Speaking of Qianlong's son, everyone is most familiar with the fifth brother Yongqi, it is true that Yongqi is indeed Qianlong's most outstanding son, which can be described as both literary and martial, but he died young. In addition, Qianlong also has a very talented son, she is the sixth brother Yongyao.
In December of the eighth year of the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Yong Yao was born in the Forbidden City, and his mother was a noble concubine of the Chunhui Emperor. Emperor Chunhui's noble concubine Su Shi was originally a concubine given to Qianlong by Yongzheng, and it was suspected that she was a beautiful woman who was offered to the imperial court by officials in the Jiangnan region, and belonged to the Han chinese nationality, but Qianlong was very fond of su, and as early as before succeeding to the throne, Su gave birth to Qianlong's third son, Yongzhang.
Yongzhang's birth completely consolidated the position of his birth mother Su in the harem of the Qing Dynasty, and only two years later, Qianlong made Su a pure noble concubine, and in this year, Su also gave birth to the fourth daughter of the emperor, Princess Heshuo and Jia.
However, the death of Empress Xiaoxian in the thirteenth year of Qianlong became a turning point in the fate of Su's mother and son.
First of all, the third son of the emperor, Yongzhang, was not sad enough at the funeral of Empress Xiaoxian, so he was reprimanded by his father Qianlong and disqualified from succeeding to the throne. Secondly, in the battle for the throne, the Su clan lost to Concubine Xian. In fact, it is impossible for the Su clan to succeed to the throne of the Middle Palace, because she is not from the Han people who are not in the banner, there is a Qing dynasty, and no Han woman has been able to ascend to the throne.
Since he had no connection with the posthumous position, the Su clan shifted its focus to its children, only praying that their children would grow up healthily. Although the political career of the third son of the Emperor, Yongzhang, was declared over, the sixth son of the Emperor Yongzhang, born to Su, gradually grew into an excellent prince, especially in terms of talent and learning, which was outstanding among Qianlong's many sons.
However, Sue's health was not very good, she suffered from tuberculosis, and this condition was also passed on to the three children she gave birth to. In the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong, Su Accompanied Qianlong on a tour of the Rehe River, but accidentally contracted an illness, and his condition gradually worsened. In this case, Qianlong did several things:
The first was to pass on the emperor's sixth son, Yong Yao, to the emperor's uncle Wang Yunxi of Shen Commandery as his grandson, which meant that Yong Yao also lost the qualification to succeed to the throne. In fact, if you analyze it carefully, even if Yong Yao is excellent, it is impossible to inherit the throne, if Yong Yao inherits the throne, then Su Shi will become the empress dowager. Then, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty openly made the Nahan woman a concubine and would be made public, which was not what the Rulers of the Qing Dynasty wanted to see.
The second thing Qianlong did for the Su clan was to handle the marriage for the fourth daughter of the emperor in advance, and marry her to Fu Long'an, the second son of the university scholar Fu Heng, through this family affair, it can be seen that Qianlong is still very good to su's mother and daughter, after all, Fu Heng's yellow flag Fucha clan can be regarded as a top magnate.
In addition, Qianlong also married Fu Qian's daughter Fu Chashi, the niece of Empress Xiaoxian, to the sixth son of the emperor, Yong Yao, as a concubine fujin. However, this concubine Fujin was not blessed and died very early, and then Qianlong married the daughter of the Yellow Banner Button Hulu Clan Dafu to Yong Yao as the successor to Fujin, who was also a standard magnate.
In April of the twenty-fifth year of Qianlong, Su Shi, who had just been promoted to imperial concubine, passed away, and three months later, The third son of Su Shi, Emperor Yongzhang, also died, and Princess Heshuo and Jia were not long-lived people, she died in Qianlong thirty-two years, only 23 years old. If so, Yong Yao became the only surviving flesh and bone of the Su clan.
Although Qianlong passed Yong Yao over to his uncle Yunxi, this also meant that Yong Yao picked up a prince in vain, which was still very affordable. Qianlong also attached great importance to Yong Yao, not only making him in charge of the internal affairs office and being his own butler, but also making Yong Yao the president of the large-scale series of books "Four Libraries and Complete Books", and even in the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong, yong Yao was made a prince of quality, which shows that the talented Yong Yao is a standard rich prince.
However, YongYao did not inherit his father's longevity genes, and died in the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong at the age of 48, with the nickname "Zhuang".
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, Four Genealogies of the Qing Imperial Family