Empress Longyu was originally the empress of the Guangxu Emperor, born in the Yehenara clan, and was the empress chosen by Cixi for Guangxu, and it is reasonable to say that such a family lineage could have slept peacefully in the deep palace. But unfortunately, this empress did not get the favor of the Guangxu Emperor, but because her family was suspected by the emperor, her life was very unfortunate, fortunately, she did not become depressed because of the emperor's snub, but stopped in this deep palace for a long time, from an empress to an empress, and witnessed the destruction of the Qing Dynasty. Logically, there was no good end after the death of the empress dowager of the fallen country, but this Empress Longyu was different, she won the respect of the people after her death, and won the high evaluation later.
As we all know, because of family reasons, Empress Longyu was not loved by the Guangxu Emperor, and the Guangxu Emperor always thought that he was sent by his mother to spy on him, so he always ignored her. Cixi Lafayette was naturally unhappy to see this situation, and over time, Cixi did not treat Empress Longyu as she did in the first place. Fortunately, it did not take long for Cixi Lafayette and the Guangxu Emperor to pass away one after another, the emperor and the empress dowager died, and Longyu naturally became the empress dowager, helping Puyi, who was only three years old, to manage the government.
The emperor was young and had no way to manage the government, for the stability of the country, Empress Longyu could only bow to the government, but she did not have the means of Cixi Lafayette, and her weak personality had no way to control the situation, so she was just an empty shelf. During her reign, China was already a place of turmoil, and in just a few years, an uprising broke out in nanxi, and there was no mainstay in the DPRK and China, and only Longyu, a woman, could manage the overall situation. At this time, Empress Longyu ordered Yuan Shikai to be put in charge of negotiating with the revolutionaries in the south, hoping to protect the Qing Dynasty, which was not a few years ago, and the idea of liberal democracy had blossomed everywhere in China, and it was simply impossible to preserve the imperial family. Under these circumstances, Empress Longyu summoned the ministers and said in tears in front of them, "We will obey your arrangement." At this point, the rule of the Qing Dynasty came to an end.
Three years after the reunification, Yuan Shikai submitted the "Edict of abdication of the Qing Emperor", seeing this edict Empress Longyu's tears could not stop staying, she never thought that the Qing Dynasty would be interrupted in her own hands, nor did she expect that she would sign this edict, even if she had ten thousand reluctance in her heart, she still did what she should do last according to the original process and personally ended the Qing Dynasty.
At this time, there were actually some people who stubbornly believed that China should retain the imperial family, and they strongly demanded that The Emperor not make such a decision. But history has reached that point, how can it be stopped because of the obstruction of these people.
When Empress Dowager Longyu saw them like this, she said this loudly: "His relatives and nobles have done state affairs so corruptly, and they still want to obstruct the decree of the republic, and they will be placed where my mother and son are!" Such a sentence is enough to show her attitude, she is just a small woman, but she kept her promise and signed this abdication edict, which is amazing.
Although the Qing Dynasty died at the hands of Puyi, it was Empress Longyu who signed this edict, so the Qing Dynasty, which Empress Longyu had always believed to be her own harm, was depressed and unhappy all day, and soon after she contracted the disease. On the occasion of the Halloween festival in 1913, Empress Longyu received Yuan Shikai and foreign envoys, but no one else came, no one came again. In the past, none of the princes and ministers of the Empress Dowager's Halloween came to pay their respects with congratulatory gifts, but now they avoided seeing it, and seeing this situation, Empress Longyu was so sad that she suddenly fell ill and could not get up, but after a few months, she finally left at the Changchun Palace, at the age of forty-six.
After Empress Longyu's death, the Republic of China government held a solemn funeral for her, that day Yuan Shikai led military and political dignitaries to pay tribute, and the country lowered the flag at half-mast for three consecutive days, and 50,000 people participated in this mourning meeting, which can be described as an unprecedented funeral.
Empress Longyu's life is really not happy, because of her family she was forced to marry into the deep palace, because of the gap between her husband and mother-in-law, she became the victim, she could have had a very good life, married to an ordinary person, and lived this life plainly, but unfortunately, because the family was pushed into the deep palace to bury her youth for decades, burying her best years.
The most feared thing about a woman's life is that Shaohua is wrongly paid, that is, empty and lonely, if it is only like this, Longyu's life can only be described by the word pitiful. But she was related to the Qing Dynasty, and carried the pot for the burial of the Qing Dynasty, living in self-denial all her life, is this really fair to Longyu!
She was just a woman toyed with by fate, forced to marry the emperor, forced to bow to the government, forced to sign these agreements, forced to bear the reputation of a watcher for a lifetime not to be loved by the emperor, the woman wanted to live such a life, the woman wanted to be bound in the deep palace for a lifetime!
Those false names, those nice names, are just given to her by others, and how can those people hold her up so high, she doesn't have that ability, and how can she take responsibility! The times needed one person to bear all the charges, and that person just happened to be Empress Longyu.
Empress Longyu did sign the edict of abdication, but if she did not sign it, someone would do such a thing for her, but it was only a matter of time. Time is fleeting, we have no way to spy what kind of mood Longyu was in at that time, or what kind of idea she signed the agreement, the only thing we can guess is that she is not happy, she is not happy, if you can choose, she is not willing to waste her years in this palace, willing to marry an ordinary person to live an ordinary life, and do not want to have any involvement with the royal family.
Once you enter the Houmen gate as deep as the sea, since then the high wall red tiles have locked their youth, let themselves not move, let themselves not escape, if the time can be repeated, I only hope that Queen Longyu will not have such a life, but can time really come again!