When Cixi fled, she borrowed 100,000 yuan from Qiao Zhuang and returned to Beijing to ask Qiao Zhuang what reward he wanted. Qiao Zhuang: Just 4 words
In the centralized society of ancient China, the emperor, as the ninth and fifth-year-old, was the highest status existence, so everything had to be done with a little elegance, and even if it was the matter of running away, it could also be said to be fresh and unworldly. During the Tang Xuanzong period, after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Li Longji took his concubines to flee in a hurry, calling it "Tour of Nanjing in the West", of course, nanjing at that time referred to the current Chengdu, as well as Song Gaozong Zhao Shuo, who was also a famous emperor in history, when the Jin army went south, Zhao Zhuo was afraid of repeating the mistakes of his father and brother, so he moved the capital to Hangzhou, called "Patrol Xing Southeast", and never returned.
With the passage of time, soon to the Year of Gengzi of the Qing Dynasty, in 1900 the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, Cixi also hurriedly took the Guangxu Emperor and others to slip away, she also had to think of a name, but it was not suitable for Tang Xuanzong and Song Gaozong Zhao Shuo's name, after all, the incident happened suddenly, Cixi did not have a clear destination, so she simply lied that she was hunting, called "Xi Hunting".
Empress Dowager Cixi's treatment was also much bleaker, she heard that there was a war in Beijing, and when the empress dowager left the city gate, the officials along the way had already run out of shadows, and the rest, also afraid of causing trouble, cixi team of more than a hundred people, all have to eat and drink, how to cope with it? In the past, Cixi was a bad lord at the court, and she was honest on the way to escape.
At that time, they had gone through countless hardships and came to Shanxi, and they were already very poor on hand, and the eunuch told Cixi that the Qiao family in Qi County, Shanxi Province, was a well-known large household among the Jin merchants, so how about borrowing money from them? Cixi also thought it was a good idea, so she quickly sent someone to the door of Qiao's house.
However, the empress dowager was honorable, naturally it could not be called a borrowed word, Cixi's errand man went to the door of the Qiao family, euphemistically proposed that he hoped that Qiao Zhiyong, the lord of the Qiao family at that time, could serve the empress dowager, and opened his mouth to 100,000 taels of silver.
One hundred thousand taels of silver is not a small amount for the Qiao family, and it is necessary to take out most of the assets, not to mention that at that time, the Eight-Nation Alliance had already occupied the city of Beijing, and the people were spreading that the Great Qing dynasty was dead, and it would soon become the world of foreigners. Therefore, some Qiao family members suggested that there was no need to lend money to a disgraced empress dowager, and then it would not be able to get it back.
However, Qiao Zhiyong thought twice, believing that this was a business opportunity that could not be missed, and at the same time a good opportunity to serve the country, he still resolutely handed over the 100,000 taels of silver in the inventory to Cixi's hands.
After signing the "Xinugu Treaty", sure enough, Cixi slowly and leisurely returned to the capital, and when she regained control of power, she did not break her word, returned the silver of the Qiao family, and asked the Governor of Shanxi to bring an edict: "What other rewards do you want?" Just say it! Qiao Zhiyong did not open his mouth widely, but hoped that Empress Dowager Cixi could put up four words for the gate of the Qiao family, and when the news reached Beijing, Cixi did not refuse, but instead asked the Inspector of Shanxi to send her a plaque of "Fu Zhong Lang Huan" written by her hand. Lang Huan is the location of the fairyland in mythology, which means blessed land, and the Qiao family quickly hung this plaque on the gate.
With the words given by the empress, the official government that used to bother with the oil did not dare to bother again, and the people who came to do business were endless, and they had to lament Qiao Zhiyong's shrewdness. Today, this plaque is still hanging on the tall top floor of the arched door opening of the qiao family compound, and interested friends can go to see it!