This son, Chu Jun, has been loved by the emperor for several years. Why didn't the respected imperial concubine become a queen?

Actually, there are three main reasons. The first reason was that the then Emperor Qianlong had just abolished his second queen. If we just abolish the queen and let the empress be the queen, it will inevitably make everyone laugh at the emperor for being too sloppy. After all, the empress is the mother of a country, and it is not easy to choose one, so it is a high title to make the empress an imperial concubine.

The second reason is that Qianlong himself loves the Princess Empress very much, and he had long thought about the son of the Princess Chu Jun, but at that time, the Qing Dynasty was still adhering to the inheritance law during the Yongzheng period, and only after the death of the incumbent emperor could he tell everyone who Li Chu was. That is to say, he thinks that if your princess becomes the queen, that is, he directly tells the world that your princess's son will be Chu Jun, so it is too dangerous for them to be enemies with your princess and her son too early.

The third reason is that the second queen of Qianlong has a bad relationship with him. When it was abolished, everyone said that it was because Qianlong didn't like the old queen, so the queen was mentally confused and sad.

However, Gan Long does not want to bear such a stigma. If the imperial concubine is appointed as the queen, everyone will think that Gan Long abolished the queen only because he just remembered the beautiful young imperial concubine. Therefore, due to various reasons and concerns, it is impossible to make your concubine a queen.