Chapter 42 Chapter 5 Who is Xiangfei?

At that time, many missionaries came to China, and Qianlong was always very warm to these distant guests.For example, the Italian painter Castiglione, who was a famous court painter in China, painted many paintings in the palace.During the period of the Republic of China, the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, many Chinese people flocked into the palace, and suddenly found a painting.This painting depicts a woman in military uniform, and there is a text below it, which mentions a concubine Xiang. The general idea of ​​that paragraph of text is that: Concubine Xiang is a Muslim, the concubine of Huijiang Xiaohe Zhuo Huo Jizhan.Because Qianlong coveted the beauty of the concubine Xiang, he sent troops to attack and kill the two men, and finally regained the concubine Xiang.When Concubine Xiang entered the palace, she was carrying a dagger to assassinate Qianlong.Qianlong not only forgave Xiangfei's move, but also built a mosque in the palace to please Xiangfei.

This period of history was discovered during the Republic of China, and has been praised since then.But looking back at the history of the Qing Dynasty, there is no record at all, so there are only two possibilities: the first possibility is that Castiglione is talking nonsense, and the foreigner is just sitting there talking nonsense; the second possibility is that the historical materials have been completely destroyed.So far, the historians have come to a relatively consistent view on the identity of Xiangfei: Xiangfei is actually Rongfei. Who is this concubine Rong? She is not the concubine of Xiaohe Zhuo Huo Jizhan, on the contrary, she is the younger sister of Huo Jizhan's enemy.At that time, there were many tribes in Huijiang, and Huo Ji occupied a hostile tribe, and there was a beautiful woman in this hostile tribe.In order to build a good relationship with Qianlong and settle the size and Zhuo together, the hostile tribe specially gave his sister to Qianlong.

Concubine Rong lived in the palace until she was more than 60 years old. Every time Qianlong held a banquet in the palace, Concubine Rong was the first one.Why is she number one?There is a political standard of treatment in it. The status and treatment of these concubines marks the power order of these tribes, and it also marks Qianlong's attitude towards returning to Xinjiang. When studying the relationship between the primitive man Qianlong and the concubine Xiang, we have actually entered a very mysterious field, which has become a black box. We don't know what happened in the black box of this history. The information we know is fed back from foreigners, causing our interpretation of this history to be full of randomness.But in fact, there is a secret conflict between primitive people and civilized people hidden in it. This conflict comes from our ignorance of this matter and the special source channel of this news.

From all kinds of information, it can be seen that Xiangfei is a real person, and Lang Shining didn't draw it blindly with his eyes closed. It must be that something mysterious happened in the palace.According to Lang Shining's records, Concubine Xiang brought a murder weapon into the palace, which even aroused the attention of the Empress Dowager and caused a secret dispute in the palace.