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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?
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