From Qin Shi Huang's unification of the Land of China to the Qing government's announcement of abdication, the feudal system continued in China for thousands of years, and in the long history, many emperors appeared. The kings of all dynasties, when the country is destroyed, their fate will be relatively bleak, but there are also some imperial courts that will give preferential treatment to the former monarchs, such as Cao Cao controlled Emperor Xian of Han and laid the foundation of Cao Wei, his son Cao Pi openly claimed the title of emperor and drove Emperor Xian of Han off the dragon chair, but he did not kill him completely, but allowed Emperor Xian of Han to continue to enjoy glory and wealth.
By the time of the Tang Dynasty, China's national strength was unprecedentedly strong, but the richest imperial court was the Northern Song Dynasty, according to relevant information, the financial revenue of the Northern Song Dynasty during the Song Huizong period was about 160 million copper coins, equivalent to about three times that of the Tang Dynasty. By the time of the Qing Dynasty, the fiscal revenue even reached 85 million taels of silver. Such data, throughout history, is relatively rare. However, after the Qianlong Emperor, the Qing Emperor was inferior to a generation, and finally collapsed completely because of the Xinhai Revolution, and announced his abdication to the outside world. So after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, how much silver is left in the national treasury? After the Beiyang warlord ran to the capital to open the gate, the smiles on the faces of the people completely froze, and there were only 10 silver dollars in the treasury at that time, which can be said to be pitiful.
At that time, many people thought that it was probably the royal family members of the Qing Dynasty who transferred the materials in advance, because although the Qing Dynasty declined in its later years, there were still a lot of funds, such as when Empress Dowager Cixi was in power, just to hold a 60th birthday, it tossed the whole capital again, and when she died, she also built an extremely luxurious mausoleum, costing millions of taels.
All in all, the Qing government at that time was indeed extravagant, they must have hidden a lot of money, but this money has not been taken out publicly, Emperor Puyi in his book "The First Half of My Life" proposed that his relatives have always been unwilling to die for the restoration, always secretly take out some jewelry to fund those military generals who are willing to help them carry out restoration activities. However, the behavior of these people was destined to be a bamboo basket to hit the water, at that time China had carried out ideological reforms, everyone did not have hope for the feudal dynasty, and few people were willing to support the restoration of the feudal emperor. Emperor Puyi tossed and turned for so many years, and he did not realize this wish.