The Xianfeng Emperor, Ai Xin Jueluo Yixuan, was Emperor Wenzong of the Qing Dynasty, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty to have actual rule. Thirty years after Daoguang, the 20-year-old Yixuan ascended the throne as emperor for the Xianfeng Emperor. At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, the Xianfeng Emperor was diligent in government affairs and carried out reforms in order to save the turbulent Qing Dynasty and the crisis of imperial rule; but after realizing that his various promising actions could not reverse the current situation of the Qing Dynasty facing internal and external difficulties, the Xianfeng Emperor gave up!
As a generation of emperors, the Xianfeng Emperor not only gave up the salvation of his ancestors, but went farther and farther on the road to the desolate monarch.
The author agrees with the Qing historian Mr. Yan Chongnian's statement that "the Qing Dynasty did not have a dark monarch"; the Qing Dynasty without a dark monarch does not mean that there is no absurd king. And the "best representative" of the absurd emperors of the Qing Dynasty is undoubtedly the Xianfeng Emperor!
Note that the absurdity of the Xianfeng Emperor is completely different from the Kangxi Emperor's "color but not fornication" and the Qianlong Emperor's "color but not absurdity", and his absurdity lies in the bottomlessness of indulgence, in the fact that the country's life and death are still flowing, and even in the special habits of the same sex!
The era of the Xianfeng Emperor was precisely the period of internal and external troubles and the concentrated outbreak of class contradictions in the Qing Dynasty. As the king of a country, the Xianfeng Emperor was very worried and depressed in his heart, and instead of fulfilling the responsibilities that a monarch should do, he plunged headlong into the gentle township and used indulgence to anesthetize himself and deceive himself, hoping to avoid worries.
In the first year of Xianfeng, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was launched, that is, the initial stage when the Xianfeng Emperor tried to change the crisis of rule without success and quickly gave up, the Xianfeng Emperor showed his unusually absurd side.
"The Family of the Grand Master of the Old Summer Palace" contains:
Emperor Wenzong, because of the rise of the Taiping Army in the southeast, was anxious in the center, and he was quite sympathetic to the intention of believing in the king of the lingjun and drinking wine, and he often lived in the garden, and ordered the palace supervisor to go out to find a Han woman to fill Chen. Wen Feng had confidants and slaves, all Han people, one went to Weiyang, one went to Jinchang, and bought four women, all of whom were Yanyan, or Yun took from a prostitute' house, and Emperor Wenzong set up four courtyards to deal with them. For a long time, Emperor Wenzong secretly commanded Wen Feng: "Goo is a lovely child." It's okay to do so. ”
The Xianfeng Emperor had a total of 18 harem concubines with a history in his lifetime, even if in the first year of Xianfeng, many harem concubines had not yet arrived, but the Xianfeng Emperor, who owned the entire imperial palace and even the whole world, had how many women who could be fortunate, it can be imagined. However, this did not meet the huge physiological needs of the Xianfeng Emperor, and he actually ordered people to "go out in all directions to find Han women to fill them", and once reached the level of hunger and non-choice of food.
Note that this is the first year of Xianfeng, and it is the initial stage when the Xianfeng Emperor has just given up to save the imperial rule!
In the second year of Xianfeng, the appetite of the Xianfeng Emperor changed dramatically, and it seemed that women could no longer meet his needs and began to turn to the same sex.
Liang Jiahui version of the Xianfeng Emperor stills
Evaluated by later scholars as "all the imperial court, society, beijing division, and other provinces, no matter how big or small, all are recorded according to what they have heard and seen", the "Wild Record of the Qing Dynasty", which is of great reference value, has this record of the Xianfeng Emperor:
Emperor Wenzong replied that in the year of the salty and abundant season, the world was rotten and almost unmanageable, so Emperor Wenzong killed himself as a woman of alcohol. At that time, there was a young Zhu Lianfen, who looked like a zhu lingguan, a good Kunqu, a delicate throat, and could compose small poems and work on the law. Emperor Wenzong summoned him from time to time.
