How much money did Empress Dowager Cixi spend in her lifetime? In fact, this can be seen from the burial items after her death.
The inner bottom of the Cixi coffin is covered with a gold silk woven jewelry brocade mattress, 7 inches thick, the lower part of the large and small pearls 12604 pieces, 85 pieces of red gemstones, 203 pieces of white jade, the brocade mattress is laid with a layer of silk mattress embroidered with lotus flowers, and the top is covered with 2400 pearls weighing 5 points. Covering Cixi's body was a gold-woven Toni sutra. It is woven from a length of 280 cm and a width of 274 cm on a bright yellow satin base and twisted gold. The quilt is decorated with 820 beads. On top of the quilt is a tennis quilt embellished with 6,000 pearls. Wearing a large brimmed hat, the crown is made of a string of jewelry stones inlaid, and there is a bead weighing 4 or 2 large if the crown, and the standing value of the silver is about 10-20 million taels.
The mouth contains a pearl of the night. There are three hangings of beads around the neck, two of which are of true pearls and one of which is of rubies. Wear a gold silk gown and a blouse with a flowered pearl coat. Foot pedal towards boots. Holding a branch of jade lotus flowers, there are 18 statues of clam Buddhas in front of the head, and an emerald lotus leaf on the top of the head. On both sides of the head there are gold, 10 jade Buddhas, 8 jade carved horses and 18 jade arhats. There are 108 golden Buddhas, jade Buddhas, ruby Buddhas, and Trefos collectively next to or under their feet, each weighing 6 taels; 4 emerald watermelons, two white-skinned yellow-seeded pink fans, two green-skinned white-seeded yellow-seeded yellow-hearted, 10 jade-peaches, two emerald cabbages, and two wasps of canonical color next to the green leaves.
The most expensive thing in the coffin is the seat rate pattern, the smoke cloud green water flowing for a long time, and the nine thousand Lingbaili pagoda carved from white jade. The corpse was also filled with more than 700 pieces of gemstones, jade, red coral trees, and ink jade watercress, and when the funeral of guopu was over, it was found that there were still cracks in the coffin, and four liters of beads (500 large beads of 8 points, 2200 three pearls, and 1000 pieces of two pearls); 2200 pieces of ruby sapphires and tall emeralds.
In real life, Lafayette's life is also quite delicate, and his 60th birthday cost about 10 million taels of silver. So you may have no concept, if converted into something else, this 10 million taels is equivalent to the cost of the Beiyang Fleet.
Her daily necessities are based on jiyang mahjong, medicinal bottom book, painting enamel blossom flower and bird baking cage, massager, pine wood hundred treasures embedded in Fulu Shou ballot box... The half-month fee of the Forbidden City can be purchased for a Japanese Yoshino-class gunboat during the Battle of The Pentagram; a super combat ship can be purchased for two months; and a one-year fee can be used to arm a naval fleet that ranks six or seven in the world.
The most inexplicable thing is that the general "official room" she used (called the official room at the time) is mostly a magnetic basin, but Cixi is made of iron wood, engraved into the shape of a large scorpion tiger, vivid; the straw paper used by Cixi is also specially made by Gong'e, and the bilateral shou character scroll barrel paper bag is also made by Gong'e.
The great handling of her meals is well-known in Chinese and foreign history. The dishes she uses for each meal are filled with three or four table pieces, often in a hundred kinds, hot and cold Western food, barbecue stove food, various snacks, all kinds of all kinds. Costumes are unusually one carriage. If you put it on the Internet now, Cixi is called "jewelry maniac" and jade "enthusiast"
Her extravagance can build a pocket country! In the late Qing period, she was already worried about external and internal troubles, and she knew that this situation still could not change this habit. Even after the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the city of Beijing and fled in a hurry, she was still extravagant and extravagant.