Although the Qing Dynasty treasury was in deficit, Cixi except for the difficult days of fleeing west, the rest were glorious and rich, reflecting her noble status everywhere, Cixi also contained a night pearl worth 800 million yuan after her death, in 1928 the warlord Sun Dianying excavated the Yuling tomb of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the Dingling tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi, and hired more than 30 mule carriages to take away all the treasures, including the night pearl in Cixi's mouth, which was worth 800 million.
Sun Dianying was soon discovered after digging the grave, the last emperor Puyi and other Qing courtiers demanded that Sun Dianying be severely punished, Sun Dianying in order to save his life, so he gave away the treasures one by one, and the night pearl in Cixi's mouth was the most precious, opening two pieces, transparent and lightless, closed is a round ball, revealing a green cold light, and you can still see the hair within a hundred steps at night.
Although Sun Dianying was very reluctant to this treasure, he still dragged the warlord Dai Kasa to give this night pearl to the first lady Song Meiling, Song Meiling felt that this night pearl was beautiful, so he used it as a shoe ornament, because he sent treasure everywhere, Sun Dianying also saved his life for a while, but in the end he was captured alive and died in the war criminal shelter, regarding the excavation of Cixi's tomb, Sun Dianying once defended himself: "The Manchu Qing killed my ancestors for three generations and had to avenge the revolution." ”
And Song Meiling settled in the United States in his later years, on October 24, 2003, 106-year-old Song Meiling died in New York, the night pearl in Cixi's mouth also did not know what to do, 91 years later the truth came out, it is said that this night pearl in the hands of the American tycoon John Rockefeller, in 2009 Forbes website published the "15 richest people in The history of the United States" list, Rockefeller ranked first.
The "Records of the Treasure Thieves of Sun Dianying's Dongling Tomb" records: "The Cixi Mausoleum is luxurious in architecture, surpassing the tombs of all the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, especially the jewels buried in the coffins. And the night pearl in Cixi's mouth can make the corpse incorruptible, Sun Dianying saw the deceased Cixi, and also marveled at Cixi's skin like a living person, as if she was sleeping.
The night pearl in Cixi's mouth is gradually known, but everyone has only heard of it, but has never seen the real thing, so it seems very mysterious, Dr. Wang Chunyun published a research article on the burial of the night pearl in the mouth of Empress Dowager Cixi in 2004, believing that this night pearl is a rough diamond with an approximate spherical shape and weighing about 787.28 carats, and 10.8 million taels of silver in 1908 is equivalent to 810 million yuan today.
After a series of examinations, the night pearl in the mouth of Empress Dowager Cixi was the rough stone of "Mughal Emperor Diamond", the Mughal Emperor Diamond was named by King Sha Jahan of the Mughal Dynasty of India, Dr. Wang Chunyun believed that the Afghan King obtained the Mughal Emperor Diamond from the Mughal Empire on eight expeditions to India, and then in 1760 or 1762, sent envoys to dedicate this "Night Pearl" to the Qianlong Emperor at that time, and fell into the hands of Cixi.