The carriage of the Empress Dowager Cixi who fled hurriedly

On August 14, 1900, Cixi summoned the military aircraft king and others five times in a row and decided to "leave Beijing" as a "temporary retreat." Wang Wenshao wrote in his diary: "I have been summoned five times. At the moment of the summons, only Gang and Zhao were present. The Empress Dowager said: There are only three of you left. Please follow me. The rest of you will go home each other, and you have forgotten my mother and son." "Except for Gang Yi, Wang Wenshao, and Zhao Shuqiao, the ministers of the Royal King and others all dispersed and returned to their private homes. Cixi said to Wang Wenshao: " You are old, and I feel uneasy after all this hard work. Erke came later. Gangyi and Zhao Shuqiao can ride horses and must travel together. At 6 o'clock in the morning on the 15th, Cixi led Guangxu, eldest brother Pu Jun and others to flee in haste. Before dawn, Zailan sped into the palace and said that the Yi soldiers had attacked Donghua Gate. The Empress Dowager knew that the matter had reached the last moment and was about to jump into the water to commit suicide. Zailan grabbed her clothes and said,"It's better to avoid it and take it as a later plan." "Only then did the Empress Dowager walk out of the palace crying. Her hair was too short of the hairpin, and Guangxu wore a plain dress to follow her. Long Yu, Concubine Jin, and eldest brother boarded the carriage together. The princes and ministers either rode horses or walked, and jumped on the horse, forming a retinue of more than a thousand people. Exit Di 'anmen from Jingshan West Street and travel westward, and exit Xizhimen at 8 a.m. The sky suddenly began to drizzle, and none of the followers carried rain gear. They were all soaked and miserable. Those who followed were Zai Yi, Pu Jun, Yi Kuang, Shan Qi, Zaixun, Zai Lan, Zai Ze, Pu Xing, Pu Lun, Gang Yi, Zhao Shuqiao, Ying Nian and Supervisor Li Lianying. In the evening, when we arrived at Guanshi, Changping,"It has been a day since the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager have eaten. Some people have offered Shu millet and eaten it with their hands." The queen mother cried, and the emperor also cried. It was cold at that time, and it was impossible to ask for bedding. The village woman brought in a cloth quilt, but the washing was still wet. The beans are burned at night, and people lie down on each other's pillow." Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Gansu Province, came to see him from Changping, and "the Empress Dowager cried bitterly at him."