Cixi's life is naturally more luxurious. According to statistics, when the chef prepares dishes for Cixi in the palace, there are about 4,000 varieties, and there are about 400 varieties of desserts alone. Besides, it will cost hundreds of millions of taels of silver for Cixi to have a birthday. You know, these two pieces of silver were originally used for military expenses at that time, but Cixi did not use them to expand her armaments, but spent them all on her private life.

In fact, Empress Dowager Cixi was in power in the late Qing Dynasty. During this period, Empress Dowager Cixi was in constant transformation, without considering the interests of the whole country. Instead, she is thinking about how to live her life. Because of the lust for pleasure, Empress Dowager Cixi often consumes a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources for her own pleasure. At that time, Empress Dowager Cixi was very particular about eating. There was a taboo in the palace, that is, Empress Dowager Cixi did not allow others to discuss what she liked to eat, and she was not allowed to be advised which dish to eat when eating.

You know, at that time, Cixi had about 100 dishes per meal, but only three or four dishes were really eaten. Because in the palace, Empress Dowager Cixi doesn't allow others to discuss what she likes to eat, and no one knows what she really likes to eat. In fact, Empress Dowager Cixi did this for fear that others would poison herself. As long as others don't know what dishes she likes, many dishes can't be poisoned.

It can be said that the decline of the late Qing Dynasty had a lot to do with Cixi, so the whole late Qing Dynasty was like a broken ship, which could be destroyed at any time, but Empress Dowager Cixi undoubtedly aggravated the sinking speed of this broken ship. It is precisely because of the luxurious life of Cixi that the whole high-level officials in the late Qing Dynasty were so corrupt and the whole court declined so rapidly.