The real ruler of the last years of the Qing Dynasty was Empress Dowager Cixi. She controlled the Qing court for 47 years, pushing the entire Qing dynasty to its demise step by step. This vicious woman has been spurned by posterity to this day. Cixi was originally a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor, entered the palace in 1852, when she was young, she could be said to be a magnificent and charming, and she was the most spoiled concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor, and within a few years of entering the palace, she gave birth to a prince for the Xianfeng Emperor--- the Tongzhi Emperor. Because Emperor Tongzhi was the first son of Emperor Xianfeng, he established Cixi's position as the overlord of the harem at that time.
In 1860, the world was in turmoil, with the threat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom inside and the invasion of the British and French forces outside. Faced with the chaotic national conditions of internal and external troubles, XianFeng, who was ill, finally could not resist and passed away, only 31 years old, and his son Tongzhi was just 6 years old at that time. In 1861, when the 6-year-old Tongzhi was forced to ascend the throne, Cixi took the opportunity to begin to bow to the government, thus opening up the road of her monopoly of power. But because of Xianfeng's premature death, Cixi became a widow just after the age of 28. After so many years of living alone, I can no longer bear my own emptiness and loneliness.
According to the Records of the Dust Puppets, Li Lianying, the eunuch chief of Cixi's most important and trusted eunuch at that time. Often outside the palace to help Cixi find some men, although they are all secretly acting, but there is no impermeable wall in the world, and the ministers in the palace do not dare to say more, otherwise their lives will not be guaranteed. One day at the age of 46 in Cixi. Cixi suddenly vomited in nausea. Unwell, he thought he was sick, so he called the imperial doctor. After this imperial doctor diagnosed Cixi, he noticed that the empress dowager had signs of pregnancy, and how dare he say such a big thing as losing his head, once he said it, he was afraid that his life would be difficult to protect, so he reported that the empress dowager was just suffering from wind and cold, and after prescribing the medicine, she slipped away.
However, after drinking the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor, the symptoms did not alleviate, it seemed to be getting more and more serious, so I found another imperial doctor. This imperial doctor was really a two-hundred-and-five, and after taking the pulse, he directly told the truth and congratulated the empress. Cixi understood instantly after hearing this, but for the sake of her own face, she immediately ordered her subordinates to execute her, and Cixi was worried that the first imperial doctor should also know about her pregnancy, so she asked her subordinates to get rid of her.
When the Guangxu Emperor knew that the empress dowager was seriously ill and invited two imperial doctors who were not cured, he personally invited a more famous imperial doctor for the empress dowager to show filial piety. This imperial doctor said after playing with the pulse for the empress, the empress dowager is just too tired, the qi and blood are not smooth, wait for me to prescribe some medicines, after taking it, I can cultivate with peace of mind, and I can recover without adding time. After the imperial doctor prescribed medicine to Empress Dowager Cixi, she slipped away, and when she arrived home, she asked her descendants to announce that he had died suddenly, and then ran to the mountains to live in seclusion. Cixi sent his men to kill him, hearing that the imperial doctor had died suddenly, had to go back to the mission. Thus escaping the disaster.