In ancient society, princesses with golden branches and jade leaves rarely intervene in political affairs. Although they look superior on the outside, they don't actually have much power. However, there was a princess in the Qing Dynasty who dared to humiliate the empress dowager face to face and saved the emperor's life. She was the most domineering princess in the Qing Dynasty. She was Princess Gulun Rongshou.
Princess Gulun Rongshou was born in February of the fourth year of Xianfeng. Her father is Prince Heshuo Gong, Yixin, and her mother is Yixin’s diary Fujin Guarjia.
Prince Gong Yixin is the sixth son of Daoguang. He was defeated by Xianfeng in the battle for storage. Xianfeng took precautions against this very talented brother after he succeeded, and has been left out of him. However, the death of Emperor Xianfeng provided Yi Xin with a golden opportunity to re-enter the stage of history.
Before his death, Emperor Xianfeng passed the throne to Zaichun, the eldest son of Emperor Tongzhi. Considering that Emperor Tongzhi was young, he appointed eight ministers to Zanxiang for political affairs. However, it didn’t take long for the Empress Dowagers of the two palaces to join Prince Gong Yixin to launch the Qixiang coup, eradicating eight ministers in one fell swoop, and beginning the era of listening to politics, and Prince Gong Yixin was also given important positions and became the most important minister of foreign dynasties. .
In order to win Prince Gong Yixin, Cixi specially ordered someone to receive the 7-year-old Rongshou from the palace, and the queen mothers of the two palaces also ordered the Rongshou To be named Princess Gu Lun, only the daughter of the queen can be named Princess Gu Lun, and Rong Shou is just the daughter of a prince. It can be seen that Ci'an and Cixi relied heavily on Yixin.
Because Rong Shou grew up next to Cixi since she was a child, the relationship between her and Cixi is very unusual, and Cixi always gives priority to this adopted daughter. In the fifth year of Tongzhi, under the management of Cixi, the 13-year-old Princess Rongshou married Zhiduan, the son of Gulun's son Jingshou. Jing Shou is the brother-in-law of Prince Gong Yixin, which is equivalent to that of Cixi marrying Prince Gong Yixin's daughter to Yixin's nephew. However, it was unexpected that this Zhiduan was a short-lived ghost who died in the fifth year after marriage. As a result, Princess Rongshou, who was only 18 years old, became a widow.
Later, in order to avoid the loneliness of the adopted daughter, Cixi took Princess Rongshou to the palace and continued to accompany her. From the appearance point of view, although this Princess Rongshou was less than 20 years old, she was born like an old woman. From the character point of view, she was too calm and introverted, quite majestic. Sometimes even Cixi was afraid of this adopted daughter.
It is said that once Cixi put on gorgeous clothes in the palace, and she happened to be met by Princess Rongshou. Princess Rongshou actually said: "What do you do with such an extra cost? You are just an old widow in the Qing Dynasty. If you are in the mood to dress up wickedly, you will give someone a word." The adopted daughter was so nagging, and Cixi didn't say much, so she had to wear some plain clothes every time in front of Princess Rongshou.
Princess Rongshou looks ugly and is the confidant of Empress Dowager Cixi. Therefore, Emperor Guangxu rarely interacted with her. However, Princess Rongshou was very sympathetic to Guangxu's encounter and situation, and repeatedly mediated the conflict between him and Empress Dowager Cixi.
It is said that after the Wuxu coup, taking advantage of the opportunity of Princess Rongshou to go to Jehol Province, Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to announce at Qianqingmen that her ancestors would dethrone Guangxu and beat him to death. I don’t know who missed the news. The matter was known by Princess Rongshou. Princess Rongshou hurried back to the palace immediately, and tried her best to intercede with Emperor Guangxu and Concubine Zhen. From this, Emperor Guangxu got his life back.
Reference materials: "Drafts of Qing History", "Records of Qing Shilu", "Drafts of Qing Dynasty Empresses"
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