In addition, there were palace maids Wei and Li.
During this time, Hongxu also considered taking women from the Xu Muer family, his grandmother's maternal clan, into the palace as concubines or imperial consorts. However, his grandmother firmly refused. After his grandmother passed away, the matter of taking women from the Xu Muer family into the palace was dropped.
Among Hongxu's concubines,
It's quite a coincidence that, apart from the Wei and Li families who were originally palace maids, and the Borjigit family of the Khorchin tribe who had no children, the rest all had one or two children, or both sons and daughters.
Hongxu had seventeen sons and twenty daughters in his lifetime.
The concubines in the harem were able to conceive, which made this position somewhat awkward.
Because the first two imperial concubines, the four consorts and six concubines were already full, but Hongxu really liked those who had given birth to princes and princesses.
Finally, at the age of sixty, Hongxu could only follow the example of his grandfather, Emperor Kangxi, and his father, Emperor Yonghe, and also abdicated.
After all, only in this way could the retired emperor's concubines be free from the restrictions of having four or six consorts...
Another thing is that after Hongxu abdicated, at the age of over sixty, he actually had a son and a daughter with two young concubines at the Yuanmingyuan Palace.
After serving as the retired emperor for twenty-four years, Hongxu passed away.
Prior to this, his first wife, Lady Fuca, had already passed away, and Lady Irgen Gioro was succeeded as empress. Later, Lady Irgen Gioro became the retired empress and empress dowager.
Irgen Gioro was personally chosen by the Empress Dowager Xu Muer and the Empress Mother Ulanara. Although she only gave birth to one princess, she eventually became the Empress Dowager.
Hongxu discovered that his childhood sweetheart cousin, Ulanara, harbored ambitions to become empress after being granted the title of Consort Xian. She even attempted to murder Empress Fucha several times.
After careful consideration, Hongxu chose to forget about Ulanara.
Later, Hongxu could no longer tolerate Yongzhen, the fourth son of Ulanara, who was constantly causing trouble. So, he issued an imperial edict to adopt him as his grandson to Prince Yinti, who had only given birth to daughters for many years and had no sons.
Hongxu lived to the age of eighty-four.
According to Volume 97 of the Derivative Draft of the History of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Shengzong of the Qing Dynasty, whose personal name was Aisin Gioro Hongxu, had a total of 25 wives and concubines and 39 children, including 21 sons and 18 daughters. He was a passionate emperor.
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