Although many people think that Cixi is heinous, she is also a very capable woman. Otherwise, she would not control the whole Qing government by herself and become the actual authority in China in the late Qing Dynasty. Cixi, who gained the highest power, gave full play to her long hair and short knowledge and used the financial and material resources of the whole country to satisfy her selfish desires. Cixi usually likes to have fun. When the imperial treasury was empty, Cixi actually appropriated the military expenses of Beiyang Navy to repair Yuanmingyuan, which directly led to the defeat of Beiyang Navy in the Sino-Japanese War, and Cixi will always be nailed to the shame column of history. Cixi is not only greedy for pleasure, but also spends a lot of money on her daily diet. Let's take a look with Bian Xiao.

Cixi takes three meals a day as an example. The Imperial Dining Hall serves as many as 6,000 kinds of dishes, with more than 100 courses per meal. It can be said that every day is different, but Cixi still feels that there are too few dishes to eat chopsticks. On the other hand, in China at that time, the national strength was declining, the people were poor, and ordinary people didn't even have enough to eat, but Cixi still lived a luxurious life. According to the estimation of later generations, Empress Dowager Cixi spent 300 taels of silver for a meal. At that time, ordinary people in China only spent a few taels of silver a year, and the fruit supplied to Empress Dowager Cixi reached hundreds of thousands of years in A Jin. Empress Dowager Cixi's profligacy left the rich second generation behind.

Not only that, Cixi has many hobbies, all of which are expensive. Cixi has a habit of ordering people to put fresh fruits in her residence, but these fruits are not for eating, but for smelling, because Cixi likes to smell the aroma of fruits very much, but they will be thrown away as long as they are kept for one day. In fact, it is no problem to eat these fruits directly, but Cixi just wants to throw them away and replace them with fresh ones. Some of those lost fruits will be stolen by greedy maids, and no one will care about them in the end, even if they are eaten every day.

There are socks worn by ordinary people, and different patterns are made on Cixi's feet. First of all, the material of socks is fine silk, and the socks used by Cixi to make clothes are too expensive. In order to highlight her supreme power, the socks are embroidered with dragon patterns, so it is also a test for Xiuniang. A pair of socks requires several embroidered mothers to be busy for half a month, and hundreds of embroidered mothers specialize in making socks for Cixi, which is far behind the speed of losing them. Because Cixi loves cleanliness, she will wear a pair of new socks for a while, so even a pair of small socks is a huge expense in a year. At that time, the Qing government also faced the problem of empty treasury, but Cixi remained so.

Therefore, if Cixi's life is in the present, it will cost at least several hundred thousand a day. Did the Qing government have such a ruler? Is there any reason not to perish?