I don't know if anyone has found that in the two hundred and seventy-six years of the Qing Dynasty, the number of emperors is also ranked among the top in the dynasties. However, the later emperors were short-lived, why is this? Although at that time, the Western powers gathered in the Qing Dynasty and wanted to get a piece of the pie. But in fact, all countries have small nines and nines in their hearts, thinking of holding each other back, and did not really destroy the Qing Dynasty, so they will not murder the emperor and become the target of everyone. Take the Xianfeng Emperor, according to historical records, the Xianfeng Emperor vomited blood and died due to excessive absurdity, at first Xiaobian did not believe it, there were more than 400 emperors in Chinese history, which one is not really "harem beauty three thousand"? Moreover, the Xianfeng Emperor was only 31 years old when he died, and he was in his prime, so he should be in excellent health.
Xianfeng Emperor
But in fact, the Xianfeng Emperor not only died of excessive absurdity, but also died on a folk widow. According to the "Great View of the Wild History of the Qing Dynasty", a widow surnamed Cao in Jiangsu and Zhejiang voluntarily sold herself to the palace to serve and sleep because of her unsustainable life, but this Cao clan did have a very good posture, and there is an article that records: "The color is quite beautiful", and her feet are particularly small, "only three inches", which is really a three-inch golden lotus worthy of the name. Her shoes are "based on vegetable jade and lined with incense chips", which is even more distinctive, "Xianfeng Emperor is particularly dependent".
The Xianfeng Emperor and his concubines
In fact, when the Xianfeng Emperor first took the throne, there was also the great talent of his ancestor Kangxi, when the Western powers finally pushed open the door of the Qing Dynasty through the First Opium War, coupled with the gradual rise and growth of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in China, with the talent of the Xianfeng Emperor and the early efforts to govern, the domestic stability maintenance and political reform were no problem, but in the face of the step-by-step pressing with the Western powers such as Britain and France, the initial ambition in the heart of the Xianfeng Emperor was a bit gloomy.
Anglo-French forces invaded Taku Kou
The double pressure of internal and external troubles made the young Xianfeng Emperor feel disappointed in the restoration of his ancestral business, so he turned to poverty and luxury, indulging in wine all day long, as the old saying goes, "kill yourself with alcohol and wine". For the Xianfeng Emperor, who had fallen during the crisis in the imperial court, the empress and The Empress Yigui (Cixi) had repeatedly advised the Xianfeng Emperor to respect the virtuous and generous empress, and after the empress's advice and Cixi's gradual participation in political affairs, Xianfeng once rekindled his confidence in the government of the dynasty, and all the coastal military newspapers and the provincial ministers would carefully review it. However, the good times did not last long, and in the spring of the Xianfeng Decade (that is, in 1860), Britain and France once again formed a coalition army to invade China and invaded on a large scale. In June, when attacking Dagukou, the ministers of the Interior advocated holding on to Dagukou, but the Xianfeng Emperor decreed: "The world is fundamental, not in Haikou, but in Beijing." Soon after the fall of Dagukou, the Xianfeng Emperor had to flee to the Chengde Summer Resort.
Chengde Mountain Resort
The Anglo-French army plundered at Jinmen, but the Xianfeng Emperor was completely degenerate, and in the days of the summer resort, the Xianfeng Emperor ignored the government all day long, and the safety of the Beijing Division seemed to have been forgotten by him. At that time, there were traitors in the DPRK and China who saw that the emperor loved women and advised the Xianfeng Emperor that Jiangnan was rich in beautiful women, so he bought dozens of beautiful women from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions at great expense, and since then, the Xianfeng Emperor has been addicted to wine all day long, and even the British and French have retreated, and after the crisis in the Beijing Division is lifted, even the imperial palace is not willing to return. He eventually died at the Chengde Mountain Resort.
From this point of view, the Xianfeng Emperor died of excessive absurdity is indeed unmistakable, compared with the degeneration of the later period, a series of political reforms in the early period of the Xianfeng Emperor were actually positive, if it were not for the further colonization of britain and France and other powers, there may not be any hope of reviving the gangji and restoring the ancestral inheritance.