In the history of the late Qing Dynasty, most of the princes and nobles left us with a very good impression. Because in our cognition, these people are a group of moths raised by the Qing government. They did nothing every day, but because of their relationship with the royal family, they then led feng Lu and walked the birds in the street and smoked a big cigarette. But in fact, not every late Qing aristocrat was like this. For example, Guangxu's younger brother, Puyi's uncle Zaitao.
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Zaitao can be regarded as an alternative among the nobles of the late Qing Dynasty. At a young age, he was sent abroad to study foreign technology, and then returned to China to become a minister of training the Janissaries, and later, participated in the study of multinational armies. Moreover, as a nobleman of the late Qing Dynasty, when the puppet Manchuria was established, he was resolute and did not choose to serve in that place, even if he was an idle former nobleman in Beijing, he did not do anything perfidious. Of course, what we want to talk about today is actually Zaitao's marriage.
Zaitao is also Cixi's nephew, so in the face of this nephew, Cixi also specially selected a very good family affair for him. Zaitao's first wife was called Jiang Wanzhen, although the marriage between the two was referred to as marriage, but it has to be said that the two got along well. Jiang Wanzhen was born in a famous family in Guangdong, and later gave birth to four sons and two daughters for Zaitao. Of course, in the beginning, the lives of the two were absolutely very harmonious and like-minded.
However, Jiang Wanzhen unexpectedly fell seriously ill. This serious illness did not take Jiang Wanzhen's life, but it made him a person who could not walk on his legs. Faced with such a paralyzed situation, Jiang Wanzhen had no intention of tying her husband up. She began to support her husband's concubines, and Zaitao unified concubines under this kind of half-pushing and half-taking.
It can be said that in Zaitao's marriage record, he has a total of four wives. Of course, the wife and the first lady have always been Jiang Wanzhen, and after that, he has a second lady, a third lady and a fourth lady. Among them, the second and third ladies were raised by the servants in their house and became the side chambers. And this fourth lady, who was once an entertainer and later became a member of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, can be said to be good.
In fact, the marriage of these two people will have such a situation, and it is not unrelated to their thinking. For the people of the late Qing Dynasty, they seem to have accepted the Western culture and ideas, and they are also moving closer to where they are, but in fact, you and I both know that no matter how they learn on the surface, when they encounter some things, they are still unwilling to make such a different change. Therefore, Zaitao's subsequent concubines are not so difficult for Zaitao and Jiang Wanzhen to accept, aren't they?