The righteousness of the country, the expansion of the land, the universality of submission, and the security of the people, although it is not a big dang, can be described as a well-off. ——Qianlong", "Ancient Rare Sayings"
In our country, if the descendants do not learn well, the elders will hate iron and steel and scold their defeated sons, and there are still many emperors of the defeated families in the history of our country, who have squandered all the merits of their fathers: Qin II Hu Hai reigned for only 3 years, and he destroyed the Jiangshan laid down by the first emperor of the qin dynasty, so that the dream of qin shi huang for thousands of years became an illusion; during the reign of the Sui Emperor, he built a lot of civil engineering, successively created a lot of major projects that cost the people and money, and defeated the family foundation left by the Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jiankai.
Up to now, many people think that Qianlong, the last emperor of the Kangqian Dynasty, was also a second-generation emperor, because according to the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty", Qianlong was the emperor with the most palaces in the entire history of the Qing Dynasty, for example, the Shufangzhai that appeared in the "Huan Zhu GeGe" was expanded shortly after Qianlong succeeded to the throne, and part of the Chonghua Palace was expanded for himself and the imperial family; many summer resorts in Hebei and northeast China began to be built or expanded during the Qianlong period.
Qianlong was not only more covetous of enjoyment, but also a famous emperor who paid attention to pomp and circumstance. Both Kangxi and Qianlong had visited Jiangnan many times, but the main purpose of Kangxi's visit to Jiangnan was to maintain stability, and when Kangxi reigned, the Qing Dynasty had just begun to take off, and there were still many voices of opposition in the country, and the Yu Party of the former dynasty had not been purged, so Kangxi needed to go to various places to personally investigate and formulate corresponding plans, and did not bring any honor guards. The purpose of Qianlong's descent down to Jiangnan is probably more to show his merits by the way, and it costs a lot of money every time he goes down to Jiangnan.
From the perspective of national treasury silver, we can also glimpse one or two, Kangxi succeeded to the throne at an early age (14 years old), his father was the Shunzhi Emperor who led the Manchu iron horse to attack the Ming Dynasty, but the Shunzhi Emperor was a "rough man" who only knew how to fight the world and did not know how to rule the world, so what was left for Kangxi was almost a chaotic mess that had been through war for a long time. Moreover, at that time, there were still such powerful ministers in the Qing Dynasty. However, in such a situation, Kangxi successfully introduced the Qing Dynasty into the right track and opened a prosperous era, only because of the suppression of the rebellion and the conquest of Tsarist Russia, when the Qing Dynasty treasury was relatively empty, only about 8 million taels of silver.
Among the outstanding emperors in China's past, Yongzheng's talent can only be regarded as middle and upper, but Yongzheng is the most diligent emperor in china's history. Yongzheng hoped that he could govern the country in an orderly manner like his father Kangxi, but he felt that there was indeed a big gap between his ability and his father, so he made the concept of "diligence before the world". In order to develop the economy, Yongzheng also set up many systems to target corrupt officials in China. Yongzheng reigned for only 13 years, but he also consolidated the achievements left by his father, leaving 20 million taels of silver for Qianlong.
And Qianlong reigned for 60 years, how much did he leave for Jiaqing? It may be very strange to say that when Jiaqing succeeded to the throne, the national treasury was only 19 million, which was even less than when Qianlong ascended the throne, and historians analyzed that it may also be because it was too poor, Jiaqing would act on Jiaqing during the mourning period, and some people believe that Hezhen was the "national treasury" left by Qianlong to Jiaqing, after all, the 800 million taels of silver copied from the Hezhen family were more than the 15 years of fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty at that time.