The Daoguang Emperor reigned for a total of thirty years, but compared with his grandfather Qianlong, it was really too shabby. When the Kangxi Emperor died that year, the treasury had eight million taels of silver, and the Yongzheng Emperor advocated frugality and left Qianlong a huge amount of property of sixty million taels, and by the time the Jiaqing Emperor ascended the throne, the treasury had been squandered by Qianlong. And the Jiaqing Emperor was still able to open a knife towards Hekun and confiscate the property of the Hekun family, and the national treasury immediately filled up a lot. The Daoguang Emperor was more unlucky, and the kung fu of saving money was not so strong.
Compared with Qianlong, the Jiaqing Emperor was actually very frugal, and when Daoguang was only a prince, he was already very influenced by his father. Every night, only five burnt cakes were bought, and fu jin one ate two people, and one of them was given to their big brother. In that dynasty, it is rare to see such a frugal emperor. Daoguang was so frugal that he only wanted to save a little more money and make the people's lives better, but later, people only gave him the title of Emperor of the Gate.
As early as the first year of Daoguang, the Daoguang Emperor promulgated the "Theory of Sound and Color Loans and Interests", advocating that we must govern the country frugally. The population of the empire continued to double, during the Qianlong period, each person owned six acres of land for more than a month, and in the Daoguang years, each person only owned two acres of land, Daoguang day by day, felt that he was not good enough, and indeed he had been practicing frugality all his life.
The Daoguang Emperor was frugal, but not shrewd, he was sympathetic to the people, but he knew nothing about the people's feelings
The "Qing Barnyard Bills" records that one day in the dynasty, the Daoguang Emperor saw the patches on the pants of the military medical minister, turned his head and asked him, how much does it cost to patch your pants, and the minister knows that if he says the real price, then he will definitely offend the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so he lied and said that he needed three pieces of silver. The Daoguang Emperor was very emotional about this, or the folk things are cheap, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs needs five or two pieces of silver to make a set of patches.
And in the place where the Daoguang Emperor could not see, every official had a very good life, eating mountain treasures and seafood, and wearing Aya Luo silk satin, which was not as difficult as he imagined, and although he was also frugal, it actually did not play a role, and it was still not enough for the officials under his hands to splurge.
The frugality of the Daoguang Emperor can actually be regarded as a great inducement for the misguided country, after the eight years of Daoguang, Xinjiang Zhang Gelping's judgment, the Daoguang Emperor was very happy, and he set up a feast in the Summer Palace, intending to treat the meritorious soldiers, and these soldiers who came to the capital from thousands of miles were actually treated with only a few small dishes of wine and small dishes. The emperor who took over the defense of the motherland and the emperor who was desperately loyal to them gave them such treatment, and these soldiers did not know that the emperor worshipped frugality, and only thought that the Daoguang Emperor was dismissive of them, so they even felt cold.
Not only that, the Daoguang Emperor decided to reduce the strength of the Xinjiang garrison after this battle, and the minimum number of soldiers reported by the generals was 18,000 soldiers, while the Daoguang Emperor believed that only 6,000 were enough. If there are only 6,000 people, then they will only defend the eastern part of Xinjiang, and the western part will be self-defending. The Daoguang Emperor thought that Xinjiang still could not carry people, so he planned to let all provinces in the country carry troops, thus saving 300,000 taels of silver, so that the salaries of the defenders of Xinjiang could be volunteered.
The Daoguang Emperor thought that his actions were patriotic and patriotic, even if he was bitter, he did not want to suffer the people, but he actually did not do anything in such a political governance, and even if he was frugal, the people could not live a good life. After the First Opium War, Daoguang was not able to deal with such problems, and coupled with his vague loading of troops, this war could only be lost even more miserably.
There is no correct concept, there is no practical rules and regulations, just a reference, judging the food and clothing of the court members from the clothes of the courtiers, frugality can only become a drama. If he was not an emperor, but only a local official, perhaps his frugality and goodness could still play a little role, but unfortunately, as the king of a country, he only relied on frugality to govern the country, which was of little use.