Secret: Why didn't Empress Dowager Cixi let her son choose a wife?

Empress Dowager Cixi is the mother and widow of the Tongzhi emperor, which is not easy. When Emperor Tongzhi was seventeen years old, Empress Dowager Cixi and Empress Dowager Ci 'an decided to choose a queen for the emperor. There are also many candidates, such as Arut, the daughter of the flag champion, Fu Cha, the daughter of Lang Fengxiu, the daughter of the sheriff, Herschel, the daughter of Cezanne, the deputy commander, and, of course, the daughters of other famous families. For a time, the court was full of flowers and spring.

Emperor Tongzhi was a clever boy who could read and fight since he was a child. His teacher Li Hongzao was also a great scholar at that time. However, his father's early death made him lose his father's love prematurely, and his mother, Empress Dowager Cixi, was intrigued all her life. Therefore, although the Tongzhi emperor did his homework well, he had a bad habit of skipping classes. Empress dowager cixi can sometimes indulge in the struggle for power and interests all day, leaving the heavy responsibility of raising children entirely to others. However, seeing that my son is old, I can't wait any longer. At that time, the title of Tongzhi meant that the Empress Dowager of the two palaces faced Tongzhi, or that the Empress Dowager of the two palaces and ministers were in charge of state affairs. Now that the emperor is old, it is time to lead the country. However, Cixi doesn't want this, and listening to politics is really great. Cixi is an experienced woman. She wanted to hold on to power, but Cian refused. Cian is a woman who does more than one thing. She is too tired to fight in court. She wants to have a rest. How she wished her son Zai Chun could shoulder the heavy responsibility of the country. In fact, she also knew that Cixi was actually the emperor's biological mother.

It's time for the emperor to decide who his favorite woman is, and the emperor is also very excited. He took a fancy to the daughter of the top scholar Chongqi, who is highly educated and handsome. It is said that she can write beautiful articles. This coincides with the Empress Dowager Cian. As the saying goes, a good daughter-in-law can flourish for three generations. Cian also thinks that the young couple are a good match together. But the emperor's mother didn't like it. Cixi thinks that the daughter of Lang Fengxiu, a foreign staff officer, is famous and has a high status, and young people are not stable in doing things. If they get married, they will definitely make their own decisions about the harem. In this way, after the re-election and the selection of concubines, the three main figures disagreed and were once deadlocked. But Cixi is Cixi, and she knows that she can't play hardball at the moment. She thought that her son would always be her own and would definitely listen to her later. As for her daughter-in-law, as long as she holds her tightly, she doesn't know that the side dishes in her hand should be handled by Ci 'an, who told her not to listen to her own mercy. In this way, under the insistence of Ci 'an and Emperor Tongzhi, the crown of the queen fell to the head of the top scholar's daughter Arut, and the others were just concubines and the like. Of course, Fu Cha, whom Empress Dowager Cixi took a fancy to, was named Hui Fei, second only to the empress. The queen is really eloquent. At that time, someone praised her like this: Hui rookie is as beautiful as Hua Zhen recalling her first love. Yu Can turned his back on the country, but he was left-handed in the palace.

However, the married days made Cixi very unhappy, that is, Emperor Tongzhi only liked to play house with Arut and ignored Fu Cha. Cixi felt that the dog man and woman were really not authentic, so she deliberately separated the young couple. Cixi summoned the Tongzhi emperor and said, "Hui Fei is virtuous. Although I am a concubine, I still want to see her as soon as possible. The queen is young and has no manners in the palace, so she should always learn. There is no need for the emperor to enter the palace, which will hinder government affairs. " Cixi seriously interfered with their husband and wife life. Emperor Tongzhi had to listen to Cixi, but he didn't want to get close to Hui Fei, who he didn't like, so he simply lived alone and worked in the Qing Palace.

At that time, the Tongzhi emperor was depressed, and his beloved was not allowed to see his real mother, and he was unhappy when he saw a woman he didn't like. At this time, a clever little eunuch took the Tongzhi emperor out and went outside to visit the flower street and Liuxiang. Emperor Tongzhi hated the red tape in the palace wall and enjoyed it. I don't want to get seriously ill later. Weng Tong wrote in his diary: 1 1 23rd, "Dr. Li and Zhuang are sitting in the office. According to the cloud, the pulse rate is weak, the waist is swollen, the two points are full of pus and fishy water, and the root disc is very large and gradually flows to the back. If the outside collapses, it will be very big. If the inside collapses, it will be hard to say. " On the 28th, I wrote again: Doctor Tai said, "Lumbar collapse, side of mouth. Uncover the plaster, the juice is like an arrow, and the ugly carving is like this. Remember again on the 29th: See "The doctor uncovers the plaster and squeezes pus for it. The pus is half full, white and fishy, swollen, flat below the waist and purplish in color, and seems to be very ill. "Li Ciming's diary also records:" Upward rotation suffers from carbuncle, the neck and abdomen are the same, and they all fester. "In the 13th year of Tongzhi (1874), on December 5th, the Tongzhi emperor died in hall of mental cultivation Palace. After the Emperor Tongzhi left, the queen was unhappy all day and soon followed the emperor, but every cloud of Cixi wiped away her sad tears and embarked on a more dictatorial road.