"Looking back and smiling a hundred beautiful lives, the sixth house pink has no color."
Bai Juyi described Yang Guifei's beauty in "Long Hate Song". Throughout history, there has never been a lack of overwhelm in the harem.
During the Daoguang year, there was also a favorite concubine who smiled back and made the six palaces pink have no color.
This favored concubine was 41 years younger than the emperor, and after eight years in the palace, the green cards were turned over, and five children were born in succession in eight years. This pile is enough to see the emperor's favor for this beautiful girl.
And today, let's learn about the legendary story of this showgirl.
1.
In ancient times, polygamy was emphasized, and the royal family implemented this system to the end.
In order to allow the royal blood to flourish, every few years in the palace, a selection of show girls will be carried out, and the right age of show women will be selected for the emperor to enter the palace as concubines.
In the 17th year of Daoguang, a selection of show girls was held in the palace for the Daoguang Emperor. At this time, the Daoguang Emperor was more than half a hundred years old, and the passion of his youth for this kind of love for men and women had long been lost.
In order not to break the rules and systems left by his ancestors, the Daoguang Emperor still sat on the dragon chair, listening to the successive shouts of eunuchs, and let waves of beautiful women come to him to select.
The Daoguang Emperor's brows locked, and waves of beautiful women walked in front of him, but he couldn't raise any interest.
Until a woman walked up to him.
That is the 17-year-old showgirl Wu Ya clan.
Wu Ya is naturally beautiful, with willow leaves and curved eyebrows, cherry small mouths, and the skin on the whole body is like coagulation. The Xiunu Wuya clan transformed the surrounding Xiunu into green leaves that set off her flower, so that the eyes of the Daoguang Emperor could only detect her existence.
The eunuchs were all able to observe words, and suddenly saw different emotions in the eyes of the Daoguang Emperor, and the Xiunu Wuya clan smoothly entered the palace and became the emperor's woman.
In the draft of Daoguang's 17th year, in the end, only Wu Ya entered the palace alone, and everyone else lost. It can be seen that the Daoguang Emperor does not attach great importance to the Wuya clan.
On the night of entering the palace, the Wu Ya clan was arranged to sleep. The 17-year-old girl is soft and sweet, and although the Daoguang Emperor is 58 years old, she still can't resist the charm of the girl.
Since then, he has turned over the brand of the Wuya clan night and night, and the Wuya clan can be described as the favored sixth palace at that time.
Wuya's green head cards are often flipped, and the font on them has begun to peel off the paint, which contrasts sharply with the green heads of the surrounding concubines.
2.
The favor of the emperor is one thing, and the reasons for the Wu Ya clan to sit on the throne of their noble concubines and promote to the concubine position one after another are mainly the following points.
The first is not to be evil with others. Despite being favored by the emperor, the Wuya clan did not mistreat the palace maids and eunuchs who took care of themselves.
At the same time, she also greeted other concubines in the palace with a smile on her face, and never took the initiative to marry people. Sometimes I take the initiative to befriend them.
After all, there are two kinds of women in the harem. The first is the concubine that the emperor likes who comes in through the draft. The second is that in order to consolidate the harmonious unity between the previous dynasty and the harem, the emperor had to include the daughters of the heavy courtier family into the harem. The second concubine has the support of the entire family, which is an existence that the Wuya clan cannot afford to offend.
Second, filial piety comes first. In addition to taking care of the emperor's daily life, Wu Ya often went to the Empress Dowager's palace.
In ancient times, filial piety was the most important, as long as the Empress Dowager was taken care of, the emperor would naturally take a second look at himself.
In this way, it can not only leave a good impression in front of the Empress Dowager, but also make the emperor impress him. Wu Ya Clan can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Third, mothers are expensive by their children. The Wu Ya clan knew that he did not have a family as a backer, and if he wanted to gain a foothold in this palace, he could only rely on himself. Not dealing with other concubines and taking care of the Empress Dowager diligently is only a way to cure the symptoms but not the root cause.
The only way to really get a foothold in the harem is to give birth to royal blood, and only by giving birth to a prince can you truly guarantee the glory and wealth of your life.
Wuya's belly is also very contentious, and in just eight years, she was pregnant with five children. The emperor was even more overjoyed when he was old and had a son, and the status of the Wuya clan was rising day by day.
But giving birth to a child is not powerful, and it is only powerful to be able to successfully raise the child. Speaking of which, it may be associated with the palace fight drama staged in the TV series. In order to allow their children to inherit the throne, it is inevitable that there will be incidents of mutilating princes born to others.
