What did Cixi say when the light bulb was first installed in the palace of the Qing Dynasty, which made the foreigners nearby laugh?

Empress Dowager Cixi was a veritable ruler of the Qing Dynasty and decided many military affairs at that time. At that time, Emperor Guangxu was not a real power emperor. However, such a powerful old lady had no idea about the development trend of China's world economy, military affairs, politics and science and technology, so that she made many jokes. When the light bulb was installed in the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty, the words of Empress Dowager Cixi made foreigners laugh at that time.

After Edison invented the electric light, the Qing government also bought these things from abroad. After installing lights and wires, the light bulb turned on after turning on the switch. Cixi was surprised that these things that looked like eggplant would glow. I said, "These eggplants will glow." The foreigner smiled after hearing this sentence. The people next to Empress Dowager Cixi quickly explained the knowledge of electric lights to her. What is even more surprising is that Cixi is deeply obsessed with this luminous object, which makes people spend a lot of money to install electric lights and other objects in the palace to decorate the huge palace.

In fact, the Qing government at that time was very strange to the external world at that time. This not only wastes manpower, material resources and financial resources, but also fails to apply these technologies to China, follow the trend and follow the trend. The great powers gradually deepened their economic and military aggression and political repression against China, which led to a far-reaching disaster in the vast China. On the other hand, Japan, a neighboring country at that time, was twisted into a rope in the Qing Dynasty, actively developed its own science and technology and industry, gradually embarked on the road of capitalist development and became stronger step by step. Unfortunately, however, the Japanese used these technologies to invade China, and their crimes can be said to be countless.