introduction
In the "Henan Literature and History Materials", there is a memoir of a Qing court guard, the author of the memoir is named Su Xuncheng, who when he was young because his family was poor and had no way out, he joined the army, successively yuan shikai, Zhang Xun
(1854-September 11, 1923)
He had sold his life, had been guarding the Forbidden City for a long time, and had seen Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor.
One of the duties of Su Xuncheng and others in the Suwei camp was to accompany Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor when they left the palace, but at that time, even if the Guangxu Emperor and Cixi went out of the palace to a destination, they did not go together, but the Guangxu Emperor went first, sitting on the palanquin carried by Luan Youwei to take the first step, surrounded by soldiers of the Suwei camp, because the palanquin was too heavy, the Luan Guards had to change shifts once every mile, and the people who changed down took horses to follow a few miles and then changed back, the work was not heavy, at least they could rest.
Travel
In contrast, the soldiers of the Suwei battalion were more miserable, they did not have this treatment, they could only rely on their own two legs to follow closely, and the Guangxu Emperor did not understand the people at all, he always seemed very anxious, constantly patting the palanquin, and urging the soldiers to move forward in Manchu:
"Step up! Step up! Iriga step" (Manchu "go!) walk! Come on! ”）
Sometimes when traveling, the Guangxu Emperor would toss the guards badly enough, and on a trip in the summer of 1902, Cixi and Guangxu were going to Tanglin
Bye-bye, the Guangxu Emperor still set off one step ahead, he was still the same as before urging the soldiers to speed up, causing the entourage to sweat like rain, more
The soldiers of the camp fainted because they had run too long and fainted because the weather was too hot and the sun was too sunny, and many of them had suffered from heat stroke.
But seeing this scene, the Guangxu Emperor did not say a word of comfort and sympathy, but instead clapped his hands and laughed happily, Su Xuncheng remembered that it was the only time in three years that he had seen the Guangxu Emperor laugh like this in the three years of defending the Forbidden City, but the taste was known only to those miserable guards.
Cixi travels