Although Cixi was the Empress Dowager Cixi, she was actually in power in the late Qing Dynasty. She has been listening to politics for many years, and the emperor is only her "pawn", but she does nothing politically, just enjoys life blindly, so her life can be said to be very luxurious. At that time, when the national treasury of the Qing government was in short supply and the national strength was weak, she still ignored the opposition of ministers to build the Yuanmingyuan and spent more than 200,000 yuan on clothes for herself on her birthday.
Why should she be buried for a year after her death? It's not the so-called revenge on her, but the items that Cixi wants to be buried with are too huge and too many, and some of them are still in the process of production. Her mausoleum has not been built yet, and she has to choose an auspicious day to be buried after her death, so the first class is one year.
Why does the road stink? It's not because the body is rotten and stinky, because her coffin is made of gold nanmu, and the body has been specially treated, so it doesn't stink. In fact, it is because there are too many funerary objects of Cixi, which need a lot of carts and horses to carry, and Ma Yiduo produces too much feces, which makes the road stink all the way.