The capital is evil and less ~ "official slaughter" Cen Chunxuan

After the gengzi state change, the Manchu Qing military aircraft department ministers were executed four times, and the Qing court began a great reshuffle of the highest power, among which the most favored upstart of Cixi was Cen Chunxuan, who was known as the head of the "Three Evils and Few in the Capital", and in the official field at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was the "three slaughters" in the world: "official tu" Cen Chunxuan; "Shi Tu" Zhang Zhidong; "min tu" Yuan Shikai.

The three evils in the capital refer to Cen Chunxuan, Lao Ziqiao, and Rui Cheng, these three people were notorious in the Beijing division when they were young, relying on their father's power and connections, mixing the Beijing division, squandering, and the large and small officials in the capital avoided it, and no one dared to provoke it, but all three of them later became officials and prosperity, and became celebrities in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

The three evils are the least recorded in history, Lao Ziqiao's father was the prime minister of Zhejiang University Hall ~ the former president of Zhejiang University, after the three evils broke up, Lao Ziqiao also entered the career path, and the official to the imperial history of the Supervision Yuan.

Rui Cheng left a heavy mark in the history of the late Qing Dynasty ~ In 1911, when the Wuchang gunshots rang out, Rui Cheng was sitting on this crater, Rui Cheng was the governor of Huguang at that time, and in that year of Xinhai, it was Governor Rui who was expelled.

Rui Cheng, born of the Borjigit clan of Mongolia, was the ben family of Empress Xiaozhuang of the Great Qing Dynasty, the grandson of the university scholar Qishan, and the son of the Heilongjiang general Gong Bo, after entering the career, he was smooth sailing and prosperous, and finally planted on a cigarette butt (described in this series with a post-preface article).

Speaking of the three evils in the capital, the most famous and influential is Cen Chunxuan, who is known as "Cen San" and "Topsy-Turksan", Cen Chunxuan's family was born in Guangxi Hereditary Toast, Zhuang, and its ancestors have historical records that can be traced to the Northern Song Dynasty to help Di Qingping Nong Zhigao during the rebellion, and the Cen family has lived in Guangxi as a toast since the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Qianlong Emperor promoted the "reform of the land and return to the stream", the Cen family became a commoner, his grandfather Cen Cangsong began to study and Qishi, the Cen family transformed into "Shuxiang Mendi", during the Taiping Army Rebellion, Cen Chunxuan's father Xiucai Cen Yuying donated his family wealth to recruit soldiers and horses, was appointed by the local government as the general of the Xixiang Regiment, repeatedly made military achievements, and was rewarded by the imperial court with blue plumes.

Subsequently, Cen Yuying again joined the army, with the merits of military merit, the official to the governor, the state affairs, the prefect of Chengjiang, acting as the envoy of Yunnan, in 1863, yunnan broke out of the rebellion, was pacified by Cen Yuying and others, in 1868 tired merit was awarded the inspector of Yunnan, in 1873 concurrently served as the governor of Yungui, was one of the eight major feudal officials of the Qing Dynasty at that time.

After that, Cen Yuying served as the inspector of Fujian, toured Taiwan, and after serving as the governor of Yungui, he participated in the Sino-French War...

Because of his father's kindness, Cen Chunxuan entered Beijing in 1879 in the name of studying, and was learned to walk by the superintendent plus the donor and the signing division of labor. In 1885, he participated in the Guangxi township examination, zhongju people, was ordered to go to the ministry to wait, in 1888 to make up for the lack of naval lang, in the same year the Guangxu Emperor was married, Cen Chunxuan was assigned as the general assistant of the office, laid down his friendship with Guangxu, Cen Chunxuan officially entered the political circles, it was also during this period, Cen Chunxuan bid farewell to the wandering life, quit the "three evils in the capital" and specialized in career.

The following year, in 1889, Cen Yuying died in the office of governor of Yungui, Cen Chunxuan returned to Guangxi Dingyou for three years, and in 1892, when the period of observance expired, Cen Chunxuan went to the capital again, and was immediately awarded the title of Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, Shaoqing of Taibu Temple, and Secretary of Dali Temple.

