Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of foreign political forces on the political stage of China's feudal dynasties, and if you calculate carefully, this phenomenon probably dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but the first widely known foreign relations dictatorship in our history should be the dictatorship of Lü Hou in the early Han Dynasty. At that time, Liu Ying was still young, so Lü Hou naturally assisted him and began to control the government and cause chaos.
Since then, the emperors of successive dynasties have been worried about solving the situation of the crown prince's young age and the monopoly of foreign relatives. The most ruthless of these was Emperor Wu of Han, who directly killed the crown prince's biological mother, Lady Hook Yi, to prevent such a thing. Of course, not every emperor is so iron-blooded, and there are many benevolent emperors who can't bear to kill their beloved women, but they are afraid of the monopoly of power from their foreign relatives, so they come up with another way - to appoint ministers to ensure that the little emperor can take over the power.
This method still has a certain effect, so many emperors are using this trick, including the Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. The Xianfeng Emperor was a short-lived emperor who died less than twelve years after reigning.
Before dying, he summoned the then empress, the later Empress Dowager Ci'an, to the bedside, gave her a secret decree, and told her that Concubine Yi (later Cixi) had a disobedient heart, and if she later used her own child, Emperor Tongzhi, to seize power, he would use this secret decree to kill her. For the sake of safety, the Xianfeng Emperor also personally appointed eight ministers to assist the Tongzhi Emperor, and let them compete with Concubine Yi guifei to restrain her.
In the first year of the Tongzhi Dynasty, the empress was crowned empress dowager of Ci'an, and Concubine Yigui was crowned empress dowager of Cixi, and the two empresses, under the supervision of eight ministers, bowed to the government. Sure enough, Cixi's desire for power at this time began to expand, and she even wanted to seize power, and her first opponent in seizing power was Su Shun and other ministers who took care of her orders.
Cixi still used the old trick, telling the slightly higher-ranking Empress Dowager Ci'an that Sushun and others had disobedient hearts, and cried while talking, Ci'an felt like it was real, so she sided with Cixi. Cixi, on the other hand, immediately went to woo Xianfeng's younger brother Prince Gong Yi (奕䜣) and prepared to join forces with him against the eight ministers.
Therefore, with the acquiescence of Ci'an and the plot of Yi Bi and Cixi, the coup d'état of Xin You broke out, Sushun and other ministers were swept away, and the strength to fight with Cixi was reduced, at this time, her goal began to shift to Ci'an's body. After Ci'an keenly sensed Cixi's thoughts, he immediately called her over and showed her the secret will, and Cixi's frightened face at that time was discolored, and her behavior retracted a lot.
Later, when Ci'an fell ill and taking medicine did not work, Cixi cut off the flesh on her left arm and added it to the medicinal soup, and after giving it to Ci'an, Ci'an's illness actually got better! Knowing this, Ci'an was moved to tears, thinking that he had wrongly blamed Cixi before, so he summoned Cixi and burned the secret will in front of Cixi, leaving not even a single scum left.
Later, the young Ci'an died suddenly, and it is said that the day before the violent death, he summoned the minister of the Military Aircraft Department, and the ministers saw that she was rosy and alive, and they really did not expect that she would suddenly die violently. As a result, people naturally turned their attention to Cixi, and various wild history rumors continued, but this matter was not mentioned in the main history, which also became a major mystery of the Qing Dynasty.
Some people think that Ci'an's violent death must be cixi's hand, the history books are all written by the victors, and Cixi must have changed the history books. Others believe that since there is no record in the history books, there is no such thing. Dear readers, what do you think?