1852, 17-year-old Cixi entered the palace. At that time, she thought she was just an ordinary woman in the harem, but Emperor Xianfeng only had 18 concubines in her life, and Cixi's status was very noble, and the flame in her heart slowly burned. 1957, 22 years old, named Yi Guifei. At this time, it was almost impossible for Emperor Xianfeng to concentrate on handling state affairs, so he asked Cixi, who was good at calligraphy, to read the paper. Since ancient times, women who want to read newspapers have always felt the joy of power, and it is easy to breed some special ideas, such as Wu Zetian.
With the death of Emperor Xianfeng, Cixi's son was made emperor, but he was too young. Emperor Xianfeng invited Cixi, Empress and eight ministers to assist the emperor. But this situation soon changed. Through a series of means, Cixi grasped the core of power. Who knows that the emperors in the last years of the Qing Dynasty almost didn't live long, and Cixi's son was dying, so she had to change Guangxu into an emperor, which was also the time when her power was most concentrated.
1894, Cixi celebrated her 60th birthday. In order to please her, Prince Chun even proposed to give Cixi a birthday with naval military expenses. It happened that the Sino-Japanese War broke out, and the Qing Dynasty was defeated one after another. The Korean people hope that Cixi will stop holding birthday parties. At this time, she actually said, "whoever makes me unhappy today, I will also make him unhappy for life."
It can be seen that Cixi is a famous luxury, so what is her daily diet besides holding birthday banquets?
According to records, every time Cixi eats * * *, she needs 150 dishes, and every time the eunuch will arrange it in an orderly way. Because Cixi is not a Han nationality, she often eats pasta, and in order not to make her feel bored, the chefs can be said to have taken great pains to make various flavors of food. Besides, she often eats all kinds of candied fruit, preserved fruit and sweet meatballs, and there are special snacks everywhere.
Among these foods, there is a favorite soup of Cixi, which is a bowl of mutton soup. After the white soup is cooked, pepper can be mixed in to relieve boredom and smell. Since drinking this bowl of soup, Cixi couldn't put it down, and it lasted for ten years. Finally, when the chef reached the retirement age, Cixi specially called him over and left a recipe. After hearing this, Cixi ordered him to be pulled out and beheaded. Why?
It turns out that this is a bowl of mutton chop suey soup, which uses viscera such as sheep belly and lung, and is a food that Shaanxi people like to eat. However, in Cixi's view, this is not a bowl of rice that meets her identity. Although she thought it was delicious, the temptation of food was obviously not enough to calm her anger. After all, for her "noble", these nasty things are an insult to herself. She even ate it for more than ten years, which made her even more furious. Therefore, Cixi blocked herself from drinking mutton offal soup for more than ten years, which is not recorded in the official history.
In fact, when the national strength declined, Cixi did not want to change her way of life, and even received people's paste to celebrate her birthday, which was outrageous. And she killed the cook just because she ate dirty things, which reflected her disregard for human life. For her, life is worthless at all. The only thing that matters is the life of a noble.