"Meat eaters despise and fail to strategize." - "The Ten Years of Zuo Chuan Zhuang Gong"
This sentence refers to the fact that although the ancient scholars and masters had high status, they were not necessarily capable of excelling in their long-term vision, but on the contrary, at many moments of great importance to the country, their actions may also bring disasters to the country.
In the late Qing Dynasty, there was such a minister, who had poor learning, poor ability, and poor reputation, but his official fortunes were surprisingly good, and he was deeply relied on by Empress Dowager Cixi, who served as the foreman of military aircraft and the prime minister of the cabinet, and in addition to walking out of the palace of prince Of Alcohol, who had gone out of the palace of The 2 Emperors of Guangxu and Xuantong and the regent Zaifeng, there was no prince or nobleman with a higher status than him.
What is the unique secret of this person' smooth progress? In fact, there is nothing special, first of all, this person won most people from birth at that time - he was reborn into the Ai Xin Jue Luo family.
In 1796, the Qianlong Emperor passed the throne to the fifteenth brother, known in history as the Jiaqing Emperor, the Jiaqing Emperor was born to Empress Xiaoyi Chun (Concubine Ling), he had a half-brother, that is, Qianlong's seventeenth son Ai Xinjue Luo Yongxuan (Prince Qing), YongXuan had 6 sons, the youngest named Mian, Mian sex gave birth to a son, called Yi Li, Yi Li is the protagonist we are talking about today.
Coincidentally, the third son of Ai Xinjue Luo Yongxuan attacked the title of Prince of Qingjun, but did not have a son, so Yi Li succeeded him, and later attacked the title of Prince of Qing because of Empress Dowager Cixi. In the thirtieth year of Daoguang (1850), Yi Xi, who was only 12 years old, relied on his status as the Emperor of Aixin Jueluo to be the Great General of the Auxiliary State, and 10 years later, he was named Baylor.
The reigning emperor at that time was the Xianfeng Emperor, and Xianfeng's concubine Yi Guifei, later Empress Dowager Cixi, admired Yi Li very much. For no other reason, Yi Li wrote well, she often let Yi Li ghostwrite when communicating with her family, Yi Li also knew how to figure out the meaning of the song to meet the greeting, the Xianfeng Emperor died, Tongzhi and Guangxu successively succeeded to the throne, Yi Li relied on the actual ruler of the empire, Empress Dowager Cixi, and rose step by step in the middle of the dynasty.
How did Yi Li curry favor with Empress Dowager Cixi? At that time, the Qing government was constantly worried about internal and external troubles, and Empress Dowager Cixi inevitably felt annoyed in her heart, so Yi Li tried her best to find fun things for Lafayette to ease her mood, such as introducing rubbing hemp into the palace to let Empress Dowager Cixi pass the time, Lafayette would naturally not be happy when she lost money, and she would be happy to win money, so Yi Li let her concubine enter the palace and deliberately lose money.
So where did Yi Li get all this money? Naturally, it is obtained by constantly accepting money and wealth in office and enriching one's own pockets. During the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor, Yi Li took advantage of the blow to prince Gong's power to curry favor with Cixi as the prime minister of state affairs and in charge of diplomacy; in 1894, when Cixi held a banquet on his 60th birthday, Yi Li was again named the Prince of Qing, and he supported Empress Dowager Cixi's decision.
Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to imprison Emperor Guangxu, and Yi Li supported it; Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to suppress the Boxer Rebellion, and Yi Xi actively offered advice; Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to sign the Treaty of Xinugi, and Yi Li was the representative; Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to abolish Guangxu and establish someone else as emperor, yi Li still said yes, no problem, what the empress dowager said was good, what the empress dowager said, I will do it.
Therefore, when Empress Dowager Cixi was alive, no matter how much Yi Li did something wrong, no one could move him. In 1907, his son Zai Zhen was then the former imperial chancellor, and when he passed through Tianjin to see the famous Yang Cuixi, the attaché Duan Zhigui threatened to induce Yang Cuixi to be sent to Zai Zhenna, and Zai Zhen then said a bunch of duan zhigui good words to Yi Li.
As a result, Yi Li immediately helped Duan Zhigui to obtain a position as an inspector of Heilongjiang. It can be seen how much power Yi Xi had at that time, and how absurd his actions were, as long as he could take money, he could leave behind any courtesy, righteousness, and shame. He received more than 500,000 taels of silver in cash after his 70th birthday, and in terms of financial management, Yi Li was a master, and he even deposited more than 7 million pounds into British banks.
What is the concept of £7 million? It is understood that at that time, it only cost 2,000 pounds to buy a garden villa in the UK, and Yi Li was really rich and invincible. Such a person in the late Qing Dynasty can actually be a courtier for a long time, it can be seen that the Qing Dynasty has indeed reached the end of the road, countless meat eaters like Yi Li can not save the country, but mistakenly, the Qing Dynasty died in 1912, Yi Li also has "merit".
The last emperor Puyi's evaluation of Yi Li was: "The world of more than two hundred years in the Qing Dynasty was destroyed in the hands of Yi Xi! Of course, it is not accurate to say that Yi Li buried the Qing Dynasty alone, but people like Yi Li only have personal interests in their hearts and have no positive use for the country, which is destined to be a disgrace in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
In 1917, Yi Xi died of illness in Tianjin. Puyi's nickname to Yi Li is "secret", which means that even if Yi Li dies, he should reflect on his sins underground. In fact, Puyi's original choice of several nicknames is more difficult to hear, what ugly, humorous, strong, false, or the regent ZaiFeng Nian and Yi Li good surname Ai XinJue Luo persuaded Puyi to save some face for him, Yi Li only got the "secret" nickname.
In the Mozi, it is said: "When the kingdom is about to perish, there will be seven plagues." One of the problems is that "all are fishermen and private", and Yi Li can respond to this sentence by calling the wind and rain in the late Qing Dynasty.