Happiness and misfortune depend on each other. 185 1 The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement broke out and became the beginning of bad luck. As the chief military minister, his father was appointed as an imperial envoy and sent to suppress the Taiping Army. But no one expected that the uprising was so turbulent that the Taiping Army broke through the encirclement of Cezanne, entered Changsha from Guixiang and approached Changsha.
The ruling and opposition parties were shocked, and Emperor Xianfeng was furious. Cezanne A Cheng, who has just served as the chief military minister for one year, became a scapegoat. Not only was he dismissed, but he was also taken back to Beijing and sentenced to beheading. As the son of Cezanne, Chongqi was also implicated and lost his job. The world is cold, and Chongqi simply studies behind closed doors, studying calligraphy and painters.
Although he has also served as some small officials since then, it was 1864 that finally made him rise. This year happened to be the year when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was wiped out by the Xiang Army. It seems that his life was indirectly changed by this revolution after all.
In this exam, he successfully obtained the status of Gong Sheng. In the subsequent palace examination, the worship of Yi literature thought was like a spring, and the writing was like a god. Eight ministers who read a lot of poems sealed the top ten papers and gave them to the emperor for ranking. At that time, the Tongzhi emperor was only 10 years old, which was mainly decided by Cixi. Cixi approved Chongqi as the first of the ten sealed papers.
In this way, in the history of qing dynasty, the standard-bearer became the top scholar in the imperial examination for the first time, which is also the only person that the Manchu and Mongolian people can finally win the Chinese exam! Later, Chongqi mainly served as the official of the emperor's residence, accompanying the emperor at any time and recording his words and deeds. But his legend has just begun.
Eight years later, Emperor Tongzhi reached marriageable age, and he needed to find a good man from the family of Manchu and Mongolian officials to be the queen. Empress Cian took a fancy to Chongqi's daughter, although Cixi was not satisfied.
But Tongzhi thought it was good, so the marriage was successful. The daughter of Chongqi, Arut, eventually became a queen. In addition, Chongqi's sister was also elected to the palace, and was originally named a concubine. This woman lived to the Republic of China.