Theoretically speaking, all women in the palace can be regarded as the emperor’s women. The emperor can favor whomever he wants to favor. Whether it is a palace maid or a concubine, they should obey unconditionally. Moreover, if you are really lucky enough to be pregnant, you can be more valuable based on your child. Moreover, there were indeed many concubines in history who rose from being palace maids to fighting monsters and rising to become famous. Therefore, whether inside or outside the palace, in the eyes of most people, it is a great honor for a palace maid to be favored by the emperor. However, as for the palace maid herself, whether she is willing or not depends on the situation. Although soldiers who don’t want to be generals cannot be considered good soldiers, everyone has their own ambitions. Among the palace ladies, there are indeed those who want to take advantage of their youth and beauty to be favored by the emperor and fly to the branches to become masters. There are also those who just want safety and hope to leave the palace when they are old enough. I got the money and went home smoothly. Let’s talk about the palace maid who doesn’t want to be favored by the emperor.
The reason why the palace maids were unwilling to be favored by the emperor can be roughly divided into two parts. One is that the palace maid herself is unwilling, and the other is that the environment does not allow it. The situation where the palace maid is unwilling is that the palace maid herself is willing to be mediocre, does not want to participate in the harem disputes, and just wants to leave the palace when she is old enough to be an ordinary woman. In fact, in the long history, there are quite a lot of such palace ladies. It’s just that most of them are unknown and have little plasticity, so they have been forgotten by future generations. There are many situations where the environment does not allow it. This is determined by the ancient system of wives and concubines. Where there are wives and concubines, there must be palace fighting. However, there are relatively few cases of Ming Dynasty confrontation. For example, during the Ming Xianzong era, Emperor Zhu Jianshen doted on Concubine Wan Guifei, which caused Concubine Wan Guifei to control the harem for a long time. She would kill anyone the emperor favored. In such an environment, the palace maids would definitely not dare to approach the emperor. If Concubine Wan Gui knew about it after the emperor’s favor, even if she was pregnant, it would be the end of one body and two lives. Fly on a branch and become a phoenix? It’s simply impossible. After saying what you don’t want to do, talk about what you do want to do.
The two most popular TV series recently, “Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace” and “Story of Yanxi Palace” both mentioned Emperor Jiaqing’s biological mother, Concubine Ling. Regardless of her character, judging from the official “Resume of the Concubine”, the Concubine can be seen as a typical representative who cheated and escalated all the way to victory in the harem battle – the tenth year of Qianlong’s reign. , was granted the title of Wei noble concubine, and in the same year the Jin Dynasty was granted the title of imperial concubine; in the thirteenth year of Qianlong’s reign, the Jin Dynasty was granted the title of imperial concubine; in the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong’s twenty-fourth year, the Jin Dynasty was granted the title of imperial concubine; in the twenty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign, the emperor’s fifteenth son Yongyan was born (that is, Jiaqing Emperor); in the 30th year of Qianlong’s reign, the Jin Dynasty granted her the title of Imperial Concubine; in the winter of the 38th year of Qianlong’s reign, Emperor Qianlong’s fifteenth son, Yongyan, was secretly established as his heir; on the 29th of the first month of the 40th year of Qianlong’s reign, the Imperial Concubine died of illness. , died at the age of forty-nine. On February 11th, she was named posthumous concubine Lingyi Huang. She was buried in Yuling on October 26th, the 40th year of Qianlong’s reign. On the third day of September in the 60th year of Qianlong’s reign, Emperor Qianlong declared the emperor’s fifteenth son, Prince Jia Yongyan, as the crown prince, and also named the crown prince’s biological mother, Concubine Lingyi, as the queen of Xiaoyi. After the Jiaqing and Daoguang dynasties, the posthumous title was added, and the full posthumous title was Xiaoyi, Gongshun, Kangyu, Ciren, Duanke, Minzhe, Yitian, and Shengchun.
No matter how the concubine is portrayed in movies, TV series and other works, it cannot be denied that this concubine must be the winner of the harem battle. And her victory was no accident. She must be extremely smart and know how to make Emperor Qianlong happy, otherwise she would not have given birth to four sons and two daughters for Qianlong. It can also be seen from her upgrade speed how much Emperor Qianlong liked this concubine. Without scheming and dullness, it is impossible to be favored by the emperor and give birth to so many children. Therefore, smart palace maids are still willing to be favored by the emperor, because they have the ability to protect themselves from monsters and upgrades!