At that time, there were two fruit trees on the cemetery of Prince Chun, the father of Emperor Guangxu, but the geographical environment in which these two fruit trees grew was not good. So at that time, a minister told Cixi to remove the two trees. On the monument, the minister pointed out that such a big tree could only be planted in front of the emperor's grave. At that time, Prince Chun was just a prince, not a son of heaven, and was not qualified to plant these two fruit trees in front of the tomb.
At that time, Empress Dowager Cixi listened to the minister's suggestion and decided to destroy the two trees. But Emperor Guangxu didn't want people to uproot these two trees at that time. He was very angry and said that whoever wants to cut down this tree must kill him first. It can be seen that Emperor Guangxu did not want to destroy these two trees at that time. Probably because these two trees are not easy to be destroyed, which is a pity. On the other hand, he didn't want this act of destroying trees to disturb his dead father.
However, Emperor Guangxu was only the puppet of Empress Dowager Cixi at that time and had no right to stop the decision of Empress Dowager Cixi. Although Emperor Guangxu was very angry at that time, Empress Dowager Cixi took people to destroy these two fruit trees. As can be seen from this tree destruction incident, the contradiction between the two has been fierce. After this incident, Emperor Guangxu also realized his incompetence and chose to carry out political reform.