I'm going through a Bio on Empress Dowager Cixi and it explains that when her son, the emperor, died she chose her nephew as the successor as a form of revenge against his father, Yixuan, because then they would be separated. She did this because Yixuan had a eunuch she made friends with killed.
It these circumstances had not influenced the choosing of the next emperor then who may have been chosen and with what consequences?
It these circumstances had not influenced the choosing of the next emperor then who may have been chosen and with what consequences?