The world knows that the emperor is not good, in fact, the empress is not easy to do. The empress not only wants to be a mother to the world, but also needs to deal with the complicated relationship between wives and concubines in the three palaces and six courts, and even to please the empress dowager. The royal family is also an ordinary family, and the common mother-in-law dispute between ordinary families occurs in the royal family, if you encounter an evil mother-in-law, the queen's end will be more tragic, and the Tongzhi empress is a good example.
A talented queen
The Tongzhi Empress Arut was born in the fourth year of Xianfeng (1854), and her father was Chongqi, the only bannerman in the Qing Dynasty who won the crown of the Chinese title. In order to attract Han intellectuals, the top three titles, bangyan and tanhua were generally obtained by the Han people. Therefore, in the fourth year of Tongzhi (1865), when Chongqi was hand-picked as a champion, it caused discussion in the Manchu Dynasty. It was still the palace ministers who discussed "only the chapter, He Divide the Banner Han", and only then did they determine his title.
Born in such a scholarly family, the Aluth clan has been taught and influenced by his father since childhood, and his cultural attainment is quite high. She was handsome in appearance, beautiful in calligraphy, and could write a good book with her left hand, and her good name spread throughout Manchuria and Mongolia. In the eleventh year of Tongzhi (1872), the Tongzhi Emperor was already 17 years old, and the empress dowager of the two palaces decided to elect a concubine for the emperor.
On the issue of the selection of empresses, the opinions of Empress Dowager Ci'an and Empress Dowager Cixi diverged. Ci'an took a fancy to the daughter of Chongqi, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy, and thought that she was prudent and dignified, knowledgeable and reasonable, enough to be a mother, the only fly in the ointment was that she was 2 years older than the Tongzhi Emperor, and Cixi was more inclined to choose the daughter of Fengxiu, a member of the Yuanwai Lang Fengxiu, Fu Cha, believing that she was intelligent and beautiful, and had a noble birth. It is said that Cixi chose the Fucha clan with a deeper consideration, that is, the Fucha clan was young, inexperienced, and vulnerable to manipulation.
The two officials and empresses were deadlocked, so they gave the choice to the Tongzhi Emperor. Cixi originally thought that her own son would act according to his will, but who knew that the Tongzhi Emperor fell in love with the Arut clan at first sight and handed her Yu Ruyi. Cixi was greatly annoyed and had a mustard for the Arut clan.
At the insistence of Ci'an and the Tongzhi Emperor, Cixi had to give in. In February of the same year, the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces promulgated the Edict of Yi to make the Alut clan empress, and at the same time, the Fucha clan was made a concubine of Huifei, the daughter of the prefect Chongling, The Hesheli clan, and the daughter of the former deputy governor Sai Shang'a, the Alute clan, was a concubine.
Among these harem concubines, Concubine Hui was the youngest, and the concubines and concubines were outstanding, but the empress Hui was blue-hearted and outstanding, and there was a poem praising her in the Qing Palace Words.
Empress Wing Tongzhi
The heart of the orchid is as beautiful as a flower, and the flower recalls the beginning of the relationship. The color of martyrdom can overwhelm the country, but the left hand book in the palace is negative.
Sticks beat Mandarin ducks to shock spring dreams
In September of the eleventh year of Tongzhi (1872), the Tongzhi Emperor held a grand wedding ceremony, and the wedding scene was unprecedented. On the wedding night, it is said that the Tongzhi Emperor also conducted a literary investigation of the daughter of the Emperor, and the Arut clan exported chapters and was able to recite Tang poems like a stream, which made him more admired and respected.
The Arut clan was older than the Tongzhi Emperor, and she cared for the emperor with the gentleness and motherhood characteristic of women, and under her influence, the Tongzhi Emperor curbed his childlike willfulness and gradually became mature and stable. The two newly married Yan'er, very affectionate, attracted the dissatisfaction of Empress Dowager Cixi.