It can be said that although Cen Chunxuan initially relied on his father's power and connections, walked in the clouds in his career, and was young and wandering, he was brave enough to take responsibility and dare to do something, so the major political forces in the capital, including the imperial party, the post-party, the restoration faction, the Qingliu faction, the Western affairs faction, and so on, did not regard Cen Chunxuan as an outsider.

Others are good to him, they should also be good to others, the head of the three evils in the capital, Cen Chunxuan, can not think so, in 1898, Cen Chunxuan sent his seven brothers to the Beijing huihui test, the fold to ask for peace, the next day was summoned by the Guangxu Emperor, issued a special decree, on August 31, 1898, Cen Chunxuan was promoted to Guangdong envoy.

After Cen Chunxuan took office, he straightened out the administration of officials, found out the Daoist, the general office of the Lijin Bureau and the copywriter Wang Cunshan, who privately embezzled public funds, accumulated millions of dollars, went up to the imperial court, and went down to the supervision, and the tree had deep roots.

Cen Chunxuan rebelled against the orders of the governor of Liangguang, Tan Junlin, and insisted on withdrawing the copywriting of the governor's office that Wang Cunshan was concurrently in charge of, and the governor of Liangguang, Tan Junlin, was so angry that he confronted Cen Chunxuan and almost started to act, and the famous head of the evil few in the capital was given in vain, cen Chunxuan faced the scolding of the boss, took off the top wear, threw it on the official case of the governor's palace, flicked his sleeve away, and did not get sick.

What kind of person is the three evils in the capital, Tan Junlin knows, not to mention Cen Chunxuan, who is the head of the three evils, Mo said that he was just a "governor of liangguang", when the imperial magnates, princes and ministers, and military cabinet scholars did not give the three evils less face, this time Jian Ba Cen Chunxuan served as a political envoy in Guangdong, which was directly the will of the current emperor Guangxu, and Empress Dowager Cixi personally approved it.

Tan Junlin, the governor of Liangguang, knew that he could not afford to provoke the evil young Cen Chunxuan, and immediately sent someone to the door to apologize and make reparations to his subordinate Cen Chunxuan, who was turned away by Cen Chunxuan, and the news came to Beijing, and the restoration faction stood up for Cen Chunxuan, and the restoration sent a letter to the Guangxu Emperor, cen Chunxuan also wanted to enter Beijing to meet Guangxu in person, and when he went to Wuhan, he was transferred to Gansu to make up the envoys, with the intention of "don't come to Beijing to ask for training" and directly take up his post.

On September 21, 1898, Empress Dowager Charity launched a coup d'état and imprisoned the Guangxu Emperor Yu Yingtai, and Cen Chunxuan was implicated, and under the protection of Rong Lu, Cen Chunxuan escaped the disaster.

Soon after, Wang Cunshan was dismissed from his post by the imperial court, and the governor of Liangguang, Tan Junlin, was deposed, and Cen Chunxuan, after learning the news during his appointment as an envoy to Gansu, was indignant and indignant, saying that the imperial court had handled it lightly.

Cen Chunxuan's name of "Evil Few in the Capital" has since become "Official Tu".

In 1900, when the Gengzi state changed, the Qing court issued an edict and ordered officials from all over the country to bring troops into the King of Jingqin, and Cen Chunxuan led more than 2,000 soldiers from Lanzhou to the meadows, galloped into Beijing at night, and was sent to Zhangjiakou to garrison.

On August 15, the capital fell, Empress Dowager Cixi took the Guangxu Emperor under the escort of Dong Fuxiang's Gan army, fled west in a hurry, Cen Chunxuan first led his troops to escort, looking for food for Cixi and Guangxu, and then played Cixi, saying that the army was robbing along the way, Cixi ordered Cen Chunxuan to rectify military discipline, and beheaded the eunuchs who robbed the soldiers and extorted bribes.

After coming to Huailai County, Cixi and Guangxu's living conditions improved slightly, Cixi rewarded Cen Chunxuan with his head and wore it, supervised the grain station, and Cen Chunxuan carefully guarded and handled things cautiously, so cen Chunxuan gained the full trust of Empress Dowager Cixi.

After arriving in Xi'an, Cen Chunxuan was appointed as the governor of Shaanxi, guarding the safety and supply of the two palaces of the exiled Xi'an Xing, and became Cixi's first favorite.