The three thousand beautiful harems of Chinese feudal emperors were not only tools for the emperor's unbridled pleasures and cathartic desires, but also rivals for favor and power. In the harem, a battlefield without gunsmoke, the losers are often discredited or even shattered; Even if they succeed, they have to endure the loneliness and loneliness of the deep palace, always on the lookout for being replaced. The cruel reality of the feudal court causing them to be psychologically distorted and perverted, thus becoming ruthless, which also doomed them to their tragic fate...
Lu He: Abuse becomes a demon
Identity: Empress Liu Bang, ancestor of the Han Dynasty
Vicious index: ★★★★ ☆
Lü Hei was Liu Bang's married wife, and Empress Lü's political career began with the murder of the heterogeneous king, and she gradually seized the supreme power of the Western Han Dynasty with her ruthlessness and intrigue, becoming a true uncrowned empress.
In the year BC, Liu Bang died. In January, Liu Bang's son Liu Ying ascended the throne, and he was Emperor Hui of Han. Because he did not change things, the power fell into the hands of Empress Dowager Lu He.
In order to achieve the goal of usurping power, Lü Hen began to slaughter Wang with the same surname. Lü Xi hated Qi Ji and her son Liu Ruyi the Prince of Zhao Yin the most, and regarded them as nails in the eye and thorns in the flesh. Shortly after Liu Bang's death, she poisoned them.
One day, Qi Ji was imprisoned in a women's prison by people sent by Lu He. Qi Ji was like a slave, she had to scoop a certain amount of rice all day long, and if she didn't reach the quantity, she would not be given food.
In order to get rid of Liu Ruyi, Lü recalled him from his fief to Chang'an. Emperor Hui Liu Ying and Liu Ruyi had the deepest feelings, and they were very worried when they learned the news, and he personally took Liu Ruyi to the palace to protect this half-brother. Emperor Hui was inseparable from him all day long, eating and sleeping together, making it difficult for Lu Hen to start.
As a result, Lü Xi still took advantage of Emperor Han Hui's hunting to poison Liu Ruyi to death. Emperor Hui was so sad that he could only weep bitterly while stroking the corpse.
After Lü Hen killed Liu Ruyi, he became animalistic and began to mutilate Qi Ji. Lu ordered her hands and feet to be cut off, gouged out her eyes, poured her dumb medicine, called "Ren Yan", and threw her into the smelly toilet.
A few days later, Lü Xi sent someone to invite Emperor Hui to come and see "Ren Yan". Seeing this woman who could not move without hands and feet, could not see without eyeballs, and could not make a sound with her mouth open, Emperor Hui was almost frightened, and then looked closely, it turned out to be his father's favorite concubine, Liu Ruyi's biological mother, Mrs. Qi. Seeing this miserable scene, Emperor Hui immediately lost his voice, and when he returned to the palace, he was sick in bed. During his illness, he sent someone to say to his biological mother Lu He: "To harm people like this is simply inhumane, I am your son, and I really have no ability to govern the world." Emperor Hui of Han later died in melancholy at the age of only one year.
After the death of Emperor Hui of Han, Empress Lü manipulated the young emperor to take the throne, and although she tried in every possible way to consolidate her power and worked tirelessly to help the young emperor in the Linchao Dynasty, the young emperor did not appreciate her. In the year BC, the young emperor gradually grew up and knew that his biological mother had been killed by Empress Lü, and he said angrily, not understanding the sinister nature of the court: "How can the Empress Dowager kill my mother?" In the future, when I grow up, I will definitely avenge my mother! When Lü Hen heard of this, he immediately imprisoned him in the Yongcang Palace, killed him soon after, and installed Liu Yi the Prince of Hengshan as emperor.
Years later, Lu Xi was killed.
Jia Nanfeng: Good jealousy and good adultery
Status: Empress Sima Xin, Emperor Hui of the Western Jin Dynasty
Vicious index: ★★★ ☆☆
Jia Nanfeng was born in a famous family, and her father, Jia Chong, was a famous minister of the Jin Dynasty. Jia Nanfeng was born thick, short, black, with a strange ugly appearance, a warty mole behind his eyebrows, and a hot-tempered, cruel and cold-blooded.
