When Cixi fled, she only ate a chicken in Datong. Why do local officials spend 5200 silver?

It is said that this chicken eaten by Cixi is not an ordinary chicken, but a kind of chicken called Babao Yuji, which is fed with eight precious medicinal materials, so each chicken is valuable. And the chicken that Cixi ate, whether it was Yu Bazhen or not, was worth 5,200 yuan.

As we all know, the most famous woman in Qing Dynasty was Cixi. After all, a woman came to power from the harem, which is the only exception under the iron law that women in the harem of the Qing Dynasty are not allowed to interfere in politics. Besides, as soon as Cixi entered the power, she entered the power, and the Qing Dynasty was completely destroyed. It was difficult for her not to be famous.

She is more famous for her luxury during her reign, which makes Qianlong Imperial City, which has always been known as a local tyrant in the Qing Dynasty, feel a little ashamed. It is said that Cixi is extremely extravagant in her daily diet. Her meal is the money that ordinary people spend all their lives. Her birthday is a year's expense for beiyang fleet in the Qing Dynasty, and there are countless treasures buried with her, which are rich enough. In a word, Cixi is synonymous with luxury, but what she has used and eaten is not sky-high. She is sorry for the identity of Empress Dowager Cixi.

The road to escape of Cixi, who originally lived in the Forbidden City, is estimated to be so extravagant all her life. It's a pity that Eight-Nation Alliance hit the capital, and Cixi's good days had to be suspended. After that, Cixi, with Emperor Guangxu and numerous royal families, began a bitter life of fleeing to the West.

You know, the Qing Empire at that time was not only the ruined capital occupied by foreigners, but also the whole China was in dire straits. In other words, Cixi escaped from the capital, but only temporarily stayed away from the gunfire of foreigners, and the land on the way westward was ruthlessly exploited by western invaders and the Qing Empire. Not to mention prosperity, it would be nice to have a decent mansion to receive Cixi and her party, not to mention the luxury of Cixi's daily life.

So Cixi fled to the west, which was a mess. It is said that Cixi once passed through many remote areas, looking for A Qing officials to receive her. No one was found, and there was no food. A group of people were tired, hungry and caught in a heavy rain. The last few eunuchs found a hard steamed bun from nowhere and gave it to Cixi for enjoyment. Although this is a huge difference from Cixi's previous dietary standards, Cixi ate with relish and was very happy.

Jinfeng lay in the snow until Cixi fled to Datong and other places, and the standard of daily life gradually improved. After all, it is rare for Cixi to condescend to a small place, so that officials in these small places have a chance to show off. If she can make Cixi happy, maybe she will be promoted to a higher position and become a knight in the future, and develop all the way from now on. Qi Futian, the magistrate of Datong, was such an enlightened official, so people waited for the arrival of Cixi in the local area early and tried their best to please Cixi.

Of course, no matter what good things Qi Futian has prepared for Cixi, according to his ability to be a magistrate in a small place, Cixi's luxury in the Forbidden City will certainly not be achieved, but it is better than fleeing on the road of Cixi, suffering a lot, and the requirements for food and drink expenses have dropped a lot, which has made many officials see opportunities for performance. Qi Futian thought of entertaining Cixi with a famous local dish called Fengpawo.

In fact, it is a delicious dish made of chicken. This local dish is very famous because it is very delicious. When Qi Futian found a famous local restaurant and asked them to cook this dish for Cixi to enjoy, Qi Futian worried that ordinary chicken might not be able to eat it, so he asked the chef to use eight-treasure royal chicken as the material.

The so-called eight-treasure royal chicken is a chicken fattened with eight extremely precious ingredients such as velvet antler, ginseng, bird's nest and ganoderma lucidum. It is said that meat is delicious. Qi Futian thought that if Cixi ate the local famous dish "Babao Yuji", she would have a good time. After all, how can the best ingredients, with the best famous dishes, not be delicious? Unfortunately, Qi Futian is full of ideas, but the reality is very skinny.

The chef did give these precious ingredients to the local chickens as Qi Futian said, but I don't know what happened. These chickens were all dead, and the cook dared not look up to Futian to tell the truth, but he couldn't come up with the eight treasures of royal diced chicken that Qi Futian wanted, so he simply cooked this dish for Cixi with local chickens.

Of course, Qi Futian still moved his mind. Years of courtier career made him feel that the name of this dish was ironic to Cixi, so people had a brainwave and renamed it Jinfeng Woxue. It may be because the name of this dish satisfied Cixi, or it may be because Cixi was once hard to escape to the west. In short, she had a good time, and then Qi Futian really got the respect of Cixi, and her career was smooth.

The famous dish that Qi Futian gave to the restaurant was as high as 5,200 yuan. Of course, he paid according to the price of the eight-treasure royal chicken, but what he didn't know was that Cixi only ate a local native chicken, but because Cixi was happy to eat, the native chicken became the value of the eight-treasure royal chicken. It can be seen that it doesn't matter what kind of chicken Cixi eats. The important thing is that the chicken eaten by Cixi is worth 5200 silver.