If we want to say that the female ruler who has the greatest influence on our country, it must be the modern Cixi. She gathered almost all the characteristics of female rulers in history, suspicious, sensitive, cruel and autocratic. It is also because of her that China's modern national luck has been doomed.
and how sensitive is cixi? She is a sheep in the zodiac, and she is very jealous of the word sheep after she takes the position. Ordinary people who mention sheep in front of her will be punished with a felony. At that time, when the palace kitchens cooked mutton, they didn't dare to call it life's core monuments. They could only call it Fu rou or Shou rou.
such a sensitive personality will inevitably lead to a political climate in which eunuchs are in power. After all, only officials know Cixi's preferences best, and naturally they will win her favor. Li Lianying, a well-known second-class eunuch in the late Qing Dynasty, was an official who rose to the top quickly after Cixi came to power.
it stands to reason that according to the royal ancestral system of the Qing dynasty, in order to prevent the officials from making mistakes in the country, the rank of eunuchs should not exceed four at most. But Li Lianying not only stood out among many eunuchs, but also became the first second-class eunuch. Naturally, there were some means. We can see a thing or two from two strange things that happened when Cixi celebrated her 6th birthday.
In p>1895, Cixi celebrated her 6th birthday. The Qing Dynasty just experienced the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, so Cixi must have been unhappy on this birthday. Because Cixi believed in Buddhism, in order to make Lafayette feel better, Li Lianying specially arranged the activities of releasing birds while accompanying Cixi to visit the Summer Palace that day.
However, when Cixi opened the birdcage door, something strange happened. After circling several times in the air, these birds returned to Cixi's side. Li Lianying quickly echoed at the side, "Lafayette, you are a blessing in heaven. These birds don't want to leave you."
It looks rather mysterious, but Cixi has experienced a lot of this trick earlier, and she knows in her heart that these birds were specially trained by Li Lianying. However, in order to make others feel stupid, they deliberately pulled their faces down.
Unexpectedly, Li Lianying had already seen through the inner activities of Cixi. He took the initiative to plop down in front of Cixi and said emotionally, "I have never cheated Lafayette, and these birds have never been trained at all. If Lafayette is suspicious, he can go to Kunming Lake and then release the fish to test God's will. "
So, with a grain of salt, Cixi followed Li Lianying to the lake. Surrounded by everyone, Cixi ordered all the 1 barrels of big carp by the lake to be released. However, strange things appeared again. Not long after these big carp swam forward, they collectively returned to the shore and lined up in a long row in front of Cixi, as if they were worshipping Cixi.
Birds may be able to train, but carp really can't do anything about it. Cixi, who suffered these two strange things in succession, finally believed that she was reincarnated as a Bodhisattva. She was very happy and immediately rewarded Li Lianying.
In fact, Li Lianying knows the truth. Because he not only trained the birds, but also made the carp game. As for why he swam back, the reason was that he asked the little eunuch to buy a lot of fish worms in advance and put them in gauze bags, and then fixed these gauze bags on Kunming Lake with fishing lines. The released fish could not resist the temptation of food and naturally lined up on the shore.
Of course, if Li Lianying knew the truth, he couldn't tell it to Cixi, unless he was suicidal. And there are too many "strange things" like this, and it is not only Li Lianying who fabricates these lies, but all the civil and military officials in and out of the government.
These lies are like a delicate net, which separates Cixi from everything outside the palace. Even though the people were lamenting at that time, Cixi still lived in a false illusion of prosperity. Therefore, it is obviously biased to blame the decline of modern China on Cixi alone, and these "Li Lianying people" who created strange things should also be nailed to the shame column of history.