奕勖在义和团运动中的庐山真面目

奕勖作为总理衙门的主持人，在义和团高潮期间的表现，长期被认为是主张“剿团”的，因而与慈禧关系十分紧张，以至于慈禧“欲杀奕勖”，后因城破而免。义和团也认为，奕勖信教，提出了“杀一龙二虎三百羊”口号。二虎之一就是奕勖。但是，新发现的档案史料表明，从戊戌维新到义和团前后，奕勖一直为慈禧出谋划策，对其言听计从。二人关系诡秘，其亲密程度，无人可比。当八国联军已经兵临北京城下时，慈禧几乎每天都见奕勖与载漪，密商对策；相反，军机首辅荣禄受到了慈禧的冷落。庚子七月初一日至十九日间，慈禧居然召见奕勖达16次之多，且与载漪同日召对，共谋西逃之策。而作为武卫军统帅的荣禄，则丝毫不知出逃之决定。本文还揭示慈禧与奕勖这种不寻常关系的由来及其对晚清政局的影响。

The True Face of Yi Kuang in the Boxer Movement

For a long time during the height of the Boxer Movement,people thought that Yi Kuang,the director of the Zongli Yamen,advocated suppressing the Boxers,and that this strained his relationship with the Empress Dowager Cixi,even to the point that she wanted to kill Yi Kuang. According to this commonly held view,Yi Kuang only survived because Beijing was captured by the Allied troops.The Boxers also thought that Yi Kuang believed in Christianity,and in their slogan Kill one dragon,two tigers and three hundred s...