The Empress Dowager Cixi had many and strange requirements for taking a car, and the driver had a ha

The Empress Dowager Cixi asked the driver to sit shorter than her. It's a tough one. Originally, the seats in the car were all on parallel lines. The driver reluctantly said that the car broke down and resigned and left.

Cixi did not allow the driver to sit as tall as her, and her request made it impossible for the driver to drive, so she left in desperation on the grounds that the car had broken down.

In desperation, he lied that the car was broken down and could not be repaired, and then resigned and left overnight.

In desperation, he blocked the exhaust pipe of the car with cotton wool, and lied that the vehicle was damaged and could not be repaired, and unloaded the errand.

The Qing Dynasty missed the opportunity to integrate with the world due to its policy of closing the country to the outside world, which caused China to lag behind the pace of world industrialization, resulting in the poverty and backwardness of modern China and its degeneration into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. Among them, the Empress Dowager Cixi, the ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, was also a diehard. Due to the short-sightedness of the Empress Dowager Cixi and the misguided country and the people, she held the Qing Dynasty power for 47 years and pushed the Qing Dynasty to the brink of death.

During the reign of the Empress Dowager Cixi, because of her stubbornness and self-containment, she directed and acted in a very ridiculous thing, that is, what happened to her first time on the train.

In 1875, when China's first operating railway, the Wusong Railway, was built in Shanghai, the Chinese who first saw railways and trains were full of fear, believing that they had destroyed feng shui and disrespected their ancestors. It was not until six years later, because of the Westernization Movement, that the Qing Dynasty advocated the construction of the first government-run railway, the Tangxu Railway.

At that time, the wife of the chief engineer of the Tangxu Railway imitated the British "Rocket" steam locomotive to create China's first train, because our workers carved a dragon on both sides of the locomotive, so it was named the "Dragon" locomotive.

In 1881, the Empress Dowager Cixi rushed to Fengtian to worship her ancestors. Due to the long, time-consuming and labor-intensive journey, it was definitely too late to take the sedan car, so I decided to take the royal train to go. This was the first time in the life of the Empress Dowager Cixi to take a train, and she made three requests:

The first requirement is that except for the Empress Dowager Cixi, all the people in the car, including the driver, must wear eunuch clothing. The Empress Dowager Cixi's request also reflects the lofty status of her. After all, except for the eunuchs who serve on the left and right all the year round, no one can "get up and sit together" with her.

However, at that time, the steam train required a highly skilled driver to control it, so how could the "eunuch" go to the ** car? So, I could only think of a compromise solution, which was to let the driver wear the eunuch's costume.

The second requirement is that everyone on the train must all stand, including the driver who is driving。Everyone knows the rules of the Qing Dynasty that Cixi is the highest power in the country, and if they are all sitting, it means that they are "on an equal footing" with her, which is also a great rebellion. However, as a train driver, it is too difficult and unsafe to drive on a standing position.

Now I was also worried about the driver, so I could only kneel and finish the train the whole way.

The third requirement was that all entourage, including the driver, must board the train only after Cixi had boarded the train. But anyone who has ever been on the train knows that, according to theory, it should be the staff of the train who gets on the train first, so as to check the safety performance of the train, fuel equipment, etc., but Cixi does not care.

From the three strange demands put forward by Cixi, we can see how closed, stubborn and backward the Qing Dynasty was at that time. As the supreme ruler of a country, the Empress Dowager Cixi is so conformist, firmly grasping power, and unwilling to accept new things, how can the country not perish. Therefore, when Cixi died in 1908, four years later, in 1912, Puyi abdicated, and the Qing Dynasty came to an end and officially ended.

Cixi took the train for the first time, and proposed that the entourage could not get on the train at the same time, and could not sit down, otherwise it would be disrespectful, and another was that she felt that the train was too loud and emitted black smoke, which would affect the dragon veins of the Qing Dynasty, so it was rumored to be a joke.

The first entourage must be a eunuch; Second, she had to be the first to get on the train, and she had to be alone in the whole carriage; Thirdly, the driver must drive on his knees, otherwise he will be disrespectful to himself.

Clause. 1. It is required that all entourage, including the driver, must board the train only after Cixi has boarded the train. However, this requirement has no effect on the normal operation of the train.

Clause. Second, Cixi thought that the locomotive was too loud and emitted black smoke, which would disturb the rest of the ancestors and affect the dragon veins of the Qing Dynasty, so she asked to dismantle the locomotive and use a carriage to pull it.

Third, Cixi demanded that all the attendants in the car must be eunuchs, and that all the attendants in the car must stand, and only she could sit. This is very difficult for the driver.

Because Cixi always thought that he was superior and very noble, he required that he must get on the train first when he got on the train, and all the conductors should also get off the train to meet him, the second point was that the driver at that time must wear the costume of a eunuch, and the last one is that when she takes the train, everyone must stand, including the driver.

It is decided to let the horse-drawn train be the rule, because some people say that the railway is not good, and when the train runs, black smoke will be sprayed, which will harm the crops, hinder feng shui, and violate harmony. So Cixi ordered: unload the locomotive, and the train will run on the tracks by mule horses.

At that time, he wanted to let multiple horses pull the locomotive instead of using the steam locomotive, so the driver at that time had a headache.

Cixi asked the train driver not to sit in the ** car, and he had to be a eunuch, so the drivers at that time wanted to cry without tears.

It's really weird: everyone has to get out of the car first to welcome her into the car; Therefore all those who drive must wear the clothes of eunuchs; The driver is not allowed to sit in the car, and must stand all the way to the end.

Because the people who served Cixi were generally eunuchs, and it was a male driver who drove at that time, Cixi was definitely unwilling, and the male driver could only pretend to be a eunuch. On the train, only Cixi can sit alone, everyone else has to stand, and the driver has to stand on the ** car.

Cixi's ignorance of the train made a joke and made the following three rules:

1. All the drivers and attendants on the bus get off the bus first and kneel in line to greet Cixi, and wait for Cixi to get on the bus after the driver and crew get on the bus.

2. If the driver is a eunuch (the last driver wears the clothes of a eunuch).

3. The driver stands in the car the whole time.

This is because Cichen Bixi hopes that the driver can guess enough to stand and drive, and she also wants the eunuch to drive for her, so in the end, the driver can only wear the eunuch's costume and drive standing up.

Because Cixi's feudal thinking at that time was very serious, she thought that the driver could not sit and drive, but needed to stand and drive, and the driver had to be empty, and it was a big joke.

She asked that only the eunuch should be the first car for herself, and the driver could not be on an equal footing with herself, but should stand or kneel for her own ** car.