What three requirements did Cixi put forward for the first time by train, which made her a laughing stock?

The Qing Dynasty missed the opportunity to connect with the world because of its closed doors, which made China lag behind the pace of world industrialization, resulting in poverty and backwardness and a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society in modern China. Among them, Empress Dowager Cixi, the ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, was also a die-hard. Due to the short-sightedness of Empress Dowager Cixi, she mastered the Qing regime for 47 years and pushed Qing to the brink of death. During the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi, because of her stubbornness and complacency, she directed and performed a very ridiculous thing, which happened when she took the train for the first time.

1875, Wusong Railway, the first commercial railway in China, was built in Shanghai. People in China who saw the railway and train for the first time were full of fear, thinking that it destroyed Feng Shui and disrespected their ancestors. It was not until six years later that the Qing government advocated the construction of the first government-run railway because of the Westernization Movement? Tang Xu Railway.

At that time, the wife of the chief engineer of Tang Xu Railway was modeled after the British? Rocket? The steam locomotive made the first train in China. China workers carved a dragon on each side of the locomotive, hence the name? Dragon? Motorcycle.

188 1 year, Empress Dowager Cixi will go to Fengtian to worship her ancestors. Because the journey is long, time-consuming and laborious, it is definitely too late to go out by sedan chair, so I decided to take the royal train. This is the first time that Empress Dowager Cixi took the train in her life and put forward three requirements:

The first requirement is that everyone on the bus, including the driver, except Empress Dowager Cixi, must wear eunuch clothes. Empress Dowager Cixi made this request, which also reflected her lofty status. After all, no one can be with her except the eunuch who serves around all the year round. Sit together? . However, the steam train at that time needed high-tech drivers to control it. How to operate it? Eunuch? To drive a train? So I can only think of a compromise, that is, let the driver wear eunuch clothes.

The second requirement is that everyone on the train must stand, including the driver. Everyone knows the rules of the Qing Dynasty. Cixi is the highest authority of the state. What does it mean to her if everyone is sitting? Equality? , is also a big negative. But as a train driver, it is too difficult and unsafe to drive standing. I was so worried about the driver that I had to finish the train on my knees.

The third requirement is that after Cixi gets on the bus, all her entourage, including the driver, must get on the bus. But everyone who has been on the train knows that in theory, the train staff should get on the train first in order to check the safety performance and fuel distribution of the train, but Cixi can ignore it.

From the three wonderful demands put forward by Cixi, we can see how closed, stubborn and backward the Qing Dynasty was at that time. Empress Dowager Cixi, as the supreme ruler of a country, is so hidebound, clinging to power and unwilling to accept new things. How can the country not perish? Therefore, when Cixi died in 1908, four years later, Puyi abdicated in 19 12, and the Qing Dynasty came to an end and officially perished.