In 1722, the Kangxi Emperor died, the Yongzheng Emperor took the throne, there were 27.16 million taels left in the treasury, the Yongzheng Emperor saw that all parts of the country and all aspects needed appropriations, worried that he could only work diligently in government affairs every day, and ranked "making money" first, in 1735, the Yongzheng Emperor died, the Qianlong Emperor took the throne, and there were 34.53 million left in the treasury.
That is to say, Yongzheng reigned for 13 years, excluding those that had been spent, there were 7.37 million taels more in the national treasury than before, and the people were gradually getting richer, and the Qianlong Emperor reigned for 60 years, and he also served as the Emperor Taishang for 3 years and 4 months, so how much Qianlong left for Jiaqing?
In 1735, the Yongzheng Emperor died, and the 24-year-old Hongli took the throne as the Qianlong Emperor. The greatest achievement during his reign was that the Qing Dynasty reached the highest peak since the heyday of Kangqian, he had five times exempted the world's money and grain, three times exempted eight provinces of grain, the Qing Dynasty treasury was also increasingly full, and the treasury remained above 60 million taels for a long time.
In the forty-second year of Qianlong (1777), the fiscal revenue reached the highest point of 81824044 two, and the land area that had been reclaimed in the country reached 780 million mu, and by the sixtieth year of Qianlong (1795), the total population of the country reached nearly 300 million people.
In addition, during the Qianlong period, the territory of the Qing Dynasty reached its maximum, and the territory of modern China was thus laid, during the Qianlong period, there were not many countries that paid tribute to the Qing Dynasty, but the next step of the extreme prosperity was often faced with "extreme decline", and after the Qianlong Emperor reached middle age, the attitude of governing the country changed, especially with a he who flattered him.
Qianlong not only built a large number of civil engineering, built the Yuanmingyuan, etc., but also went down to Jiangnan six times, the extravagance of extravagance, the eightieth birthday of the empress dowager and the eightieth birthday of Qianlong, were held very extravagantly, the natural people who paid the bills were the people, and the corruption of the Qing court gradually emerged, and He Yan was its representative, and by the late Qianlong period, the Qing court had reached a very decadent point, so that the ideas of the later generations of Qing emperors to try to save it were useless.
And after Qianlong, the Qing Dynasty implemented a comprehensive closure of the country, when the foreign industry was vigorously carrying out the industrial revolution, Qianlong was still intoxicated in the dream of "the land is big and the things are vast", and the Qianlong Emperor was unwilling to give up power until he died during his reign as Emperor Taishang, and the Jiaqing Emperor had to stand carefully aside, and the status of Hezhen was higher than that of the Jiaqing Emperor.
In 1799, the Qianlong Emperor died, the Jiaqing Emperor had real power, first of all, he gave death to He yan, and more than 1 billion silver was found from the Hezhen family, but the Jiaqing Emperor was still very tight, because he wanted to clean up the mess of the Qianlong Emperor.
The people everywhere rioted continuously, needed to be appeased, and just to suppress the White Lotus Sect uprising, it cost 200 million yuan of military expenses, and it was also necessary to control the river, and more than 40 million taels were allocated for the South River Project, but the decay of the Qing court did not necessarily improve.