Yuan Shikai reveals everything to Ronglu the…

September 1898 CE

Yuan Shikai reveals everything to Ronglu the day before the staged coup is supposed to take place, exposing the Guangxu Emperor's plans.

This gains Yuan Shikai the trust of Cixi, as well as the status of lifetime enemy of the Guangxu Emperor, and later the emperor's younger half-brother, Zaifeng.

Following the exposure of the plot, the emperor and empress dowager meet, and the emperor retreats to Yingtai Pavilion, a palace on a lake that is now part of the Zhongnanhai Compound.

Lei Chia-sheng (雷家聖), a Taiwanese history professor, proposes an alternative view: that the Guangxu Emperor might have been led into a trap by the reformists led by Kang Youwei, who in turn was in Lei's opinion tricked by British missionary Timothy Richard and former Japanese prime minister Itō Hirobumi into agreeing to appoint Itō as one of many foreign advisors.

British ambassador Claude MacDonald said that the reformists had actually "much injured" the modernization of China.

According to Lei, Cixi learned of the plot and decided to put an end to it and save China from coming under foreign control.

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