Empress Dowager Cixi was the actual ruler in the last fifty years of the Qing Dynasty. She emptied two emperors in succession and achieved real free will, even compared to the female emperor of the Tang Dynasty and Wu Zetian. .
For the sake of power, she sacrificed her own son , the Emperor of Tongzhi , so that she could perform some operations when selecting the new emperor, and under his operation she chose the young child of Guangxu. To be the emperor, so that she can better control the political affairs.
But as Emperor Guangxu grew up step by step, Empress Dowager Cixi not only faced the threat of repaying power, she also had to marry a good wife for Emperor Guangxu in accordance with the Manchu rites of adulthood. Selfishly, Empress Dowager Cixi married her niece, the cousin of Emperor Guangxu, to Emperor Guangxu.
This also caused the emperor Guangxu and Cixi to be more discordant, for decades did not favor Cixi's niece (later Longyu Queen Mother), according to various folk rumors and historical records said: Longyu Queen Mother At the time of death, she was still a yellow girl.
The blood relationship between the Empress Dowager Longyu and Emperor Guangxu
The marriage of close relatives seems to have become one of the fundamental reasons for the severance of the bloodlines of the later emperors in the Qing Dynasty. According to the history books, it is Tongzhi, Guangxu, Puyi. The last three emperors of the Qing Dynasty had no heirs in their lives. They were regarded as the enlistment of the impending death of the Qing Dynasty. ".
The most important thing in the feudal dynasty is the inheritance of the throne. The inheritance of the throne has a great relationship with the emperor's heirs. Those with many princes can be selected from among them, and those with few princes to only have only one son will not be competitive. Loss of competitiveness is not necessarily a good thing, but the premature death of the prince will inevitably cause turmoil in the country and more careerists' coveting for the throne.
Emperor Guangxu's entry into the Datong by the son of a feudal prince was actually a special arrangement of Cixi. Judging from the relationship between Empress Dowager Cixi’s brothers and sisters, Emperor Guangxu’s biological mother Yehenara Wanzhen is the sister of Empress Dowager Cixi, and Empress Dowager Longyu’s father Yehenara Guixiang is the younger brother of Empress Dowager Cixi. As a result, the relationship between Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Longyu was not a "cousin".
Cixi didn't have so much scruples. For the convenience of power, she can turn her nephew and niece into her own son and daughter-in-law. Such ridiculous things cannot be forbidden in any era, and it has become a heart disease in the heart of Emperor Guangxu who valued Confucianism morals and ethics.
Cixi's arrangement for Emperor Guangxu's marriage
According to the habits of the Manchus, the emperor's wedding is actually the beginning of a pro-government. The earliest marriages among the Manchus can be traced back to around 16 years old in the Kangxi era, but Empress Dowager Cixi had such considerations when she chose Guangxu as the emperor. Emperor Guangxu was originally her nephew.
Ancient society has always had seven fathers and eight mothers. Through a series of patriarchal procedures, Guangxu recognized the Emperor Xianfeng as the father, which made Empress Dowager Cixi and Guangxu a mother-child relationship from a nephew relationship to a mother-child relationship. It can be said that it is a pro-in-law, and the Empress Dowager Cixi only valued Emperor Guangxu back then, precisely because her sister’s son would never fall into the hands of others.
By the time the Emperor Guangxu reached 16 years old in 1887, many ministers could not understand Cixi's approach and made suggestions to let the Empress Dowager Cixi abdicate. It means that he hopes that the emperor will get married so that the two queen mothers can retreat to the deep palace for a long time. So how does the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces think about this kind of ministerial performance?
Empress Dowager Cixi was of course very fond of Emperor Guangxu’s childhood,The same goes for West Queen Mother Cian. Empress Dowager Cixi wished that Guangxu was a child who had not grown up, but according to the custom of the Manchus, the wedding was held at the age of 16 anyway. The purpose of this was naturally to prevent some powerful officials from usurping imperial power with ulterior motives. What you need to know is that Emperor Kangxi began his ascension to the throne at the age of 8, and by the age of 14 he had already eliminated 's pro-government.
Emperor Guangxu reached the age of 16, in fact, according to tradition, he should indeed begin to be pro-government. For this, the ministers played a loyal performance. The dowager of the two palaces is the queen mother_ Span2span Ci'an fully agrees with this, and the only disagreement is Cixi. Because Guangxu is nominally her own son, the Empress Dowager Cixi in the matter of getting married and pro-government has more say than Empress Dowager Ci'an .
Judging from the civil and military situation of the Manchu dynasty at that time, Emperor Guangxu’s marriage and pro-government was completely unstoppable. The Empress Dowager Cixi could continue to control power in the future. What she could do was to make up for the omissions. She did it for herself. His selfish selfishness, his greed was so passionate that he married his niece Jingfen (that is, the cousin of Emperor Guangxu) to Emperor Guangxu. In fact, it was serving as Cixi's eyes and ears secretly, monitoring what Emperor Guangxu was doing in private.
