As we all know, in the early qing dynasty, the country reached its peak in all aspects, and it can be said that it stood in the east of the world, and the good times at that time were not long, because the emperors and officials of the Qing Dynasty still had a large wealth of knowledge, and in the thinking of the heavenly kingdom, there was no ideological opening, resulting in China at that time still implementing a closed country policy. Therefore, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, China was already a feudal country with internal and external troubles, and by the 1990s, when the Eight-Nation Alliance burned and looted on our land and other crimes, Cixi at that time began to flee Beijing in order to escape the Eight-Nation Alliance.
Empress Dowager Cixi, who was once prosperous and wealthy, was forced to flee and live like a refugee, making many people think that the Qing Dynasty was extremely corrupt and cowardly. Cixi's escape is a relatively rare thing, so Cixi received help and relief from many people during her escape, and people wanted to get close to her and persuade her so that people felt extremely honored and proud. In this way, there are many local rich people who actively help, for example, at that time, there was a very famous Shanxi rich man in Shanxi who not only helped Cixi escape but also provided his own compound to Cixi as a temporary residence, and gave hundreds of thousands of silver to help Cixi continue to flee, so Cixi felt extremely pleased, and then he gave a lot of rewards to this rich man, and also personally wrote a very famous plaque in his hand to give to this rich man, and since then this rich man has begun to be famous, and the business has flourished.
Not only her, but also a woman named Zhou Ying, her upper body is a rich family but the back due to various reasons led to the Zhou family across, but Zhou Ying did not stagnate, but re-chose to start her own business and rely on herself, she began to slowly change her own status quo, started a salt merchant business and then began to look at the tea and silk business, and soon she began to slowly get rich, and was famous at the time.
In Cixi's escape, she even funded Cixi more than 100,000 silver, which made Cixi very grateful and moved, so she personally wrote a gold medal plaque to give to Zhou Ying, and later after the Qing Dynasty was forced to sign an unequal treaty, she resolutely chose to donate most of her own property to the government to help the Qing government pay compensation, and from then on, Zhou Ying's fate began to be linked with the qing Dynasty's critical juncture. In this way, the Qing Dynasty gave Zhou Ying many honors and titles.