The minister gave Cixi a car. When Cixi saw it, she asked, "Do you want to eat a lot of grass when the car runs so fast?"

At that time, it was the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Empire was still living in its own world, thinking that the world was still its own. I didn't know that the national industrial revolution in Europe was already in full swing. So as soon as Cixi saw this strange object, she would have such a joke that made her laugh.

After the death of Emperor Xianfeng, Cixi became the master of imperial power. Cixi has a strong self-fantasy, not only does not want to innovate and save the country, but also insists on her own ideas and leads the country step by step to the abyss. On Cixi's 66th birthday, Yuan Shikai bought a car from the west and gave it to Cixi to show his loyalty to Cixi. Cixi blurted out after sitting in the car: "The car ran so fast that it should have eaten a lot of grass." At the same time, she was dissatisfied with the driver's equality with herself, ordered the driver to drive on his knees, and ordered people to "push" the car back to the Forbidden City. This move, in the eyes of westerners, is even more ignorant of the Qing dynasty.

In the closed, backward and complacent late Qing Dynasty, cars were just playthings of Cixi. At that time, people claimed to be heaven, and their ability to accept new things abroad was extremely low, and they were backward and didn't know it. Cixi is lying on the ancestral credit book, guarding her stubbornness.

The thoughts of ignorant rulers will inevitably affect the implementation and development direction of the whole national policy. Corruption prevailed in the late Qing Dynasty, the ruling class decayed, and the state machine lost its practical utility. Cixi not only failed to adjust and govern in time, but also contributed to such bad atmosphere intentionally or unintentionally, which also laid the groundwork for the demise of the Qing Dynasty. Only by taking history as a mirror can we understand the essence of things.