From ancient times to the present, we can see that many officials will use their own identity and power to promote their families or relatives with good relations, such as Cixi, who we are very familiar with. After she gained power, she promoted all her family members to the blue flag, and for the people of her own family, she also promoted several official positions, saying that she had more face. But the man we are talking about today, as Cixi's younger brother, was still poor in his old age.
The younger brother's name is Gui Xiang, the eldest sister is Empress Dowager Cixi, the second sister is the birth mother of the Guangxu Emperor, and his daughter is the empress of the Guangxu Emperor, so he is the father-in-law of the Guangxu Emperor, and the family background can be regarded as a first-class good, but in this way, he is still very poor.
Why? Is it true that Cixi, who holds great power, is not capable of helping her brother? Of course not, after Cixi took power, he also helped him many times, but he himself did not argue. At the beginning, the eldest sister was the first to promote him, not only giving him a large official position, but also vigorously cultivating him.
After Gui Xiang, who had not read much, got an important official position, he spent all day doing nothing, and his identity caused people around him to come to him, which also made him a little overwhelmed. There were people covering up above and people stuttering below, and the money came effortlessly. This state caused him to become even more rampant, and originally Cixi turned a blind eye to him, until she learned that he was oppressing the people and causing trouble, and felt that he was really ashamed of himself, so he drove him back home.
Gui Xiang, who returned home, did not realize his mistake at all, not only still did not want to make progress, but also often went to pawn some valuable items at home because he did not have money to spend, and after getting the money, he went to spend the day and wine, and when there was really no pawn, he went to the palace to find his sisters and daughters to complain, on the one hand, he could get their relief, on the other hand, he could also take some items from the palace.
Not long after such a muddy day, the war broke out, Cixi had planned to let him go through this war, and in the future, he would say a few nice words in front of everyone, so he let him go out of the customs as a staff general to fight, but he did not expect that he was scared to cry before he left the customs, almost wet his pants, and was willing to take a step, which was later widely spread in the folk, making the entire palace lose face.
Later, he didn't take care of him at all, and he returned home still like before, mixing with a bunch of people all day long, the family was not rich, where could he afford to mix like this every day, and it didn't take long to sit and eat the mountain.