I was a god in the 18th century

Chapter 263 Not happy anymore
Xia Qingdai remembered the information she had seen before, saying that the British mission arrived at Dagu Port in Tianjin in August 1793.

The British side actually set out in late September 1792.

It turned out that it took a full year to set off from England and then set foot on the land of the Qing Dynasty.

The speed of carriages, horses and ships in the eighteenth century was really slow.

But it took more than a year, certainly not because the sea voyage really took that long. The main reason is that foreign envoys come from foreign countries, and the customs clearance procedures take a long time.

After all, the Qing Dynasty did not have much friendship with Britain. If the envoy of the French King before the French Revolution had come here, the speed of entering the customs would have been much faster.

Starting from Kangxi, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty became pen pals with the French king. It's not like the Qing Dynasty didn't understand the situation in Europe - at least during the Kangxi Dynasty, they still understood it very well.

This pen pal relationship lasted from Kangxi to Qianlong, and there are many recorded correspondence between Hongli and Louis XVI.

Before the outbreak of the French Revolution, Qianlong also planned to send an envoy to France, but in the end it was not possible because of the French Revolution.

Out of the sympathy between kings, Qianlong also sincerely gave Louis XVI advice on governing the country.

However, the French royal family, which was extravagant and extravagant, regarded the people as nothing, and said "I will not care about the floods after I die." Of course, they did not have the courage and ability to do so, and their decline was bound to happen sooner or later.

After dinner, everyone gathered in the living room to chat.

After Xia Qingdai sent the Jane Austen brothers and sisters to the carriage, she did not go back to the living room to accompany the new guests, but went directly back to the room.

Of course she won't sleep, she just traveled through time and space and returned to the present day.

It was already modern morning. Xia Shanglu was tired after a long night yesterday, so he went home and fell asleep.

Xia Qingdai washed her brother's dirty clothes by hand, then threw them into the washing machine. Then she walked quietly through the living room, sat in her balcony study, and opened her notebook to check information.

The first thing she checked was about Britain's mission to the Qing Dynasty. She just glanced at it casually before and didn't take a closer look. After all, her main task in her senior year of high school was to prepare for the college entrance examination.

Now that I have free time in college, I can take a good look at that period of history.

After reading a few posts on the history forum, I went to CNKI to download a few papers. After reading them all, she finally understood why it took a year to get from England to Qing Dynasty.

In fact, at the speed of the eighteenth century, it only took more than two months for an ocean-going ship to sail from England to India. The reason why it took so long to get from India to Dagu Port was mainly because Qianlong was a little afraid of the British and did not welcome them.

The rulers of the neighboring countries of the Qing Dynasty were white British people, and the Qing Dynasty knew this from top to bottom.

But Qianlong didn't quite understand European colonial rule. He didn't understand why countries far away in Europe could rule India, which bordered the Qing Dynasty, from a distance.

And in January of next year, King Louis XVI of France was sentenced to death by the French National Convention.

Being led to the guillotine at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, the thirty-eight-year-old Louis XVI's head fell to the ground, ending an era.

This news soon reached the ears of Qianlong, who was paying attention to France in the Qing Dynasty. You can imagine the shock it caused to him.

From the perspective of Emperor Qianlong, everything that happened in Paris can be summed up in four words - "Regicide."

This also sounded the alarm for Qianlong.

Qianlong, who was in his twilight years and no longer had much enterprising spirit, had made great contributions in conquering the Junggar Khanate, pacifying the Hui tribes, and expanding the empire's territory when he was young. He just wanted to rest on his laurels and not work hard anymore.

Therefore, his response to the beheading of Louis XVI was to tighten his control over the people. "It's okay to fire a gun to injure one or two of these unscrupulous people." Such comments can be seen everywhere. After that, a vigorous campaign to annihilate the White Lotus Sect was launched.

He would not think about the fact that on the eve of the French Revolution, it had suffered from natural disasters for many years, agricultural harvests failed, and the people were in dire straits. The people could not even meet the basic needs of food and clothing, and starved to death everywhere.

However, the French royal family still indulged in extravagance and extravagance at parties, tea parties, and dances every day. Queen Mary even advised Louis XVI: "Let the people eat cake."

It is normal for such a royal family to be betrayed.

Qianlong couldn't see it - maybe he could, but he didn't care.

Just like he didn't understand the corruption of the Qing Dynasty and the twilight of the empire, it was just that he was old and frail, and no longer had the ambitions of his youth, and just wanted to lie down.

The Western world is undergoing an industrial revolution in full swing, and the stars are shining brightly. Excellent people who change the course of mankind are born one after another, and a new era has slowly begun.

But Qianlong hoped to let the Qing Dynasty stay in its most glorious time and fall silent in the dream of "Versailles".

He was wary of Britain and also on guard against it. It's a pity that the direction is wrong, no matter how hard we try, it will be wrong.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten. The truth is only within the range of guns.

Qianlong rejected the contents of the trade agreement proposed by the British mission. After the Opium War, the Treaty of Nanjing was fully adopted.

"Alas!" Xia Qingdai sighed, a little unhappy after seeing this piece of history.

"Should I go and sink the British mission's ship next year?" Xia Qingdai touched her chin and muttered to herself.

Once this thought comes up, I can't stop it.

However, after thinking about it for a while, Xia Qingdai finally restrained her thoughts.

After all, this year's British mission was to deliver good things to the Qing Dynasty, and even brought the steam engine, the core achievement of the first industrial revolution!
You must know that if Germany wants steam engine technology, they have to smuggle senior technicians back to the country and pay them high wages to keep up with the pace of the industrial revolution.

As long as there is a will, the export of machines can be banned, but it is difficult to ban the spread of technology.

No one in Britain was willing to give such a good thing to Qianlong, but he still looked down upon it. With the actions being followed and the actions being followed, the officials below will naturally not pay much attention to it.

So the leader is really important.

If people who are old, frail and unable to keep up with the trend of thinking continue to be the king of China, it will be a catastrophe for the entire China.

Xia Qingdai thought that instead of hammering the British mission that sows the seeds of civilization, it would be better to hammer the corrupt officialdom of the Qing Dynasty!
I don’t know if it will be effective to send old man Qianlong back to the west in advance.

"No, this is too childish. This is not the fundamental reason." Xia Qingdai immediately rejected the idea.

If Qianlong's death could usher in a new era, the subsequent Opium War would not have happened.

Can she pull the map to China and go to China to carry out the industrial revolution?
While I was thinking wildly, a "ding ding ding" sound suddenly came from my phone.

"Who is bombarding me with information early on Saturday morning?" Xia Qingdai took back the angry young heart of a martyr's child and returned to the real world.

She opened WeChat on her mobile phone and found that Xia Shishi had created a new group, and the group members excluded Shi Yan.

"I'm dizzy. Is there going to be trouble right after school starts?" Xia Qingdai sweated.