Nurhaci was a man of great Qing dynasty and great talent. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, a hadith was established as the ancestral precept of the Qing Dynasty. More than 200 years later, it was broken by Cixi, who bypassed the ancestral precepts and did whatever he wanted, almost leading China to the abyss of national subjugation and extinction.
Nurhaci made a testament: Yeheshi could not be made empress
Cixi was the showgirl of the Xianfeng Emperor, and later Cixi successfully ascended to the throne by means of power. From the ordinary palace women all the way to the nobles, Yi Concubine, Yi Concubine Yi Guifei, and then to the Western Empress. Such a rapid promotion counterattack is admirable. This is bound to cause the jealousy of many harem beauties.
Xianfeng favored Cixi alone and often spent the night at Cixi's place. Empress Zhenggong was Ci'an, a very talented empress, from a famous family, and the Xianfeng Emperor loved and hated her. When Xianfeng favored Cixi, Empress Ci'an did not care at first, but the long days also caused some uneasiness.
Once, the Xianfeng Emperor rested at Cixi again, and the two were in love with concubines and were rejoicing in Yunyu. "The ancestors taught that the emperor should not indulge excessively, and the concubine should try to persuade the emperor to abstain." Ci'an sent a group of small eunuchs to read the ancestral precepts aloud outside. It is really "infinite spring light indoors, continuous hadiths outdoors".
Xianfeng favored Cixi alone
Cixi had never been an empress in her lifetime, which was related to the ancestral precepts in Ci'an's hands. Speaking of the ancestral precepts of the Qing Dynasty, it was established by the Qing Taizu Nurhaci during the Ming Dynasty, in which the emperor did not indulge in desires and could not appoint Ye Heshi as an empress, and these two ancestral precepts limited the development of Cixi.
In particular, "Ye Heshi must not establish the ancestral precept of the pepper room." "(Pepper Room is the queen), that is, the descendants of the Yehe tribe, and a woman cannot be an empress. More than 200 years ago, Nurhaci made this rule for a reason, which can be said to be foreseeable.
According to historical records, during the Ming Dynasty, Yehenara Buzhai and his son Buyang repeatedly used Yehe's old daughter to maneuver among the princes, that is, their father and son promised beautiful women from the tribe everywhere, that is, they did not fulfill their promises. To promise to marry you today and to marry him tomorrow is not to honor the marriage.
Xianfeng gave Ci'an a testament: Beware of Cixi
Nurhaci, enraged, captured the Yehe tribe. Before his death, Yehebel Kintaish left an oath to "The Jurchen Biyehe of the Dead State". Nurhaci led the Jianzhou Jurchen, and when he heard this, he was jealous in his heart, so he set up an ancestral precept: "Ye Heshi must not set up a pepper house." ”
Cixi was a descendant of Ye Heshi, and of course was subject to the control of this ancestral precept, even though Cixi favored the harem and gave birth to Xianfeng's only son, Emperor Tongzhi. It is said that the mother is precious by her son, and it is natural for Cixi to suppress Ci'an as empress.
Although Emperor Xianfeng felt that Cixi had given birth to a prince for himself, xianfeng did not dare to disobey the ancestral precepts, so he did not dare to make Cixi empress. The old saying goes: See people's hearts over time. The Xianfeng Emperor found that Cixi was particularly ambitious for power, and did not dare to make Cixi empress.
Fight with me a little tender
The Xianfeng Emperor was tormented by internal and external troubles, and his body was not as good as a day. Cixi then took the initiative to apply for his approval of the recital, and the Xianfeng Emperor was happy for his capable concubine while worrying about his young son. Worried that after a hundred years, Cixi would take advantage of her son's chaotic dictatorship.
Before His death, the Xianfeng Emperor made a more comprehensive arrangement. He gave Empress Ci'an a secret edict. This means that Cixi cannot be an empress, because I cannot believe in this person. After that, if he can keep to himself in peace, then you can take out this edict and destroy Cixi.
The Xianfeng Emperor also appointed eight loyal ministers as ministers to assist his young son, Emperor Tongzhi. Xianfeng's arrangement was to balance the power of all sides and ensure the stability of his son's emperor and the Qing Dynasty.
The rules are dead and I can bypass them
The development of history was something that neither Nurhaci nor Xianfeng had thought of. The Tongzhi Emperor ascended the throne and made Cixi the empress dowager, known in history as Empress Dowager Xi. Saying that Ye Heshi could not be an empress did not mean that he could not be an empress dowager. Cixi bypassed the rank of empress and directly crossed the rank to become empress dowager.
Cixi became empress dowager, and successively married Emperor Xianfeng's younger brother Yi? He launched a coup d'état and killed the Eight Great Ministers. Taking advantage of Empress Dowager Ci'an's kindness, he set up a bitter meat plan to cut his own flesh to make medicine for Ci'an, and Ci'an destroyed the edict in his hand as soon as he was moved.
Since then, Empress Dowager Cixi has no scruples, and she has been listening to the government for 47 years and launching three palace coups. Cixi was keen on palace coups, corrupting pleasures and suppressing the peasant movement. Externally, they compromised and surrendered, signed a series of treaties that humiliated the country, and cut up land and compensated everywhere, pushing China into the abyss of national subjugation and extinction.
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She had never been an empress in her life, which was the pain of Cixi's life. Flipping through the historical cigarettes and meditating, one cannot but admire the foresight of Nurhaci and the Xianfeng Emperor. But even the calculations were missed, allowing Cixi to exploit the loophole and almost bring China into the abyss.
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