In the late Qing dynasty, the Guangxu Emperor actually had a bad life at all, and everything had to be controlled by Empress Dowager Cixi, and such an emperor was indeed very depressed. In 1889, Guangxu reached the age when it was time to marry, and he married Empress Longyu and a pair of sisters who were crowned as Concubine Jin and Concubine Zhen respectively. Ancient women married relatively early, and Princess Zhen was only 13 years old when she married the Guangxu Emperor. A 13-year-old girl, who is cardamom, looks good and has a lively and cheerful personality, brings sunshine to this lifeless palace, and even sets off a ripple in the dim life of the Guangxu Emperor.
After Zhenfei entered the palace, she naturally knew how to please the people around her, not only Guangxu liked her, but even Cixi was very happy with her, because Zhenfei's writing was good, Cixi also specially invited a calligraphy and painting teacher for Zhenfei to reward the subjects with the words written by Zhenfei. Probably because she was spoiled by the people around her since she was a child, in the court that was originally in strict compliance with the rules, Princess Zhen did not have a convergence on the number of etiquette, and gradually became a child who did not know the height of the sky, and with the love of Guangxu and Cixi, she did not know how to check more and more.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Western technology also spread to China, when photography just entered China, Zhenfei took a picture after this is very interested, she was fascinated by photography, she also entrusted someone to find a relationship to get a camera, let the eunuch take a picture of her, the posture in the photo is not very good and very restrained, but also often men dressed as women, more and more unlike an imperial princess should have the image.
The first time Princess Zhenfei angered Cixi was because she actually ran to the Emperor's Yangxin Hall to take pictures, and later Cixi learned that Princess Zhenfei had opened a photo studio outside the palace. Enraged, Cixi sealed her photo studio and killed the eunuch who had given Zhenfei some photo studio. Zhenfei didn't care about the death or death of a eunuch, she just wanted to play with herself. She liked the new things from the West, but it cost a lot of money, so she used her status as an imperial princess to collect fees to meet her material needs for some people who wanted to be promoted to knighthood.
In a single sale of officials, Zhenfei used forty thousand taels to sell such an important position as the Sichuan Salt Law Road to an illiterate. After this illiterate person went to the court, he did not know three questions, and Cixi was furious after knowing the cause and effect. However, under the begging of the Guangxu Emperor, Cixi did not punish Zhenfei. Later, during the Guangxu Restoration, Princess Zhen openly intervened in politics, recruited talents for the Guangxu Emperor, and also provoked civil and military officials to impeach Cixi's right-hand man Li Hongzhang. Zhenfei really left no way back for herself this time, and how to tolerate Cixi's character.
After the failure of the restoration and reform, Empress Dowager Cixi used the excuse of harem women interfering in politics for no reason to beat Zhenfei into the Cold Palace, and even the Guangxu Emperor was imprisoned in Yingtai, and no one could exonerate Zhenfei. Later, during the Gengzi Rebellion, the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked the city of Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi arranged for a eunuch to find a well for Zhenfei to throw herself into. From this point of view, did Zhenfei really die unjustly?