Secondly, Cixi was quite talented when she was young. She helped Emperor Xianfeng manage government affairs. When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made the Qing Dynasty falter, it was Cixi who turned the tide, strongly recommended Zeng Guofan and other generals to counter the rebellion, and appointed a large number of good ministers to help stabilize the country. Speaking of it, Cixi did contribute to the Qing Dynasty. This is also why after the death of Emperor Xianfeng, the Tongzhi Emperor was young, and most of the ministers in the DPRK recognized Empress Ci 'an and Cixi for listening to politics, and the person in charge of the overall situation was Cixi.
If the first two reasons are composed of Cixi's status and merits, then the last one is the right she gained with the help of external forces. There was an iron law in the Qing Dynasty that forbade the harem to interfere in politics, so all empresses except the former Empress Dowager Xiao Zhuang did not have such rights as Empress Dowager Cixi. Cixi was able to surpass the emperor and even walk from behind the scenes to the stage, becoming the uncrowned king of the late Qing Dynasty, also because of a group of girlfriends she cultivated over the years. These good friends she has made are all powerful people. With their full support, Cixi gradually mastered the state power with her own ability, prestige and skills.
This group of friends of Cixi is actually not a group of people, nor is it just a faction. It's just that she gradually drew them to her side with the passage of time. Among them, Prince Gong, the younger brother of Emperor Xianfeng, and Zeng Guofan, the first famous soldier in the late Qing Dynasty, were the most effective right-hand men of Cixi in his early years.
Therefore, under the restriction of the iron law of the ancestral system in the Qing Dynasty, Cixi was still able to reach the peak of her rights, not only because she had the status of queen mother and the head of the harem, but also because she had a strong ability to win the trust of the public and the support of a diehard.