The minister of the Qing Dynasty ate two eggs for breakfast, but he was scolded by the emperor and drenched in blood, which directly confused the minister. This emperor is the famous thrifty emperor of the Qing Dynasty - Daoguang, no matter how much the emperor picks the door, as for the anger for two eggs? Don't worry, after reading the following words, you will understand Daoguang's distress.
After the death of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the next emperor can be described as a weasel giving birth to a mouse, and one generation is not as good as the next. Daoguang's stinginess is simply incredible. In addition to the queen mother in the palace, the emperor only eats vegetarian food every day, and even the queen's birthday, only a bowl of fried noodles is passed. The royal family is like this, and the people around the emperor are naturally not much better. There is no separation between food and clothing, and the food is so shabby, so it is naturally not much better in terms of wearing. Daoguang has created a new trend of dressing, that is, tangled wind, even if the dragon robe is torn, it must be patched. Seeing this, many people think that Daoguang is so economical, the country must be very rich, right? But the truth is quite the opposite, it can be said that the poorer the province, the poorer the country.
Take the emperor's clothes patched as an example, the emperor wore clothes and patched, and the ministers of the court and the central government followed suit, obviously new clothes, so they had to be old first, and then patched. Later, everyone felt that it was too troublesome to be old, so they simply bought second-hand clothes to fool the emperor, resulting in old clothes being twice as expensive as new clothes. Strangely, the tailors of the palace cost five taels of silver each time to mend the emperor's clothes, which was more expensive than buying new clothes. Seeing this, you wonder, how can this mended clothes be more expensive than new clothes? Yes, that's the problem. But there's more to it than that.
One day, Cao Zhenyong, the first assistant of the military aircraft, went to see Emperor Daoguang, and Daoguang asked him, have you eaten breakfast in Aiqing? What to eat? Cao Zhengyong replied that he had eaten two eggs in the morning. When Daoguang heard this, he was very angry, you actually ate two eggs. It turned out that the eggs that the Internal Affairs Office gave Daoguang to eat cost three taels of silver, one tael of silver is about 1,600 yuan now, and an egg is 5,000 yuan, Cao Zhengyong eats two eggs, isn't it more than 10,000 yuan, isn't this a luxury? But in fact, one or two pieces of silver outside the palace can buy hundreds of eggs, and if you buy rice, you can eat a family of three for more than half a year. Why are prices in the palace so expensive? There is no price bureau, and Daoguang is kept in the dark, so all the money saved by Daoguang is for these ** provinces. According to folk rumors, the 100,000 snowflakes of silver in the Qing Governor's Mansion in three years were spread in the Daoguang Dynasty.
Thrift is a virtue, but self-congratulatory thrift is not a good thing. What is needed to be an emperor is to make the whole country rich and the people to be healthy, not to be poor in the face of himself. The Qing Dynasty was also declining under the rule of Daoguang, and his fault was not corruption, nor was it poverty and luxury, but muddy and spinning in place. The common people were exploited by ** and their lives were worse than death, which also led to the outbreak of the Opium War and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, which lasted more than ten years.
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