Houjin was originally a minority in a remote corner, but Nurhaci started with thirteen pairs of armor, and his career became bigger and bigger, and his descendants succeeded carelessly, and officially entered the Central Plains in 1644, and these peoples, who were once regarded as barbarians by the Han, became the supreme rulers of the Central Plains Dynasty.
At that time, many Han elites did not take them seriously, thinking that they, like the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, could not grow rabbit tails.
However, the historical process was unexpected, and these ethnic minorities not only firmly grasped the political power and rode on the heads of the people steadily, but also created an unprecedented "artificial prosperity", so that many elites obeyed and served the Qing Dynasty with all their hearts and minds.
Under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, not only "Guotai Min'an", but also a vast territory, submission from all over the world, and subordinate countries all over the world, can they not be arrogant?
But just when they were closed to the country, arrogant and self-satisfied, and reveled in the peaceful and prosperous world, capitalism in the Western countries, which they called barbarians, had not only sprouted, but had also flourished and flourished; the Industrial Revolution was vigorously developing, the productive forces were developing rapidly, and the national strength was unprecedentedly enhanced.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > and the so-called prosperous world of the Qing Dynasty was nothing more than a statistical game, a beautiful soap bubble. </h1>
When Qianlong died, the Qing Dynasty had entered the old age like an old man. Qianlong went to Jiangnan in the four directions, exhausted the people's fat and people's ointment, and even the salt industry with the most oil and water was short of 10 million taels of silver, and the deficits of other departments can be imagined.
What Qianlong left for his son was a mess that could not make ends meet, not a prosperous world.
So after Jiaqing came to power, the first thing he had to do was to raid, but after raiding his home, Daqing was still poor.
In the last years of Qianlong, the contradictions between the people and the rulers were irreconcilable, the White Lotus Sect uprising swept the country, and small-scale uprisings surged everywhere.
In order to suppress the White Lotus Sect uprising, Jiaqing mobilized the troops of 16 provinces and spent 200 million taels of silver, equivalent to the sum of the Qing government's fiscal revenues for several years.
When Jiaqing returned to the west, what was left for Daoguang was not only a mess but also a rotten stall.
DaoGuanggui was the emperor, but he had to live a hard life and wear patched clothes, because the treasury was empty, he could not make ends meet, and the days were too tight.
If it is only internal worries, those elites like docile lambs do not dare to come recklessly, and the rebellion of the people allows the elite to suppress it.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > worse, the disaster is not alone, the internal troubles are not endless, and external troubles follow. </h1>
In 1840, the British first attacked the Qing Dynasty, and the Daoguang Emperor did not think so, and did not pay attention to the blonde foreigners, because the ministers said that the legs of the foreigners were very fragile and could not bend.
There is no weapon to deal with these guys, as long as they stab them with a bamboo pole, they will fall.
However, after really passing the move, Daoguang knew that the foreigners were indeed powerful and could not be underestimated.
For the Qing Dynasty, some are land, and ceding Hong Kong islands is a dime a dozen.
However, they are afraid that these foreigners will have to advance in size, kick their noses in the face, and plot their own political power; although it is too early to say this, they must take precautions and prevent troubles before they occur.
So Daoguang felt that it was time to look squarely at the foreigners, to know that the others would not be defeated in a hundred battles, and in the three months before the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing, Daoguang began to understand britain's opponent through multiple channels and angles, to see the size of the land of these "savages" in Britain, how the national strength was, how the people lived, how the emperor was, and so on.
Through his subjects who had gone abroad, through certain books introducing the West, and through officials who had dealt with foreigners, Daoguang learned that first of all, Britain's land area was not large, not as large as the area of a province in China, and the population was not large; from Xinjiang, it was impossible to reach Britain directly by land, and even Tsarist Russia did not border it, that is, there was no need to worry about land invasion. In this way, Daoguang was relieved, the projectile small country, and not next to each other, is not enough to worry about.
Daoguang also learned that the British rulers did not use their words, they were all the masters of the country, and everything had to be voted on, for example, at the time of the Opium War, it was the Parliament that approved the decision to use force against China with 271 approval and 262 opposition, and the British government went to war with China.
