"The five colors are blinding, the five tones are deaf, the five tastes are refreshing, the hunting is maddening, and the rare goods are obstructive."
--- Tao Te Ching
Liking a thing is originally a very good thing, but once you are infatuated, or even unable to extricate yourself, it is a great damage to the body, in other words, if you want to live a long life, you have to stay away from right and wrong, and be pure of heart!
The Tongzhi Emperor, the penultimate emperor of the Qing Dynasty, had a crush on female color, which made his health deteriorate, and he died at the age of 19, however, his death was not as simple as it seemed.
His death had a lot to do with Empress Dowager Cixi, so what was going on?
One. Teenagers are alone, and young people are unhappy in marriage
"Losing a father at an early age; having no joy in childhood; mother and child are out of harmony; marriage is unhappy; dying young."
In 1861, when the Xianfeng Emperor died, Ai Xinjue Luo Zaichun (Tongzhi) was only 6 years old, and at an age of ignorance, he lost his father, and in his young soul, he did not even feel a trace of fatherly love.
Tongzhi succeeded to the throne
His mother, who had a resounding name--- Cixi, the empress dowager who had controlled the Qing Dynasty for half a century, lost power and humiliated the country, and brought infinite disasters to the Chinese nation, was busy fighting for power and profit at this time, and was inseparable from Ci'an.
What's more, a tongzhi who did nothing was beneficial to Cixi's control of the government, and there was no harm! Poor Tongzhi, the maternal love he got, turned out to be rare!
Because the Xianfeng Emperor had a son in Tongzhi, the succession of Tongzhi was unusually smooth,
Reaching the pinnacle of supreme power at a young age, it looks glorious to outsiders, but for Tongzhi, this is the beginning of disaster!
Receiving imperial training since childhood, he either studied the Four Books and Five Classics, or learned to control the art of his subjects, and he did not have any time to have fun, nor did he have friends, and he was alone. It can be said that when Tongzhi was a child, there was no fun to speak of, and what he learned was also beyond his age.
He has been suppressed for too long, he is far from learning bad, maybe only one flashpoint away!
Soon, this flashpoint came, Tongzhi was 12 years old, ushered in his own big marriage, Empress Dowager Cixi found an empress for him, that is, the Arut clan, which made Tongzhi greatly dissatisfied!
Arut clan
Not really
In fact, the Alut clan has a clear eyebrow, extraordinary temperament, noble and elegant. It's because,
At this time, Tongzhi deeply felt the fear! That's right, fear!
Cixi bowed to the government and controlled the situation in the dynasty, but Tongzhi could not fight her, and did not pay attention to state affairs, but was also quiet. But now, Cixi, her own biological mother, has extended the tentacles of power to her side.
Looking around, the eunuchs and palace ladies around him were almost all Cixi's eyeliner. If even the empress, her own pillow person, became Cixi's secret agent, would she still be the emperor? His own words and deeds are all in Cixi's hands, which is more puppet than a puppet.
Cixi film and television image
Tongzhi and Cixi quarreled and broke up, but their arms could not twist their thighs, and in the end, Tongzhi compromised and married the Arut clan, but the seeds of his dissatisfaction with Cixi in his heart had been sown!
Two. Learn from good people, follow bad people from bad people
"To live with a good person, such as entering the room of Zhilan, for a long time without smelling its fragrance, and dissolving with it; and living with an unkind person, like entering the abalone, for a long time without smelling its smell, it will also dissolve with it."
There are really not many people who can bring bad Tongzhi, and there are ten thousand people under Tongzhi alone, and it is difficult for anyone to approach him in ordinary times, and the ministers avoid him. But there is one person who has become the key figure of Tongzhi Xue's bad, and he is: Ai Xin Jueluo. Cheng Cheng.
Zai Cheng film and television image
Zai Cheng looks like a dignified man, both literary and martial, he is the eldest son of Prince Gong, and Tongzhi is the same generation, and he is about the same age, he and Tongzhi have the best time. If zai cheng is a righteous gentleman, it is better to say, but this Zai Cheng has a problem--- looking for flowers and asking willows.