Jia Nanfeng's mother is jealous by nature, and her sister is famous for being debauchery, which has caused her not only jealousy, but also lewd personality. She not only killed dissidents with the hands of assassins, but even stabbed the prince's pregnant concubine with a sword halberd, causing the baby to fall to the ground with a blade, which was miserable.
Jia Nanfeng also became more and more debauched in life. Originally, she did not like her husband very much, complaining that he was bored and incomprehensible. Therefore, she had long been fornicating with officials who could freely enter and leave the palace, such as the imperial physician Ling Cheng Cheng and others. Since she held power, she had no scruples and wantonly searched for male pets for her lewd pleasure. A group of people under her specially looked for a healthy boy everywhere, secretly sent it to the palace, and was secretly killed after the incident.
A handsome and elegant official working in the southern Yamen of Luoyang City, met an old woman who was dressed well while walking on the street one day. After some rhetoric, the old woman tricked him into a dwelling where he saw only pavilions, rockeries and rivers, as if it were heaven. A noble lady of thirty-five or six years old had been waiting there for a long time, the noble lady was not tall, her skin was blue-black, and there were scars between her eyebrows, she took the hand of the little official and said happily: "It is indeed a Peugeot figure." "Then stay and feast together every day. After staying like this for a few days, the noble lady reluctantly gave him many gorgeous clothes and jewelry, and the official became rich ever since. At that time, thefts often occurred in the southern district of Luoyang, and the sudden wealth of the small officials aroused people's suspicions, and the relatives of the Jia family were also stolen, so they ordered the Yamen to interrogate, and the small officials told the truth about their adventures. The relatives of the Jia family in the audience concluded that it was Empress Jia according to the form of the noble lady described, so they left with a smile, and the officials who participated in the trial also understood it, so they had to end it hastily. This little official may have received special love from Empress Jia, so he was lucky not to be killed.
Liu Yuniang: Greedy murderer
Identity: Empress Li Cunxuan of Later Tang Zhuangzong
Vicious index: ★★★★ ☆
Empress Liu of the Later Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunxuan, nicknamed Yuniang. After Liu was canonized as empress, she amassed money with Li Cunxuan, greedy and miserly. Liu and his father Liu Cer were separated from childhood. When Liu Cer confirmed that the nobleman in the palace was his daughter, he couldn't wait to come to the palace to ask for a meeting. In order to preserve her glory and wealth, Empress Liu did not recognize this poor and sick father, and beat him with a club and drove him out of the palace. The old man passed out in anger, woke up crying, and never heard from again.
Empress Liu was still not satisfied with the possession of countless treasures in the treasury, and also sent people to trade and sell goods throughout the country, profiting from it, becoming the first and only merchant empress in history who did not do her job. In order to sell more goods, the Liu family actually sold dried fresh fruits under their own name "Yuniang", and as soon as the "Yuniang" brand came out, it really had a celebrity effect, and people flocked to it and the business was good. So much so that the firewood and grass sold in the market must be said to come out of the harem.
In the first year, Zhao Zaili first rebelled in Yedu. The rebels soon reached the capital, and Li Cunxuan was shot through the face by a cold arrow during the resistance. After pulling out the cold arrow, he was so thirsty that he looked for water to drink everywhere, and shouted for Empress Liu to wait. At this time, Liu Yuniang saw that the general trend had gone, and instead of visiting Zhuangzong, she asked the eunuch to send him a bowl of buttermilk to drink. According to the legend of the time, anyone who was wounded by a bow and arrow or a blade often felt thirsty and stuffy, and if he drank water, he could be saved; If you drink porridge or buttermilk, you will die faster. As soon as Li Cunfeng drank a bowl, he returned to the west with his life.
Liu Yuniang cleaned up and escaped from the palace with Li Cunwu's younger brother Li Cunwu. She was afraid that Li Cunwo would leave her alone, so she did everything possible to tease Li Cunwo. And Li Cunwu saw that her appearance was still alive and her charm was infinite, so he was willing to fornicate with her, and since then he has been staying and flying all the way. But she was eventually arrested by whistleblowers, and the new ruler ordered her to commit suicide.
