It is said that during the Guangxu years, Cixi's own sister was about to celebrate her birthday, and the day before her birthday, Cixi came to the harem to prepare many snacks for her sister and sent them to the palace. Receiving Cixi's will, Li San called two people to go to Cixi's sister's mansion together, and just halfway to find that he had forgotten to take the door. According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, people in the palace need to apply for permission to issue documents when they leave the palace, and they also need to record the items they carry with them, and show this document to the person who guards the palace door before they can enter and exit. According to the rules, Li Sanshun needed to re-complete the formalities, but he was troublesome, so he was not ready to make up for it, and this thing was sent to him by Cixi.
This person happened to meet a yellow flag boy from a relatively high birth, and his temper was not very good. These people are all eight flags disciples, and they are afraid of being soft and hard in their daily lives, so naturally they will not put this little slave in their eyes. So he unceremoniously yelled at him, who is going to go. Li Sanshun thought to himself that I was running errands for Cixi, what is your little guard, so he responded that I am sending something to Cixi, do you dare to check it? So the janitor said, "You have no evidence, how do we know that you are sending something for Cixi?" Hearing this, Li San's mouth was not clean, and this janitor was also unwilling to suffer any loss, so several people fought at the door. Li Sanshun saw that many of them could not take advantage, so he twisted his mind and deliberately overturned the cake, creating the illusion that the gatekeeper had brought it down.
Before leaving, Li Sanshun did not forget to intimidate these people, and after a while, he ran to Cixi to make a small report. Cixi has always been the kind of person who is blind and must repay, and also likes to show his authority, this Li Sanshun reported the case, Cixi was very angry, immediately called for a guard, and arrested the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper was afraid that things would be big, so he recounted the ins and outs of the past, but Cixi did not pay any attention to it.
It wasn't long before Cixi made a decree to severely punish the gatekeeper for delaying in delivering the pastries. In order to prevent this yamen from paying special attention to the few people guarding the door, Cixi also made a special intention not to let this yamen participate in the trial and directly handed it over to the internal organs of the Punishment Department for review. Naturally, this official of the Punishment Department was not an unscrupulous official, and he could not do such a thing as convicting himself just because of Cixi's order. It was to write a recital to tell Cixi that she could not only listen to one side of the story. Cixi naturally understood the intention, but she insisted on convicting the gatekeeper.
When the officials of the Punishment Department saw that Cixi was so unreasonable, they had no choice but to order Li Sanshun and the gatekeeper to punish each. When Cixi learned of this, she was very angry, and issued an edict between them, declaring the gatekeeper guilty, and asking the people of the Punishment Department to directly and strictly investigate and deal with it, and if they did not strictly investigate, they would directly investigate the responsibility of the Punishment Department. Let this goalkeeper go to the border area to do a hard job. The Gatekeeper Commander directly deducts Qilu. This will immediately aroused a wave of dissent above this court, but everyone only dared to discuss it in private, for fear that if they said more than half a sentence, they would suffer.
Zhang Zhidong also saw this matter in his eyes, so he returned home and wrote a note to Cixi. Hopefully, she will be able to understand the truth of the matter on her own. In this twist is written that the guards disobeyed their will, not because they hit someone. Cixi punished him without anything wrong. It happened that a few days ago, such an incident occurred in the palace, when an old man was resting in the palace, he suddenly passed by this door, and it turned out that he was wandering around. After being interrogated, it was learned that since the last incident, Li Sanshun had brought people into the palace and no one dared to ask any more questions, and this old man was brought into the palace by Li Sanshun.
Li Sanshun left the old man to wander around because of the others beforehand, and then got lost. Therefore, Zhang Zhidong took advantage of this incident to say that this Cixi had long expected that Li Sanshun would act recklessly and would no longer favor him. Although cixi did not punish Li Sanshun, it was because Cixi was benevolent. After these words, there is no doubt that this Li Sanshun will inevitably be punished as he deserves. And the wronged guards and others will also be forgiven.
Sure enough, it wasn't long before Cixi issued another decree that the guards and others would be given a lenient punishment, and Li Sanshun's misdeeds to disturb the order must be severely punished.