The relationship between Emperor Guangxu and Empress Longyu
Emperor Guangxu is a talented person, of course, it is not said that Emperor Guangxu was a hero when he was a teenager, but his body was a little weak, with a sense of scholarship Zhiqi, if he lives in a prosperous age, he must be a good emperor, but the ability to live in the chaos of the late Qing Dynasty is not enough to save the country from crisis. The living records of Emperor Guangxu record that Emperor Guangxu is eight feet tall and the jade tree is facing the wind, but it is Cixi is not as smart and capable in knowing and appointing people.
In terms of personal appearance, although Empress Longyu is very noble at this time, it is hard to say how good looking when she grows up.According to the group photos in the later photos, Empress Longyu’s complexion is darker, her height is shorter, and her face is not what a young man should have. It is said that she has a lot of age spots in her thirties, people who don’t know. Do you think she is a bitter woman who has been confined in a deep palace for more than ten years?
There is also the habit of Empress Longyu's hunchback. From the photos, it can be seen that her hunchback and neck are very obvious. It is no wonder that Emperor Guangxu did not like her at that time. He was clearly the most noble man in the entire celestial dynasty. , What kind of beauty do you want, but I just married such an old lady. Therefore, the first impression of beauty is really important. If there is really no bonus for beauty, people's criteria for choosing a spouse will start from other places.
Since Empress Longyu's appearance, height and body shape were not good, what was the personality and moral quality of Empress Longyu at that time? According to Qing history, Empress Longyu has rarely spoken since entering the palace. It is not ruled out that she was born with a lonely character, but she should have been warned by her parents in the family. The family got into trouble.
But it is this solitary personality that makes Queen Longyu rarely communicate with others after entering the palace. This complete self-centeredness makes Queen Longyu always a lonely person, and may only have to eat with the Empress Dowager Cixi It was only when there were some reports about Emperor Guangxu that she did not perform her duties as a queen, but instead monitored her husband everywhere. This is extremely annoying to Emperor Guangxu.
Empress Longyu has actually taken a wrong path. This path is called unpleasant on both sides. On the one hand, Empress Longyu wants to be favored by Emperor Guangxu. This is a very normal requirement as a woman, but this demand is very difficult for Emperor Guangxu, because Empress Longyu doesn’t know how to position herself, Empress Longyu In fact, the only way to gain the favor of Emperor Guangxu was to break away from the control of Empress Dowager Cixi and become the confidant of Emperor Guangxu.
Become a yellow girl for a lifetime
Empress Longyu is very sad as a woman,Because she has never experienced the joy of being a woman in her entire life. As a queen, she is more tragic, because as the pinnacle of women in the world, because there is a strong woman like Cixi on it, Empress Longyu has never enjoyed the world of motherhood. As a descendant of an aristocrat, did she really achieve a happy life without worrying about food and clothing?
If Empress Longyu wants to make a comeback, she can only be the confidant of Emperor Guangxu. This confidant actually requires her to bear huge pressure. First, she indirectly betrays Empress Cixi, and no longer monitors Emperor Guangxu, but helps. Emperor Guangxu’s pro-government assistance and overthrow of Cixi’s dictatorship will change her own destiny. It is a pity that Empress Longyu in history did not do this. For one thing, her own wisdom can’t reach it, but it’s because There is no such expert around her to point her.
Empress Longyu did not give birth to a prince with Emperor Guangxu in the last time. Emperor Guangxu's beloved concubine has always been the good-looking and understanding Zhenfei, so Empress Longyu is dead. At that time, it is very likely that she was still a yellow girl. When Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi passed away one after another, Empress Longyu did not look at Emperor Guangxu, but stayed with her aunt Cixi. The couple were birds of the same forest. Longyu and Guangxu did this. It also leaves me speechless. Maybe there is really no love between two people!
Empress Longyu became the actual ruler of the Qing dynasty after the death of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu. At that time, Cixi arranged for the entire Qing Dynasty to let Longyu be his successor, leaving a large sum of silver for Longyu from time to time. Many people know this money because of the need. Later on, Yuan Shikai also used the idea of this money. But one of the advantages of Empress Longyu is that he does not love power, and will not let go for the imperial power, otherwise there will be no subsequent Xuantong abdication.
Longyu Ending
Empress Longyu was only thinking about assisting Puyi to become a little emperor, which was nothing like Cixi. Unfortunately, history did not give her enough time. Only three years after the death of Cixi and others, Qing Dynasty was forced to declare its demise,It is said that when Yuan Shikai became president of the Republic of China, he thought of marrying Empress Longyu as a concubine, but he was rejected by the Queen Mother. In 1913, the 46-year-old Queen Mother Longyu passed away permanently.
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