1, about the value of the treasures buried after Cixi's death, "Ai Yuexuan Notes" There is a slight explanation: 84,000 taels of silver for gold silk beaded embroidered brocade mattress, 850,000 taels of jade lotus leaves, 1.2 million taels of gold thread beaded embroidered robes, 8 taels for each golden Buddha beside him, 6 taels for each jade Buddha, 6 taels for each jade Buddha, 3 taels for each ruby Buddha, 27 taels for each, a total of 108 statues, a total of 620,000 taels, 2 jade watermelons, 2.2 million taels, 4 jade melons, 600,000 taels, 1 million taels of jade lotus roots, 530,000 taels of red coral trees, and a pearl crown on Cixi's head, on which a pearl weighs 4 taels and is worth 10 million taels. In addition, there are 500 large beads and 6,000 small beads, with an estimated value of 228,000 taels. At that time, the Qing Dynasty's inventory of silver was less than 70 million taels.
2. When the British and French forces invaded Beijing, they not only burned the Old Summer Palace, but burned the three mountains and five gardens of the royal family in western Beijing, namely Wanshou Mountain, Yuquan Mountain, Xiangshan Mountain, Qingyi Garden, Yuanmingyuan, Changchun Garden, Jingming Garden, and Jingyi Garden.
3. The 1904 World's Fair was held in St. Louis, USA. Cixi sent Bei Zi Pulun to lead a delegation to participate. At that time, the exhibits of the Chinese Pavilion were: one woman with little feet wearing Shanghai, Beijing, Ningbo and Guangzhou costumes, one monk, one master, one soldier, seven Miao Man, one small city god temple, one small county yamen (with various torture tools), hundreds of small wooden figures, more than ten small grass houses, one flail side, several murder knives, more than 10 foreign smoking guns, and several foreign smoke lamps.
4. In the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, Japan's actual mobilized troops amounted to 240616 people, 174017 people with experience in participating in the war, and the navy had 32 warships, 24 torpedo boats, and a displacement of 72,000 tons, surpassing the Beiyang Naval Division.
5, Hong Xiuquan once issued an edict asking all localities to offer beauties, and the edict said: "That is, from now on, all sides will come to the court, and all parties will be unified." The eldest sister of the Oriental Gong, the Northwest offers the baby. The Taiping sky is unified, and the blessings of heaven are boastful. There was also an edict of consolation, saying: "Your sisters should not disobey, and it is good for you to be willing to come and rejoice." Remorse when beaten and scolded, beaten is kind and scolded. ”
6. In October 1931, Pu Yi and Wen Xiu reached an out-of-court agreement to divorce. The reason for the divorce is: the two have never had sex in nine years of marriage. This incident became explosive news at the time, and newspapers exaggerated it with headlines such as "Concubine Revolution" and "Unprecedented - The Imperial Concubine and the Emperor Divorced". At that time, the last of the "five conditions for divorce" was: "After negotiation between the two parties, Wenxiu is not allowed to remarry after divorce." ”
7. On March 8, 1941, Zhu Ziqing wrote in his diary: "Everything was going well, but because of hunger, it affected efficiency. He had never felt hungry in the past, and often boasted that he didn't know what hunger was. But now at twelve o'clock my legs are weak, my hands are shaking, my eyes are glazed, and I just need to eat a little. This is probably the reason for eating two meals, and also because of the excessive use of stored energy. ”
8. After reading the proposition of "mastering the art of mastering the art of subduing the razor" in the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom", the Japanese thinker Sakuma Xiangshan couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Woohoo! Wei Yuan and I can really be described as overseas comrades!"
9. When Hong Kong was in crisis in 1941, rescue aircraft seats were in short supply. Kong Xiangxi's wife, Song Ailing, and second lady, Kong Lingjun, led dozens of bodyguards to prevent others from boarding the plane, but they transported their own servants, foreign dogs, toilets, spices, and bed boards onto the plane! Chen Jitang, He Xiangning, Xu Chongzhi, Mao Dun, Guo Moruo, Chen Yinke, and others were all intercepted and prevented from boarding. After learning of this, public opinion was in an uproar, and Fu Sinian "jumped like thunder, calling for the killing of 'Flying Dog Dean' Kong Xiangxi to thank the world".
10. After Zhang Guotao defected to the Kuomintang, he said to Chiang Kai-shek: "Chairman, my brother has been confused outside for many years. ”
11, Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, was very worried because many of the concubines in the palace were seduced by servants, so he wanted to set up eunuchs. Li Shouhui and Li Shouchun volunteered and said that they knew how to castrate. Dongwang was very happy and asked the two to select more than a dozen young children for testing. Who knew that after a knife, four or five died immediately, and the rest could not heal even though the medicine was applied, and finally they all died of pain.
12. During the Republic of China, the earliest barber shop in Guangzhou that also operated sympathy and electric hairdressing, there were three only, new and beautified, but all the barbers at that time were men, after all, not all women were willing to be served by men, so there were not many female hairdressers. In the 30s, the number of women in Guangdong Province who wore hair and electric hair was increasing day by day, so major barber shops began to compete to hire female barbers.
13, after Xinhai, Wang Guowei accepted Luo Zhenyu's advice, and became a pure minister of the Qing Dynasty, accepting Puyi's title of "South Study Walking", and "rewarding five ranks" and "rewarding five grades". Academically, he also "abandoned his previous studies and devoted himself to the history of the scriptures", and also wrote poems to praise Cixi, saying: "In the past 50 years, the mother of the world has never succeeded the previous one." ”
14. In June 1911, Chinese businessmen in Yokohama wrote to the Japanese government to protest against allowing Kang Youwei to enter the country, saying that Kang Youwei "If he is only a political prisoner, the government of your country can entertain him, but now he is the main criminal of private crime of murder for money, what is the reason for your country to entertain him"? These Chinese businessmen also said: "The Chinese businessmen in Australia, Nanyang, North and South America were intimidated by the royalist associations of the Kang organization, and the news that they had been defrauded of huge sums of money spread all over the world, so they all resented this person.
15, after Wang Jingwei's body was transported to Nanjing, the beauty of buying longevity fell to an adjutant who had followed Wang for many years. The adjutant spent 1.4 million yuan to sell a sand coffin, but reported the cost of 2.4 million yuan, and dug up 1 million at once. Everyone knew about this at the time, and only Wang Jingwei's wife Chen Bijun was hidden.