Her biological mother, Empress Dowager Cixi, gave birth to her son, Tongzhi Emperor Zai Chun. From the maid-in-waiting to Empress Dowager Cixi, she racked her brains and tried her best. Therefore, the female characteristics of Cixi are gradually less than her power characteristics. Growing up, she gave her son little care and education, and there was no attachment. When the son grows up, he has a "three views", and the discord between mother and child is an open secret. Later, it intensified and developed into an infighting.
It is said that during the illness of Emperor Tongzhi, the Empress went to the Health Hall. Before the bed of Emperor Tongzhi, she talked about her mother-in-law scolding her and burst into tears. Emperor Tongzhi advised her to endure it, saying that it was promising, and the result was heard by the eyes and ears of Cixi who monitored her son and daughter-in-law! So Cixi once again heard that the queen was going to visit the Tongzhi emperor again, so she eavesdropped on the conversation herself. The young couple's gossip provoked her to rush in angrily, grabbed the queen's hair and raised her hand to beat her up. She was going to call the imperial palace to wait on her, scaring the Tongzhi emperor into fainting and getting worse!
According to the rumor of the eunuch in the Forbidden City, the Emperor Tongzhi paid a visit to the Empress Dowager, and usually spoke for a while there, but couldn't even say a word at his mother's Empress Dowager. After the Tongzhi emperor came to power, Cixi's cronies in North Korea had already formed, and Empress Dowager Cixi had not been very easy to inquire about. If the Emperor Tongzhi didn't ask the Empress Dowager first, it would be impossible at all, and the mood of the Emperor Tongzhi could be imagined.
Second, politics makes it!
As the only son of Emperor Xianfeng, Emperor Tongzhi accepted more orthodox emperors. Originally, he was a kind and promising young man, but he became the tool of his mother's Machiavellianism. Depressed troubles filled the young man's heart. Helpless, he suffered serious physical and mental injuries and had nowhere to vent. Long depression has become a disease!
Empress Dowager Cixi has a strong desire for power and will never tolerate anyone or anything that affects her power. For her, the three cardinal guides, the five permanent members and the ancestral law can only be used to adapt themselves, and they must never be bound by them. In order to preserve her authority and dignity, all relatives, flesh and blood, consorts and ministers should obey me and share my prosperity. This is her life creed, but it is also the fate of the Tongzhi emperor!
According to the ancestral system, the emperor can choose the crown prince from the younger generation, but if there is an heir, he can't listen to politics! Under the pressure of Cixi, the weak body of Tongzhi Emperor finally failed to leave children before his death. She accepted her nephew Zai Tian as her adopted son in advance, and finally she can control Chaogang! Emperor Tongzhi was speechless!
Second, physical inheritance!
In order to win over and defend Mongolia, the Qing dynasty has long implemented the strategy of "Manchu-Mongolian intermarriage". In two hundred years, the upper classes of Mongolia and Manchuria in Guizhou intermarried with each other for more than 500 times, especially in Horqin and Manzhouli, which are geographically close. His father, Emperor Xianfeng, died at the age of thirty-one. Frequent consanguineous marriages have made the Tongzhi emperor rooted in Hongmiao have many "blood genetic effects", and Tongzhi, Guangxu and Xuantong have no children.
Third, medical care!
The Qing Dynasty had long been pretentious and closed to the outside world, lacking scientific and technological exchanges and fresh information, and its medical care was seriously lagging behind. When smallpox was raging, Emperor Kangxi almost had an accident. The Tongzhi Emperor was low in immunity and depressed, but he could not get a scientific and reasonable smallpox treatment plan and did not introduce a "vaccine" from abroad. Therefore, he was seriously ill and could not prescribe the right medicine, which directly led to the premature death of the Tongzhi Emperor!