But where the family has the throne to inherit, the more sons the better, but there are exceptions, such as our Qing Dynasty, in the middle and late period, the royal heirs became extremely difficult, the Xianfeng Emperor only had three children, one of the daughters and two sons, the daughter died at the age of 22, the younger son died early, and the Tongzhi Emperor who inherited the throne died at the age of 19. When the Tongzhi Emperor died, there were no children, and the empress was pregnant with one in her belly, but before she could be born, the empress died.
The Tongzhi Emperor broke the incense here, and the Qing court brought a Guangxu Emperor, and the poor Guangxu Emperor lived for thirty-eight years, but there was no child. As soon as Guangxu died, he got another Puyi, and as a result, Puyi did not have a man and a half woman in his life, and he was drunk in succession, which was simply the day to die.
It is a pity to say that the unborn child of the Tongzhi Emperor was originally given the opportunity to breathe the air of the Qing Dynasty, but because of the death of his father and the suicide of his mother, this child can only disappear together, but the claim that the Tongzhi Emperor's empress is pregnant is only a wild history, it seems that there is no historical support, in fact, it is likely that it does not exist at all.
Emperor Tongzhi was the son of Empress Dowager Cixi, who was only six years old when he succeeded to the throne, and the lord was suspicious of the country, and at that time there was a natural struggle within the Qing court, and the ministers of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing royal family, and the struggle between Empress Dowager Ci'an and Empress Dowager Cixi were fighting each other, and after some struggle for power, the court temporarily stabilized, and the struggle for power between Empress Dowager Ci'an and Empress Dowager Cixi never stopped, although Empress Dowager Cixi was the biological mother of Emperor Tongzhi, but Empress Dowager Ci'an was the concubine of Emperor Tongzhi, so the struggle for power was inevitable.
However, it was precisely because a delicate balance was reached between the two empresses that even though Empress Dowager Cixi's desire for power was extremely strong, it was not enough for her to monopolize the government at that time. The time soon came to 1872, and Tongzhi, who was already seventeen years old, reached the age of marriage, and for the selection of empresses, there was naturally a secret rivalry between Empress Dowager Ci'an and Empress Dowager Cixi, who supported her niece Arut clan, while Empress Dowager Cixi supported the Fucha clan.
I don't know whether the Tongzhi Emperor really looked up to the Arute clan or simply rebelled against his birth mother, anyway, the Tongzhi Emperor chose the Arut clan. In the post-election incident, Empress Dowager Cixi lost to Empress Dowager Ci'an, and it is difficult to say whether this incident had a negative impact on Empress Dowager Cixi and the mother and son of Emperor Tongzhi before, in short, Empress Dowager Cixi would not be too happy.
After the empress was chosen, it was almost possible to think that the mother-in-law relationship between Empress Dowager Cixi and the Alut clan would not be too good, and the facts also proved that the two really could not get along. Although this pro-government can only be regarded as semi-pro-government, it can also be regarded as an emperor in the true sense, not like the later Guangxu Emperor.
However, the Tongzhi Emperor had not yet had time to complete his political ideals and died, when he died at the age of 19, naturally it was an unnatural death, the official saying was that he died of smallpox, and the folk wild history records are much more wonderful, such as he lingered in the land of fireworks, for example, he had a male pet or something, and then got a bad disease.
Less than eighty days after the death of the Tongzhi Emperor, the Empress Arut also died, and when she died at the age of 22, the death of the Arut clan was not a natural death. There are rumors that Empress Dowager Cixi poisoned her or killed her in some other way, but this is not credible, and the more credible statement is that the Arut clan committed suicide, and as for active suicide or passive suicide, we do not know.
Regarding how the Alut clan committed suicide, there are also two different theories, one says that the Arut clan died of hunger strike for several days, and the other is that the Arut clan committed suicide by swallowing gold, in fact, the four girls do not understand the act of swallowing gold suicide, swallowing gold must be quite painful, why choose this way?
Interestingly, after the two died, the construction of the Huiling Tomb, the joint burial tomb of the two, officially began half a year later. After all, the Tongzhi Emperor was too young when he died, so that after his death, he began to choose the site to build the Huiling Tomb, although the specifications were no different from the previous emperors, but when it was really built, it was not the same thing, when the Qing court was already in financial shortage, and the tombs of Empress Dowager Ci'an and Empress Dowager Cixi were under intense construction, so naturally there was no extra money to build a tomb for the Tongzhi Emperor.
Huiling took three years to finally complete, and then the Tongzhi Emperor and the Arut clan buried Huiling together. We know that in the later Republic of China period, the theft of the Qing Emperor's tomb was very serious, even the inconspicuous Huiling did not become a special column, after the Tongzhi Emperor and the Arut clan were buried in the Huiling for more than half a century, crazy tomb robbers easily entered the Huiling tomb with modern weapons, and naturally did not show mercy to the treasures in it.
Just when the tomb robbers entered the Huiling Underground Palace, they saw a strange phenomenon, that is, the bones of the Tongzhi Emperor had rotted, and the remains of the Arut clan were still well preserved. Speaking of the time when the two died, they were carried into Huiling at the same time, why is there such a big difference? This is likely to be related to the cause of death of both people.
Although both of them died unnaturally, but the Tongzhi Emperor was ill, whether it was smallpox or that kind of bad disease, in short, after his death, the body began to fester, although these royal people will carry out some embalming treatment after death, but the festering body can not be prevented no matter how antiseptic. The Aluth clan is a suicide, either swallowing gold or hunger strike, no matter which one, to a certain extent, the body is not easy to decay, and then after a certain degree of embalming treatment, it will be preserved for a long time.
So a few years later, the bodies of the two men took on a completely different look, the remains of Tongzhi, the tomb robbers did not bother to take a look, after all, they were all rotten and not worth seeing, and the remains of the Aluth clan were different. After the tomb robbers entered the dungeon, they competed for the remains of the Aluth clan, not to appreciate her appearance, in fact, it was purely for the jewels on the side of the Arut clan and even on her body, after all, there were many treasures in the coffin to accompany the Arut clan.
And the legend of the death of the Aluth clan has been circulating, and the tomb robbers naturally know this legend, and naturally want to see if there is really gold in the belly of the Aluth clan. It was gold, so they all scrambled to see the body of the Arut clan, and if necessary, they would take the gold from the belly of the queen Arut. Of course, we don't know the specific excavation process, only that the treasures inside the Huiling Tomb have been excavated.