After Yuan Shikai got the car, he couldn't wait to transport it to the palace to give it to Cixi. Because of the novel design and exquisite craftsmanship, Cixi had never seen such an advanced and beautiful foreign gadget, and she was overjoyed and accepted it. At that time, there were no drivers in the country, but Cixi wanted to get addicted to riding and ordered the recruitment of drivers. Later, 1 1 people took the exam, and one of them was Sun Fuling. At that time, he was specialized in driving carriages for the royal family. Because of his cleverness, he was highly appreciated by the Queen Mother, so he was chosen to learn driving, and he soon learned it. Since then, Cixi will take a ride in the palace whenever she has time. Once, she took a bus from the Summer Palace to the Forbidden City. At this time, the eunuch Li suddenly discovered that Sun Fuling, the former coachman, was now a coachman. He not only sat, but also sat in front of Galeries Lafayette. You don't say! This is detrimental to the dignity of Lafayette! So he told Cixi: The coachman is a slave, and it is indecent to sit in front of the Queen Mother all day. So he ordered the driver to drive on his knees. However, the driver can't step on the brakes when driving on his knees, which is prone to danger. However, this situation can't be told to Cixi, so the driver has to be silent.
One day, Cixi took a bus and found that the car was driving very slowly, so she asked Sun Fuling what was going on. Sun Fuling dare not say, Li told him to drive on his knees, so he didn't dare to brake. For the sake of safety, he drove slowly, so he had to make up a lie that the car was a little broken and he couldn't drive fast. Later, the driver almost caused an accident on the road because he couldn't step on the accelerator and brake with his hand instead of his foot. This frightened the princes and ministers, and they begged Cixi not to take the bus. Under the persuasion of the ministers, Cixi was reluctantly helped out of the car and changed into a sixteen-seat sedan chair. Later, Cixi gradually lost interest in taking a bus, and the car was idle in the Summer Palace. Sun Fuling, a kneeling driver, fled Beijing with his family for fear of trouble in the future.
1902, Empress Dowager Cixi celebrated her birthday, and foreigners gave her a car. Because it was fresh, the queen mother was very happy and sat in it. The foreigners dragged her around the garden clearing. Needless to say, it's nice to bump around.
After sitting for a while, she thought, it's nothing to let a foreigner drag me around the yard. It seems that there is no one in the green. She felt uncomfortable and called to stop the car. The queen mother told the foreigners to go down, and then called a sedan chair bearer to let the sedan chair bearer drive. How dare the bearers? Foreigners don't agree with Nuo Nuo, but the empress dowager had the idea of letting the bearers drive. Foreigners know that the old lady is stubborn, so they have to explain the essentials to the bearers. This sedan chair bearer is really spiritual. He can drive away, and the queen mother is happy again. Who said there was no one in the Qing Dynasty? This thing can be driven away by one person. It's just an iron animal. But after a while, she felt sick again. Why is it uncomfortable? She saw that the sedan chair bearer sitting side by side with her was uncomfortable and stopped again. Then he said, monkey, get down on your knees and drive!
Foreigners were surprised when the old lady told him to kneel down, NONO. Can the queen mother listen to him? The queen mother was uncompromising, so the bearers had to kneel down and drive away. The sedan chair bearer grabbed the steering wheel with one hand and the accelerator with the other. Needless to say, he started the car again, and the queen mother was happy again.
As for the bearers, although they started driving again, the car was rickety and drunk. The queen mother was a little scared and shouted, "Stop, stop". The bearers were already nervous, but when the queen mother shouted, they became even more nervous. She tried to turn off the throttle, but her hand was used backwards and the throttle was pressed to the end. The other hand didn't grasp the steering wheel, and the car followed "rub"! With a bang, I bumped into the wall and almost didn't get out of the car, which frightened the queen mother.
The eunuchs quickly helped the queen mother out of the car and sat for a while. The queen mother was furious and had the bearers killed. The eunuchs pressed the bearers to the ground and had to fight. But the foreigner was brave and immediately stood in front of the queen mother and said, no, it's not his fault, you can't hit him! The queen mother looked at the foreigner and thought, yes, she told him to drive on his knees, but because of his big face, she changed her mind and slapped him in the mouth. The bearers ate ten big mouths, but they didn't lose their lives.
Since then, Empress Dowager Cixi has never taken a bus again. Now the car is still in the Summer Palace.
There is also a legend that Cixi was furious when she saw the driver sitting in front (the car was buzzing again, for fear of scaring her ancestors) and asked the driver to drive on his knees. But drivers can't drive on their knees, so they use donkeys and horse-drawn carts.