History is not only a valuable part of knowledge, but it also opens doors to many other parts and provides material for many fields of science. - Hume
In fact, the fundamental reason for the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China was empress dowager Cixi's momentary impulse, when Empress Dowager Cixi was ready to depose the Guangxu Emperor, but she did not expect to be opposed by the great powers, and some foreign embassies simply gave Cixi an ultimatum, not allowing her to fight the Guangxu Emperor's idea, only recognizing the seal of Guangxu, which made Empress Dowager Cixi angry, grew so big, or was bullied to the head for the first time. So the angry and irrational Cixi was furious above the court, denouncing how the great powers had bullied the Qing dynasty after 1840. The final summary is one sentence: to go to war with the world.
As soon as this sentence came out, the Manchu Dynasty Minister of Culture and Military Affairs was frightened, many people were smart people, thinking that this war had failed and ended, but they were taken by cixi's majesty, and did not dare to speak bluntly, because those who dared to enter the court were all cut off, so the last absurd war with the great powers in the history of the Qing Empire began, the Qing army first went to attack the embassies of various countries in Beijing, but the ridiculous thing is that after more than two months of attack, they did not attack it, but the people's state sent troops, and the Eight-Nation Alliance army marched from Tianjin to Beijing in a mighty way, and Cixi pretended not to panic. In fact, even the cover rolls were laid behind the ground, and as soon as the foreigners attacked the city of Beijing, Cixi changed into the clothes of the peasant woman early and fled with Guangxu, and Zhenfei was thrown into the well by Cixi and drowned because she dissuaded Guangxu to stay. Poor countless defenders of the city used their lives to buy time for Cixi Guangxu's escape.
After Cixi escaped, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, killing many women of the Good Family, and the cameraman at that time took several sets of photos, which today looks too humiliating.
The women who were forced to submit were full of helplessness in their eyes, but they did not know how to resist, and once they resisted, they would definitely be dead
The women who were held in the arms of foreigners, the despair in their eyes made people see heartache
Foreigners are robbing people's women, and the robbery behavior is shameful
In the face of the atrocities of the foreigners, the women did not know how to resist, and could only cover their faces to express their pitiful protest
The foreigner sat on the throne of the Golden Ruan Hall, and shamefully, the Chinese next to him stood by and watched like a wooden chicken
After Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an, she even sent ice cubes and watermelons to the foreigners in order to gain the forgiveness of the foreigners, which shows that she had been frightened, and later Cixi, in order to get away with the crime, killed another batch of ministers who supported her main war, and told her entourage that if the foreigners could cross themselves off the list of war criminals, it would be the head of the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu, and when Li Hongzhang went to negotiate with the Eight-Nation Alliance, Cixi actually said a sentence that made posterity shameful: Measure the material strength of China, and unite with the happiness of the country.
Later, Empress Dowager Cixi returned to Beijing and immediately ordered a feast to celebrate her return, but the ordinary people of Beijing at that time had been destroyed and disfigured, but Cixi did not even look at it, which was really hateful and hateful!