Cen Chunxuan, a famous politician in the late Qing Dynasty, was almost ruined in 1898 because of his support for the Restoration and Reform Law, and Cixi spared him because someone interceded for him.
Cen Chunxuan
In 1900, when the Gengzi Rebellion broke out in the Qing Dynasty, Cen Chunxuan, who was serving as the political historian in Gansu, led his troops to Beijing to "escort the King of Qin", but Cixi and Guangxu had already left the capital, so Cen Chunxuan escorted Cixi and Guangxu all the way to Xi'an. Because of his meritorious escort, Cen Chunxuan began to gain Cixi's trust and promotion. Subsequently, he served as the Inspector of Shaanxi and the Governor of Shanxi, and in Shanxi, Cen Chunxuan founded the third public university hall in China, Shanxi University Hall. Later, he served as the governor of Sichuan and the governor of Liangguang, and because of his efforts to implement the new policy, he was known as the "official slaughter" by the world because of his efforts to implement the new policy, to keep the officials clean and honest, and to severely punish corrupt officials.
Before Li Hongzhang died, he recommended Yuan Shikai to Cixi, and in the process of Cixi's return to Beijing, Yuan Shikai took over the car, so Cixi reused Yuan Shikai. Suddenly, the two people with unlimited scenery were called "Nan Cen Bei Yuan".
However, Cen Chunxuan and Yuan Shikai are two completely different kinds of people, as we said above, Cen Chunxuan is a clean and honest official and hates corruption, so he is very unaccustomed to Yuan Shikai, who is good at playing with power and corrupt, so he contradicts Yuan Shikai in many things, which makes Yuan Shikai very unhappy. Therefore, Yuan Shikai repeatedly told Cixi that Cen Chunxuan was a reformist, and that kang Youwei and Liang Qichao were in the same group, and wanted to take advantage of Cixi's hatred for the restoration faction to get rid of Cen Chunxuan. However, Cixi always remembered cen Chunxuan's meritorious escort, and did not believe that Cen Chunxuan had contacts with the chaotic party, which made Yuan Shikai very annoyed.
A man named Cai Naihuang, in order to please Yuan Shikai, found a photo of Cen Chunxuan and Kang Youwei in a photo studio, and then used technology to combine the two photos into one, and finally handed it to Yuan Shikai. If Yuan Shikai received the treasure, he immediately presented the photo to Cixi as evidence that Cen Chunxuan had made friends with the chaotic party. Such strong evidence did not allow Cixi to believe it, so Cixi found an opportunity, first transferring Cen Chunxuan to the governor of Liangguang, and later impeaching the Beiyang faction and Yuan Shikai with the Qingliu in the "Ding Wei Political Tide", and under the joint counterattack of Prince Yili of Qing and Yuan Shikai, Cixi dismissed Cen Chunxuan.
It is ridiculous to say that after the founding of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai even appointed Cen Chunxuan as the inspector of the Guangdong-Hanchuan Railway.
Cai Naihuang was not busy in vain, and Yuan Shikai gave him a fat shortage of Shanghai Daotai, which was counted as a reward.
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