Hu Chonghua: Luxury worships the Buddha
Status: Empress Yuanke, Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei
Vicious index: ★★★ ☆☆
Empress Hu Chonghua of the Xuanwu Emperor of Northern Wei lavished her veneration of Buddhism, convinced that Buddhism could alleviate sins. After the dynasty, she spent a lot of money to build monasteries and excavate grottoes, and its construction scale was the largest in history. For example, the construction of a cave temple in Longmen Mountain in Luoyang employed more than 800,000 people before and after; She built the Yongning Temple next to the imperial palace, one of which is a tall tower with high pillars on the tower, which can be seen a hundred miles away from the capital. In view of the loss of a large amount of social wealth caused by Chongfo, ministers Li Chong, Zhang Puhui and others repeatedly went to counsel, but Empress Dowager Hu was stubborn as usual.
Empress Dowager Hu also loved to drink and feast and have fun, and when she was happy, she often rewarded her cronies with a large amount of property. Once, she went up the mountain to play, accompanied by hundreds of people, and in order to have fun, she ordered her subordinates to open the mansion, and ordered the princes, concubines, and princesses to grab them at will, and as a result, a large number of silk drapes were scattered into private homes. Empress Dowager Hu was extravagant, and the dignitaries competed for extravagance and wealth. Gaoyang Wang Yuanyong had male servants and prostitutes, and a meal cost tens of thousands of dollars. King Yuanchen of Hejian and Yuanyong were richer, feeding horses with silver troughs, and feasting guests with onyx bowls, crystal cups, and red jade pots produced in the Western Regions. Zhang Wu Wang Yuanrong saw that he was so angry that he couldn't get up from bed.
In addition, Empress Dowager Hu's personal life was also absurd and unrestrained. The King of Qinghe was handsome, and Empress Dowager Hu took advantage of this to summon him to the harem, not only fornicating with him, but also entrusting him with the power of imperial government. She also kept her head in private, fell in love with a man, Yang Baihua, and feasted and played with him.
Empress Dowager Hu's actions aroused discontent inside and outside the government and the public. The leading general Yuan Cha took advantage of this to stage a coup d'état, kill Yuan Yi, and imprison Empress Dowager Hu. Empress Dowager Hu waited for the opportunity to launch a counterattack, killing Yuancha and regaining power. At this time, the Northern Wei dynasty was in a dirty state. Brutal national and class oppression finally provoked large-scale revolts. Subsequently, Empress Dowager Hu and her cronies poisoned Emperor Xiaoming to death, announcing to the world that the three-year-old Yuanzhao of Lintao would succeed to the throne. When the news came out, the world was shocked, and the government and the public were indignant. The capital governor Zhu Rong took the opportunity to raise troops and go south to capture Luoyang. Empress Dowager Hu saw that the general trend was gone, so she cut her hair into a nun and hid in a Buddhist temple. In April of the first year of Wutai, Erzhu Rong's army entered Luoyang, drowned Empress Dowager Hu and the young emperor in the Yellow River, and killed more than 2,000 ministers of culture and martial arts, which is the famous "change of Heyin" in history. It is also said that Empress Dowager Hu escaped this disaster in disguise and later became a prostitute.
Li Fengniang: Fierce shocker
Identity: Empress Zhao Wei of Song Guangzong
Vicious index: ★★ ☆☆☆
Li Fengniang was the empress of Song Guangzong Zhao Wei. She is jealous by nature. One day, when Guangzong washed his hands, he saw that the hands of the palace maids who served him were particularly white, and he loved them very much, and he couldn't help but reach out and touch them, and praised. A few days later, Empress Li sent someone to send a food box to Guangzong, saying that she had heard that the king liked this object, and the concubine specially took it down to serve the king. Guangzong was very happy to hear this, opened the food box, and was surprised to find that it contained the hands of the palace maid that had been cut off! Shocked, almost fainted.
At that time, in addition to the empress, Guangzong's harem also had concubines such as Huang Guifei, Zhang Guifei, and Fu Jieyu. Huang Guifei was originally the maid of Emperor Xiaozong's Xie Guifei (later empress), and when Guangzong first became crown prince, Emperor Xiaozong gave him the Huang clan because he saw that he lacked concubine service. Emperor Guangzong favored the Huang clan and became a noble concubine after assuming the throne. However, Empress Li really could not tolerate Huang Guifei's favor, so she took advantage of Guangzong's departure from the palace to sacrifice and sent someone to murder Huang Guifei. At that time, Guangzong was already sick in bed, and when he heard the news of Huang Guifei's violent death, he became even more ill. Zhang Guifei and Fu Jieyu were also ordered to remarry commoners because of the queen's jealousy, and they were much luckier than Huang Guifei, who died tragically.
