An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后, executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后[cedict]
藉口
jiè kǒuㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄎㄡˇ
excuse; pretext[cedict]
帮
bāngㄅㄤ
to assist; to support; to help; group; gang; party[cedict]
太后
tài hòuㄊㄞˋ ㄏㄡˋ
Empress Dowager[cedict]
去
qùㄑㄩˋ
to go; to leave; to remove; fourth tone of putonghua[cedict]
江南
nán ㄋㄢˊ
south of Changjiang or Yangtze river; south of the lower reaches of Changjiang; often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces; a province during Qing times; in literature, refers to the sunny south[cedict]