was LingFei, who died of illness in the Forbidden City as an imperial concubine in the forty years of Qianlong, and in the following twenty years, Qianlong's more favored concubines were mainly two, one was from the famous Shun concubine Niu Hulu clan, and the other was a dressed woman from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, the end of these two women was not very good, Concubine Shun was demoted by Qianlong for some reason, and then died in the palace, although Concubine Huan was lucky to give birth to a young daughter, but her old age was miserable.
Concubine Wang was a native of Shenyang, Liaoning Province, and her father, Si Ge, was a clothed man from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who served as a foreign minister and a consul, and was later promoted to the capital. Although the Wang clan belonged to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, because his father and grandfather served as high-ranking officials, it was still very good from the perspective of family lineage. During the Qing Dynasty, there were many wrapping families like the Wang family, such as the Cao clan and the Li clan of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Gao clan of the Qianlong Dynasty, and the SuoQi Luo clan.
At the beginning of the 28th year of Qianlong, the 17-year-old Wang Shi participated in the palace election as a white flag show girl of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and successfully stood out, and Qianlong saw that Wang Shi was clever and clever, so he sent him to the Chongqing Empress Dowager (Empress Xiaoshengxian) to learn the rules. What people did not expect was that it was this experience that became the key to Wang's favor with Tianzi.
At that time, the most favored person in the Qianlong harem was Lingfei, and in front of Lingfei, Wang was like a young girl who did not understand the world, she knew that she still had a long way to go, and the most important thing was to gain the favor of the Son of Heaven.
At the beginning of the thirtieth year of Qianlong, Qianlong's fourth southern tour, Yong chang was one of the concubines accompanying the Wang family.
Note: The Wang clan was valued in the early days, possibly because of the Empress Chongqing, for example, on this southern tour, the Wang clan became a concubine, most likely from the empress dowager's intention.
During this southern tour, Wang saw the fall of the nala clan, but judging from the later plot development, wang obviously did not learn a lesson.
The thirty-sixth year of Qianlong was an extremely fortunate year for the Wang clan, and in this year, she was promoted two levels in a row by Qianlong and became a concubine, which also heralded the beginning of the rise of the Wang clan in the Qianlong harem. Three years later, Wang Shi was found to be pregnant with a dragon fetus, and Qianlong was already 65 years old at the time, so it would not be a great pleasure to be able to add another prince and noble daughter. Therefore, Qianlong issued an edict and crowned wang shi as a concubine.
The following year, Wang gave birth to a young princess at Yikun Palace, who was Qianlong's youngest daughter, Princess Gulun and Princess Xiaoxiao. It is said that this woman looks like Qianlong and is deeply loved by Qianlong, so the favor of the Wang clan can be said to have reached its peak, and for a while, it has become the focus of envy of all the palace women.
At this time, wang shi, who felt the grace of tianzi, was also a little proud, and even personally killed a palace maid next to him, Qianlong attached great importance to this, and after some investigation, he finally only demoted Wang shi to a concubine, and hugged Princess Xiaoxiao away from Wang shi. However, the princess was inseparable from her mother at a young age, and it was not long before the princess returned to her mother, Wang, and the Wang family also returned to the concubine position.
However, from the late Qianlong period to the early years of Jiaqing, the Concubine Wang suffered two major blows.
First of all, in November of the first year of Jiaqing, for some reason, the Wang clan actually forgot to ask Qianlong for peace, which made Qianlong very unhappy, so he canceled the reward that Wang clan had given that year.
Secondly, after the death of Emperor Qianlong in the fourth year of Jiaqing, the pro-government Jiaqing immediately punished Concubine Huan's own family and concubines (Note: Gu Lun and Xiao Princess Shang he's son Feng Sheng Yinde), which also indicated that the mother and son of the Wang clan fell from the peak of the grace of the Heavenly Son, and from then on, they became frustrated people in the harem of the Qing Dynasty.
On the seventeenth day of the first month of the eleventh year of Jiaqing, Wang Shi, who was coldly watched by the palace people in his later years, died of illness in the harem at the age of 61, and this woman who once had unlimited scenery in the harem of the Qing Dynasty finally ended in a tragic way, which made people have to lament the impermanence of the world, and the way of prosperity and decline!
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, Canon of the Great Qing Dynasty