The Eight-Power Alliance's war of aggression against China was the most humiliating war in Chinese history. The war finally ended with the Qing Dynasty's indemnity of 450 million taels of silver, Empress Dowager Cixi rushed to the world powers for her own selfishness, and as a result, she was beaten to death, after the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded and occupied Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an in a hurry, and along the way, she ate and slept in the wind, and in the case of uncertain future, and then chased after the soldiers, she landed in Xi'an, and on the way to Xi'an, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the Boxers to be slaughtered everywhere, and sent people to send watermelons and ice cubes to the foreigners, and said a famous saying that stinks for eternity: measure The material resources of China, and the happiness of the country.
Cixi ran away, but the people of Beijing were killed, the Eight-Nation Alliance burned and looted in the city of Beijing, no evil was done, not only the women of the common people were humiliated, but even the relatives of many princes and ministers could not escape the doom, many of the relatives of the princes and ministers committed suicide, and for a while the city of Beijing was full of corpses, either killed or committed suicide, the former prosperous city of Beijing became a hell on earth, and many ordinary people also took advantage of the fire and robbery to join the ranks of the Eight-Nation Alliance and lead the Eight-Nation Alliance to plunder the homes of those who had a vendetta against themselves. The scene was chaotic.
In order to show off their strength, after the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the Forbidden City, they took pictures everywhere, and several foreigners even sat on the dragon chairs of the Golden Ruan Hall, put on the dragon robe of the Guangxu Emperor, and took pictures to show off, while the Chinese people who led them on the side only watched all this numbly from the side, as if watching a farce that had nothing to do with themselves, and in order to avoid shirking their responsibilities, Empress Dowager Cixi, who was far away in Xi'an, ordered the Guangxu Emperor to issue a decree and beheaded all the ministers who were in the main battle at that time. And said to the minister next to him: It is the head of the Minister of Culture and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, as long as I can be crossed out of the list of war criminals, it is worth it! This sounds really chilling!
The Eight-Nation Alliance acted arbitrarily in the city of Beijing, and later thought that she was incapable of ruling China, so she asked for a huge amount of reparations, and Empress Dowager Cixi was ecstatic after learning the news, thinking that it was nothing more than losing some silver, and when she returned to Beijing, there was a photo taken very infuriatingly, she actually stood downstairs and waved with the foreigners upstairs, and she was beaten but did not have a long memory, which was really shameful! Empress Dowager Cixi, who returned to Beijing, continued to splurge, but soon after Cixi died, and before dying, Cixi moved all the gold and silver jewelry in the Treasury of the Qing Dynasty into her coffin, while the funeral goods in the tomb of the Guangxu Emperor were pitiful, and this time it was tossed and turned, and later the Qing Dynasty simply could not afford to pay the military. It can only be left at the mercy of others, and the country will be destroyed in less than ten years!
When Nurhaci pacified the northeast, Huang Taiji laid the foundation for the Qing army to enter the Central Plains, and later produced a generation of xianhou Xiaozhuang, assisting two generations of saints, but no one thought that in the end, the Qing Dynasty still died at the hands of a woman, which is really ironic!