Cixi was already angry with the Tongzhi Emperor Li Arut clan, and in order to give the empress a chance, she deliberately elevated the status of Fengxiu's daughter Fu Cha, and when she was crowned a concubine, Fu Cha was given the title of Hui Concubine, which was the highest rank. According to the custom, the canonization ceremony of the concubine was held on the same day as the ceremony of the queen's canonization. However, on the day of the marriage of the Tongzhi Emperor, only the canonization ceremony of Concubine Hui was held on the same day, and the canonization ceremony of Concubine Yu and Concubine Xun was arranged to a month later.
Now seeing that the Tongzhi Emperor and the empress were entangled, gracious and loving, but ignoring the concubine she liked, Cixi, who had been widowed for many years, could not help but feel a little jealous and annoyed.
She sent eunuchs to monitor the behavior of the emperor and empress, and issued an edict to the Tongzhi Emperor: "Concubine Hui is virtuous, although she is a concubine, it is advisable to meet her." The empress is young and does not practice palace etiquette, so it is advisable to study from time to time. The emperor did not have to go to the middle palace to obstruct government affairs. ”
This is said arbitrarily and unreasonablely, and to say bluntly that the emperor often went to the Middle Palace was to obstruct government affairs, and simply forcibly pulled the Tongzhi Emperor away from the Arut clan. Emperor Tongzhi did not dare to disobey Empress Dowager Yi's wishes, but he also did not want to go against his will to get close to Concubine Hui, whom he did not like, so he simply lived alone in the Qianqing Palace.
The Aluth clan guarded the empty house alone, and for the arrogance of her mother-in-law, she was bent on perfection, often weeping in the middle of the night until dawn, but on the surface she never showed any dissatisfaction, and she was still respectful to Empress Dowager Cixi. However, Cixi's dislike for her did not diminish in the slightest, which was mainly related to the character of the Arut clan. The Arut clan is not a smiling person, nor is he a good person.
She was deeply influenced by etiquette, dignified and upright, and intentionally or unintentionally set off cixi's vulgarity. One time, the Alut clan accompanied Cixi to watch a play, when the stage was staged to the male and female love, Cixi watched with relish, but she turned her head to face the wall, unwilling to watch, Cixi persuaded many times, the Alut clan also did not want to turn back, which made Cixi very embarrassed, more disgusted with her.
People around the Arut clan advised her to please Cixi and handle her relationship with Cixi well, but she believed that it was enough to respect her elders and there was no need to flatter Cixi. Her relatives were worried about her situation, and the Aluth clan comforted her, saying that she was ordered by the ancestors of heaven and earth to be welcomed by the Great Qing Gate, and her status was not easy to shake. The Qing system stipulated that when the emperor was married, only the empress's fengyu could pass through the Great Qing Gate, the Noon Gate, and the Taihe Gate to the Kunning Palace to "lower the public opinion", and other palace concubines could only enter the palace by the Shenwu Gate].
The eunuch who heard the empress's words added vinegar to Cixi, which annoyed her. Cixi entered the palace through the draft of women, and climbed from a low-grade nobleman to the peak of power step by step, and her biggest regret was that she could not enter the palace from the scenery of the Great Qing Gate. Aluth's words reminded Cixi of the protagonist's lowly identity, and she gritted her teeth, believing that arut had deliberately despised herself and had the idea of putting Alut to death.
Tongzhi thirteen years (1874) In October, the Tongzhi Emperor had a pox. The Arut clan was very anxious, and immediately led the six palaces to worship the "Pox Flower Lady" and pray for the emperor's blessing. In November, the ceiling came out, but the residual poison was not cleared, because the residual poison invaded the meridians, and before long, the condition of the Tongzhi Emperor took a sharp turn, and the waist was red and swollen, ulcerated, and even pus.
