During the feudal dynasty period, the most enviable was the emperor. Everyone knows that the Emperor is rich and supreme, and is the supreme ruler of the whole country.
Because of this, many people will take great risks to revolt and rebel, hoping to have the opportunity to ascend to the pinnacle of power. However, only a very small number of people have completed this difficult task and become emperors.
If you really become an emperor, can you be satisfied and do whatever you want? Judging from the experience of the Tongzhi Emperor, the situation is completely different from what the world imagined.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="516" > unhappy childhood</h1>
If a person is born in the Imperial House, he is extremely lucky, because he will be able to enjoy the most comfortable life. But at the same time he is unfortunate, and he may also have the most tragic experience.
Throughout history, there have been very few people who have been able to successfully ascend to the emperor's throne, because the fratricide caused by imperial power is not uncommon. Even if they took the throne, there were very few people who could do it, and most emperors performed poorly, even extremely badly.
Moreover, everyone wants to obtain supreme power, and the emperor has naturally become the target of everyone, always vigilant against his own safety, and the slightest carelessness may be tragic. It can be seen that the position of emperor is really not an easy task to do.
The experience of the Tongzhi Emperor almost all the difficulties of the emperor is integrated, and his life seems to be to show people the difficulties of being an emperor.
The Tongzhi Emperor, named Ai Xin Jueluo Zaichun, was the tenth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, his father was the Xianfeng Emperor, and his mother was the famous Cixi. With the death of his younger brother, Zaichun became the only son of the Xianfeng Emperor, and if nothing else, he would inherit the throne, and no one competed with him.
However, the accident still came, only to the Xianfeng Emperor. In the eleventh year of Xianfeng, the Xianfeng Emperor died, and Zaichun, who was only six years old, became emperor, two years younger than when Kangxi succeeded to the throne.
Losing his father at an early age is already a great misfortune in life, and the Tongzhi Emperor who was put on the throne was different from ordinary people because of his different status, naturally he could not spend a carefree childhood like an ordinary child. Such a tragic childhood experience is too cruel for a child who has nothing to do.
Nevertheless, the country cannot be left without a monarch for a day, and since the emperor who ascends the throne is the emperor, regardless of the age of the emperor is only six years old. The little emperor was naturally unable to deal with major state affairs, so the empress dowager played a huge role at this time.
The tragic life of the Tongzhi Emperor had only just begun at this time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="518" > curtain down</h1>
With the ascension of the little emperor to the throne, Empress Dowager Cixi also entered the political arena with the situation of bowing the curtain to the government. She was also on the stage with Empress Dowager Ci'an, but she was a wooden person and was not good at words, so Cixi became the absolute protagonist.
At this time, the Tongzhi Emperor had almost no sense of existence, except for sitting on a dragon chair during the upper court and accepting the worship of hundreds of officials, everything else was almost irrelevant to him. At a young age, he became a veritable puppet emperor, and for eleven years.
Eleven years is enough time for a small seed to grow into a tall tree. During these eleven years, Empress Dowager Cixi fully experienced the charm of power and was deeply immersed in it.
Therefore, although the Tongzhi Emperor gradually grew into adulthood, Empress Dowager Cixi still refused to return to the Tongzhi Emperor on the grounds that "the classics were not completed". It was not until the age of seventeen that the Tongzhi Emperor completed the marriage under Cixi's arrangement. And this marriage is only a political marriage arranged by Cixi.
The Tongzhi Emperor, who had no emotional basis with the empress, did not live happily after marriage. So the Tongzhi Emperor began a very absurd career and began to look around for flowers and ask for willows. And this practice eventually became the main reason for his death at a young age.
Due to the premature loss of his father and the extreme fanaticism of his mother for power, it is conceivable that the Tongzhi Emperor lacked the love of his relatives from an early age. After he got married, he still couldn't get the love he needed from the queen, so he vented his emotions in this absurd way.
His close friend Wang Qingqi also contributed to this matter, so that the Tongzhi Emperor was trapped in the Qinglou and could not extricate himself. Eventually, at the age of nineteen, he contracted a willow disease and died early.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="520" > mired in the whirlpool of history</h1>
Although the Tongzhi Emperor lived for only nineteen years, the Manchu Qing government at that time was in a very turbulent and devastated period.
At that time, China was between the taiping heavenly kingdom and the Boxer Rebellion, and the international community was between the two invasions of the Anglo-French coalition and the Eight-Power Alliance, so the Qing government, which had a little respite, decided to hold a series of New Deal reforms.
Under the leadership of Empress Dowager Cixi, the Qing government hoped to inject new vitality into the country by opening the prime minister's yamen, establishing a new-style school, and building a railway. After a series of reforms, China did show signs of recovery for a period of time, known in history as "Tongzhi ZTE".
Although many of the policies of this period were not presided over by the Tongzhi Emperor, in the whirlpool of history, the Tongzhi Emperor still felt the huge impact of new and old ideas and culture. Growing up in the deep palace since he was a child, when he saw so many new things, his inner changes could be imagined.
As the head of a country, the Tongzhi Emperor naturally hoped that the country could embark on the road of prosperity and strength, and from then on it could truly occupy a place on the world stage. After all, only when the country is rich and the people are strong, can he sit back and relax.
After some changes, the country did not get substantial changes, which disappointed the hopeful Tongzhi Emperor, and the despair after the hope seemed to be the last straw that crushed his spirit.
Unhappy childhoods, uncaring families, marriages without emotional foundations, disillusionment of inner hopes, and all these things occurred in the short nineteen years of the Tongzhi Emperor. It seems that only as an emperor can you have the opportunity to experience such an experience.
If he could choose, I am afraid that the Tongzhi Emperor would be willing to exchange everything he had in exchange for a peaceful and peaceful life, so that he could keep himself away from these disturbances.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="522" > conclusion</h1>
As the saying goes, "If you want to wear a crown, you will be weighed by it." Although the imperial power is the supreme power that people flock to, it is also always in the midst of great crises and disputes.
Even if it is an outstanding emperor, the pain behind it is also incomprehensible to ordinary people. What's more, for emperor Tongzhi, a person who lost his father at an early age and lacked care, the position of emperor was really unbearable for him.
The period in which the Tongzhi Emperor lived was a very special period, and both domestic and foreign countries were suffering huge shocks, and such shocks were also unbearable for him.
Under such circumstances, it is not difficult for the Tongzhi Emperor to behave in such a way. Nineteen years of life like this has been a long time for him.