The United States has long been a British colony. 1775, the gunfire in Lexington started the American 13 colonial war of independence against British colonial rule, and formed the "continental army" led by Washington.
1776, representatives of American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, declaring the independence of the United States and establishing the United States of America. By 1783, Britain and the United States formally signed a contract, and Britain recognized the independence of the United States.
So, from 1775 to 1783, what was Emperor Qianlong doing?
In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong (1773), Qianlong ordered the compilation of Sikuquanshu, which was completed in 1782. Well, the United States achieved independence in eight years, and Qianlong compiled Siku Quanshu in nine years. Under the auspices of Qianlong, Sikuquanshu convened more than 360 senior officials and scholars, and organized more than 3,800 people to be responsible for copying.
1776 in the forty-first year of Qianlong, Qianlong proposed to compile "Chen Erchuan", which included more than 20 officials in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties/kloc-0. What is Chen Er? Simply put, the officials of the Ming Dynasty came first and then surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. According to their merits, those who performed well after the surrender were included in Volume A of Biography of Chen Erchuan, and those who performed poorly were included in Volume B. 1783, Qianlong still felt dissatisfied, and compiled a companion piece of Biography of Two Ministers, Biography of the Rebellion, which added Wu Sangui and other ministers who rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, firmly nailed to the shame column of history.
During the forty-three years from 65438 to 0778, Qianlong reversed Dourgen's conviction and conferred titles such as Dourgen, Daishan, Girallang, Duoduo and Haug.
During these eight years, Qianlong also built a literary inquisition, including the case of "Wan Nianshu", "Qian Rong" and Yin Jiaquan's literary inquisition.
In Wenzhi's martial arts, he also wiped out peasant uprisings many times and attacked hidden dangers in border areas such as Myanmar many times.
1780, Qianlong went to Jiangnan for the fifth time, and Qianlong went to Jiangnan six times in his life. This is just one of them. Master Qianlong wrote more than 40,000 poems in his life. He must have written many poems in the past eight years.
Gan Long lived a happy life, but when the western capitalist revolution was in full swing and entered modern times, he still turned a deaf ear, which made the west stay away from the Qing Dynasty. Finally, after Gan Long's death 1840, the Opium War broke out between China and Britain, and China began to fall into the situation of being beaten behind.
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