Daoguang Emperor hesitated in his later years on the issue of Li Chu, The Daoguang Emperor was deeply influenced by traditional culture, and often had doubts about the idea of abolishing the long and young, according to age, the fourth son of the emperor should inherit the throne, but the sixth son of the emperor was clever and clever, and he had a lot of insights in things, so on the issue of who to establish as the heir, the Daoguang Emperor was quite entangled, and finally the Daoguang Emperor decided to pass an examination before his death to solve the problem of the heir. Before his death, the Daoguang Emperor summoned his second son to ask what he thought of the country's major affairs, and when he summoned the fourth son of the emperor, the fourth son of the emperor cried bitterly, which made the Daoguang Emperor quite moved, thinking that it was "a king, a courtier, a father, and a son."
When summoning the sixth son of the emperor, Yi Bi replied very fluently, and his views on major state affairs made Daoguang nod frequently, but it made the Daoguang Emperor have doubts: Are you expecting me to die? So the Daoguang Emperor finally confused before his death, and established the mediocre and incompetent fourth son of the emperor as the heir, which was the later Xianfeng Emperor. The Xianfeng Emperor was very cowardly, but during his reign there were constant problems, the great powers launched the Second Opium War in 1860 and invaded the city of Beijing, and the Xianfeng Emperor had no choice but to flee the capital in a hurry.
On the eve of the escape, the then Lan Guifei and later Empress Dowager Cixi were still relatively bloody, and vigorously advocated That Xianfeng to hold the capital, but the Xianfeng Emperor abandoned hundreds of thousands of people in order to save his life, and eventually died of illness in Rehe, and soon after Xianfeng took the throne, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising broke out, sweeping through eighteen provinces, and the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition team once hit Tianjin and threatened the capital, and the Xianfeng Emperor could not come up with a little way except to cry bitterly with the ministers in the court every day, which showed his ability to govern the country.
Regarding the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, the words in the "Qing Shilu" and the "Qing History Draft" are vague and passed, most people think that the Xianfeng Emperor died of illness, but in fact, the death of the Xianfeng Emperor is far from so simple, so how did the Xianfeng Emperor die? Although the Xianfeng Emperor had a cowardly personality, he was very, immersed in wine all day, and the three major habits of the Xianfeng Emperor eventually gave his life: First, smoking opium, soon after the Xianfeng Emperor took the throne, he became obsessed with opium smoke, and the Xianfeng Emperor was addicted to opium, which eventually caused great damage to the body.
The second is to take aphrodisiac medicine, the Xianfeng Emperor often ordered the imperial doctor to prepare aphrodisiac medicine for it, the "Ten Leaves Wild News" recorded: "There are dozens of kinds of forbidden medicines, so that the first, that is, eunuchs take it, but also can suddenly give birth to humanity." Intercourse with the woman, the medicine is relaxed and the original is restored. The third is to drink deer blood, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Deer blood is mainly impotent, replenishing weakness, and relieving waist pain." "Deer blood was originally a great tonic, but the Xianfeng Emperor himself was weak and unfit to drink deer blood, but he did not care about this, and took pleasure in it, in order to drink fresh deer blood, he asked his ministers to send live deer and raise them in the harem, which became a spectacle for a while.
When he arrived at Rehe, The physical condition of the Xianfeng Emperor was already very bad, coupled with the British and French allied forces entering Beijing, the Qing army was frequently defeated, so that the Xianfeng Emperor was afraid and worried, and finally fell ill and died in Rehe, after the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, Cixi destroyed the eight ministers of Gu Ming and took control of the supreme power of the Qing Dynasty, this couple made the Qing Dynasty a miasma, Cixi finally sent the Qing Dynasty to a dead end, poor Xianfeng Emperor Gui as the king of a country, but died in wine, it is really pitiful!
Reference: "Kiyoshi's Article"