Li Fengniang also separated the relationship between the father and son of Xiaozong and Guangzong several times. When Guangzong first ascended the throne, he did not establish his eldest son Zhao Kuan as crown prince, which made Li Fengniang uneasy. Once, while Guangzong, who had just recovered from illness, was drunk at a banquet, she asked Guangzong to make Zhao Kuan, who had been crowned King of Jia, crown prince to help Guangzong handle government affairs. Guangzong also felt that it was quite reasonable, but he insisted on asking his father to be honored before he could register it. However, Li Fengniang did not listen, and left angrily, and did not allow Xiaozong and others to see Guangzong. Emperor Xiaozong did not see his son for several days, so he asked Li Fengniang about the emperor's illness, and Li Fengniang excused Guangzong for being ill and asked Lijia King Zhao to be crown prince to assist the government. However, Emperor Hyojong believed that Guangzong had only recently ascended the throne and was not even familiar with political affairs, but it was unreasonable to entrust all government affairs to his son, so he rejected this proposal. Li Fengniang felt that Emperor Xiaozong was targeting her everywhere, so she returned to the palace and cried to Guangzong that Emperor Xiaozong did not want to make a crown prince and must have other intentions. Guangzong was kept in the dark, thinking that Hyojong had ulterior motives, so he stopped seeing Hyojong after he was angry. Her attitude towards the Emperor Taishang caused an uproar in the whole dynasty.
In the sixth year of Qingyuan, a person who calculated the trigram pointed out that Li Fengniang would have calamity, so Li Fengniang put on a Taoist robe and devoted herself to the Buddha. It's just that she can't escape this calamity anymore. In June of the same year, Li Fengniang died of illness at the age of fifty-six.
Wan: Pampered and crazy
Identity: Emperor Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen noble concubine
Vicious index: ★★★ ☆☆
Wan was elected to the palace at an early age to serve as the palace maid of Empress Dowager Sun. When she grew up, she became a lady in a siyi, serving Zhu Jianshen, who was still a prince at the time, and gradually developed a personal affair. Wan Zhen'er is plump and gorgeous, and she is alert, and she is very favored by the prince.
However, since the emperor ascended the throne, the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces chose several women for the emperor, namely Empress Wu, Concubine Wang, and Bai, all of whom were young and beautiful, which made Wan Zhen'er deeply jealous and hated.
Empress Wu, facing Wan Zhen'er's eyes, also wanted to rectify her. Once, when Wan Zhen'er was in the meeting, she was arrogant and rude, and she was reprimanded by the empress, but Wan did not show weakness and made a confrontation. The queen was furious, snatched the stick from the eunuch's hand and scolded her staff. In addition to being aggrieved, the Wan clan took the opportunity to complain and coquettish in front of the emperor, and the emperor was angry and abolished the Wu clan and installed the Wang clan as the queen.
In the second year of Chenghua, the Wan clan gave birth to a son and was made a noble concubine. But the child died soon after, and she never gave birth again.
Faced with the young women in the palace, Wan was often at risk, and was so jealous of the favored women of other women that he went crazy, and as soon as he found out which concubine was pregnant, he sent someone to have her aborted in the name of curing the disease. And at this time, the emperor not only did not dare to pursue her, but whispered to her and spoke kindly.
One day, the emperor favored a woman surnamed Ji, and Ji was conceived. The Wan clan ordered a palace maid to go to check, and the palace maid was very conscientious, and reported that it was just a physical illness, and concealed the past for the Ji clan.
Later, when Ji gave birth to a baby boy, he begged the gatekeeper Zhang Min to drown him, but the eunuch could not bear it, so he secretly hid the baby in a secret room to raise it, and after the abolition, Wu often visited and cared for it.
At this time, the emperor had only one son, Yuji, who was nearly two years old, and had just been made crown prince, that is, he was poisoned by the Wan clan. There was no successor, and the emperor was deeply distressed. One day, the emperor lamented in the mirror that he was old but still had no heirs, and the eunuch Zhang Min took the opportunity to speak and tell the truth. The emperor was overjoyed and brought Ji and the child into the palace. After that, the news of the concubine's pregnancy continued to spread in the palace, which made Wan's pain very great. As a result, she became angry with Ji and killed him. The eunuch Zhang Min was deeply afraid of disaster, and after kneeling and praying for the crown prince, he also committed suicide by swallowing gold.
