Why can Kang Youwei stay in a luxury hotel and have a big meal when he is in exile?

When Kang Youwei was in exile, he could stay in a luxury hotel and have a big meal. The reason is that Kang Youwei used overseas Chinese donations to invest in real estate for profit. Once he has money, life will certainly become extravagant. This is actually human nature. However, although his source of funds is his own investment, it is immoral to invest with funds donated by others.

Kang Youwei fled to Japan by boat after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, hoping to restore Emperor Guangxu with the help of the Japanese government. Although Cixi gave the order to kill Kang Youwei, the western powers did not buy Cixi's account, so Kang Youwei traveled around the world. As a red man around Emperor Guangxu, Kang Youwei publicized his own imperial edict. The general content is to order Kang Youwei to raise funds abroad, organize manpower, and accumulate strength for restoring imperial power. Western powers and overseas Chinese have donated money to Kang Youwei, which is the source of Kang Youwei's huge funds.

In the 25th year of Guangxu, the Qing government made representations to Japan, forbidding Kang Youwei to stay in Japan, and asked the Japanese government to extradite Kang Youwei to China. The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't want to offend Empress Dowager Cixi or Emperor Guangxu, so it presented Kang Youwei with a huge sum of money to let Kang Youwei cross the ocean and come to Canada. With the support of the Japanese government, Kang Youwei saw the possibility of raising funds, so he set up a royalist society in Canada, also known as the China Reform Association. Western powers and overseas Chinese have invested a lot of money in Kang Youwei's royalist society, making Kang Youwei a millionaire and living a very comfortable life.

Although Kang Youwei has made his own contribution to China, which can be said to have promoted the process of reform, it is also true that he lives in luxury and the problem of men and women is quite complicated. It can be said that it is equal to merit.