Since the Qing Dynasty adopted the closed door policy, the national strength has gone from bad to worse. After the defeat of the First Opium War, although the Qing government paid a painful price for it, it still adhered to the decadent idea that China was superior to the country, and the whole country made no progress, thinking that the western powers were barbarian countries. Soon, this absurd idea was overthrown. Under the aggression of western powers, the Qing government was defeated again and again, made concessions again and again, and signed a large number of unequal treaties on land cession and compensation. People's dissatisfaction with the Qing government and western powers also increased with the defeat, and finally broke out in the spring of 1900.

In order to oppose the rise of the Boxer Rebellion, Empress Dowager Cixi did not interfere too much in this uprising at first. After all, the Boxer Rebellion was in her interest, and the Qing government wanted to use this uprising to drive away the western powers. But what they didn't expect was that the Boxer Rebellion became an excuse for western powers to invade the Qing Dynasty and the fuse of Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China. Western powers used this as an excuse to form Eight-Nation Alliance, invaded China in the name of suppressing the Boxer Rebellion, and carved up and plundered the Qing Empire.

The total strength of the western powers invading China is about 50,000. These well-equipped and powerful troops invaded China in the name of helping the Qing government suppress the uprising. 1On August 4th, 900, the city of Beijing completely fell, and Empress Dowager Cixi fled hastily. Empress Dowager Cixi originally wanted to use the Boxer Rebellion to suppress western powers, but seeing that the troops invading China were unimpeded all the way, the Boxer Rebellion was no match at all, so she ordered the massacre of the Boxer Rebellion. But what she didn't expect was that despite her orders, Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing and ignored her. In despair, she had to flee.

Empress Dowager Cixi is the main leader of the country. After she fled, the soldiers guarding the city who worked for the Qing government also knew the fighting capacity of the allied forces. Therefore, in order to save their lives, they naturally don't want to stop the allies for the sake of the Qing government. The escape of important leaders made them lose their fighting capacity and willpower. Naturally, these soldiers can hide and avoid conflict with the allies.

Finally, the people in Beijing suffered. Eight-Nation Alliance plundered their property everywhere like a robber and took everything he could. If you can't take it away, set fire to it, and the whole city of Beijing is shrouded in smoke. After Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, wherever he went, he killed, set fire to, raped and plundered. After the capture of Beijing, countless treasures were stolen from the Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai and Summer Palace! And set fire to the famous Yuanmingyuan, which was looted after the British and French allied forces, and finally became a ruin, and countless gold, silver and jewels were set on fire.

Although Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, they did not intend to overthrow the Qing government. Western powers wanted to keep the Qing government to serve them, so they looked around for the trace of Cixi and the emperor. However, Cixi and the emperor had already escaped. Unable to find anyone, the allies broke the palace gate of the Forbidden City and invaded the palace.

There are so many treasures in the Forbidden City that these soldiers are dazzled, but their purpose is not to plunder the cultural relics in the Forbidden City, but to retaliate against Cixi. So they spent the night in Cixi's bed, squandered in her bedroom, and took away all the jewelry of Empress Dowager Cixi. The next day, when these soldiers left the palace, they also carved a foreign language on the bedside of Cixi, which was carved by an Italian officer as "Voglio Violent Are L 'Impere Ratrice Vedo Vacixi".

Shortly after Empress Dowager Cixi fled, she sent a book to Li Hongzhang, asking Prince Gong in Beijing to give some money to these allies, so that they could leave Beijing as soon as possible after receiving the money. However, the money can't meet the needs of these allies. After negotiations between Li Hongzhang and the commander-in-chief of the allied forces, the Qing government finally signed an agreement with Eight-Nation Alliance to withdraw troops, cede land and pay reparations. After Eight-Nation Alliance withdrew, Cixi returned to Beijing.

People in the palace were afraid that Cixi knew that someone had slept in her bed, so they cleaned up the palace before Cixi found out. The eagle-eyed man saw the words on Cixi's bedside. In order to prevent Cixi from losing her temper, they found a bed in the utility room that was almost the same as before and replaced it. Unexpectedly, Cixi soon discovered this. The eunuch in the palace told Cixi about it. Although Cixi was very angry after learning about it, she was more interested in the words engraved on the bedside.

In order to know the meaning of this line, Empress Dowager Cixi invited many scholars to translate it. This sentence means "I want to rape Empress Dowager Cixi". Many scholars can tell at a glance, but they can only say that they don't know the meaning of this sentence, because they are afraid that Empress Dowager Cixi will be punished.