C1697 The Eight Flags of Helplessness (1/2)

's death was due to her being worshipped by all the officials of the, if she did not die, no one would dare to cause trouble.

That year, after the incident with Gengzi, Ci Xi declared war on the Myriad Kingdoms, causing Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kun and the others to immediately come to the southeast to protect themselves, which also means they directly told the foreigners that we do not recognize the imperial declaration of war, if you like Beijing then go and fight Beijing, you can't beat us up anyway.

In the end, the Westerners agreed. The entire war had gone on without any interference from the allied forces of the eight nations of the southeast region. As a result, the war had been completely wiped out in the three provinces of Beijing and Jinji.

There was a record in the annals of history that when Ci Xi had escaped from Beijing, he had gone westward without being heard from for nearly a month. No one in the imperial government knew whether he was alive or dead.

At that time, the Governors who had protected themselves in the southeast had secretly linked forces, wanting to withdraw Li Hongzhang as the President and reform the Republic.

He even suggested to Zhang that Jiangnan should set up an independent state and prepare to attack the north.

Sometimes, the truth of history was hidden in the wild history, and perhaps what was recorded by the wild history was not necessarily true, but the fact that the later generations could see the wild history meant that the scholar who wrote the wild history at that time represented a large part of the people's thoughts, and that his thoughts, or made-up fantasies, were things that the people wanted to see and even longed to see.

It was precisely because of this desire in the hearts of the people that they tried their best to spread it. This was the reason why it had been passed down for hundreds of years, allowing future generations to see it.

This is a very important circumstantial contribution of wild history to history. Wild history, don't ask him to be absolutely correct. Wild history can't be absolutely correct, because even orthodox history can't do this.

However, the wild history that could be passed down for hundreds of years had not disappeared. This meant that the wild history represented the mainstream public opinion at that time. This was a very important circumstantial evidence to study the trend of the hearts of that era.

Just from the incident with the Mutual Security in the southeast, we can see that the authority of the late Qing had been scattered. Even with Ci Xi's control over the entire late Qing, he still could not gather power, let alone Tongzhi, Guang Xu and the other patients.

The more power was divided, the more severe the constraints would be! If the empire's resources could not be gathered, then of course they could not create large project that could reverse the destiny of the empire.

What was even more terrifying was that the Qing Dynasty's political system was never perfect. They were born with the ability to divide power, and the ghosts of the eight kings negotiating the government roamed in the hearts of every single flagman.

After the fall of the Emperor's authority, it would be difficult for it to be erected again! To put it bluntly, the entire group of eight flags did not wish for another Kang Xi, Yongzheng, or dryad to appear from the bottom of their hearts.

How dangerous and depressing it would be to have such a powerful monarch! If you want to cut off my head, I will chop off your head. If you want to cut off my head, I will chop off my head.

To follow such a master, even one had to be careful of corruption. It was better to follow a cowardly and useless emperor. If everyone was corrupt, even the imperial kitchens would covet the emperor's money. If the emperor knew about this, he wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

That was why the revival of the Tongzhi Emperor would definitely enrage all the other Eight Flags!

The bad to root group of eight flags naturally oppose the centralization, this has already become a 'crab bucket effect' What is a crab bucket effect?

Even the crab catcher at the seaside would take a bucket without a lid and throw a crab inside without even putting the lid back on the crab.