As the favorite minister of Empress Dowager Cixi, who was powerful in the late Qing Dynasty, Li Lianying was naturally backing the mountains, and the fox was pretending to be a tiger's power.
Li Lianying was favored by Cixi in the palace. Even Cixi, who was outside the palace, loved the house and was in the dark, heard that Li Lianying's mother had passed away, and specially approved Li Lianying to return home and hold a funeral for her mother.
It is said that this funeral made the local people, eat and drink for more than a month, , and these people can also bring the funeral things to their homes. What kind of pomp would it be that the villagers can do this?
Li Lianying lost her mother, and Cixi gave her enough preferential treatment
Li Lianying has been an eunuch . In order to serve her good master, she has been reuniting with her family for many years. Li Lianying's father died early, and only his old mother and two brothers were left in the family, and the three depended on each other for their own lives.
Later, Li Lianying became the second-rank official. Thinking that allows his old mother to enjoy a happy life , he suggested that he would bring all his family to in Beijing, and he could also greet and take care of them from time to time.
What Li Lianying didn't expect was that her old mother had been plagued by illness due to years of hard work. The weather in Beijing is extremely cold in winter. It is said that if the elderly can survive the winter, they can live another year.
kLi Lianying's mother was sick for a long time and had no cure for treatment. She died suddenly after all.
Li Lianying was deeply saddened. Her usual obedient and humble appearance made people confused. Now even Cixi can see that Li Lianying is absent-minded. After asking, she learned about Li Lianying's mother's death.
Cixi was grateful to Li Lianying for so many years and was with her side. She failed to fulfill her filial piety in front of her mother, so she allowed Li Lianying to take her mother back to her hometown for burial. Therefore, approved Li Lianying's holiday for several months .
Not only did Cixi give Li Lianying the privilege of returning to her hometown to hold a funeral for her mother, she also specially allocated 500,000 taels of silver to Li Lianying for the cost of her mother's funeral , and instructed Li Lianying to organize the funeral for her mother and do her last filial piety as the son.
You should know that the 500,000 taels of silver was just a matter of the emptiness of the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing government was burdened with foreign debts, and most people could not even have a full meal. Cixi gave a eunuch to hold a funeral for her mother.
Li Lianying returned to her hometown to waste extravagance and held her mother's funeral
. Li Lianying took the huge sum of money and did not feel anything wrong. She naturally started to hold the funeral for her mother.
Li Lianying first placed his mother's body in Huguo Temple in the capital, and asked the monks in the temple to save him and seek blessings, and then transported his mother's body back to his hometown.
After Li Lianying followed the two brothers back to her hometown together, she began to organize this expensive funeral.
At that time, ordinary people could hold a good funeral with two taels of silver. According to Li Lianying's budget of 500,000 taels of silver, I don't know how many such funerals can be held.
Li Lianying claimed to be rich and generous. She set up a luxurious banquet at home, invited the elders from his hometown to attend his mother's funeral , and invited hundreds of people who played and sang to play music in front of his mother's spirit. However, Li Lianying was still not satisfied with such a big scene.
Li Lianying In order to make the momentum more powerful , the ten miles of villages, ranging from a hundred miles, whether they are related to the old people, will be invited to attend the funeral of his mother.
And the funeral banquet is held from morning to evening . The delicious food on the table is also updated in real time. Those who came to attend the funeral have already eaten enough. Seeing these delicious foods, they prepare to pack and take away .
The banquet was held with for more than a month . The villagers took a lot of food every day. Gradually, they found that these delicacies were spoiled the next day and could no longer be eaten, so they picked up steamed buns that were easy to preserve. So Li Lianying set up a steamed bun self-pickup place at home and picked up free of charge.
Later, this funeral evolved into an excellent opportunity for villagers to hoard goods and food. The villagers benefited a lot through the funeral held by Li Lianying for his mother.
Li Lianying's brother was very puzzled when he saw Li Lianying wasting so arrogantly, so he asked him why he wasted extravagantly?
Li Lianying smiled and replied: "I have to obey the honor that Lao Fu gave to his mother. If you don't use this .5 million taels of silver, it means that you don't respect her feelings. .
And I will return to Beijing soon. You two will stay at home. This show will also bring you many benefits, so that the surrounding people can take care of our family.
There is also, is taken from the people. It can be used for the people . The 500,000 taels of silver is the hard money of the people. My behavior this time can make the people of the countrymen no longer suffer from hunger for more than a few years. This can be regarded as accumulating virtue and doing good deeds for their mothers."
Li Lianying is usually greedy and cunning, and is incestuous. After accepting the gift of 500,000 taels of silver from Cixi, although he still did not change his erratic approach to relying on Cixi's power and doing things in a perverse manner, he still made a certain " contribution " for the local people .
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