The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty in the history of the mainland, and the abdication of the last emperor Puyi in 1912 marked the complete disappearance of the last feudal dynasty in the long river of history. If you want to say that the fall of the Qing Dynasty is the direct pusher, then this person must be Cixi. As the real ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, the demise of the Qing Dynasty had a lot to do with her.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the real master was Empress Dowager Cixi. At that time, the Guangxu Emperor was just a puppet, and the final Guangxu Emperor was imprisoned in Yingtai and had no free body. During empress dowager Cixi's reign, the Qing Dynasty experienced various disasters. At that time, the people were displaced and the people were not happy.
At that time, the Western powers were constantly developing technology, but in the Qing Dynasty, none of this mattered. From the beginning of the Qianlong Emperor, the Qing Dynasty had been closed to the country, and until the time of Empress Dowager Cixi, the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty always thought that it was the most powerful in the world. But they did not know that at this time the West had begun to study firearms.
Interestingly, at that time, the West had already carried out the industrial revolution and had already studied steam trains, but Empress Dowager Cixi was very dissatisfied when she saw it. She sat in the back of the train, and it turned out that the person driving the train was standing, which made Cixi dissatisfied, and she thought that the slave should kneel. It is undeniable that Cixi contributed almost nothing to the Qing Dynasty.
But what many people don't know is that Empress Dowager Cixi held power for 47 years in the late Qing Dynasty. It is very difficult to know that for such a long time, Empress Dowager Cixi was able to sit steadily. An empress dowager in a harem can sit firmly in the position of the person in power, and such a person is rare in history, so what made Cixi rule the Qing Dynasty for 47 years?
There are only three fundamental reasons, first of all, the lack of heirs to the imperial throne in the late Qing Dynasty. There were a total of 12 emperors in the Manchu Qing, and in the early period, the succession to the throne of the Manchu Qing was relatively smooth, but by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor had almost no descendants, the most significant example being the Guangxu Emperor. He had no children in his lifetime, and all the thrones passed to Puyi.
The second reason is that Empress Dowager Cixi has a special status. At that time, the Xianfeng Emperor died, and the policy of "(Empress Dowager) Hanging curtains (eight ministers) assisted the government and covered both sides" was implemented. On the surface, there is nothing wrong with this rule, but if you think about it carefully, you can see that something is wrong.
It should be known that in all the dynasties and dynasties, almost all of them prohibited the harem from participating in politics, but this was not the case in the Qing Dynasty. After the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, there were eight ministers such as Cixi and Sushun, indicating that the upper eight people had the same power, but Cixi had an advantage, that is, the favorable status of the new emperor's birth mother, and all the Cixi had more power.
The last point is that Cixi was able to properly handle the relationship between the nala clan and the Ai Xinjue Luo clan, and this reason was the least simple. When Wu Zetian was an empress, the Wu clan was reused, and these people held the military and political power, but on the contrary, Wu Zetian brutally killed the descendants of the Li Tang royal family, which caused the dissatisfaction and opposition of many old ministers.
In contrast, Cixi was not like this, and during the decades of his reign, he handled the relationship between the Nala clan and the Ai Xinjue Luo clan very well. More importantly, it is also important that the emperors of Cixi Li all loved the Xinjue Luo family.