However! When the Eight-Power Allied Forces were bloodbathing the capital, killing people, setting fires, robbing, raping and killing everywhere, the prodigal old woman who put Emperor Guangxu under house arrest - the one who liked to listen to politics behind the curtain - the so-called Lao Buddha - Yehenala Cixi who brought disaster to the country and the people.

——Sayazi ran away in panic.

The specific situation is as follows: On August 15th of that year, Empress Dowager Cixi forced Concubine Zhen to commit suicide by throwing herself into a well (concubine Zhen's body was later buried in the Qingxi Mausoleum in Yi County, Hebei Province. During the subsequent Republic of China, Concubine Zhen's tomb was robbed by tomb robbers in Hebei Province.

Jashi Shichen and others robbed the excavations. Later, Jashi Shichen was captured and brought to justice by the Republic of China government, and his head was beheaded by the Yishui River! This will be discussed later (I will not go into details for now). After that, he led Emperor Guangxu and other people to flee westward in a hurry.

Empress Dowager Cixi and others first fled in embarrassment to Huailai County, Hebei Province, then fled to Datong, Shanxi Province, and later to Taiyuan City, and finally fled to Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.

Along the way, the old Empress Cixi, who usually bossed around the palace and ate more than a hundred dishes at a meal, was in a miserable state, with neither food nor drink. She was very afraid that pursuers would catch up and take away her long-haired head.

This damn Cixi was used to being arbitrary and bossy, and she was also very particular about her meals. A meal required more than a hundred dishes. In fact, some of the dishes were just eye-catching to look at, and she couldn't move. At most, two people could eat one dish.

Three mouthfuls, that’s pretty good.

If she took one or two bites of each dish, she would have to eat 200 mouthfuls, and it would be strange if she didn't choke to death. Feed the cat first when eating, and then test the dishes with a silver hairpin to see if they are poisonous.

On major festivals, such as the Double Ninth Festival, the imperial kitchen has to be even more careful and prepare all kinds of cakes for you.

There is a dazzling array of these flower cakes, of all kinds! There are those with tribute chrysanthemums, some with golden jujube paste, some with eight treasures... and there are all kinds of flower cakes with Beijing characteristics.

It is said that on this day every year, she would go to the Paiyun Hall with great fanfare, bringing Li Lianying and a group of close friends to eat a special kind of "shaobing and barbecue" baked with special earth charcoal and pine branches. This was not an ordinary thing.

"Shaobing with barbecued meat" was Cixi's favorite.

In ordinary times, although the cooks in the imperial kitchen were extremely skilled in their skills, even making chopped green onions, there were dedicated cooks to cook them! But they still couldn't satisfy Cixi, a prodigal old woman.

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Once this old woman is fed up and feels unhappy, she will kill someone to vent her anger.

Every September, Cixi had to spend a "fasting period" according to the old rules. At this time, the imperial kitchen had to prepare vegetarian dishes for her for twenty days because this moody old woman still believed in Buddhism.

One year in the golden autumn of September, she suddenly caught a cold. Her mouth tasted bad, her food tasted bad, her teeth were not good, and she lost her appetite.

The old woman quickly summoned the eunuch Li Lianying to ask for the so-called "Nine Emperors Vegetable", and the chef quickly prepared it for her. After it was presented, it looked delicious, delicious and delicious, and ordinary people would salivate after seeing it.

Unexpectedly, as soon as this picky old lady tasted it, she started to curse loudly. She thought the food was tasteless and said it tasted like crap! She asked the cook to redo it.

The kitchen workers were so frightened that they didn't dare to speak out, so they had to beat the gongs and drums again and open another restaurant. After a long time, they actually did a better job this time than the last time.

However, the old witch Cixi had a cold and her nose was stuffy and her mouth tasted bad. She took it very seriously! After tasting it, she became very powerful and ordered all the kitchen workers to be pulled out and handed over to the knife and axe.

My hands clicked.

However, the palace was no longer what it used to be. Cixi and a group of people fled westward in embarrassment. They fled for several days and finished all the dry food they brought out.

