The concubines in the emperor's harem, Jiali, who entered the palace, hoped that they could be favored, and some people had greater ambitions, and dreamed of one day being able to ascend to the empress's throne and rule the harem and the world.
There are so many beautiful women in the harem, if you want to be promoted, you must think about how to give birth to heirs for the royal family as soon as possible, once the prince born of a concubine inherits the throne in the future, then he will be a mother and a noble son, and naturally become the empress dowager above ten thousand people under one person. Therefore, if you can have the opportunity to become the empress dowager, it is also the supreme glory of the harem woman.
However, at the enthronement ceremony at the beginning of the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, according to the Qing court etiquette system, Yongzheng had to first pay homage to his mother concubine Wu Yashi, and then accept the worship of the courtiers, so as to complete the ceremony of the enthronement ceremony.
But to everyone's surprise, Wu Yashi, who should have joyfully accepted the title of empress dowager, refused to accept the Yongzheng Emperor's salute one after another, making the scene quite embarrassing.
After the enthronement ceremony, the Wuya clan still refused to accept the title of empress dowager, and this series of "disappointment" and "uninteresting" performance undoubtedly made the Yongzheng Emperor very faceless, why did the Wuya clan, as the birth mother of the Yongzheng Emperor and one of the four concubines of the Kangxi harem, make such a strange move?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > Yongzheng experienced a "special" growth experience of returning to his birth mother after his adoptive mother's death</h1>
The famous Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty had a total of 55 children in his lifetime, of which as many as 35 were princes and 20 were princesses. In the later years of the Kangxi Emperor, 9 highly qualified princes launched a battle for the throne, known in history as "nine sons and concubines". The fourth brother Yinchen finally won the battle and became the famous Yongzheng Emperor in Qingshi.
The fourth brother Yinchen was born in the winter of 1678 AD, and his birth mother was the ordinary palace maid Uyashi at that time. After wu ya clan gave birth to the crown prince, the natural mother relied on zi gui, at the age of 20, she was crowned as a concubine, and then the concubine was also low and high, she accepted unlimited favors, the second time she was pregnant and gave birth to the sixth son of the emperor, Yin Zuo, who was promoted in the twentieth year of Kangxi, and was given the title of Princess De, Juyonghe Palace.
However, according to the ancestral system of the harem of the Qing Dynasty, the harem ladies below the concubines were not allowed to raise them personally even if they gave birth to a prince, and the status of the Uya clan at that time was very low, so after giving birth to Yin Chan, they had no right to stay by their side and raise them.
Later, following Kangxi's wishes, Yin Chan, who had just been born, was carried to the noble concubine Tong Jiashi, who had been childless, so that the noble concubine Tong Jiashi, who had a deep seniority and background, became Yin Chan's adoptive mother and nominal concubine.
Unfortunately, the Tong Jia clan was delicate and weak, and died of illness in the palace 8 years later, that year, the Uya clan had become a concubine, so the 8-year-old Yin Chan returned to the side of the birth mother Defei Wu Ya, who already had the second son Yin Zuo by his side at that time, although Yin Chan and Yin Zuo were both the flesh and bones of DeFei's own birth, but it was obvious that the Wu Ya clan was psychologically closer to Yin Zuo, who was raised by his own hands.
At that time, the 8-year-old Yin Chan already understood things, and his relationship with his late concubine Tong Jiashi was also very deep, but suddenly one day he was taken to the Princess de of the Yonghe Palace, and was told that this was your birth mother, and you would live with her in the future, thinking that such an abrupt thing would need to be digested and adapted to for a while for the still young Yin Chan
Not long after Yin Chan returned to her birth mother Princess De, her brother Yin Zuo died early, and after that, Princess De, whose fertility was strong, gave birth to 3 daughters and 1 son in succession, constantly pregnant and gave birth to and raised young princesses, which naturally made Princess De more distracted.
In that case, Princess De's maternal love and energy were unconsciously shifted to her younger children, and Yin Chan, as the eldest son of Princess De, was naturally much less loved and warm from her birth mother, which caused Yin Chan to clearly feel the faults and lack of maternal love in her youth.
Especially after Princess De gave birth to the Fourteenth Brother Yinchen, the Fourth Elder Brother Yinchen witnessed the mother concubine's boundless care for her younger brother Yinyu countless times, and the sense of loss in her heart increased again and again--since then, YinChen began to develop some jealousy and hostility towards the fourteenth brother, and was also dissatisfied with the partial preference of the mother concubine Uya.
