In the later years of the Qing Dynasty, Zaichun, who was only six years old, ascended to the throne, and Cixi also began to plan in his heart, on how a child can become an emperor, so Cixi bowed to the government, not so much the little emperor ruled the Qing Dynasty, but rather that the Qing Dynasty at that time was in the hands of Cixi.
However, Cixi did not intend to cultivate Zaichun to make the young him ascend the throne as emperor, all Cixi had to do was to use Zaichun as his puppet, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty was also precisely because of Cixi's selfishness and ambitions that it eventually went to the demise.
Zaichun ascended to the throne and was given the title of Tongzhi, the young Tongzhi Emperor had to obey Cixi's orders in everything, and when he should be lively and active, the Tongzhi Emperor was forced to sit still and not move, to be quiet, to learn the appearance of adults, and the young Tongzhi Emperor lived alone in the Yangxin Hall, surrounded by only palace eunuchs and Hanlin who took care of him.
But Han Lin's mind is not simple, Han Lin did not teach this little emperor with his heart, but often gave the Tongzhi Emperor some very unbearable obscene content, in the long run, the Tongzhi Emperor's heart was very curious about this kind of wind and moon thing, Han Lin was also the more and more powerful Gui Tongzhi Emperor transmitted this kind of thought, which in turn led to the Tongzhi Emperor sowing the seeds of fainting in his heart. Hanlin also rose through the ranks of this official.
As the Tongzhi Emperor grew up, the Tongzhi Emperor became more and more disgusted with Empress Dowager Cixi's assumption of power, and even opposed Cixi's decision again and again, which caused Cixi to be very dissatisfied, so Cixi attacked the harem concubines of Tongzhi, and the Tongzhi Emperor simply left the palace directly and went out with Zaicheng to find flowers and ask for willows, and enjoyed it.
From this, it can also be seen that the Qing Dynasty was already in a precarious situation at this time, but the imperial court was more concerned about its own interests than the life and death of the people, and the decline of the Qing Dynasty had long been a foregone conclusion. When the Tongzhi Emperor died suddenly when he was nineteen years old, Cixi believed that Tongzhi's death must have been a conspiracy, and when she thoroughly investigated the cause of Tongzhi's death, Cixi discovered the absurd things that Emperor Tongzhi and Zaicheng had done in those years, so she severely punished Zaicheng and imprisoned him for life.
Historical records say that the Tongzhi Emperor died of smallpox, but according to the records in the wild history, it was the Tongzhi Emperor who lingered in the land of fireworks lane willows for many years, contracted the flower willow disease, and eventually died.