The day before Cixi's death, Guangxu died first, and cixi's successor after her death was indeed three-year-old Puyi. But the reason for choosing Puyi was Cixi's decision, although the Manchu Qing royal family did not have many capable people at that time, but there were still people to choose, but Cixi still decided to choose Puyi, why did she do this?
Guangxu had no sons, and after his death, Cixi could not be emperor, so he had to choose from the imperial family.
The qing dynasty's royal talents withered away, which was completely different from the Ming Dynasty, and the Daming dynasty had countless clan kings in the late period, so the regimes of one clan king after another in the Southern Ming period were established.
The Qing system is different, and it will not be repeated here. But it is undeniable that the Qing Dynasty was still chosen. Just like Puyi's father Zaifeng, he is actually a good candidate, not to mention how strong his ability is, but at least it is definitely stronger than Puyi, a child who does not understand anything.
At that time, the courtiers of the DPRK also thought so, after all, the Great Qing had reached a very dangerous point at that time, and if there was still a young lord on the issue of succession, once Cixi died, it would be a disaster for the Great Qing.
However, Cixi still tried to defy the public opinion and took Puyi into the palace.
Cixi did this for a reason. But one thing to be clear is that Cixi didn't know that she died not long after.
First of all, for Empress Dowager Cixi, she must be a child. Before Guangxu was actually like this, at a young age was taken into the palace, under Cixi's obscenity, Guangxu became timid and afraid of things, and it is precisely because of this that Guangxu was obedient to Cixi, but even so, after adulthood, Guangxu was also bent on taking power from Cixi's hands, it can be seen that an adult is completely uncontrollable, the power is in Cixi's hands, but if it is an adult who succeeds, then it must be very city government, and the result is still unknown.
Although Cixi was already old and did not know when she would return to the west, she did not let go of her power, but she was unwilling to learn from Wu Zetian, and in her later years, she was forced to step down by a coup d'état.
Puyi and Cixi are still related, Puyi is Zaifeng's son, Zaifeng and Guangxu are brothers, and Cixi and Zaifeng's mother is a sister. In Cixi's eyes, this is her own family.
At the same time, there is another reason.
The Tongzhi Emperor was the shortest-lived emperor in the history of the Qing Dynasty, and did not leave a son and a half daughter before his death, and the successor was a problem at this time. Cixi chose Guangxu and passed him on to Xianfeng, so to speak, it can be considered to be a brother and a brother.
But after Guangxu's death, he also had no sons, if he chose a peer with Guangxu, then he was still a brother and a brother, and the Qing Dynasty was also a heavenly kingdom, Xianfeng had been dead for half a century, and he could not always go around on him.
Therefore, there is another advantage in choosing Puyi, which allows him to inherit the Tongzhi Emperor Zaichun, and at the same time inherit the guangxu emperor's ancestral piety, one person has two houses, although it is not the two parents, but it is also a descendant.
But what no one expected was that Cixi died the next day.