In the twenty-third year of Chenghua, Wan Shi was furious because of the sarcastic words of a palace maid, and hit the palace maid several times with a duster, and fainted when the phlegm blocked the trachea, and then died, at the age of fifty-eight. When the emperor heard that the Wan Clan was dead, he was silent for a long time, and only after a long time did he say: "When Wan Chang is gone, I will die soon!" Sure enough, he died soon after.
The Wan clan went from an ordinary palace maid to an imperial concubine who favored the harem, and she was seventeen years older than the emperor, an example of this being unique in the Ming Dynasty.
Zheng Guifei: Consecutive "big cases"
Identity: Concubine Zhu Yijun of the Mingshen Sect
Vicious index: ★★★ ☆☆
Zheng Shi, the noble concubine of Zhu Yijun of the Mingshen Sect, is delicate and enchanting, and the best at pandering. As soon as she entered the palace, she was crowned a noble concubine by the rank of leapfrogging, and even jumped above Princess Wang Gong, who already had the eldest son of the emperor.
Zheng Guifei wanted to be empress, so she hoped that her son Zhu Changxun would become the crown prince, but the emperor made the eldest son Zhu Changluo the crown prince, which was a heavy blow to Zheng Guifei. In February of the forty-second year of Wanli, Empress Dowager Li died, and Zheng Guifei no longer had any scruples, and single-handedly planned two major murders in the court.
On the evening of the fourth day of the fifth month of the forty-third year of Wanli, an unknown man, armed with a jujube stick, quietly broke into the Ciqing Palace where the crown prince Zhu Changluo lived, injured the eunuch guarding the gate, and rushed straight to the eaves in front of the main hall before being captured by the internal attendants.
It was found that the criminal's name was Zhang Cha, and he confessed that his murder of the crown prince was directed by Zheng Guifei's henchmen Pang Bao and Liu Cheng. The more Zheng Guifei thought about it, the more afraid she became, so she went to the Wanli Emperor and cried and asked to be her master, otherwise, she would die in front of the emperor. After her making such a fuss, sure enough, Wanli Emperor's heart softened, and he asked Concubine Zheng to intercede with the prince. Concubine Zheng arrived at the East Palace, pretended to be very pitiful, sobbed, and bowed down when she saw the prince. After all, the prince was young and had no experience in the political struggle of the court, so he very happily asked his subordinates to draft a will, so that the ministers of the dynasty did not have to entangle themselves more about this matter, since the murderer had already been caught, it was immediately correct and did not involve others.
Years later, Myojin Sect fell ill and died. Crown Prince Zhu Changluo succeeded to the throne for Guangzong, but he died in the day of his reign.
After the attack case was closed, Zheng Guifei saw that the status of the crown prince was unshakable, and for the sake of the future, she tried her best to get close to the crown prince. Concubine Zheng first offered her favorite jewelry to the crown prince, and then chose the most beautiful beauty in her palace to give him. The crown prince began to indulge in wine all day, he was not yet forty years old, but he had already collapsed. By the time he ascended the throne and became emperor, he was already terminally ill. Later, Cheng Li Kezhuo of Hongluo Temple offered a red pill, claiming to be an elixir, and after Guangzong took it, he felt that his spirit had greatly improved. After half a day, Li Kezhuo offered another one, but Guangzong never got up again after serving. As soon as Guangzong died, internal and external officials had to strictly investigate the murderer. But in the end, he only charged Li Kezhuo into the army, and Zheng Guifei, who was inextricably linked with Li Kezhuo, hid over.
As soon as Guangzong died, Zheng Guifei immediately tried to become the empress dowager and obey the government. While temporarily isolating the crown prince from allowing him to ascend the throne and meet with the courtiers, she also instigated his favorite concubine Li Xuanshu not to move out of the Qianqing Palace in order to give orders to the courtiers. However, the officials of the DPRK and China did not buy their accounts, and the ministers announced in the name of Emperor Xizong that Li Xuan's title would be cut off, and Zheng Guifei was also ignored. In July of the third year of Chongzhen, this woman who enjoyed all her life of glory and wealth, and even dreamed of becoming an empress, finally failed to realize her desires and ended her sad life.
