Emperor Yongzheng in the TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has a white moonlight Chunyuan queen in his heart, and later has a favorite concubine Nian Shilan, and then he fell in love with Chunyuan's stand-in Zhen Huan and Zhen Huan's sister Yurao. His feelings for Empress Yixiu can be said to be simply taking care of his sister for Empress Chunyuan, as if he has no feelings. Otherwise, Yongzheng, who attaches so much importance to his heirs, would not have turned a blind eye to Yi Xiu and her children when Yi Xiu's son died of illness.
I don't know if you have noticed it, the emperor's thinking about dealing with Nian Qianyao and the empress to manage the three thousand beauties of the harem is almost identical.
In order to avoid Nian Qianyao's high achievements and suspicion of usurping the throne, even if he favored Nian Shilan again, he also found Concubine Duan to send Nian Shilan abortion medicine, and Nian Shilan's child died innocently, completely cutting off the possibility of Nian Qianyao supporting his own child to ascend to the throne. Later, he also gave Nian Shilan Huan Yixiang, so that no matter how favored Nian Shilan was, she couldn't get pregnant, and completely broke the idea of the Nian family usurping the throne through her heirs.
Let's look at the queen again. The most important thing she did to manage the harem was to prevent the concubines from getting pregnant, and the specific method was that after the other concubines went to bed, the queen would send a soup to avoid the concubines from getting pregnant. An Lingrong has suffered this trick, and Ye Lanyi has also received it. And for those children who have been born, the queen will also find a way to get rid of them. It is precisely for this reason that Cao Qinmo, who has a daughter, defected to Nian Shilan.
In ancient times, mothers were valued by their sons, and the underlying logic behind the emperor's and queen's practice of having no children and grandchildren was to not give others any chance to trespass. The emperor is like this, and so is the empress.
In addition, the emperor also used a trick to deal with Nian Qianyao. Nian Qianyao always treats the emperor with the mentality of "I am a relative of the emperor, I still have merit, and the emperor does not dare to do anything to me", so he often acts as arrogance. For example, Nian Qianyao went to see the emperor, and the emperor was chatting with Yunli at this time, and Nian Qianyao sat directly and waited for the emperor to receive him. When eating with the emperor, Nian Qianyao actually asked Su Peisheng, who specializes in serving the emperor, to serve him dishes and serve him to eat. The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty had a lot of complaints about Nian Qianyao's betrayal of officials, and the emperor asked for punishment, but Nian Qianyao returned with a great victory, and the emperor rewarded Nian Qianyao, while also making a special appearance of favoring Nian Shilan. The emperor's move was entirely to create a pampered and proud image for the Nian family. In modern language, it is the emperor who has been creating public opinion for the overthrow of Nian Qianyao. When one day public opinion can't bear it, or the emperor really wants to bring down Nian Qianyao, there will naturally be no resistance.
Let's take a look at how the queen dealt with Nian Shilan. As soon as Nian Shilan appeared, she gave people the image of "What about the queen? I am the most favored concubine, and the queen's position will be mine sooner or later". And the queen is an image of being bullied by Nian Shilan everywhere and being an honest housewife everywhere, so that Zhen Huan and other newcomers will avoid Nian Shilan as soon as they enter the palace, and when Nian Shilan "bullies" the queen, Zhen Huan will stand up and speak for the queen. Here, the queen used the same tricks as the emperor to deal with Nian Qianyao, all of which were to create Nian Shilan's arrogant and domineering image by swallowing her anger and showing it to others, putting an end to the possibility of newcomers taking refuge in her, and then using other concubines to deal with Nian Shilan. In this way, you don't have to do it yourself, with Nian Shilan's personality, there are concubines like Zhen Huan who have been provoked by Nian Shilan and have the ability to deal with Nian Shilan for themselves. You see, the emperor and the empress manage the harem of the former dynasty, are they exactly the same?
On the other hand, the emperor did nothing for Chunyuan, except for making up for Chunyuan's goodness in his mind and creating an affectionate character for himself. He couldn't even save Chunwon and her child.
And the emperor didn't have to say anything about Nian Shilan. In order to deal with Nian Qianyao, he directly poisoned Nian Shilan's child with his own hands, and gave Nian Shilan Huan Yixiang so that Nian Shilan could not get pregnant. After this set of commotions, Nian Shilan felt that she had fed the dog with love, so she committed suicide in grief and anger.
The emperor is even more of a pet mentality for Zhen Huan, and those who follow me prosper and those who disobey me die. If you follow me, I will spoil you for a few days, and if you are too thoughtful, I will send you to wander outside the palace for a few days. When you know that you have good food and clothing, I will bring you back. The high and low status is visible to the naked eye. Therefore, in the later stage, it is not uncommon for Zhen Huan's emotional balance to lead to true love.
To put it bluntly, the emperor is a sane person, and so is the empress. They are very purposeful in what they do. So this couple is the kind of comrade-in-arms type couple who respect each other like guests, and they are very compatible. But the emperor just put on a posture of love brain to treat Chunyuan, Nian Shilan and Zhen Huan. But he's not a love brain.
Such a hypocritical emperor is the fundamental reason for the rebellion of his harem in the end.
Therefore, the emperor's feelings for Chunyuan, Nian Shilan, and Zhen Huan can only be regarded as true temperament, not true feelings at all. It's a pity that the emperor himself didn't figure this out.
It's just a pity that the queen, the most suitable comrade-in-arms for the emperor, was tossed away by the emperor.
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