Regarding the death of Concubine Zhen, many people believe that she gained the favor of the Guangxu Emperor, so she was jealous of Cixi, which was a tragic disaster, and was drowned in the well by Cixi. But the truth is not so simple, she did not die for such a simple reason, what is it? Look down.
The story begins in 1888.
At that time, the Guangxu Emperor had 3 women around him, one was empress Dowager Cixi's niece, that is, Empress Yulong, but because of cixi and Guangxu's political disagreements, she had been snubbed by the Guangxu Emperor; the other was Zhenfei's sister Concubine Jin, who was general in appearance, very loyal and introverted, would not be obedient, and was close to Empress Yulong, so Guangxu did not like her.
This third is our protagonist Zhenfei, she is different, young, beautiful, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, even Cixi, who has always been very picky, is quite fond of her. In addition, Zhenfei grew up with her uncle in Guangzhou, which was a window city for the outside world at that time, so she also developed a novel and open Western idea of Zhenfei, and Guangxu was very on the right road and had a conversation.
So and so, so and so, soon Guangxu fell in love, and Zhenfei also gathered thousands of pets in one.
In this way, Empress Yulon was even more snubbed, which also frustrated Cixi's original plan to control the Guangxu Emperor through Empress Yulon. But at this time, fortunately, Cixi did not have a murderous intention towards her, but later her series of acts of death completely angered Cixi...
First, in disregard of the rules of the palace, photography was brought into the court.
In 1894, Zhenfei became obsessed with the camera, but this thing seemed to be a demon at the time, and many Chinese believed that photography would take away the soul of the person being photographed, and even lose her life, but the open-minded Zhenfei did not shy away from it.
Soon, she got a full set of photographic equipment to bring into the palace, and in addition to taking pictures of the eunuch palace every day, she also took all her love time with Guangxu into the camera. In addition, the lively Princess Zhenfei often combs long braids and wears men's clothes to accompany Guangxu around.
Not long after, this matter reached Cixi's ears, and she was very angry, scolding Zhenfei for holding evil things all day and dressing in violation of royal rules, and Zhenfei was punished by slapping her mouth.
In the same year, Cixi also heard that Princess Zhen had a eunuch named Dai Anping, who often appeared in a photo studio in the imperial city. After not thinking about tracking down, Cixi was even angrier, and it turned out that after Zhenfei was banned from photography, she did not learn her lesson, but secretly used her savings to let the eunuch open a photo studio outside the Donghua Gate. After that, Cixi sealed the photo studio, killed the eunuch Dai Anping, and even whipped Zhenfei as a punishment.
However, this incident still did not make Cixi kill Zhenfei.
Second, get exclusive favors, and live luxuriously.
Although Cixi was not Guangxu's birth mother, when she faced her own child and only looked at another woman, her heart was still somewhat unpleasant.
And here, after being favored by Guangxu, Princess Zhen became generous and luxurious. According to the rules of the time, concubines could not take the eight-carry car, they could only sit in a four-person car, but Guangxu made an exception to reward Zhenfei with an eight-person car. Another time, the two were walking in the royal garden, and they were bumped into by Cixi, only to see that Zhenfei's robe was sewn with pearls and jadeite from Guangxu's inventory, and even the mother herself had never worn such a luxurious robe, which made Cixi angry, and the two of them quickly prostrated their heads and pleaded guilty.
In addition, according to the historical book "National News and Preparation", Zhenfei was very generous, as long as the palace maid or eunuch helped her to do something, or said a few words to persuade her, she could easily get rewards, so the eunuch palace women in the palace did their best to seduce her. You must know that at that time, the "concubine" only had 300 taels of silver a year, where could it withstand the expenses of Zhenfei such a big hand. What if you don't have enough money to spend?
Zhenfei began to play a little clever again, but what she did not expect was that this time it completely angered Cixi.
Third, collecting bribes and selling officials began to challenge the bottom line of the Qing Dynasty
Not enough money to spend the whole thing? Either open source, or throttling, throttling grievances do not exist, so it can only be open sourced. Why? Zhenfei's cousin Zhirui proposed to her an idea, that is, to "collect bribes and sell officials", and the matter of selling officials was taken care of by herself, and Zhenfei only needed to blow the pillow wind to the Guangxu Emperor.
Zhenfei's act of selling officials caused great social turmoil, but at this time, Guangxu was like Zhenfei's puppet, often kept in the dark.
In the most exaggerated case, Princess Zhen sold the position of Sichuan Yanfa Dao to a man named Yuming, which was quite important in Sichuan, so when Guangxu summoned him, she asked, "Where did you go on an errand before?" Yu Ming opened his mouth and replied, "Back to the emperor, the slave used to work as an errand boy in the wood factory." Guangxu was stunned at that time, and the Manchu Dynasty's Wenwu also immediately talked about it, so Guangxu asked him to write out his resume, and what surprised everyone even more was that Yuming was not literate at all!
Finally, the East Window Incident occurred, cixi sent people to search Zhenfei's palace overnight, and it is said that a secret account book was found, and all the records of selling officials were recorded on it. In the end, Zhenfei was stripped of her clothes and beaten to the skin.
In fact, this one thing alone is enough to make Zhenfei lose her life, because harem women are not allowed to interfere in politics.
Fourth, he was deeply involved in politics and was brutally killed by throwing himself into a well
After the defeat of Jia Wu, the imperial court was divided into two factions, one faction was the main war faction represented by Guangxu, and the other was the main faction represented by Cixi, and Zhenfei naturally sided with Guangxu.
When Guangxu changed the law, it was not convenient for Guangxu to contact Liang Qichao and others in the palace, so who relied on to transmit information in the middle? Princess Jane! In addition, the officials who entered the palace through the sale of concubines naturally became her people, and her people were naturally Guangxu's people. Therefore, if Zhenfei was allowed to continue like this, Guangxu's power in the court would become stronger and stronger, and Cixi felt frightened and began to think of killing Zhenfei.
Therefore, after the failure of the Wushu Reformation, Cixi's anger against Zhenfei also began to erupt, and Zhenfei was beaten to the point of blurring flesh and blood, and was imprisoned in the Cold Palace, and Guangxu was also imprisoned.
In 1990, the Eight-Power Alliance invaded the city of Beijing, and Cixi prepared to take Guangxu on the road. She said to Zhenfei: "Foreigners come in, in case you are insulted, you will lose the face of the old ancestor, we must avoid it, but it is inconvenient to take you away." So he ordered the eunuch to push him into the well. In this way, Zhenfei's life was forever fixed at the age of 24.
At that time, Guangxu was still in the dark.
A year and a half later, Cixi returned with Guangxu and ordered the body of Concubine Zhen to be recovered and buried in Enjizhuang. This was Cixi's final humiliation of Zhenfei, because Enjizhuang was the burial place of eunuchs and palace maidens.
It was not until after the deaths of Guangxu, Cixi, Yulong and others that her sister Concubine Jin moved her tomb to a place less than a kilometer away from the Guangxu Imperial Mausoleum, so that the two people who had no share could stand together under the Yellow Spring.