The Empress Dowager Cixi has been a widow for 19 years. Why did only one of the three imperial doctors who checked her pulse survive in the end?

The reason why one of the three imperial doctors who checked the pulse survived was because they did not correctly understand Cixi's position. For Cixi, although she is not afraid of the emperor, she is also afraid of the public opinion of the world, so even if you find her happy pulse, you cannot make it public. After 19 years of widowhood, Cixi became pregnant, whether in politics or other aspects, Enough to be used as capital to deal with the Empress Dowager Cixi.

When Cixi was 26 years old, her husband Emperor Xianfeng passed away. Now Cixi can find another person to marry, but Cixi's era does not allow it, and the great power in Cixi's hands makes Cixi was not afraid of the imperial power, and lived an extremely luxurious life. She even spent 10 million taels of silver to live her own life even when the national treasury was in short supply. It was also rumored that the private life of the Empress Dowager Cixi was extremely chaotic. However, 19 years after Cixi became a widow, when Cixi was 45 years old, a strange thing happened, that is, Cixi became pregnant. One day Cixi felt unwell and wanted to vomit. Upon seeing this, Li Lianying, the eunuch who served Cixi at the time, called the imperial doctor to take Cixi's pulse and check what was going on.

The imperial doctor took the pulse and congratulated the Empress Dowager Cixi on her good fortune. Cixi then beheaded the imperial doctor because he was talking nonsense. Li Lianying found a second imperial physician for Cixi, but this imperial physician also said that Cixi was pregnant. Of course the Empress Dowager Cixi knew what she had done. Emperor Xianfeng had been dead for many years, so she naturally could not admit it, so she also executed the imperial physician. . However, even if she was pregnant, she had to find a way to abort the fetus, so Cixi found another imperial doctor. This imperial doctor did not say that Cixi was pregnant, but that the Empress Dowager Cixi had a bad stomach, so she prescribed an abortion pill. The Empress Dowager Cixi was very satisfied, and even Yu asked the imperial physician to stay as his royal physician, but in the end the imperial physician did not dare to stay and left the palace on the pretext of going home to attend a funeral.

As a doctor, of course the imperial physician must tell the patient the truth, but the imperial physician also needs some flexibility. After all, the head of the imperial physician is in the hands of the person in power. Once something unfavorable to the person in power happens, the imperial physician can naturally be executed.