How did Concubine Zhen die?

Cixi called Concubine Zhen out with the intention of letting her run away with her. As a result, Concubine Zhen cried and their words clashed. Cixi was furious. He said: "Second Manager, what do you do with food? Throw her into the well for me." This statement was told to me by Mr. Sun Yaoting. His master served Guangxu and it was his master who told him so.

It is also recorded in "Zhenfei Weekly" that the statement of the old eunuch Tang Guanqing is similar to this statement. Although he was not present, he heard all the conversations on the other side of the door.

In the opera "The Tears of Concubine Zhen", it is said that she righteously and awe-inspiringly denounced Cixi for betraying the country, and then heroically committed suicide by throwing herself into a well. This view has almost become mainstream in the past few years. But Sun Yaoting said that when Concubine Zhen was about to die, she begged Cixi, but in the end she was cruelly thrown into the well. Now it seems that this is closer to the truth.

According to Sun Yaoting, Xin Xiuming once told him that Cixi later ordered the Jingsi Office to salvage the body of Concubine Zhen.

Concubine Jin once asked Sun Yaoting and a Mu leader to pay homage to the body of Concubine Zhen that had been salvaged. It was first buried in Enjizhuang Eunuch Cemetery. It is said that it was not buried in Chongling until 1913. In other words, they are buried together with Guangxu.

Mr. Na Genzheng said otherwise. He said that Concubine Zhen had a strong personality and was about to jump into the well. Cixi asked Cui Yugui to pull her, but she failed to hold her back. As a result, she jumped into the well and died. As a result, Cui Yugui did not seek old age. Buddha liked him so much that he didn't take him with him when he fled to the west.

Cui Yugui did not follow Cixi and fled westward, but went to Duke Gui's Mansion and begged Grandpa Genzheng, saying that I would be your slave, a cow or a horse, so Grandpa Genzheng took him in. Cui Yugui. As a result, a year or two later, there were two theories. One was that Cui Yugui entered the palace again, and the other was that he went home and ended up unknown.

Concubine Zhen died, and Longyu was not well. After her death, the palace gave her a posthumous title, Queen Xiao Dingjing, which was a "Jing'er" in the palace.

The "eldest brother" who likes to do nonsense

Cixi did two things on her way back to Beijing when she fled west: One was to issue an edict to depose her eldest brother Pu Jun when she arrived in Kaifeng. , Pu Jun's father Duan Wang Zaiyi was deposed and exiled to Xinjiang; the other was that when he arrived in Hebei, he arranged for Ronglu's daughter Guarjia Youlan to be married to Prince Chun Zaifeng.

The eldest brother was born to a cousin of Cixi and Prince Duan Zaiyi. (There is also a theory that he is the third daughter of Guixiang, Cixi’s younger brother. I asked Mr. Na Genzheng, and he said No. Guixiang's third daughter married Zai Shu) and was very close to Cixi.

After the Reform Movement of 1898, Cixi made Pu Jun the "big brother" and wanted to depose Guangxu. As a result, it didn't work out, so Ronglu gave her an idea, saying that if you invite all the foreign ministers to celebrate, it would be done. Unexpectedly, none of the foreign ministers came.

So, I had to put the "eldest brother" in the palace and wait for his successor. At this time, trouble arose. "Eldest Brother" Pu Jun was relatively dissolute by nature. Not long after entering the palace, he became pregnant with more than one maid. He hasn't even become emperor yet, and dragons and grandsons are about to be born.

Cixi could not tell the outside world about her suffering. In order to strengthen Pu Jun's political capital, Duan Wang Zaiyi instigated the Boxer Rebellion. Later, the Eight-Nation Allied Forces wanted to hold Zai Yi responsible, and were forced to have no choice but to depose the "big brother".

Pu Jun’s fate was not good

Zaiyi was first dismissed from the rank, and then another decree came: "Zaiyi indulged in righteousness and boxing, and offended his ancestors. It is not appropriate for Zi Pujun to assume the reserve position and abolish the title of eldest brother."

Zaiyi was sent to the border area. The transportation was not convenient at that time. He was afraid that he would die before getting there, so he quietly defected to Inner Mongolia. Prince Luo. It is understood that this was tacitly approved by Cixi, but foreigners could not know about it. Later, Zaiyi died in Inner Mongolia. There are different accounts. One said that he died in 1922, and another said that he died in 1928. Pu Jun lived a life without security. He fell in love with a young lady belonging to Prince Luo, so he married this princess and lived there temporarily.

Later, when Prince Dun's Mansion was sold, Pu Jun returned to Beijing. It was said that he was rich again, and he was a drummer and an actor. In a few days, he spent all his money and lived in poverty. It was too far and he didn't want to go, so he went to a residence of Prince Luo in Beijing, which is on the east wall of the current Prince Gong's residence. I went there once last year, and the two mansions are very close to each other.

It is said that Pu Jun is very unpopular here. He is poor, domineering, arrogant, extravagant, and has no money. No one likes him. As soon as Prince Luo died, he was thrown into the stable.

In 1942, he died of depression and had no money to bury him. He was temporarily buried in Jiaxing Temple and buried deeply on the spot after liberation. This was the tragic ending of Pu Jun, who almost became the last emperor of China.