Kangxi Harem Ⅰ: Green Years

Chapter 236 (78) Enactment of Great Sealing Harem and Harem (Part [-])
[The harem welcomes the happy event, the battle situation is stable and the harem is closed;]

[Rong'er raised his family and gave Man a surname, and the structure of the harem was also initially determined. 】

Everyone will be promoted, Xuan Ye wanted to hide this news to surprise Rong'er, but it is basically impossible to hide this news in this harem full of people who talk a lot.All the concubines in the harem are very happy, because I heard that everyone will benefit from this promotion, maybe except Concubine Hui. After all, she has not been conferred, but in front of Rong Er and others, Concubine Hui doesn't look too much For ten years, Rong'er admired her very much. She always looked at all these indifferently, as if there was nothing she wanted. No matter what, the whole harem was still full of joy.

Everyone in the palace is preparing nervously for the canonization ceremony in mid-August. The Kunning Palace has been re-arranged again to welcome the second queen of the Kangxi Dynasty, while the Yikun Palace, Changchun Palace, Yonghe Palace, and Yongshou Palace , these four palaces have been closed for a long time, and now they are finally about to open. The palace people are busy tidying up and cleaning, preparing to welcome the concubine of the main palace who is about to be a concubine.

This canonization involves a large number of people. This is the largest canonization of the harem since the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains. All the codes are incomplete, and the Ministry of Rites is also nervously making formulations with reference to the previous dynasty.However, since Xuan Ye came to the throne, many systems have been preliminarily determined, and they have been implemented a little bit over the years, but they have not yet become a clear system. Now they are just standardizing some of the systems that have been implemented before, making them the Great Qing Harem The formal system, carried out from generation to generation.

The etiquette system has been changed several times. Xuan Ye accepted the suggestion of the Ministry of Rites and set up a respect room in the harem, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Transfer and supplement eunuchs, and inspect the opening and closing of various doors, fires and candles, and appoint consultants to act as the head of the respect room. In addition, the respect room also has a very important duty, that is, to pay attention to the emperor's favor for the concubine, and to remind the emperor of the empress. Regarding the concubine’s summons, Xuanye had often asked the consultant to remind him that after the establishment of the respect room, it would also be institutionalized, and the communication between Xuan Ye and the concubine was also in charge of the respect room. It is said that the establishment of the respect room made Xuanye's management of the harem more institutionalized and fouled.

In fact, the concubine system in the Qing Dynasty has not been perfect since Huang Taiji. Taizong lived in Shengjing during Huangtaiji. According to the design of the Shengjing Palace, in addition to the queen, there were four separate residences in Guansui, Linzhi, Yanqing, and Yongfu. concubine.By the time of Emperor Shunzhi, the ancestor, the system was not yet clear. In the 15th year of Shunzhi, according to the suggestion of the etiquette officer, one wife was set up in Qianqing Palace, one person was ranked first; one person was Shuyi, who was ranked second; There are 20 people in Fangwan, all of whom rank fourth.In the Compassionate Ning Palace, there is one chastity person, with a second rank; two Shenrong, with a third rank; there is no fixed number of attendants below, and there is no rank, so as to house female officials, there are six bureaus and one division.However, although this system has been formulated, it has never been implemented.

However, the concubine system that Xuan Ye is currently implementing was formulated by the Ministry of Rites after he ascended the throne according to the system of the previous dynasty. Xuan Ye felt that it was more reasonable, so he took advantage of the clarification of this system to formally customize the harem system that he had been implementing since he ascended the throne. Following each other, the positions of concubines in the harem were clearly set for the first time: one queen, one imperial concubine, two noble concubines, four concubines, and six concubines.Among them, the queen lives in the Kunning Palace in the middle palace, and the rest live in the main halls of the East and West Twelve Palaces separately in the harem, enjoying higher salaries and assisting the queen in managing the harem.In addition, below the concubines, there are three levels of nobleman, permanent presence, and promise. There is no quota, and they live separately in the east and west rooms of the palaces dominated by concubines.

(End of this chapter)