Dao Guang was very happy to hear this, and his heart said that there were more than five hundred ministers, and Daqing gave each of them ten thousand taels of silver every year, and he was afraid that they would not speak for Daqing? The world is bustling for profit, thousands of miles to be an official only for eating and wearing, is there something that cannot be balanced with money? In this way, Britain will no longer be embarrassed.
Later, Daoguang heard that the Emperor of England was a woman, only 22 years old, and he couldn't help but be moved.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right> he listed three questions and gave them to his subordinates, who wanted them to ask the British they were dealing with. </h1>
First: The woman is only 22 years old, how can He De be, how can she be pushed as the head of a country?
Second: If a woman becomes king, can she successfully control her subordinates?
Third: Does the woman have an in-laws, and how does the in-laws treat her?
Although there are many women in the Daoguang Emperor's palace, they are all of the Mongolian race in East Asia, and they are all the same inside and out. And those foreigners blonde hair, blue eyes, tall figure, what kind of women, how the structure, how to taste, but they did not appreciate ah. However, it is said that the wild horse is fierce and difficult to ride, and the woman who wants to come is the same, the key is that westerners have a lot of body odor of "washing fish by the pool, passing by the green mountain trees also withered", no wonder they are not very populous!
Thinking of this, the Daoguang Emperor couldn't help but tremble, and suddenly, a bold idea of sacrificing himself suddenly arose, if he was open-minded and widowed, in exchange for the stability of the country and the mountains, and the ancestral inheritance did not fall, why not? Why didn't my emperor dedicate himself?
If you marry this Queen of England, the two are one and the same, can't you forever strike the sword soldiers, and the world will be at peace! Even if she gave birth to a dragon species, it is also the dragon species of our Daqing, and in the future, when she becomes the king of England, it is impossible not to speak to his father Daqing.
Even if her appearance and taste are disgusting, I can hardly pity her, resulting in her inability to have children, and she and the Queen of England become husband and wife, the United Kingdom and the Qing Dynasty will at least not be enemies, is there still a reason for the wife to fight with her husband under the sky?
When Daoguang thought of this, he couldn't help but be heartbroken for the country, worried about himself, and praised his golden ideas.
This idea is too good, one can marry a foreign girl, open a foreign meat, the second can have a baby, marry the British, three can eliminate external troubles once and for all, why not enjoy it?
But the wish is full, the reality is bone, the British parliamentarians can not be bought with money, the Queen of England will not marry a 58-year-old Chinese bad old man, although you are the emperor, people really have not put you in the eyes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > if the Daoguang Emperor had gotten the answers to these three questions about the Queen of England, he could study them well, deliberate them, and realize the historical significance behind these three answers, perhaps he would not have made that kind of joke. </h1>
First: Why is a 22-year-old elected head of a country?
A: Because the British formulated the "Succession to the Throne Law" as early as 1701, the order of succession of children and other relatives is clear, there is no need for secret deposits, the more undisclosed the secret, the more catty, everything is transparent, according to the law, more than anything.
Second: Can a woman be a king and control her subordinates?
A: Because Britain practiced a constitutional monarchy, it originated from the Magna Carta and the parliamentary system in the 13th century, and the Glorious Revolution at the end of the 17th century and the resulting Bill of Rights finally established a modern constitutional monarchy that limited the power of the king and parliamentary sovereignty. At the end of the day, it's still the law.
Third: Does the queen have an in-laws, and how does the in-laws treat her?
A: This has nothing to do with the law, the queen has long been married, her husband is a good cousin Albert, the in-laws are similar to the mother's family, and the marriage is very happy.
If Daoguang gets the answers to these three questions, then analyzes the political system and economic development model of Britain at that time according to the answers, and does a good essay question, even if it is just copying other people's homework, and thinks about the future of the Qing Empire from a higher international perspective, then how can Japan, which only entered the Meiji Restoration twenty or thirty years later, have the opportunity to overtake in curves and step on the Qing Empire?
Of course, the Daoguang Emperor would not do this, his grandfather Qianlong's "kowtowing" paragraph that happened when he met the British emissary MaGalni was still haunting his mind, and the controversy over the "kowtowing" etiquette that had occurred in his father's eleven years in Jiaqing was still fermenting, and he only needed to unswervingly move forward according to the path set by his grandfather and father, and the empire might still exist with his chest folded.