Empress dowager cixi's life is very luxurious. She not only smells 500 apples every day, but also eats 20 eggs every day. She has to prepare 100 dishes with local characteristics for a meal, which cannot be repeated. Even if the temperature of the food is low, she will knock people down with a stick and eat in the cry of the next person.
Unexpectedly, Empress Dowager Cixi needs 100 servants to serve after getting up every day, standing in a row to serve Empress Dowager Cixi and combing her hair and changing clothes for Empress Dowager Cixi.
Later, corruption prevailed in the palace, and the servants of Empress Dowager Cixi also had bad ideas. Although Empress Dowager Cixi only eats 20 eggs a day, they will buy 500 eggs, which many people can't understand. What is the purpose of the remaining 480 eggs? In fact, Empress Dowager Cixi did not know about these 480 eggs. When people buy eggs for Empress Dowager Cixi, they buy 20 eggs into 500 eggs, and then secretly send 480 eggs to sell outside the palace to earn extra money.
However, this kind of behavior also has a nice name, which is "combining leniency with severity". Originally, the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked people to buy more for a rainy day, but they were used to seek personal gain under this banner. It can also be seen that the Qing government was very corrupt, which led to the prevalence of corruption, so that when Empress Dowager Cixi celebrated her sixtieth birthday, the state treasury could not produce 5,200 pieces of silver.