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The Emperor knew that nothing could be done without the command
of the army which was largely in the hands of a great
conservative friend of the Empress Dowager (Jung Lu) the
father-in-law of the present Regent. Yuan was in charge of an
army corps of 12,500 troops, but for him to have taken them even
at the command of the Emperor, without informing his superior
officer, would have meant the loss of his head at once. The first
thing then for him to do was to take this order to Jung Lu. Yuan
was in favour of reform, though he may not have approved of the
Emperor's methods. Jung Lu hastened to Prince Ching and they two
sped to the Empress Dowager in the Summer Palace where they laid
the whole matter before her. She hurried to Peking, boldly faced
and denounced the Emperor, took from him his seal of state, and
confined him a prisoner in the Winter Palace. Kang Yu-wei, the
young "Confucius," fled, but the Empress Dowager seized his
brother and five other patriotic young reformers, and ordered
them beheaded on the public execution grounds in Peking.
Naturally the Empress Dowager approved of the "wise and
statesmanlike methods" of Yuan in thus protecting instead of
imprisoning her, and thus placing the reins of government once
more in her hands, and she appointed him Junior Vice-President of
the Board of Works, and when she was compelled to remove the
Governor of Shantung who had organized the Boxer Society, she
appointed Yuan Acting Governor in his stead
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