In the history of our country, modern history is more like a history of humiliation. The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal state in China, and the Qing Dynasty government was very corrupt at the end of the period, especially those in power, who did not care about the lives of the people at all. The expenses of Empress Dowager Cixi alone accounted for more than half of the annual income of the Qing Dynasty, and it is conceivable that such a luxurious Empress Dowager Cixi, if she had any money to develop the country's military, all the money was squandered by her alone! When Cixi saw the car for the first time, Fengyan Dayue said a sentence, which was still laughed at to this day!
Cixi was the de facto ruler of the Qing Dynasty, living in extreme luxury, washing with milk, using hundreds of towels for a bath, and dozens of palace women waiting for them. In order to curry favor with the de facto ruler of the Qing Dynasty, the officials below would also rack their brains and bring some fresh and magical things to Cixi, Li Hongzhang was the foreign minister of the Qing Dynasty and accepted a lot of Western ideas. One day he sent a light bulb to Cixi and instructed the eunuchs to hang it in Empress Dowager Cixi's room. When Cixi saw that this thing would glow, she said: What kind of pear is this, and how can it glow? Although Li Hongzhang wanted to laugh very much, he held back and told Cixi that this was a foreigner's plaything, called a light bulb!
From then on, Cixi was fascinated by these foreign things. Yuan Shikai did not buy a car to give to Empress Dowager Cixi until these foreign things could please Empress Dowager Cixi. Empress Dowager Cixi saw this thing for the first time, and she didn't know what it was, Yuan Shikai said to let Empress Dowager Cixi sit up and feel the feelings, so Empress Dowager Cixi sat up, but after Empress Dowager Cixi did it, she found that someone was sitting in front of her, which was very unpleasant, Yuan Shikai immediately explained: Empress Dowager, this is the coachman, without him can not move.
So Cixi stopped complaining, and when the driver started the car, Cixi was immediately stunned, this thing was so fast, so Cixi of Fengyan said: This horse is running really fast, you must eat a lot of feed. After saying this, many people were surprised, a de facto ruler of the Qing Dynasty, who did not even know the car, many people privately ridiculed Cixi, which also showed that the Qing Dynasty was not long from its demise!