Chapter 66 Chapter 4 Saved the Qing Dynasty and became a traitor

Going back to the original question, how did the Empress Dowager Cixi rule Li Hongzhang?Li Hongzhang was able to survive among millions of troops, but he was powerless against a woman and child. Where is Cixi's skill and mystery in controlling power?To find this answer, Li Hongzhang's experience in his later years may give us some inspiration. When Li Hongzhang was getting older, Cixi also gradually changed from a little girl during the Beijing coup to an old woman.But the advance of the great powers is becoming more and more urgent day by day. The worst thing is that the blind nationalist sentiment in China is expanding, and the product of this expansion is the Boxer.It can be said that the Boxers were a somewhat ignorant and xenophobic force that arose in Shandong without too many political goals.

The slogan they put forward is "help the Qing Dynasty and destroy the foreign countries", but can they destroy the foreign countries?When the Boxers came to Beijing, they killed 100,000 people in one day, and all ordinary people, wearing glasses, wearing a pen, or holding a piece of paper in their hands, were among those killed. When the Boxers first entered Beijing, their first job was to catch traitors. How did they catch them?Holding a torch and chanting a mantra, throwing the torch and falling on the roof of someone's house is a traitor. People in the house are not allowed to come out, and people outside are not allowed to rescue them. If they dare to rescue them, they will be killed immediately.Because God gave a revelation and told the torch who is a traitor.

Such an ignorant force disturbed the capital, they cut off the connection between Beijing and the outside world, and caused the Empress Dowager Cixi to lose her mind and declare war on the eleven most powerful countries in the world at that time.As a result of the declaration of war, three countries pretended to hide their grandchildren and did not dare to say anything, but there were still eight countries that thought that since you had declared war, we had to fight against you. These countries were the Eight-Nation Allied Forces in history.How many people came from the Eight-Power Allied Forces?The most were Germans, but only 8,000 people, the Japanese were 6,000 people, and the least were Belgians, seven people came!

When the Eight-Power Allied Forces landed, it was the Boxers who fought against them. How many people?Three hundred and twenty thousand people!That is to say, 320,000 Boxers faced 20,000 foreign troops, and the ratio of troops was 16 to 1. However, the Eight-Power Allied Forces went all the way to Beijing with their guns in fear, but they didn't meet the 320,000 people. When they inquired, the 320,000 people went home to cook.Because they only dare to kill innocent people, they dare not touch real invaders.The Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing without Cixi knowing that bullets had already entered the Forbidden City, and Cixi fled in a hurry (see Zhang Jianwei: "The Last Deification", Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House, October 2011, pp. 189, 213).

When Cixi escaped from Beijing, Li Hongzhang was in Guangzhou. At this time, a ship from Guangzhou came. It belonged to the French. There was a person on board. Who was he?The envoy sent by Sun Yat-sen came to Li Hongzhang to discuss one matter with Li Hongzhang-Sun Yat-sen suggested that Li Hongzhang be the president of China.When Li Hongzhang received this suggestion from Sun Yat-sen, he didn't know how to express his position. At this time, Vadsi, the commander-in-chief of the Eight-Power Allied Forces occupying Beijing, also sent someone to Li Hongzhang and made a more sincere suggestion to Li Hongzhang. The whereabouts of the Empress Dowager are unknown, and she is probably dead. How about you, Li Hongzhang, come out to be the emperor of China?

Li Hongzhang is good to hear this, but what if the old lady comes back?no!Whether it is to be the emperor or the president, it must go through democratic elections, and we cannot have the final say!So, headed by Liu Kunyi, governor of Liangjiang, a large group of veterans started a vigorous campaign to elect Li Hongzhang as the president. While this movement was continuing, a huge cold news suddenly came out: the Empress Dowager Cixi came out of the arena again!She ran to Shaanxi.In this way, Li Hongzhang's presidential dream was shattered. Not only could he fail to become president, he had to return to Beijing to negotiate with the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and he had to write three words on his forehead: Traitor.