Author: Zhen Huan Baifei
As the saying goes: the youngest son, the eldest grandson, the lifeblood of the old man.
This is not rough, even the Ninth Five-Year Emperor Qianlong is inevitably clichéd.
But his favorite thing is not his youngest son, but his 65-year-old tenth princess.
For the sake of this daughter, Qianlong repeatedly broke the ancestral system, first giving her a golden sedan chair, so that she could travel freely in the imperial city.
and then canonized her as Princess Gulun, enjoying the title of the queen's concubine, and her status is equivalent to that of a prince.
When she was 6 years old, she helped her find the most handsome man in the capital, so that she would not have to suffer from marrying a vassal king.
Qianlong's love for her can be said to be visible to the sun and the moon.
And what charm does the tenth princess have that can stand out among Qianlong's many children?
If luck is a kind of strength, then the strength of the ten princesses is a full score.
Although the tenth princess is a concubine, her biological mother is the most favored concubine in the late Qianlong period, and her birth is a surprise for the 65-year-old Qianlong.
You must know that Qianlong has always refused to accept old age, and the birth of the tenth princess proves that he is old and strong, how can he not be proud as a man.
So, before the birth of the tenth princess, Qianlong first made the concubine a concubine, and then sent the gold, silver and jewelry like water into her bedroom, so that the tenth princess became the richest woman in the harem when she was in her mother's womb.
And after she was born, Qianlong became a daughter slave and personally taught her to pull a bow and ride a horse, and learn Chinese characters.
It is said that the arm strength of the tenth princess is amazing, and she can pull a big bow weighing 120 pounds.
Therefore, every time she hunted in Mulan, she hunted no fewer animals than her brothers, which also made Qianlong extremely satisfied, and even said in public:
"If you were a man, I would make you a prince. ”
It's a pity that she is a daughter and can only be Qianlong's pistachios.
It is recorded in the "Diary of the Korean Seongjeongwon":
Qianlong's joy and anger broke out, and the genus of the eunuch temple rarely made mistakes, and he was whipped up to more than 100 degrees. Although he was angry, he was relieved when he saw the princess.
The old people in the palace are all clear, every time Qianlong is angry and beats someone, as long as the tenth princess is moved out, it will be fine.
It's no wonder that the tenth princess has the nickname of "Princess Polo" in the harem, and everyone worships her as a god!
It is also because of Qianlong's love for the ten princesses that the concubines are becoming more and more domineering.
When the tenth princess was 3 years old, Concubine Xuan abused the palace maid to death, causing an uproar.
You must know that in the harem of the Qing Dynasty, the palace maids were all children of the Eight Banners, and each of them was a registered concubine.
Concubine Xuan's doing this is undoubtedly a knife inserted between the Eight Banners and the emperor.
But for the sake of the reputation of the tenth princess, Qianlong endured it, and after he made the concubine a concubine, he took the ten princesses to Concubine Rong, the prototype of Concubine Xiang, to raise.
Concubine Rong, who has no children and no daughters, is the meat of her heart when the tenth princess, and before she dies, she has to repeatedly remind Qianlong to leave her more than 240 pieces of jewelry to the tenth princess as a dowry.
However, after all, it is a mother-daughter connection, and the concubine returned to the concubine position with her beloved daughter 2 years later.
十公主6岁时，乾隆又发起了愁。
Since the entry of the Qing Dynasty, the princesses of the Qing Dynasty have all married the vassal kings of the Mongolian tribes to stabilize the Qing Dynasty.
The Qianlong period was no exception.
He had 10 daughters in his lifetime, of whom only 4 survived to adulthood.
The favorite Bai Yueguang Fucha Queen's concubine Gulun and Jing princesses married the vassal king of the Horqin tribe, and the seventh princess born to the concubine also married the Mongolian steppe, and the other four princesses were born with Buddha hands, and they were exempted from foreign marriage if they were auspicious.
The remaining ten princesses, Qianlong was afraid of melting in his mouth, how could he be willing to marry her?
So, when she was 6 years old, Qianlong had already begun to look for a candidate for a son-in-law, and he felt that his daughter's appearance and personality were similar to his own, and the taste she liked should be roughly the same.
