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This woman was the first Manchu empress of the Qing Dynasty, married Kangxi at the age of 11, and had two sons in a row, which was Kangxi's favorite
It is said that there are three thousand harem beauties, but in fact, there are only a hundred or so who can get the emperor's favor, and there are very few who can really get the emperor's true feelings. Especially in the harem of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor's marriage is a political marriage to consolidate the imperial power, which involves the interests of all parties, the emperor will not favor one person, nor will he easily pay the true heart to whom, let alone love. However, there are exceptions, in the harem, there will always be a very small number of concubines who can truly get the sincerity of the emperor. For example, Empress Xiaochengren, the Herschel clan.
Hesheli was the original wife of the Kangxi Emperor and the first empress of the Kangxi Emperor, and she was only 11 years old when she married Kangxi, and Kangxi was only three months younger than her. It is not unusual for the Qing dynasty to become a relative in the teenage years, after all, the Qing Dynasty attaches great importance to political marriage and heirs. Herschel's origins were not simple, her grandfather was the Auxiliary Minister Soni, the father was the Minister of The Interior of the Imperial Guard, Hesheri Gabulla, and her uncle was Soetu.
The reason for choosing Herschel as empress had a lot to do with the political situation at that time. Due to the young age of Kangxi at that time, the imperial throne was unstable, and Aobai was in power in the opposition, Empress Xiaozhuang, in order to curb Aobai, enlisted the chancellor Sonny, changed the tradition of choosing empresses in the two dynasties of Taizong and Shizu (both chose empresses in the Borjigit clan of the Mongolian Korqin tribe), and made an exception to make Sony's granddaughter Hesheli as empress.
In this way, the 11-year-old Herschel married into the imperial palace in September of the fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1665). Although it was a political marriage, the knowledgeable and tenacious Herschel and Kangxi, who was three months younger than himself, got along very well, and the husband and wife supported each other, took care of each other, and their feelings became deeper and deeper.
In December of the eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the 16-year-old Hesheli clan gave birth to the eldest son of Thekhel li for Kangxi, and Kangxi was very happy and loved the mother and son of the Hesheli clan even more. However, not long after, in February of the eleventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Chenghu, who was less than 3 years old, unfortunately died. Herschel was grief-stricken, but fortunately she was young enough to continue bearing children. Two years later, on the third day of may in the thirteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Herschel clan gave birth to a healthy son named Yin Rong. The child was born in good health, but Herschel was unconscious due to dystocia and died soon after, at the age of 21.
The death of Herschel made Kangxi grief-stricken. He has long been deeply in love with Herschel, and they are also considered a couple in distress, who have experienced a lot of wind and rain together, and their feelings are very deep. What's more, The Herschel clan was Kangxi's first wife, which was Kangxi's first love, and the husband and wife lived together for more than ten years, and each other had long become closest to each other.
After Hersheri's death, the Kangxi Emperor gave the empress the title of "Empress Renxiao" (unique to the Youqing dynasty). The Kangxi Emperor not only personally sent Empress Xiaochengren's Zi Palace to GonghuaCheng, but also often went to pay homage to his deceased wife in the following decades. It can be seen that the Kangxi Emperor loved and missed this wife with hair. Although Kangxi later created several empresses, none of them had such a deep affection for the Herschel clan.
In addition, Kangxi also carried on his feelings for the Herschel clan to their son Yin, who not only personally raised and educated Yin, but also loved Yin, even if Yin made a mistake, Kangxi could also cover up. Shortly after her death, Kangxi made Yinrong crown prince, who was not yet two years old. According to the Manchu ancestral precepts, the emperor did not make a crown prince before his death, but Kangxi was willing to make this exception for Empress Hesheli, making Yin Rong the first and only Crown Prince of the Qing Dynasty, which shows how much Kangxi valued this wife.
It can be said that The Herschel clan was the most important concubine in Kangxi's life, and she had a deep influence on Kangxi's life, and she gave strong support to the Kangxi Emperor with the action of "palace style, Shu de Zhangwen". It is of great significance to the development of the entire Kangxi Dynasty and the laying down of the prosperous era of Kangqian.