At the end of the Qing Dynasty, because there were traces of foreigners in many parts of China, especially after the Sino-Japanese War, China was basically divided up by foreigners. In order to be able to eat the huge fat of the Qing Dynasty together, the great powers divided their spheres of influence one after another to avoid contradictions between them. Just as there is only one tiger in a mountain, there is only one great power in a region.
At that time, the great power near Shandong was Germany, because Germany bullied many Chinese here, and at the same time churches and encroached on the land of many people. Therefore, taking advantage of the drought in Shandong, the Boxer Rebellion against foreigners broke out. This movement gradually expanded with the support of Cixi, and Cixi believed that hundreds of thousands of people could also fight foreign countries.
So Cixi declared war on almost all the great powers in the world at that time, and faced with this situation, there was the later Eight-Nation Alliance. When the Eight-Nation Army came to China, the Boxers were clearly no match for the regular army and soon failed. Seeing that foreign troops were about to once again capture Beijing, Cixi issued an order to ask the governors of various places to enter the capital to serve the king.
At that time, the spheres of influence of Britain, France and other countries were in southern China, and they were worried that their interests would be damaged, so they privately signed treaties with some senior officials in the south. Some people, led by Li Hongzhang, did not recognize Cixi's order and announced to the outside world that they were deceived by the villains before they made the wrong act of declaring war on the Western countries.
At the same time, he said that he would never comply with such absurd behavior, and demanded that foreign troops could not conduct military operations in the southeast. This event is known in history as the Southeast Mutual Protection Movement. We know that Cixi could only control the area around the capital at that time, not even Shandong. With the support of the imperial court officials, the war soon fell on one side, and the Eight-Power Alliance soon reached Beijing.
Cixi fled west again, and at that time it was even rumored that if cixi and Guangxu had any accidents, then the southeastern provinces would elect Li Hongzhang as president. Of course, Cixi was also aware of such rumors, but Cixi did not dare to move these officials.
At that time, only one of the ten governors south of Shandong in China was Manchu, and the rest were all Han Chinese. And these Han people were either from the Xiang army faction or the Huai army faction. These people are all closely related to each other, so Cixi does not dare to move these people. After all, Daqing relied on them to barely maintain it.
At the same time, after Cixi returned from Xi'an, when she took the initiative to send people to negotiate peace with the Eight Kingdoms, she also admitted that she had been seduced by the traitors to do such a thing, which was also to say that Cixi admitted that she had done wrong. At the same time, it also recognizes the correctness of the southeast mutual insurance matter. So Cixi didn't move these people.