At the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tokugawa shogunate was now Tokyo, Japan, and although the minister of public affairs, Ichijō Tadaka, did not do much politically, he was very good at how to protect himself. Although the Tokugawa shogunate felt that it was about to fall, the skinny camel was bigger than the horse, so the daughter who had been cultivated for many years was now coming in handy. One daughter, Mika Ichijō, married Tokugawa Keiki, the last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, and another daughter, Miko Ichijō, married the 15-year-old Emperor Meiji, who had just ascended the throne.
I have to say that this piece of Zhongxiang is really powerful, and no matter which side wins, he will be unscathed. Under the leadership of Emperor Meiji, the Tokugawa shogunate was completely overthrown, which was also the most important reform in Japanese history, probably in late 1868, When Tokugawa Keiki returned power to Emperor Meiji, which was the moment when the Tokugawa shogunate completely collapsed. And Ichimiko was not affected by this matter, although Ichimiko is Japanese, the empress of Japan, but in addition to the traditional culture of Japan, she also likes the traditional Chinese culture very much, it can be said that the ancient Chinese nobles of the Thousand Golden Society, Ichimiko will.
And for Chinese history, Miko is very obsessed, and among so many historical figures, she admires the empress dowager of the Tang Dynasty the most, she feels that the empress dowager does everything perfectly, so the outstanding woman is sorry to know only from history, but it is because Miko read these books, plus the position she is in now is also the position of the empress, so Miko is affected, thinking that she should also be the empress of the emperor, and to be as perfect as the empress dowager.
Miko has always been a person who does what she says, never easily boasts about the sea, and since she said it, she also began to do it, but for the country's military and other affairs, she will not interfere, and she knows that she cannot interfere. However, Miko feels that now that she is the empress, then the people of the world are her own children, she should also pay more attention to see what needs to be corrected and changed, although The empress Miko received a traditional education, but she is not a stubborn person, she values traditional education and can accept new thinking, because she feels that the two are not in conflict.
Japan's ancient times are similar to us, women are generally not allowed to go to school, the same believe in the "women without talent is moral" thinking, women should stay at home to meet their husbands and godsons, but for Miko, she feels that the first thing to change is this matter, she must let everyone, regardless of men and women can receive education, enjoy the opportunity to learn. That is, under the strong advocacy of Miko, she almost did everything herself, created a new type of girls' school, and greatly improved the education level of Japanese women, of which the founder of Tokyo Girls' Normal School was Miko.
Miko had always learned to be a queen consort of the eldest grandson, whom she admired, and at that time the war was very fierce, so there were many wounded people, but they could not get good treatment, or it was difficult for people of lower rank to get help. So after communicating with the International Red Cross, Miko also began to create a Red Cross in her own country, and almost all of Japan was covered by the Red Cross, greatly improving the ability to treat the wounded.
However, it is worth saying that although Miko Ichijo was a generation of empresses in Japanese history, she never spoke out against the war of aggression launched by Japan, that is to say, Ichigo's "kenryo" was only used for her own citizens. Whenever a soldier was ready to go to the battlefield, she would personally come to the scene to cheer up these soldiers, and even actively organize donation activities.
The relationship between Ichigo and the Emperor is very good, although it is not a strong love, but it is a love that flows silently and accompanies it. Unfortunately, for various reasons, Miko was not able to give birth to a child for the emperor in the end. Although the two people are the emperor and the empress, in private, both of them will relax a little. Miko is born with a cocked nose, and she likes to smoke, and she is very smart at handling things, so every time she smokes, the emperor smiles the most happily, saying that she is "Tengu Niang", because Tengu is very smart and clever, but when she exhales, it is very similar to the way the Queen smokes, and slowly everyone knows that "Tengu Niang" refers to Miko.
When everyone left, they just didn't know what day it was, the emperor died in July 1912, and Empress Zhaoxian Ichimiko also became empress dowager Ofaki, she gradually retired to the harem, and in less than two years, Xu died because of illness. Miko Ichijo took her honorific title as "Empress Shōken". She admired empress dowager, and under her influence, she did a lot of practical things for Japan in this life, and won the support of the Japanese people, and for the Japanese people, she was not worthy of the title of "Queen Sage".