Qianlong missed the palace maid who tried to marry, and his son was scolded to death
Qianlong sat in front of the summer window, looking at the bright moon from afar, and couldn't help but have endless thoughts in his heart. He is already in his old age, and when he looks back on his life, he finds that the women he loves have left him one after another.
In every relationship, he has given sincere emotions, but those women have gone before him, making him feel extremely lost and sad. His emotions were overflowing, and he sang a poem casually: Tong Guan is still in his hand, and the praise of pepper is not endless.
Zhu Huashan is close at hand, but my heart is full of endless sorrow.
Qianlong has reached the age of seventy and began to think about what happened after his death. He regretted that if Empress Hyoxian, Emperor Huixian, and Emperor Shujia were all alive, they should also be close to seventy.
Unfortunately, they all went before him. In this poem, Qianlong does not mention his first woman, the Fucha clan. However, this Fucha clan was not the Qing Dynasty aristocratic Fucha clan, but Qianlong's partner when he did not ascend the throne, and gave birth to a son and a daughter for him.
Although her family is a family of clothed slaves in the Qing Dynasty.
Fucha, who later became the concubine of Emperor Zhemin, although there are few records in the history books, her fate has taken a surprising turn. From the trial marriage palace maid, to the concubine rewarded by Yongzheng to Qianlong, and then to the imperial concubine, her identity changed from an ugly duckling to a white swan.
Despite her humble status, Qianlong never forgot her, and even posthumously crowned her many years after her death. So, who is she, and what kind of story is there between her and Qianlong?
Qianlong's first love: The identity of Emperor Zhemin's concubine Fucha is not prominent, and her appearance stems from a unique system in the Qing Dynasty - trial marriage girl. In the Qing Dynasty, before the wedding of every prince or princess, there would be a trial marriage girl to help them grow into a real man or woman.
In the third year of Yongzheng, Fucha was appointed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to marry Qianlong, who was only fifteen years old. As a maid, her main task is to prepare for Qianlong's future wedding. However, among the eight girls who tried to marry, Qianlong took a fancy to the beautiful Zhemin Emperor's concubine Fucha at a glance.
She instantly attracted Qianlong's attention and became Qianlong's first woman and his first love.
Because of their similar age and many common languages, the two young boys and girls cherished this beautiful relationship with each other at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and this relationship lasted until Qianlong got married.
Although they did not use any contraception, they did not have children until Qianlong married Empress Fucha. However, when Qianlong was 17 years old, Yongzheng, as a father, thought that his son should start thinking about his future, so he chose a well-connected Empress Fucha for him.
This wedding was quite grand, because Empress Fucha was the niece of Ma Qi, a scholar of the two dynasties, and had a high status and strength in the Qing Dynasty. Marriages of the royal family were mostly based on political connections.
Therefore, Yongzheng gave Qianlong a marriage in order to allow him to establish contact with a powerful family and lay the foundation for his future throne.
After getting married, Emperor Zhemin's concubine was not left out in the cold, but often accompanied Qianlong. Despite her low status, she was second only to Empress Fucha in the time she spent by Qianlong's side. The marriage of two women to a man naturally sparked speculation about their heirs.
Fortunately, Emperor Zhemin's concubine was experienced and was the first person to give birth to a son for Qianlong, while Empress Fucha did not give birth to the emperor's eldest daughter until half a year later. Qianlong was very happy with his new life for two consecutive years, so he was very fond of Empress Fucha and Emperor Zhemin.
However, before Qianlong ascended the throne, Empress Fucha and Emperor Zhemin had already given birth to many children for him. Empress Fucha bore three daughters and a son to Qianlong, while Empress Zhemin bore him a son and a daughter.
If it weren't for the day and the year, Emperor Zhemin's concubine would have been expected to be favored and reused by Qianlong after he succeeded to the throne, because she was deeply loved by Qianlong. But unfortunately, Emperor Zhemin died of illness on the third day of July in the 13th year of Yongzheng and failed to see the glory of Qianlong.
Although Emperor Zhemin already had two children, she was not yet 30 years old at the time. At this time, Qianlong was immersed in the pain of death with his first love, and his father Yongzheng died soon after, making it impossible for him to concentrate on arranging a proper burial for Emperor Zhemin.
After dealing with his father's funeral and ascending the throne, Qianlong decided to posthumously crown Fucha as Emperor Zhemin's concubine in order to commemorate his first love, and officially named him Zhefei the following year.
As a result, Emperor Zhemin's concubine became the only concubine Gege in Qianlong's harem who died early, and was awarded the title and posthumously.
When Qianlong built the imperial mausoleum for himself, he specially requested that the four concubines of Emperor Zhemin, Empress Fucha, Empress Wei Jiashi of Xiaoyichun, Gao Jia, the concubine of Emperor Huixian, and Jin Jia, the concubine of Emperor Shujia, be buried in the underground palace.
Although the imperial concubines were usually not qualified to accompany the funeral, Qianlong made an exception to let them accompany the funeral, showing his special affection for the imperial concubine Zhemin. Since Qianlong's father, this rule has been broken, but there are still very few imperial concubines who can accompany the burial of the emperor's mausoleum.
This decision shows that Qianlong's care for Emperor Zhemin's concubine goes beyond the norm.
Emperor Zhemin's concubine is unique among many harem concubines, and she is inseparable from her contribution to giving birth to the emperor's eldest son, Yonghuang. Emperor Qianlong deeply felt the importance of Yonghuang, although he was not a son-in-law and his background was not prominent, Qianlong's education and treatment of him were like that of a son-in-law, and even in terms of educational resources.
