I once read an article written by Zeng Guofan's granddaughter Wu Yong, "Talking about a Boxer Hunting in the West", which mentioned this matter slightly. This is the closest thing that Xu Yun and Cixi know so far.
In the year of Gengzi, the Boxer Rebellion in Northeast China made a big fist fight. Under the slogan of killing all foreigners, everything foreigners saw was overthrown. After the Boxer Rebellion killed several foreigners, ambassadors from various countries put pressure on Lafayette to suppress the Boxer Rebellion.
Galeries Lafayette has a bad relationship with foreigners for a long time, thinking that public opinion is available, and he has made an abacus to drive tigers with wolves. Lafayette's inaction angered other countries and sent troops to China to protect overseas Chinese. Lafayette's three lines of defense in Beijing were disintegrated by other countries. Seeing the decline of the Qing army, Lafayette thought about peace, but never thought that Prince Chun would take the opportunity to embellish and provoke the contradiction between Lafayette and foreigners. Galeries Lafayette was very angry and declared war on other countries, thinking that foreigners were cruel.
It wasn't long before Lafayette died, and the Beijing Yugoslav capital fell. When Galeries Lafayette saw something unexpected, he took Emperor Guangxu's plan to anoint the soles of his feet and fled west to Shaanxi to avoid the sharp edge, claiming that he was on the Western Expedition.
At that time, monk Xu Yun was giving a lecture at Longquan Temple in Beijing. On weekdays, the Prince of Qing Dynasty met with Xu Yun, a monk, and Lafayette also worshipped Buddha on weekdays. Not only thinking of having a monk bless the road for good luck, but also thinking of comforting Lafayette, Prince Qing invited the monk Xu Yun to go with him.
I slept all the way to Xi 'an, Shaanxi. At this point, Xi' an's life is not easy. Long-term famine, poor harvest, the arrival of Lafayette made the local people miserable. Soon, people often starve to death in the streets of Xi 'an, and people can easily eat. Because it was the heat of August, the body was not disposed of, and soon a plague broke out in Xi 'an, causing countless casualties.
Galeries Lafayette is also very sad to see the lives of his own people destroyed. At this time, Xu Yun, a monk, planned to build a dharma platform in Wolong Temple at that time to pray for snow and fight drought and epidemic. For seven days, Xu Yunhe and Shang all sat on the open-air altar to pray, and finally prayed for heavy snow. Worried that there was not enough snow, he continued to sit down and beg for seven days, even freezing for three feet. Xu Yun, a monk, can't tell a person's appearance clearly, and he is wrapped in silver.