In the long history of ancient times, although dynasties have changed and each has its own characteristics, the only constant is the feudal ideology of male superiority and female inferiority. The superiority of men over women is one of the characteristics of ancient feudal thought. Women must obey the arrangements of men without any human rights.
At that time, the status of women was simply as low as dust. In the eyes of men, they were only tools for to reproduce , and women could not live alone without them. But in the age of unfairness, still have women breaking through the shackles to become those in power, the most prominent of which are Wu Zetian and Empress Dowager Cixi .
One of them is the only queen in Chinese history, and the other is the queen mother who has been in charge of the government for 48 years. And they have such great power naturally linked to their means, they are all ruthless people, but compared to Wu Zetian, Cixi is bad enough, but she is still a for power to destroy family affection people.
Wu Zetian can become the queen of a generation because she will leave family and love behind . According to historical records, Wu Zetian killed a total of 93 people on his way to power, including 23 close relatives, including her daughter and her son, who were all discarded pieces on her way to power. Just like her daughter was the tool she used to get rid of the queen at that time, she strangled her own daughter and slandered the queen, and then she naturally became the queen.
Later, Wu Zetian defeated the Li family step by step , and put the imperial power in the hands of the Wu family. She would not allow anyone to threaten her power, not even her own son, so when a son ascended the throne, she tried every means to bring him down until she took the throne. Her ruthlessness is unparalleled.
And Cixi is also a who ignores family . At that time, after her own son, Emperor Tongzhi, ascended the throne, because she did not obey her arranged marriage, Cixi was forbidden to have contact with the concubines of the harem. Therefore, after the sudden death of Emperor Tongzhi , the official statement was that he had smallpox, but in fact it was an unclean disease. And for all the reasons, Cixi forced him to a desperate situation. Cixi was just for the power in her hands. However, Cixi was not only cruel to her own son, but also to others.
The punishment of lingering delay must be known to many people , it is the most cruel way of death. And it was first used in and period of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and then gradually developed , mainly used to punish rebels. After and in the Ming Dynasty, Lingchi developed . There are specific regulations on where to start, and the number of cuts, which must reach 3,000.
Three thousand knives means cutting three thousand knives of flesh when a person is awake, until the popularity of the execution is gone.In the late Qing Dynasty, many people demanded that such cruel criminal law be abolished, and and several emperors in the early Qing Dynasty no longer used it. However, just as it was about to be abolished, was used by Cixi on a six-year-old child, and the entire execution took nine years before the little boy was completely freed. This little boy's name is Shi Dingzhong , and his father is Shi Dakai .
During the late Qing Dynasty political corruption, the government did not care about the danger of the country at all. In order to quell the wars of the powers, all that could be ceded was ceded to the powers. Under such circumstances, many patriots have revolted against the rule of the Qing government, and Shi Dakai is one of them.
At that time, Hong Xiuquan led the army to establish Taiping Heavenly Kingdom , and Shi Dakai was named Wing King because of his great dedication, and was one of the famous generals of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom . However, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom seriously threatened the existence of the Qing government. The Empress Dowager Cixi joined the foreigners to overthrow the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Shi Dakai failed in a battle. After his troops were captured, except for some elderly people who were exempted from the death penalty, they were all executed by lingering, and Shi Dakai was no exception.
After Shi Dakai's death, Cixi still couldn't feel at ease. plundered his home, executed all his family members, and his six-year-old son was thrown into prison. Cixi was frightened when she thought that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had almost wiped out the Qing government, so she put all her anger on Shi Dingzhong. His son passed by his father, and the young Shi Dingzhong suffered nine years of torture.
Conclusion: During this period, someone could not bear to attack the child and begged Cixi for mercy, but Cixi's attitude was firm, as long as the person who begged would suffer the same crime, so no one dared to intercede for him again . Before Shi Dingzhong died, he still asked the executioner if he could see his father again, and the man replied that he would meet in heaven.
Shi Dingzhong just walked away with a smile, presumably not seeing his father before his death was his regret in his life. Under the cruel rule of Empress Dowager Cixi, the Qing government eventually perished. This is what the era needs and what people want.
