When Cixi fled westward, how many people did she take with her, and how did she live on the road?

At that time, Cixi could only take Guangxu and a group of people around him to flee the capital in a panic, after a large number of ** and rich relief along the way, when she arrived in Xi'an, Cixi lived a luxurious life again, and the expenses alone exceeded 200 taels a day, and in the year of living in Xi'an, Li Hongzhang signed the Xinchou Treaty, and as the situation stabilized, Cixi was ready to go back and continue to enjoy. At this time, there were tens of thousands of people returning to the palace, and 37 palaces were built along the way from Xi'an to Beijing.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was a very extravagant Empress Dowager. At that time, when Cixi fled west, dozens of carts of large and small things were loaded, and there was no appearance of escaping at all. And on the way, I have always tried to maintain the same level of food and clothing as the palace.

So it's not so much Cixi fleeing west, it's more like going on a tour.

When the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the palace, Cixi fled westward in a hurry, and the entourage she brought with her was basically to take care of her daily life, and the road was also very nourishing.

When the Eight-Nation Alliance Army reached the capital, Cixi took more than 100 people and fled all the way west, living a very miserable life on the road.

It was probably less than 100 people, and the situation was so critical that they didn't have time to call people, and then packed up and left with some cronies.

It should have brought thousands of people, and their living conditions at that time were still very good, although they had been fleeing, but their living standards were also very high.

We don't know how many people he brought, only that there must have been a lot of people, because it took a long time in between, and in the end there was no cold water, and they were miserable on the road. And on the way, many officers and soldiers are already dead.

Because at that time, when the guards heard that the foreigners had attacked, they had already run away, leaving only the eunuchs with him.

Because he also escaped from the panic at that time, even if he wanted to bring more people, it was too late, but the time was very short.

The smaller the number of people, the more undetected his escape behavior will be, and the smoother the escape will be. Only in this way can you hide your traces, not be discovered by others, and better escape from the capital.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was the supreme leader of the late Qing Dynasty, ruling for 48 years.

After the outbreak of the Wuxu coup, a large-scale uprising occurred in the north, which later generations called the "Boxer Rebellion", because in dealing with the Boxer Rebellion, the late Qing Dynasty, represented by the Empress Dowager Cixi, did not agree with the Western powers.

In 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance, represented by the Western powers, invaded Beijing, and after Cixi learned the news, she immediately led people to flee to Xi'an.

Cixi did not lead the guards in the palace, first, most of these guards were composed of the children of the Eight Banners, because the Qing Dynasty had been comfortable for too long, these guards had low combat effectiveness, and they were useless, and they could only dress up in the Taiping, once they encountered a war, these guards could not play any role at all.

When the Empress Dowager Cixi fled west, she was also aware of the combat effectiveness of these escorts, and it was better not to bring them than to drag herself down with them. However, although the Empress Dowager Cixi did not bring an escort army, she sent people to find the Li Family Dart Bureau, which was the most famous in the capital at that time, to protect her westward escape.

The Li Family Dart Bureau is out of the dart all the year round, and is more familiar with the outside route, which can also facilitate the Empress Dowager Cixi to escape from the capital faster, in case she is caught up by the Eight-Nation Alliance. The ability to escort is definitely stronger than that of the palace guards.

As soon as the news of Cixi's westward escape spread, Cen Chunxuan, the political envoy in Gansu, led 2,000 soldiers and horses to the capital to escort him at the first time, and happened to meet the team of the Empress Dowager Cixi fleeing west on the way.

<>< 1900, Cixi fled westward in a hurry, and the usual ceremonial image could still be taken care of, and they fled to the northwest in a hurry with Guangxu. It was precisely because Cixi and the others fled in a bit of a hurry that they didn't bring much dry food at all, and when Cixi was in the limelight, He Duanhe was hungry when he was in the town, and he couldn't eat 180 plates.

But when she was down, she had no scruples about filling her stomach, and she had to eat anything along the way, so on the way, she had eaten sweet potatoes and corn that were freshly dug from the ground, but she could only eat these.

Because the situation on the way exceeded their expectations, they thought that they could rely on their identity on the road and be entertained by the people, but unfortunately the palace was occupied, how could these people be better, so along the way, many places have been deserted, so Cixi is barely spending on wild vegetables.

However, after walking a short distance, fortunately she met a blind old lady in a deserted village, and when she saw this person, Cixi was very happy, and hurriedly asked Li Lianying to ask for some delicious food, but Li Lianying went with the silver and came back with the silver.

Cixi looked at it and thought about it and asked Li Lianying to take the copper coin over again, it turned out that the old lady didn't recognize the silver but only the copper plate, and after hearing them say that she wanted to buy some food, she scolded in dialect.

Cixi didn't understand this, and Li Lianying, who understood, naturally didn't dare to say it, so she took the rice in the cabinet and was about to leave, but the old lady was reluctant at this time, and scolded: "You two hammers, the rice is boiled, you want to starve my old woman?" ”

Cixi heard it and asked what the second hammer meant, Li Lianying had to pretend not to understand the past, and gave the old lady some more copper coins and asked if there was anything else to eat? I didn't expect the old lady to have hidden eggs, which made Cixi very happy.

When she ate these ordinary things, she devoured them, and the old lady couldn't look at it and said: "Sang Nian Di is very, Sang Nian Di is very!" This is saying that Cixi looks ugly, Cixi didn't understand and ignored it, and after eating, she asked Li Lianying to give the old lady a reward of ten more dollars and then hurried.

I don't know if Cixi would turn over the old accounts if she knew the meaning of these three sentences, but the old lady's meal can be regarded as a life-saving meal, and if Cixi returns to the palace, she will not have time to pay attention to this matter.

He just asked the eunuchs around him to beg for food. If they couldn't get it, they would be killed, so they had to ask Cixi for food.

He could only go to the temple and eat some corn and steamed buns, because the people along the road were very poor, and even if they had money, they could not buy food.

When Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled westward, they took most of the palace maids and eunuchs with them.

At that time, it was important to escape, so I could only bring some cronies, and it was estimated that there were only dozens of people.

When they fled, they must have brought with them some people who were waiting for them and protecting them.

The two of them are fleeing from the west, so it is impossible to bring too many people.