At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Boxer Rebellion broke out due to the excessive bullying of foreign powers. Help clean up the ocean? In order to call it, it destroyed railways, burned churches and killed foreigners and parishioners, which caused great shock to the powers.
The Qing government headed by Cixi thought that the Boxer Rebellion could be invulnerable and kill all foreigners, so it offered hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to reward the Boxer Rebellion in Beijing and Tianjin, asking them to attack the concession in Tianjin and besiege the embassy in Beijing. At the same time, in June 1900, 2 1, the boxer movement was launched. Declare war? .
In order to put out the anti-imperialist struggle of the Boxer Rebellion and expand its aggression against China, the allied forces of Britain, the United States, France and Russia, led by Seymour vice admiral, invaded Beijing from Tianjin Concession on June 1900.
14 July, Eight-Nation Alliance captured Tianjin; On August 2nd, Eight-Nation Alliance set out from Tientsin along the banks of the Canal and quickly occupied Langfang. /kloc-in the early morning of August of 0/4, Eight-Nation Alliance made a general attack on Beijing, and Cixi summoned Wang Junfei five times in a row, and decided? Out of Beijing? Work? An expedient measure? , declared "hunting westward".
In order to hide her eyes and ears, Empress Dowager Cixi fled all the way to xi 'an with Guangxu, Yulong, Jinfei and Big Brother, under the protection of Ji Shenying 1000 officers and men led by Zhili Governor Ma Yukun.
Wang Wenshao, the minister of the late Qing Dynasty, once recorded that the Queen Mother walked out with tears in her eyes, and her hair was not as good as the hairpin, and Guangxu Mutual Aid Clothes newspaper followed. Jade Dragon, Princess Jin and Big Brother boarded the bus together, and all of them staggered on horseback or on foot to form a retinue team of more than a thousand people. At 8: 00 a.m., they left the west of Di 'anmen from Jingshan West Street and Xizhimen. It was raining in Mao Mao at that time, and my entourage didn't bring rain gear, but they were drenched and miserable.
Therefore, although Cixi fled hastily, she still traveled with a team of thousands of people, but this is not enough compared with the size of her previous palace. Micro-clothes? Yes
As for what to eat along the way, Wu Yongzeng, who was promoted by Cixi for his meritorious service, recorded it in "Hunting in the West of Gengzi". It can be seen that after the initial departure, Cixi and her party were really short of food, clothing, housing and transportation, but in the later period, they had returned to the luxury level in Beijing.
The book records that Cixi and others arrived in Changping when they first set out. It's been a day since the Queen Mother went to bed. People may provide corn to eat. The queen mother cried and the bed cried. It's cold, I want bedding, and the women in the village take it in with cloth. It's still wet. Burn a bean basket at night and lie down with others? .
"From the infiltration city to the fork in the road, they stayed in the broken shop and asked for a bowl of coarse rice and a cup of mung bean soup, but they couldn't find a place." People who flee the country are even more distressed. "
When we arrived at Yulin Fort in Yanqing. Two days ago, the villagers also sent food and clothes, but Cixi and others stayed here for a long time, and the local villagers also hid things and refused to give them to the royal family.
When he fled to Shanxi, the local provincial judge received him, invited Cixi and his party to live in a deep house compound in the north of the village east road, and invited Cixi and others to eat the local specialty mung bean noodles and use mushrooms, fungus, herbs, yellow flowers and other wild vegetables as halogen.
But in Taiyuan, the treatment of Cixi and her party has improved a lot. Cixi lived in Taiyuan for 21 days. Every day, she gives 60 taels of silver to the prince and county king, 30 taels to the concubine, 7 taels to the second-class officials and above, and 5 taels to 2 taels to the third-class officials.
At the same time, Cixi's entourage in Taiyuan increased a lot, including Shaanxi Army, Gansu Army and Sichuan Army. Stand by and guard the road with all your might.
In order to meet the driver, the county magistrate of Xugou County, Shanxi Province redecorated the Sanjin Courtyard of the local rich family, painting it and decorating it. Cixi used red carpets and yellow satin walls wherever she could use or pass, spending a total of 52 thousand silver.
190010/On October 26th, the 73rd day of Cixi's trip, they finally fled to xi 'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province. Cixi, who arrived here, resumed her extravagant and corrupt life. Every meal has more than 100 kinds, and the chefs alone have more than 100 people, and the two palaces spend 200 taels of silver every day.
In Xi' an, Zhou Ying, the richest woman in Shaanxi, provided Cixi with 65,438+12,000 silver, which was inscribed by Cixi? Madam protector? Plaque, and accept her as adopted daughter, from now on, mother and daughter, later named? The death of Mrs. Yipin? .
In the second year, after Li Hongzhang signed the Treaty of Sorrow and Ugliness with1/representatives of various countries, Cixi, who fled in a panic and stayed in xi 'an for nearly a year, finally dared to drive back to Beijing.
At this time, she returned to the palace with tens of thousands of people, and built 37 magnificent palaces all the way from Xi 'an to Beijing.
It is said that in 1902, when Cixi and others took the most luxurious special train and sailed straight from Baoding to Beijing, the civil and military officials and military bands had already waited here.
When the Queen Mother got off the bus, the band played the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", which was ridiculous.
However, Galeries Lafayette in the Qing Dynasty has now regained the royal momentum of arrogance and extravagance, and continues to rule this riddled Qing Dynasty.