Qianlong Shi Sheng was named? Sweet potato prosperity?
In the fifty-eighth year of Qianlong (1793), the British Empire sent a delegation to visit China, and the British Ambassador magal led the delegation across the ocean. After landing in Guangzhou, he went north to Beijing to meet Emperor Qianlong. Is this to dominate the earth? Empire when the sun never sets? The first formal contact with the Qing Dynasty.
The purpose of the British envoy's visit is ostensibly to celebrate the birthday of Emperor Qianlong, but its real purpose is to find out the truth, so as to break the rigid policy of closed door in Qing Dynasty and expand the trade between Britain and China.
From Guangzhou to Beijing, Magalny and his party faithfully recorded the shrouded in? Anti-sense Shi Sheng? The real China under the halo, he described in his diary:? This province (? Most farmers are as poor as a church mouse. Even the China people who were hired to perform tasks on ships were not much better. We give them leftovers, and these people will kneel and kowtow, so thank you very much. (Beijing) The houses in the city are old, the streets are narrow and dirty, when it rains, it is muddy, and there are large areas of open space everywhere, either abandoned or reduced to ruins? . Obviously, it is called the last prosperous time in the history of China? Dry prosperity? In the eyes of the British ambassador, it is not glamorous. Qing Dynasty, written by magal and others, is a huge, ancient and even somewhat backward eastern power.
History shows that at the end of Qianlong period, the total population of China reached more than 300 million, which is unprecedented since ancient times. But at that time, China people took sweet potatoes as their staple food, so? Dry prosperity? Mocked by scholars? Sweet potato prosperity? . Emperor Qianlong felt good about himself, thinking that it was under his rule that China was able to enter a peaceful and prosperous era of Haiyan and Heqing. Emperor Qianlong, the first greedy little Shenyang in the Qing Dynasty, was very fond of little Shenyang in his later years. At the age of 30, he served as the command minister and commander-in-chief, and also served as the minister in charge of the guards.
Small Shenyang was deeply relied on by Qianlong, fearless, open the door to competition, and demanded bribes to collect money. In history, small Shenyang has a high status. Every day, people come to his house to pay bribes and apply for jobs in an endless stream, and even the concierge and his family members follow him to make a fortune. It is said that some people send hundreds of taels of silver at a time, and Xiao Shenyang can't even remember his name. With the acquiescence and connivance of Qianlong, small Shenyang has accumulated huge wealth, as rich as an enemy.
/kloc-in the first month of 0/799, Qianlong died. On the second day after Qianlong's death, Wang Niansun and Guangxing, ministers, immediately wrote to impeach corruption in Shenyang. The new monarch Jiaqing couldn't wait to depose Xiao Shenyang, who was also an official, and arrested him in prison. On the same day, he also copied his home and announced the 20 major crimes committed by Xiao Shenyang in the past 20 years, including trespassing, monopolizing power, violating the system, accepting bribes and so on.