"In the middle of the fluff, it is not straight." White sand is in Nirvana, and it is black with it."
。 Under Zai Cheng's "good temptation", Tongzhi soon fell, and after a try, Fang felt wonderful. The Tongzhi Emperor soon became addicted to it, and sometimes without carrying a Cheng belt, he sneaked out of the palace himself to find flowers and ask for willows!
Here it needs to be said that Tongzhi is looking for flowers and asking willows, although it has its own faults, but it has a major relationship with Empress Dowager Cixi, Tongzhi's troubles and bitterness have nowhere to vent, and they are in the period of adolescent rebellion, coupled with the temptation of pig teammates, Tongzhi learning is broken, this is very normal, learning is not bad, that is called abnormal!
Addicted to it, unable to extricate himself from the same treatment, soon can not go, not because he quit, but because he is sick, the illness is still very serious!
Three. Is it difficult to get sick and cure diseases? This is really hard!
"Headache heals the head, foot hurt heals the foot"
This is the work of quack doctors, the tai doctors in the palace, but they are all carefully selected, skilled people, what diseases are they getting, what diseases are they treated, is this still necessary to ask?
The problem lies here, if there is a scandal in Tongzhi, it will be a great disadvantage to Empress Dowager Cixi, and in order to continue to listen to the government, Cixi can only lose the car to protect the marshal, and must not leak the royal scandal. The tai doctor in the palace saw this situation as clear, and no one dared to break through this layer of window paper!
What kind of disease did the Tongzhi Emperor get? How could it make Empress Dowager Cixi so nervous?
"The veins are weak and weak, and both holes in the lumbar swelling are pus and watery, and the roots are very large and gradually flow to the ridge. The external ulcer is very large, and the internal collapse is unspeakable."
Obviously, the disease that the Tongzhi Emperor got was the flower willow disease. The body is red and swollen, the whole body is pus, accompanied by a fishy odor, and it is difficult to heal. However, if you really want to treat it according to the flower willow disease, Cixi will not be able to pass this pass. Which doctor does not dare to treat it like this for a long time, and must be killed! Because, once such a scandal broke out, Cixi would be attacked by the crowd, and her political position would be unstable.
All the doctors have long understood this matter, and none of them dare to say that Tongzhi has flower willow disease. But Empress Dowager Cixi asked, and she couldn't help but answer, and when she wanted to break her head, she could only harden her scalp and say that she had "smallpox", yes, it was smallpox.
Tongzhi's disease is indeed somewhat similar to smallpox, and more importantly, smallpox is a "natural disease", not a scandal, and it is difficult to be cured at that time, even if Tongzhi dies, it has little to do with the tai doctor!
And Cixi would not investigate deeply, because this statement was in line with the thoughts in her heart. Therefore, both sides tacitly agreed to continue to treat the Tongzhi Emperor according to the formula for curing smallpox.
How can this be cured?
It is strange that this illness was not delayed, and the poor Tongzhi Emperor became an outcast who no one cared about, and even his own mother did not save him, which was really sad and lamentable!
On January 12, 1875, the Tongzhi Emperor died at the age of 19!
Empress Dowager Cixi's position was maintained, and she continued to listen to the government for many years...
Sum up
The Tongzhi Emperor died young, although he did not respect himself, did not know himself, and met people who were not ladylike, and had a major relationship. In the final analysis, the culprit who caused all this was his own mother--- Empress Dowager Cixi!
It was her disregard that caused Tongzhi's rebellious and rebellious psychology; it was her political ambitions that made Tongzhi lose the opportunity for normal treatment and prolongation of life!
In that respect
The Tongzhi Emperor can live to the age of 19 and survive so many difficult years, which is also a miracle, which is considered to be a "high life"!
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bibliography:
Draft History of the Qing Dynasty
The Diary of Weng Tonggong