Historically, due to the inconvenience of transportation, cultural exchanges between the East and the West were once isolated. Even though China opened up the Silk Road during the Han and Tang Dynasties, in the eyes of Westerners, the East is still full of mystery.
We all know that in the Asian region, a hundred years ago it was almost always a feudal monarchy, with royalty and emperors. The emperor that xiaobian tells you about in this issue is the last emperor of Burma.
His life was full of legend, similar to Puyi, the last emperor of Our country, in many places. In order to ensure the royal bloodline, Xi Pao married his 17-year-old sister. Now that the royal family has been abolished, the descendants of the tin robe live in the slums.
Burma is now a smaller country in Southeast Asia, and Myanmar was under feudal rule until 1886 AD. Xi Pao was born in 1859 to the son of King Min Dong and his birth mother to an unpopular concubine.
Xi Pao grew up in a complex court environment, and from an early age he knew how to influence Feng yuan. He knew that his birth mother would not help him in his future development, so he devoted all his energy to pleasing the Empress of the Middle Palace.
The queen had only one daughter at her knees, so she also threw an olive branch at the tin robe. However, the queen is a very powerful woman, she likes status and power, and she will not hesitate to do whatever she wants.
Therefore, after the formation of this alliance, in order to consolidate her position, the empress actually asked Xi Pao to marry her sister, who was only 17 years old. This seems to us to be a fantasy, but Xi Pao agreed so that he could inherit the unification.
However, the tiger mother has no dog, and the wife of the tin robe also inherits the strong style of her mother, and is a real and powerful woman. Xi Pao could only tolerate all this, and finally went through many hardships to ascend to the throne.
The scorn and humiliation that Xi Pao had suffered for many years had to be doubled after he ascended the throne. Xi Pao went on a killing spree, disposing of almost all the brothers who had fought for the throne with him.
But historians give Xi Pao an objective assessment that ambition is more than enough and not enough ability. The forces opposed to themselves at home can be eliminated in their entirety, but externally they cannot do anything about the three Anglo-Burmese wars.
The Kampung Dynasty, in which Xi Pao was located, was the most powerful dynasty in Burmese history, and at the largest time, it conquered 1/4 of vietnam's territory. During the Qing Dynasty, he fought four wars with the Qing government, and although he won the victory, he was seriously injured. After three wars with britain, the entire empire was pushed into a state of perdition.
In 1885, after the defeat of the Third Anglo-Burmese War, he and the entire royal family were captured by the British, and this time announced the fall of the Burmese Gongpung Dynasty. As the last emperor of Burma, Xi Pao spent the rest of his life in Lednarjeri, India.
After the death of the last emperor of Burma, Xi Pao, the entire royal family was also scattered. Who would have thought that the second daughter of Xi Pao was once a princess of a country, but now three generations of their grandchildren live in the slums of Myanmar.
To some extent, the tin robe is very similar to the last emperor of our country, Puyi, when he succeeded to the throne, the country was in turmoil, only the ambition to govern the country and the people, but forced by reality, he could only helplessly follow the tide.
And history is always written by the victors, and it is difficult for the last emperor to have a good ending. The second half of Xi Pao's life was as turbulent as Puyi's, and his fate was in turmoil with the empire.
Editor's comments: Xi Pao as the last emperor had a lot of helplessness in his life, in order to ascend to the throne when he was young, he was forced by the Empress of the Middle Palace to marry a 17-year-old sister. Even if he ascended the throne as emperor, although he had the ambition to stabilize the world, he was incompetent.
Especially after the defeat of the Third Anglo-Burmese War, the entire royal family became a prisoner. As the "Touching the Dragon Says Empress Zhao" said, "Before the third dynasty, as for Zhao Zhi as Zhao, the descendants of King Zhao, his successors are there"?
The rivers and mountains that once dominated the industry were just a slope of loess in front of us. The descendants of Xi Pao are descendants of the royal family, but now they have lived in the slums for generations.