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What happened to Qianlong’s son who was born to Empress Xiaoxian in 1730?

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The son born to the Qianlong emperor and his first wife, Empress Xiaoxian, in 1730 was a child whom the emperor deeply wished to see as his successor. However, this son died in 1738.1