12dz Chapter 492 Qianlong's Succession 2
Chapter 492 Qianlong's Succession 2
In fact, the reason they were making such a fuss today was not just because of those prostitutes.
Those people were just a fuse.
The essential reason was that the Emperor favored Concubine Ling very much, and even when the Empress was still alive, she actually intended to promote Concubine Ling to the rank of Imperial Concubine, putting her on an equal footing with her.
You should know that the rules set by the Qing Dynasty since Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang are:
The Empress and the Imperial Noble Consort do not coexist.
The "Imperial Noble Consort" of the Qing Dynasty had a special status, equivalent to that of a vice-empress.
It poses an absolute threat and challenge to the queen's status in the harem.
In view of this, the "Imperial Noble Consort" of the Qing Dynasty generally appeared in the following situations:
1. After the death of the "noble concubine", the emperor or the successor emperor would posthumously confer her a title;
2. After the "Royal Concubine" is seriously ill, she is given a title to bring good luck;
3. The Queen is unable to perform her duties normally and is promoted from "Royal Consort" to "Royal Consort in Charge of Six Palaces", exercising the Queen's duties and actually taking charge of the harem.
4. When the empress passed away and the Empress Dowager's palace was vacant, the emperor would choose a "noble concubine" and promote her to the title of "noble concubine in charge of the six palaces" to serve as a transition to her enthronement as the successor empress.
Just like her.
Empress Xiaoxian died of illness on her way to the east.
Four months later, the emperor announced that the successor would be Consort Xian, Nara.
But in fact, during these four months, there were already clues as to who would become the next queen.
Whether it is the decoration of the ear room, the arrangement of palace maids, or the arrangement of ceremonial guards.
How many women are there in the harem?
He was obsessed with Empress Fucha, and he favored Imperial Noble Consort Huixian.
She never took Wei Jia seriously.
On the one hand, she is Han Chinese.
On the one hand, she was promoted by giving birth at the risk of her life.
But she never imagined that one day that woman would shake her foundation.
You know, in the history of the Qing Dynasty, only two women had this honor.
One is Shunzhi’s concubine Dong E, and the other is today’s concubine Ling.
She didn't mind who the emperor favored, but she found it hard to accept that he shared his attentions on her with others.
But the emperor just mentioned it.
In order to test her opinion, he even celebrated her birthday in a big way.
On his birthday, the emperor granted food to his attendant princes, ministers, and officials of all ranks in the south of the Yangtze River, and also rewarded all the soldiers sent out from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces with two months' wages and rations as a token of his favor.
She served food to the emperor on the day of the Qianqiu ceremony and at breakfast the next day.
On February 11th, they made dumplings together and presented them to the Queen Mother, which was a great celebration.
Who would have thought that the purpose of his companionship at this moment was to help another woman get promoted and please her?
Not only that, it was even to pave the way for another woman's son!
Being promoted to Imperial Noble Consort was just the surface; the truth was that she was marginalized as the queen of a country.
Regardless of whether he was interested in Concubine Ling or not, he chose her child.
It was foreseeable that both mother and son would be kicked out.
She couldn't suppress the anger in her heart and could only copy the scriptures continuously.
However, those scriptures did not calm her down.
As for whether there is any work of Concubine Ling in it? !
She doesn't care now.
The very thing that sustained her pride was destroyed.
She no longer had that kind of spirit.
She has been depressed over the years because of the deaths of the fifth princess and Yongjing.
Coupled with the death of their mother, the sisters in Qiandi also passed away.
She suppressed the sadness in her heart, as if the pain of losing a son or daughter could only be experienced by a mother.
And at this moment, she was even laughing in silence.
His attitude said it all, and she didn't want to argue.
The next day, Fu Longan sent the queen to the palace by water along the designated route, and hurried back to Beijing after traveling two stops a day.
The emperor told the chief eunuch Pan Feng and others when the princes came to pay their respects in the palace: "The queen is crazy."
An imperial decree was issued that Nara should recuperate in the rear hall of the Yiku Palace and was not allowed to see anyone.
There is a serious problem of stepping down on the powerful and praising the weak in the palace!
The emperor may have felt a little regretful, or perhaps wanted her to recognize the situation, so he asked her tentatively and arranged for people to punish the palace maids who did not serve her wholeheartedly.
At the same time, he asked the eunuch Pan Feng to observe Nara's reaction when she heard the imperial edict, and report back in person when he arrived in Zhuozhou.
However, there was only one person, Nara, looking at the four corners of the sky.
Watching the various messages coming from outside saying "The Emperor and Concubine Ling..."
I feel sad!
She found the purse that was given as a gift when she was crowned queen, and threw it into the charcoal basin with a cold face.
And all the traces of the emperor and empress's love were burned to ashes.
The so-called marriage and unconditional love between husband and wife has long been a lie.
Nara covered her mouth and nose and smelled the choking smoke.
As expected, this news reached the ears of the Emperor and Concubine Ling.
The emperor was furious!
When he was angry and said that the queen was deposed, he was just warning the queen.
But he didn't expect that the usually peaceful and gentle man would be so decisive this time!
His few remaining feelings of guilt gradually faded.
Arrange people to search the Queen's palace and her residence in the Old Summer Palace, and completely seal up all of the Queen's belongings.
But in the face of absolute power, non-cooperation is tantamount to disobedience.
So the emperor simply took control of the empress, saying that "Nara suddenly went crazy, behaved incompetently in front of me and the empress dowager, and even cut off her hair and cursed me to die early."
This successfully accused the queen of a serious crime and deposed her.
On the first day of May, the emperor returned to the palace.
Time seemed to have accelerated after that, and Ayong'a, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, was demoted to Yili for strongly advising against deposing the queen.
The next day, another minister, Qian Rucheng, who pleaded for Ayong'a, was allowed to resign.
On the tenth day, under the strong persuasion of the ministers, the emperor gave up deposing the empress and issued an edict to promote Concubine Ling to Imperial Noble Concubine.
The four copies of the imperial edict and the paper inserts containing them were confiscated, and some of the palace maids under her were dismissed, but her title was not yet stripped away, and her position as queen was abolished without being abolished.
Nara was confined to the palace and became increasingly depressed, thinking of the disgust that could not be concealed in the emperor's eyes.
He even sent a message to his mother's family, wanting to shave his head and become a monk!
On the one hand, she and the emperor were disgusted with each other.
On the one hand, her exit would protect her son's safety for the rest of his life.
It's just that she took everything for granted!
The emperor simply gave his twelfth son Yongji a Mongolian wife, completely cutting off his future prospects.
You know, the last person to have the same ending was Kangxi’s tenth son.
The emperor resented Nara's actions and wanted to retain her honorable position without any dignity.
Nara wanted to become a nun and never see him again? He refused!
If I die, I will die in his palace!
There is nothing else to say. The emperor did nothing wrong, so the one who was wrong could only be someone else!
On the seventh day of June of the following year, the empress's family was transferred back to their original banner and two of their hereditary assistant commanders were removed from their posts.
In the same month, the Queen's nephew Nesu was demoted to a third-class guard and handed over to the minister of Wushi for dispatch.
On the eighth day of the seventh month of the same year, the emperor went to Mulan for the autumn hunt.
On July 14, Empress Nara died.
Ten years later, the eldest son Yongqi died in an awkward situation without any children at the age of 25.
Xue Li seemed to have fallen into an endless nightmare.
Watched a big drama!
She was sure that this was not her dream.