Watch "The First Half of My Life" and learn about the story of the Qing Dynasty! In this article, we continue to talk to readers about Puyi's autobiography - "The First Half of My Life".
As we all know, after the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, he was succeeded by Yi Guifei's six-year-old son Zaichun as the "Tongzhi Emperor". And Yi Guifei was also honored as the empress dowager because of her mother's son, and her honorific title was "Cixi".
In the beginning, because the Tongzhi Emperor was still young, the two empresses of Ci'an and Cixi jointly bowed to the government, and the so-called "Tongzhi" also had the meaning of joint governance. Of course, although it was nominally the two empresses who jointly assisted the government, in fact, only Cixi was in charge.
In fact, this kind of "auxiliary government system" is not uncommon in the Qing Dynasty, such as the first emperor shunzhi after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and when he was young, he was ruled by Dolgun. When the Kangxi Emperor was young, there were also four auxiliary ministers who jointly managed the government. During the Tongzhi Emperor's reign, his father Xianfeng also left him with eight "ministers of gu order".
However, after the Coup d'état of Xin You, the power of the Qing Dynasty was basically only in the hands of Cixi alone!
In 1873, the Tongzhi Emperor married at the age of 17. According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor could personally govern after the big wedding. Unfortunately, the Tongzhi Emperor had a hard time taking power back into his own hands, but after only two years, he died. At this time, he was only 19 years old, which can be said to have died young.
As for the cause of the death of the Tongzhi Emperor, there have been many rumors in the past hundred years, most of which are very strange and strange, but it is widely spread that he died because of "syphilis".
But the problem is, as the emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, the three palaces, six courts and seventy-two concubines, even if there are not so many, but at least there is no shortage of wives, how can you get such a disease?
Most people's explanation for this is also very simple, that is, he is too absurd. How to say it?
As the king of a country, the Tongzhi Emperor must not lack women in the harem, so it is reasonable to say that there is no need to go out to find flowers and ask for willows, but he is not interested in women in the harem, always with the two eunuchs around him, change into civilian clothes and sneak out of the palace to find flowers and ask for willows, sometimes even very late to come back.
For this reason, at that time, the big red man in Cixi's eyes, Prince Gong Yishi, wrote to Cixi many times to make a small report, saying that this little nephew was disobedient and often ran out to "micro-line". The "micro-line" here actually refers to this special hobby of the Tongzhi Emperor.
In addition, the Tongzhi Emperor also had a very good relationship with a jinshi named "Wang Qingqi" at that time. Although this Wang Qingqi looks like a personable gentleman on the surface, he is actually not a good person, he will only flatter and favor, and the city government is extremely deep.
However, in the eyes of the Tongzhi Emperor, he was a very good man, and he was very fond of him, and even gave him a second official title and allowed him to walk in the inner court.
Wang Qingqi also often took this young emperor out of the palace secretly and went to the red light district in the capital to "have fun", so unhappy. I have to admit that Wang Qingqi is indeed a good hand in this regard, and he must have come to these places before.
However, in the end, the Tongzhi Emperor also paid the price of his life for this special hobby.
In summary, it is a general statement about the death of the Tongzhi Emperor from syphilis. So the question is, did the Tongzhi Emperor really die of syphilis?
On this question, the "last emperor" Puyi seems to have given the answer in his autobiography in his later years!
Puyi clearly wrote in his autobiography "The First Half of My Life": In the history of the wild and the interpretation, the Tongzhi Emperor died because of "flower willow disease" (syphilis). But Puyi did not agree with this conclusion, believing that the Tongzhi Emperor died of "smallpox".
Although getting "smallpox" is not inevitable death, the Tongzhi Emperor was over-stimulated after getting smallpox, which led to the lesion of "pox introspection", and finally died due to ineffective rescue. This is also recorded in Weng Tonggong's diary.
Therefore, in summary, the possibility of the Tongzhi Emperor dying of smallpox is still greater, after all, the former said that he died of "flower willow disease" (syphilis), which is only a reference from folklore and wild history notes.
However, we can be sure that during the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor, the degree of absurdity was even greater than that of his father Xianfeng.
So even if he didn't die of syphilis, if he continued like this, it wouldn't be long before he would die of excessive indulgence, so many people said that he could live to be 19 years old, and he was already a long lifespan!
In fact, there are many similar stories in Puyi's book "The First Half of My Life", and many of the historical questions of the late Qing Dynasty that are difficult for you to figure out can basically be answered in this book. Therefore, this is also one of the must-read books for readers who want to understand the history of the late Qing Dynasty.
Although there are many books on the history of the late Qing Dynasty on the market, I am still more partial to Puyi's autobiography, after all, as the "last emperor" of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi still has a say in the history of the late Qing Dynasty.
Today, I will recommend this historical masterpiece to you, through the narration of the last emperor Puyi, to see the enmity and hatred of the late Qing emperor's family.
This is a 'hardcover collector's edition', the original price of 99 yuan, now the price of the event is only 79 yuan, it is only a meal money, but it can let us understand the life of China's last emperor, Ai Xin Jueluo Puyi, and find out the reasons for the demise of the Qing Dynasty, as well as the true face of society at that time.
Readers who like it can directly click on the link below to buy it!
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I bought the Puyi Hardcover Collector's Edition for the first half of my life at ¥79