The "Zhu Lianfen" in the above records was one of the famous Kunqu opera actors at that time, and one of the famous "Tongzhi Thirteen Absolutes". This man, who was 6 years younger than the Xianfeng Emperor, was obsessed with silk bamboo because of his "appearance as a crown of all the lings and a delicate and crisp voice", and was summoned as a male favorite, "summoned from time to time", which became the good of Long yang.
As a man, how much does Zhu Lianfen like men?
There are lu yushi who also have a fox, because it is not common, so they speak bluntly, quote the scriptures, and speak thousands of words.
Zhu Lianfen of the "Thirteen Absolutes of Tongzhi"
After the Xianfeng Emperor recruited Zhu Lianfen as a male favorite, a man who was also fond of Zhu Lianfen, the Xianfeng Dynasty Lu surnamed Yushi, actually took advantage of his imperial official position to fully carry forward Yushi's "outspoken and advice" nature and "asked" Zhu Lianfen from the Xianfeng Emperor!
After the Xianfeng Emperor joked that Lu Yushi was "jealous", he went so far as to solemnly give Zhu Approval in his advisory letter:
"If a dog chews on a bone and is taken away, wouldn't you hate it?" Thanks. ”
A monarch of the tang dynasty actually competed with his subordinate courtiers for a male drama! So absurd, so absurd, so absurd!
In the imperial palace, because of the constraints of the ancestral system and traditional etiquette, the Xianfeng Emperor had some restraints in the end, but if he left the palace, the absurdity of the Xianfeng Emperor would be completely revealed.
In the late Qing Dynasty historian Sun Jing'an's "Qixia Pavilion Wild Ride", there is a record of "Xianfeng courtiers mistakenly eating chinese medicine in the room":
Ding Wencheng official Hanlin, one day, summoned to the Yuanmingyuan. It was too early in the morning, and the servant led him to a hut, sat down, and cried out. Wen Cheng sat for a long time, occasionally stood up, and suddenly saw a plate of pu peaches on the small table, counting more than ten, and the purple jade was like a new pick. When the time is may, there must be no such thing, no difference. The drama is one of them, and the taste is absolutely delicious. In Russia, I felt that my stomach was as hot as fire, and I suddenly grew to a foot long. When he was wearing a gauze robe, he stood tall, and he could no longer hide it, and he was afraid to die.
Who is the exclusive of more than ten grapes that can achieve special effects that can be eaten by Ding Wencheng? Isn't it the exclusive medicine that can be desired by the Xianfeng Emperor in the Yuanmingyuan!
The time record of this incident in the text is not clearly stated, but it is certain that the Xianfeng Emperor indulged himself countless times, resulting in a serious shortage of body, and even took drugs to continue his absurd life.
In addition to special medicines, the Xianfeng Emperor used to enhance his "own ability", as well as deer blood, which was doubly loved by the Qing emperors.
The "History of the Manchu Qing Dynasty" contains:
When Yi Xuan Yu yu, with his voice and color, his body was sick, and his face was always yellow, he asked the healer to cure the disease. The healer said that deer blood can be drunk, and the cover is used to make up for the deficiency of the yang. On the day of the eclipse, he was destined to take blood to advance.
Come to think of it, perhaps the deer blood played such a great role in the Xianfeng Emperor that when the Anglo-French coalition army approached Beijing and the Xianfeng Emperor decided to flee to Rehe, he still "ordered the deer to go". In the subordinates to give "the foreign soldiers have forced the Beijing Division, Fang avoided the Kou is not time, why should the rate be tired." After his advice that it was not too late to drink deer blood, the Xianfeng Emperor still ignored it and insisted that deer blood and concubines were indispensable, and they were taken to the Rehe Mountain Resort together. At the time of the destruction of the country and the death of the family, the Xianfeng Emperor, who had taken refuge in the summer resort, was still "drowning in the sound", and even in the case of "cursing the disease", he still "ordered the deer blood to be taken".
The country can be broken, and a moment of happy life cannot be delayed! If there is such a king, the dynasty will not perish; if it is absurd, it will not collapse in the prosperous years!
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Yuanmingyuan Governor Family, Qing Dynasty Wild Records, Qixia Pavilion Wild Ride, Manchu Qing Foreign History