After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, The Xuantong Emperor was forced to abdicate, thus ending china's thousands of years of feudal society. In fact, if Empress Xiao Quancheng had not drunk the pill, then Emperor Xianfeng would not have become the eldest son of the emperor and ruled the Qing Dynasty; if the Qing Dynasty had been ruled by Prince Gong, then Empress Dowager Cixi would not have monopolized and endangered Jiangshan Sheji; if Empress Dowager Cixi had not taken control of the political power, then the Great Qing would not have decayed so quickly.
However, in reality, there is no such thing as "if".
What the hell is going on here, and how can a bowl of fetalizer change the historical trend of the Qing Dynasty? Don't worry, today we will talk about this interesting thing in detail.
It is said that when the Daoguang Emperor was still young, most of his sons died prematurely. Although there are the best nurses and the best meals in the palace, the method of raising children is the worst in the country. If a concubine in the harem gives birth to a child, then the child is sent to other concubines to raise, so as to dilute the relationship between the child and the mother and cultivate the next successor. When plague was encountered, these concubines would send their children out of the palace to raise them. Not their own biological children, concubines generally do not bother to take care of, making the survival rate of the princes very low.
For example, the Kangxi Emperor, the most fertile emperor in history, gave birth to a total of thirty-six princes, but only twenty-four princes survived and grew up. The Daoguang Emperor, on the other hand, gave birth to seven sons, the first three of whom died shortly after birth. Faced with this situation, the Daoguang Emperor had suspected that the next emperor might not be his son. In the eleventh year of Daoguang, the Daoguang Emperor had a son, and the two concubines became pregnant one after another, and gave birth to the fourth brother and the fifth brother. After this, the other concubines also gave birth to six brothers and seven brothers.
Suddenly, the palace became lively because of the appearance of several princes.
However, the bane of the Great Qing was thus sown.
According to the normal production cycle, the five brothers were conceived more than a month earlier than the fourth brothers, and should be the brothers. However, the fourth brother's birth mother, the later Empress Xiaoquancheng, was very unhappy about this, and she wanted to make herself an empress and her son an emperor. You know, in ancient times, the chances of the emperor's eldest son becoming a prince were relatively large, and this situation was no exception even in the Manchu Qing. In the end, in order to achieve the goal, the birth mother of the four brothers tried to reverse the laws of nature and let the four brothers be born before the five brothers. So, she looked around for home remedies and finally got a bowl of fetal hypnotics.
In this way, the Fourth Brother Ai Xinjue Luo YiXuan Emperor became an older brother, and the Fifth Brother Gong Prince Ai Xin Jue Luo Yi Bi became a younger brother. Although the fourth brother became the older brother as he wished, he fell ill because of this. Because, for the sake of using fetalizers, the Xianfeng Emperor's physique was very poor. At that time, the other princes were accompanied by books, and he could only accompany the medicine jar. Later, the Xianfeng Emperor even suffered from tuberculosis, and his condition became more and more serious, and he often coughed up blood. Faced with this situation, the Daoguang Emperor had no choice but to force the imperial doctors to think of all ways to cure the Xianfeng Emperor.
Although tuberculosis does not seem to be a serious disease today, it was considered a terminal illness at the time due to the low level of medical care in ancient times. After some examination and diagnosis, the Tai doctors believed that the reason why the Xianfeng Emperor had poor physique was because of the lack of Yang Qi. In order to replenish yang qi, the tai doctors advised the Xianfeng Emperor to eat more deer antler velvet. Because deer antler velvet gathers the yang qi of heaven and earth, it can be called a great tonic, and it is very effective in the treatment of kidney yang deficiency and kidney deficiency and blood loss. As a result, deer antler velvet became one of the three most important things in the life of the Xianfeng Emperor.
Later, the Daoguang Emperor died, and the Xianfeng Emperor succeeded to the throne. However, after taking control of the regime, the Xianfeng Emperor began to indulge himself. Due to his poor physique, it wasn't long before he had back pain and body cramps. In order not to endanger the body while being merry and happy, the Xianfeng Emperor specially ordered people to raise deer in the palace. When he needs deer antler velvet, the palace people can slaughter deer at any time to extract fresh deer antler velvet.
In this way, the Xianfeng Emperor solved the physical problem. However, the country had a problem at this time: the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement broke out, and the whole country sounded the clarion call of uprising. At first, the Xianfeng Emperor planned to strangle the Taiping Rebellion in Guangxi, but due to the decay of the military system at that time, the various troops did not unite and cooperate, and eventually, this plan failed. As a result, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom continued to develop, first occupying Wuchang, then capturing Nanjing, and almost attacking Tianjin. Seeing that the Qing Dynasty was about to perish, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had infighting at this time.
Soon after, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom split, the Qing army recaptured the lost land, and Hong Xiuquan's body was bombarded into the sky by a cannon. In this regard, the Xianfeng Emperor thought to himself: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is over, and I should always sit on the throne. But what he did not expect was that Britain would unite with France to launch the Second Opium War. As the Anglo-French forces approached the city of Beijing, Emperor Xianfeng's body became weaker and weaker. Finally, the coalition army entered Beijing, and they not only snatched up the gold and silver treasures in the city, but also burned the Yuanmingyuan with a fire. Eventually, under both psychological and physical pressure, the Xianfeng Emperor died.
Although the demise of the Qing Dynasty was inevitable, its early demise was accidental.
In fact, throughout the life of the Xianfeng Emperor, whether from the perspective of the emperor or from the political point of view, he was a relatively diligent emperor. However, the personal encounters of the Xianfeng Emperor were too poor, and among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, his fate was relatively tragic, not only encountering the largest peasant uprising in history, but also encountering the invasion of Western powers, and the decline of feudal society began with him. Therefore, even if he had the ability, he could not change the broken ship of the Qing Dynasty. Even if he was heartbroken, he couldn't change everything that happened.
During this period, one of the biggest mistakes of the Xianfeng Emperor was that he gave Cixi power and failed to prevent Cixi from usurping power in time, and another sequelae brought by the birthgummer to Xianfeng was low fertility, so low that there were only two sons and one daughter. Among them, the second son died prematurely before he grew up, and the eldest son, Tongzhi, succeeded to the throne smoothly without competitors, giving Cixi an opportunity to take advantage of it and pushing the already decaying Qing Dynasty to decay.
Resources:
["Bitter Destiny of Heavenly Sons: Xianfeng Emperor Yixuan", "Qing History Manuscript · Benji 20 · Wenzong Benji", "Qing History Manuscript · Liechuan I . Hou Concubine"]