There were 12 emperors in the Qing Dynasty, and almost everyone in the Qing Palace drama made the peach-colored scandals of these 12 emperors clear. However, for the ability of the Qing Emperor to govern the country, I am afraid that everyone will not know. The most powerful blow in history is the "Kangqian Prosperous Era", but in fact, the Kangqian Prosperous Era can only be said to be unsatisfactory, and the governing ability of Kangxi and Qianlong is also average, in fact, the emperor with the strongest governance ability of the Qing Dynasty is the person between Kangxi and Qianlong - Yongzheng.
This can be seen in their respective fiscal surpluses after their deaths. After Kangxi's death, he only left 8 million taels for Yongzheng's treasury, while Yongzheng left 20 million taels for Qianlong, how much did Qianlong leave for Jiaqing? It may be hard for you to imagine saying it.
During the reign of Kangxi, the Qing Dynasty was still in turmoil, fighting against the Southern Ming on the one hand, and Gordan in Mongolia on the other, and the Russians began to invade Siberia. In the midst of the chaos, Kangxi basically pacified the southern Ming forces, and then spent a huge price to conquer the Geldan ministry, last night these two things, the Qing Dynasty, which originally had no money in the treasury, was even poorer.
However, the Russians sent an army of 800 people to suppress the border, and Kangxi had to send people to meet the battle, and finally reached an agreement with the Russians with hundreds of thousands of troops, ceding part of the territory in exchange for the tranquility of the frontier. However, successive years of conquest also made the country at that time too poor to open the pot, many people at that time were on the verge of starvation, in order to avoid the mistakes of the Chongzhen Emperor, Kangxi repeatedly ordered tax reductions, so that the empty treasury was even more empty.
When Yongzheng accepted it, the qing dynasty's treasury was 8 million taels, and it was inconvenient to do anything. Immediately after Yongzheng came to power, he began a series of reforms, the first of which was to reform the administration of officials. When the Qing Dynasty was fighting with the Southern Ming Dynasty, in order to win the support of the officials of the Wall-Riding Faction, they chose to indulge the officials to embezzle, because with corruption, everyone was willing to follow the Qing Dynasty with all their hearts. But because of this, the officials in the early Qing Dynasty were particularly poor, known as "three years of Qing prefects, 100,000 snowflakes of silver".
Although Yongzheng was a prince, he was appointed to work in other places since he was a child, so he was very familiar with the behavior of these officials taking money privately, and some officials could top the financial revenue of the Qing Dynasty for several months after a sum of blackmail, if this atmosphere did not kill and kill, then what else would the Qing Dynasty take to maintain it? Therefore, Yongzheng proposed reforms to the rule of officials, which changed the atmosphere of corruption to a certain extent.
At the same time, he encouraged officials to be proactive and opposed to officials being obedient, and he clearly opposed Kangxi's proposal that "more is better than less", which he considered to be very short-sighted (insightful), and he advocated that officials should "deliberately search" for things within their duties, so when he was in office, the officials of the Qing Dynasty were still more careful, of course, this is also related to his harsh character, if not done well, it is possible to lose their heads. It is precisely because of Yongzheng's efforts that he has regained the decline of his father's rule in one fell swoop, making Daqing feel prosperous again.
By the time the world reached the hands of his son Qianlong, there were 20 million taels in the treasury of the Qing Dynasty. This is a huge fortune, so Qianlong has no pressure. Qianlong, on the other hand, has a very high opinion of himself, and always compares himself with his grandfather (disdainful of comparing himself with his father), because his grandfather praised him when he was very young. It is precisely because of this that when Qianlong ruled the country, he was always financially extravagant, and the trend of corruption once again swept the official arena.
In order to satisfy his own desires, Qianlong went down to Jiangnan several times, each time on a huge scale, tens of thousands of people's entourage filled the streets, and the luxurious palace stunned the people along the way, but this also cost money. By the time Qianlong handed over the treasury to Jiaqing, there was no money at all.
Fortunately, Qianlong left a hezhen for Jiaqing, and after being raided by Jiaqing, he got back 800 million taels of silver in one fell swoop. I don't know if this is qianlong's backhand left in advance, if it is, then he is too powerful!