In some Qing Dynasty court dramas, there will be a section of the draft, several women are selected into the harem together, but after the harem fight, the good sisters become enemies, and there is only one winner in the end. In fact, this situation has really occurred in history, for example, the draft that I want to talk about today, this draft occurred in the second year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty.
Daoguang's second-year draft was the first since the Daoguang Emperor succeeded to the throne, when Daoguang was nearly forty years old (39 years old) and had only one son (the eldest son Yiwei) by his side, which made Daoguang very embarrassed. Therefore, Daoguang deliberately expanded the scope of the draft, the best of the best, in the end, four women were selected, they are quan concubine, mu guiren, xianggui and precious people.
Among the four women who were selected, the Daoguang Emperor undoubtedly valued Quan Concubine, whose surname was Niu Hulu and was a Manchurian ZhenghongQi. Although Quan Concubine's surname is Niu Hulu, she is not a family with the Yellow Flag Niu Hulu Clan of the Fengchao Family, and the two have nothing to do with each other, so Quan Concubine's family lineage is far less prominent than people think.
However, anecdotal rumors, Quan Concubine grew up in the south (Suzhou), with the unique beauty and talent of Han women, and Quan Concubine is also skillful, once imitated the folk tangram board, arranged into the "Six Contract Spring" character, as a palace toy, it can be said that Quan Concubine has too many other Manchu and Mongolian women do not have the characteristics, which is the key to her being able to get the favor of Daoguang.
Facts also proved this, quan concubines as soon as they entered the palace, they won the favor of Daoguang, only three months, they were promoted to the concubine position, a year later, at the age of 17, to the noble concubine, becoming the second lord of the palace after Empress Xiaoshen, it can be said that it was the most beautiful woman in the harem of the Qing Dynasty at that time.
Compared with Quan Concubine, the other three selected women were much inferior, although Xiang Gui also received the favor of Daoguang and gave birth to three children, but his highest promotion to the concubine position, although the precious person was crowned as a precious concubine in the fifth year of Daoguang, but it did not take long to fall to the nobleman, becoming the first loser of the palace fight among these four women.
Among the four concubines selected in the second year of Daoguang, Mu Guiren was the one with the lowest sense of existence and the one with the worst end.
The Mugui people's surname is Hesheli, from Manchuria Zhenghuangqi, and kangxi originally matched Empress Xiaochengren belonged to the same family, the Hesheli clan was once in the Kangxi Dynasty, although it gradually declined after Kangxi gave death to Suo Ertu and deposed the crown prince Yinrong, but at least it can be regarded as the Eight Banners family of the Eight Classics of The Eight Classics.
However, Mu Guiren did not usher in the promotion opportunity until the tenth year of Daoguang, and was the last of the four concubines to be promoted, this year, Mu Guiren was enthroned as Mu Concubine, but what he did not expect was that after only one year, Daoguang demoted Mu Guiren one after another, and by April of the twelfth year of Daoguang, Mu Guiren had been demoted to an official woman (Wooden Official Woman). Only three days after Mu Guiren was demoted to an official woman, the news of his death in the palace was reported, and the grand Imperial Concubine of the Qing Dynasty actually ended her harem career in this way, which can be described as extremely miserable, and as a result, Mu Guiren also became the second loser of the four concubines in the palace fight.
In contrast, Xiang Guiren posed a certain threat to quan concubines, and Xiang Gui was promoted to Xiang Concubine in the fifth year of Daoguang and gave birth to three children to Daoguang, namely the second daughter of the Emperor, the fifth daughter of the Emperor, and the fifth son of the Emperor Yixuan. In particular, the fifth son of the Emperor, YiXuan, was only born six days later than the fourth son of the Emperor, Yixuan (Xianfeng), who was born to quan concubines, and almost became the "eldest son" of Daoguang (Note: The first three sons of the Daoguang Emperor died early).
However, all this changed in the fifteen years of Daoguang.
In the fourteenth year of Daoguang, the imperial concubine Niu Hulu (quan concubine) officially ascended to the throne of the empress and became the new lord of the six palaces, and only one year later, Princess Xiang's mother and son were coldly treated by the Daoguang Emperor. For example, when the Halloween gave the Daoguang Emperor a salute that year, there were only five princesses, and the palace brother sent some rewards to the eunuchs of the Shengping Department when he sent the holy emperor out of the pox, but the five brothers yiyi sent the eunuchs of the Shengping Department without any rewards, which undoubtedly declared to people that The Xiang Concubine had fallen out of favor.
Sure enough, the fifteenth year of Daoguang Chinese New Year's Eve and the sixteenth year of Daoguang's New Year's Day court activities, Xiang Concubine and the five princesses did not participate. In the sixteenth year of Daoguang, some of the sub-cases of Xiangfei had been reduced to the standard of nobility, until the seventeenth year of Daoguang, Xiangfei was officially demoted to a nobleman, becoming the third loser among the four women who entered the palace in the second year of Daoguang.
As a result, of the four women who entered the palace in the second year of Daoguang, there was only one victor, and she was Empress Xiaoquan, who ascended the throne in the fourteenth year of Daoguang. Although it was rumored that Empress Xiaoquan was too strong and had a bad relationship with Empress Gongci (Empress Xiaoherui), she died violently in the palace in the 20th year of Daoguang.
However, after Empress Xiaoquan, Daoguang never made an empress again, and the fourth son of the emperor born to Empress Xiaoquan was eventually selected as the heir, which is undoubtedly the reason for Aiwu and Wu, it can be said that Xiaoquan was loved by Daoguang irrevocably whether before or after his death, and it is not too much to say that Xiaoquan was the most favored empress of the Qing Dynasty.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Xuanzong of the Qing Dynasty, Grand View of the History of the Qing Dynasty