Cixi's official grave did not dare to build a railway, bypassing him.
Some friends will say, isn't this the royal mausoleum of the previous dynasty? I have to say, you really guessed wrong. This tomb, located between two villages in Ma Quan Town, Tianjin, is called "Cao Tomb" by local people. As the name implies, it is the ancestral grave of the Cao family. This Cao was not left by the Cao family in the Eastern Han Dynasty. After all, like those famous tombs thousands of years ago, I don't know how many times they have been "ruined". This mausoleum, which covers an area of/kloc-0.000 mu, is different from Cao Shijia's in Jiangning. It is a Jiangnan clan left over from the Ming Dynasty.
So what does this have to do with their ancestral graves not letting the Qing rulers move? Do squires and aristocratic families have this right? In fact, there is another story here.
Over time, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Cao Han, then editor of the Hanlin Academy, was responsible for the expansion because the ancestral graves were not enough, so he paid for a Feng Shui teacher. Starting from Wuqing, he finally chose the place where all the emperors mentioned above dared to go against their will.
According to historical records, Cao Chuan had a good relationship with Emperor Kangxi. Every time the emperor went to Wuqing, he would visit Cao's family, and they went more often. Kangxi naturally liked Cao Chuan's son, Cao Han, and arranged for him to accompany the prince to study. The Cao family had a closer relationship with the Qing Dynasty. Later, Kangxi personally wrote a plaque for Cao's family and hung it at the front door of Cao's ancestral grave.
With the passage of time, after 100 years, the Qing court began to plan to build the Jingyu Railway with a length of 4 15 kilometers to facilitate transportation. Among them, a section of the road designed by Tianjin Luofa just passes through the "Cao grave", which is actually accusing the "Cao grave of occupying too much land". Cao Cao naturally didn't want to tear down his ancestral grave, but the emperor had a hard time. What should I do?
After some discussion, Cao decided to launch a money offensive. First, he paid bribes to Sun, the chief engineer. However, the cunning Sun said that this was a construction plan set by the imperial court, and he dared not change it at will if he was given a hundred heads, so that Cao could go to see Empress Dowager Cixi. Cao family gritted their teeth and bought a big gift for Empress Dowager Cixi.
Empress Dowager Cixi didn't know whether it was because she received a huge gift or because of Kangxi's royal gift, so she changed her attitude and sent someone to tell Emperor Guangxu and ordered the diversion. Poor Guangxu is a puppet and can only change the design on the order according to the wishes of Empress Dowager Cixi. Finally, Cao's wish finally came true.