In the late Qing Dynasty, there were four strange cases, of which Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage were the strange cases that shocked us the most.
At the beginning and end of the little cabbage case, the little cabbage and her husband Ge Pinlian were originally the long-term workers of the Yang Naiwu family, Ge Pinlian died of illness due to frailty, and the mother-in-law of the little cabbage suspected that the daughter-in-law Xiao Cabbage and Yang Naiwu had committed adultery and killed her son, and in a fit of anger, the little cabbage mother-in-law directly sued the little cabbage in court.
Unexpectedly, the prefect was a cool official, and he was beaten into a small cabbage to sign and admit his relationship with Yang Naiwu, which was originally a very simple case, but the small cabbage case implicated hundreds of officials, and a large part of them were all generals of the Xiang Army under Zeng Guofan.
What the hell is going on, a little cabbage can involve so many national pillars?
First of all, from the time analysis of the Xiao cabbage case, the incident occurred in the 12th year of Tongzhi, Tongzhi we know that he was a puppet emperor, who succeeded to the throne at an early age, was weak in nature, and the power of the government was all in the hands of his mother Cixi. Cixi is who believes that we all know that the supreme ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, many people like to summarize the Qing Dynasty as a woman who became a woman and a woman who lost.
The most important hero in the establishment of the Qing Dynasty was Empress Xiaozhuang, and the demise was Cixi, and from this point of view, it is indeed reasonable. The twelfth year of Tongzhi is not a special year, but the Tongzhi Emperor is the son of Xianfeng, and a very big thing happened during the Xianfeng period, that is, the Hong Xiuquan Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, and Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Army swept the world for a time.
At that time, in order to deal with the Taiping Army, Xianfeng used Zeng Guofan during the period of filial piety, and Zeng Guofan pointed out to the point that to deal with the Taiping Army, the most important thing is to have a strong army, at this time, the Eight Banner Army and the Green Battalion soldiers have long been wiped out by the smoke, and the will is weak, and no one is a ghost.
In order to deal with the Taiping Army, Zeng Guofan openly recruited the Xiang Army, and although Xianfeng was unwilling to recruit the Xiang Army, in order to pacify the Taiping Army, Xianfeng still agreed to Zeng Guofan's request. With the support of Xianfeng, Zeng Guofan's Xiang army, under extremely bad disadvantages, conquered Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
After conquering the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zeng Guofan cut the grass and roots, killing the young Taiping Heavenly Lord, while li Xiucheng, the rookie of taiping, was slashed with a thousand knives, li Xiucheng, the king of loyalty, was a rising star of the Taiping Army, and after the wing king Shi Da left, the situation in the Taiping army was always maintained by Li Xiucheng.
After the elimination of the Taiping Army, the prestige of the Xiang Army rose rapidly for a time, and it was naturally very jealous in the face of the ruler of Zeng Guofan who held great power, but after the Taiping Army was destroyed, Xian Feng was too late to be happy and died directly, and after Xian Feng's death, he left Su Shun and other eight auxiliary ministers to balance Cixi. During this period, the imperial court naturally neglected to guard against the Xiang army, and the Xiang army gradually entered the upper echelons of the imperial court for a while.
After Su Shun's death, Cixi really became the ruler, for her, the Han people controlled chao gang, it is a shame, she always looks for an opportunity to get rid of the Xiang army, Xiao Cabbage's case is this opportunity, the trial of Xiao Cabbage is the General of the Xiang Army, which gives Cixi a chance, Cixi naturally will not let go. Therefore, Cixi expanded the small cabbage case indefinitely and raised the matter to the national level.
At this level, more than a hundred Xiang generals were implicated, and Cixi took the opportunity to take all the Xiang army into custody and sentence them to death. After the Xiao cabbage case, the Xiang army was suppressed, and Zeng Guofan was helpless to see such a situation.
In general, the Xiao cabbage case was the ruler's suppression of the officials of the Xiang Army, perhaps a massacre of them, and after the Xiang Army was revoked by Cixi, the Qing court was no longer able to gain a foothold and was arbitrarily bullied by various countries. It can be seen from here that the ruthlessness of the rulers is the most important reason for the tragedy.
If Cixi had not purged the Xiang army and allowed the Xiang army to develop indefinitely, then the Qing court would not have been so easily destroyed, and perhaps with the help of Zeng Guofan and other patriotic generals, it would have been self-sufficient to fight against the great powers, but history has never had if, no one can guarantee that Zeng Guofan can be loyal to the Qing court, and other Xiang generals will also be loyal to the Qing court. It can only be said that Cixi made the most reasonable choice for herself at that time.