In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, the great drought in the North China Plain had lasted until the second year. The vast countryside became a hotbed for the Boxers, and the Qing court's attitude towards this chaos began to undergo a complex change. The entanglement above the temple is not only divided into two camps, annihilation and appeasement, but more importantly, the struggle around the throne behind it. The eldest brother became the nominal successor after Guangxu, and this alternate Emperor of the Qing Dynasty did not want to become an unjust and unruly "prince", and if he was fired in the middle of the way, he would laugh at the world. His father, Duan Wang Zaiyi, had a scholar Xu Tong under his wing, and Shangshu Gangyi of the Wuyou Army, and in the face of the sympathy of the foreigners for Guangxu, he had to take countermeasures, after all, it was difficult to tolerate two tigers in a mountain. The boxers became the best chips for the foreigners, and Cixi, who was also afraid of losing his authority, also hoped to sit in this gamble and join forces to become a bookmaker to bet on the Boxers, in order to resist the clamor to return the government to Guangxu.
However, the Qing court's gamble was divided from the beginning. Li Hongzhang, Rong Lu, and others resolutely opposed the Boxer Rebellion, after all, it was the late spring of the year, the Boxers had already openly confronted the Qing army, the Qing army's deputy general Yang Futong was killed in battle, the railways, bridges, poles, and stations directly under his command were destroyed in many places, the Qing army general Nie Shicheng had to "obey the king's orders", and the Wuyi army under his command engaged in many contact battles with the Boxers along the Gyeonggi Railway and at the Baoding Xiguan Station, and both sides suffered mutual losses. Unable to sit still, Cixi summoned Gang Yi, then minister of military aircraft, to accompany Zhao Shuqiao to "check" whether the Boxers could appease and exploit them. As a hardcore confidant of Duan Wang Zaiyi, although he also saw that the spells that could not be used were just shoddy deceptions, he also understood duan wang's shortcomings, that is, he needed more people and horses to serve as a façade to pry the hills above the temple.
Subsequently, although Zhao Shuqiao was reluctant to recruit the Boxers, gangyi was the flag bearer among the military ministers, and naturally spoke more weightily, returning to Beijing to send his life, and sending a telegram recalling Nie Shicheng back to Tianjin to fight with the Boxers. At this time, the eldest brother really began to worship the leader of the Boxer Regiment, learn spells and sticks, familiarize himself with the fortitude of "Xi Zhi Chengyan", and was still complacent about his own gambling and winning the duanwang Zaiyi's mind. With the influx of boxers into Gyeonggi, the Boxers, who at first boasted of "supporting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the Yangs", began to stir up the Beijing Division, and just by burning a foreigner's pharmacy, it affected more than a thousand surrounding shops, including grain stores, money houses, etc. into ashes, and the situation was chaotic to the point of uncontrollable, seeing that it had become a bad conversation, Cixi also began to doubt the correctness of betting on the Boxers.
In the end, Cixi could only go all the way to the black, and at the imperial meeting of the Yiluan Palace, he ordered Gang Yi and Dong Xiangfu to recruit the boxers into an army, and these boxers, who had been grumpy because of the fear of hunger, were transformed into a weapon above the temple and sacrificed in the gamble of war, and the stake was so great that the qing dynasty's world was in the country. Cixi, who is trapped in the battle of the beasts, chose zaiyi's son Big Brother to succeed to the throne is a compromise of the temple, but the choice of the Boxers is a complete gamble, in this gamble the Boxers are pawns, the Qing court above the temple, as a bookmaker, wants to stage a trick of killing people with a knife, but unexpectedly, the boxers at this time are no longer those lambs that are slaughtered, and when the fear of survival cannot be suppressed, they will completely tear apart the once jealous patriarchal and gentry bondage into pieces, so when the Qing court regards the Boxers as a killer move, it is destined to be as the weeping Guangxu said: In this way, tens of millions of beings will be destroyed, and the three-hundred-year-old sect will be unruly. After that, the coalition forces did indeed invade the Beijing Division, and the two palaces hunted in the west, gambling and losing this bet on the Boxers, the Qing court had already lost Jiangshan, and the next eleven years of struggle were just a kind of inertia.