The dragon chair is the loneliest instrument of torture in the world.
He sat on it at the age of nineteen and died of coughing up blood at the age of thirty-one.
In these twelve years, he used his own life to sing an elegy for a great empire that no one could hear.
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He regarded the emperor as a sinner.
At the age of nineteen, Aixinjueluo Yi Chi sat on the Dragon Throne in the Forbidden City. He thought he held supreme power, but he didn't know that he had become the number one prisoner in the most luxurious cage in the world.
Under the court uniform, there was a thin body that was so pressed by the memorial that he coughed up blood;
Next to the jade seal, there is a beacon lighted simultaneously by the "bandits" of Guangxi and the "foreign barbarians" of Britain and France;
His Majesty Dan is a civil and military man of the Manchu Dynasty who talks about loyalty, but in fact is united in party and opposed to different people.
He once wanted to be a wise emperor of ZTE, but found that all he could do was make desperate choices again and again between "mistakes" and "more mistakes."
He once wanted to turn the tide, but he could only watch the Old Summer Palace lighting up the night sky in the distance, and he was running hastily on the "Northern Hunting" road.
On the bed in the Rehe Palace, filled with the smell of soup and wine, he finally realized:
He was not defeated by Hong Xiuquan, nor by the guns of foreigners, but by this decadent era, and by the innate and inescapable fate of being on the throne.
This is a psychological record of 800,000 words, a complete disenchantment of the word "emperor".
Through the gaps in historical data, we will personally experience his entire process from striving to govern to spiritual escape, and see how a living person burned up under the dragon robe and became the most tragic sacrifice of the empire.
Reader comments
The writing is super good, the various scenes, and the psychological changes of the characters are super delicate. When I read it, the scene immediately came to my mind. Good luck to the author.
The writing is super good, the various scenes, and the psychological changes of the characters are super delicate. When I read it, the scene immediately came to my mind. Good luck to the author.