According to relevant statistics, the entire Qing Dynasty produced a total of 114 titles, of which only one person was born in the banner, he was Chongqi of the Mongolian Zhenglan Banner, and what people did not expect was that the daughter of this Duke of Yuan, but was appointed as an empress by Tongzhi, becoming the third Empress of the Qing Dynasty to be carried into the Forbidden City from the Gate of the Great Qing, that is, Empress Xiaozheyi.
One day at the beginning of the eleventh year of Tongzhi, the Forbidden City was very lively, it turned out that the Tongzhi Emperor was going to choose a woman, and the importance of this draft was self-evident, and the big marriage partner of the Tongzhi Emperor was to be selected, that is, the Empress of the Great Qing. In the battle for the throne, two showgirls entered the final competition, one was the daughter of The Duke Chongqi of The Yuan, and the other was the daughter of Fengxiu, a member of the Outer Lang Fengxiu.
Mention the family lineage of this Alut clan, then there are some to say, the Alut family is distributed in the Mongolian blue flag of the flag people, this family originally did not have a high status in the flag, the ancestor of the flag into the flag was named Berteyi, from The next five generations of Burtei are white (no official position), until the seventh generation, there was a translator named Jing Hui, Jing Hui has two sons, both admitted to the translation lifter, the brother of these two sons is named Sai Shang'a, it is this Sai Shang A who makes the Arut clan successfully enter the family.
Sai Shang'a was a famous minister during the Daoguang years, and XianFeng became the chief military chancellor after succeeding to the throne, but in the process of fighting with the Taiping Army, Sai Shang'a had the imperial favor, was defeated, and was eventually dismissed from his post, and even his three sons lost their official positions. The third son of Sai Shang'a was named Chongqi, and after Chongqi lost his official position, he went home to study hard, but he did not expect to be hand-picked by Cixi in the early years of Tongzhi, so that the Arut clan once again reached the peak.
The family lineage of another showgirl, Fucha, is even more unusual, and The Fucha is from the Yellow Banner and is the seventh granddaughter of the university Shimaqi. The Yellow Banner Fucha Clan is a famous Noble Family of the Qing Dynasty, there are countless famous figures, such as Ma Qi, Ma Wu, Empress Xiaoxian, Fu Heng, Fu Kang'an, etc., representing the century-old glory of the Fucha Family, although since the Jiaqing Dynasty, the Fucha Family has not had much highlight performance, but after all, they belong to one of the four major families of the Qing Dynasty.
Moreover, both of these showgirls had supporters, the Empress Dowager Ci'an supporting the Arut clan, and the Empress Dowager Cixi supporting the Fucha clan.
Ci'an supported the Aruth clan because they were related, and Ci'an's maternal aunt was the maternal grandmother of the Arut clan, the Nyūrīlu clan, that is, the Arut clan was Ci'an's cousin niece. Why did Cixi support the Fucha clan?
On the one hand, Duanhua the Prince of Zheng, the maternal grandfather of the Arut clan, was once a political enemy of Cixi, and after Xianfeng's death, he was entrusted with an orphan, and eventually lost to Xin You's coup and was given to commit suicide, so Cixi opposed the Arut clan's entry into the middle palace, and if so, she would support others. As for why he took a fancy to the Fucha clan, in addition to the family background of the Fucha clan, it is said that Cixi's mother is also surnamed Fucha, although it is not the same family as this show girl, but after all, it is also somewhat of a reason.
In the end, the decision fell to the Tongzhi Emperor, and what was unexpected was that the Tongzhi Emperor chose the dignified and atmospheric Arute clan, and the beautiful and scheming Fucha clan was named Hui Concubine. The battle for the back seat ended with the victory of the Arut clan.
On September 15, 111 of the Tongzhi Dynasty, the Arut clan was carried from the Great Qing Gate into the Forbidden City and became the new Empress of the Great Qing Dynasty, empress Xiao Zheyi.
It should be said that the Tongzhi Emperor was very satisfied with this empress, and the empress Arut clan was dignified and understanding. However, Cixi was not very satisfied with this daughter-in-law, humiliated her in every way, and even interfered with her and the conjugal life of the Tongzhi Emperor, and there is no record of the contradiction between Cixi and the Aluth clan in the official history, but from the wild history rumors, the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law should be very poor.
So much so that the Arut clan said that he was "carried into the Forbidden City from the Great Qing Gate" to resist Empress Dowager Cixi. Of course, some people say that this sentence was said by Yi Xie, the Prince of Yi, who was the fifth son of the Daoguang Emperor and had served as the Emperor of the Zongren Mansion, and had always been disliked by Cixi, and when Cixi said in front of Yi Xie that the Arut clan was disobedient and wanted to abolish the queen, Yi Xi actually said: "If you want to abolish it and bring it in from the Great Qing Gate, you must also be carried in from the Great Qing Gate." ”
Thirteen years after Tongzhi's marriage, only two years after Tongzhi's marriage, the Tongzhi Emperor died of illness due to smallpox at the age of 19. More than two months later, the Alut clan, who was crowned empress of Jiashun, committed suicide, and is said to have died with a child.
Why did Arut choose to take such a road of no return?
First of all, the Tongzhi Emperor is the biggest reliance of the Alute clan, and now, the Tongzhi Emperor has died, and the Arut clan has a slim future, and it does not know what kind of abuse it will receive, so it will make this decision.
Secondly, after the death of the Tongzhi Emperor, Cixi made Tongzhi's cousin Zai Xiang the Emperor, that is, the Guangxu Emperor, and the Arute clan was made empress of Jiashun, so that Cixi could continue to hang the curtain, and the Arut clan became a decoration.
Finally, the Aluth family was strong, for example, in the later Eight-Power Alliance invasion of China, the Chongqi family was martyred for this, so it is not excluded that the Arut clan was martyred for the Tongzhi Emperor.
What is unexpected is that just a few decades after the Empress of the Qing Dynasty was buried in the Huiling Tomb of the Tongzhi Emperor, she was abused again, it is said that the Arut clan died by swallowing gold, and in the face of the incorruptible body of the Arut clan, the tomb robbers actually made a shameless act of picking up intestines and looking for gold, which is really lamentable.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Grand View of the Wild History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Qing Dynasty, Four Genealogies of the Qing Imperial Family