It should be said that before and after the Xinugu Treaty, the Qing Dynasty lost the capital and Cixi fled to Xi'an. On August 24, 1901 (October 6, 1901), Cixi and his party, who had been in xi'an for nearly a year under temporary rule, officially returned to Beijing, and on August 24, the two palaces were carved from Xi'an Palace Qihua, which was stationed in Linqiao County.
This time is Cixi carefully calculated, a little sloppy, since Cixi decided to return to the palace, then this must have costs, but not only the cost so simple, in fact, the county orders heard Cixi return to the palace through their own territory, in fact, the first thing is to cry, why is this? When Xi left The Capital from Canghuang, there were only 17 eunuchs with qi, and later they met successively along the way, and when they arrived in Shaanxi, they had already reached thousands. These eunuchs extorted and were greedy along the way. However, the tributes transported to Xi'an by various provinces were actually asked for fees by them, "as much as three thousand hundred taels, less or 1600 taels, otherwise they will not be returned." For example, at that time, 42 kinds of offerings in Guangdong were excluded and returned because they did not bribe eunuchs, and the officials in charge of transporting tribute in Guangdong even committed suicide on the spot.
On the way back to Luan, the eunuch's arrogance increased unabated, and even openly plundered. For example, when returning to Beijing to the first stop in Linchai County, Shaanxi, Xia Liangcai, zhixian County, had already prepared the supply of Kuiyu in advance, "but because the leading prince eunuch needed too much to respond, he was robbed and plundered", Xia Liangcai was also "handed over to the ministry because of "improper handling of affairs, and the mistake was bad", and finally he was dismembered and killed. There are more vivid and detailed records of this incident in the "Sino-Foreign Daily". In addition, it was rumored that there were also eunuchs beating up county commanders, "more than a hundred eunuchs entered Beijing from Henan, passing through Boxiang County, and because of the competition for carriages and horses, the county officials were almost beaten by eunuchs"; "Huang Taishou, the general office of the Li Bureau of Huixing Town, Shaanzhou, was beaten once by eunuchs"... Therefore, when the county officials heard that Cixi was coming, they were scared half to death. After entering Henan, Cixi immediately ordered that the local county office in Henan buy a private house, rebuild the palace, and the door screen lattice fans were carved and extremely exquisite; the royal tatami was embroidered with yellow satin; the toilets were all made of red felt; All utensils required for the Royal Dining Room must be newly kept.
And "the Henan Provincial Supply Branch Bureau undertook the dim sum committee, specially went to Shandong to recruit people who would make dim sum, and made all kinds of exquisite and delicate and delicious dim sum." Some people who saw it said that the appearance of the dim sum was similar to the eight major pieces sold in the capital"; the committee members who undertook the flowers and plants also purchased more than a thousand pots of precious chrysanthemums, which were placed in the cellar for the two palaces to enjoy, "so that the two palaces can see the world of flowers and flowers, and the hearts and flowers bloom"; the head of the henan palace is even more "stone lions fly red gold", the rest is exquisite, it is conceivable, even Cixi also praised, "Henan palace is better than Shaanxi." In this regard, some people explained that the reason why the offerings in Henan were "smooth" was because "the palace gate was costly and powerful.".
As a result, cixi returned to the palace this time, and the Chinese people, who were already very miserable, were once again hit by major exploitation, and it can be said that Cixi was comfortable with herself and disgusted the people of the whole country.