Kangxi's empress and concubine once had four pairs of sisters, is Kangxi really such a person? What four pairs of sisters are there in the harem?
？ The first pair of sisters.
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Empress Hyoseongjin and sister Hesher Lee. After Kangxi succeeded to the throne at the age of eight, Ao Bai, one of the four auxiliary ministers, gradually fell in power. Empress Xiaozhuang was chosen by Kangxi.
Kangxi did not choose Ao Bai's daughter, he chose the granddaughter of the Sony family, Heshe Li, who was later canonized as empress.
When Kangxi eradicated the Ao Bai forces, he did get the help of the Sony family.
When the empress gave birth to her second son, she died in childbirth. Kangxi was very sad and missed, and later included the sister of the Hesheri clan in the palace, and posthumously made her a concubine. This is the first pair.
Second pair of sisters.
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Empress Xiaozhaoren and her sister, Princess Wen Xi of the Niu Hulu clan. The Niuhu Lu clan was the daughter of one of the four great ministers.
When Kangxi was elected, she was actually elected at the same time as Herschel.
Qibilong was not loyal to Kangxi, so Kangxi eventually only made this Niuhulu clan a concubine, and made Sony's granddaughter Hesheri empress.
However, the relationship between the Niuhulu clan and Empress Hesheri was very good, and Kangxi was very pleased, so the father of the Liuhulu clan, Qibilong, was not implicated when he was suppressed.
Moreover, after the death of Empress Herschel, the Niuhulu clan was made empress. But she also died soon after.
Three years later, the younger sister of the Niuhu Lu clan entered the palace and was later made a concubine of Wen Xi by Kangxi. It also shows Kangxi's recognition of the Niuhulu clan during his lifetime.
Third pair of sisters.
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Empress Xiaoyiren and sister Tong Jia. These two sisters and Kangxi are actually cousins.
Tong Jia's father, Tong Guowei, was the younger brother of Kangxi's biological mother, that is, Kangxi's uncle.
Cousins Kangxi and Tong Jia, childhood sweethearts. In the 16th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Tong Jia was canonized as a noble concubine, ranking only after Empress Liu Hulu.
The following year, Empress Niu Hulu died, and the noble concubine Tong Jia was fully responsible for managing the harem.
But at this time, Kangxi did not make her empress, why? It is precisely because Kangxi loves and cares for this cousin who grew up together.
He took two empresses in succession, and Kangxi was worried that he would kill his wife, so he deliberately did not make this Tong family empress.
Until the 28th year of Kangxi, this Tong Jia clan was seriously ill, and Kangxi urgently canonized her as empress, hoping to rush joy and save her life, but Tong Jia became an empress for one day and died.
Tong Jia has a half-sister, in the palace, very low-key, neither named nor childless.
In the 39th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the harem needed someone to lead ah, at this time, the origin and qualifications of the harem woman, no one was stronger than the sister of the Tong Jia clan, and she was named a noble concubine and led the harem concubine.
The Tong family had no children and no daughters. It was precisely because she had no children that when Kangxi took the ninth son in his later years, he had nothing to do with her.
During the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties, she was successively honored as Imperial Concubine, Imperial Concubine, Imperial Ancestor Shouqi, and Imperial Concubine, and was able to enjoy her old age in peace.
The fourth pair of sisters Concubine Yi and younger sister Guo Luo Luo.
This Guo Luo Luo is from an average background, but he has a good personality, and Kangxi prefers it.
Canonization, called Yi Concubine, later Yi Concubine, ranked second among the four concubines. Concubine Yi gave birth to three princes, the fifth son Yinqi, the ninth son Yintang and the eleventh son.
When the ninth son took the throne, this emperor Jiuzi Yin Boring he helped the old eight Yin Si, so Yongzheng suppressed Yin Tang after he took the throne.
When honoring the concubine of the first emperor, he specially did not give it to Yintang's biological mother. It is Guo Luo Luo's seal.
After this Yin Boring died, Guo Luo Luo also died of loneliness. Guo Luoluo's sister was in the palace very early, but she was only a nobleman.
There are not many traces in the history books, and the status of this pair of sisters is quite different from the previous pairs.
There were four pairs of sisters in the Kangxi harem, and you can't just say that he must like his sister-in-law very much.
There are two reasons here,
First, he is related to the custom of choosing concubines in the Qing Dynasty. The Qing emperor's harem elector, once every three years, was selected from among the young women of the appropriate age in the Eight Banners.
And what about the palace maidens? Once a year, it is handled by this Ministry of Internal Affairs. These are all to be drafted, to be screened layer by layer, there are PK and there are eliminations.
But there is also a sentence in the selection of concubines, which says that "the sisters of the harem are not re-elected as the upper life."
It means that these queens and nobles in the harem, and other concubines of relatively high status,
That is, their maiden sisters, or even these girls of close relatives, can not participate in the draft, as long as the emperor feels good, directly order the recruitment, and directly approve it.
The second reason has to do with political stability.
The emperor's marriage is not only marriage, marriage is also politics.
Today we are talking about four pairs of sisters. There are three pairs, all of which entered the palace after the death of the empress's sister, and continued to obtain a relatively high status.
This is because the royal family needs to maintain alliances with certain powerful families through marriage.
Throughout the Kangxi Dynasty, the Hesheri family, the Niuhulu family, and the Tong Jia family, these are all famous families that are of great significance to political stability, and must always be tightened.
It seems that Kangxi not only likes his sister-in-law, but also likes his sister-in-law with a background.