In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the Central Plains was already in turmoil, and under the internal and external troubles, the rule of the Qing court was already in jeopardy, like a big tree rotting from the roots, and withering was a foregone conclusion.
At this time, many people of insight were unwilling to accept the established ending, and they ran and shouted one after another, wanting to change the law and try to become stronger.
Emperor Guangxu was also awakened by these shouts, he wanted to be pro-government, and he wanted to save the Qing Dynasty with people of insight, and a vigorous Wuxu reform kicked off.
It's just that what people didn't expect was that this change only lasted for 100 days before it came to an abrupt end, and the change became an irrecontinuable dream after all.
The person who smashed this dream with her own hands was the Empress Dowager Cixi, she was unwilling to lose power, and in order to firmly grasp the power in her own hands, she would rather take the Qing Dynasty to accompany the funeral.
After the failure of the reform, Guangxu also became a caged bird, and he understood that the broken wings could only wait until the death of the Empress Dowager Cixi to regain the ability to soar for nine days.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that he was ahead of Cixi, the Qing Dynasty that he dreamed of realizing the value of life, and he never really owned it.
On the second day after Guangxu's death, the Empress Dowager Cixi followed with a whimper, leaving the Qing Dynasty with not only the loose hearts of the people, but also the three-year-old new emperor Puyi.
Although Cixi's death was not sudden, it also made many people anxious at the time, because according to Cixi's requirements before her death, her mausoleum should be magnificent and there should be enough funeral goods.
It is not an easy thing to prepare these things, but in order to make the dead Cixi "satisfied", the time for burial can only be delayed again and again.
So much so that it took more than a year for Cixi to be able to enter the ground, and when Cixi came out of the funeral, the people who carried the coffin found that the coffin was constantly dripping blood.
This incident made people feel incredible, and Li Lianying told the truth behind it before she died.
In order to find a place for the deceased, people rarely leave their deceased relatives outside.
But for the Empress Dowager Cixi, she felt that she had enjoyed the luxury of the world during her lifetime, and since this was the case, she could not lose her value in another world.
So, long before she died, she began to explain the aftermath, and repeatedly emphasized that the funeral should be luxurious and the funeral goods should be precious, only in this way can she show her identity.
On November 15, 1908, the Empress Dowager Cixi died, but unfortunately, at this time her mausoleum had not been fully built, which was not a big deal, and she buried Cixi directly, and then it could be built, just like Qin Shi Huang, when he was buried in the Qin Emperor's mausoleum, the mausoleum was not completely built, and after Qin II ascended the throne, the construction project continued.
But at this time, another monk jumped out, he pinched his fingers and said to everyone that after he watched the sky at night, this was not a good time to bury the Empress Dowager Cixi, and the next auspicious day was a year later, and only at that time the Empress Dowager Cixi would be buried in order to bless the Qing Dynasty.
Such absurd words made people laugh when they heard it, but the ** of the Qing Dynasty believed it, so while urging the construction of the mausoleum, Cixi was placed in a coffin made of golden silk nanmu for storage.
That's a year.
On November 5, 1909, Cixi's coffin was lifted out of the palace and sent to the Eastern Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty for burial.
It's just that when the coffin was carried out, a strange thing happened that the coffin was dripping blood.
According to the calculation of time, Cixi, who has been dead for a year, is naturally unable to bleed, so what is the matter of dripping blood?
As the last to see Cixi off, Li Lianying naturally knew the ins and outs of this matter, but for a long time, Li Lianying kept silent and did not tell the story until she died.
Before Cixi's coffin was carried out, Li Lianying knew that since there was no cold coffin at that time, the body of the Empress Dowager Cixi would naturally decompose, and even the tightly sealed golden silk nanmu would emit a foul smell.
In order to cover up this smell, Li Lianying thought of spices with long-lasting fragrances, so he ordered someone to open the coffin and scatter all kinds of spices inside.
After that, Li Lianying ordered someone to take the cloth outside the coffin to incense together, in his opinion, no matter how long it takes to walk from the palace to the Qing Dongling, the people along the way will only smell the fragrance.
After all this was done, the funeral procession set off from the palace and went straight to the Qing Eastern Tomb, but Cixi's coffin was too heavy to go fast at all.
Especially after the strange incident of blood dripping on the road, the funeral procession hesitated, fearing that it would cause trouble.
At this time, Li Lianying also secretly beat the drum in her heart, after all, when he put spices in the coffin, he didn't find anything unusual at all, and for the sake of the first thing, Li Lianying decided to open the coffin privately.
That night, Li Lianying called a few bold eunuchs and pushed open Cixi's coffin, and what caught her eye was a large number of bleeding rats.
Obviously, the blood dripping from the coffin belongs to these rats, so how did these rats get into the coffin?
In fact, it is not difficult to understand this, the coffin of the Empress Dowager Cixi was parked in the palace for a year, and during this year, the coffin has long become the home of mice.
After Li Lianying put spices in the coffin, the rats that were originally frightened away were attracted by the fragrance again, and then entered the coffin again in groups when people were not paying attention.
After the coffin was closed, Li Lianying wrapped a very thick cloth outside the coffin, which made there was no air in the coffin, and the rats eventually bled to death due to the lack of air.
Although the coffin of the golden silk nanmu is tightly sealed, the rat blood gathered together can gradually seep out along the edge of the coffin, and then form the phenomenon of blood dripping from the coffin.
It can be seen that this incident is not as ghostly as we think, it is a very normal natural phenomenon.
Li Lianying understood what was going on, and hurriedly ordered someone to clean up the dead rat and close it again, and since then, there has been no blood spilling, and Cixi can be buried in the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty.
It's just that no one could have imagined at that time that a few years later, in order to raise military expenses, Sun Dianying blew up the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty with gunpowder and ransacked Cixi's mausoleum, and countless treasures flowed into the people.