If we want to talk about which dynasty suffered the most humiliation, it must be the Qing Dynasty, which is a history of humiliation that everyone cannot forget, from the Opium War to the Sino-Japanese War of the Sino-Japanese War, to the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China, and so on, the great Qing Dynasty was forced to open its doors, and the imperialist powers were becoming more and more arrogant, ignoring the imperial power of the Qing Dynasty and the people. The Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China was a very criminal period, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the Forbidden City, except for those princes and ministers they wanted to use, all the other ministers were executed, but the concubines of the harem could not be executed. Why? In fact, there is a big conspiracy behind it.
Many people will wonder if it is the powerful who have shown mercy, and the answer is of course no, this is the last fig leaf left by the powers to the Qing Dynasty. When Empress Dowager Cixi declared war on the Eight Kingdoms without measuring her own strength, the end was actually already doomed, the Qing Army was scattered and fled, the Forbidden City was lost, and when Empress Dowager Cixi learned the news, her first reaction was not how to stay and think of countermeasures with the ministers, not how to find a way to protect the people, but to flee with her family, which could not help but make everyone stunned.
Cixi is a wise person, especially pay attention to her own face and the majesty of the royal family, before she fled, she did not want to take Zhenfei, first, because she did not want to bring too many people, easy to attract the attention of others, and another point is that Cixi thinks that Zhenfei is too good-looking, in case she is caught by the great powers, she will be insulted by the great powers, damage to the majesty of the royal family, so she ordered Zhenfei to commit suicide, Zhenfei is a columnist, she is unwilling, so the cruel Cixi let her men push her into the well and drown, I have to say that Cixi is too selfish. Along with Cixi were the Guangxu Emperor, Empress Longyu, Concubine Qing, and others, and Cixi disguised herself as an old woman, afraid that others would recognize her and denounce her.
In addition to Concubine Zhen, there were some concubines that Cixi considered unimportant. After the imperialist powers invaded the imperial palace, they did not attack these concubines, in fact, not because the imperialist powers softened their hearts, but a larger conspiracy, to keep these concubines, to give the Qing Dynasty the last shred of face, do not want to tear the fig leaf, and then they need to control the royal family and then control the whole of China, to obtain benefits in China. It has to be said that the abacus of the imperialist powers is too good, and this is a very big conspiracy hidden.
Compared to these concubines, the unarmed inhabitants of the street were not so lucky, and many women were arrested, and some were killed directly on the spot, and these people devoured them like a wolf. In addition to these, they openly carried out acts such as burning and looting, looting the treasures in the Yuanmingyuan, moving all that could be taken away, and those who could not be moved were burned with a fire, and the fire burned for 3 days and 3 nights. The most unfortunate of the serious losses caused to the Qing Dynasty were ordinary people.
This humiliating history has been a wake-up call to the need to constantly learn new things, and only by becoming strong can we resist foreign aggression, protect the people, and thus have a place in the forest of the world.