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Numerous requests came to our graduates to teach English in
official families, one being employed to teach the grandson of Li
Hung-chang, and another the sons of a relative of the royal
family.
But when his reforms led the Emperor to dispense with useless
offices, as in his twenty-first, twenty-fourth and twenty-sixth
edicts, for the purpose of retrenchment, and to dismiss
recalcitrant officials for disobedience to his commands, a howl
arose which was heard throughout the empire. The six members of
the Board of Rites dismissed in edict twenty-three, with certain
sympathizers to give them face, went to the Empress Dowager at
the Summer Palace, represented to her that the boy whom she had
placed upon the throne was steering the ship of state to certain
destruction, and begged that she would come and once more take
the helm. She listened to them with the attention and deference
for which she has always been famed, and then dismissed them
without any intimation as to what her course would be.
When the Emperor heard what they were doing, he sent a courier
post-haste to call Yuan Shih-kai for an interview at the palace.
When Yuan came, he ordered him to return to Tien-tsin, dispose
of his superior officer, the Governor-General Jung Lu, and bring
the army corps of 12,500 troops of which he was in charge to
Peking, surround the Summer Palace, preventing any one from going
in or coming out, thus making the Empress Dowager a prisoner, and
allowing him to go on with his work of reform
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