We all know that during the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong was a Ming Emperor, but he made a mistake in his later years, and he did not repent and let the other party laugh off his teeth, so what did the Qianlong Emperor do?
In his early years, Qianlong cared for the people, reformed and developed, reduced the burden of the people, the country was peaceful, and externally, he quelled rebellions everywhere and expanded the territory of China, but in his later years, chaos began to appear frequently throughout the country, uprisings broke out, and he continued his father Yongzheng's policy of closing the country to the outside world, causing China to begin to lag behind other countries.
In 1792, British emissaries came to China with a British team to establish equal diplomatic relations with the Qing Dynasty, and hoped that the Qing Dynasty could adjust British trade. Before coming, the British emissaries also took great pains to select many gifts. He knew that China did not have machines, so he prepared steam engines, looms, cotton spinning machines, and also knew that Chinese astronomy was very powerful, so he prepared Britain's most advanced globe, the celestial orbiter, and drew the navigation route.
However, the British envoy did not expect that the equal transaction he expected would end in failure, and when he first arrived in China, Qianlong asked the British envoy to kneel, and affixed the gifts prepared by the British to the word tribute. Before leaving, the British emissaries expressed to Qianlong their hope that the two countries could do business, but Qianlong rejected them all, saying that the Qing Dynasty did not need the British gadgets, and also wrote a holy decree to the British king.
The meaning of the Holy Will is also simple: you gadgets are not valuable to the Qing Dynasty, but I am very touched by the fact that you have worked tirelessly to stand up, so I will let the next people receive the gifts. Since then, these precious inventions have indeed been sent to the warehouse to eat ash.