He is the emperor who is the tightest in wearing a dress in ten years.

Emperors, a special group, sit in the splendor of the world, cross the land of emperors and look down on all beings proudly.

However, there was an emperor who advocated thrift and practiced it all his life. He is the Daoguang who has been in power for 30 years.

Daoguang was a mediocre and conservative emperor. He wanted to ban smoking, but it led to the Opium War. He didn't dare to deal with the British, which embarrassed China, really made him helpless, and also made the Great Qing Dynasty helpless.

There is no doubt that Daoguang was the most thrifty of the Qing emperors 12. Even if you look at the emperors in history, his frugality consciousness is the strongest. However, his frugality has become a historical joke because of his high position, corruption and extravagance, empty treasury and ignorance of national conditions and public opinion.

So how frugal is he?

Unlike some thrifty emperors who only preach truth and propaganda on the surface, Daoguang really advocates thrift. It is said that clothes have to be washed three times before they are changed. Dress lightly, not only do not pursue beauty, but even advocate continuing to wear rags after repair.

He asked the harem to wear old clothes like the previous dynasty, and the robes were patched. He will be unhappy when he sees which minister wears new clothes, and the minister who wears old clothes will be praised by him.

For a time, wearing old clothes became the new "fashion". Ministers and young masters always look for old clothes to wear, deliberately wear new clothes, or directly exchange new clothes for old clothes, resulting in the price of old clothes in Beijing far exceeding new clothes, which makes people laugh and cry.

Daoguang and Daoguang's "meal" are extremely simple, just like ordinary people.

Every afternoon around 4 pm, eunuchs are sent out of the palace to buy sesame cakes. He knows that things in the palace are expensive. Because of the long journey out of the palace, and there was no official car at that time, the eunuchs could only trot back and forth.

However, if you go out by car to the palace to buy sesame cakes, so that "tofu becomes a meat price", it will be even more uneconomical. After the eunuch bought the baked wheat cake, he held it in his arms, but it was too far away. It was hard and cold when the sesame seed cake was served with the lighted "dining table".

However, Daoguang did not complain. He and the queen drank a pot of hot tea, ate four dishes, chewed sesame seeds and went to bed without lighting the lamp. This is a standard low-carbon life without wasting any energy.

Daoguang is not only frugal, but also pays special attention to his own will. Brother Dao left four wills before his death. Simply put:

First, he is not worthy of heaven after his death, that is, don't dedicate his god card to the royal treasure house of the Temple of Heaven and the palace;

Second, after his death, his memorial tablet will not rise to the ancestral hall. But it can be promoted to Fengxian Hall, and its portrait can be hung to Shouhuang Hall and Anyou Palace.

3. After his death, don't erect a monument for him in the south of Wukong Bridge, his mausoleum;

After his death, only a few clothes he wore before his death were enshrined in the storeroom of the four deacons in the palace to show frugality and commemoration. There is no need to keep some unusual inkstones and ink in Ziming Bell Tower for a long time.

It is a sad thing for the emperor to do so. Daoguang tried to change the whole social atmosphere with his personal frugality, but only added some jokes.

He didn't and can't change the pattern of luxury and corruption in that era.