In 1860, when night fell, Xianfeng hurriedly pulled a palace maid named "Sichun" into bed together. One of the beauties broke free from Xianfeng's hand and proposed to drink a bowl of deer blood first. Xianfeng was slightly surprised, but quickly agreed to her proposal with a smile. Afterwards, Xianfeng drank it all and entered the inner room with "Sichun".
Although Xianfeng had many concubines, he was still not satisfied, so he selected a wide range of Han women, and finally selected four beauties, named "Xinghuachun", "Wuling Chun", "Begonia Spring" and "Peony Spring".
Due to long-term excessive indulgence, Xianfeng's body is abnormally weak, so he relies on drinking deer blood to strengthen his body. That night, Xianfeng, who drank a bowl of deer blood, immediately felt energetic and entertained with "Sichun" until dawn.
In fact, Xianfeng was weak since he was a child and often had hemoptysis. The court doctor prescribed him a formula that said deer blood could cure the disease. After Xianfeng ascended the throne, he raised hundreds of deer in the palace, and deer blood became his lifesaver.
Later, he drank a bowl of deer blood before even doing anything. When dying, Xianfeng shouted loudly to drink deer blood, but unfortunately, before the deer blood reached his mouth, he passed away. This also became the regret of his life.
Xianfeng is weak and sick, which has a lot to do with his premature birth. At that time, Empress Xiaoquan took a large number of birth drugs in order to compete for the crown prince position, resulting in Xianfeng being born at less than ten months.
Xianfeng was a prince who could not succeed in writing and martial arts, and gained the favor of the Daoguang Emperor by selling misery and filial piety, and eventually usurped the throne.
When Xianfeng first ascended the throne, there was a saying in Beijing that "the lame dragon was sick and the phoenix" was circulating, because Xianfeng had disabled legs and the empress was also very weak.
After Xianfeng came to power, he hoped to do something practical and work hard for the country. However, the occurrence of many natural disasters disrupted his plans.
In the first year of Xianfeng, the Taiping Rebellion broke out, and the Taiping Army began to rebel from Guangxi, occupying most of the territory of the Qing Dynasty in just three years.
People everywhere responded, and a wave of uprisings swept the country. The combat effectiveness of the Qing army was extremely weak, and it could not collapse as soon as it encountered the enemy army. Just when the Qing army was trying its best to kill the Taiping army, natural disasters followed.
In the five years of Xianfeng, the Yellow River burst its banks and flooded, flooding Shandong, Henan and other places, causing a large number of people to be displaced and their lives in difficulty.
Even more frightening, the floods were followed by a massive locust plague that swarmed and shared the sky, destroying vast amounts of farmland and drastically reducing crop yields in dozens of provinces.
This locust plague has become almost the norm during Xianfeng's ten years in power, and it has been affected for a total of seven years.
Xianfeng was a cowardly and mindless emperor who pinned all his hopes on his teacher Du Shoutian. In the battle for the crown prince that year, it was with Du Shoutian's advice that Xianfeng was able to successfully turn over.
Since then, Xianfeng has admired and relied on Du Shoutian even more. However, Du Shoutian was only good at power struggles and had no achievements in governing the country, which made the Qing Dynasty step by step into the abyss in the storm.
Xianfeng was very disappointed, and he found that the Qing dynasty had accumulated so many shortcomings that he alone could not reverse the situation. So he began to beat himself up, using wine and women to numb his emotions.
Because of Xianfeng's powerlessness and helplessness in national affairs, he began to put his energy and mind on draft girls.
In the second year of his accession to the throne, he ordered the selection of beautiful women to enter the palace, and held many events for draft women. Even if the rule of only selecting Mengxiu women was broken, a large number of Han Xiumen were selected to enter the palace.
Xianfeng has thousands of beauties, but he is still not satisfied, and even snatches a drama with his courtiers.
At that time, there was a young lady named Zhu Lianfen in the capital, her beauty was very famous in the capital, and she was good with a royal history surnamed Lu. When Xianfeng learned of this, he often summoned her to the palace to accompany her.
Lu Yushi repeatedly criticized Xianfeng for only having fun, but Xianfeng did not care. He laughed and responded, "Grandpa Lu is jealous!" Then triumphantly replied: "The dog is gnawing bones and being taken away by someone, can the dog not be angry?" ”
However, Xianfeng only wanted to have fun and ran into trouble.
In the tenth year of Xianfeng, when the Anglo-French army invaded Beijing, Xianfeng dumped all the mess to Prince Gong, and he fled to Rehe with his family.
Before leaving, in order to ensure that he had deer blood to drink, he even ordered the deer to be taken to Rehe with him, but the ministers strongly discouraged him and finally gave up the idea.
During his two years in Rehe, Xianfeng did not care about political affairs, and still indulged in pleasure all day. He didn't even bother to approve the recital, and directly threw it to Concubine Yi, who later became Empress Dowager Cixi.
Due to Ben's weak and sickly health, coupled with indulgence, Xianfeng was terrified and died two years after coming to Rehe.
The emperor, who was 20 years old when he ascended the throne, reigned for 11 years, and died at the age of 30, was known as the "Four Nothings" emperor because he lacked vision, courage, talent and action.
At the turning point in history, he left nothing important, only some hilarious jokes.
At that time, the Qing Dynasty was facing a crisis and seemed hopeless. However, Xianfeng's uselessness instead created an opportunity for another politician, Cixi, to survive for nearly half a century.
For Xianfeng, the situation is a mess, but for Cixi, it is a huge opportunity.
As the saying goes, the weak miss opportunities, while the strong create opportunities. If there are no opportunities, the weak will have to keep making excuses.