Empress Dowager Cixi had three eunuchs around her, namely Li Lianying, Cui Yugui and Xiao Dezhang, and if you want to say which of these three eunuchs was the most favored, it was the great eunuch Li Lianying, and then Xiao Dezhang came to the top, and she was also like a fish in the water around Empress Dowager Cixi, and the mixture was not worse than Li Lianying.
If at the end of the Qing Dynasty, whoever wants to mention Xiao Dezhang's name will be good wherever it is placed. In the Republic of China, Xiao Dezhang was still very influential among the manchu qing ministers.
After the founding of New China, Xiao Dezhang at this time was still alive, but he was dying of old age, completely losing the glory of the past, in the tide of people's struggle, Xiao Dezhang was not spared, and finally was pulled out to criticize the fight, all the family property was confiscated, had to go to the street to sell pancakes and fruits for a living, and finally died of illness in Tianjin on April 19, 1957, ending his legendary and tortuous life.
Many people in the old society are often unable to decide their own fate and embark on the wrong path, Xiao Dezhang is also a poor person, embarking on the wrong road, many times, it is often things that determine people, people can't decide things, in a turbulent era, even more so!