The princess who had never been an empress before her death was the woman that Emperor Xianfeng loved most in his life
Among the concubines of the Xianfeng Emperor, the most famous were Ci'an and Cixi, and there was also a concubine, many people mistakenly thought that Ci'an was the original wife of the Xianfeng Emperor, in fact, Ci'an was only the second empress established after the Xianfeng Emperor succeeded to the throne, and could only be regarded as a successor. When the Xianfeng Emperor was crown prince, his father, the Daoguang Emperor, had already married the Sakda clan as a princess.
Originally, the Daoguang Emperor was hesitant and entangled in his heart against who was the prince, on the one hand, the fourth prince Yixuan was born to his beloved Empress Xiaoquancheng, Niu Hulu, and he loved Wu and Wu's love for this child, on the other hand, the sixth prince Yishu was smart and capable, and he was a rare candidate for the crown prince, plus the fourth prince Yixuan's leg injury at that time left a disability, which made the Daoguang Emperor's heart very painful, and he was very nervous about the selection of the crown prince of daqing, and he had been hesitant.
Twenty-six years after Daoguang, the Daoguang Emperor finally made up his mind to choose the fourth prince Yixuan as the crown prince, put his name behind the Zhengda Guangming plaque, and officially and secretly appointed him as the crown prince. Also in the second year of Li Yixuan's reign as crown prince, the Daoguang Emperor married Sak dashi, the daughter of Futai, the shaoqing of Taichang Temple, to the fourth prince Yixuan as a concubine, also known as the crown princess.
Curiously, the crown princess Sakda chosen by the Daoguang Emperor for his son was not from the Upper Three Banners, but from the Blue Banner of the Lower Five Banners, and her origin was somewhat lower than that of other empresses of the Qing Dynasty. However, after repeated screening, the Daoguang Emperor decided that Sakda, the daughter of Futai, the young secretary of the Taichang Temple, was suitable to be a crown princess, so he chose her for his son.
In fact, the Daoguang Emperor chose the Sakda clan not only because he admired Futai, but because of prince Zheng's relationship. Sakda's maternal grandfather, Ur Gong'a the Prince of Zheng, was highly respected by the Daoguang Emperor, and after the death of the old Prince Zheng, his son Duanhua succeeded him as the new Prince of Zheng. Duanhua the Prince of Zheng was still trusted and valued by the Daoguang Emperor, which was very important to the election of the Sakda clan as crown princess.
Duanhua was not only the uncle of the Xianfeng Emperor's original empress Dowager Sakda, but also the father of the Xianfeng Emperor's successor Empress Niuhulu, and the maternal grandfather of the Tongzhi Emperor's original empress Alute. Because of this relationship, after the Xianfeng Emperor succeeded to the throne, in the draft of the second year of Xianfeng, he took the niece of Duanhua Fujin the Prince of Zheng, Niu Hulu. It was also because of this relationship that Niu Hulu, who had already become Empress Dowager Ci'an, chose Duanhua's granddaughter Alute, the Prince of Zheng, to be empress for Emperor Tongzhi.
It can be said that Duanhua the Prince of Zheng was deeply trusted and valued by the emperor in both the Daoguang and Xianfeng dynasties, and before his death, the Xianfeng Emperor made Duanhua a minister to assist the young lord. After the coup d'état of Xin You, Duanhua the Prince of Zheng was given to commit suicide, and Cixi also disliked Duanhua's granddaughter Arute clan because of this matter, and after the death of Emperor Tongzhi, she did not give the Tongzhi Emperor an heir, but gave the Xianfeng Emperor an heir, and eventually forced the Alute clan to die.
Compared with the unfortunate Arut clan, the original wife of the Xianfeng Emperor, the Sakda clan, was still lucky, although she had been a princess for a short time and had not been an empress for a day before her death, but she at least had her husband YiXuan, who loved her deeply at that time, and among the elders were the empress dowager Niu Hulu's love for her, and there was also Jing Guifei's understanding of her.
Although she has not been a princess for a long time, she is deeply liked by the elders, the family relationship is handled well, and the relationship with her husband is also very good, and Yi Xi likes her very much. 36 days after the death of the Sakda clan, the Xianfeng Emperor ascended to the emperor's throne with a sad heart.
After the Xianfeng Emperor succeeded to the throne, he began to posthumously honor his original wife Sakda, probably a young couple with a deep affection, and the Xianfeng Emperor posthumously married his wife Sakda as Empress Xiaode.
Empress Xiaode never served as an empress for a day before her death, but only became the crown princess of the fourth prince Yixuan, but was remembered by the Xianfeng Emperor Yixuan throughout her life. Even though the Xianfeng Emperor later had a new empress, the Nyulülu clan, he still reserved an important place in his heart for his wife Sakda.
After the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, Ci'an and Cixi buried him in Dingling with his wife, Sakda. At this time, Empress Xiaode had been dead for 17 years, and 17 years later, she was buried in the Dingling Underground Palace with her husband, The Xianfeng Emperor, and the two empresses who held the real power of the Qing Dynasty in the late Qing Dynasty were buried for them.
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