During the decades that the Empress Dowager Cixi held power in the Qing government, treaties were signed one after another that undermined power and humiliated the country.

But no matter how difficult the lives of ordinary people are, it does not hinder Lafayette's enjoyment.

How does this old Buddha spend his free time?

Cixi loved to dress up very much. She had a special jewelry room with wooden shelves as high as the roof, with black sandalwood grids on them. The boxes were filled with various jewelry.

In addition, there are fifty or sixty boxes of Empress Dowager Cixi's clothes that change every season, not to mention the gems and pearls embellished on them.

In his free time, he would study and play with his own hairstyle, and even sent people to learn new hair accessories among the people. Among them, Li Lianying was favored and promoted by Cixi because of his skills in hair accessories.

Of course, Cixi's free time, apart from dressing up, was all about eating.

When it came to food, Cixi was considered a gourmet during the Qing Dynasty.

A meal requires 100 dishes, and she only eats the best parts, and basically gives the rest to her servants.

And for the sake of beauty, Cixi decorated her house with a lot of fruits, just to let her smell them, so as to have a beauty effect.

In addition to the above, Lafayette also likes to watch theater in his spare time.

However, the price of watching a play is very expensive. It can be said that Cixi "regarded money as dirt". In order to watch the play, she spent 300,000 taels to build a theater pavilion. It was called, euphemistically, to entertain all the civil and military ministers of the dynasty.

So it's better to cover it.

Cixi also had a popular hobby in her spare time, playing mahjong first and smoking cigarettes second.

Cixi and Lafayette were invincible in playing mahjong, because the princesses who played mahjong with them all had their own agendas. In order to find official positions for their fathers and brothers, they would deliberately lose to Cixi even if they had good cards.

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Therefore, Cixi can be described as the "Sparrow God" during the Qing Dynasty.

Cixi also liked smoking very much, but unlike us today, her tobacco was grown specifically according to her preferences. There was a strange rule that the fertilizer used for fertilization must be the excrement of boys.

Cixi felt bored one day and suddenly wanted to learn piano.

Then he ordered people to go to the capital to find the best piano players.

Someone recommended Zhang Chunpu to her.

What kind of person is Zhang Chunpu?

He is a piano player in the Beijing Glass Factory, and he is very famous for his piano playing.

Many people come here every day to listen to him playing the piano.

Therefore, many nobles knew him and naturally recommended him to Cixi.

After Cixi summoned Zhang Chunpu, he first said that he had to sit down to play the piano, and the sound of playing the piano while kneeling was not good.

Cixi also agreed.

When he started playing the piano, Zhang Chunpu found that the piano he had prepared in advance was beautiful, but the sound it played was not good at all.

Then Cixi ordered the eunuch to change the piano.

This is a really good piano with a great sound.

Zhang Chunpu immediately played a song, which was highly praised by Cixi.

After that, a ten-year-old boy came in and went straight to playing with the piano.

Zhang Chunpu is a person who loves piano.

Moreover, it was Cixi's piano, so he immediately went to stop him, but unexpectedly he was slapped by the wet nurse next to the little boy.

Later, Zhang Chunpu learned that this little boy was Emperor Tongzhi.

The next day, the eunuch asked Zhang Chunpu to go to the palace and ask him to serve Cixi.

But Zhang Chunpu did not dare to enter the palace anymore. He refused to enter the palace on the grounds that he was ill.

He was afraid that the danger in the palace would kill him at any time.