Now many film and television dramas like to put the story of the ancient royal family on the screen, whether it is the harem struggle or the struggle for the throne, it is very curious. In ancient times, the struggle for the throne can be described as the top priority of every dynasty, because emperors generally have many children and many grandchildren, not to mention grandchildren, as far as the sons are concerned, there are more than a dozen or as few as five or six, and which child to choose to become the crown prince is also one of the important responsibilities of the reigning emperor.
But in history, there is a less famous emperor whose story is rarely adapted to film and television dramas, and his process of inheriting the throne seems very easy compared to others. He was the Tongzhi Emperor, the only child of the Xianfeng Emperor. The Tongzhi Emperor did not surprise his brothers to kill, did not plot chips, and after the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, he ascended to the throne very smoothly, although he was only 6 years old that year.
The 6-year-old Tongzhi Emperor, when he was a child, put on a dragon robe and sat on the dragon chair that many people dreamed of. When he ascended the throne at the age of 6, it can be said that his future road is still very long, and he can do a lot of things to ascend the throne at such a young age, and there are many things that he can expect, but the Tongzhi Emperor did not reign for a long time, and he died at the age of only 19.
Therefore, whether it is a historian or a history enthusiast, there are many speculations and ideas about the cause of the death of the Tongzhi Emperor, of which there are two theories, which are relatively widely circulated. One is based on history and can be found, the Tongzhi Emperor died of a very common disease in ancient times - smallpox. Many emperors in history have had this disease, that medicine is not developed, if there is no good physical fitness is easy to die. There is also a theory that the Tongzhi Emperor died because of syphilis. Both claims are also speculation, so which one is more like true? Let's move on.
Even if the ancients did not live long, the emperors also lived a long time, Qianlong lived to the age of 89, how did the Tongzhi Emperor die at the age of 19? There must be a reason for this, one is because Empress Dowager Cixi is too wide and too strong; the other is that the Tongzhi Emperor went away at a young age because his living habits were not good, he was absurd, and he did not do the right thing.
At the age of 17, the Tongzhi Emperor married Empress Xiaozheyi. After the two people got married, they respected each other as guests, and their feelings were relatively harmonious. However, Empress Dowager Cixi was not very satisfied, because the emperor could not be favored exclusively, and even the rain and dew were evenly wet, and even the empress could not be favored. Therefore, the later Tongzhi Emperor was like a wild horse that had lost its reins, and together with Zai Cheng, the son of Prince Gong Yixuan, he spent days and days drinking, did not do the right thing, and played very out of the ordinary, and by the time Empress Dowager Cixi found out, he had already played and could not stop the car.
So what did the Tongzhi Emperor do that was not controversial? According to the records, the Tongzhi Emperor was very fond of eating, and also asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to spend hundreds of taels of silver to buy food outside the palace. Is there nothing in the palace? He also had to go outside the palace to buy and eat everything, and from this incident, it could be seen that the Tongzhi Emperor was a spoiled child.
Moreover, it is said that the Tongzhi Emperor not only loved to eat, but also was very greedy. It is said that when the Tongzhi Emperor was a child, he liked to bow and stomp,
When I get older, I like more things. As an emperor, he really wanted whatever he wanted, and many ministers even sent something out of the ordinary in order to please him.
Some ministers focused on this characteristic of his, offering him some strange things, and even indecent books, but they did not expect that after the Tongzhi Emperor read them, he liked to read these things very much, and even reached the point where he could not read them.
As an emperor who does not do his job every day and indulges in the affairs of men and women every day, how can his body be good? As the saying goes, when a man has power, he becomes bad, let alone the emperor who holds the country? But this can not be generalized, in the long river of Chinese history, there are also many excellent emperors, they are also dedicated to the development of the country and the lives of the people.
It is said that the Tongzhi Emperor was overindulged and died as a result. Do you have any thoughts about the story of the Tongzhi Emperor? Let's discuss it