What kind of emperor was the Guangxu Emperor? The most heard sentence is this, 4 years old succession to the throne at the age of 38 died, 34 years on the throne to empty a lifetime of sighing, a lifetime of weakness and incompetence. Indeed, from the moment Guangxu ascended the throne, it seemed that he was doomed to be a tragedy and become a puppet emperor.
Sympathizing with the weak is the nature of everyone, and Guangxu has long been the object of people's sympathy. Looking at the data, we found such a phenomenon: After Guangxu's marriage, the pro-government showed two extremes, sometimes the spirit was strong, and it was necessary to work hard to deal with the government; sometimes it was listless and depressed all day.
Looking through the diary of Guangxu teacher Weng Tonggong, between the lines, we find a surprising fact, that the emperor who was clean and weak had a completely opposite side: irritability, paranoia, arrogance, and emptiness. As early as the age of 12, Weng Tonggong discovered that the student's personality was abnormal.
For example, on March 15, the ninth year of Guangxu, Guangxu suddenly lost his temper in the harem, the reason is unknown, in anger Guangxu slapped the glass on the clock with his hand, and the broken glass pierced his hand with blood; on June 20, Guangxu became angry again, and also broke the eunuch's face.
If the grumpy personality makes people shudder, as Weng Tonggong wrote in his diary, "The sacred nature is so frightening." "Guangxu is the emperor, and as long as he loses his temper, countless people bow down in front of him. For those eunuch palace ladies, looking up at the emperor was a daunting thing.
The last emperor Puyi wrote in "The First Half of My Life", "Whenever I think back to my childhood, a layer of yellow floats in my mind, palanquins, chair cushions, curtains, etc., all of which are yellow. Knowing that these yellows can only be owned by myself, I have formed a consciousness of solipsism since I was a child. ”
The last emperor Puyi was still like this, and Guangxu was even more so. The deformed growth environment, the sound personality has never been fully developed, and many psychological characteristics still stop in childhood. As a result, Guangxu still shows the same impatience and stubbornness as a child as an adult, hoping to be able to meet a need as soon as he wants it.
Not only that, when Guangxu awakened to his self-consciousness, he was bound to hope to make a difference, but the power was firmly controlled by Empress Dowager Cixi, which made him bitter. According to Guangxu's own medical history record "Pathogens", Guangxu has been left behind for more than 20 years, many times a month in the year before his death, and the winter is more serious, which shows that Guangxu's physique is very bad.
The body's womb made Guangxu even more bitter, and he sent his anger on the imperial doctors, "Repeatedly taking soup medicine, no effect at all", "famous doctor tricks, only so, it is really regrettable!" "Guangxu died violently on November 14, 34, and the illness of Guangxu who was dying was as follows: chest tightness and shortness of breath, continuous coughing, no stool, no rise in clear breath, no turbidity, and fatigue and fatigue in the whole body. In the evening, the limbs were cold, the teeth were closed, and he entered a coma, and died soon after.
References: "Pathogens", "Qing History Draft", "The First Half of My Life"