Tongzhi, Guangxu, and Puyi were the last three emperors of the Qing Dynasty, and everyone knows that the Qing Dynasty has always pursued the inheritance system of "father dies and son succeeds", but these three have broken this convention. Then these three are not father and son, so what kind of blood relationship is it?
If we want to clarify this issue, we need to start with the Daoguang Emperor. Daoguang had seven sons, of which the fourth was called Yixuan, which was the later Xianfeng Emperor (the first three sons died early); the sixth was called Yiqi, and yes, Prince Gong, because he was more active in thinking, nicknamed "Devil Six"; the seventh was called Yizhen, the later Prince of Alcohol. There was also an old fifth, who had been passed on to a prince very early and did not say more.
Xianfeng had a daughter-in-law, and one was named Cixi. Xianfeng and Cixi had a love crystallization called Zaichun or Tongzhi Emperor. Xianfeng had bad luck, and soon after succeeding to the throne, he encountered the Hong Xiuquan rebellion in the south, and the Hong Tianwang had not yet suppressed it, and the Anglo-French army entered the city of Beijing.
Xian Feng was no longer in the mood to listen to the drama at this time, and fled to the Chengde Summer Resort in a hurry, leaving Lao Liu Yi to deal with the Anglo-French coalition forces. Yi Bi handled it well, but Xian Feng already had a grudge with him, and until his death, he did not allow his super-capable brother to come to the summer resort to reminisce about the past.
XianFeng died, leaving his son Tongzhi with eight ministers and, of course, an ambitious widow (Cixi). Later, Xianfeng's sixth and seventh brothers joined forces with their sisters-in-law (Cixi and Ci'an) to eliminate the eight ministers and control the qing regime.
Old Liu Yibi has been beautiful for many years, but in the end he still has not been able to escape the palm of Cixi's hand, and there are many stories of Yi Bi, and we have the opportunity to talk about it alone. Now let's talk about the old seven Yizhen.
Yi Zhen has many wives and concubines, I mainly say two, one is the Fu Jin Yehenara clan, and the other is the Liu Jia clan. The Concubine Fu Jin Yehenara clan was Cixi's sister and the biological mother of Zai Xiang (Guangxu), and Liu Jia also gave birth to a son named Zai Feng.
After Tongzhi's death, Cixi chose the four-year-old Zai Xiang to inherit the throne, and Zai Xiang became the first and only emperor of the Qing Dynasty to inherit the unification as a brother and a brother. When Guangxu got married, Cixi hardened her niece into an empress, and after Guangxu's death in 1908, she had a new name called Empress Longyu.
Guangxu's front foot died, and Cixi's back foot followed. Before cixi died, she pushed the three-year-old Puyi to the center of the stage. Cixi chose Guangxu to succeed to the throne because of the closeness (blood relation), but why did she choose Puyi?
In fact, the relationship between Cixi and Puyi is not far away, and Puyi's father is Zaifeng. Who is Zaifeng? Guangxu's half-brother. It is strange to say that Cixi and Guangxu are three views of discord, looking at each other unfavorably, but they have extra trust in Zaifeng. Before her death, Cixi gave the young Zaifeng the title of "regent", and Zaifeng became the last regent of the Qing Dynasty.
Before Guangxu died, Zaifeng went to visit once, and it is said that Guangxu asked Zaifeng to "do" yuan shikai in the future. Later, Yuan Shikai was deposed for "foot disease" and did not know whether it was related to Guangxu's last words?
Finally, let's sum up the relationship between these three, Tongzhi is Guangxu's brother (the son of the fourth uncle), Puyi is Guangxu's eldest nephew, and the relationship between the three of them does not seem complicated. But to add Cixi to it, this relationship is not so simple, for example, how many kinds of relationships cixi and Guangxu are, can you figure it out?
In that era of family world, the moment that determined the fate of the empire was sometimes as simple as passing the family!