Gengzi Incident (records of the Late Qing Dynasty)
by Li Keding
About This Novel
The gorgeous beams and pillars of the late Qing Empire have long been eaten away by termites. During the Gengzi period, Empress Dowager Cixi ushered in the most painful year of her life: royalists overseas were waving their flags, and Sun Yat-sen was shouting in Guangdong. The southeastern provinces united to protect each other, but they seemed to be in harmony with the Qing court. With the tacit approval of the imperial war faction, the Boxer Rebellion spread rapidly and brought disaster to Beijing and Tianjin. The commanders of the Eight-Power Allied Forces marched into Beijing, and instantly Kyoto was in trouble. The two palaces made a hurried tour to the west, which lasted for one year and four months. Li Hongzhang was ordered to go north, negotiate with the great powers, and complete the last political mission in his life. After the "Xinchou Treaty" was signed, the Qing government scraped bones to heal its wounds, implemented the New Deal, and mended the already riddled Qing Dynasty.
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