Speaking of kings in the history of our country, most thrifty kings like to live a luxurious and dissolute life. They not only spend a lot of money from the state treasury to build palaces for themselves, but also choose beautiful women to enrich the harem. They also like to have fun everywhere and spend the tax money paid by ordinary people like running water. But there are also many wise kings in history. They live a simple life and don't spend money indiscriminately, but the extremely thrifty king is too thrifty. Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty was such a person. In order to educate civil servants and officials and the people of the whole country to follow him in frugality, he asked his family and wife to follow him in frugality. Not only is he very abstemious in his diet and seldom eats meat, but even his clothes have to be patched. Broken clothes are not easy to throw away. In order to keep up with the king's rhythm, many ministers in the DPRK deliberately wore patched clothes when they went to court, which led to people wearing patched clothes everywhere in the emperor's public, and it was easy to mistake them for beggars' parties.
The Queen's birthday party, especially the birthday party hosted by Daoguang for the Queen, is full of expectations for a big meal. Who knows that each of them only gets a bowl of longevity noodles, just like ordinary people, which contains a few cabbage leaves and minced meat, and finally meat. Officials dare not say anything, but pretend to enjoy the bowl of longevity noodles, then kowtow and thank them and praise Daoguang Emperor as usual.
In fact, it is hard to say that Emperor Daoguang did something wrong, but he was also very frugal in spending money. For example, Daoguang Emperor was reluctant to harness rivers and increase the cost of coastal defense. In addition, he only cares about education officials to be frugal, but he doesn't know how to effectively crack down on corrupt officials, which leads to the greed of honest officials and the decline of national strength.