During the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history, the Xianfeng Emperor was the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty to hold real power, and after his death, his wife Cixi quickly united with his younger uncle Yi. Eliminating the political enemy Su Shun faction, nominally listening to the curtain to assist his young son Emperor Tongzhi, in fact, he had already seized the imperial power in his own hands, and also let Ci'an, the only one who could restrain her, unite with her, thus opening the era of Cixi's reign and the last period of the Qing Dynasty.
Speaking of Cixi, we have to mention her legendary experience, Cixi is a very ambitious person, in addition to politics, but also reflected in life. With her beauty and means, she has won the power she has longed for for a long time, and she also loves beauty in life, hoping that she can stay young forever, even at the expense of high costs to maintain, especially hair. And Li Lianying won the favor of the empress dowager because her hair was combed well. So, how much money did Li Lianying accumulate at that time? Where did the money go after his death?
In fact, when Li Lianying first entered the palace, he was also a nameless junior, but he was a person who knew how to observe words and seize opportunities. Cixi loves beauty and likes the noble and elegant hairstyles that are passed down by the people, but the hairstyles in the palace have always been so many, and no one will have such a trendy hairstyle, which makes Cixi feel very unhappy. After Li Lianying knew, she deliberately took a leave of absence to go out of the palace to go to Fireworks Willow Lane to contact the trendy women for three days in the name of small traders, practiced every day after returning to the palace, and finally got the appreciation of the empress dowager under the recommendation of her fellow villagers.
Li Lianying, who was beloved by the empress, gradually grew in power in the harem, and even slowly extended her hand to the court. The ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee all knew that Li Lianying was the most trusted person of the Empress, so whether it was the little eunuch of the harem or the Minister of the DPRK, they all came to seduce him, and naturally they could not help but send him some money. As for how much wealth he has accumulated, we have no way of verifying, but if a eunuch can have his own "mansion" outside the palace, as well as his wife and adopted son, then his wealth is by no means in the minority.
It wasn't until after The deaths of Guangxu and Cixi one after another that Li Lianying knew that his good days would come to an end, and Empress Longyu allowed him to live in the South Garden, so he went out of the palace to live. Not long after leaving the palace, Li Lianying was plagued by illness, and he knew that he was about to die, so he gathered his adopted son and nephew and other juniors to his side and began to explain his posthumous affairs. According to legend, the juniors were all given different amounts of property at that time, ranging from hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to as little as hundreds of thousands, and he confessed that it was only a part of the wealth he had accumulated.
In addition to his relatives in the family who were worried about his property, even the apprentices in the palace were also eyeing the tiger, and the market sent people to inquire about the situation. After Li Lianying's death, Empress Longyu also approved him a cemetery, which was the most magnificent of all the eunuchs' cemeteries, and it was also the last glory after death.