However, one wonders why Yonghuang is not the first choice of heirs? The first thing Emperor Qianlong did after succeeding to the throne was to secretly appoint his son-in-law Yonglian as the crown prince, which is an open secret.
Therefore, when he first established the reserve, Yonghuang was skipped, after all, his background was not prominent.
The son-in-law has always been the first in line to inherit the throne, but Yonglian's untimely death is regrettable. The Manchu dynasty pinned their hopes on other princes, but Qianlong was not worried, because he believed that Empress Fucha was young and healthy, and that she would have a chance to have a son in the future.
A few years later, Empress Fucha gave birth to Qianlong's seventh son, Yongcong, which made him overjoyed, and even secretly established Yongcong as the crown prince. However, fate was cruel, and Yongcong died in less than two years.
The children born to Empress Fucha died young, and in addition to the two princes, her daughter was not spared. This series of blows caused a deep suffering to Empress Fucha, and she died of illness soon after.
According to common sense, the throne should be inherited by Yongcong, but he was not loved by Qianlong, and even Qianlong's good impression of him plummeted. Among the five women who accompanied the burial of Qianlong's underground palace, except for the two queens, the other three imperial concubines were the people Qianlong missed the most.
Among the five people who accompanied Qianlong, only Emperor Zhemin had the shortest time with him, only ten years. However, the past ten years have made Qianlong remember it for a lifetime.
Even after the death of Emperor Zhemin, Qianlong, who was over sixty years old, often remembered the young years he spent with her. Although he wrote more than 40,000 poems during his lifetime, there are countless poems in tribute to the imperial concubine Zhemin.
Maybe this is the place that Bai Yueguang occupied in a man's heart when he was young. However, Qianlong's nostalgia for Emperor Zhemin's concubine in his later years was not only a filter of first love, but more of a deep guilt.
Because their first child died young, it was directly related to Qianlong.
In the 13th year of Qianlong, Empress Fucha suffered the pain of losing her son three times, and her physical condition deteriorated, and she finally died. The importance of the Fucha clan to Qianlong is well known, and she is the only love of Qianlong's life.
Her death was an unprecedented blow to Qianlong, and it was even recorded in the history books that Qianlong was in a state of mental madness at that time. Qianlong's demeanor became extremely irritable and extremely out of shape.
In fact, it was not only the death of Fucha that hurt him, but more importantly, the people had already complained about Qianlong at that time, and there were peasant uprisings in various places that needed to be suppressed.
Qianlong not only spent a lot of money, but also sent a lot of manpower and horses to quell the rebellion in Jinchuan, but with little success.
The sudden death of Empress Fucha caused Qianlong to explode into anger amid struggle and anxiety, and he used the empress's funeral as an outlet for emotional catharsis. For the ** who he thought did not do his best, Qianlong not only reprimanded and exiled them, but even killed some of them because of this.
During this time, Yonghuang lost Qianlong's favor. At the funeral of Empress Fucha, Yonghuang, as the eldest son of the emperor, was responsible for the funeral. On this sad day, the son of Emperor Zhemin's concubine died of depression, and Qianlong regarded everyone as his punching bag.
When Qianlong saw at the funeral that Yonghuang and the third son of the emperor, Yongzhang, had no sadness and did not even shed tears, his heart was full of anger. Yonghuang is over 20 years old and has two children, and although Fucha is not his biological mother, he should learn to play on the spot.
Everyone knew that Fucha was Qianlong's favorite woman, but he showed his indifference bluntly, which undoubtedly angered his father. After the funeral, Qianlong summoned Yonghuang and Yongzhang separately and severely reprimanded them, even scolding them for being disloyal and unfilial, and inferior to animals.
Although Qianlong was not satisfied after scolding, he also kicked Yonghuang, and then he directly told Yonghuang that he had planned to secretly canonize him as the crown prince after the funeral, but now because of his ruthlessness, he has lost the right to inherit the throne.
Yonghuang regretted it very much after hearing this, which directly led to his depression. He became depressed and in poor health. The Imperial Physician diagnosed him with heart depression and was unable to **.
In the 15th year of Qianlong, he was no longer able to get out of bed. Although Qianlong regretted it at this time, he could not save Yonghuang's depressed body.
Yonghuang died of depression at a young age, which surprised and regretted everyone. Qianlong deeply regretted it, posthumously named Yonghuang the prince of Ding, and let his three-year-old son Miande inherit the title.
After the completion of Emperor Qianlong's underground palace, he was very moved by the death of his concubine and son, so he ordered that Empress Fucha, Emperor Zhemin and other imperial concubines be buried in the underground palace together, so that he could spend his underground life with them a hundred years later.
Looking back on the emotional history of Emperor Qianlong, whether it is the deep affection with Empress Fucha or the deep attachment to his first love, Emperor Zhemin's concubine, it is all impressive. Even after a hundred years of vicissitudes, we will still be deeply moved by the love story of Emperor Qianlong.
Even if he was more than half a hundred years old, in the quiet night, Emperor Qianlong would still think of the palace maid who was the same age as him, which showed his deep affection for her. However, as emperors, love is not a story over which they have complete control.
From this point of view, Qianlong was undoubtedly lucky, he met many favored women in his life, and reaped the sweetness of love and the happiness of children and grandchildren.