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this could not have been her choice is evidenced, further, by the
fact that just as soon as she had once more regained her power,
she surrounded herself with progressive officials, turned out all
the great conservatives except Jung Lu, and dispossessing the son
of Prince Tuan, at the time of her death selected her sister's
grandchild and proclaimed him successor to her son and heir to
the Emperor Kuang Hsu, in the following edict:
"Inasmuch as the Emperor Tung Chih had no issue, on the fifth day
of the twelfth moon of that reign (January 12, 1875) an edict was
promulgated to the effect that if the late Emperor Kuang Hsu
should have a son, the said Prince should carry on the succession
as the heir of Tung Chih. But now the late Emperor has ascended
upon the dragon to be a guest on high, leaving no son, and there
is no course open but to appoint Pu I, the son of Tsai Feng, the
Prince Regent, as the successor to Tung Chih, and also as heir to
the Emperor Kuang Hsu," which is quite in keeping with the
conduct and character of the Empress Dowager all her life except
those two bad years.
During the days and weeks following the dispossession of Kuang
Hsu of the throne, in 1899 many decrees appeared which signified
that at no distant date he would be superseded by the son of
Prince Tuan. The foreign ministers began again to look grave.
They spoke openly of their fear that Kuang Hsu's days were
numbered
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