For five thousand years, almost every dynasty has had both emperors and holy lords, but the last feudal dynasty in history, the Qing Dynasty, seems to be a bit of an exception, because among the "Twelve Emperors of the Great Qing Dynasty", there seems to be no emperors or tyrants, and they all look the same.
Despite this, in the camp of the "Twelve Emperors of the Great Qing Dynasty", there was a "Four Emperors without", who was Xianfeng. The reason why Xianfeng is called the "Four Emperors of No Ones" is because he has "no vision", "no courage", "no talent", and "no deeds", so it is reasonable to say that the biggest failure of the Xianfeng Emperor lies in this; however, this is not the case, "Four No Emperors" Xian Feng, his biggest mistake is not "four nothings", but "draft".
We all know that the "draft" of the Qing court, also called "beauty pageant", to put it bluntly, is to find a wife for the emperor. The "draft" system of the Qing court was very strict, first of all, Han women were completely excluded from the ranks of "draft", because according to the ancestral system of the Qing court, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty could never marry Han women.
Since Han women are not qualified, are Manchu women qualified? In fact, it is not always the case that those who are really eligible to participate in the "draft" are all women in the Manchu nobility, and the Manchu women with low status are also not eligible to run. Even if the women of the Manchu nobles participated in the "draft" of the Qing court, they had to be screened layer by layer, the first selection, the second selection, the third selection, only three selections were qualified, in order to finally enter the harem and become the emperor's "wife".
Why do we introduce the "draft" of the Qing court so wordy? This is because it is indeed not easy for us to express the "draft" of the Qing court, in other words, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty is not as simple and so easy as we think on the issue of "marrying a wife".
Although the Qing court's "draft" system was strict, although the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty had to choose thousands of people to "marry his wife", there were still times to pick flowers, such as the Xianfeng Emperor, when he chose his wife, it was because of a momentary blindness that he inadvertently dragged the Qing Dynasty to the brink of collapse, because he chose a wife, this wife named Yehenara Xingzhen, that is, the later famous Empress Dowager Cixi.
Speaking of Cixi being the wife of the Xianfeng Emperor, then, on why Xianfeng's biggest mistake is not "four nothings", but "draft", everyone must be clear. We know that after Xianfeng, it was Tongzhi, and after Tongzhi, it was Guangxu, but Tongzhi and Guangxu, the two great Qing emperors, could not raise their heads in front of Cixi, who was the real boss of the Qing Dynasty at that time. In fact, who is the boss is not the most critical, the most critical thing is that the world must be governed well, and Cixi made the Qing Dynasty rich and strong from now on? Oh, you know.
Therefore, in the life of the Xianfeng Emperor, the "four nothings" did not matter, the fatal thing was that he actually found Cixi as his wife. Dear friends, what do you think about this? Let's leave a message to discuss!