A day in the year after the coup d'etat of 1898, something big happened in Wuchang. It was rumored on the streets that Emperor Guangxu had arrived.
The Guangxu in the legend only brought a servant and stayed in a rented small mansion, never going out. However, there were quite a few visitors. The host was 20-30 years old, with a pale face and no beard, clean and tidy, his gestures resembled the "Wang Hat" in the play. The servant was 40-50 years old, also with a pale face and no beard, and his voice was slightly feminine. The host's quilts and jade bowls all had five-clawed golden dragons, and the servant addressed the host as "Your Majesty". Anyway, they looked like an emperor. For a time, the officials and people of the three towns of Wuhan rushed here like crazy. Some knelt down and kowtowed, some gave money and goods, and some just came to watch the commotion. Some curious people even managed to get the servant to take a bath in the bathhouse to verify if he was a eunuch. After he took off his clothes and everyone took a close look, hey, it turned out that he really didn't have the male organ. Among those who came to "welcome the holy emperor", there were officials who were said to have met Guangxu. According to the Qing Dynasty's system, local officials must be received by the emperor before taking office, even if they were just seventh-rank magistrates. Although the meeting was short and the officials generally kept their heads down, they might have taken a quick peek but couldn't see clearly. Now comparing them, they seemed similar, the more they thought about it, the more similar they seemed.