The Qing Dynasty forbade Manchu-Han marriage, but the Xianfeng Emperor was very fond of Han beauties, especially the three-inch golden lotus of Han beauties.
At that time, the Xianfeng Emperor lived in the Old Summer Palace, and the minister of the Old Summer Palace, Wen Feng, sent two Han henchmen to Yangzhou and Jinchang to buy four Han beauties.
Xianfeng set up tall and spacious courtyards for each of them. These four Han beauties are called "Four Spring", namely Peony Spring, Begonia Spring, Apricot Blossom Spring, and Dhara Spring.
In addition to Sichun, the beauty of the harem is like a cloud, and Xianfeng is also pampered at any time. Among them, his favorite was probably the later Empress Dowager Cixi, that is, Yi Guijian at that time. However, after the arrival of Sichun, Xianfeng's love for Cixi gradually faded.
While Xianfeng was greedy for color, he was also greedy for alcohol, and even greedy ~ smoke, so that his already weak body could not make ends meet, and eventually suffered from "lung disease" due to low resistance. "Lung disease" is tuberculosis, which was almost incurable at the time.
The emperors of the Qing Dynasty respected the way and believed, and the Xianfeng Emperor was no exception.
All monastic emperors were particularly interested in women and intercourse. Faced with hordes of wives and concubines, Xianfeng was still not satisfied.
The attendant told him that there was a widow surnamed Cao in the capital, with black hair and eyebrows, white skin like jade, and extraordinary bed skills.
Emperor Xianfeng was greatly moved when he heard this, and immediately went with his henchmen. This woman is really beautiful, fair skin, eyes like autumn waves, charming and moving, a pair of small feet, wearing a pair of embroidered shoes on her feet, really a natural stunner.
Emperor Xianfeng looked at her three-inch golden lotus, handsome appearance, and was so happy that he couldn't hold back for a while. After trying the techniques of Widow Cao, he brought her into the palace and took her in.
When the palace people saw that the emperor favored her, they called her Niangniang, and in private they still called her Widow Cao.
In this way, Xianfeng went further and further towards the road of death, and finally died of illness in Rehe at the age of only 31.
His son Emperor Tongye told him that he often ran out of the palace to look for wild food, and finally contracted smallpox and died at the age of 19.
The average life expectancy of this father and son is 25 years, it is really self-inflicted and cannot live, and our descendants should take it as a warning!