It is said that when Empress Dowager Cixi was buried, pearls, agates and other artifacts were not among them, and only small jewelry worth millions was used to make up for the vacancy in the coffin. At that time, the finance in the late Qing Dynasty was only $70 million. It can be seen that she brought most of the silver and gold and silver treasures from all over the country into her grave.
It is worth mentioning that Cixi is also very selfish. In fact, the silver in the late Qing Dynasty was not overwhelming. But because she has few hobbies, luxury and loves silver ornaments, a lot of silver has been melted by her and made into gold and silver ornaments. Therefore, the decline of silver should be partly related to Empress Dowager Cixi. Not only the Empress Dowager Cixi, but also the kings, princes and royal families in China all wasted a lot of money during burial. So, there are more than 300 emperors in China, and more than half of the money will be buried with them. Unless some silverware is to be unearthed under the influence of archaeological discoveries and civil strife, there should be a lot of silverware buried underground and little known.
A large number of silver losses in the late Qing Dynasty were caused by easy land acquisition and compensation. In the late Qing Dynasty, because of the cession of land, a large amount of silver was lost overseas and could not be recovered. It was difficult for foreign countries to cherish the value of silver in ancient times, and most of the silver was melted when it was paid. According to incomplete statistics, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court lost 65.438 billion taels of silver.
During the Republic of China, the price of silver rose, and many financial institutions used silver dollar as a common lending currency. However, due to the excessive increase in the price of silver, China's economic development, which had been slightly eased, once again fell into a downturn. A large amount of China silver returned to the old road in the form of silver coins and was exported abroad.
So much silver does great harm not only to social development, but also to silver culture and art in China. Since then, in order to issue currency, the United States bought silver cheaply from many countries, including China, adding fuel to the fire in the silver sales market in China, which led to the gradual withdrawal of silver from the commercial history of China.
What's under the Forbidden City? Because it was found that the area covered with three-layer floor tiles was located in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, which was the area where the emperor held various important court ceremonies, experts suspected that it might be for safety reasons. When building the Forbidden City, Ming Chengzu ordered craftsmen to lay more double-layer floor tiles. Some experts also pointed out that Ming Chengzu seized the throne according to his fighting capacity, which annoyed many people, especially Emperor Wen Jian, whose whereabouts are still unknown. The man was afraid that these enemies would ambush him and assassinate him by digging holes in the ground to get back at him.
So it is thought that people have laid more double-layer floor tiles. Views seem more likely. After all, in order to protect himself, Ming Chengzu specially instructed craftsmen to widen the ancient city wall of the Forbidden City to 10 meter, and a 52-meter-wide ring river was surrounded outside. After being demolished by 3D technology, it can be seen that the palace wall is made of solid rammed earth, and three layers of giant bricks of Ming Dynasty are added outside, which are so strong that it is almost impossible to go through the wall.
In order to save the palace wall from corrosion, a seamless and closely connected drainage device was built under the palace wall. The internal structure is wonderful and complicated, which can be said to be foolproof. However, after scientific research, experts found that the construction technology of the three-layer floor tile is different, which is actually a "three-layer" soil structure, belonging to the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties respectively, and the bottom floor tile was laid in the Qing Dynasty. The experts suddenly woke up from their dreams, and it turned out that this was the remains of the Yuan Palace they had worked so hard to find!