After Cixi's death, people stumbled upon her chamber, which contained everything in gold and silver jewelry
Empress Dowager Cixi at the end of the Qing Dynasty not only enjoyed all the glory and wealth during her lifetime, but also took away many valuable funerary items after her death. Cixi's favorite in life is jewelry, many ministers in order to please her, with the strength of the whole country to buy for her, many of the jewels she wears are purchased from the West and Nanyang, after her death, the palace maid accidentally found that there is a secret room in her dormitory, which is full of rare treasures, which shocked everyone present.
Because Cixi's life is known to the world for its extravagant life, so during the Republic of China, there was a warlord Sun Dianying who blew up the Qing Tombs and stole Cixi's mausoleum at night, Sun Dianying and his men were shocked by the scene in front of them after entering Cixi's mausoleum, which was full of valuable funerary products, and after opening Cixi's coffin, it was full of some rare treasures, such as jade cabbage, jade watermelon, and the night pearl worth 800 million that Cixi contained in her mouth.
In the end, all the funerary items in Cixi's mausoleum were stolen from Sun Dianying, enough to remove more than a dozen large boxes, if Cixi knew that her extravagance and waste would be exchanged for such a fate, I am afraid that I would regret it, after her death, Empress Longyu took over her bedroom, because she was Cixi's niece, so she often sent the palace maids to clean up, one day a palace maid accidentally found the secret room in Cixi's palace, and everyone inside could not believe their eyes.
Cixi's secret room is densely packed with huge pearls on the ground, and then the walls are hung with literati ink treasures and famous paintings, incomparably precious, several shelves in the room are full of antiques and gold and silver jewelry, it is estimated that these are Cixi's collections before death, there is no time to arrange after death, so it has been stored in this secret room, if Cixi used this room treasure for disaster relief or subsidies for military expenses, presumably it will not fall so insulted.