During The Boxer Incident Beijing Officials Hurry To Temporary Imperial Palace To Study

In the spring and summer of the 26 th year(1900)of the reign of emperor Guangxu,the boxer rebellion spread from Shandong to north China,and the Qing rulers suppressed and pacified it.As a result,the boxer rebellion spread all over Beijing and Tan 'jin in a short period of time,and the original order of the capital had already died out.Subsequently,due to the boxer group's anti-foreign violence and killing of missionaries,the eight nations invaded China,and broke into Beijing on the 21 st,the two palace heard the news,hasty west escape.the same day xu tong hanged in the capital,Ronglu,Chongqi,Dong fuxiang flee off Liang 'xiang,hundreds of officials fled or were martyred,the capital became a city without a master.This article mainly by Guangxu 26 years after Beijing broken kyou-kan retainers activities as the main research object,this paper sorts out the Gengzi related files,diaries,notes,newspaper and found two palace on July 21,Guangxu 26 years after her escape,each member of predefined retinue usually not with the thousands of size I was getting the capital,fled to slam shut,after the coalition lock city,road communications are broken,they cause the capital unowned and temporary imperial palace no embarrassing situation,the Qing court if you want to continue to control the country,urging kyou-kan west reconstruction center become the urgent matter,so she announced since "west inaugural",On one after another issued a letter urging the Beijing staff to go to the hard times in total,in an attempt to quickly complete the central reconstruction,special riot zionist.However,things did not go as intended,most of these instructions could not be delivered in the first time due to many reasons,such as coalition forces' lock of cities,interruption of communication and dispersing of officials.Moreover,even if the edict was delivered by luck,officials are also faced with low travel costs and treacherous roads,so few are making the journey at this stage.In order to solve these difficulties,the line in the imperial court constantly urged the Ronglu and Tingyong stationed in baoding as soon as possible to clear up along the road boxers people,get through the capital to travel with the road of retainers.At the same time,the governor of the southeast to raise money and grain direct solution to xi 'an in the line,and make Shengxuanhuai quickly repaired the wire,the addition of the horse,in order to communicate between the north and south in series,the elimination of the telegraph barrier.After a series of rectification construction,by the capital-bao 'ding-tai 'yuan a line of south road official basic unimpeded,In addition,it has the guarantee of "bao 'ding payment of vehicle reward road fee",most of the Beijing officials began to choose the south road to travel.In order to further encourage the staff of the capital to go to work in the effectiveness,the Qing court in early August 9 issued in the line in the allowance decree,formulated the allowance standards at all levels,at the same time should be issued in the Beijing staff list,temper justice with mercy,work along both lines,between the line "from the official gradually set".However,with the successive rush to the capital,with the size of the staff and guards and soldiers daily too numerous,coupled with the the boxer years there was a severe drought in the drought,the rice has been unable to make ends meet,so that the Qing court to cut spending had to stop the capital to go in,at the same time to reduce the number of officials in the allowance.Even so,the number of officials in the capital still increased without any decrease."the number of princes and ministers in the upper court gradually increased to nearly one hundred every day".In addition,all the departments and courts had hall officials in control,and the administrative efficiency was greatly improved,which to some extent alleviated the previously mentioned problem of government affairs multify-backlog.After nearly two months of efforts,by the middle of September,the bank's central establishment system had been perfected,and it could basically maintain the daily operation of government affairs.On the eve of her return to Beijing,the empress dowager Cixi completed the reconstruction and reconstitution of the central court,but also for the organization of the new policies of latter stage of Qing dynasty.With the completion of the reconstruction of the center,Beijing officials hurry to temporary imperial palace coming to an end.