Today, let's discuss the recent "Kanggan Prosperity". After the end of the prosperous period of Kanggan, it took only a few decades for the Qing Dynasty. After several generations of monarchs, the Qing Dynasty was knocked on the door by western powers, which made people draw a big question mark. Just experienced the "kanggan heyday" and was defeated so quickly?
It is necessary to talk about how much wealth this "prosperous time of Kanggan" has accumulated for the Qing Dynasty, and what kind of living standard people living under the aura of "prosperous time of Kanggan" can achieve?
The real struggle against Shi Sheng and Shi Sheng is the result of the efforts of emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. Bian Xiao simply summed up these three emperors. Kangxi laid the foundation and replaced the money in the national treasury with land and dignity. In the sixty years of Kangxi, the vassal was cut off, the desert was conquered, Mongolia was ruled, agriculture and mulberry were emphasized, and water conservancy was built, which laid the foundation for the prosperity of Qing Dynasty.
At that time, the territory of the Qing Dynasty reached 1.3 1.6 thousand square kilometers, second only to the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, and even the Mongolian region, which was a headache for several emperors, was within the territory of the Qing Dynasty. This large territory is like a big yard of a rich family, but only the people inside know what their life is like.
In the prosperous period of Kanggan, the population of China broke out, breaking through the 300 million mark and becoming the most populous country in the world. Isn't this the standard of prosperity? A place with a vast territory and the largest population in the world became the capital boasted by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty.
The reason why this goal can be achieved has a lot to do with the attractive corn, soybeans and sweet potatoes in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. These crops can have good productivity and are easy to store in bad weather conditions, and most poor people can meet the problem of food and clothing, so some achievements have been made in population. But beyond that, what did the Qing Dynasty, which prided itself on "fighting against Shi Sheng", leave behind?
They formulated a closed-door policy, so they lagged behind other countries in economic and cultural exchanges. With the stagnation of science and technology, we had firearms in the Ming Dynasty, but it was knocked on the door by western powers. During this period, the rulers established a literary prison and tens of thousands of intellectuals were persecuted. Manchu used a small group to govern the huge Han group, and he was full of confidence. The rise of the literary inquisition was originally intended to strengthen the rule, but it backfired. The literary inquisition did not seem to add luster to the rule of the Qing Dynasty except that many people died in vain.
In san huang, Yongzheng was regarded as the master of ZTE and the most diligent emperor in Qing Dynasty. On the one hand, he cleaned up the mess left by Kangxi, tightened his belt, finally accumulated some capital, improved people's livelihood, and then handed over the country to the black sheep Qianlong.
Apart from those hundreds of poems, what Qianlong left to the world was his seven trips to the south of the Yangtze River. Every time he goes to Jiangnan, he consumes a lot of manpower and material resources. Even the most popular little Shenyang around him may be very rich. Ganlong is a typical rich second generation style. After decades of Qianlong and Huohuo, the wealth accumulated by Yongzheng was exhausted, forcing Jiaqing to kill Xiao Shenyang for emergency.
How do people live? According to the diary of magal, a foreign envoy, during the prosperous period of Kanggan, the people were mostly poor. In fact, it is not limited to a few places, but the people of the whole country. In the old city of Beijing, at the foot of the emperor, beggars abound along the street. In addition to the prosperity around the imperial city, there are even large areas of overgrown wasteland.
There was no middle class at all, except that senior officials in the Qing Dynasty could eat and eat. People at the bottom can't eat at all, so they live on coarse grains. In the later period of Kanggan prosperous period, there were nearly 9,000 abandoned babies in Beijing every year, not to mention natural disasters.
When a starving person appears in people's field of vision, people's eyes have no sympathy, no pity, and even no expression. In their view, this is too common.
The lies of the prosperous times are so prosperous that there is no congratulations from the world, and there are no wolves in the house. Only the dream of closing the door to the outside world and becoming a big country, I am proud of being the best in the world. The rulers eat and drink, and the Lebanese people wander around the food and clothing line all the year round, most of them like beggars. It is shameful that the economy is stagnant and culture, science and technology are not progressing.