The Daoguang Emperor had 23 concubines in his lifetime, far less than Kangxi and Qianlong, and even inferior to the Yongzheng Emperor.
Does having fewer people mean not having to fight in the palace? The situation of these concubines is a different situation, especially Daoguang's "strange" hobby in the harem, which makes the harem miserable.
The Qing Dynasty had such a strange emperor, who reigned for thirty years, although he paid attention to the external image for a lifetime.
But in his own harem, there is a bit of a "human face beast heart".
Since he reigned for a long time and did not have many heirs, it was also imperative to recruit the harem.
When he was looking for a talent, he preferred a show girl who was much younger than him.
According to statistics, when Daoguang reigned, the number of harems was as many as 23, and there were even half of the concubines, and the age difference between the age and Daoguang was very large.
There are 3 who are 26 or 27 years younger than him, 4 who are more than 30 years younger than him, and 3 who are more than 40 years younger than him.
The youngest, Li Guiren, was 45 years younger than him.
Qing Dynasty draft women, generally entering the palace age of 13-17 years old, and feudal society married relatively early, this age even if not into the palace, at that time also reached the age of marriage.
If you just like to be younger than yourself, this is barely justified.
However, there was more than this in the aspects of his three views, and the concubines who were selected by Daoguang to enter the harem had to undergo another kind of torture.
After the show girl enters the palace, the general emperor will give a title, and then, after observing for a period of time, and then decide whether to "promote" according to each person's performance.
And the show girls will also rivet for the glory of the family to fight for the "promotion" quota.
Even if there is no qualification for "promotion", as long as there is no mistake and keeping the position still, it is not difficult.
Unfortunately, here in Daoguang, the difficulty is that you can't guess the emperor's mind at all, and his promotion and demotion of harem concubines is completely based on his mood.
Daoguang treated concubines harshly and demoted concubines without saying a word and took pleasure in them.
Everyone is toyed with by him all the time, becoming a victim of his narrow-mindedness.
There were 23 concubines of the Daoguang Emperor, of whom 13 were demoted, and 12 never returned to the original highest rank after being demoted.
Among them, only the noble concubine of the Zhuangshun Emperor Wu Yashi gave birth to three sons and a daughter, especially the first son, the seventh son of the Emperor, Prince Yizhen.
Later, during the Xianfeng Dynasty, she was honored as the Noble Concubine of the Zhuangshun Emperor, and she was the only one who was demoted and then promoted, or was promoted by Xianfeng.
Among the 12 who were demoted, there was Tong Guifei.
Daoguang entered the palace in 11 years, only 15 years old, after 5 years, by the age of 20, he had been promoted to concubine, concubine, and reached the rank of noble concubine.
In the 20-24 years of Daoguang, 4 years for Daoguang gave birth to 3 children, namely seven, eight, and ten princesses.
It was twenty-four years after the birth of the Tenth Princess Daoguang.
Tong Guifei was suddenly demoted to the rank of noble concubine by 3 consecutive levels, and the nobleman never returned to the rank of noble concubine.
According to records, it was because she gave some things that the Daoguang Emperor gave to her privately to Li Dexi, a small eunuch in the palace, and was discovered by the Daoguang Emperor.
The Daoguang Emperor Long Yan was furious, and he degraded her again and again, which was actually an excuse.
It was normal to reward the slaves in the palace with some objects.
Some of those concubines and concubines descended to the point of everlasting, or even agreed.
Man Chang was more interesting, was given the title of Chang Zai, later demoted to promise, and finally demoted to an official woman, not even the master.
The few remaining people, either the queen, or died early, did not have time to degrade.
Otherwise, even if it was the concubine Gege of the Hidden Mansion, he would not be embarrassed to kill him completely.
Concubine Tian and Concubine He both lived their entire lives, and did not reach the rank of noble concubine until their deaths.
Concubine Tian stayed in the concubine position for 33 years, and in 1845, 25 years after Daoguang, the Yanxi Palace was burned to death.
The nobleman, the nobleman, did not even reach the rank of concubine
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Although Qianlong was also very scummy and mean, he still missed the old feelings for the concubines and gege who came out of his mansion.
When Qianlong ascended the throne, he made the concubines of the lowest position in the submerged mansion a nobleman.
After their deaths, the old people were posthumously honored as imperial concubines, such as noble concubines
The Daoguang Emperor achieved the ultimate in this regard than his grandfather Qianlong.
Daoguang's demotion of harem concubines can be summarized as having three characteristics:
The first, direct "fuse"
Xiangfei and Tong guifei are of this type
At this time, it is still a concubine, a noble concubine, "it is a noble person" to come directly to a roller coaster.
The second is to repeatedly raise and lower the level
This type of noble concubine goes from noble to promised, then to noble, noble to concubine, concubine to noble, and finally often, if the heart is not good, you can't stand such a toss.
In the third, the birth of children is still demoted
Princess Xiang, 27 years younger than Daoguang, gave birth to two princesses, a prince. Dao Guangyi was happy and promoted to Concubine Xiang.
Suddenly, inexplicably from the concubine all the way down, always there, promised until the nobleman.
Through summarizing the data, it was found that Daoguang had a law for the demotion of concubines, that is, in terms of age:
The concubines of the Daoguang Harem were 45 years oldest and the smallest was 26 years old, and when he promoted these concubines, most of them were between the ages of 15 and 22.
Once you are over 25 years old, regardless of whether you have given birth to a prince or princess, no matter what your family background is, whether you have made a mistake or not, immediately find a reason to grab the pigtails and demote.
Why does Daoguang capriciously like to crack down on concubines?
A door slamming:
After the Jiaqing Emperor ascended the throne, he was able to kill Hezhen to fill the treasury, but as soon as Daoguang came to power, he found that the treasury was even more empty.
Daoguang did not want to develop production, and could only take the lead in reducing clothing and food, and slamming doors everywhere.
The annual expenditure of the Ultimate Daoguang Dynasty in the harem was only 200,000 taels of silver, which was the smallest in the entire Qing Dynasty.
Daoguang also ordered:
Nobles of the rank below the concubine level, who are always present and promised not to eat meat, can only eat meat on their own birthdays and festivals.
All the eating and wearing degrees in the palace are graded, the high level is much more used, the grade is low, and the natural use is less, so Daoguang does not like it.
If the concubines were relegated to the lowest rank, they could be fed with the least amount of money.
Two: age is well controlled
During Daoguang's reign, the Qing Dynasty was already a time of turmoil and internal and external troubles.
Faced with the foreign guns of the ships, the incompetent Daoguang Emperor could only vent his dissatisfaction to the harem.
Use the demotion of harem concubines to show their dignity as an emperor and a sense of accomplishment in power.
This is actually a manifestation of incompetence.
In addition to reducing expenses, the young concubines did not understand state affairs, which allowed him to regain his frustration in state politics and let him have some peace in his heart.
In general, Daoguang people are very picky, and they are cold and thin, and he is really unlucky on the stall.