My daughter is good at martial arts, so I will pick one for her who is good at writing!
In this way, He Shen's son, who looked better than Pan An and loved to write poetry, fell into Qianlong's eyes, and Qianlong directly pointed to him as a forehead, and gave him the name of Fengshen Yinde.
A month later, Qianlong rewarded He Shen with a set of mansions, which was called for his daughter's marriage in the future.
Not only that, Qianlong also ridiculed that the princess should be called He Shen.
At that time, Qianlong took the ten princesses and He Shen to the trading street of the Old Summer Palace.
And this buying and selling street is a real version of the playhouse, and the vendors in it are all palace maids and eunuchs pretending to be for the fun of the little masters in the palace.
Among them, the tenth princess saw a red dress and liked it so much, Qianlong squeezed his eyes at He Shen when he saw this, and teased her: "If you like it, ask your father-in-law to buy it for you." ”
He Shen, a fairy, immediately paid a high price of 28 taels to buy clothes, which made the tenth princess happy.
Since then, He Shen has become the father-in-law of the little princess, and his son has also become an upside down.
However, it is also because of the Ten Princesses that Fengshen Yinde first became the first imperial guard who could ride a horse in the Forbidden City in addition to the great meritorious heroes, and then was promoted to the Minister of Scattered Ranks, the Commander of the Protector Army, and the Commander of the Han Army.
Qianlong broke a lot of ancestral systems for the sake of this beloved daughter.
For example, the sedan chairs that the princesses ride are all silver-topped, and Qianlong wants to give the ten princesses a golden top, and he wants everyone to get used to the special nature of the ten princesses, so that he can pave the way for the title of the ten princesses later.
Subsequently, when the tenth princess was 13 years old, Qianlong directly named her Gulun and filial piety princess on the grounds that "the tenth princess is dignified, sensitive by nature, gentle and original, and I love her".
In the Qing Dynasty, Princess Gulun was the title only the daughter of the queen, and the concubines were all princesses of Feng Heshuo.
However, Qianlong is not, he wants to hold the most noble things in the world in front of the tenth princess.
When the tenth princess got married, Qianlong was even more exaggerated, the list of dowries alone was dozens of pages, the dowry was even more luxurious, and all kinds of treasures and treasures were shining, and the number was 10 times that of the fourth princess marrying Fulongan.
Moreover, Qianlong once again broke the ancestral system, and the princess who originally married the vassal king only had 1,000 taels/month, and the ten princesses also enjoyed it.
Originally, after the princess got married, she would not be able to return to the palace until 9 days later, but Qianlong wanted the tenth princess, so he simply shortened it to 6 days.
The tenth princess had just returned to Ning, and the next day Qianlong went to the tenth princess's mansion and took a special look at her life, so he was relieved.
At this time, Qianlong never thought that the road he carefully paved for his daughter would harm her life.
The tenth princess was smart and sober, and when she found out that He Shen was a big corrupt official, she had already said to her husband:
"You Weng is favored by the emperor's father, and there is no report, but the bribery is becoming more and more prominent, and I am worried about you. He is afraid that his wealth will not be protected, and I will be burdened by you. ”
Sure enough, after Qianlong's death, Jiaqing began to sharpen his knife Huo Huo Xiang and Shen.
For the sake of her husband, the tenth princess could only plead with her brother head-on, and finally hanged herself with huge greed and Shen, and Feng Shen Yinde was knighted.
The once rich Heshen family collapsed, and Feng Shen Yinde got drunk every day, and finally died on a 36-year-old winter night.
The tenth princess, who was soaked in a sugar pot in the first half of her life, began to understand the warmth and coldness of human affection, the death of her husband, the death of her son, and the burden of a large family, so that she had to sell her dowry.
Even the garden that Qianlong rewarded her, she didn't have the money to maintain, so she could only let it still decline.
It's like her life.
Bloom to the top.
The tenth princess only hated herself for being a daughter.
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References: "Qing History Manuscript", Mao Liping's "Detailed Explanation of the Forbidden City"