Ancient China had a long period of feudal history of more than two thousand years, during which the emperor basically held the highest power, but in order to show that they had contributed to some ministers, they sometimes did not hesitate to give those ministers an eternal promise through the power in their hands, which is what we call "permanent meal tickets", and in ancient times it was the so-called hereditary resignation.
Hereditary resignation means that as long as this dynasty has always existed, then this title is always passed down by this family, not abolished, not demoted, not replaced, such as the famous national hero Qi Jiguang, who inherited the Dengzhou Wei command of the family from a young age and entered the career. By the time of the Qing Dynasty, a total of twelve families had obtained the right to "hereditary replacement" of the king, and was known as the "Twelve Iron Hat Kings" of the Manchu Qing.
These twelve iron hat kings were very transcendent for a long time, enjoying the innate wealth and glory, but by the end of the late Qing Dynasty, the entire Qing Dynasty had fallen into a storm, and the once glorious iron hat kings naturally lost their former majesty and glory, but the last iron hat king YiLi was an outlier, and he greatly affected the direction of the Manchu Qing.
Born in 1838, Ai Xin Jueluo Yili was a direct descendant of the Qianlong Emperor, he was a typical son of a powerful man since he was a child, he did not study well, and all day long he was doing some bird walking and the like, which can be described as a representative figure who did not learn and did not know how to do it. However, it was such a figure, after entering the career, the official fortunes were extremely prosperous, he was made a general of the auxiliary state in 1850, at this time only twelve years old, although it is said that young officials are common among the princes and nobles of the Manchu Qing, but it is also quite rare to obtain such a high official position.
At the same time, Yi Xi also often wrote letters for Cixi, because his calligraphy was quite good, so that Cixi had a very good impression of him, so that when Cixi launched a coup d'état in 1884 to make Prince Gong Yixuan step down, he naturally thought of letting Yi Li take over Yi Xi's position, becoming the prime minister of foreign affairs of the Manchu Qing court, with real power, and later took charge of naval affairs, becoming the director of the Manchu Elite Forbidden Army Divine Machine Battalion, playing a great role in the process of Cixi's forbidden Guangxu.
In 1903, with the death of rong lu, the former minister of military aircraft, Yi Li became the Minister of Military Aircraft of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in charge of financial, military and other powers, and became a hot power minister in the late Qing Dynasty, but his talent was actually very mediocre, and he was also very corrupt, often made up into various paragraphs and sneered, and some people went to Cixi for advice, but Cixi was very protective of Yi Li, because Yi Li used it very smoothly, understood her mind, and the most typical thing was to frequently call his little wife into the palace.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the internal and external difficulties, even the palace was often full of miserable atmosphere, Cixi herself was often in a state of sadness, so Yi Li called her little wife into the palace, to teach Cixi and the palace ladies around her to play mahjong, so that they had entertainment and entertainment activities, and must let their wives bring enough silver and silver, a few down all lost, in order to show Cixi's wisdom is superb, so that Cixi is extremely happy, so Yi Li herself naturally from then on, and then yi Li himself naturally steps forward from then on. No one could endanger his position anymore.