Erqing is a character in "Yanxi Raiders" who plays an important role in the development of the plot, she was originally a palace girl next to Empress Fucha Rongyin, but in her bones she liked to cling to the powerful and wanted to marry into the rich family of Fucha, although her dream came true later, she still lost to The Concubine Wei Yongluo. Today, the author wants to talk about a character who does not appear in the play, according to the generation, she is Erqing's sister, but in the end she married Concubine Ling's son Yongyan and became the Empress of the Great Qing Dynasty, that is, Empress Xiaoshurui.
Empress Xiaoshurui's surname is Hitara, which is a very old surname in Manchuria, and this family was married to the Aixin Jueluo family as early as before the founding of the Qing Dynasty, such as The birth mother of the Qing Taizu Nurhaci, Empress Xianzuxuan, from this clan. Later, some of the People of the Hitara clan entered the pass from the dragon and were incorporated into the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
During the Qianlong period, the Hitara family produced a scholar, that is, The grandfather of Erqing in the play Laibao, and it was precisely because of the sudden rise of Laibao that the Hitara clan was pulled out of its coat and carried into the Manchurian White Flag. The Empress XiaoShurui mentioned by the author today is Laibao's niece, that is, the cousin of "Erqing" in the play.
In the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong, Empress Xiaoshurui participated in the Eight Banners Draft as the lady of the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner, and was immediately favored by the Qianlong Emperor, who immediately decided to point it out to the fifteenth brother Yongyan as a concubine Fujin. At that time, Yongyan had been secretly appointed crown prince, that is, Qianlong was selected by the Xitala clan according to the standards of the Empress of the Qing Dynasty.
For this family affair arranged by his father, although it was not as good as the eleventh Brother Yongxuan (Yongxuan Fujin was the daughter of the university scholar Fu Heng, from the Fucha clan of the Yellow Banner) and the Seventeenth Brother Yongxuan (Yongxuan Fujin was the daughter of general Arigun, from the Yellow Banner Niuhulu clan), but the university scholar Laibao was highly valued by Qianlong, and the Hitara clan was in the ascendancy, so Yongyan accepted this marriage peacefully, and had three children successively, namely the second daughter, the fourth daughter, and the second son Mianning (Daoguang Emperor).
However, a small birth in Qianlong's fifty years caused Empress Xiaoshurui's physical condition to plummet, and she had to resort to the conditioning of drugs, fortunately, under the care of heaven, she waited until the day when her husband Yongyan succeeded to the throne. In the first year of Jiaqing, Empress Xiaoshurui entered the Middle Palace and wore a phoenix crown, but at this time her body was also in a state of accumulation and difficult to return, and only one year later, Empress Xiaoshurui died at the age of 38.
At that time, the Taishang Emperor Qianlong was still alive, in order to get auspicious, Jiaqing greatly reduced the funeral specifications of Empress Xiaoshurui, so the funeral of Empress Xiaoshurui was very cold, and Jiaqing later expressed a sense of guilt when mourning his beloved wife in the poem.
However, The second son of the emperor, Mianning, born to Empress Xiaoshurui, was deeply loved by Qianlong and Jiaqing from an early age, and at the age of ten he was rewarded with a yellow coat from Qianlong, and Qianlong may have seen in this grandson how his grandfather Kangxi treated him, so Jiaqing designated Mianning as an heir as soon as he succeeded to the throne.
However, since Mianning inherited the throne, mediocrity and incompetence have almost become synonymous with him, which is really far from the wisdom of the youth and the title of "Prince of Wisdom", until the cannon of the southeast coast of the Qing Empire came from the sound of bombardment, and the dream of the heavenly kingdom was completely shattered.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Qing Shilu, Four Genealogies of the Qing Imperial Family