For Cixi's birthday, the minister wanted to give her a pair of corals.
In those days, it was not easy to get a pair of corals.
Unfortunately, the minister sent the coral to the palace, and he saw that he was about to enter the palace, and the "click" broke one, and the minister was dumbfounded on the spot.
Corals have been sought after by rich families in history, and during the Tang Dynasty, many family women often used corals as ornaments to wear on themselves in order to reflect their noble social status.
During the Ming Dynasty, a special coral museum was also established to collect a variety of coral products.
By the time of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi and Qianlong were even more fond of corals, and Cixi was even more so as the de facto ruler of the late Qing Dynasty.
In fact, the minister's idea was good, such a valuable treasure - coral, used to give Empress Dowager Cixi as a birthday gift, is the best choice.
However, in the process of moving, the minister accidentally broke the coral.
He was very scared and didn't know what he should do.
Coupled with the fact that the news that he was going to send a pair of corals had already spread, if he could not get the coral at the birthday feast, he would definitely be punished by Empress Dowager Cixi for the crime of deception.
As we all know, Cixi was very fond of corals throughout her life, and there were a large number of corals in her funeral products.
Thinking about it this way, in other words, the things you love are trampled and destroyed by people like this, and the mood is very bad.
Women love jewelry, and coral is a thousand-year-old spiritual creature with life, very rare, and it is Cixi's favorite.
The minister was so ugly in the gift he had prepared for the powerful woman that the courtiers next to him saw this scene without sweating, as if they were in silence for the minister's result.
Although the minister's hands and feet were not very sharp, his brain was still spinning fast, and he quickly found the chief eunuch at the time to solve the matter.
After the chief eunuch understood the ins and outs, he quickly thought of a perfect solution, and he could even make a lot of money through this matter.
The chief eunuch soon found the place where the minister lived, and declared that as long as the minister gave him ten thousand taels of silver, the matter could be completely settled.
After the minister listened, he quickly gathered the money and handed it to the minister in charge.
He also generously left the chief eunuch for a meal, and when empress dowager Cixi's birthday feast, the minister saw the corals that had been broken by him reappear, and he thought that he was dazzled or that his memory was confused.
However, because the birthday feast had already begun, the minister did not dare to go around to attract Cixi's attention, so he had to toast with his colleagues with a more blunt expression.
When the matter was over, the minister inquired around to learn that there were similar corals in the treasury of the palace.
The chief eunuch only took out a temporary loan from the storeroom and promised the eunuch that he could return it intact.
Just wait until the birthday party is over, and then find an excuse to confuse this matter.
As the head of the court's courtiers, the chief eunuch passed through cixi's hands at each birthday feast, familiarizing himself with the banquet.
He knew that every time Empress Dowager Cixi had a birthday feast, every minister was trying to send some rare treasures, and perhaps Empress Dowager Cixi herself could not remember what she had received.
In this way, the chief eunuch earned ten thousand taels of silver without much effort.
After the minister knew that this was the case afterwards, he slapped himself on the head, if he had not been too anxious, he would not have suffered such a big loss.
In fact, the minister not only lost money, but also owed the chief eunuch's affection.
As the saying goes, money is good to pay back, people are difficult to repay, and the minister's behavior is more likely to plant a big thunder for himself.
Cixi, the Lafayette, was not an ordinary feudal ruler, she not only experienced various domestic political struggles after the death of her husband Xianfeng and won the final victory, but also an important role in China that had not undergone such great changes in three thousand years.
In order to maintain the rule of the Qing Dynasty, she ordered the killing of many people and was called a veritable executioner.
The collusion between the inside and outside of the court was even more strictly guarded, and once the collusion between the minister and the internal minister was known to Cixi, the two would certainly be unable to escape the killing.
Just as the so-called one drink and one peck, until the end of all things can know how things are bad or bad.
This minister's story tells everyone that everything needs to be careful, and it needs to be treated with caution.
Neither carelessness should lead to the corruption of things, nor should we be proud because of luck, which is the correct way to deal with things in life.
