In China, the mention of the name of the "Cixi" empress dowager will definitely stir up a splash, why did the Qing Dynasty perish in that year? Why was the Qing government so corrupt? She Cixi absolutely bears a large part of the responsibility, and her life is very appropriate to describe it as "poor and extravagant".
At that time, just to place her clothes, a special partial hall was used, which collected more than 80,000 clothes, thousands of craftsmen worked all year round, tailor-made clothes for her, conservatively estimated that these clothes were worth more than 1 billion, the most unacceptable thing is that Cixi will throw them away two or three times; and eat, even in the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing government could not make ends meet, Cixi still required 100 dishes to be prepared for each meal, which is really a true portrayal of "Zhumen wine smells of meat, and the road has frozen bones".
Such a poor and extravagant person, even if he dies, he cannot give up a luxurious life, according to historical records, Cixi's mausoleum took 6 years to build, costing more than 5 million taels of silver. However, Cixi was not satisfied after seeing it, so Guangxu rebuilt the mausoleum for twenty-one years, which took 13 years and cost more than 10 million taels of silver. And this money is only spent on the construction of the mausoleum.
Looking at her funeral products, the most famous of which are jade watermelon, jade melon, jade cabbage, jade carved coral tree, and the phoenix crown worn by Cixi, just one pearl on it is worth 10 million taels, enough for an ordinary family to eat for dozens of lifetimes. But compared with the pearl of the night in Cixi's mouth, these are slightly inferior.
In July 1928, Sun Dianying, then commander of the 12th Army of the 6th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, openly blew up the tombs of Cixi and Qianlong in the name of "military exercises", plundered the rare treasures inside, filled them with countless boxes, and transported them for several days and nights.
One of the most memorable for Sun Dianying is the night pearl in Cixi's mouth, he said: "She (Cixi) contains a night pearl in her mouth, separated by two pieces, closed is a round ball, separated transparent without light, when closed revealed a green cold light, you can see the hair within a hundred steps at night." I heard that this treasure can make the corpse unmelted, no wonder that after Cixi's coffin was split, Lafayette was like sleeping, only to see the wind, his face turned black, and his clothes were a little untouchable. ”
Such a treasure, Sun Dianying naturally loved it badly, he immediately pried open Cixi's teeth, took away the Night Pearl, and then let people take away all the dragon robes, shoes and socks on Cixi's body, and then threw her body aside at will, even though Cixi was a person of all evils, but Sun Dianying's approach was really "damaging Yin morality", so when Puyi heard the news that Sun Dianying had stolen the Dongling Tomb, he was furious and threatened to kill him, and the other Manchu Qing widows and widows were also indignant, and even wrote to ask sun Dianying to be severely punished.
Sun Dianying was not a stupid person, he naturally knew that after his affairs were exposed, he would cause a sensation in the whole country and even the whole world, so he had made "preparations" long ago, and before the authorities found him, he took one treasure after another, "visited" various dignitaries and nobles, and also gave Qianlong's Nine Dragon Sword to Lao Jiang, and gave Qianlong's Chaozhu to Dai Kasa, and the most precious night pearl was given to Old Jiang's wife, Song Meiling.
Later, Song Meiling embedded it in one of her shoes, and then brought it to the United States, was taken to the eyes of the oil tycoon Rockefeller, Song Meiling had to endure the pain of love, sold to him, and now this priceless night pearl (estimated at about 800 million yuan), collected by the Rockefeller family in his family's museum, has not been easily shown since then.
So in the end, Sun Dianying did not receive any punishment at all, even if he was not punished, the key Sun Dianying was released and went all the way to the rank of knight, becoming the chairman of Anhui Province, you say ridiculous?
In summary, Sun Dianying stole the treasures of Tanglin in that year, the most valuable part was basically given to the magnates at that time, the second most precious, it was left to himself, it is reported that he also let his subordinates carry 35 boxes of Tanglin cultural relics to prepare to be transported abroad, fortunately intercepted by the Tianjin police, but from then on, it can also be seen that there are still some cultural relics that have drifted across the ocean and lost the news, which is really painful!