The Qing Dynasty is also a dynasty of national prosperity and people's security in Chinese history, and after experiencing the prosperity of the Kangqian Dynasty, it eventually ended up in a "bad tail" because it actively missed the Western industrial revolution. Later generations often blame the collapse of this dynasty on Empress Dowager Cixi, who actually held power at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but if we really talk about Cixi's merits, I am afraid that we cannot simply conclude that she was after the fall of the country.
Cixi was arrogant in the political arena, killing and deciding, and covering the sky with her hands, so whether her life in the palace was like the power in her hands, she could do whatever she wanted. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, a tai doctor who survived from the palace was revealed to the world after leaving the palace, and this secret let us know that as a woman in the palace, Cixi was also an unfortunate but shameful one.
This story is from "Smelling The Dust Puppet". After entering the palace through the draft and experiencing a series of tribulations and deceit, Cixi became a Lan Gui. The rules of the game in the palace are nothing more than "mothers rely on their sons to be precious", and Cixi was also very lucky to have a dragon breed, which was later the Tongzhi Emperor. However, the Tongzhi Emperor had a bad fate and died young, and Tongzhi was the only surviving child of Xianfeng. No one in the palace inherited the throne, and at this time, the imperial court pattern of "the second palace hanging curtain" ushered in a great change, that is, the entry of the Guangxu Emperor into the palace. After Guangxu, Puyi's succession to the throne was also created by Cixi.
From the initial Cixi Ci'an to jointly manage the government, until Cixi's last words received Puyi into the palace, Zaifeng regency, and the great Qing pattern of Cixi's Yiyan Hall ended.
As we all know, Cixi has only one child. However, it is recorded in this book that Cixi was also pregnant with a child once after the death of her husband Jun. It was just that at that time, Cixi was already powerful in the DPRK, and nominally had no husband, and such ugly things could be laughed at by the people of the world! At that time, the doctors who diagnosed her pulse were also trembling, saying it for fear of causing the disaster of killing her head, not to mention that they would be blamed by Cixi. At this time, a witty doctor stepped forward and prescribed a fetal pill for her, which relieved Cixi of her panic all day.
The matter was resolved perfectly, but the person who knew about the royal scandal would certainly not survive, but the doctor once again relied on his ingenuity to retrieve his life and was lucky to leave the palace. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, when the Qing Dynasty had become a thing of the past, he revealed the matter again.
The Xianfeng Emperor died at the age of 31, when Cixi was still very young. Most of the women in the palace are not allowed to die well, either they are not favored, lonely and "widowed", or they are caught in open strife and secret struggles, and they cannot extricate themselves. Cixi, as the most powerful woman among them, could not escape these disturbances, although it was an unspeakable disaster, but it could also see the sad fate of the women in the palace.