Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, and Cixi fled to the west. How can she eat?

A long time ago, I heard a story called "Lotus leaves supporting peaches". It is said that when Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing, Cixi fled the capital overnight with Emperor Guangxu. Dressed as ordinary people, they worked hard day and night from Beijing to Xi. When I returned to Baoding, the treasures of Lianchi were looted by foreign devils and pavilions were destroyed. In order to welcome Cixi's "glorious return", local officials in Baoding received a notice several months in advance to build a palace for her.

A prodigal bitch, who fled overnight regardless of her home country when foreign enemies invaded, is now trying to put on airs and disturb the people, and the people in the city are full of complaints. In order to ward off evil spirits, craftsmen carved a big lotus leaf with a big peach on it on the roof of the palace. Lotus leaf is also called lotus leaf, and the homonym of "Lotus leaf holding peach" is "overnight escape", which is intended to ridicule the ugly behavior of Cixi and her gang who fled to Beijing overnight.

At this time, the big eunuch Li saw the flaw and told Cixi. Empress Dowager Cixi was furious and ordered the craftsman to be killed, and the stone carving was destroyed.

Don't look at Empress Dowager Cixi at this time. At the beginning of her escape, she and Guangxu and her party were also in a mess. If nothing else, even eating a hot meal is a great luxury.

Due to the hasty escape, the logistics work could not keep up, and Cixi, who was dressed as a common people, really lived a "refugee" life. At that time, Beijing and Tianjin were in chaos, and officials fled and died along the way. Hundreds of Fiona Fang businessmen around the capital closed their shops early to avoid losses, and most of them fled to avoid the disaster of war, so the logistics support of Cixi and her party went wrong.

Without reception, eating becomes a big problem. Due to the hasty escape, the self-provided dry food of the entourage did not stop hunger at all. Because of Li's ability to handle affairs, he used glistening money to buy steamed bread, chestnut rice and coarse grain radish from farmers a few miles away from the roadside.

After Cixi and his party fled to a county town, Cixi thought that the county magistrate would arrange accommodation for themselves, and no one could wait around. When the magistrate asked, he knew that Eight-Nation Alliance had captured Beijing, and he felt that the Qing Dynasty was over. He hanged himself two days ago to show his loyalty.

As soon as the magistrate died, the people ran away. After searching for a long time, Li Ling finally found an old jailer who cooked for the prisoners in the prison next to the county government. The old jailer said that he could do nothing but steam corn bread with cornflour and make cabbage soup with dried old cabbage. Wotou cabbage soup is a standard prison meal, which is all an old man can do when cooking for prisoners. Li said to him, Wotou, Wotou, do it quickly.

When a big plate of thick and hard wowotou was brought to Cixi, she and Guangxu wolfed it down and said, "Delicious, delicious."

It was not until they came to Hebei that they met Wu Yong, the county magistrate of Huailai, Hebei Province, who came to pick up the plane in the rain. When Wu Yong held a bowl of millet and mung bean porridge and five boiled eggs, Empress Dowager Cixi, who was already hungry, was moved to tears and returned to Beijing. Wu Yong was promoted to the third level, from the county magistrate of the seventh level to the xi 'an Daotai of the fourth level.

Some people benefit from eating, and some people stumble because of eating. The person who tripped was Oten, the county magistrate of Tianzhen County.

Auden knows that lafayette likes to eat. In order to kiss up to Lafayette, he prepared rich food in advance when Empress Dowager Cixi first arrived in Huai 'an County, Hebei Province. Unexpectedly, Empress Dowager Cixi was very happy in Huai 'an County, which lasted for three days. These three days are not good. In three days, the food prepared by Orton was rotten. This matter was known by the eunuch who acted as an advance party and severely scolded Ai Teng. Maybe it's too much cursing, maybe it's written on the face, maybe it's because I'm afraid that Cixi will settle accounts after the autumn. That night, Teng committed suicide by drinking poison.

After Otten's death, Empress Dowager Cixi had no sympathy, but felt very lost and ruined the scenery. She even named Tianzhen County "Aicheng".

The further you go in Shanxi, the less local people are harassed by Eight-Nation Alliance and the Boxer Rebellion, and local officials try their best to please Cixi and others. It is said that when Cixi and her party went to Houma, local officials in Houma began preparations a month ago, and the local government specially recruited 80 chefs. Business day and night, careful configuration, full banquet 108 dishes, all guaranteed supply. Quwo, Wenxi and other places followed suit. Wenxi spent two hundred and two thousand pieces of silver in two days, which is equivalent to the sum of money, grain and tax in the county for three years.