On November 25, 1908, Cixi, who was full of power, had to let go of the power in her hands and close her eyes forever like a normal person.

From the death to the end of November 1909, the Empress Dowager Cixi's Zigong was officially buried in the Dongling Tomb, and her funeral that had been prepared for a year naturally became the focus of attention, and as the governor of Zhili, Duanfang, was responsible for all the processes of the "Feng'an ceremony" in accordance with the convention.

Duan Fang, who arrived in June, did not dare to slack off, a few months ago he ate and lived in Beijing, the whole process of arranging the funeral ceremony, the road was renovated, in order to keep the ground flat and poured asphalt, and even part of the road surface also used steam rollers, in short, he tried his best to make this funeral a world-class, a large number of foreign envoys and military attaches flocked to it, this is a great opportunity to promote the national prestige, for which he also specially built a lot of viewing platforms, specially for these people to rest and arrange.

On the day of the burial, everything was going smoothly, seeing that the whole ceremony was about to end successfully, and Duan Fang could finally breathe a sigh of relief, a burst of dazzling light and white smoke suddenly appeared in the solemn crowd, which immediately disturbed many people around.

I saw these people running back in a panic, and the smoking thing was nothing else, but a camera, Li Guojie, an official of the Ministry of Rites who presided over the funeral ceremony, was the first to react, and he immediately sent someone to arrest these sneaky people, put them directly in prison, and then be interrogated.

And in the process, Duanfang, who was the person in charge of the funeral, became more and more ugly, and it was obvious that he was not ignorant of all this.

The results of the interrogation soon came out, and the investigators searched for more than 20 photos from the camera, in addition to the funeral scene and layout, there were also a large number of funeral ceremony scenes, one of which even involved Cixi's remains, which was a real forbidden area.

In front of ironclad evidence, these people who secretly took pictures quickly confessed that they were guys from Fusheng Photo Studio, and the purpose of this trip was to take pictures of the grand funeral of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and then sell it to the customs declaration at a high price to make huge profits.

For a while, the spearhead was pointed at the end of the road, and the matter was revealed, so he naturally had nothing to say.

The reason why he let the people from Fusheng Photo Studio enter the mausoleum to take pictures was not for money, but for another reason.

Duan Fang himself loves to collect, there are more than 1,000 books at home, many of which are peerless rare books, and the sharp-eyed Fusheng Photo Studio just took a fancy to this, and went to the door to keep the image for Duan Fang's collection of books, and did not take a penny, Duan Fang was grateful to Dade, so he agreed to take pictures, and Duan Fang as the five ministers who went abroad, traveled to European countries, and the style was new, far from being as ancient as other Qing court officials at that time, and the European royal family often appeared in newspaper headlines, and the Qing Dynasty could not be so conservative. He felt that there was nothing wrong with taking a few photos, this matter hit it off, on the day of the Feng'an ceremony, the guys of Fusheng Photo Studio disguised themselves as Duanfang's entourage and entered the scene together, and the shutter continued along the way, but at the most critical moment, the conspicuous white eyes of the old-fashioned camera were caught by others.

China's first paparazzi incident was revealed in this way, and Fusheng originally came to capture the headlines, however, unexpectedly, they became the headlines of the day.

Although Duan Fang is guilty of the crime, it is only a disgraceful mistake and dereliction of duty to say that the sky is broken, and at most he will be punished and counted, but this matter is far from over, especially the involvement of another person.

Facts have proved that under the bureaucratic system at that time, if a minister offended a popular eunuch, he would have a bad fate, and if he did not take remedial measures in time, he would not be far from bad luck, and this is how Duanfang's career ended.

A smash hit eunuch, a trendy feudal official, the disparity in status made Duanfang look down on Xiaode Zhang Su, and he also once wrote to Cixi, imitating the Western royal family without leaving eunuchs and abolishing the eunuch system forever, which made the relationship between him and the eunuchs tense for a while. In a previous accidental relationship between the two, Duan Fang showed disdain and disdain for Xiao Dezhang, which made Xiao Dezhang, who was naturally inferior, always hold a grudge.

And the small festival left by the two of them back then became Duanfang's fatal wound this time.

Li Guojie of the Ministry of Rites wrote a letter to impeach Duan Fang, and then Xiao Dezhang also echoed him, and participated in the recital on the charges of "obstructing feng shui, destroying the spiritual way, stealing the imperial appearance, and deliberately blaspheming", and asked him to be executed according to the law of the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, this is not enough, Xiao Dezhang knows that he is soft-spoken, and it is difficult to have any substantial impact on the court, but don't forget that he still has the card of the Empress Dowager Longyu in his hand.

The next day, Longyu personally went to the Qianqing Palace, and stated Duanfang's crime to Zaifeng in person, and advocated severe punishment, in order to exert pressure, he specially moved Cixi out, saying that if the queen mother knew underground, she could only blame the younger generations for not respecting and being unfilial

Of course, Zaifeng couldn't have obeyed her opinion because of Longyu's words, and after discussing with Ye Kai, he made the decision to recall.

The blow is small, Ye Kai sees the Yi-Xuan behind him, although the two are not monolithic, but this possibility must be stifled in the cradle.

In the last month of 1909, Zaifeng ordered the Military Aircraft Department to dismiss Duan Fang on the grounds of "arbitrariness and capility, not knowing the general situation", and sentenced Duan Fang's entourage Liu to eternal imprisonment, and sentenced the Fusheng photo studio guy who caused the trouble to ten years in prison.

At this point, this matter has come to an end at the official level, but it has become the most talked about major event at the end of the year.

Duan Fang, who loves to fiddle with new gadgets, does seem very different, his alternative is not only reflected in the new style, but also in a big record that happened to him, Duan Fang set two of the most in the history of the Qing Dynasty, the shortest-lived governor of Zhili, the earliest official to fall due to the candid incident.

Duanfang's dismissal made this sudden winter seem particularly cold, and the desperate Yi-Kuote was especially angry, at this moment, he was not only angry about the downfall of the close minister, but also angry at Xiao Dezhang's ignorance of the general situation and impeachment of the former.

A crack quietly appeared on the tiger skin signboard of the Yi-Xuan-Longyu Alliance.