As a puppet emperor who had no real power in the late Qing Dynasty, Guangxu did not have many women in this life, only one and two concubines, namely Empress Longyu, and Zhenfei and Concubine Jin, such a harem scale was very rare in the Qing Dynasty and even in the history of our country.
Among these three women, Princess Jin had the lowest sense of existence, Longyu's status was noble, but she was not favored, and Guangxu's favorite was Zhenfei. Zhenfei is young and beautiful, and has a lively personality, and for Guangxu, it is the greatest spiritual comfort in the strictly ritualized Qing Palace, so Guangxu loves Zhenfei and often pampers her. However, Longyu is an empress after all, the emperor can not completely hang her aside, according to the late Qing Dynasty old palace women recall, in front of the confinement of Yingtai, Guangxu's conjugal life is still relatively free, although the number of times, but also spoiled Longyu, as for the later Guangxu to the empress disgusted, and then increasingly distant, in fact, the reason is very complicated.
First of all, Guangxu loves Zhenfei, in addition to being beautiful and lively, largely because Zhenfei is good at catering to the emperor's preferences, for example, Guangxu has been restricted by Cixi for many years in the government, and her heart is depressed, Zhenfei knows how to please the emperor, wear a man's costume and dress up as a brother, make the emperor happy, and help him decompress.
Longyu is not the same, she is the empress, the mother of a country, and as far as the world is concerned, she has greater responsibilities. What is the Queen's responsibility? Be a good emperor's assistant, and often advise the emperor to be a mingjun. It is conceivable that for men, such a woman who nags in his ear every day to "study well, every day upwards" how boring it should be, in this regard, we can refer to a scene in the "Biography of Zhen Huan": Yongzheng rarely eats a meal here with the empress, and the empress also eats a few more bites of duck soup for the emperor.
Secondly, Longyu is a person with a wooden personality, and he has no eyesight to do things.
One day, Guangxu retreated back to the palace, and suddenly his abdominal pain was unbearable, and he was anxious to go out of his way. At this time, the weather was hot, due to the fire, Guangxu suffered from constipation, fidgeting for half a day, sweating heavily, and his stomach became more and more swollen and painful. Just when I wanted to pass on the doctor, I heard the eunuch outside the door shouting: "The queen has arrived." ”
Guangxu thought to himself: It is really not the right time to come. But there was no way, and he couldn't tell the queen the truth about constipation, so he had to endure it first.
After Longyu asked for peace, Guangxu wanted her to back off first, but Longyu did not notice anything different, and Gu Zi said a lot of things to Guangxu about the heat of the day to take care of the dragon body. Guangxu's heart became more and more irritable, and Longyu was still chattering, and finally Guangxu was furious. Poor Longyu was scolded and didn't know why, so such a thing happened a lot, even if cixi's relationship was abandoned, there was no political factor, how could Guangxu love such a stupid empress?