Daoguang's favor for the empress dowager is also staged, the early more favored is Quanfei (Empress Xiaoquan) and Concubine Jing, the middle favor is Concubine Tong, and the most favored in the late period is Concubine Lin, that is, the Zhuangshun Imperial Concubine that this article will talk about.
Zhuang Shun Emperor's noble concubine surname is Wu Ya, Manchuria Zheng Huangqi people, in fact, Zhuang Shun Emperor Guifei's family lineage is quite good, she and Yongzheng's biological mother Empress Xiao Gongren from the same family, the grandfather named GuanBao, Guan Bao during the Qianlong period to assist in the university scholar and official Shangshu, belongs to one of the nine elders of the Wen class. However, later, the Zhuangshun Emperor's noble concubine family gradually declined, and in her father Lingshou's generation, it was just a small stroke.
However, as the eight flags showgirl, Wu Yashi (Zhuang Shun Emperor's concubine) still had the opportunity to participate in the Eight Flags draft, thus jumping into the court and shining on the lintel.
In the seventeenth year of Daoguang, the 16-year-old Wu Yashi participated in the Eight Flags Draft, and was taken by the 56-year-old Daoguang Emperor, and was immediately sent to the Yuanmingyuan and given the title of Lin Guiren. However, for some reason, in the year that Uya entered the palace, she was demoted from a nobleman to a constant presence (Xiu Changzai).
Although he was punished by the emperor as soon as he entered the palace, the Uya clan was young after all, and there was still a chance to make a comeback. Sure enough, only two years later (the nineteenth year of Daoguang), the Wuya clan took advantage of a bedtime opportunity to successfully restore favor and was promoted to the title of Lin Guiren. In April of the twentieth year of Daoguang, Wu Yashi was diagnosed with pregnancy, and Daoguang immediately ordered her to be crowned as a concubine, and soon after, Wu Yashi gave birth to the Seven Brothers Yizhen.
What is unexpected is that in the following seven or eight years, the Wuya clan became pregnant with the dragon breed four more times and gave birth to three children (Note: Daoguang gave birth once in twenty-eight years), and as a result, the Wuya clan with five dragon fetuses instantly became the concubine who gave birth to the most children for the emperor, and her value instantly soared, from Lin Concubine to Lin Guifei, and after Tong Guifei fell out of favor, she became the second lord after Emperor Jing.
According to the Qing Palace Dictionary, Wu Yashi was also a dignified and virtuous woman, and it is said that once, the young Seventh Brother Yizhen asked the eunuch Li Jinxi for a coral pendant, which was known to Wu Yashi. Wu Yashi sternly inquired about the origin of the pendant and reprimanded YiZhen for asking for things from others at a young age, and Yizhen's Dun Dun teachings left a deep impression on Yizhen, which also became the key to Yizhen's later incorruptibility and prudence.
After Xianfeng succeeded to the throne, wu yashi was honored as emperor Kaolin gui concubine, and lived in Shoukang Palace, according to records, wuya clan often gave food, meat and needlework to the Xianfeng Emperor, etc., far more than other concubines in Daoguang, which shows that the relationship between Wuya and Xianfeng is still very good.
After the Tongzhi Emperor succeeded to the throne, the Wuya clan was once again honored and was given the title of Imperial Princess Zulin. However, at this time, Wu Ya's body was worse than a day, and after only five years, Wu Ya clan died of illness in the palace, only 45 years old, and his title was Zhuang Shun Emperor's noble concubine.
What she did not expect was that in the eighth year of her death, that is, in the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, the grandson of the Wuya clan, zai xiang, the son of Yi Zhen, was established as the new emperor, as the Guangxu Emperor. After Guangxu, Puyi, the great-grandson of the Uya clan, was selected as the heir, and thus the Uya clan became the direct ancestor of the two emperors in the last years of the Qing Dynasty.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Xuanzong of the Qing Dynasty, Words of the Qing Palace