The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty in Chinese history, and the more chaotic the world, the more powerful the stage for all kinds of people to show their skills. On this big stage, the two protagonists who affected the national fortunes of the Qing Dynasty were none other than Cixi and Yuan Shikai. One of them is the real ruler of the last moments of the Qing Dynasty, and the other is the person who finally ended the fortunes of the Qing Dynasty. Today, Yongfu will take you to see a group of old photos of the late Qing Dynasty: Figure 3 is a beautiful man that Cixi likes very much, and Figure 4 is Yuan Shikai's beautiful aunt.
Figure 1: Photo of Empress Dowager Cixi. There are few women in Chinese history who interfere in government affairs, and Empress Dowager Cixi is one of them, who has controlled the qing dynasty for half a century. Listening to the government, the emperor, and the power of life and death, many things in modern China are directly related to her.
Figure 2: Photo of a beautiful man Pu Juan, whom Cixi likes very much. Pu Yan was the son of Zaiyi the Duan King, who was a cousin of the Guangxu Emperor. The Pu Yan in the photo is indeed a good-looking, graceful, jade tree linfeng, and is a proper and beautiful man. At that time, Pu Juan's mother often walked in the palace, and sometimes brought Pu Juan into the palace, so Cixi was also very familiar with him. What annoys Cixi even more is that Pu Yan is very good at singing. After the guangxu emperor failed to "besiege the garden and kill the queen", the 15-year-old Pu Juan was made the eldest brother by Cixi, and once wanted him to wait for an opportunity to replace Guangxu. But later Pu Juan was deposed, but even so, Cixi liked him very much.
Figure 3: Photo of Yuan Shikai. Speaking of Yuan Shikai, everyone is also very familiar with it, this person who personally ended the fortunes of the Qing Dynasty, forced the Xuantong Emperor to abdicate, and pushed open the door of the republic in a peaceful way, if he did not call himself emperor later, his life was simply perfect. It's just that he is too ambitious, and in the end, he is one step wrong, one step wrong.
Figure 4: Photo of Yuan Shikai's beautiful aunt. The person in this photo is Yuan Shikai's aunt, who was originally a Korean princess of the Kim clan. Everyone also knows that Yuan Shikai's time in Korea was relatively beautiful, when the princess of Korea had a disagreement with the prince of the great courtyard, so the princess asked the Qing court to send troops to quell the chaos. After Yuan Shikai put down the rebellion again, at the age of 26, he was named "Minister of Trade and Commerce stationed in the DPRK Prime Minister", and his power in Korea is not insignificant, it is simply not a king who is better than a king, in this case, it is not difficult to marry a Korean princess as an aunt.