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In the late Qing Dynasty, he was corrupt and incompetent, blindly groveling. As a result, the thousand-year-old civilization of the Chinese nation has been oppressed by the imperialist powers. Even though nearly 100 years have passed now, it still makes people feel infinitely emotional when they think about it.

In fact, the Qing Dynasty also did some very meaningful moves, such as the Westernization Movement, although China was still a backward agricultural country in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, but also had a certain industrial base, the reason why it was always not allowed to enter, the more critical is that the officials were corrupt at that time. How corrupt it is can be seen from the imperial dining room of the Qing Dynasty court.

There was once a joke, saying that it was the story of Emperor Guangxu and eggs, it is said that Guangxu had to eat 6 eggs a day, originally 6 copper plates, but according to 6 taels of silver. The extra parts were torn and swallowed up. In addition to the imperial dining room for Emperor Guangxu, there were also some imperial dining rooms dedicated to Cixi.

I don't know how much silver has been given away for these two expenses.

The procurement standards of the imperial dining room are almost dozens of times exceeded, although it is understandable to say that there is more preparation for serving these magnates. But sometimes it is too extravagant and wasteful, filling up private pockets, and only Guangxu and the Queen Mother are in the dark.

We must know that the financial expenditure in the late Qing Dynasty was very tight, and Guangxu discovered the greasy situation in the imperial dining room and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter. It's just that no matter how you change it, there is no way to avoid this kind of problem, and then you just ordered to cook Western food. At that time, Western food had just been introduced to China, and there were not many tricks, so these did not dare to have some other moves, and as a result, the imperial dining room saved a huge amount of expenses, and the amount of Western food for 10 days could be worth the consumption of Chinese food for 1 day.

At that time, money was also tight, and they had to save money, and those people didn't know how to cook, so Guangxu was bored with the same.

Because the imperial dining room often deducted some funds and made some unpalatable things, Guangxu was quite angry and ordered that as long as he ate Western food.

The cooks in the imperial dining room have no sense of innovation, they do it back and forth, and the dishes they develop are also changed soup without changing medicine, Guangxu is tired of eating, so he ordered to eat only Western food.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, in order to save expenses, the imperial dining room wanted to cut corners, and it was those dishes every day, and Emperor Guangxu was very angry, so he ordered him to eat only Western food.

During the ** period of the late Qing Dynasty, the financial expenditure was tight, and Guangxu found out that the imperial dining room was greasy, but no matter how much he changed it, there was still no way to avoid these problems, and later ordered: Make me Western food.

Because of the tight finances at that time, and even the imperial dining room was greasy; And the Chinese dishes gradually annoyed Emperor Guangxu, so he ordered to eat Western food and change the taste.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the financial expenditure was quite tight, and Guangxu found out that the imperial dining room was greasy, and ordered a thorough investigation, but no matter how it was changed, there was still no way to avoid these problems, and then he simply ordered directly: Make me Western food.

Because at that time, under the financial constraints, the small imperial dining room was also greasy, often cutting corners, and the dishes he cooked lacked taste and patterns, so Emperor Guangxu ordered him to eat only Western food in a fit of anger.

Because the procurement standards of the imperial dining room are dozens of times exceeded, sometimes they are too extravagant and wasteful, and only the emperor and the queen mother are in the dark.

According to the "Palace Trivia", the proportions of Cixi and Guangxu are roughly as follows: 50 catties of meat (pork knuckle), one pig, one sheep, two chickens and ducks; 2 liters of new fine rice, 1 and a half liters of purple rice, 3 liters of Jiang rice, 3 catties of japonica rice noodles, 15 catties of white flour, 1 catty of buckwheat noodles, 1 catty of wheat flour, three pea flour (about four halves), one and five spoons of sesame seeds (about 222 coins); two catties of sugar, one tael and five coins, eight taels of pot sugar, and eight taels of honey; four taels of walnut kernels, two taels of cherry blossom pine nuts; Twenty-eight eggs, four taels of wolfberries, and eight taels of dried dates ......Fifteen pounds of fresh vegetables. In addition, there are a number of mountain delicacies such as bird's nest, shark's fin, sea cucumber, white fungus, etc.

Network illustration. With such a large amount of ** per day, how much money does this example cost? I can't afford to verify them one by one, it's difficult to calculate, so let's look at the price of eggs from a small perspective.

Li Baojia's "Nanting Notes" said that Emperor Guangxu ate four eggs for breakfast, and the price of the imperial dining room was thirty-four taels of silver, and each egg consumed an average of eight and a half taels of silver. At that time, the market price was about two cents for an egg, that is, one tael of silver could buy five hundred.

