Since 1840, the white-ridden Qing Dynasty has always survived the suppression of the Western powers, and although it has also carried out some changes and reforms, it has encountered great resistance from within the Qing Dynasty.
In the eyes of the Qing dynasty royal family, those reforms and changes would weaken the influence of the imperial family, especially after Empress Dowager Cixi came to power, she was even more stubborn and closed to the country, rejecting all foreign advanced ideas and science and technology.
In the decades after the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty has never been stable, and the great powers have successively entered the territory of the Qing Dynasty to burn and loot, especially after the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, the Western powers launched a comprehensive invasion of China by the Eight-Power Alliance.
Under the pretext of suppressing the Boxers, the Western powers wantonly invaded Beijing, snatched many cultural relics, and even occupied Cixi's old nest, and Cixi patted his ass and ran to Shanxi to escape the war.
At that time, in addition to the Guangxu Emperor and several empress concubines, cixi most of the officials and concubines remained in the city of Beijing. In particular, those young and beautiful concubines and concubines have almost become lambs to be slaughtered, they have no fighting power, and they have nowhere to go.
Surprisingly, however, the women in the palace were not particularly badly hurt by the Eight-Power Alliance, most of them were saved, and the officials were not too embarrassed. The members of the Boxers who hurt them the most were the boxers, because before that, the boxers had gone around against them to resist their aggression, so the members of the Boxers were often killed directly.
In addition, they entered the Forbidden City and robbed most of the national treasures of the Qing Dynasty, participated in the burning and looting of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and filled their pockets with a lot of gold and silver jewelry. The commanders of the Eight-Power Alliance even gave the soldiers three days off, and let them rob the people of their belongings everywhere, thus fully interpreting the predatory nature of the great powers.
In addition to the imperial palace, there were many royal family shellfish mansions in the city of Beijing, and the Eight-Nation Alliance snatched a large amount of real money and silver from these people's homes, and also killed many innocent people.
What made people indignant was that some of the people in Beijing and the officials of the Qing Dynasty at that time had no sense of resistance, and even some officials deliberately courted the foreigners, giving their own family belongings to the foreigners' chiefs, and the weak country's slavery was vividly demonstrated, and many people left the ordinary people under their jurisdiction to flee for their lives, so that the Eight-Nation Alliance army was more brazen in burning and looting.
And the ordinary people did not have the slightest will to resist, and even they actively helped the foreigners to lead the way, as if they had become a group with the great powers. The reactions of the common people can also be seen that they are extremely dissatisfied with the Qing Dynasty, under the control of Empress Dowager Cixi, the entire Qing Dynasty is like a sick tiger, it seems to be very powerful, in fact, it is full of holes, the people live in the depths of the water, many people just dare not speak out.
It was precisely because of this that the Boxer Rebellion broke out, the essence of the Boxer Rebellion was not to overthrow the Qing Dynasty's rule, but to call on more people to resist foreign invasion, but the Boxers were used by Empress Dowager Cixi and became the pawns of the Qing Dynasty.
Returning to the previous topic, Empress Dowager Cixi ran to Shanxi at that time and left a large number of palace concubines in the palace. In the palace, the foreigners burned and plundered as if they were in no man's land, but they did not attack the weak women. Many people find it hard to believe, and it is even more difficult to understand.
In fact, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded them only to rob them of wealth, not to completely quarrel with the Qing Dynasty, so after they entered Beijing, the first thing they had to do was to loot the treasures and national treasures everywhere. If they dared to attack those concubines and women, it would be tantamount to a complete stalemate with the Qing Dynasty. The reason why the Qing Dynasty was weak in resisting was not because of a little strength, but entirely because of the weakness of Empress Dowager Cixi and those ministers.
It was precisely because of Empress Dowager Cixi's weakness that she constantly bent her knees to the Western powers and signed many treaties that humiliated the country. Even though the Eight-Nation Alliance had been burned and killed, Empress Dowager Cixi still thought about how to have a good relationship with them and not to offend those foreigners.
Empress Dowager Cixi did two more infuriating things on her way to the west, proving her weakness and ignorance. She first issued an order that the Qing army should not fight the Western powers, but to eliminate all the Boxers and punish many ministers who were fighting.
At the same time, she arranged for Li Hongzhang to negotiate with foreigners, asking Li Hongzhang to please the Western powers even if he gave up all his family funds, so that they would stop embarrassing us. This is a woman's short-sightedness and narrow-mindedness, without the slightest Chinese blood, only caring about her own status and power, and the interests of the nation must also make way for her comfortable life.
Empress Dowager Cixi had already behaved so low-key and modest, and those Western foreigners had no reason to embarrass the concubines and concubines in the palace. It's not how kind they are, it's that they care more about their vested interests. Historical traffic text + the sky is getting brighter +