In the late Qing Dynasty, the period of Guangxu in early August 24 can be said to be quite turbulent. On the second day of August, the Guangxu Emperor felt very uneasy in his heart, because he had completely provoked Empress Dowager Cixi, so he issued two edicts, one explicit and one secret. In order to let Kang Youwei and others leave the capital quickly, leaving Qingshan without worrying about firewood. On the 3rd day of August, Kang Youwei and others saw the edict that the Guangxu Emperor had brought out, and Kang Youwei did a daring thing at that time. Originally, he asked Tan Sitong to go to Yuan Shikai and ask him to launch a mutiny and intercept the empress.
At that time, Kang Youwei felt that any obstacles encountered on the road to changing the law could be solved, and he used to feel that the change of law was hindered by the ministers of the DPRK and china, and only a few ministers needed to be killed, but now Empress Dowager Cixi was very strict in prevention and control, and he actually took the risk to ask Yuan Shikai to mobilize troops to launch a coup. How scheming yuan shikai was, how could he easily get his way.
In vain, Kang Youwei was still not dead-hearted, and on the 4th day of August, he visited Itō Hirobumi again and asked him to go to Empress Dowager Cixi to speak well for the Restoration Party, but he did not know how Empress Dowager Cixi could summon an unpopular Oriental. On the 5th of August, Kang Youwei boarded a ship bound for England and fled...
Kang You is timid and arrogant, pushing others out as gunmen when he is bold, and fleeing for his own life when he is timid.
But it was such a person, who was a little luckier, and even the heavens were looking after him. The day after he left Tianjin by boat, Empress Dowager Cixi issued an order to arrest Kang Youwei, and when Cixi learned that Kang Youwei had escaped a day in advance, she was furious and issued another order, ordering the major provinces to go all out to arrest Kang Youwei and make sure to arrest him and return. After Kang Youwei's ship left Tianjin, Rong Lu's subordinate Liu Guanxiong took a speedboat to hunt down Kang Youwei, but just when Kang Youwei was about to be arrested, Liu Guanxiong excused that the fuel for the speedboat was insufficient, and Kang Youwei was deliberately released. When Kang Youwei's ship was about to arrive in Shanghai, there had already been arranged for people to prepare to arrest him, and it was reasonable to say that Kang Youwei at this time should have been unable to escape with his wings, but who knew that at this time, a foreigner appeared and helped Kang Youwei change a ship that was far away from Hong Kong. From then on, Kang Youwei escaped the full arrest of Empress Dowager Cixi.
Later, Kang Youwei went to many places overseas, and also used the excuse of protecting the emperor to make a lot of money and earn a lot of good reputation. But the pit he dug always had to be filled for him, and in the end, the six gentlemen of the Penghu Reform Law filled the pit, and they were all beheaded, just at the mouth of the crowded vegetable market.
Another unlucky person in this incident was the Guangxu Emperor. On the 6th day of the first month of August, Cixi finally couldn't bear it anymore, and in front of the prince's ministers in the main hall, he scolded Guangxu sharply: This world is the Jiangshan that the old ancestors have worked hard to fight, and these ministers are all selected by me for you, and you dare to listen to the rumors of such a rebellious person as Kang Youwei, what kind of change you want to do, and what law can be better than the law left by the old ancestor? You are dizzy, you are a great filial piety to the old ancestors!
Guangxu was so frightened that he couldn't say a word, and could only kneel to the side and shiver. After saying this, Cixi felt that it was not enough, and she poured her anger on the kneeling ministers next to her, pointing at them and scolding: The emperor does not understand things, do you not understand things? Why not admonish him? Was he defeated? Do you really think that I live in the Summer Palace and don't know anything and don't care about anything? I know that people who don't understand things say that I control the government of the dynasty, Muji Sichen, now I know, it's not that I won't let him supervise the country, I can't let him do this, if the old ancestor's Jiangshan is passed into my hands, if it is broken, it is my sin, and you ministers must also bear the responsibility!
Cixi's words were secretly exposed, and the ministers who spoke were dumbfounded, and the reason was on Cixi's side. It should be known that the most important thing for people to fall into trouble is that the villain has fallen into a well, and then a minister argued: It is not that we have not admonished, but that the emperor does not listen to us at all, and only listens to Kang Youwei's words of change of law of those people. At this time, Guangxu thought about defending himself, saying that he did not listen to Kang Youwei all, but only because the foreigners forced people too much, he thought of trying the Western set of political laws. Guangxu did not open his mouth, as soon as he opened his mouth, Cixi just showed off with him, and kept asking him until Guangxu completely lost his measure and was powerless to refute it, cixi finally confirmed the fact that Guangxu was rebellious.
Later, Cixi issued an edict, one was to continue to arrest Kang Youwei, and the other was to decide to re-establish the regency.
This was not the end of it, Cixi did not let Guangxu go, she even wanted to depose the Guangxu Emperor, or it could be said that she secretly ended him. However, at that time, Cixi was deeply trapped in the situation of internal and external relations, and the emperor could not abolish it directly, otherwise there would be a danger of being condemned by various forces.
So what to do? Rong Lu, Cixi's confidant, gave a plan, that is, to set up a stupid disciple as the emperor's eldest brother, because the emperor had nothing to do, so it would be much easier to establish a reserve and depose the emperor. At that time, there was a university scholar named Xu Tong, and he even proposed the title of Deposed Emperor to be called Duke Degong, but you can imagine how sad Guangxu's situation was, not only humiliated but also beaten...
This history is a wake-up call to the world, how much ability to do, do not act arbitrarily in front of reality for any reason, the result is likely to be very miserable!