Rong Fei is not honored

The four words "Rong Fei is not glorious" were like the sound of spring thunder, awakening the sleeping existence.

The repeated echoes of "Rong Fei is not glorious, Rong Fei is not glorious" not only reverberate in the ears, but also strike the soul.

With depression and unwillingness, his originally chaotic consciousness gradually became clear, looking at the completely unfamiliar world in front of him.

She looked at this new world with both uneasiness and curiosity. Everything she saw completely overturned Rong Fei Ma Jiaji Nai (nai, fourth tone)'s perception.

This world is completely different from the Qing Dynasty where Ji Nai lived.

Fresh things, novel lifestyles, and novel ideas all attracted Ji Nai's attention and made her take the initiative to understand the world step by step.

Unfortunately, Ji Nai seems unable to move around as she wishes, and the limitations of her range prevent her from seeing the world further away.

Through observation over the past ten days, Ji Nai discovered that the scope of his activities seemed to be related to the little girl in front of him, but it was not accurate to say that it was a little girl.

After all, if she were living in the Qing Dynasty, she would probably have been the mother of several children at her age.

But in this world, it was just a college student. And girls could even enroll?

What surprised Ji Nai the most was that in this era, the legal age for marriage was in one’s 20s, and it was a monogamous society.

Monogamy. If monogamy could be practiced in the Qing Dynasty, then would it be the same for me and Kangxi?

No, that's not right. If monogamy was possible at that time, then there would be no relationship between me and Kangxi.

After all, even though she was one of the four concubines, she was at best just a concubine.

The only person who can be called Kangxi's wife is Hesheli, who is Kangxi's original wife.

Later, Niuhuru and Tonggiya were actually made empresses by Kangxi and were considered successors.

And because of her good son, Uya was posthumously named empress and could also be considered as Kangxi's wife.

Thinking of this, Ji Nai felt a little ridiculous. Until now, he was still thinking about that man.

But how could they not think about it? They met, got to know each other, fell in love, and had six children together. Even later, their feelings for each other had faded.

But, after all, we have been together for decades. And no matter what happened later, the friendship at the beginning was real.

Unlike the world's one-lifetime, exclusive love between a couple, in the era he lived in, having three wives and four concubines was the norm.

It is common for couples to respect each other. Even if it is rare for a couple to love each other, there will always be other women around.

Even Nalan Xingde, who wrote "A lifetime together as a pair, how can we be saddened by being apart", did not have only one wife.

It would be a lie to say that I don't mind it at all, but it doesn't affect the love between men and women. That kind of pure love may only be found in this era.

But unfortunately, even in this era of monogamous marriage, there are still a large number of men or women cheating.

Ji Nai thought about it and felt that he still preferred the system of three wives and four concubines of his time.

After all, she hated the hidden betrayal more than her husband's other women. Looking at the numerous cases of women being schemed against, deceived, and ultimately doomed, Ji Nai felt terrified.

Ji Nai asked herself, she was not a very smart woman. If she was the one being calculated, the biggest possibility would be a complete failure.

Besides, she was just a concubine. According to the terms of that era, she should be a hated mistress, even though she was one of the first concubines to accompany Kangxi.

However, the limitations of the times, the education received from childhood to adulthood, and the examples around me have made me yearn to be with one person for the rest of my life, but I will not pursue it with all my strength. Instead, I will consider the interests from all aspects and come up with the marriage system that suits me best.

Ji Nai gradually understood and accepted everything in this world, and was unknowingly influenced by this era.

Although she is essentially still the woman living in the feudal dynasty, she has cast off the suffocating decadence and is imbued with the vibrant vigor unique to this era.

If there is any difference, it is probably the heart that is alive.

Although Ji Nai was a Manchu bannerman and not a pure Han Chinese, she was influenced by the customs of the Han Chinese at that time after the Qing Dynasty entered the Pass. In addition, her own personality made her more like a Han Chinese woman than a Manchu woman, but she was not the weak type.

