This woman, presumably everyone guessed her name, yes, she is Zhenfei.
The death of Zhenfei has always been a mystery case in the late Qing Dynasty, but judging from the circumstances at that time, zhenfei's death is inseparable from Cixi in any case. Some people are deeply moved by the death of Zhenfei, and even now some historians compare Zhenfei to China's "Virgin of Arc", which is actually exaggerated, not so much sympathetic to Zhenfei, but actually for Guangxu.
Set thousands of pets in one body or once into the palace door as deep as the sea?
In the fifteenth year of Guangxu (1889), when the Guangxu Emperor reached the age of marriage, Empress Dowager Cixi, in order to prevent the two daughters of The Inspector dexin of Jiangxi from entering the palace, made her own niece Yehenara the wife of the Guangxu Emperor, that is, the later Empress Longyu, and at the same time, the two daughters of the former Right Attendant Changxu of the Household Department also entered the palace and were given the titles of "Jin Concubine" and "Zhen Concubine".
Not to mention others, after Princess Zhen entered the palace, she was deeply favored by the Guangxu Emperor, and what is even more precious is that even Empress Dowager Cixi, who has always been picky, also had some good feelings for her. According to the palace people who had served Zhenfei, "Zhenfei was beautiful and virtuous, and when she first entered the palace, she was very much loved by Cixi." For a time, even the words given to her subjects by Empress Dowager Cixi were written by Zhenfei, who also presided over the sacrifice ceremony for the empress, and was promoted to "concubine" with her sister in 1894, which was the same in the harem.
However, just after the Sino-Japanese War, Cixi's attitude towards Zhenfei took a sharp turn, and after the 1898 Wushu Reform, Zhenfei suffered from the court staff and was also relegated to the North Three Houses after the Zhong Pu Palace and directly entered the Cold Palace. If there is no Eight-Power Alliance to enter Beijing, it is estimated that The fate of Zhenfei will be frozen and she will spend the rest of her life in the Cold Palace. Who knew that with the Eight-Nation Alliance entering Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi "Hunted in the West", and before leaving, sent the eunuch Cui Yugui to push Zhenfei into the well outside the Ningshou Palace, and Zhenfei died.
Before, Cixi still had a fair attitude towards Zhenfei, but later she unusually suppressed her, even at the cost of her life.
The starting point of Zhenfei's death stemmed from the dispute between the palaces and the palaces. In the harem, it was inevitable that concubines would be jealous of Empress Longyu because of her favor, and even more because of jealousy, she resented, so she "frequently shortened to Cixi". The emperor favored his concubines and snubbed his niece Empress Longyu, which made the sensitive Empress Dowager Cixi realize that this was not a Mingjun move, so she gave more advice to the Guangxu Emperor.
Princess Zhen is "out of character" and contrary to women's morality. Princess Zhen grew up in the coastal areas, very interested in foreign characters, she loved photography, bought her own photographic equipment, "like to wear men's clothes, and Dezong often exchanged costumes, thinking of games, and often ingesting various poses." He even instructed a eunuch surnamed Dai to open a photo studio outside the Donghua Gate. When Empress Dowager Cixi learned of this, she reprimanded her for "not doing anything to the palace concubines", forced her to close the photo studio, and beat the eunuch surnamed Dai to death as a warning.
Princess Zhen's extravagance and waste made Cixi greatly dissatisfied. According to Deling's "Yingtai Weeping Blood Record" and Xiao Dezhang's descendants, Zhenfei once asked the Guangxu Emperor to make a luxurious qipao for her with the treasures in stock, and once let Empress Dowager Cixi bump into her, reprimanded the emperor and Zhenfei, confiscated the qipao, and Zhenfei was beaten thirty times. At the same time, her monthly use had long exceeded that of ordinary concubines, and the empress was still inferior to her expenditure, which made Cixi very dissatisfied.
The harem interfered in politics and committed the great taboo of Cixi. According to the Qing Dynasty's notes, "Saying Yuanbao Shuwen", Zhenfei "has lost her kindness, her use in the palace is quite insufficient, and there are internal servants who follow the strategy of the empress dowager... Princess Zhen pampered Emperor For a while.". On one occasion, he received a bribe of up to 40,000 taels of silver, and finally the East Window Incident occurred. This incident is also recorded in Hu Sijing's "National News and Preparation", which can completely confirm the authenticity of the matter. Therefore, Empress Dowager Cixi took advantage of this incident to give Zhenfei and Concubine Jin a crime of "practicing luxury and frequent begging", and sentenced them to the punishment of "wearing a cane of the court", and on October 29, 1894, demoted the two to "nobles".
The reason that really killed Princess Zhenquan was that she was involved in a dispute between the "imperial party" and the "post-party". Before the Sino-Japanese War, the Guangxu Emperor and Wen Tingshi, Weng Tonggong and other ministers resolutely took the main side, while Empress Dowager Cixi and Li Hongzhang and others were the main peace, until the time of the Penghu Reform, the dispute between the two parties of the emperor and the empress entered a situation of life and death, and Zhenfei, as a harem concubine, should not have intervened in the military aircraft of the imperial court, but she first instructed her teacher Wen Tingshi to participate in Li Hongzhang's traitorous state, and then participated in the "siege of the garden to kill the queen", which made Cixi send Zhenfei down to the Cold Palace, and finally killed her when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing.
Until her death, Princess Zhen still had hope for the Guangxu Emperor, and she repeatedly said that "the emperor is the head of a country, it is advisable to focus on the society, the empress dowager can take refuge, and the emperor must not stay in Beijing", these words eventually became her catalyst.
The golden well fell one leaf, next to the desolate Yao Temple. The stumps are not scattered, and there is a glow in the sun. Ditch water empty to leave hate, neon hall and broken intestines. He ru Zepan grass, Jude Su Mandarin duck.
This falling leaf word is the Qing people's description of Zhenfei, but it is lamentable that her red face is short of life, and after all, it cannot escape the strangulation of political struggle.
epilogue
Empress Dowager Cixi, for the sake of power, even the emperor was eventually poisoned, let alone a small concubine, not to mention that Zhenfei had no talent for wang Zuo, nor did she have the ambition of Anbang, and what she did was only to seek benefits, and although it was Cixi who killed innocently, it was certainly Cixi's doing, but why not take it her own way? Therefore, "the chaotic world can not enter the emperor's family", Zhenfei chose such a big era to enter the emperor's family, which has long been doomed to the tragedy of her life!