Source: Qingxi Mausoleum Scenic Area
In August 1842, the Qing government was defeated in the Opium War, and signed the Treaty of Nanking with the British colonists, which led to the decline of the Qing Dynasty, although he himself advocated "advocating frugality and advocating simplicity", but in the end the degree of frugality reached a jaw-dropping point. Wearing patch pants and eating a simple diet are the most basic manifestations.
According to Mr. Yu Dahua, an expert in Qing history, Daoguang was very "simple" as early as when he was a prince, in order to save, he actually let his eunuchs in the palace go to the street to buy burnt cakes, after buying them back, the hot baked cakes have long become hard and dry, difficult to swallow, but the future Daoguang Emperor and his own Fujin eat very happy, after eating, in order to save fuel, even the lamp is not lit, directly go to bed. It can be seen that the simplicity of Daoguang has reached a point that ordinary people cannot understand.
The Daoguang Emperor (1782-1850 AD) was the sixth emperor after the Qing Dynasty
However, it was such a door-picking emperor who, at an empress's birthday banquet, made a special exception, ordering the minister of the interior to kill a pig and give the empress a birthday to eat, and in this way, the empress was also moved. The "simple style" of the entire Daoguang Dynasty can be described as "popular for a while", the emperor wears patch pants, the central ministers wear the old official uniform in front of the emperor, and even some officials deliberately make several patches of the new official uniform to let the emperor see his "frugality", but looking at the governors in various places, even ordinary local officials, still live extravagantly, squandering and wasting, it can be seen that Daoguang's own frugality has not played a substantial role.
There are two other interesting things that can prove that the Daoguang Emperor is simple enough to cut the door. Once, the emperor in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked for silver to buy eggs, saying that the eggs were 5 or 2, and the Daoguang Emperor did not know whether it was true or false, and called Cao Zhenyong, the first assistant of the dynasty, to come and inquire, who knew that this old slippery head did not want to offend the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so he lied that he had a bad stomach, never ate eggs, and did not know how much an egg was, and as a result, the Daoguang Emperor made up his mind not to eat eggs again. Another time, The Daoguang Emperor's pants were torn, ready to report to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for sewing, and as a result, the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened their mouths to manage the emperor's demand for dozens of taels of silver, Daoguang heard about this price, and thought that it was so expensive to let his empress make up for himself, and did not let the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs greedily be cheap.
In 1850, the Daoguang Emperor died, but in the Qingxi Ling Muling Where he was buried, although many architectural regulations were superficially reduced, the main buildings of the entire mausoleum were made of expensive gold silk nan wood, and all the walls were also made of extremely time-consuming and laborious craftsmanship, which forced people to have other views on the "frugal" emperor.
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