In this case, the Arut clan broke through Cixi's obstruction, went to visit the seriously ill Tongzhi Emperor, and wiped the pus and blood in spite of the dirty smell. Seeing the dying emperor, her heart was like a knife, and she did not feel tears, pouring out the pain of living alone in the palace and being abused. The Tongzhi Emperor beat her with a strong spirit to comfort her, "You have to be patient for the time being, there will always be a day when you will come out." Unexpectedly, these words were heard by Cixi's eyes and ears arranged in the palace, and they immediately reported to Cixi. Enraged, Cixi broke into the warm pavilion, grabbed Alut's hair, pulled it out, beat her severely, and threatened to rebuke the empress.
The staff was a means of punishing eunuchs and palace women, and Cixi's move was clearly to insult the Arut clan. The Tongzhi Emperor on the hospital bed looked at this scene, shocked and angry, angry and anxious, and even fainted, and the palace was suddenly in chaos, and Cixi did not execute the empress. Frightened, Emperor Tongzhi's condition became a little more serious.
On the fifth day of December of the same year, the Tongzhi Emperor died at the age of 19. Fourteen days later, empress dowager Lianggong issued a decree to make Arut empress dowager. In the first year of Guangxu (1875), on February 20, the Arut clan died in Chuxiu Palace at the age of 22, only 75 days after the death of the Tongzhi Emperor. As for the cause of Aluth's death, the official theory is that the queen was too sad, depressed, and even died of illness. This statement is vague, there are many suspicious points, Aluth is young, only 22 years old, usually in good health, how can he suddenly die? So the rumors of Aluth's suicide and death spread in the folk, some people said that she swallowed gold and died, some people said that she swallowed opium and died, and some people said that she died by taking poison.
Regardless of the method of death, it is suicidal. After the death of the Tongzhi Emperor, the situation of the Arut clan in the palace became more and more sinister. At cixi's behest, Emperor Tongzhi's cousin Zaihuo (i.e., the Guangxu Emperor) was proclaimed emperor. In this way, her position is particularly embarrassing, neither the empress nor the empress, teaching her where to live?
It is said that the father of the Arut clan, Chongqi, tentatively asked Cixi how to place Empress Tongzhi. Cixi replied coldly, "Just go with Emperor Daxing." It means to have the queen buried. Chongqi was stunned, but he could only do so. It just so happened that Aluth had written a note asking his father what to do. Chongqi endured the pain and wrote the word "death" on the note.
As for why Cixi forced the Aluth clan to a dead end, there are still many folk sayings. Some people say that the Arut clan is the granddaughter of Duanhua the Prince of Zheng, and Duanhua is Cixi's political enemy, so Cixi hates the Arut clan.
Some people also say that the Aluth clan is pregnant, Cixi is afraid of giving birth to a prince, and becomes the new emperor, and the Arut clan has become the empress dowager, and she cannot bow to the government. It is also said that before his death, emperor Tongzhi wrote a testament to Establish a Testament, and Cixi, in order to be able to take power for herself, privately burned the will and made her own favorite Zai Xiang emperor, and she was worried that the Arut clan would reveal this secret, so she wanted to put her to death.
After death, he still suffered a disaster
At the time of Arut's death, the construction of the Tongzhi Emperor's Huiling Tomb had just begun, so she and the Tongzhi Emperor's Zi Palace were temporarily installed in the Longfu Temple in Dongling. In march of the fifth year of Guangxu (1879), the Tongzhi Emperor and the Arute clan (Empress Xiaozhe) were buried in the Huiling Underground Palace. The Aluth were mistreated before his death and were not at peace after his death. In August 1945, several imperial tombs were stolen from the Qing Dynasty's Dongling Tombs, including the Jingling Tomb of the Kangxi Emperor, the Dingling Tomb of the Xianfeng Emperor, the Huiling Tomb of the Tongzhi Emperor, and the Ci'an Mausoleum.
The Huiling Underground Palace was opened, and all the burial objects in the underground palace and the coffin of the Empress were stolen. Aluth's clothes were stripped off, valuable ornaments were taken away by unscrupulous thieves, and even more tragically, her stomach was cut open. It is widely rumored in society that the Arut clan died by swallowing gold, and thieves cruelly disemboweled her body in order to obtain gold.