Cixi wants to misappropriate the military expenses of Beiyang Navy. Why did she kill a bear herself?

With the "east wind" of China's modern history, Cixi's reputation has not been very good. However, when you carefully study China's modern history, you find that her reputation really shouldn't be good.

Women can't touch politics. Wu Zetian, Xiaozhuang, and several empresses who helped the country through the crisis at a critical moment all proved by actions that women can hold up half the sky. Cixi is not a mediocre person, otherwise, she can't launch a coup in her heart and then take charge of state affairs for decades. However, at the moment of internal troubles and foreign invasion, when the world is in danger and the nation is in urgent need of cheering up, Cixi's obstinacy and willfulness cannot be justified.

The Summer Palace, derided by everyone as "the largest naval facility left by the Qing Dynasty", stands quietly in the northwest corner of Beijing, and vividly tells with its own image how the Empress Dowager Lafayette used the money to buy warships to build gardens.

The misappropriation of military expenditure of Beiyang Navy weakened its military strength to some extent. However, after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Cixi wanted to misappropriate military funds and personally staged a bear-hunting farce to find an excuse.

I. Misappropriation of funds

In order to show filial piety to his mother, Emperor Long specially built Qingyi Garden on the basis of West Lake in Hangzhou, a western suburb of Beijing. During the Second Opium War, the excellent royal gardens were destroyed by the British and French allied forces.

During the eleven years from 1884 to 1895, Cixi wanted to use Qingyi Garden as a retreat, so she ordered the reconstruction of Qingyi Garden in the name of Guangxu. Because of their weak national strength and limited funds, they can only build a wall around Kunming Lake, and then concentrate their financial resources on repairing the Qian Shan complex and renaming it the Summer Palace.

In the whole construction process, the total cost reached100000 silver. You know, during the same period, the operation and maintenance costs of Beiyang and Nanyang navies were only a few million dollars.

Of course, such a huge capital consumption exceeds the normal budget, so it can only be transferred from other funds. 20 130606 As an investor, the Qing navy was targeted by the Cixi Lafayette. At first, the funds for coastal defense projects were only borrowed. In ten years, * * * borrowed 4.372 million yuan from the navy, and later more than 4 million yuan was returned by special funds.

However, after that, the cost of the Summer Palace project became misappropriation. 1888, only 453,200 yuan was misappropriated. But in the second year, Yi decided to misappropriate 302,000 yuan from the navy's military expenditure every year. To 1894, * * misappropriate 1802000 yuan, in 7788, * * * invaded the naval expenditure of 7.502 million yuan under various excuses! In other words, the wayward western empress dowager ate half the fleet of the Qing Empire on her 60th birthday.

Second, the heroine who hunts bears

1894- 1895 After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, Cixi didn't realize how much impact this contest between China and Japan could have, which also became a habit of facing failure. Therefore, the disappearance of the Beiyang Navy Golden Beast just frees up money to build its own amusement place-the Summer Palace.

The minister who is in national humiliation dare not openly oppose it, but it is inevitable that the voice will reach the queen mother. In order to stop the long crowd and prove to the minister that she is entitled to enjoy it, Cixi thought of Li Wei.

Empress Dowager Cixi worshipped Emperor Qianlong the most in her life. Of course, she is not interested in Qianlong's achievements at all, but only in those anecdotes. The dragon once personally killed the black bear, which not only increased the majesty of the emperor, but also helped the ruler consolidate the imperial power.

Call Rong Lu, the minister of war of Cixi, and Li, a confidant eunuch, and say that they will follow the example of hunting bears and lock up the ministers of the DPRK, so that the great cause of building the Summer Palace can be carried out smoothly again. Hearing this, the two men had mixed feelings. Thankfully, when this thing is done, they don't have to worry about the love of the Empress Dowager Lafayette. What worries me is that Cixi is still fooling around at such a big age. If there is danger, the whole family will accompany the queen mother on the road.

After the secret

Rong and Li sent their cronies all over the country to look for black bears. As long as they are discovered, they will pay a high price for it. Then select the old and weak to train and prepare for the hunting of Cixi. At the same time, they bought the latest sophisticated muskets from foreigners at a high price and hired foreigners to teach Cixi personally.

More than a month later, more than 100 black bears bought from all over the country were put in iron cages, and only one was transported to the vicinity of the summer resort. Under Li's personal inspection, the black bears screened out all the people who had the opportunity to send Lafayette to the Western Ocean, and finally selected a female bear who was not in contact with each other as a temporary special prey for Cixi.

After that, Li sent someone to secretly send the mother bear to a nearby family to raise it. Rong Lu was worried that the villagers might accidentally leak the news, so he sent troops to "protect" the villagers so as not to damage the majesty of the Western Empress Dowager.

A few days later, Cixi personally led thousands of people, including empresses, princes, Fujin Gege, eunuchs and maids-in-waiting, to the summer resort under the escort of a security guard and a guard of honor.

One evening near the summer resort, Lafayette, who had been served, suddenly stood in awe, dressed in military uniform, sitting on a white horse and holding a pike. On the left is Rong Lu, on the right is Li, and behind him are numerous yellow jacket guards. This can be said to be close to full marks.

However, ignorant princes and nobles, especially wives, were frightened. Under what circumstances does Lafayette need to go into battle with a pike in person? Just then, there was a noise in the Woods not far away, and I saw a black bear coming slowly. Scared everyone. Some people want to run, but they are forced to tremble and dare not move by the appearance of Cixi.

Fourth, jokes have been around for a hundred years.

The mother bear is older and more sensitive. By default, she doesn't know there is such a dark operation. Gradually enter people's sight. Walking, Mother Bear suddenly found a lamb hanging on a tree by the roadside.

The mother bear rushed to the lamb. At this time, Rong Lu whispered to Cixi: "Lafayette, shoot, shoot!"

Although Cixi made full preparations for hunting, she was still a little confused at the last moment. She barely pulled the trigger with trembling hands, and with a loud bang, the hit female bear felt a tingle all over her body and began to collide everywhere.

The guards who had been eyeing for a long time rose to attack. After some tossing, the mother bear was killed. The panicked people realized it, so they all knelt down to beat the power of Cixi and praised her marksmanship. Ministers in Beijing naturally got the message when they heard about it, and no one made different voices for the expansion of the Summer Palace.

However, Cixi is just a little wishful thinking. Although the whole process is private, there are no secrets in the palace. Officer Xiong and the villagers have already revealed the news and spread it to the public, which has become a joke that people relish in their leisure time.