But after all, these are all wild histories, and there is no way to verify them for the time being.
And one of the reasons why these little princes who were born could not survive was smallpox. Children's resistance is generally weak, and the medical technology of the Qing Dynasty is not developed, and children who are infected with smallpox are likely to face the risk of death.
Therefore, there are many cases of princes being born in the harem, but they cannot be raised.
However, Wu Ya was also a very lucky man, and of the five princes he gave birth to for the emperor, only one child died at a young age. The other four children grew up healthy.
The Wuya clan even gave birth to the seventh son of the Daoguang Emperor, Prince Yizheng, and this person will leave an indelible mark in the future direction of the history of the Qing Dynasty.
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And the person who really allows the children of the Wuya clan to occupy an important place in the history books must mention Cixi.
Cixi was the favored concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and the daughter-in-law of the Daoguang Emperor. When it comes to Cixi, we are all strangers, an arrogant and lascivious old lady, a traitor who paid all the land of the Qing Dynasty to the great powers.
But that's all for later.
Cixi was also very beautiful and was deeply favored by the Xianfeng Emperor. However, the Xianfeng Emperor was not a Ming monarch, greedy for pleasure all day, and did not cherish the family inheritance left by his ancestors at all, and the Qing Dynasty was increasingly in decline at the hands of the Xianfeng Emperor.
And the Xianfeng Emperor himself died because of his absurd extravagance, only in his 30s. Cixi did not have time to feel the departure of the Xianfeng Emperor, so he planned to put his son the Tongzhi Emperor on the throne.
Cixi was not an empress, not the emperor's wife. If it were not for the son's mother, there would soon be no such a good figure as her in history.
It has to be said that Cixi also has certain means. Under Cixi's calculations, the Tongzhi Emperor soon ascended to the throne of the emperor and began his reign. Cixi also became the honorable empress dowager.
But what kind of old son will give birth to what kind of son. The Tongzhi Emperor was comparable to the Xianfeng Emperor.
The Tongzhi Emperor also did not govern the country, and he also spent every day in the harem for pleasure. The physical deficit caused by the long period made the Tongzhi Emperor leave earlier than the Xianfeng Emperor, and he died in his 20s.
The country cannot be left without a king, and Empress Dowager Cixi cannot leave herself without a fight. But Cixi only has this one son, how can she keep her honorable status as the Empress Dowager?!
Cixi thought of a good way, that is, to choose one of the prince's children to inherit the throne. This method appeared as early as the previous dynasty, and Cixi was not a pioneer.
So, who to find to inherit the throne? Of course, it is necessary to find people who are related to themselves!
In the end, Cixi saw the child born to her own sister. Cixi prepares to raise this child to become the new emperor, and this child is the future Guangxu Emperor.
So, what does this have to do with the Uyas? It turned out that Cixi's sister was married to the Daoguang Emperor's seventh son, Yizhen. Therefore, the Guangxu Emperor was the grandson of the Wuya clan.
When the Guangxu Emperor first entered the palace, he was still young, and he could still be at the mercy of Empress Dowager Cixi and become a puppet on the emperor's throne.
But children will grow up after all, and the Guangxu Emperor is not as mediocre as the Tongzhi Emperor and the Daoguang Emperor, but an emperor who hopes to make a difference.
However, many of his ideas ran counter to Empress Dowager Cixi, which made Empress Dowager Cixi increasingly dissatisfied with the Guangxu Emperor. Jiang is still old and spicy, and the Guangxu Emperor finally did not fight Empress Dowager Cixi and withdrew from the long river of history.
Empress Dowager Cixi put a new puppet, Emperor Xuantong, on the emperor's throne.
And this Xuantong Emperor also had an inseparable relationship with the Wuya clan. The father of Emperor Xuantong Ai Xin Juelo Puyi was named Ai Xin Juelo Zaifeng.
Zaifeng and the Guangxu Emperor were brothers, and both were sons of Aisin Juelo Yizhan Xuan the Prince of Alcohol. The relationship between the Guangxu Emperor and the Xuantong Emperor was a relationship between uncles and nephews.
In this way, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty was the great-grandson of the Zhuangshun Emperor's concubine Wuya. These emperors, who had a pivotal position in the history of the Qing Dynasty, all had the blood of the Wuya clan flowing in their bodies.
Although the mention of Zhuangshun Imperial Concubine Wu Ya Clan is not deeply impressive, the trajectory of these Qing Dynasty celebrities can be traced back to her.
How can this not be considered a legend through the ages?!