Yulong is not only ugly, but also is said to be not elegant enough to treat people. In essence, she was specially arranged by Empress Dowager Cixi to monitor Emperor Guangxu. From the beginning, Emperor Guangxu was very close to her. Between them, they barely performed a scene together on their wedding night and never slept together again.
Compared with Yulong, Zhenfei is superior in appearance and temperament, and her relationship with Emperor Guangxu is also very simple, that is, a simple two of a kind without complicated political purposes.
Jin Fei is an ordinary woman, sandwiched between Jade Dragon Queen and Zhen Fei. More often, she is like a spectator and a decoration.
Speaking of Zhen Fei's tragedy, it is generally said that she was killed by Empress Dowager Cixi. In fact, Zhen Fei is not a fuel-efficient lamp in the harem, and her tragedy is largely caused by herself.
An old maid-in-waiting surnamed Bai once said that Princess Zhen was not a piece of beautiful jade, but a person stained with mud. She also engaged in power and sold officials.
Zhenfei plays politics, so it is understandable that she has the ambition to replace the Jade Dragon Queen and seize her position. That's not all. She also wanted to encourage Emperor Guangxu to seize power from Empress Dowager Cixi in the name of reform and reform, and then become a real power emperor who can stand on his own platform.
It's simple. Maybe it's because I'm young, maybe I'm missing some integrity. Zhen Fei is vain in the harem and covets enjoyment. What if she doesn't have enough money She can only rely on Guangxu's favor to do some business of selling officials and titles.
Selling officials and titles, bad ancestral system, and playing with power cross the bottom line of Empress Dowager Cixi. It can be said that it is inevitable that Yulong will fight with her and Empress Dowager Cixi will clean her up.
According to legend, in order to retaliate against Zhen Fei, the queen colluded with Li and the eunuchs in Zhen Fei's palace and secretly hid a male boot in Zhen Fei's palace in an attempt to falsely accuse Zhen Fei of having an affair.
On another occasion, the Jade Dragon Queen made a big fuss about the material of a dress for Zhen Fei, saying that the material she was wearing was exactly the same as that of a player who entered the palace. To this end, Zhen Fei suffered a court struggle.
In the harem, Zhen Fei was pursued more than once. It is said that because of her extravagance, she wore a cheongsam with a string of pearls and jade, which was caught by Empress Dowager Cixi, so she was courted again.
The logic of Empress Dowager Cixi is that even I can't bear to use so many beads. You are a concubine, so extravagant, what do you want? If you want to be a queen, who sealed you?
Speaking of which, let's talk about jade cabbage.
There is a saying that it is obviously smearing Empress Dowager Cixi. It is said that there is a cabbage among the funerary objects of Empress Dowager Cixi. This rare treasure was originally Zhen Fei's dowry.
Is that really the case?
According to "Notes of Aiyue Xuan", there is indeed a large emerald cabbage with green leaves and a white heart among the funerary objects of Empress Dowager Cixi, and two red and white wasps are carved on the stem.
Unfortunately, in 1928, after Sun Dianying robbed two tombs of Qianlong and Cixi in Qing Dynasty, this unique jade cabbage disappeared.
In this way, the best-looking jade cabbage now hidden in the National Palace Museum in Taipei is not the one that Cixi took away.
Is the jade cabbage in the National Palace Museum in Taipei the dowry of Zhen Fei?
According to Tang, the niece of Zhenfeihe's first wife, Jin Fei, it turns out that this cabbage has been kept in Yonghe Palace in the Forbidden City. Because Yonghe Palace is Jin Fei's bedroom, there is a very popular saying that this cabbage is Jin Fei's dowry.
However, the eunuch of Yonghe Palace said that this jade cabbage was originally a gift from Emperor Guangxu to Zhen Fei. The meaning of cabbage is seamless, and the two bugs on cabbage are taken from the Book of Songs. Nan Zhou? I hope Zhenfei can have more children.
Later, Princess Zhen went to prison and gave this precious treasure to her sister, Princess Jin, to keep it for her, so the cabbage has been kept in Yonghe Palace ever since.
Tang recalled that perhaps the eunuch's statement in the Lama Temple was not accurate, but even so, this cabbage could not be Zhen Fei's dowry. There is a simple reason. When the two sisters married Guangxu together, it was impossible for my sister to have such a priceless dowry, but my sister didn't, which was against the rules.
But strangely, in front of her niece, Jin Fei never said the origin of this cabbage?
Let me talk about these three women in Guangxu first.
Jin Fei lived the longest among the three women. In the year when Princess Eight-Nation Alliance went to Beijing (1900), Empress Dowager Cixi was thrown into a well and killed. The Jade Dragon Queen lived for another three years. 19 12 died of depression in 19 13 years after the fall of the Qing court.
Life in Jin Fei is better. 1924, Feng Yuxiang's forced palace incident happened just after her front foot died in Yonghe Palace.
Some people may ask, why didn't Puyi take this rare jade cabbage away from Yonghe Palace when she left the palace?
Feng Yuxiang forced the palace and only gave Puyi two hours to pack her bags. Puyi has more important things to take away, and he can't help but care about this.
Fortunately, jade cabbage is not completely submerged in the dust of history, which is quite difficult. After all, the Forbidden City went through a period of chaos. At that time, I didn't know how many people wanted to think about the treasures of the Forbidden City, including some respectable people.