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1901年慈禧太后66岁寿辰时,直隶总督袁世凯特地从美利坚进口一辆洋车,作为寿礼敬献给慈禧。据说,这个洋玩意是美国马萨诸塞州的查理森利和法兰兄弟俩设计,并采用手工方法制作而成,起名为“图利亚”。慈禧生日那一天,在紫禁城太和殿检阅了贡品。当她听说这辆洋车不要马拉就能跑,感到很奇怪,立即口谕在场的德国司机开车。德国司机爬上车,踩响马达,洋车真的轰隆隆地跑了起来, 慈禧看了喜不自胜,高兴地问:“这车跑得这么快,要吃许多草吧?”德国司机说:“它不吃草,烧的是油。”慈禧没有听懂,吩咐太监李莲英端出珠宝,赏赐了袁世凯和开车的洋司机。慈禧对洋司机着实有些不放心,可是在当时全国还没有会开汽车的人。于是便让李莲英招纳学开汽车的人,当时有许多人
When the 61st birthday of the Empress Dowager Cixi was in 1901, Governor Yuan Shikai of Chihlih specially imported a rickshaw from the United States and offered it to Cixi as a birthday gift. It is said that this foreign stuff is designed by Charles Richardson and Flanders in Massachusetts, and is hand-made and named as “Tulia.” The day of the Empress birthday, check the tribute in the Hall of Supreme Harmony of the Forbidden City. When she heard that the rickshaw could run without a horse, it felt strange that the German driver, who spoke immediately, was driving. German driver climbed the car, trampled the motor, the rickshaw really rumbling up, Empress looked embarrassed, happy to ask: “This car ran so fast, eat a lot of grass? ” Germany The driver said: “It does not eat grasses and burns oil.” Empress did not understand and ordered eunuch Li Liangying to give her jewelry and reward Yuan Shikai and her foreign driver. Cixi really foreign foreign drivers do not worry, but at the time there is no country will drive a car. So let Li Liangying recruit people who drive a car, there were many people