The penultimate emperor of the Qing Dynasty was the Guangxu Emperor, and Cixi had one son, who became the Tongzhi Emperor. Tongzhi did not go to various improper places without doing business, and as a result, he contracted an unclean disease and had no children for life. Therefore, Cixi arranged for Prince Shuo's son Zai Xiang, later Guangxu, to become emperor.
Guangxu and the Tongzhi Emperor were qualitatively different, and although both of them were emperors at the height of Cixi's power, their personalities were completely different. Tongzhi likes to play, there is no pursuit, the school is a mess, every day is to think about how to play, how to go out of the palace and mix around. And Guangxu is very good at academic performance, and has a lot of ambitions, if he is not born in the wrong era, it is really possible to become a generation of Ming Jun.
In their relationship with Cixi, the two also showed differences. The Tongzhi Emperor, who was the son of Cixi, opposed his mother at every turn. For example, on the issue of the empress, there was a tit-for-tat contradiction, he often went out of the palace to fool around, Cixi was angry with him, but he did not punish him very heavily, which was also the reason why Tongzhi later died.
Looking at Guangxu again, when he was a baby, he was carried into the palace, called the empress dowager to kiss his father, and obeyed Cixi everywhere. If it were not for the later restoration movement, cixi who had already delegated power came out of the Yuanmingyuan to take power again, there would be nothing for Puyi to do later. Guangxu wanted to do too many things in his life, but almost nothing could be done. Not only was it subject to Cixi everywhere, but it was also because of bad luck and declining national strength, and it was impossible to achieve anything in that position.
After telling this background, we will move on to the theme of our story today. The protagonist is Zhang Zhidong, a Hubei foreign minister during the Guangxu period.
During the Guangxu period, two people came to hubei, on the boundary of Zhang Zhidong. When the two came, they were looking at the house and the pendulum, and the shelf was very large. And two men, a director and a servant, and the servants each mouthed a holy cry. When the local county order got this news, he did not dare to be sloppy, so he personally went to see these two people, and before the county order could exit, they said that they wanted to see Zhang Zhidong. Zhang Zhidong was the governor at that time, several levels older than the county order, and the county order was convinced that these two people were the emperor and a eunuch, which was the emperor's private visit.
The county order arranged the "emperor" in his own mansion, eating and drinking well, and the local powerful people listened to his emperor's private visit, and brought gold and silver jewelry to the emperor, and the two of them received everything according to the order, and later the things could not be put down or even put outside the courtyard.
When the county order went to invite Zhang Zhidong, Zhang Zhidong was also depressed. The emperor handled government affairs in the imperial palace every day, and was subject to Empress Dowager Cixi, so it was impossible for him to get out and visit the place. Zhang Zhidong, who was cautious by nature, did not feel at ease and sent a telegram to his friends in the capital, confirming that Guangxu was in the palace. So I decided to go and see what the so-called emperor was playing.
Zhang Zhidong led the soldiers to the residence of the county order, and the "emperor" and Gong Gong counted the silver, and when they saw Zhang Zhidong, they arrogantly told Zhang Zhidong to kneel. Zhang Zhidong did not eat their set and took down the two scammers on the spot. After interrogation, it turned out that the two were dramatists, who had gone to the palace many times to act, and had seen the emperor and seen Lafayette, so they dared to imitate the emperor to deceive everywhere, and did not want to finally fall into the hands of Zhang Zhidong.
Posing as the emperor was a crime of ten evils, and the two were eventually sentenced to capital punishment. What do you think of these two scammers, welcome to leave a message.