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The Qing Dynasty ruled China for a total of 260 years, during which time a total of 12 emperors were born.
Among these twelve emperors, some were very long-lived, such as Emperor Qianlong.
According to historical records: Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne at the age of twenty-five, reigned for more than 60 years, and died at the age of eighty-nine! Emperors have a very long life, and naturally they have a very short life!
For example, the Tongzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he succeeded to the throne as early as the age of six, and reigned for a total of thirteen years, but he died suddenly at the age of nineteen!
If you lament the short life of Emperor Tongzhi, if you understand his living habits and then draw conclusions, you will definitely sigh again: Being able to live to the age of nineteen in this way is really a high life!
When Emperor Tongzhi was six years old, he was put on the throne early, but how can a little child know what family and country affairs!
As a result, the Empress Dowager Cixi listened to the government, and all the decision-making power of the country was basically firmly controlled by the Empress Dowager Cixi in her own hands!
Later historians once commented on the Tongzhi Emperor in this way, with a total of five: "lost his father at an early age, had no joy in childhood, lost harmony between mother and child, unhappy marriage, and died young"!
Article 1: Losing his father at a young age is a misfortune in the life of Emperor Tongzhi!
Article 2: There is no joy in childhood, for the emperor's identity is actually normal, born in the emperor's family, he is destined to live in a deceitful childhood!
Article 3: The mother and son are out of harmony, and the desire for power of the Western Empress Dowager Cixi will inevitably cause contradictions with the Tongzhi Emperor, so the twelve-year curtain listening to the government has caused the contradictions between the mother and son to deepen day by day!
Article 4: The marriage was unfortunate, the twelve-year-old Emperor Tongzhi married the Arut clan as the empress under the pressure of the Empress Dowager Cixi, since he was forced to marry, then his marriage was naturally unhappy!
Article 5: Untimely death, in fact, the Tongzhi Emperor had the ability to govern the country, but he died young, and unfortunately died after only one year of pro-government, and the untimely death of the Tongzhi Emperor has various sayings in history.
It is recorded in the official history of the Qing Dynasty: Emperor Tongzhi died of smallpox!
但在中国的民间却流传着另外一些不同的说法，也引起了巨大的争议和讨论，因此，便同时存在了三种不同的说法！
The first theory of the specific cause of death of Emperor Tongzhi is the record in the "Qing Shilu Muzong Shilu", which is specifically recorded in the book: smallpox, vitality is declining, so that you can't afford to keep it"!
Although this sentence is only a few words, it can be regarded as an official record.
In addition, the book also said: "Emperor Tongzhi's lower body is ulcerated, and the stench is unpleasant"!
For such a tragic situation recorded, there are obviously some contradictions and conflicts with the understatement of "smallpox caused great damage to vitality", so some people have expressed varying degrees of suspicion about this!
So it led to the second statement below, for example, in the "Grand View of the History of the Qing Dynasty", a different description was directly used to record this matter.
In this book, it is believed: "The Tongzhi Emperor went out and indulged in adultery, looked for private shops, and after a long time, he was poisoned, and even the imperial doctor could not be cured"!
The book also emphasized that Cixi had a special decree that the Tongzhi Emperor was afraid of smallpox, so people did not dare to discuss it in detail, and the imperial physician could only use medicine to treat pox.
In short, in the book "Grand View of the History of the Qing Dynasty", the author believes that the Tongzhi Emperor died of the virus because he was mixed in the fireworks and willow alleys all the year round!
In addition to the views of the book, Weng Tonggong, an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, specifically believed in his "Weng Tonggong Diary": "Emperor Tongzhi suffered from syphilis, not smallpox"!
In his diary, a lot of evidence was given to prove that Emperor Tongzhi did die of "obscenity"!
As an important minister of the Qing Dynasty, Weng Tonggong's view also made many supporters who believed that Emperor Tongzhi died of syphilis more emboldened!
In the end, they concluded: "Death due to syphilis is extremely absurd, and it really damages the royal face, so it is not included in the historical data"!
The symptoms of smallpox and syphilis are very similar, so the two can mask each other!
If you want to talk about a deeper reason, that is, in ancient China, it was very important to pay attention to "etiquette", the common people were still "etiquette", and the emperor wanted to repent!
The real cause of the death of Emperor Tongzhi was really unceremonial, so it was tampered with by the official.
If the second statement is true, then the real experience of Emperor Tongzhi is actually like this:
"When he was a child, Emperor Tongzhi read the books of sages and sages, and he had great hopes of being a virtuous monarch, but when he was young, he met people who were unladylike, and he was playful by nature, so he completely ruined him"!
As early as when he was six years old, Emperor Tongzhi was put on the throne, and at that time, all the people around him were confidants who had been carefully arranged by Cixi!
When the young emperor gets up and rests, all of this is actually under Cixi's arrangement and control!
However, children who are only six years old are not in their hearts after all, so they are very greedy!
It was only because of a mistake that he got acquainted with Wang Qingqi, and it was this Wang Qingqi who brought Emperor Tongzhi into the abyss!
Emperor Tongzhi in his childhood, with Wang Qingqi for a long time, studied and learned words in the Yangxin Palace every day, in the eyes of the world, these two people seem to be friends who study together and study every day.
But this is not the case: all the two of them study every day in the Temple of Cultivating the Heart are some books of immorality and filth!
