DREAM TIME
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if
You, who have a prominent ancestral family business, are in your prime
However, he suddenly found himself terminally ill and dying soon
The only heir is his 6-year-old son
The superficial scenery of the family business is actually a worry inside and outside
Face the peaceful size of the wife
The younger brother who once fought with him for the right to inherit
High-level cadres who are not very well managed
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Time is running out for you
What to do?
Don't think this plot is too bloody, more than 160 years ago, it really happened to the 31-year-old Xianfeng Emperor.
After the Second Opium War, the Anglo-French forces prepared to invade Beijing, and the Xianfeng Emperor fled from the Yuanmingyuan to Rehe under the name of "Mulan Qiuhuo". However, he did not want to be seriously ill in Rehe, and his only son was too young, so how to balance the power of all parties and ensure the stability of the imperial power became the most worrying thing for Xianfeng.
According to the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, Xianfeng designated eight ministers such as Sushun, Duanhua, Zaiheng, and Jingshou to assist their youngest sons. However, XianFeng was also worried that they were too strong to put the empress dowager in a weak position.
To print balances
Xianfeng, who fled in a hurry, carried two seals with him, one of which was Tian Huangshi's "Imperial Reward".
The so-called "imperial reward" is the seal of "emperor appreciation", and from the perspective of the seal, it is obvious that it is a standard seal.
In terms of shape, it also retains the natural shape of Tian Huang, and its print base is 1 cm wide, 2 cm long, and 5 cm high. Compared with the many exquisite seals of the royal family, they are so simple and even somewhat inconspicuous.
Qing Xian Feng Tian Huangshi Rui Beast New "Ke Jing Ju" seal
Collection of the Palace Museum
Another hibiscus stone "Tongdaotang" seal is a Saikan seal.
Furong stone was extremely difficult to mine in the Qing Dynasty, and it was once extinct, and it was even rarer to be able to become a chapter material. Although this chapter is not carved, it was a rare treasure at the time.
However, looking at this sealed noodle "TongdaoTang" is somewhat ordinary, Tongdaotang is the apse of Xianfu Palace, the place where the emperor occasionally lives and eats, and it is not outstanding in the court of Qionglou Yuyu.
Qing Xian Feng Tian Huangshi "Imperial Reward" Seal Furong Stone "TongdaoTang" Seal
But it is these two seals that have nothing to do with the political frontier that have set off a bloody storm of an era.
Xianfeng ordered that Tian Huangshi's "Imperial Reward" and Furong Stone's "Tongdaotang" be printed as a letter of support for issuing the edict.
One was given to the empress at that time, the later Empress Dowager Ci'an, and one was given to Crown Prince Zaichun, that is, indirectly to his birth mother, Concubine Yi, and later Empress Dowager Cixi.
However, all decrees must be stamped with "Royal Reward" at the beginning and "Tongdao Hall" at the end to take effect.
Qing Xian Feng Tian Huangshi "Imperial Reward" Seal Furong Stone "TongDao Tang" Printing Surface
According to the Rehe Miza:
"Both seals are given by the great line, and the queen mother uses the 'royal reward' seal, and the upper seal uses the 'Tongdaotang' seal, and all that should be used in the Zhu pen are used in this place, and the purpose is also used to prevent the evil."
That is to say, the eight ministers of Gu Ming only have the right to draft the will, and as to whether the edict is effective, it will not be counted without the seal of the two empresses.
These two Shoushan stone seals became an important symbol of supreme imperial power.
But this seemingly mutually restrictive situation fell apart shortly after Xianfeng's death.
Why did the plan go bankrupt?
Xian Feng did not calculate, and he gave these two Shoushan stone seals political attributes, thus laying the foundation for the curse.
At that time, the eight ministers set up by Xianfeng with the right to make plans were a combination of "clan aristocrats + bureaucratic cliques" headed by Su Shun, the sixth son of Prince Zheng Shen.
The submissive Gray was fierce, rectifying the official political style, handling the PengwuKe field case, reusing Han officials Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guofan, and so on... Although it was beneficial to the Qing court, it made many enemies and lost the support of the bureaucracy.
Among the representatives of the clan, Prince Gong Yi bi, as the sixth son of the Daoguang Emperor and the younger brother of Xianfeng, was originally a talent for governing the country. However, XianFeng pushed him away because of his old grudges, and eventually lost the lifeblood of clan support.
There is an even greater scourge.
As in the "Ballad of Solitude" written by the famous scholar Wang Minyun in his later years at the end of the Qing Dynasty:
"Who Xing Tong Dao Zhang, Wen Zong Beng, Su Shun, Kuang Yuan, etc., and Zaiyuan, Duanhua, and JingShou were ordered by Emperor Wu to be married by Emperor Gu, and they were made crown princes and changed to Yuan Qixiang." The ministers asked the empress dowager to play the chapter with the province, and sealed it with the "TongdaoTang Seal" given by the previous emperor. Flip the curtains. ”
Xianfeng's practice gave legitimacy to the harem to interfere in politics, so that the power eventually fell to the harem, and eventually they became the biggest umbrella for the imperial power to listen to the government.
Silently gathered Ci'an
United Prince Gong Yi bi launched the "Qi Xiang Coup"
Kill Su Shun, and give death to Zaiyuan and Duanhua
Dismantling the Gu-Life Alliance
Then later Ci'an died inexplicably
Prince Gong was arranged plainly
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The "fierce character" Cixi also transformed into "Western Empress" through a single operation, changed her era name to "Tongzhi", and took the political power together with two seals into her hands, beginning her 48-year career of listening to the government.
From the opening of the edict on July 17, 1111 of Xianfeng to the end of the tongzhi emperor's pro-government in the twelfth year of tongzhi, the "imperial reward" and the "tongdaotang" witnessed the decline of a dynasty and also witnessed the waves of an era.
Everything behind the two Shoushan stone seals is a coincidence of historical accidents, but it is also the inevitability of fate.
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Editor-in-charge: Lin Danyan