Hello everyone, today Xiaobian came to talk to you about why Empress Dowager Cixi went to Xi'an instead of returning to her hometown in the northeast when she marched on the Eight-Nation Alliance?
When the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Beijing, there was one thing that had been bothering Xiaobian, and I believe that everyone also had doubts, Empress Dowager Cixi, as a Manchu, should have her hometown in the northeast generation, and when she was attacked, wouldn't it be a better choice to flee back to her hometown? Why did he take the emperor and flee to Xi'an in Shaanxi?
Judging from the situation at that time, she should have no other way out except to go to Xi'an. Her hometown is in the northeast, this road has been blocked, when the British and French coalition forces marched, Cixi, who was still a noble concubine, fled to the northeast with the emperor, and when the Eight-Nation Alliance army entered again, the northeast had been occupied by the Tsarist Forces, blocking her opportunity to flee to her hometown in the northeast, and the governors of the three southeastern provinces in the south had signed a contract with the British, and Cixi did not know what medicine Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong sold in the gourd, she passed, what to do if she died.
When the southeast mutual insurance was signed, Cixi knew, but she had no way, at that time Beijing had already been occupied, and the leaders of all sides were unwilling to write a report, in this case, Cixi, they also had no way, it was even more impossible to flee to the east, the Eight-Nation Alliance army was from the east, and in the past it did not directly hit the muzzle of the gun? Then there is only going west.
According to the records, when Cixi escaped from Deshengmen and fled to Zhangjiakou, she still lived there for a while, and it was obvious that she was thinking about where to go, Chengde he had been there once, but Xi'an had a lot of his own people, safer, after much consideration, Cixi still decided Xi'an. Xi'an was not under the control of the great powers at that time, and going to Xi'an might be able to restore, and at that time, there were many Qing soldiers in Xi'an, even if the ability was average, it was better than nothing.
Coincidentally, Kang Youwei also proposed to go to Xi'an during the Sino-Japanese War, and they thought that it was better to lose 200 million silver than to return to Xi'an, to fight with the Japanese, and they did not believe that they could hit Xi'an. As a result, as soon as the recital was written, it was thrown aside, and only five years later, the Empress Dowager Cixi was driven to Xi'an.
At the beginning, Xi'an was ready to recuperate, strengthen the army, and find a good time to restore, and Xi'an at that time almost became the land of the Qing Dynasty, but this wishful thinking was eventually destroyed in the hands of a small person, who did not bring a new True Dragon Heavenly Son to the Qing Dynasty.
Anyway, the Qing government admitted in front of little Japan, and then there was a chain reaction, what penghu change law ah Gengzi country is difficult to come in a pile, when it was unwilling to go to Xi'an to suffer hardships, the back is not to eat more suffering, this is the typical early knowledge today, why should we be in the beginning, simply regret not the beginning, if at that time we just a little, talk hard, win the battle, where there will be so many things.