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Chapter 74
Why did the emperors of the Qing Dynasty become extinct one after another?
Tongzhi Emperor Zaichun died at the age of 11 without leaving a son and a half daughter. Although the unofficial history once mentioned that the Empress Arut was pregnant with a dragon species, but there is no evidence in the official history, so it cannot be counted. .According to calculations, Emperor Tongzhi held a wedding ceremony in September of the 1872th year of Tongzhi (October 10) and died in December of the 13th year of Tongzhi (January 1875). During this period of two years and three months , he was unable to leave a bit of his own flesh and blood, which is really strange.

Emperor Guangxu was 38 years old when he died, and there was no man and half woman behind him.Emperor Guangxu got married in October of the 14th year of Guangxu (November 1888). Although he was difficult to act politically and was a puppet emperor under the control of Cixi, he still had some independent rights in marriage. Cixi did not interfere in his private life.Moreover, as the king of a country, he at least has a concubine, a few women to accompany him, and his beloved concubine Zhen is always by his side. He still has a relatively large degree of freedom in his sexual life, but it is puzzling that he has no children under his knees. .

As the successor of Emperor Guangxu, Xuantong Emperor Puyi, the last emperor lived to be 61 years old, but he also had no children left.It is indeed shocking that the three consecutive emperors of the late Qing Dynasty did not leave any heirs.

The emperors of three consecutive dynasties did not leave a man and a half woman behind!This is unique in China's feudal history. "There are three unfilial acts, and having no descendants is the greatest." This is true for ordinary families, and even more so for imperial families.An emperor without fertility will be ridiculed by the world.

The emperors of the three dynasties were all extinct, what happened to the Aixinjueluo royal family?People started discussing this one after another, but because the relevant history books and biographies at that time did not record too much about this matter, and it was too long after that, it was difficult to start researching. These three emperors were barren, which became a cloud of suspicion. We can only rely on guesswork and analysis to look at the situation at that time from the perspective of modern medicine.

The emperors of the three dynasties in the late Qing Dynasty did not have children, which is related to the marriage customs of the Manchu royal family.According to the marriage customs of the Manchurian royal family, after the death of the husband, the wife can marry her brother-in-law or other men in the husband's family. This primitive marriage custom regards women as a mating tool.And it was this custom that changed the royal lineage of the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, Nurhachi, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, asked before his death: "After a hundred years of me, my youngest sons and Da Fujin will be adopted by the elder brother." He wanted to give his wife to his son.Not only Nurhachi, the marriages of other royal family members are typical inbreeding or incest marriages.

In the era of Huang Taiji, Prince Su Haoge was the eldest son of Huang Taiji, and Dorgon was Huang Taiji's younger brother, but Haoge's first wife Borjijin was the younger sister of Dorgon's wife. Later, this first wife, the Borjijin family, was accepted by Dorgon as his wife.

Later, in order to deal with the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji actively promoted the marriage between Manchu and Mongolia, hoping to join forces and invade the Central Plains.After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji canonized concubines. Among them, the concubines of the five palaces all came from the Mongolian Borjijin family, and the three concubines were counted as aunts and nephews according to their seniority.According to some statistics, during the reign of Huang Taiji, the Manchu nobles married as many as [-] times with the Horqin tribe of Mongolia.

Shunzhi, like Huang Taiji, also married many times with close relatives or incestuous marriages. The empress of Shunzhi and concubine Shuhui were the two daughters of his same uncle, both his cousins.For the sake of politics, the marriage between Manchu and Mongolian tribes has lasted for a long time.The Great Khan of the Jin Kingdom, the Emperor, King, Baylor and other nobles of the Qing Dynasty not only married Mongolian women, but also married off their own daughters. These chaotic marriages were one of the reasons why the later Qing emperors were infertile.

Of course, the subsequent physical illness of the emperor due to the marriage of close relatives is just a guess. As for the real reason why these three emperors are extinct, it remains to be studied.

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