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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 387 Volume 387 Biographies 174: Zong Shisushun, Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Jiao Youying, Chen Fuen · 3 passages
穆宗即位，肅順等以贊襄政務多專擅，御史董元醇疏請皇太后垂簾聽政。
When the Tongzhi Emperor succeeded, Sushun and his fellows, as regents, grew increasingly high-handed; Censor Dong Yuanchun memorialized that the empress dowager should rule from behind the curtain.
肅順等梗其議，擬旨駁斥，非兩宮意，抑不下，載垣、端華等負氣不視事。
Sushun and his party obstructed the proposal and drafted a rejecting edict that did not reflect the two palaces' intent, yet they still withheld it; Zaiyuan, Duanhua, and others in a fit of pique refused to conduct affairs.
詔謂：「擅政阻皇太后垂簾，三人同罪，而肅順擅坐御位，進內廷出入自由，擅用行宮御用器物，傳收應用物件，抗違不遵，並自請分見兩宮皇太后，詞氣抑揚，意在構釁，其悖逆狂謬，較載垣、端華罪尤重。」
The edict declared: "In usurping power and blocking the empress dowager from ruling behind the curtain the three were alike guilty; yet Sushun had presumptuously sat on the imperial seat, come and gone freely in the inner court, used objects reserved for the traveling palace, collected supplies due the court yet defied orders, and even asked to see the two empress dowagers separately with a tone meant to provoke—his treason and frenzy outweighed even Zaiyuan and Duanhua's crimes."