Cixi's personal life has always been luxurious, and every meal has to be served with more than 100 dishes, which can be regarded as delicacies. She can't finish so many dishes by herself. What's more, she only eats a few mouthfuls of each dish, and the dishes she can't finish are thrown out or rewarded to the maid-in-waiting eunuchs below.
All the year round, big fish and big meat, velvet antler and monkey brain eat like this, no one's stomach can stand it, so Cixi slowly got stomach trouble, and her stomach was uncomfortable, so she pulled after eating. The cooks in the harem tried their best to make all kinds of soup for nourishing the stomach, and Cixi expressed dissatisfaction. Finally, once a chef cooked a particularly delicious and nutritious soup. After Cixi drank it, her stomach was no longer uncomfortable, so she happily gave the cook a lot of treasures.
This soup is mutton soup made by the cook, and Cixi drank it for ten years. Later, when the cook was old, he was ready to resign and retire to his hometown. Before leaving, Cixi summoned him and asked him the formula of the soup. The cook told her truthfully that the soup was made with sheep soaked in water. It is a fact that he was killed.
It seems that Cixi is not only selfish and extravagant, but also particularly cruel. Just because the material of the soup didn't satisfy her, she executed a chef who had cooked soup for him for ten years. Besides, what can be used to make mutton soup without sheep in the water? Perhaps in the eyes of the Queen Mother, only delicacies and delicacies can make treasures worthy of her precious body. It is really the sorrow of the Qing dynasty to have such a witch who has brought disaster to the country and the people.