To commemorate is to not forget. Scars can be healed and pains can be forgotten, but the scars of history deserve to be remembered. ——People's Daily
The modern history of our country is a history of humiliation, mixed with blood and tears, and we often look back at history in order to remember this history and to warn ourselves to look forward.
All in all, everything we enjoy now is actually obtained by the hardships that our ancestors have experienced and unimaginable, just like the editorial published by the People's Daily that year.
Many historical pains that cannot be forgotten are worth remembering, even if they are long ago.
The end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty can be regarded as the beginning of the history of Humiliation in China, and all this was caused by the fainting of Empress Dowager Cixi.
Before dying, Empress Dowager Cixi also specifically instructed three things,
And this just proves her fainting, and after these three things are said, in order to save her face, she also let people give herself a night pearl.
In the evening, Empress Dowager Cixi breathed her breath, and her death represented the end of the most faint period of rule in our country, and this history has always been remembered by future generations.
The ridiculous empress dowager had to take her nephew with her before she died
In addition to fainting, Empress Dowager Cixi also left behind many strange things. The day before her death, the very young Guangxu Emperor died, which made people feel surprised, why was the date so coincidental?
In fact
It was precisely because Empress Dowager Cixi felt that her limit was approaching, and she was worried that after her death, the Guangxu Emperor would wait for an opportunity to take revenge on herself, so she ordered him to be poisoned.
After investigation and research by later generations, it was found that the bones and clothes in the corpse of the Guangxu Emperor contained arsenic, which was exactly what Empress Dowager Cixi did.
Of course, there is another theory about the cause of death of the Guangxu Emperor,
It was because Empress Dowager Cixi had signed too many treaties to humiliate the country and lose power, and she was worried that she would be insulted by future generations, so she thought of killing Guangxu and then letting the unfortunate emperor bear all the responsibility.
But she did not expect that she had just poisoned Guangxu on her front foot, and she had not had time to revise the history before she had passed away.
The Guangxu Emperor was Cixi's nephew,
He was always used as a puppet by Empress Dowager Cixi, and did not achieve his goal until his death. And if he knew that it was his aunt who wanted to murder him, he did not know whether it was sorrow as a nephew or sorrow as a monarch.
Everyone was cursed, and the fainting empress dowager made countless people hate
In the late Qing Dynasty, due to the serious feudal ideology at that time, many people did not dare to talk about state affairs, even if they knew that Empress Dowager Cixi ruled the entire Qing Dynasty, the people still dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
After the Manchu Qing ruling class led by Empress Dowager Cixi signed the Treaty of Xinugi, which lost power and humiliated the country, she was even more insulted by the people.
At that time, there was a dish called Four Seasons Pills, and when Empress Dowager Cixi was passing through Henan, she wanted to try this special dish, and the local officials immediately arranged for the chef to do it
While cooking, the chef scolded in his mouth: "Blow up this damn Cixi"!
When the people next to him heard this, they immediately told him that insulting Empress Dowager Cixi was to be cursed by the Nine Tribes. And this four seasons pill just happened to have a harmonic meaning with Empress Dowager Cixi, so after some consultation, the two people,
Decided to rename this four seasons pill to Sixi Pills, and just changed the harmonic sound of "Fried Cixi" to "Fried Four Joys",
In this way, we can already see how much hatred the people have against Empress Dowager Cixi.
However, it is not difficult to see that Cixi is very absolute about her own rule, and she does not allow anyone to rebel against herself, even if she evaluates herself behind her back, otherwise, the two cooks,
I wouldn't have been so afraid to change the name of a dish.
At that time, the six gentlemen of Wushu were all beheaded for rebelling against Cixi's rule, among them, Tan Sitong was beheaded with a blunt knife, causing him to die of torture. It is not difficult to see how faint and domineering Cixi was at that time.
The impotent fainter, the last three commands before death
The country cannot be without a monarch for a day! Guangxu was removed, so a new person was needed to inherit the throne, and Cixi also had to consider this heir, would not disobey his own opinions, and would not hate himself.
So she locked the target on Puyi, who was still a child at the time.
Let Puyi become the emperor, first of all, you can guarantee your own reputation, after all, this emperor was supported by her, Puyi should also thank Empress Dowager Cixi for this, and second, Cixi will not worry about the heir destroying his own body after death, so let Puyi take the throne
Before Empress Dowager Cixi died, the first thing she commanded.
The second thing Cixi asked before her death was that she announced the future Qing Dynasty,
No woman is allowed to govern. In fact, this exhortation is very ironic,
Because Cixi was originally a woman, she did not allow later women to interfere in politics, and it was obvious that she was also denying her own ability.
But the reason why Empress Dowager Cixi did this was also because she knew that her reign had brought great disasters to the country, and that the step-by-step loss of power and humiliation of the country was also unprecedented in the Qing Dynasty.
At the same time, she was even more afraid that a particularly powerful empress dowager would appear in the comments of posterity, and she would appear even more incompetent and faint.
The third thing Empress Dowager Cixi instructed on her deathbed was not to allow eunuchs to be in power.
The reason why such a clause was set up was because when she was in power, her favorite eunuch, Li Lianying, had great power, and even many ministers were very jealous of this eunuch.
meantime
Li Lianying was also one of the culprits that led to the rapid corruption of the Qing Dynasty.
Cixi was afraid that after her death, the young Puyi would not be able to take responsibility and would even be controlled by eunuchs like Li Lianying.
epilogue
During the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi, she always considered whether her power was stable or not.
And where the fate of the whole country will go, she does not care about it.
Many people lamented that the Manchu Qing Empire that Cixi took over was already in turmoil, and as everyone knew, although China at that time was devastated, it also had the opportunity to catch up with the Western countries, but it was such a ruler who was completely overwhelmed by power, under the infinite praise and closure of the self.
Completely drag China into the abyss.
The last three instructions left by Cixi before her death just show that she has no planning and long-term plans for the fate of the country in her heart, and for her, in her lifetime, it is extremely fortunate that there is no dynasty collapse, but this is precisely the sadness of the whole of China.
Just like the People's Daily editorial, Cixi is also a part of history after all, and we look back at history not to see jokes, but to learn lessons from history, so as to better cherish our current life.
Cixi at least let posterity understand,
Only when power is placed in the hands of those who serve the country and the people, will a country have hope and future.