Wang Qingqi relied on his expertise in beauty and abundance, gongdu song, and good flattery, and was extremely favored by Emperor Tongzhi!
It wasn't until later that his official rank was also promoted from the fifth rank to the second rank before, and finally even so good that he often slept in the same bed with Emperor Tongzhi!
As the king of a country, he spoiled such a traitorous villain, which laid the bane for the "short life" after Tongzhi!
After the reign of Emperor Tongzhi for eleven years, the Empress Dowager Cixi presided over a marriage for him, that is, to marry the Arut clan as the empress!
However, after Emperor Tongzhi married his wife, instead of restraining his temperament, he became even more dissolute!
He spent all day with Wang Qingqi in wine shops and green houses, and in many early dynasties, the ministers of civil and military affairs did not even see the emperor return at noon in the court.
It is precisely because of this that the government was completely controlled by the Empress Dowager Cixi!
Later, Emperor Tongzhi got acquainted with Zaicheng, the son of Prince Gong Yixin, and under the leadership of Zaicheng, Tongzhi indulged in adultery all day long, looking for private shops in the inner city to indulge in fun!
As the king of a country, the Tongzhi Emperor only drinks and has fun all day long, drunk and dreams of death!
It is said that Zaicheng, the son of Prince Gong Yixin, is also a versatile and skilled son of the sky who is good at riding and shooting, but he is from a rich background and just wants to be a happy prince!
Zaicheng's temperament coincides with Emperor Tongzhi, and when the two were playing together, they even did such a ridiculous thing as "seducing and robbing the clan aunt"!
It is really puzzling and even shocking that a dignified ninety-five lord should act so absurdly!
Later, Cixi saw that these two people were really insulting to the royal face by behaving like this, and finally dismissed Zaicheng from his post and let people be strictly guarded!
And Emperor Tongzhi also suffered from the "flower willow disease" because of his perennial pleasure seeking!
In 1874, that is, the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, Emperor Tongzhi died in the Yangxin Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing, only 19 years old, the temple name Mu Zong, the name Yi Emperor.
Lao Tzu, a great thinker in ancient China, once said in the twelfth chapter of the Tao Te Ching:
"The five colors are blinding, the five tones are deafening, and the five flavors are refreshing. Galloping and hunting is mad, and rare goods are in trouble"!
The ancient sages have soberly told the world some correct truths thousands of years ago, that is, we should stick to our original intention and not be blinded by appearance!
我们始终相信，尚在孩童时期的同治皇帝，他在承继先祖的功绩后，本来也是希望可以励精图治做一位好皇帝的！
However, later, Tongzhi couldn't withstand the various temptations around him, and was gradually swallowed up by desire, and finally forgot his original intention, and ended up with a tragic ending of a "short-lived emperor"!
Of course, there are many people who do not agree with the second "death from syphilis"!
They believe that the untimely death of Emperor Tongzhi is actually more like a long-planned conspiracy!
This leads to the following third statement.
The specific process is: After Emperor Tongzhi succeeded to the throne, the real ruler of the harem was actually Empress Xiaozhenxian, which is what we often called the Empress Dowager in later generations.
The one who really came to listen to the government should be Empress Xiaozhenxian, not the Empress Dowager Cixi!
But Empress Xiaozhenxian is loyal and honest, hard-spoken, and not good at words, and is not suitable for being the ruler of an empire!
When she listened to the government with Cixi, she actually listened to Cixi's opinion in most cases.
Although the Empress Dowager herself is very talkative, her existence is still a huge hidden danger for Cixi!
In 1881, in this year, the forty-five-year-old Empress Xiaozhenxian suddenly died in the palace, and at this time, the Empress Dowager Cixi became the complete ruler of the Qing Dynasty!
However, although she was the one in power at that time, after all, she still had to return the power to her son, the Tongzhi Emperor, in the end, that is: the huge power in the hands of Cixi has a validity period!
At this time, his own son, Emperor Tongzhi, became the "thorn in the eye" and "thorn in the flesh" of the Empress Dowager Cixi!
But Tongzhi is the emperor after all, after all, he is the honor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, and it is impossible to die suddenly like Empress Xiaozhenxian!
Therefore, Wang Qingqi walked into the eyes of Cixi, so Tongzhi was taken into the abyss by Wang Qingqi like the second statement, and finally died of syphilis!
At that time, Emperor Tongzhi was surrounded by Cixi's eyeliner, so Cixi must have known Tongzhi's every move.
Tongzhi's lustful dogs and horses and drunken dreams of death, Cixi must not only see it in her eyes, but also know it very well in her heart!
The reason why Cixi turned a blind eye to Emperor Tongzhi's depravity is most likely because she did all this deliberately!
There is only one purpose: that is, to dispose of his son very obscurely, the Tongzhi Emperor!
In this way, the Empress Dowager Cixi can firmly control the supreme imperial power of the Qing Dynasty forever!
In ancient China, the throne of the emperor represented the supreme power in the whole world, so when faced with such a huge temptation of power, the vast majority of people would be quickly blinded!
And the Empress Dowager Cixi, in order to be able to hold the imperial power forever once and for all, made this decision to let her own son Tongzhi Emperor die hastily after contracting the disease!
It really responds to the old saying: "Those who want to achieve great things can also kill their loved ones"! The means can be described as extremely vicious!
In the face of absolute power, it seems that any local affection has become an insignificant illusion that can be abandoned and betrayed!
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