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Chapter 15 January [-]th
I come to the library.

Today's weather is still cold, compared to the usual crowded, today seems a little quiet.I first searched for books about Qing Dongling and Emperor Tongzhi in the library's computer search system, especially those related to Huiling.Then I came to the reference material reading room. There are relatively few people here, and maybe I can find some things that are not available on the Internet.

Like a headless fly, I searched through the vast sea of ​​historical materials, flipped through various books that recorded the life of Emperor Tongzhi, and found something that I was interested in——

In the 11th year of Tongzhi, preparations were made for the emperor's wedding. The empress selected by Empress Dowager Cixi was only 14 years old. She was the daughter of Fengxiu of Zhenghuang Banner in Manchuria. Her surname was Fucha. She was one of the eight nobles in Manchuria.The empress selected by the Eastern Empress Dowager Ci'an is Arute, the daughter of Chongqi, a native of Mongolian Zhenglan Banner, Minister of the Ministry of Officials. For more than a hundred years, the Manchu and Mongolian people tested Chinese or taught them to write, only Chongqi was alone, and scholars talked about Rong." Arut was two years older than Tongzhi.

Tongzhi didn't fancy the queen chosen for him by his biological mother Cixi, but chose the Alut family chosen by Ci'an.This made Cixi very angry, but Tongzhi always insisted on his choice, and finally got his wish with the support of the Queen Mother.In the end, Arut was canonized as queen, and Fucha was canonized as concubine Hui.

After the wedding, although the emperor and the empress had always been in love with each other, Cixi always obstructed it and repeatedly attacked the empress.According to some folklore, Tongzhi and the empress were forcibly separated by Cixi, so the young emperor couldn't bear the loneliness, so he secretly ran out of the palace to look for flowers and willows. It was too late when the doctor came for a consultation, and finally Emperor Tongzhi died in pain at the age of less than 20.

As for Empress Alut, she was bullied by Cixi even more after the emperor's death, probably because Cixi believed that the disliked empress killed her only son.Alut felt desperate, so he committed suicide by swallowing gold in the palace on February 21, the first year of Guangxu, only a few months after Tongzhi's death, at the age of [-].

In the fifth year of Guangxu, Emperor Tongzhi and his empress were buried together in Huiling, which was completed in a hurry.During the funeral, Wu Kedu, head of the Ministry of Officials, was moved by the scene, thinking of the short life of the emperor and empress, and couldn't help but feel that fate was tricking people.On the way back to Beijing, he stayed overnight in Jizhou, tossing and turning, and decided to admonish him with death. Before committing suicide by taking poison, he wrote a deadly poem: "In the past 68 years, I have talked about love and loyalty in vain. The cup has been sealed. On the top of the emperor, the former star wants to wish the Ziwei Palace. There are very few seniors, and the gentlemen everywhere are good friends. It’s like a lonely soul yearning for love, and the east of Jimen is in the wind and rain at five o’clock.”

Under the soft white light of the library, I looked at these words, and I couldn't help sighing a few times subconsciously.After a long time, when I decided to leave, I suddenly found an item in the catalog of a book: "Chapter 9 Disaster in Tanglin in 1945".

Why is it 1945? Isn't Sun Dianying's tomb robbery in 1928?I turned to this chapter - it turned out that during the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army and the puppet Manchukuo had protected Dongling (after all, it was the ancestor of Puyi).After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese and Manchurian troops guarding Dongling retreated. A group of bandits and robbers took the opportunity to plunder and excavate Dongling.I couldn't help sighing again, even the talented and generous Emperor Kangxi was not spared, and ended up smashing the coffin and shocking the corpse.

I paid special attention to the theft of Huiling in this chapter. At that time, the tomb robbers opened the underground palace and dragged out the body of Emperor Tongzhi from the coffin. I saw that the emperor who died young had already become a pile of bones.And when people opened the queen's coffin, what surprised them was that the queen's body was intact, as if she had just passed away.They lifted the queen out of the coffin and found that her joints could turn freely, her face was radiant and natural, and her skin was still elastic.The tomb robbers stripped her of all her clothes, took away all the jewelry and funerary objects, left the queen lying naked in the underground palace, and then walked away.Soon, another group of gangsters broke into the underground palace again. They realized that they were one step late, so they frantically used a knife to cut open the poor queen's stomach, cut off her intestines, and carefully searched for the meat that the queen swallowed when she died in love more than 60 years ago. A little bit of gold.A few days later, when another group of robbers entered the underground palace, they found the naked queen with her long hair hanging loose, her complexion lifeless, and no expression of pain, but her stomach had been cut open and her intestines spilled all over the floor...

I couldn't read any more, I closed the book, closed my eyes, and quietly imagined the scene at that time, but I couldn't imagine a dignified queen being dragged out of the coffin, stripped naked, and her intestines spilled all over the floor scenario.People are so greedy that they don't even spare a weak woman who has been dead for many years.If it is said that Cixi's tomb was robbed because she was full of evil and God's retribution, then what is the crime of Tongzhi Empress Arut's?She died at the age of 21. What are 21-year-old girls doing today?I think of Rose, and Huang Yun, they are all over 21 years old, 21-year-old girls go to college and play bowling on the Internet.Alut is a queen, but she is still a confidante, this world is really unfair.

Several hours have passed, and I finally lifted my head from the pile of old papers. I wanted to take a breath of fresh air, but I saw that the sky outside the window was already dark, and the winter night came very early.A librarian came up to me and said, "Sorry, it's closing time."

I left the library slowly.

Night finally fell, and the name of Alut lingered in my mind. In fact, it was not her name, at best it was her surname. In the history books and various materials, the girl’s name was not even left. Does she have a name?There must be, but she is a woman, even if she is a queen, she is not worthy of her own name to survive, at most she will only leave a posthumous title - Empress Xiaozheyi.In the winter night, in a trance, I seemed to be able to see her walking through the streets of Shanghai.

(End of this chapter)