1894 was the sixtieth birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi. However, the country was in trouble, the people were not happy, and the whole country was already in ruins, but Empress Dowager Cixi did not care, but wanted to celebrate her sixtieth birthday, and spent a huge amount of money to build the Summer Palace for the construction of the summer garden. As a result, in the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle of this year, the Beiyang Marine Division was completely destroyed.
At the tenth o'clock of the tenth month of the tenth lunar month of that year, Empress Dowager Cixi's birthday, so officials from all over the world dedicated the rare treasures looted from the people to Empress Dowager Cixi as birthday gifts in the name of offerings. I don't know how many ordinary people have been displaced and their families have been destroyed behind this gift, and I don't know how many ordinary people's blood and tears have been stained on these rare treasures.
But these things did not attract the attention and interest of Empress Dowager Cixi. On the contrary, the birthday gift of the grand eunuch Li Lianying was ingenious and eye-catching, especially the empress dowager Cixi was overjoyed, and she even rewarded Li Lianying with a flower plume on the top of the second product. This is a violation of the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, which shows the importance it attaches to this birthday gift.
Li Lianying's birthday gifts are birds and fish. Li Lianying ordered some bird cages to be taken out and placed in front of Empress Dowager Cixi, and then at the sound of an order, the cages were opened, and the birds flew high, but soon they all returned to the cages. At this time, Li Lianying opened her mouth and said, "This is called a hundred birds and a phoenix." The birds have been released and refuse to leave you, but have come to pay your respects. ”
Cixi's heart blossomed when she heard this. Then came the offering of fish, which was much the same, with dozens of large barrels of released fish coming back. Only this time Li Lianying's words changed a little and said, "This is called fish and water feelings." The fish also felt the grace of release and came back to give you a birthday", which made Empress Dowager Cixi's dragon heart even more pleased. So there is the aforementioned reward.
Li Lianying was very good at things, his father Empress Dowager Cixi's mind was thoroughly pondered, knowing that Empress Dowager Cixi had seen too many rare and exotic treasures, and li Lianying was very good at doing things at all, and his father Empress Dowager Cixi's mind was thoroughly figured out, knowing that Empress Dowager Cixi had seen too many rare and exotic treasures, and was not interested in these things at all, and what was needed was spiritual and moral satisfaction.
Like a thief who has stolen things all his life, has not been caught, and is already rich, then the thief does not need money, what is needed is people's moral affirmation of him, to prove that he is a good person. Therefore, Li Lianying painstakingly raised birds and trained fish, and the method adopted was to feed birds and fish from a young age, and to feed them, open the cage at regular intervals to let the birds wind, and form habits for long-term training, and the birds would naturally fly out and fly back within a certain period of time.
Fish are trained in this way, nothing more than often making contact between birds and fish and people, cultivating birds and fish not afraid of human guts. Therefore, on the birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi, a wonderful scene was staged.
This scene was very much in the heart of Empress Dowager Cixi, who had always been a one-man thief, and knew that her reputation was not good, but there was no way, and her heart was very eager for others to affirm her morality. In the palace, Li Lianying and others called her Lafayette. This is a kind of satisfaction with her perverted psychology.
On the occasion of her sixtieth birthday, Li Lianying staged this scene of letting birds and birds not fly, releasing fish and fish without swimming, which really made Empress Dowager Cixi have the illusion of moral improvement of her own merits. But this also greatly satisfied Empress Dowager Cixi's distorted mentality of wanting to be praised and affirmed by others. History is fair, and a one-man thief who satisfies his own selfish desires by stealing people's wealth and national wealth eventually ends up with a tomb stolen.