The 134 years of Kangqian's prosperity were the richest time for the Qing Dynasty, and the people who lived for more than a hundred years were the happiest, with the treasury inventory maintained at 670 million taels of silver all year round, and the gross domestic product accounted for 1/3 of the world. As soon as people get rich, they want to have children, and Kangqian's prosperous life has achieved the first time that the Chinese mouth has exceeded 100 million, and it has also broken 300 million, achieving the status of a populous country in China.
After the prosperity of the pole will decline, after the prosperity of Kangqian, the Qing Dynasty began to slowly decline from Jiaqing, and in the Daoguang years, China's gate was opened by the Western powers in the Opium War in 1840, And China's dusty gate was like a Pandora's box, as soon as it was opened, poverty and death followed, a large amount of silver flowed out, land was cut, the streets were starving, the people were poor to sell their children and sell their daughters, if these were just text descriptions, you could not empathize, then look at the following real photos of the late Qing Dynasty, you can be immersed in the scene.
In 1901, the Qing government signed an unequal treaty with 11 countries, the Treaty of Xinugu, the Qing government needed to compensate 980 million silver to various countries, the Qing government at that time only had a fiscal revenue of 90 million silver a year, and the "Xinugi Treaty" alone required the Qing government to pay 10 years of blood.
This indemnity was apportioned to all provinces across the country, Jiangsu and Guangdong economically developed areas were apportioned to more than 2 million, and the economically impoverished Guizhou was apportioned to 200,000.
As an empress dowager, Cixi had the responsibility to build the Qing Dynasty well and let the people live a good life, but she was extremely selfish and only cared about her own material enjoyment. In the late Qing Dynasty, the people even had the luxury of eating a nest, but Cixi wanted 100 dishes per meal, and when he couldn't finish eating, he would pour it.
There is a dish called duck tongue soup on the table, this dish is only made with the tongue of the duck, fried a plate of duck tongue soup at least 3, 40, Cixi does not eat duck tongue soup this dish she will not starve to death, if these ducks are taken to the people to eat, will be able to save a lot of people who are about to starve to death, but she never put herself in the shoes of the people.
The poor are the poorer the more they have to give birth, expecting the older children to quickly grow up to go out to earn money, to use the money to support their younger siblings, and when a few years have passed, these children have grown up, and he does not have to work to squeeze his children to survive, so at that time, although the people were very poor, there were still many irresponsible parents who were born.
They give birth to children and suffer. If the children are unable to feed, they will sell the surplus children, and the poor generally sell their daughters, and the sons they will keep for generations.
After opium entered China, opium houses opened all over the country, and even ordinary people with little money had to smoke two mouthfuls, and from the photos, you can see that they are skinny and weak, but they still have to save some money to smoke.
They can't afford to smoke high-grade big cigarettes, and can only smoke low-quality "miscellaneous paste" and "inferior soil", which only need to be 1/5 of the price of high-grade big cigarettes. Big cigarettes are not only smoked by men, but also by women, and women are more difficult to make money than men, and in order to be able to smoke a big cigarette, they can be at the mercy of others.
These photos are not far from us, only more than 100 years, but these photos are also very far away from us, look at the current China, and then look at the previous China, it is completely different things, 2020 China has achieved 70 million people out of poverty, China can not afford to eat the people are gradually decreasing, and now there is no outside force to dare to step into our territory again, if you dare to provoke, aircraft carrier missiles are waiting, after reading these comparisons, can you believe that this is what happened in the same country? The tragic history of the Qing Dynasty is still remembered by each of our descendants, and many post-80s and post-90s have stuck to their respective posts to serve the people and will not let the past history repeat itself.