"In the later stage, when I went down to the south of the Yangtze River, this matter was also meritorious."

"Observing the people's feelings, inspecting the canal, although going down to the south of the Yangtze River several times, but also building a lot of palace ships, it is also a waste of life and money."

"During the inspection, he also traveled to the mountains and rivers, but during his reign, he was also connected with the emperor's political inspection, which was at least several times stronger than the greedy pleasure in the deep palace."

It also made the prosperous era of Kang Yong continue in him, so that future generations can directly evaluate it as the government of the three prosperous times of "Kang Yongqian". ”

"Although Qianlong often boasted and exaggerated himself, his personal ability to govern was still relatively prominent."

"Qianlong basically has nothing to say in politics, the internal imperial power has been greatly consolidated, the feudal royal power has been greatly strengthened, and the Qianlong brothers in the court are what they say, and basically no one dares to speak back."

"Militarily, Qianlong's basic merit is to conquer Annan and calm the situation in the south."

"The Qing Dynasty reached the pinnacle of history in his hands, and then inevitably embarked on a downhill path, and the Qing Dynasty began to move from prosperity to decline."

"The Qing Dynasty inherited the system of the Ming Dynasty from the institutional point of view, and further strengthened the autocracy of imperial power."

"After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, this literary prison was repeatedly revitalized, from Kangxi to Kang Long for about 120 years, the scale of the large and small literary prisons was unprecedented, during the Qianlong period, because of a poem of flowers, the writer of the poem was killed, and the people who accompanied the door, the engraver, the book seller, and the book buyer were all sentenced, and the entire ideological circle was dull."

If you look at him again, this "perfect old man" sounds really good, but it has no practical significance. ”

"In the Qianlong Dynasty, the money spent on the use of soldiers was no less than hundreds of millions of taels, of course, such as Pingzhun, Daxiao and Zhuo, and XZ were all to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, but most of the martial arts belonged to the poor army."

"You must know that the annual revenue of the national treasury at that time was roughly around 35 million taels, and such a huge military expenditure is naturally unsustainable."

"Then there is the problem of the southern tour just now, wherever Emperor Qianlong passed through on his tour, the officials will take over the car, so as to be beautiful and pleasing to the people."

"Although Emperor Qianlong has always preached that everything should be simple, this is just pretending."

"So every time you go on a parade, the stage, the color shed, the dragon boat, and the embellishments along the way are all increasing and upgrading."

"Emperor Qianlong's southern tour, its cost is ten times that of Kangxi."

"When Kangxi toured the south, he spent no more than one or two hundred thousand gold each time, while Qianlong often spent millions."

"It can be said that the people are working and hurting money, consuming vitality, influencing all the way, and the officials governing the people's customs will be corrupted together."

"The inside is worse than Heshen, and the outside is worse than Fukangan!"

"Qianlong's mediocrity is mostly mentioned in the later period, how can a mediocre person not have a traitor, the growth of a traitor, how to escape your Qianlong's problem."

"He Shenben is an ordinary official student, he is not very knowledgeable, but he has an enviable face and a super memory."

"By chance, He Shen was appreciated by Emperor Qianlong because of his response to the decree."

"Since then, the officials of Heshen have prospered, and in just a few years, they have become officials of the Ministry of Households, University Scholars, and Minister of Military Aircraft."

"He Shen has been in power for more than 20 years, supervising and appreciating on the outside, and serving on the inside, mostly from the Hemen."

"There are officials who are greedy for ink outside, and there are ministers who gather inside, which are cause and effect of each other, and the greed is becoming more and more intense."

"In fact, many major corruption cases that occurred in the late Qianlong period can see the shadow of Heshen behind them."

"For example, the corruption cases of Cathay Pacific, Wang Kangwang, Chen Huizu and others are all related to Heshen."

"It's just that he hasn't been finally exposed."

"In Qianlong's later years, the political group headed by He Shen not only controlled the government and other provincial affairs, but also formed a corrupt group, which was exploited and squeezed layer by layer, resulting in a deficit in the treasury of various localities."

"The Heshen faction can have this, and Qianlong is the main responsibility."

"In the later stages, there were also military problems."

"The Eight Banners were the foundation of the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and in the early Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners were known for their strength and simplicity."

"In the early Eight Banners, there was no such arrogant habit."

"But since the middle of the Qing Dynasty, because of the political and economic privileges enjoyed by the Eight Banners, their temperament has quickly changed."

"In the last years of Qianlong, more problems were exposed, and its outstanding performance was the extravagance of the camp, the most typical representative of which was the Fukangan who was extremely favored by Emperor Qianlong."

"Fukangan was relied on by Emperor Qianlong for a long time because of his noble birth, but most of his military exploits came from Hailancha and Ah Gui."

"Fukangan, like Qianlong, is born with a gentlemanly style, even on the front line, every day is a rare food, and every time he fights, the expenses are very huge."

"But such a general who spends money like flowing water, but he is extremely favored by Emperor Qianlong, and even named him the king of the county after his death, becoming the only king with a different surname after the early Qing Dynasty."

"And after arriving in Jiaqing's pro-government, he issued an edict to reprimand Fukangan, saying that the extravagant style of the Eight Banners was caused by him."

"Anyway, the problems that arise in the summary come from the late Qianlong period, and the Jiaqing Emperor carefully selected by Emperor Qianlong is also a mediocre generation, so the situation faced by the Qing Dynasty can be imagined."

"The biggest problem is to close the country."

"Qianlong is no exception, he is complacent and wants to be autocratic, which directly affects the development of the later period."

"At that time, the Qing government was afraid that the colonizers would come to invade, and it was also afraid that the people of the country would go to sea to gather and resist, so they implemented a policy of closing the country to the outside world."

Emperor Qianlong believed that "the Celestial Empire was rich in products and had everything, and it was not through foreign goods to pass through what was available." ”

"There is everything in the Celestial Empire, and it is never expensive and KitKat!

"Emperor Qianlong's seclusion and self-restraint seriously hindered the Qing Dynasty's connection with the world, hindered China's absorption of the world's advanced culture and science and technology, and made the social development of the Qing Dynasty at that time in a state of stagnation.

"The era in which Qianlong lived was an era of unprecedented changes in human history."

"In 1730, the Englishman Kaye invented the shuttle, which opened the prelude to the Industrial Revolution."

"In the thirty-fourth year of Qianlong, Watt invented the steam engine, marking the beginning of mechanized mass production."

"Actually, at that time, the Qing Dynasty had the opportunity to understand the development of the world."

"Kangxi was interested in Western culture and had an awareness of threats, but Qianlong did not have such an understanding."

"Although during the Qianlong period, there were many Western missionaries and imported goods in the palace, and Qianlong was also very clocks and toys, but he was not interested in Western civilization."

"He believed that the Celestial Empire was omnipresent, and in the high-speed development of the world's globalization, he adopted a policy of closing the country to the outside world, so that Western countries realized that behind the prosperous appearance of the Qing Dynasty was an empty national defense strength."

(End of chapter)