The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang (Three Volumes)

He once commented on the women of the Qing Dynasty: There was a good woman and a bad woman in the Qing Dynasty. The good woman is Concubine Zhuang, and the bad woman is Ci Xi. This is a three-volume historical novel based on the life of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang. Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang is an outstanding woman in Chinese history. She assisted and trained the two emperors Shunzhi and Kangxi, and made significant contributions to the establishment and consolidation of the Qing Dynasty. This book selects major events such as Fulin's succession to the throne, his entry into the Central Plains, the Queen Mother's marriage, and the pacification of the San Francisco Rebellion. It strives to show the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's all-powerful, foresighted, enterprising, joyful and bloody life, and to feel the historical enlightenment of the distant era. This book is the third volume, "Sorrows and Joys in the Forbidden City": it describes the internal power struggle that unfolded as the Qing Dynasty's regime became more stable, culminating in the complicated marriage fact of "the Queen Mother's marriage."