When Yin Chan ascended the throne and became the Yongzheng Emperor, he still remembered the loss and bitterness he felt in his childhood from time to time, and he could not completely dissolve this "pain" throughout his life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > the yongzheng Emperor's biological mother, the Kangxi Emperor's concubine Wu yashi</h1>
The Kangxi Emperor's concubine Wu Yashi, whose real name was Wu Ya Ma Zhen, was only an ordinary yellow flag-wrapped palace girl when she first entered the palace. Wu Ya's grandfather was the governor of the dining room, Ersen, and his father was Wei Wu, the chief of the guards, so the origin of the Wu Ya clan was really not noble.
Heaven did not give wu ya's noble family lineage, but gave her the best luck: in the third year after entering the palace, the young and beautiful Wu Ya clan received the attention of the Kangxi Emperor because they accompanied the Kangxi Emperor every day, and soon received the kangxi emperor's favor overnight.
Perhaps the heavens took good care of the Wuya clan, and after the Wuya clan accepted the favor, she gave birth safely, and successfully gave birth to the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan.
The Kangxi Emperor loved both the prince and the Uya clan very much, and in the following year he promoted the Uya clan to the title of concubine, and since then, the Uya clan has become even more favored.
On the twentieth day of the twentieth month of the 20th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the beautiful and elegant Concubine De, along with Hui Concubine, Rong Concubine, and Yi Concubine, was promoted to concubine at the same time, which shows how deeply the Kangxi Emperor loved the De Concubine Wu Ya.
Wu Ya clan is not high, in the palace can not get the support from the mother's family, but fortunately, her fertility is extremely strong, a total of 3 princes and 3 princesses for the Kangxi Emperor in her lifetime, she can firmly seize the emperor's favor and various favorable opportunities for herself, step by step to stabilize her position in the harem, it seems that the Princess Wu Ya clan is not only superior in beauty, she also has an extraordinary mind and mind.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > why Princess Wuya insisted on not being the empress dowager after her own son ascended the throne</h1>
People familiar with the history of the Yongzheng Dynasty know that after the Kangxi Funeral Queen, the Yongzheng Emperor's birth mother Wu Yashi publicly refused to accept the title and status of "Empress Dowager" several times at the beginning, causing confusion in the former harem, not knowing what wu yashi was so called, and would be so unwilling to give face to the new emperor.
In fact, among the princes of the Kangxi Emperor, the fourth brother Yinchen was the most meticulous and meticulous, sensitive and suspicious. Perhaps for ordinary children, this kind of mentality is not sunny and healthy, but Yin Chan was raised early on by the side of the concubine Tong Jiashi, who was like a vice-consort, and became the concubine of Tong Jiashi, such a Yin Chan was originally to seize the throne inheritance by virtue of the strength of the noble concubine Tong Jia. Because the Tong Jia clan is strong in the DPRK,
Therefore, Yin Chan has known how to respect his mother-in-law Tong Jiashi since he was a child, and even deliberately avoids his birth mother, the Wuya clan who is not from a noble origin, which naturally makes the Wuya clan "insight" into how shallow and weak this mother-child relationship is.
Yin Chan eventually took the throne, and Tong Jia Guifei was already dead. As the emperor's biological mother, outsiders believe that she was blessed with a good life and gave birth to an emperor's son, and was fortunate to become the empress dowager.
However, Wu Ya's heart knew that Yong Zheng did not identify with himself, and honoring her as empress dowager was simply what Yong Zheng was forced to do due to the situation, and the straight-hearted Wu Ya Clan was precisely because he saw this clearly, so he repeatedly refused to accept the title and status of the empress.
In fact, if you think about it, the reason why Wu Yashi did this is because she knows yongzhengpin as a person, because Wu yashi has never recognized Yongzheng's character, so the mother and son who are estranged from each other have long had an unknown gap.
The second reason is that yongzheng quickly took various actions against his brothers and sisters, with the purpose of cracking down on prevention and exclusion of dissidents.
The Wuya clan probably had already anticipated what kind of actions the Yongzheng Emperor would carry out after he ascended the throne, and sure enough, the fourteenth brother of the Wuya clan, Yin Yu, was brutally demoted and far away by Yongzheng' brother, who ordered him to give his life to the former emperor to guard the tomb, and was not allowed to return to Beijing without an edict.
Although Princess Wu Yashi later reluctantly accepted the title of empress dowager, she always refused to move into the exclusive palace "Shoukang Palace" belonging to the empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty, and she was always uneasy about her youngest son Yin Yu in the distance, and she could not change the meaning of the Yongzheng Emperor, resulting in her depression and illness, and she died just one year after becoming empress.
It seems that sorrow and boredom and too much thinking can indeed make a person lose his health, Uya clan thinks too much for his younger son, but he is powerless to change the fact that the royal brothers are suspicious, and later, the heart disease drags down the empress dowager Uya's clan, but who can blame this? Everything can only be blamed on Wu Yashi's lack of open-mindedness.