Cixi: Indiscriminate killing and seizure of power
Identity: Empress Yi of Qingxianfeng Emperor
Vicious Index: ★★★★★
In the first year, the Xianfeng Emperor died of illness in Rehe Mountain Resort. Before his death, he made his six-year-old son Zai Chun crown prince and succeeded to the throne, and at the same time appointed eight ministers such as Hube Shangshu Sushun to preside over all government affairs. Empress Dowager Cixi, who had a strong desire for power, was unwilling to let power fall into the hands of Sushun and others, and staged a coup d'état to obey the government.
In that year, the Tongzhi Emperor Zaichun had reached the age of eighteen, and according to the feudal rite system, Empress Dowager Cixi had to announce the removal of the curtain and return the government to Tongzhi. But she did not give real power to him, but interfered in politics everywhere, causing the gap between mother and son to become deeper and deeper. Cixi only cared about the promotion of his status and the stability of his power, and rarely caressed and educated his son, resulting in the indulgence and absurdity of Tongzhi's life, and he also went to the people to find flowers and ask for willows, and contracted a serious illness.
After Tongzhi became seriously ill, he realized that he was subject to the Empress Dowager because he was young and had great power. In order not to continue this situation, he decided to install an older nephew to inherit the throne. To this end, he summoned his master Li Hongzao to the palace and wrote his decision into his edict. However, Li Hongzao was afraid of Cixi's power, and after leaving Tongzhi, he immediately went to Cixi's side to snitch. When Cixi took his son's edict, he immediately became angry and tore it to pieces. She ordered the interruption of Tongzhi's medical and food supplies. In this way, within a few days, the Tongzhi Emperor died.
After Tongzhi's death, Cixi tried all kinds of ways to eliminate those who might damage her power, in order to monopolize power. The first was the Tongzhi Emperor's empress Alute. Once, Cixi summoned the empress to the palace and cursed, shouting: "You killed my son, do you still want to be the empress?" You're going to die this heart! The queen returned to the palace and grieved. Cixi personally exerted pressure to make it impossible to live, forcing the empress to a corner; On the one hand, through the empress father, he conveyed her intention to be martyred for Tongzhi. Under Cixi's humiliation, a hundred days after Tongzhi's death, the empress was martyred.
After Cixi forced Empress Alute to death, she decided to poison Empress Dowager Niuhulu. It is said that the Xianfeng Emperor was wary of Cixi during his lifetime, so before he died, he summoned all the concubines, but he did not summon Cixi. Xianfeng also wrote an edict to the empress (Empress Dowager Ci'an), ordering that if Cixi sought power in the imperial court, an edict would be read to remove her. Cixi was very courteous to Cixi, causing Empress Dowager Ci'an to take out this edict and burn it in front of Cixi. Ci'an did this to dispel Cixi's concerns and to persuade Cixi, but instead of receiving kindness, Cixi accelerated her dictatorial process. One day in the year, Cixi sent someone to give Ci'an a box of dim sum, and after Ci'an ate it, he suddenly became ill, and before the doctor could enter the palace for treatment, Ci'an died of poison.
After the Sino-Japanese War, the bourgeois reformists represented by Kang You launched a movement to restore and change the law. Emperor Guangxu's change of law was very hated by Empress Dowager Cixi. On the fourth day of the promulgation of the "Dingguo is an edict", Cixi deposed Weng Tongyong, causing Guangxu to lose his arm, and then took control of the personnel power, ordering that all civil and military attachés who received rewards and were reappointed must go to the Empress Dowager to thank them. In the early morning of the year, Empress Dowager Cixi staged a coup d'état, imprisoned the Guangxu Emperor in Yingtai in Zhongnanhai, re-"disciplined the government", and then hunted down and massacred the restorationists. At this point, the sensational movement to change the law has failed.
Until his death, Cixi still clinged to power. Year, month, and day, Guangxu fell ill and died. Guangxu had no sons, and Cixi immediately made Puyi, son of Zaifeng, the Prince of Alcohol, emperor and Zaifeng regent. Puyi was only three years old at this time, and Cixi could hold power again. However, the next day, Cixi also ended his sinful life.