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Empress Dowager Cixi had an entertainment program, which was quite special.
When the weather is cold, when the Zhongnanhai is frozen, the happiest is Cixi. However, as soon as Cixi was happy, the people at the bottom had to worry. Everyone knew that this old lady was going to change the law again, taking pleasure in harming others.
Cixi's entertainment program is divided into two segments. The first half is to experience the feeling of "flying". The so-called "fly" is to drag the ice bed. After the ice froze in winter, the ice surface was unusually smooth, and Cixi and many concubines, Fu Jin and Ge Ge of various provinces sat on the mop bed, and the eunuchs dragged the bed in front of them, like a hauler, dragging the bed and flying forward. Cixi, who was sitting on the mop bed, only felt that the wind was blowing from her ears, like flying, and her happiness was indescribable.
The first half of the mop bed had to last at least an hour or so. When Cixi got tired, she entered the second half.
At this time, Cixi asked the eunuchs to take a few thousand silver dollars. Don't underestimate this silver dollar, a few thousand silver dollars, very heavy, and it takes a few eunuchs to work together to move it. So many silver dollars, why? Play the game of throwing money.
Throughout the ages, this money-throwing game has been played, and it is all the same. Cixi asked several powerful female relatives to stand around and throw silver dollars into the center. This act is not Cixi's sympathy for the hardships of the people, but to treat them. On the contrary, this is Cixi changing the Fa'er, amusing herself.
How do you entertain yourself? As soon as the money is thrown, the crowd will surely have to come forward and grab it. Although they are all Fujin, Gege and concubines, and they are also considered to be well-fed on weekdays, these thousands of silver dollars are not a small amount. Whoever grabs it is whoever grabs it, it's the rules of the game! So, the crowd riveted and rushed furiously.
If it's on flat ground, that's fine. But this money-snatching game is played on the ice, the ice surface is too smooth, the action is slightly larger, you will fall on all fours. It is conceivable that in order to grab money, you push me and squeeze, plus the action is too big, wrestling is inevitable. On the ice, a person falls, and often brings down a large piece.
This is the entertainment effect that Cixi wants. Watching the crowd fall down a large piece at every turn in order to grab money, Cixi was so happy that she couldn't keep her mouth shut. After throwing away thousands of pieces, Cixi's belly was about to burst into laughter.
When the entertainment program arrives here, it can finally end. This entertainment, everyone rejoiced, Cixi was overjoyed, although the female relatives fell, but they grabbed the money, but also gained. What is pitiful is that the common people have "fallen" step by step into the water in the midst of All kinds of absurd and ridiculous fun in Cixi.
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