Speaking of the history of the Qing Dynasty, Cixi is definitely a focal point, this uncrowned empress in the history of the late Qing Dynasty, who controlled the land of China for half a century and completely sent the Great Qing Kingdom into the abyss of decline, it can be said that this woman does not have much praise.
However, Cixi was able to sit in that position, proving that she was not a simple woman, the means of power and scheming were very skilled, so that the curtain could be hung three times, and today I want to talk about Cixi's love enemy whom she has never met in her life, and what is unexpected is that Cixi is kneeling to attend the funeral of this love enemy, this woman we call Sakda, what kind of character is Sakda?
It is said that in the twenty-sixth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, the Daoguang Emperor, who had hesitated for more than ten years for Li Chu, finally made a decision to write the fourth son of the emperor, Yi Xuan, born to Empress Xiaoquan, into the secret decree of Li Chu. It turned out that the Daoguang Emperor's decision was wrong, and he regretted missing the sixth son of the Emperor Yi, who was the most capable of ruling the Great Qing Kingdom.
The following year, the twenty-seventh year of Daoguang, the Daoguang Emperor ordered the eight flags draft, the purpose of which was to select Fujin for the crown prince, and finally, a woman from Manchuria with a blue flag and the surname of Sakda was selected to become the concubine fujin of the fourth son of the emperor, Yixuan. What is the origin of this Saxda? The problem is that the Sakda clan will become the empress of the Great Qing Dynasty in the future.
From the perspective of paternal lineage, Sakda's great-grandfather was named Mingshan, the official to the punishment department Shangshu, was a famous minister in the Jiadao period, Sakda's grandfather Qichang became a soldier, and his father Futai became a taibusi secretary, although he did not become a very popular subject, but he was also a high-ranking bureaucrat.
From the matrilineal point of view, it is not simple, the mother of the Sakda clan is the third daughter of the Prince of Zheng, Ur Gong'a, that is, the daughter of the Iron Hat King, which is undoubtedly the key to the Sakda clan's selection.
At the beginning of the twenty-eighth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, the fourth son of the Emperor Yixuan was ordered to marry the Sakda clan to Consort Fujin, and the place where they lived after marriage was Nansansuo, but soon after, Yixuan found that something was wrong, and the concubine Fujin who was married was simply a sick seedling, not only felt cold outside, but also had more wetness, although it was conditioned more, but it never got better.
Only one year later, in December of the twenty-ninth year of Daoguang, Sakda died of illness in the palace at the age of 19. However, since YiXuan's grandmother Empress Xiaoherui had just died, the funeral of the Sakda clan was not so solemn. What was even more unexpected was that after only a month, the Daoguang Emperor died, and then the emperor's fourth son Yixuan was ordered to inherit the throne as the Xianfeng Emperor.
After the Xianfeng Emperor succeeded to the throne, although he was busy holding funerals for his grandmother Empress Xiaoherui and his father Daoguang, he did not forget his wife, and he decreed: "Concubine Sakda of the Yuanyuan clan should be posthumously crowned empress." All ceremonies should be performed, and the yamen is observed. ”
In addition to making the Sakda clan empress of Filial Piety, Xianfeng also ordered the Sakda family to be carried from the Manchurian blue flag to the Manchurian yellow flag.
According to the ancestral system, the Sakda clan should be buried with the Xianfeng Emperor after death, but the newly succeeded Xianfeng had not yet had time to build the imperial mausoleum, so the Sakda's Zi Palace had to be temporarily stored in the funeral palace.
Who knows this deposit, it was stored for fifteen years, until the fourth year of Tongzhi, when the Xianfeng Emperor was no longer alive, under the auspices of the two palace empresses Ci'an and Cixi, built a Dingling tomb for Xianfeng, this year Xianfeng and Empress Xiaodexian were buried in the Dingling Underground Palace, at that time, the two palace empresses Ci'an and Cixi attended the funeral with the young Tongzhi Emperor, according to the palace rules, Sakda was a concubine, Ci'an and Cixi were Shu, so these two empresses also knelt to participate in the funeral.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Wenzong of the Qing Dynasty, Easy to Know tombs