Speaking of which, among the four concubines at that time, Concubine Hui was intellectual and elegant, but not very favored. Instead, the gentle myself and the passionate Concubine Yi were very favored by Kangxi. As for Concubine De, Uya, it seemed that she had a similar type to me?

Therefore, even if the rift between her and Kangxi had not deepened due to the successive losses of her children, by the time Concubine De entered the palace, she was already old. Although she was not unattractive, she was not as favored by Kangxi as the younger concubines.

Think about it again, she was only ten years old when she entered the palace, and only thirteen when she consummated her marriage with Kangxi. In that era, girls of fourteen or fifteen were still children.

Bah, that's so embarrassing.

It turns out that women in their twenties are in their prime, and it turns out that women in their thirties or forties can still be charming.

Well, it’s not my fault for being old, it’s just that Kangxi’s hobby is too perverted.

It turns out that foot binding is a form of torture for women, and it is a distorted aesthetic that requires breaking women's foot bones. Fortunately, in order to ensure that girls from the family can successfully enter the palace through the selection process, the family did not bind their feet.

It turns out that the reason why the legal marriage age is in the twenties is to allow women's bodies to mature. Early pregnancy and childbirth will cause harm to both the mother and the child.

So is this the reason why Chengrui and others died young? If they were not physically weak, they would not have lost their lives so easily in the harem struggle.

It turns out that inbreeding can have such a great harm to children. No wonder Concubine Tong Jia (Empress Xiaoyi Ren) was childless for many years, and gave birth to a princess who died a few months later.

The fact that the child was just sickly was a blessing in disguise. If he had been deformed or mentally retarded, both Concubine Tong Jia and the Tong Jia family would have suffered.

The royal family would not tolerate such a stain and would definitely take direct action to resolve it, and the emperor was best at venting his anger on others.

It turned out that the power of the bannermen in the Qing harem had developed to such an extent that an egg cost one tael of silver, and there were even nannies around the princess who tried to control the princess.

Ji Nai had always known that the servants in the palace were not good people, and it was not uncommon for servants to bully their masters, especially those unfavored concubines, whose monthly allowances were deducted and who had to pay for their own food and ice and charcoal.

It's just that she was favored when she first entered the palace, and later gave birth to children one after another. Although the children kept leaving, she always had a prince.

Even though she was no longer favored by Kangxi, she had been named Rong Fei and even got the power to assist in managing the harem. The servants under her were busy trying to curry favor with her, so how could they bully her?

If you think about the many bannermen families, the number of people in the palace owned by Ma Jia was basically the result of her own management in the harem over the past few decades.

On the contrary, it was the family of Concubine De, because her grandfather was the head chef of the kitchen, Esen, so Uya had manpower available when she first entered the palace.

Then I saw those terrifying speculations, such as whether Concubine De was deliberately cultivated by the bannerman family according to Kangxi's preferences.

Why are the four concubines Hui, Yi, De and Rong all of bondservant origin? Is the bondservant power too great? And so on.

Ji Nai was shocked at first, and then he sneered. Because of his background, he had enjoyed the benefits of the Baoyi family before, so he had never thought about these things.

But now I think that the power of the Baoyi in Kangxi's harem was indeed very strong. In the later period, His Majesty favored Han women more. I wonder if he had considerations in this regard.

It turns out that smallpox can be cured with cowpox, it turns out that saltpeter can be used to make ice, it turns out that...

Ji Nai's vision may be limited, but decades of life as a high-ranking concubine have made her knowledgeable. Coupled with many years of experience in harem struggles and later helping to manage the harem, her methods are also not weak.

Therefore, Ji Nai accepts and integrates into this world with his own understanding, but never assimilates.

Ji Nai is still the same Concubine Rong. Even if she learns and absorbs the knowledge and ideas of this world, she will not become a person of this era.