In the five thousand years of history of China, it is not uncommon for to "use the power of the world to serve one person" . The vast majority of kings who subjugated their country, before they subjugated their country, eventually caused the country to perish because of their own greed, and inflated desire .
And a few enjoyed themselves to death and the country's remaining rulers also laid the troubles for those who came after them. In the end, their descendants, no matter how hard they tried, could not change the fate of 's country's subjugation.
Take the Qing Dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi as an example. Even when the Qing Dynasty was in internal and external troubles, the treasury was empty, and it was extremely weak, its life was still extremely luxurious.
For example, one of the most famous incidents was that for her sixtieth birthday , misappropriated a large amount of military and public funds, which eventually led to the Qing Dynasty's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, and forced the Qing court to sign a humiliating treaty. " Treaty of Shimonoseki " .
If she had been able to save a little at that time, maybe the Sino-Japanese War of 1898 would have had a different outcome, but not necessarily. So for such extravagant and crazy Cixi , we are very curious about her daily living expenses. How much money does it cost to maintain her in modern society?
Luxury in daily life
As the actual ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, Cixi only paid attention to two words in her daily life - card. As for whether is worth it, it is not within the scope of Cixi's consideration at all.
In her eyes, if the cards do not match her identity, then the identity of , the highest de facto leader of in the Qing Dynasty, would become a joke. Therefore, in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, Cixi must be extremely luxurious and unexpected, otherwise wouldn't she lose face?
In terms of clothing, Cixi’s clothes were never washed and would be thrown away as long as they were worn. But this is easy to understand. In the TV series " Daming Fenghua " , it was once explained: When did the emperor's clothes get wet?
Cixi’s treatment is reasonable. It's just that in the past, emperors' clothes were not washed, but they were not too expensive. However, Cixi's clothes were all made by Jiangnan embroiderers with the best craftsmanship. Today, every piece of can be photographed. Sky-high price.
Assuming that Cixi only changed her clothes every two or three days, the average price would be far higher than people imagined. And she never tired of trying new clothes, which made her whole person graceful and luxurious , but also full of the death energy that the Qing Dynasty was about to collapse.
She wasted money on these places when the country was in crisis. It is no wonder that the Qing Dynasty quickly perished not long after her death. With such a leader, it would be strange not to perish.
In terms of eating, the most famous Manchu-Han banquet in the Qing Dynasty, I believe everyone will be familiar with it. 108 famous dishes were presented to Cixi one by one. Can she really finish them?
In fact, these things were not within the scope of Cixi's consideration at all. Related dishes only require a small bite, and you won't stay too much at all. As for the food that cannot be finished or eaten, Royal Kitchen Room will handle it by itself. But when the meal is served for the second time, there will never be dishes that have not been touched in the previous meal.
In addition to food and clothing, housing and transportation are also different. If someone can really travel back to the Qing Dynasty, Cixi's palace must be easy to find, just walk towards the most prosperous place.
Even when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing and fled to Jehol, Cixi still did not forget to take the luxurious and colorful Luan Jie. It is estimated that only Cixi can do this by turning the embarrassing escape into a personal to understand the people's sentiments and privately visit the people's .
The luxury of pursuing luxury goods
Of course, apart from the food and clothing expenses in daily life, which require a lot of living expenses, Cixi's pursuit of luxury goods is also one of the huge expenses of her daily living expenses.
To give a simple example, the Empress Dowager Cixi was fond of all kinds of rare objects , especially pearls and jade that were popular at the time, as well as snuff bottles of various shapes, etc., which were all her favorite objects. Faced with these exquisite and detailed gadgets, Empress Dowager Cixi would spend huge sums of money to acquire .
As for Guangxu Emperor? At this time, Emperor Guangxu basically had no say and could only obey Lafayette. If you want to change your destiny, you have to imitate Kangxi and kill Obei , and then find a high-sounding reason. Unfortunately, Emperor Guangxu obviously did not have Kangxi's courage.
It was precisely under such unique conditions that Cixi's personal living expenses far exceeded people's imagination today.
One of the most exaggerated things is that the "toilet" used by Cixi is also full of luxury. If a toilet didn't have exquisite appearance, prominent origins and amazing background, Cixi would not hesitate to use it.
In order to ensure that the toilets at that time were clean and fresh, Cixi would also require people to place dried pine needles, spices , etc. in the toilet every time. Each wash can remove 0 taels of silver, is really an exaggeration.
Therefore, after averaging out the various luxuries in daily life and daily pursuits, historians have calculated that Cixi spent about forty thousand taels of silver on her daily living expenses at that time.
Nowadays, the average price of one tael of silver is about 170 yuan, which shows that Cixi's daily living expenses are as high as 80 W. It seems reasonable but also unreasonable for the king of a country to have such a "worth". It is really ridiculous and ridiculous.
