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In other words, most friends are not unfamiliar with the history of the Manchu Qing, especially at the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that the Chinese nation once became the laughing stock of the whole world, but then again, the 200 years of Manchu rule did give birth to several Ming emperors, the most prominent of which were the Kangxi Emperor and the Yongzheng Emperor.
As for Qianlong, he is the initiator of the decline of the Chinese nation, and it was from his rule that the Manchu Qing Dynasty gradually fell behind the world until it completely declined. The following small editor will give you a brief introduction to the three emperors of Kang, Yong and Qian.
In the early days of the Reign of the Kangxi Emperor, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not really sitting firmly, there was a threat from Wu Sangui in the south, and there was an internal problem within the imperial court, although Kangxi was an emperor, he was really depressed. However, the Kangxi Emperor was very tolerant, for many years, until the forces secretly cultivated directly eliminated Aobai.
Later, Wu Sangui began to rebel, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was crumbling, many nobles who were greedy and afraid of death did not see well, in order to protect their glory and wealth, they clamored to return to their hometown in the northeast to run away, and the Kangxi Emperor was helpless to see the decaying Eight Banner Soldiers.
In the end, Kangxi decided to reuse the Han people and began to form a "green camp" dominated by han chinese, and finally relied on the green camp to defeat Wu Sangui, and Kangxi at this time was a real emperor!
It is precisely for this reason that the Manchu Qing dynasty also changed from a simple Manchu aristocratic form to a social form in which manchu nobles and Han scholars jointly ruled the world, and the country began to become rich and strong, until the death of Kangxi, its legacy was 27.16 million taels of silver.
It can be said that Yongzheng was really hard-won to get this throne, and the first thing Yongzheng did after becoming emperor was to completely eliminate his brothers.
Those who had sought the throne with themselves were killed, and even if they were not killed, they were exiled thousands of miles away. It can be said that the Yongzheng Emperor was definitely a cruel man. He reused Nian Qianyao to kill the rebel forces in various places, and later unloaded and killed donkeys and executed Nian Qianyao, and it was precisely because of the decisiveness of the killing that the Yongzheng Emperor really firmly held the power in his own hands.
His seat was stable, Yongzheng began to think about how to get more money, so he invented the system of letting the gentry pay taxes and pay grain together, in order to implement the system, he killed a lot of people, although many people were killed, but the final effect was very effective, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty reached its peak in the hands of the Yongzheng Emperor!
After Yongzheng's death, the amount of silver in the Manchu Qing Dynasty reached 34.53 million taels, and it can be said that he left a lot of inheritance to his son. However, when this money reached Qianlong's hands, he actually "destroyed" all this, and even ruined the last chance of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!
The Yongzheng Emperor died and Qianlong successfully succeeded to the throne, it is reasonable to say that the foundation left by the ancestors is great, the qianlong emperor's beginning is the best, and the life of the reign period should be quite good, and later it has been proved that Qianlong's life was indeed well fed and drunk, but the premise of the chic was to squander the old books accumulated by the Second Emperor of Kang and Yong.
Qianlong's style was that he never knew what "frugality" was, and after he succeeded to the throne, he used troops several times to the outside world, but when he fought back and forth, he found that he had hardly won several battles, and spent countless financial and material resources.
Although in the end it was declared that the foreign enemy was defeated, it was only by relying on strong national strength that the foreign enemy was dragged down; as we all know, what is fought in the war is wealth, which is really "burning money." Everyone thinks about how much Money Qianlong lost again.
Not only that, in addition to fighting wars, Qianlong also liked to travel everywhere. He has been to Jiangnan six times, using countless manpower, material and financial resources, and every trip will have tens of thousands of followers, and the people who serve along the way have been used by the authorities to use millions of laborers.
It was in this kind of luxury that Qianlong had been enjoying his old age, and finally one day, Qianlong realized that he had personally destroyed the family foundation left by the Kangxi Emperor and the Yongzheng Emperor.
It was not until 1796 that Qianlong officially decided to abdicate and passed the throne to his son Jiaqing, but Qianlong was different from Kangxi Yongzheng who left a treasury full of gold bowls for his descendants, and the treasury he left for Jiaqing was an empty treasury.
It was also in such a big environment that Qianlong slipped away, and he pinned his hopes on his son, but Jiaqing was also a straw bag, and he was helpless in the face of this situation.
Although after Qianlong's death, he directly raided Hezhen's home and got some money, but he was soon squandered by Jiaqing, and it had reached this point in the Manchu Qing, and its end was already doomed, and its demise was only a matter of time.
References for this article: "History of the Qing Dynasty", "Kang Yongqian", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, How the Manchu Qing Dynasty Turned from Prosperity to Decline"