Qianlong, I believe everyone knows. He ascended the throne at the age of 25 and ruled for 60 years, then as emperor for another three years until his death at the age of 89, making him the longest-reigning emperor in Chinese history. During his reign, there was an unprecedented social, economic, and cultural prosperity.
Together with his grandfather Kangxi and father Yongzheng, he created the prosperous era of the Qing Dynasty, known as the "prosperous era of Kangqian" in history.
However, a choice of concubines after Qianlong's abdication caused a lot of controversy, and at the age of 88, he married the 13-year-old Fucha family, a difference of 75 years.
Many people may scold Qianlong for being a pervert. What the hell is going on? Let's take a look.
In fact, the 13-year-old girl was a gift from Jiaqing to her father. During Qianlong's reign of 60 years, he firmly held power, and even after Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, he still held real power.
In order to gain real power, Jiaqing racked his brains and saw a young girl in the draft, so he had an idea.
After further understanding, it was found that this girl and Queen Fucha were from the same family. Jiaqing was very happy to hear this, because he knew that his father Qianlong missed Empress Fucha for the rest of his life.
If you give this Fucha clan, who looks almost the same as Queen Fucha, to his father, he will definitely get his favor.
When Fucha saw Jiaqing staring at her, she felt in her heart that she would definitely be chosen, and maybe she would be pampered as a concubine. However, what she didn't expect was that Jiaqing gave her to Qianlong, who was in his 80s.
When the candle night in the cave room, when she saw Qianlong, who had been waiting for a long time, she fell into extreme shock and despair. Fucha wept, but the dust had settled.
She could only endure Qianlong's favor and was named a nobleman the next day. For a newcomer who has just entered the palace, this reward is indeed very rich, but the Fucha clan is not happy.
According to historical records, Qianlong rarely summoned Jin nobles to favor them. Whether Qianlong was too old and lacked energy, or whether the 13-year-old girl did something to offend Qianlong, we have no way of knowing.
Although the Fucha clan was named a "nobleman", in fact, most of it was due to Qianlong's feelings for Empress Fucha, not out of real love for her.
And the reason why she was able to enter Qianlong's sight was also because Jiaqing hoped to consolidate the emperor's authority through this woman, so Jin Guiren was just a chess piece to balance the situation.
Later, less than a year later, Qianlong died, and Fucha was placed under house arrest and could not leave the palace. She moved to live in the palace with several old concubines.
At first, she was able to talk to other concubines, but after a long time, she couldn't stand it anymore. After all, she was only 14 years old at the time, a naïve girl, and had nothing to talk about with others.
But luckily, she is versatile and can pass the time through calligraphy, painting, etc.
What's even more tragic is that when the other concubines who came here together passed away one after another. In such a big palace, she was slowly the only one. Although life in the palace is prosperous and rich, she always feels empty and lonely in her heart.
Day after day, after Jiaqing's sudden death, the second son Min Ning ascended the throne as Emperor Daoguang and rewarded the harem. Only then did Daoguang know that there was a concubine in the harem who was younger than himself, which made Daoguang very shocked. In order to show filial piety, she immediately ordered to canonize her as a concubine.
She was only in her 30s and became the most sealed in the harem, but what was the use of this? At this moment, no one around her could even listen to her talk about family life. In the second year after being made a concubine, Concubine Jin bid farewell to this world with infinite sorrow.
From the noble all the way to the concubine, her life seems to have been on the road of wealth and nobility, but how many people know the sadness?
Some people say that she was lucky not to die in the conspiracy of the deep palace, but they ignore how cruel these things were to her, and at that time, she was only 13 years old.
It's just that because he couldn't resist, his life was cut off after the age of 13. Her life actually ended after stepping into the palace gate.
She is not the only one who has experienced like her, they are victims of feudal imperial power and the tragedy of the whole era.