The Eight-Nation Alliance forced the Qing court to kill Zhao Shuqiao, what happened to Zhao Shuqiao?
In this article, I will talk to you about this topic.
Zhao Shuqiao, Zi Zhanru, Trumpet Qinfang, late Qing Dynasty minister, Shaanxi Xi'an people, jinshi, talented, lifelong impartial law enforcement, once because of the rehabilitation of Wang Shuwen and many other unjust cases and fame, the sound shock of the opposition. At the age of forty-eight, he was promoted to Inspector of Jiangsu, and later promoted to Shangshu of the Great Qing Punishment Department, and from then on he began to take charge of the Military Aircraft Department. In 1899, he also served as the Prime Minister's Minister of State Affairs, and Suncheon Fu Yin and other important positions.
Why was it that such a minister of impartial law enforcement was later targeted by the Eight-Power Alliance? So that he was finally dismissed from his post by Empress Dowager Cixi and ordered to commit suicide? When the Eight-Power Alliance attacked the city of Beijing, it was counterattacked by the Boxers, resulting in a lot of losses for the Eight-Power Alliance. After the end of the war, the imperialist powers blamed this crime of aggression against China on the just struggle of the Qing government. And under this pretext, asking the Qing court to severely punish the culprits who harmed the interests of the people of the countries and countries was actually to put an end to the ministers who supported the Boxer Rebellion.
At that time, Zhao Shuqiao was serving as the Shangshu of the Punishment Department, so he was accused by the imperialist powers of being the culprit. Empress Dowager Cixi, this coward, the main Eight-Nation Alliance is not fighting me, you can do anything, what land is cut, as long as the conditions are put forward, Empress Dowager Cixi is able to meet as much as possible. In this way, in order to meet the demands of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Empress Dowager Cixi had no choice but to dismiss Zhao Shuqiao and others from their posts and kill them. At the beginning, Zhao Shuqiao was dismissed from his post by Empress Dowager Cixi, but later the Eight-Nation Alliance insisted on demanding that Zhao Shuqiao be punished, and Empress Dowager Cixi had no way to order Zhao Shuqiao to be killed.
At that time, Cixi's will was to make a provisional decision, but it is said that later this Zhao Shuqiao was rehabilitated many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases because of his impartial law enforcement, so he won the hearts of the people, and the people were very supportive of him. So as soon as ten passes on, ten passes on a hundred, this matter is spread by the people. So the people of the capital and people from all walks of life came out to ask for Zhao Shuqiao's life, and on the same day, tens of thousands of people gathered on the execution ground to demonstrate, demanding that the Qing government and Empress Dowager Cixi release Zhao Shuqiao.
The terrified Empress Dowager Cixi, who had just experienced a westward escape, no longer wanted to have any mistakes herself, so in order to appease the common people, Cixi put "
Decide
"Changed it to"
Give yourself death
”。 It means not to kill you, but to die yourself! Anyway, how to do Zhao Shuqiao could not avoid death. There was no way, the Eight-Nation Alliance was staring at this matter, and Empress Dowager Cixi did not have a rut, and could not afford to provoke others. Just like this, poor Zhao Shuqiao thought of his own way, Zhao Shuqiao swallowed gold and did not succeed, and took opium, or did not die, and later swallowed a large number of various poisons, and the result was still not dead. The prison officer was stupid at the time, how could this boy's life be so hard!
Later, it was said that there was no way, so he had to use mulberry strips to paste Zhao Shuqiao's whole body and seven tricks, and zhao Shuqiao was suffocated to death, and poor Zhao Shuqiao died like this. In fact, Empress Dowager Cixi's. The original intention was not to kill Zhao Shuqiao, because Zhao Shuqiao had once escorted Empress Dowager Cixi when she fled west, and it was Zhao Shuqiao who escorted Empress Dowager Cixi all the way to Xi'an safely. Moreover, Zhao Shuqiao did not just support the Boxers, he was only implicated in an important position. However, the Eight-Nation Alliance pursued it tightly, and if it were not for the coercion of the Eight-Nation Alliance against Empress Dowager Cixi, perhaps Zhao Shuqiao would not have suffered this disaster.
There is no way, the death of a generation of criminal law ministers Zhao Shuqiao can only prove the corruption of the Qing government at that time, the incompetence of the family Empress Dowager Cixi, but it is a pity that Zhao Shuqiao acted as a scapegoat for the imperialist powers.