After Xiao Anzi was beheaded, why didn't Cixi save him
In feudal China, the eunuch system was regarded as the most shameful part of it. Taking advantage of their special status, they can easily become confidants of the emperor and concubines, so as to exert political influence.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the late Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the problem of eunuchs was particularly serious.
The Qing Dynasty, as the last feudal dynasty, exercised strict control over eunuchs, aiming to learn from history and avoid interference in politics. Despite this, there were several well-known eunuchs in the late Qing Dynasty, such as An Dehai and Li Lianying, who were close associates of the Empress Dowager of the West, among whom An Dehai was even more transgressive, and it is said that he was a fake eunuch, and was finally framed to death by the emperor and courtiers, which caused an uproar at the time.
An Dehai, smart and clever since childhood, handsome and handsome, Hebei Nanpi folk spread the custom of sending clever boys into the palace as eunuchs in order to seek wealth. Therefore, An Dehai's parents took the initiative to cleanse their youngest son and send him to the palace.
He first served Emperor Xianfeng, and then served the Empress Dowager Cixi of the West, who liked him very much and called him "Xiao Anzi" on weekdays. In ancient times, if you want to win the favor of your master, it is not enough to flatter and please you, you must have a few unique skills that fascinate your master.
So, Xiao Anzi secretly practiced hard and practiced two stunts that Cixi was very satisfied with. The first is the skill of "wiping the butt". The Qing Palace pays a lot of attention to toilets, there is no real toilet, it is all a toilet, called "Chuan Gong Room".
After Cixi took over, Xiao Anzi used a fine soft tissue sprayed with perfume, the technique was extremely soft and comfortable, and she wiped it clean in two clicks, which made Cixi very satisfied. The second is the skill of foot washing.
Traditional Chinese medicine has clouds, there are major acupuncture points on the feet of the human body, all of which echo many physiological reactions of the human body, and pinching certain hidden acupuncture points can even have a certain degree of sexual pleasure.
The Empress Dowager was young and widowed, so she was very eager to be compensated in some strange way. An Dehai has worked hard in this area, and his skills are extremely high, and he can make Cixi want to stop every time.
In addition to these two items, we don't know if An Dehai has other more "dirty" unique skills. But what is certain is that Cixi doted on him so much that there were rumors in the palace and even among the people, saying that An Dehai was a fake eunuch and had a "concubine".
An Dehai's death was not due to rumors alone, but to political interference. When Emperor Xianfeng was dying, he knew that Cixi was ambitious and worried about his younger brother Yixun, so he appointed the "Eight Ministers of Gu Ming" to take power and suppress Cixi and Yixun.
Cixi and Yixun secretly colluded, and Xiao Anzi played a key role in this process. He became the first meritorious minister in the "Xinyou Coup", and then made new contributions after Cixi took power, becoming a powerful eunuch who could intervene in court politics.
However, Cixi's ** caused dissatisfaction among the government and the opposition, especially her own son Emperor Tongzhi, and Xiao Anzi became the target of public criticism. It is said that Emperor Tongzhi liked to pinch clay figurines when he was a child, and cut off the neck of clay figurines with a knife, shouting "kill Xiao Anzi" in his mouth.
Xiao Anzi's death is inevitable, because he doesn't know how to keep a low profile and forbearance. On the contrary, he became even more rampant, and even made a farce of marrying a wife in 1868, marrying a popular nine-year-old red actor in the capital.
Although this was regarded as a "demonic matter" at the time, it was rewarded by Cixi and congratulated by hundreds of officials in the court. Such behavior further confirmed the rumors that he was unclear with Cixi, and made his fate even more dangerous.
The following year, the big wedding of the Tongzhi Emperor was approaching, and Xiao Anzi was sent to procure items for the wedding. However, this became his fatal cause.
When Xiao Anzi was in Beijing, he did not act in a low-key manner, but waved the demon flag of "Three-legged Wu" and showed off all the way, but in the end, in Dezhou, Shandong**, Governor Ding Baozhen did not report to his superiors, and directly executed Xiao Anzi.
This scene is surprising, because An Dehai is Cixi's cronie eunuch, and Ding Baozhen's behavior is undoubtedly slapping Cixi in the face. It stands to reason that Cixi should be furious and severely punish Ding Baozhen.
However, instead of doing so, Cixi rewarded Ding Baozhen and ordered him to execute An Dehai's attaché as well, and also to seal An Dehai's home in Beijing.
Why didn't Cixi get angry with An Dehai? It turned out that the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty was strict, and An Dehai's many fouls had aroused the anger of the government and the opposition, and Cixi had to be scrupulous. In addition, Ding Baozhen also did one thing to make Cixi feel "whitewashed" for her.
It turned out that after Ding Baozhen killed An Dehai, he opened his pants and "violent corpse", and those rumors about "Xiao Anzi is Chang Yu" were also self-defeating. Cixi felt that this was better, so she had to take advantage of the situation to make a move against her will, showing that she also hated An Dehai's illegal behavior, and skillfully put herself on everyone's side to avoid trouble, and only Xiao Anzi suffered.