Kangqian Shengshi Kangxi saved 8 million taels of silver, and Yongzheng saved 60 million taels, so how much did Qianlong save?
Since ancient times, Chinese has had an extraordinary pursuit of the "Prince of the Holy Ming", and in the pre-Qin period, it put forward an unprecedented vision of the "beautiful society". And this ''beautiful society'' is 'the 'cosmopolitan world under the rule of the Holy King'" However, in the actual history, the "Holy King" is not only unattainable, but even the "Great Harmony World" after that is only an idea. Eventually, the ancients were very pragmatic and began to pursue the "prosperous world under the rule of the Ming Emperor".
In Chinese history, basically every great unified dynasty will have a prosperous era, and its standard is roughly the prosperity of the national economy, the stability and tranquility of the domestic situation, the people's lives have also been significantly improved, and not only all the countries have come to congratulate, but also militarily able to resist the invasion of the nomadic peoples in the north, even if there is no territory, it can still be called a generation of prosperity. Most of these prosperous times have left a very glorious mark in China's history.
In the history of the Qing Dynasty, there is a prosperous scene called "Kangqian's prosperous world", and it was the three most important emperors of the Qing Dynasty who created this prosperous era: Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, and during this period, China's feudal system also reached the highest point in history, becoming the peak of the development of China's imperial power, which was called by later scholars: the master of the ancient monarchical centralization system.
The Kangqian dynasty of the Qing Dynasty lasted for more than 130 years, of which the Kangxi Emperor reigned for 61 years, first of all, he worshiped and pingsan domains, and launched a series of border wars, and finally took the power of the entire country firmly in his own hands. Subsequently, it began to recuperate and develop the economy. Although during the reign of kangxi, the Qing Dynasty experienced various wars, consumed a lot of money, and also spent a lot of financial and material resources in the next six lower Jiangnan, but still for the successor, the Yongzheng Emperor, accumulated 8 million taels of silver.
As Kangxi's successor, the Yongzheng Emperor, it was even more difficult. In government affairs, Yongzheng's diligence can surpass that of the Chinese emperors, in order to approve the recital, Yongzheng basically only rested for more than 4 hours a day, and the rest of the time was arranged by him at work. Moreover, during the reign of The Yongzheng Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty actively reformed the tax system and the salary system for officials, the purpose of which was to greatly stimulate the production efficiency of officials and the people. Therefore, as one of the three emperors of the Kangqian dynasty, Yongzheng died early after only 13 years on the throne, but under Yongzheng's vigorous rule, he saved 60 million taels of silver for his successor, the Qianlong Emperor.
So as the last emperor of the Kangqian dynasty, Qianlong, how much wealth did a successor accumulate? We all know that in history, Qianlong was an emperor who liked to boast of his merits very much, and he reigned for a year less than his grandfather Kangxi, but the wealth he accumulated was really unbelievable. After Qianlong abdicated and Jiaqing succeeded to the throne, he was surprised when inspecting the national treasury, and it turned out that after the Treasury passed through the Qianlong Dynasty, the money and wealth were basically squandered, and even owed a lot of debts, and finally it was because of the raid on Hezhen's mansion that it filled in nearly 1 billion taels of silver, perhaps, this can also be regarded as the wealth that Qianlong indirectly accumulated for his successor.