There were many people who wanted to put Cixi to death, and at that time, there were countless such people. During his reign, he was extravagant and absurd, blindly ceding land and paying reparations to foreigners, making the people miserable and suffering. He is notorious not only for the resentment of the people, but also for the members of the royal family and the ministers of the court and the central government. However, Cixi was not afraid of this, because there were three close masters around her, who were strong in martial arts, and they had always escorted her.
The first was Zhang Shujin, who had Xi martial arts since childhood, and was one of the strongest martial arts champions in the Qing Dynasty at that time. When the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded, when Cixi fled west, he was always Cixi's bodyguard. It can be said that if there was no Zhang Shujin, Cixi would have been out of the world a long time ago.
The second is Li Ruidong, who has been Xi martial arts since he was seven years old, and his martial arts have reached an unparalleled realm, and he also created a set of Taijiquan. At Cixi's birthday banquet, he once demonstrated his self-created Tai Chi and amazing light skills, which made Cixi praise again and again. Later, when he was in his fifties, he resigned and returned to his hometown. At that time, Huo Yuanjia heard about Li Ruidong's self-created Tai Chi and Light Gong, and specially asked him to compete. Although Huo Yuanjia was still a young man at the time, and Li Ruidong was nearly sixty years old, Li Ruidong defeated Huo Yuanjia, which shows the high level of his martial arts.
The third is Gong Baotian, the founder of Gong-style Bagua Boxing, and the last chief of the Ouchi guards in the feudal period, and a generation of martial arts masters, who is said to be able to dodge bullets. But later, he hated the corrupt behavior of Cixi and others, chose to resign, and returned to his hometown to open a martial arts hall. In 1922, he was appreciated by Zhang Zuolin and was hired as the head of Fengjun with a high salary. However, after Zhang Zuolin was killed by the Japanese, Gong Baotian chose to retire and no longer participate in world affairs.