In 1908, Empress Dowager Cixi died of illness at the Yiluan Hall in Zhongnanhai, a legendary woman who had influenced the Qing Dynasty for decades, and her life finally came to an end. Cixi Gui is the Lafayette of the Qing Dynasty, and it is necessary to be buried in a beautiful scenery. You must know that when Empress Dowager Cixi celebrated her birthday, she would embezzle the military expenses of the Beiyang Fleet for a total of 300,000 taels, not to mention that she died this time. Therefore, in the ten years of xuanun, Empress Dowager Cixi was buried in the scenery of the Qing Dynasty, and those rare treasures that Cixi liked very much when she was alive were all ordered by Puyi to be buried.
According to some people who have seen it with their own eyes, when Empress Dowager Cixi was buried, she was laid with a gold silk quilt under the coffin of the golden silk nanmu, on which were the gold, pearls, and jade that Empress Dowager Cixi liked in her life, in order to show her identity as the first woman of the Qing Dynasty. And Cixi's head is covered with emerald green lotus leaf-like jadeite, under her feet are lotus jade, and on her body is wearing a priceless gold silk pearl dress, and the luxurious breath overflows from the entire coffin, making people can't help but sigh: "Zhumen wine smells of flesh, and there are frozen bones on the road."
However, compared with the same thing, these treasures are simply fireworks and Haoyue, and even a fraction of it cannot be compared. That was the pearl of the night that Cixi had in her mouth when she died!
This night pearl came from a huge head, it was a priceless treasure at the time, and now it is almost worth 800 million. According to legend, this was the hand of a king from the Middle East, who fought in the Mughal Dynasty eight times that year, snatched this unique night pearl from the hands of the royal family at that time, and later gave this one to the Qianlong Emperor in order to please the powerful China.
When Empress Dowager Cixi took control of the government, she took this rare treasure for herself, and this night pearl weighed more than four or two overall, it can be said that its value is extremely high, and it also has its place in the list of treasures in Chinese history and legends. However, empress dowager Cixi's burial was so vigorous and the wealth inside was so huge, there was no doubt that it would arouse the covetousness of some people who hated her and looked at her.
Sure enough, not long after Puyi ascended the throne, the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and China fell into an unprecedented period of great division, with warlords attacking each other and making the land of China jump. During this period, there was a big warlord, he was the famous "tomb robber" Sun Dianying, his father died at the hands of corrupt officials in the Qing Dynasty, so he hated the Manchu Qing very much, not to mention that he also had a relatively serious economic crisis at that time.
The troops that have always had combat effectiveness must be well-equipped, but Sun Dianying's army is only a pitiful half of the armament, so he set his sights on the tombs of the Qing Dynasty, especially the tomb of Cixi, the best of them, which made him very greedy.
Therefore, in the 1920s and 1930s, Sun Dianying and his army blew up the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi under the pretext of military exercises. According to the soldiers' recollections, Sun Dianying led his troops into the mausoleum and pried open the coffin of Empress Dowager Cixi, threw her body on the ground, and then looted all the treasures of countless value inside, and even the most precious night pearl fell into Sun Dianying's hands.
After coming out, in order to please Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Dianying gave this rare treasure to Song Meiling, and in Sun Dianying's account we can know that this night pearl is actually divided into two halves, and when it is combined, it will emit a strange green light, which can be seen very clearly within a hundred meters, but after separating the two halves, this magical light disappears again.
Song Meiling was naturally very happy after getting this treasure, and in the newspapers at that time, the price of this night pearl was 10 million taels of silver, which was only the value of the Republic of China period. But Song Meiling hated that it had been held in the mouth of Empress Dowager Cixi, so Song Meiling separated it and embedded it in one of her shoes, and every time she encountered a grand party or a celebrity, she would wear these shoes to the finale and blind everyone's eyes.
But soon people found that this rare treasure was missing, where did it go, and now in whose hands?
According to the speculation of those who know the inside story, this night pearl was sold by Song Meiling to the rich American businessman Rockefeller, because Song Meiling often wore the night pearl to attend various high-level occasions, so he was favored by this rich businessman, and he exchanged the night pearl for the strategic materials that China needed.
Obviously, in the end, this rare treasure of the continent fell into the hands of the rich American merchants, and after he died, it was passed down from generation to generation to generation, and when someone asked his descendants whether they wanted to return it to China, they explicitly refused to return it, they felt that it was exchanged by their ancestors, it was a legitimate exchange, and it should not be returned.