第二次鸦片战争结束后,中国发生了一场宫廷政变,时值农历辛酉年,史称“辛酉政变”。“辛酉政变”有其复杂的政治背景,它是洋务派奕訢等与顽固派之间矛盾斗争发展的必然结果。本文试就奕訢同顽固派的矛盾及其在“辛酉政变”中的作用、影响等问题作一粗浅的探讨,请大家指正。1 第一、第二次鸦片战争期间的十多年,是中国社会剧烈动荡的时期,一方面,以太平天国为中心的农民起义蓬勃发展,动摇了地主阶级的统治基础;另一方面,英、法、俄、美等资本主义国家趁火打幼,继续扩大它们的在华“权益”,清王朝在农民起义和外国侵略者的双重打击下,处于风雨飘摇之中。为了挽救垂危的封建统治,以恭亲王奕訢为首的一批人逐渐从旧营垒中分化出来,他们反对恪守祖制,主 After the Second Opium War, an imperial court coup took place in China. The “Xiuyou coup” has its complicated political background. It is the inevitable result of the development of the contradictions and struggles between the Westernization factions such as Yi Xin and the die-hards. This article tries to make a brief discussion on the contradictions among the die-hards and the role and impact of the die-hards in the “Xin-xi coup”. Please correct me. During the first and second decades of the Opium War, the period of violent turmoil in Chinese society, on the one hand, the vigorous development of the peasant uprisings centered on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom shaken the rule of the landlord class; on the other hand, Capitalist countries such as France, Russia and the United States took advantage of their fires and continued to expand their “rights and interests” in China. The Qing dynasty was precariously under the double blow of peasant uprisings and foreign invaders. In order to save the dying feudal rule, a group of people led by Prince Gong Yih-hsin gradually differentiated themselves from the old camps and opposed opposition to the rule of the ancestral homeland