The last dynasty of China is the Qing Dynasty, if from 1616 AD Nurhaci established after the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, to the end of 1912, a total of 296 years of Guozuo, from the Emperor Taiji to change the name of the country Qing, Guozuo 276 years, and the Qing army into the customs, the establishment of a national political power from 268 years, during which a total of 12 monarchs were inherited, the folk also have such a saying, that is, the three hundred years of the founding of the Qing Dynasty, no emperor is a emperor, is this really the case?
We can first look at the definition of Emperor Huan, which refers to the monarch who is dimwitted and does not pay attention to the government, the Jin Hui Emperor of the Jin Dynasty who "why not eat meat" is the Emperor of The Emperor, and Chen Shubao, the lord of Chen Hou who wrote "Flowers in the Backyard of the Yushu Tree" in the Chen Dynasty, is also the Emperor of Xia.
But people like the Sui Emperor and Qin Shi Huang are not counted, they can only be called tyrants, Yang Guangyinzheng also created a lot of merit for future generations, although they are brutal, but the IQ is online, this truth is also applied to the emperors of the Qing Dynasty. Nurhaci, Huang Taiji, and Shunzhi are certainly relatively enlightened, as the founding kings of the Qing Dynasty, they expanded their territory, attacked the city and plundered the land, very well peacefuled the interests of various ethnic groups, and maintained their own rule, and the successor Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, needless to say. Kangxi and Qianlong stabilized the form of the region very well, and many historians believe that Yongzheng was an important participant in the prosperous era of Kangqian, and it was he who reigned for thirteen years, politically clear, and Guotai Min'an laid a very thick foundation for Qianlong.
Is the next Jiaqing the Emperor? Isn't it true that when he came to power, he killed the corrupt officials and the corrupt officials and rectified the government, and the successor Daoguang was the Emperor of Darkness? No, he can be called the most diligent and thrifty emperor in the history of the Qing Dynasty and even China, he was reluctant to eat meat and vegetables at a meal, and the imperial clothes on his body were worn for several years, and they continued to be patched, so that the sinologist Guo Shili commented on Daoguang that he may not be an excellent emperor, but he can definitely become an excellent peasant woman.
The successor Xianfeng and Tongzhi Emperors, although their qualifications were mediocre, reused Han ministers and severely punished corruption during their reign, and the successor Guangxu was even more active in reform, hoping to change the plight of the current imperial court, these people, put into the past dynasty, are likely to be a generation of Ming emperors, or even the lord of Zhongxing. (Puyi is just a puppet and will not make an evaluation).) But the Qing Dynasty obviously did not have a single emperor, so why did it still decline?
Many historians today believe that the Qing Dynasty was the culprit that caused China to lag behind the West in modern times, and the most famous policy should belong to the closed country, and during the Shunzhi period, the coastal provinces "did not allow any sails into the sea". And before and after the promulgation of the ban on the sea and the order to move the sea, so that a large number of coastal residents were displaced, during the Kangxi Emperor, the advice of the ministers was adopted, "The rich people of the four seas, rather less silver and two, how to use traitors is heavy for the local tired." "The most important purpose of the sea ban was to cut off the supply of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty's Zheng Chenggong forces, but after the surrender of the Zheng clan in Taiwan to the Qing Dynasty, the sea ban was only briefly relaxed.
At this time, the West began to explore globalization, and Qianlong and others were not dimwitted, so how could they not perceive the advancement of Western technology? However, they still refused the request of the British envoy Malgani and others for large-scale trade, mainly because of the advanced technology of the West, which was likely to make the cavalry riding and shooting superiority that the Qing Dynasty relied on to rule the Central Plains disappear and threaten the central imperial power. The monarchs of the Qing Dynasty actually had a personality, it can be said that they were all exquisite egoists, who understood how to maximize the interests of their imperial court, and if it were not for foreigners forcibly knocking on the door of China, the Qing Dynasty would still be able to develop peacefully and stably for a period of time, but this was not a good thing for China, which was still in the feudal and ignorant agrarian society at that time.