Think about it, in those days, the army was in chaos and there were Japs everywhere. Cixi was so frightened that she did not dare to stop and ask for food from the government, but just kept running westward.

After it rained on the way, there was no store in the village. She was half starved, so she sent someone to look for food! Finally, she went to a dilapidated and uninhabited village to find two eggs, cooked them and ate them, but she was still screaming with hunger.

I drank rainwater when I was thirsty, and I no longer pretended to be cool.

It was almost time to reach Xi'an, but there was still more than ten miles to go. Cixi, an old woman, had a pale face and was really hungry, so she had to order the car to stop and ask her men to go find something to eat.

No matter how big or small their positions are, the subordinates in the palace are also pampered masters. At this time, they are also tired, hungry, thirsty and sleepy. Their chests are pressed against their backs, and their legs and feet almost have no strength to walk.

With sad faces on their faces, they thought to themselves, Cixi was used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, such as abalone and lobster, so where could she find these things in the wilderness now? Thinking of this, they just hummed and agreed, but they didn't take any action.

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When Cixi saw this, she flew into a rage and said with a fierce face: "You bunch of dog slaves, do you want to starve me to death?"

One of his subordinates quickly nodded and bowed and said: "Master Qi, please calm down. It's not that I don't want to look for it, but this place has no village in front and no store in back. Where can I find it?"

At this moment, Cixi suddenly discovered that not far away, a group of refugees in ragged clothes were sitting on the ground eating. So she pointed with her hand and said, "Look what those people are eating."

The men hurried over to take a look, and saw the fleeing people sitting together, munching on a big steamed bun. The semi-circular steamed bun looked like it weighed four or five taels.

The men hurried back and reported: "Let me tell you, Old Buddha, those people are eating steamed buns."

This Cixi was an old woman who was used to enjoying the good things in the palace. She had never known what kind of a troublemaker Wo Wotou was, let alone seen it. She was very curious at the moment, so she walked over in person with swaying steps.

Cixi stretched out her head and took a curious look. She saw that the semi-circular buns were very beautiful, yellow, and had an eye. Those people gnawed them endlessly, and they looked very delicious.

So she hesitated, pointed at an old man, and asked tentatively: "Is this delicious?" The old man turned around and said, "It's delicious!"

After hearing this, Cixi felt even more hungry and panicked, so she continued to test and said: "Can you give me something to eat?"

In fact, the cutest people were the common people. The old man didn't know that the old woman in make-up and shabby clothes in front of him was Cixi in the palace, so he felt very happy. He took out a golden steamed bun from his bag and handed it to her.

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Cixi hurriedly took it, opened her mouth, and took a big bite. She felt that it was so delicious. After several big mouthfuls, she finished the whole steamed bun.

This old man's steamed buns are made of cornmeal. They are small at the top and large at the bottom, with a hollow middle. They are semicircular in shape. They were originally the staple food of poor people in the past.

Because it is a coarse grain, in order to make it easier to steam and cook and save firewood, people left a hole under the steamed buns. And because it is the same staple food as steamed buns, Beijingers call this food steamed buns.

Just like this, they fled all the way, and after more than two months of running thousands of miles, Cixi and her party finally entered the then city of Xi'an on October 26. It happened to be raining that day, and the local officials were still strong.

The crowd was made to kneel in the rain to welcome Cixi's arrival.

As soon as Cixi arrived in Xi'an, she was carefully accommodated by the local officials, as if she were a giant panda, a national treasure! Needless to say, she was treated with utmost care.

The governor of Shaanxi was engaged in extensive construction work, spending fifty thousand taels of silver and snowflakes, and planned to use the governor's office in the north courtyard with hundreds of houses as Cixi's palace.

After Cixi arrived in Xi'an, due to lack of time for repairs, she first used the Shaanxi-Gansu Governor's Yamen in the south courtyard as a temporary palace. All the doorposts were repainted and whitewashed inside and outside.

That's it. Cixi, an unruly old woman, still thought there were too few houses, so she went to live in the governor's Yamen in the Beiyuan.

At that time! Xi'an set up a special support bureau to handle the emperor's mission. In less than a month, a waste of money of 290,000 taels was spent.
Chapter completed!