As everyone knows, the "prosperous era of Kangqian" is a great prosperity in China's feudal history, and it was created by the joint efforts of Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong. However, after the prosperity of Kangqian, the Qing Dynasty quickly went into decay, and what was the reason for this? And when Qianlong died at the end of Kangqian's reign, how much money was left in the treasury of the Qing Dynasty?
First of all, we look at Kangxi, who reigned for sixty-one years, became emperor at the age of eight, and was wise enough to be wise enough to quell the rebellion in San Fan, confiscate all the enemy's economy, and send troops to garrison, which played an extremely important role in the later development of Guangxi and Yunnan.
And the issue of Taiwan was highlighted at that time, Zheng successfully went to the sea, and at that time he recovered Taiwan, but the descendants of later began the road of rebellion, and Kangxi of course knew the importance of this matter, and then sent troops to successfully recover Taiwan. Let Taiwan be controlled by the imperial court and develop Various undertakings in Taiwan. There was also a major event in which the first equality treaty was signed, when Tsarist Russia had been invading our country, and the Qing Dynasty fought a fierce war with it, repelling Tsarist Russia, and then signing a peace treaty.
Not only that, Kangxi created the Kangxi prosperous world, eliminated many problems, worked hard to govern, encouraged development, valued culture and agriculture, and established water conservancy projects that benefited the people, and developed very rapidly during the dynasty.
Although the imperial court was relatively corrupt in the later period of Kangxi, but can not deny his great achievements, after the death of Kangxi, Yongzheng sat on the dragon chair, according to statistics, at the end of kangxi 60 years, the national treasury silver reached 32.62 million taels, and in the following year the occurrence of various things decreased by about 5 million taels, at this time there were still 27.16 million taels.
Looking at Yongzheng again, because Kangxi set an example, Yongzheng was also very hard at that time, he worked harder to govern the country, and under his governance, all aspects of the country quickly improved. Moreover, he also seriously tackled the problem of corruption in the late Kangxi reign and achieved excellent results.
He also vigorously punished waste and demanded frugality, and then Yongzheng vigorously developed agriculture, which was a very prominent achievement at this time, and the national economy of course continued to improve. Because of this, during Yongzheng's reign, the country prospered and became strong.
Because of this, Yongzheng worked hard and thriftily, and at such a time, he accumulated more than 20%, and the literature recorded that it reached 34.53 million taels. At this time, Qianlong had already ascended the throne, and Qianlong of course saw the previous grand situation, and he also worked hard to be strong in the early days, worked hard to govern the country, worked hard for the country, and made a lot of achievements, and then after his conquest, he recovered Xinjiang.
At this point, three generations of emperors worked hard to govern the country and completed the great unification of China. The largest population, the land area is even 14.53 million square kilometers, these appeared in the Qianlong period, so later generations will create these three emperors together to create the grand situation called "Kangqian Shengshi", which is also the prosperity of the last feudal dynasty in ancient China.
There was nothing to criticize in the early days of Qianlong's reign, but the later Qianlong era did not maintain this wisdom, and he first launched a "word prison", lagging behind the development of culture. And in his later years, Qianlong had no intention of ruling the government and coveted pleasure, first spending huge sums of money to build the Yuanmingyuan, and then squandering the seven Jiangnan provinces.
Coupled with the emergence of Hezhen, corruption was further aggravated, resulting in an extreme deficit in the national treasury in the late Qianlong period. It has to be said that Qianlong's closure of the country and the hollowing out of the national treasury were important reasons for the demise of the Qing Dynasty. Later, when Jiaqing ascended the throne, the country's assets had already bottomed out.
Although it is said that Qianlong did a lot of wrong things in the later period, we cannot deny his achievements, because he not only attached importance to agriculture, but also attached importance to handicrafts and commerce, which made the development of coastal areas rapid, and the development of some ticket numbers and money houses in commerce also proved this. Moreover, when the treasury was in Qianlong for thirty years, it was more than the previous two emperors combined, amounting to about 70 million taels.
However, in the second 30 years of Qianlong's reign, the 70 million taels were all squandered by him. I have to say that the young Qianlong and the twilight Qianlong are completely sentenced to two people.