I open a history tutorial class in Daming

Chapter 158 Qianlong? Qianlong!
Everyone shook their heads.

"I don't know!"

You just make comments without giving any examples. How can anyone know what you are talking about?
For the previous emperors, there were more or less people in later generations who commented on them, thus giving some glimpse of their skills and achievements by revealing their behaviors. However, the Qianlong era was the last one, and the evaluation was so high that even words like "emperor template" came out. If it is not explained more clearly, who can be convinced?

The most important thing is, this is a Tartar emperor!!!

The Zhu family was particularly unconvinced!

Yongzheng was able to implement the land tax distribution system, which made him very impressive and worthy of Song Shen's previous comment that he was "the emperor of the whole world." But what about Qianlong?

What about his political achievements? What about his merits? What about his powerful tactics and policies? If you say he is not like a human being, then you need to explain more about why he is not like a human being.

Song Shen: “…”

OK OK.

Veins popped up in his head and he went through the major events during the Qianlong period on his computer. Then he took a deep breath and spoke.

"Okay, then I'll have a good chat with you guys today."

"Since you insist that I explain everything clearly, if I can't finish talking until the end of get out of class, don't blame me for not having time to explain the test paper."

Except for the exchange student Yinzhen who knew nothing about the exam, the rest of the emperors and generals instantly had an ominous premonition in their hearts.

and many more.

When Mr. Song evaluated these emperors before, didn’t he just give all the examples in just three or five sentences?
Even though the Qin Shi Huang and Han Wudi people had outstanding achievements and their deeds could fill an entire book, didn't you, Mr. Qin, not say too many specific details, but only focused on guiding them on how to reform?
Now Qianlong is not here, and his father Yongzheng just wanted to ask how this person was as an emperor. Why does it take up an entire class to explain and give examples... This is unscientific!
Seeing the colorful expressions on their faces, Song Shen sneered:
"If you want to give an example of Qianlong, you don't think you can finish it in ten minutes, right?"

"Qin, Han, Tang, and Ming, your dynasties all have people who came after you to provide additional information. I don't need to explain the specific history, of course, someone will take the initiative to mention it. As for the Qing Dynasty, no one except me knows the follow-up. As the last feudal dynasty, it has its own peculiarities. In addition, their status as a small clan ruling a big country makes it even more complicated."

"Ask classmate Yinzhen, if you want to evaluate the merits and demerits of his father Kangxi, wouldn't it take you half a day to finish? Kangxi ascended the throne at the age of eight, reigned for sixty-one years, and died at the age of sixty-nine. He sat on the throne for so many years, and during that time there was such an exciting thing as the nine sons competing for the throne. How can it be explained clearly in one class?"

"Qianlong reigned for sixty years, and after abdicating he exercised tutelage for three years. He actually exercised supreme power for sixty-three years and four months, and died at the age of eighty-nine. He was the emperor who actually held supreme power for the longest time in Chinese history, and also the longest-lived emperor."

"If you guys insist on me criticizing him, I'll spend two classes on it!"

"Also, the most important point is that times are different."

"I compared Yongzheng to Zhu Yuanzhang before, just to say how ruthless he was in the officialdom; I compared Qianlong to Liu Che, just to say that this person's desire to control the court, military affairs and politics reached the pinnacle. These two examples do not mean that their achievements can really be compared with those of Emperor Wu of Han and Emperor Ming, because there is no way to compare them. It is basically like Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong. Putting aside all external factors, there is no meaning in comparing them."

"To be honest, it has become increasingly difficult to be an emperor since the Ming Dynasty, starting with Zhu Yuanzhang. The difficulty of the economic system, social forces, and relations with neighboring countries has increased hundreds of times. The situation became even more complicated during the Qing Dynasty."

"The emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties had to deal with far more shabby things and master more knowledge than those of the Qin and Han dynasties. An emperor would hold court once every five or ten days, which might have been considered diligent in the past, but in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it would have been considered a complete tyrant. In ancient times, digging a ditch was considered flood control and people's livelihood, but in the Ming and Qing dynasties, millions of taels of silver were spent on building river embankments, which consumed countless manpower, material resources, and brainpower. It was not even included in history books, let alone allusions."

"As Yongzheng's successor, what Qianlong did was understandable. His father paved the way for him, so he was able to do a good job."

"But if Emperor Qianlong were placed in the late Qing Dynasty, he might be able to change the fate of the Qing Dynasty with his skills, but that is only a 30% to 50% chance. The greater possibility is that without the family foundation given by Yongzheng, a good father, and without experiencing any real tests, his arrogance would accelerate the downfall of the Qing Dynasty because he only played games that were easy to win."

"What Zhu Yuanzhang said just now is very good. Times have changed. With Kangxi's vision and Yongzheng's precise control over government affairs, plus his innate desire to hold all power in his own hands and a smart mind, Qianlong was able to do everything he wanted to do."

