Regarding the history of the Qing Dynasty, we generally regard 1840 as a key turning point, but the invasion of foreign enemies, which has existed in various dynasties since ancient times, is after all external causes, and the real reasons for the fall of ancient dynasties actually come from within.
The turning point in the history of the Qing Dynasty was actually Emperor Xianfeng, because this buddy broke a lot of rules, such as the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, in order to protect the emperor's dragon body and Sheng'an, the emperor could not sleep with the harem concubines, Xianfeng broke this rule, thanks to a sensible queen Ci'an. As soon as Ci'an heard that Xianfeng and his concubine were too lazy to sleep and couldn't get out of bed again, he immediately changed into the formal dress of the Empress of the Qing Dynasty and took the palace maid to the door of the Palace of Heart Cultivation to recite the Holy Ancestor's hadith loudly. As soon as Xianfeng heard this, he hurriedly got up, washed his face and brushed his teeth.
But just like that, it can only play the role of admonishment, but Xianfeng wants to sleep lazy, but he still can't control it, so he can only wake him up.
Before Xianfeng, the eight emperors of the Qing Dynasty were all civil and military, and they were emperors immediately. When his father Daoguang was the prince, he once led the Ouchi guards to fight hand-to-hand combat with the Tianli Sect personnel who broke into the Forbidden City to assassinate Jiaqing, and won the battle. But starting from Xianfeng, the horse is not riding, the arrow is not **, addicted to wine all day long, and finally died at a young age, the first domino fell, which led to the last three emperors of the Qing Dynasty all ascended the throne at an early age.
In addition, Xianfeng also indulged Cixi. Why do Su Shun, Duanhua, and Zaiyuan hate Cixi? It was because when Cixi was a concubine, Xianfeng actually asked Cixi to help with the criticism, and the ministers of the Military Aircraft Department saw that although it was Zhu Criticism, but the handwriting was Cixi's, they came to ask Xianfeng what was going on, and Xianfeng said that I asked her to approve it, so that Su Shun and these people have no temper at all.
Due to Xianfeng's early death, the education of the Tongzhi Emperor was slack, coupled with Ci'an's doting, it can be said that the Tongzhi Emperor was the worst comprehensive quality among the twelve emperors of the Qing Dynasty, not only short-tempered, but also young and did not study well, under the pretense of surveying the Old Summer Palace project, he paid a visit to the micro-service, and asked Prince Gong's son Zaicheng to take him to visit the Eight Great Hutongs, but he died at the age of 19, and the Qing Dynasty was extinct. During this period, a series of events that affected the court situation, including the Xinyou coup d'état and Jiashen Yishu, led Cixi to the peak of power.
Because of the previous lessons of the Tongzhi Emperor, Cixi's cultivation and control of Guangxu was almost harsh, which led to the special mother and son eventually turned against each other, and triggered a series of historical events, Guangxu was imprisoned, so that the prince of the side branch clan Qing Yixuan took advantage of the loophole and became the first assistant of the military aircraft, after Cixi died, Yixuan in order to deal with the regent Zaifeng, and pulled Yuan Shikai into the gang, which eventually led to the demise of the Qing Dynasty, and this root all started from Xianfeng's lazy sleep.