Due to the broadcast of TV series such as "The Last Emperor", although Puyi is a last emperor and the king of the country, everyone pays more attention to him than to some founding emperors. As an emperor, it is a profession that makes everyone all over the world envy, he has the highest power of a country, has the highest treatment of a country, and the Japanese have a saying called "wake up to the power of the world, drunkenly lie on the knees of beautiful people." This is probably the best description of the emperor we imagine.
However, the Japanese who wrote "wake up and hold the power of the world, drunkenly lie on the knees of beautiful people" is not the emperor, nor is it the Japanese emperor, of course, he has not really experienced the feeling of being an emperor, he is just a powerful courtier. The real emperor is not so comfortable and dashing, like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, three days and two ends of the civilian officials were intimidated once, even which wife they liked was taken to death by the civilian officials, it can be said that almost lost the freedom of life!
The emperor of the Qing Dynasty could be dictatorial in terms of power, and Ji Xiaolan wanted to show off his knowledge and comment on political affairs, but he was scolded by Qianlong on the spot and bloodied, and he never dared to comment on political affairs again. But the Qing emperors also had their own troubles, such as eating. The position of emperor is not only to guard against enemies and enemies, but also against his own wife and children, for example, if the prince puts some poison into the emperor's meal, then he can not smoothly usurp the throne and become emperor as soon as possible?
For the empress, the old emperor hung up earlier, which was also what they wanted. Because the old emperor was hanging, she was the nominal supreme power holder of the empire, and even she could secretly find other men without asking for the old emperor's favor, such as Cixi. From this point of view, the empress also especially wanted to poison the old emperor, so why did the ancient prince usurp the throne and not poison the imperial meal?
Because of the long history, the experience of other people has been difficult to obtain in detail. The TV series said that the emperor of the Qing Dynasty could only clip two dishes per dish, so as not to let the subordinates and courtiers know the emperor's preferences and poison in the meal, and at the same time, each dish ate very little, even if unfortunately poisoned, the dose of poison will be relatively small, and the rescue can also be rescued, which should also be regarded as an important measure for the emperor to prevent the prince, empress, eunuch, palace daughter and other people from poisoning themselves.
However, the authenticity of this measure is questionable, we look at it historically, Guangxu likes to eat seafood, and Cixi likes to eat duck meat (although people are not emperors, but they are still emperors than emperors), Qianlong often personally orders dishes, so the saying that "dishes cannot be sandwiched between three" should be questionable, the emperor wants to eat more, eunuchs, palace women dare not let him eat? I thought it was impossible.
However, in order to prevent the emperor from being assassinated and retaliated against by any force, such as the famous "Heaven and Earth Society", the Qing Dynasty still formulated a set of security measures to ensure that the emperor would never be poisoned by eating, so there were few examples of the emperor giving medicine to the emperor's imperial dining room - this would only humiliate himself.
Puyi, as the last emperor, was very clear about this method of food safety protection, he said that before he ate, he first used silverware to test poison on each dish, and then in the case of no response to the silverware, he called a special eunuch or palace maid to test poison - Hu Shangyi in "Daming Fenghua" is such a female official. After trying the poison Puyi still can't eat, you have to see if this poison is a chronic poison, and then he will give some rewards to his concubines at this time, let them eat, if it is poisonous, they are blocking an arrow for Puyi.
And when the chef of the imperial dining room is cooking, there is a person who cooks, a person who burns the fire, and a person who is specifically responsible for recording what raw materials the chef uses during the period, how to operate, and who meets during the period, will be clearly recorded, and no one dares to go to the imperial dining room without problems, adding unnecessary trouble to themselves.
After such a meticulous test of poison, it was too difficult to poison the emperor, so there was no prince who did not want to poison the imperial meal, because once the poison was tried, it was easy to find out who was poisoned, the emperor was not poisoned, and the prince was afraid that he would have to take the first step.