Cixi saw the train for the first time, and before getting on the train, she set 3 orders, and the train driver wanted to strike after listening to it!
The first railway of the Qing Dynasty was built in 1864 by the British in Beijing, and the railway was only 500 meters long. After nearly 50 years, the railway built Chinese himself was born, and Zhan Tianyou presided over the construction of the Beijing-Zhang Railway and was responsible for its success. Prior to this, Li Hongzhang had played to Empress Dowager Cixi to build a railway in the imperial palace, which was a narrow gauge railway with a total length of 1510 meters from beihai in the imperial palace to Zhongnanhai.
At that time, the locomotive was going to burn coal and then emit black smoke, and Cixi was frightened when she saw the smoke billowing on the locomotive, so she removed the locomotive and used a horse! More excesses are yet to come. Cixi still didn't want to get on the train, and she had to meet her three more requests! First, Cixi herself must be the first to get on the bus, and isn't it a mess of the rules to let the driver get on first, no big or small? Second, the train that Cixi was on, it had to be all eunuchs on that train, otherwise the rules would be out of order! Third, the driver must be on his knees to drive the train, not to sit!
But the people are the empress, if you don't want to move your head, just obey the order, you can only swallow huang lian into the stomach, and then think about this pedantic empress, shaking your head really makes the train driver cry and laugh. After returning to Beijing smoothly, the old lady said: I feel great and very satisfied. She ordered the tool to be vigorously promoted, and from then on a large-scale railway construction campaign began. When foreigners heard these demands, they laughed like crazy.
In fact, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were many people with lofty ideals, who had foresight and saw the advancement of Western civilization. As a result, these people introduced advanced technology from the West or were keen to carry out various types of foreign affairs movements. No matter how much it is tossed, it has never been supported by those in power. China's former great power and wealth have made those in power like Cixi always live in fantasy. It has always been believed that the Great Qing dynasty is still a heavenly kingdom. As a result, the country was closed to the outside world, and it continued to lag behind, resulting in a situation of being beaten.