Why did the driver who drove Cixi quietly block the tubing with cotton wool and declare that the car was scrapped
Xiaobian remembered that I had seen several jokes about Empress Dowager Cixi before, the first was when Cixi first saw the electric light, because she had never touched this kind of foreign thing before, and it was still glowing, so she asked the person next to her, what is this eggplant, why is it so bright? The second was the first time she saw the camera, because the image inside the camera was upside down, and when she looked at the people standing in front of her from the camera, she became very curious and asked how those people had turned upside down. In addition to laughing, she also lamented the backwardness of China at that time, and it was inevitable that Empress Dowager Cixi would make a joke when she saw these Western things for the first time.
Another thing that happened to Cixi is that although cars are very common in contemporary society, almost every family with good conditions will buy a car as a means of transportation. However, during the Qing Dynasty, the person who could own a car must have been a big person at that time. When Yuan Shikai celebrated Cixi's 66th birthday, in order to please Cixi, he tried to find a way to get her a car. At that time, many courtiers presented gifts to Cixi, but Cixi saw this big guy at a glance, and when she heard that this was a "carriage" that could run without a horse, she was very surprised and immediately found someone to show her.
There happened to be a foreigner driver who happened to be present, so he sat in the car and drove the car, and Cixi saw that this car did not use a horse, but also ran very fast, and felt that this gift made her particularly happy, and she would also use it as her own means of transportation. However, the Qing government at that time did not believe in foreigners, so she ordered the search for a Chinese who could drive for her. So a man named Sun Fuling stood out among the many people who learned to drive a car and successfully became Cixi's driver.
In the beginning, Sun Fuling often drove Cixi to play, and Cixi also trusted this young man very much. One day, as soon as he was happy, he rewarded Sun Fu with a bowl of wine, knowing that this was a reward from the empress dowager, so Sun Fu took a bowl of wine and drank it all. We all know that after drinking, people's thinking and adaptability will be subject to heroes, so the law prohibits drunk driving, but people at that time did not understand so much, Sun Fuling continued to drive with Cixi after drinking.
Sure enough, Sun Fuling, due to drinking wine and lack of skill, met a small eunuch on the road, and before he could react, he knocked the eunuch to death. After this incident occurred, it also caused dissatisfaction among the courtiers, and they thought that an ordinary person was actually sitting in front of the empress dowager, which was really out of order.
But Cixi liked this car very much, so she ordered people to remove the seat and let Sun Fuling kneel and drive, but Sun Fuling could not bear to kneel and drive for a long time, also because to avoid the same thing from happening again, so he quietly bet cotton wool on the tubing and falsely claimed that the car was scrapped. To this day, the car remains.