During the Qing Dynasty, there was once a woman with the greatest power, this woman was Empress Dowager Cixi, and in the political situation of the late Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi almost controlled the decision-making power of the entire Qing Dynasty. And when the Guangxu Emperor died of a "serious illness" in 1908, the 73-year-old Cixi gradually came to the end of her life.
Before her death, Cixi's physical condition did not allow her to continue to bow to the government. And the Qing Dynasty also urgently needed a ruler, after all, the country could not be without a monarch for a day. However, at this time, Daqing was already a Daqing in a storm, and in this storm, Daqing was crumbling, as if it would collapse immediately.
After Cixi could not take power, she did not choose a strong and capable monarch, but chose a young son who was only 3 years old and helped him to the throne. This person is the last emperor Puyi. This move undoubtedly pushed Daqing into the fire pit. So why did Cixi do this?
In fact, Cixi's establishment of Puyi, who was only three years old, as emperor, was the same as the purpose of Zai Xiang, who was only four years old in the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, as emperor. For Cixi herself, she did not expect to die so soon. Therefore, she once again chose a young emperor as her puppet, and someone as capable and ambitious as Puyi's father Zaifeng obviously did not meet her requirements. Secondly, she also worried that a capable new emperor would affect her "posthumous name" when he ascended the throne. Finally, she had to balance the power of the regent Zaifeng.
And although Zaifeng is Puyi's father, Puyi has been raised in the deep palace since he was a child, and the idea that he has been indoctrinated since he was a child is that the power of the king is supreme. Therefore, even when Zaifeng saw his son, he still had to kneel down and be a subject.
Moreover, in the imperial family, if it is concerned about kinship, Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Shuo are the closest, first of all, Cixi's husband Emperor Xianfeng and Prince Yizhen are brothers, the same son of Daoguang, and secondly, Prince Shuo's concubine Fu Jin Yehenara is Cixi's sister.
In addition, Puyi's mother, Guar Jiashi, was the daughter of Rong Lu, cixi's most trusted minister in her later years, and was also Cixi's dry daughter, and the most important point was that Puyi was young and unable to handle government affairs, and Empress Dowager Cixi could once again bow to the curtain to listen to the government, although she was already terminally ill at this time.
When Cixi arranged for Puyi to inherit the throne, she emphasized that Puyi inherited the throne of Tongzhi, not the throne of Guangxu, in fact, this was only because Empress Dowager Cixi was selfish and did not want her son Emperor Tongzhi to die.
From this we can see that before Cixi's death, she considered everything for herself and did not consider the future of the country, but with her thoughts, I am afraid that she would not have thought that the demise of the Great Qing would be so fast.
However, everything has a causal cycle, Cixi did a lot of things that were not conducive to the country and the nation before she died, so after death, in the mausoleum, she could not sleep peacefully, and could only be excavated by people, disturbing her purity after death.
What do you think about that?