In other words, the price of eggs in the imperial dining room is more than 4,000 times the market price! It is no exaggeration to call it a "bull price egg". It can be seen from this that the twenty-eight eggs listed in the sample cost more than two hundred taels of silver.

Network illustration. Most of the goods listed in the spine socks are ** or exclusive, with high quality and high price, which is reasonable; The problem is that it is thousands of times higher than the market price, and it is very abnormal. There are roughly two secrets:

First of all, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has money, it doesn't care, the royal money is not spent in vain. Besides, no matter how much money is spent on making goods for the queen mother and the emperor, it is not easy for others to gossip.

Secondly, it is customary in the palace that all aspects of procurement have benefits, that is, to take kickbacks from them. The internal affairs government is up and down, and it makes a fortune by reporting the spending account.

Network illustration. According to the conservative estimate of eggs, the daily food expenses of the queen mother and the emperor are not less than 10,000 taels. Moreover, the chief steward of the palace and the chief eunuch also ate a share.

For example, Zhang Land, the chief manager of the Empress Dowager Longyu, has 40 dishes per meal. During the Guangxu period, there were 168 chief stewards and chief eunuchs in the palace. How much silver do they have to eat in a day?

The life of the Empress Dowager Cixi is indeed very luxurious, she attaches great importance to personal desires and enjoyment, in order to give her a long life, she built the Summer Palace, built a large number of buildings, and used military funds, resulting in a lack of military funds for the navy.

Cixi's life was so extravagant at the time that it was hard to believe it. At that time, Cixi's living expenses were almost 40,000 taels of silver a day, which was converted into the current RMB, that is, Cixi's daily living expenses were as high as 8 million yuan!

It's very, very, very luxurious, if Cixi's daily living expenses are as high as millions of yuan now.

Cixi's life was indeed extravagant, but this was not the main reason for her to be spurned, mainly because she caused the decline of the country.

The life of the Empress Dowager Cixi is really extravagant. If it doesn't affect the country, it's nothing if you have money and you spend your own money, but this greedy woman actually ordered Li Hongzhang to embezzle military spending.

Cixi has her own special wardrobe, and every day she bathes with milk and flower petals, and it is normal for one person to be in power and extravagant.

There can only be one word to describe it, and that is power, and it is because of the supreme right that such a luxurious situation has been created.

Cixi loves luxury, and people also miss their home, so they take all the baht and use it like mud and sand. So that the pillars of the negative building are more than the farmers of the south acre, the rafters of the beams, more than the palace maids on the plane, and the phosphorus of the nail head is more than the millet grains in the rest. The tile seams are uneven, more than the silk around the body.

The imperial food of the Qing Dynasty, the most clear memory is that there are 108 Manchu and Han banquets, which can not be described as luxurious. As for Pu Yi saying that it is not delicious, there may be two reasons, the first point is that Pu Yi has been pampered since he was a child, and he does not know the blessing in the blessing; The second point is that it may be that the Qing Dynasty was already unable to make ends meet at that time, and there were no conditions for him to be extravagant.

The imperial meal is naturally Manchu and Han, and there are a lot of banquets, and there is everything. Because there were too many dishes every time, the emperor could only eat two bites, and when the emperor ate it, it was cold, so he said it was not delicious.

In order to be able to deliver the imperial meal immediately when the emperor wants to eat, it will be prepared in advance. When the emperor wants to eat it, it will be reheated and sent, and if it is heated repeatedly, it will definitely not be delicious.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were many shady scenes in the imperial dining room, and people who worked in the imperial dining room often ate secretly.

This role is not easy to play, and if you don't get it right, you may lose your head, after all, it is really possible that the food they cook will be poisoned, or they may be poisoned.

The Imperial Dining Room is actually very dark, and someone may poison it.

Emperor Guangxu's daily egg ** was four, and the ** given to the emperor by the Internal Affairs Office turned out to be thirty-four taels of silver.

The emperor's table is actually very wasteful, every meal is very grand, in fact, there are some dishes, the emperor has not even moved.

In the Imperial Palace, it was a fat errand to be in the imperial dining room. Because you can eat a lot of delicacies from the mountains and seas on an errand in the imperial dining room.

Because Cixi is very strict about her own life, she has her own small kitchen.

She set up a private kitchen for herself and hired a number of cooks to serve her.

I opened a private kitchen and found a lot of chefs to come there.

She opened a private kitchen for herself, called the Western Dining Room with a large number of people.

She opened her own private kitchen and chose a lot of chefs.

Is the "imperial meal" of the Qing Dynasty really still eaten? It turns out that the emperor's "eating" is not as good as ours!