"I will now explain the more specific operations in detail."

The classroom was quiet.

Everyone is aware of the seriousness of the problem.

The situation in the Qing Dynasty was different from that in previous dynasties... It seemed to be a dynasty that was completely different from what they had imagined.

Can it really be finished in one class?

Some people want to regret, but they don't want to miss out on important information that might come later. If there is another strategy to distribute the land tax, it would be fine to postpone the marking of the papers.

Aren’t we all fighting so hard for points because we hope to find a way to make the country stronger?
Points can be exchanged for various magical skills, but the various policies, strategies and inventions of the Qing Dynasty, the latest of this era, may not be bad...

Song Shen ignored their current complicated emotions.

Since they have already forced themselves to listen to Qianlong's affairs, it is okay to use today's class to talk about Qian Xiaosi. Anyway, it is impossible to explain the national policy of a group of people so easily. If Qianlong's actions are added, they may have more thoughts on the national policy they have previously decided.

In short, he is just a guy who graduated from a junior college but somehow became a teacher in Peking University and Tsinghua University classes. He just needs to explain the class clearly according to what he knows, and as for the rest... let these top students scratch their heads on their own!
"What Qianlong did drained away the potential of the Qing Dynasty left by Yongzheng, or Yinzhen, and even the essence of China's 2,000 years of Confucianism on the outside and Legalism on the inside. Twelve words -"

"The military and agriculture are the basis, the culture is dictatorial, and money and power are combined."

"Not counting the conscription from the people, the military expenditure during his reign reached more than 150 million taels of silver."

"He recruited 1.3 million civilians and continuously delivered supplies to the battlefield thousands of miles away for 26 years. Even snowy mountains, grasslands, and altitude sickness could not stop him. Oh, altitude sickness is what you understand as Tibetan qi barrier."

"Except for our classmate Liu Che, the Emperor Wu of Han who reduced the population of the country by half, the rest of the students probably can't even dream of doing that, right?"

"Military spending is just one of them."

Song Shen tapped on the computer, flipped over the Qianlong military expenditure statistics table he had found, and then said:

"He personally studied the history, topography, and religion of the Western Regions, and wrote clever strategies for the generals he sent out. Except for not personally leading the troops, he did everything himself..."

At this point, some people couldn't help themselves.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood up suddenly, stared at Song Shen and asked:
"Sir, where did he get the money to do all these things and fight all these years? And no one gave him advice?"

Even before entering the tutoring class, Emperor Hongwu was very clear about where the resistance to the court's war came from. He was the founder of a country, and it had only been ten years since the founding of the country. Most of his generals and advisers were still there, and most of them were available. But even with his control and deterrence, when he wanted to go north to attack the Yuan Dynasty, the court officials cried every day, saying that the treasury had no money and that war was not advisable. There were also some fools who advised him not to pursue the enemy, which annoyed him.

If even the founding emperor was like this, one can imagine what his descendants would be like.

Most of the civil servants keep saying that they cherish the people's strength and do not want to fight, but they don't think about it. If they don't completely defeat and drive away those barbarians, how many years of peace will they be able to live in the future?

It's not that they didn't know this, but they still refused to do so, simply because there was no money in the treasury.

However, with Qianlong's style of spending money like water, no matter how much money Yongzheng left for him, he would definitely not be able to afford it - look at Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, he achieved great achievements, but the family fortune accumulated by his predecessors was almost ruined. Otherwise, how could an emperor who defeated the Huns for the first time have mixed merits and demerits in history books?

Song Shen didn't mind being interrupted by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Because all the emperors present had green eyes like Zhu, staring at him with a look on their faces that said "Tell me how to make money."

He smiled and said:
"He spared no one who opposed him, who disagreed with him in politics, or who advised him to cherish the people's strength. He strangled them all with literary inquisition. After that, the civil and official circles were in a state of panic, and few dared to commit crimes again."

Liu Che's eyes widened:

"What is that, sir, please tell me in detail!"

Even though he had been hit by a lot of arrows on his knees for no apparent reason just now, and had been judged for things like halving the world's population and waging war, things he hadn't even done yet, it didn't matter.

Liu Che was a man of great determination. He was determined to fight the Xiongnu and make the Han Dynasty famous, so he would not give up just because of criticism from later generations. Moreover, it was not that no one in the court had said anything about him, so Liu Che had already prepared himself for the criticism.

He would never miss any way to help him in the battle... shutting those people's mouths would be good too!
Song Shen squinted at Liu Che:

"What do you think that is? Oh, yes, in the eyes of your emperor, it may be good. If it can strengthen your rule, you don't care about being infamous forever."

"Then you can ask Yinzhen. This thing was not invented by Qianlong. It existed during the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties. It was only Qianlong who 'developed' this prison and turned it into a tool and means to persecute people."

Not only Liu Che, but everyone else's eyes also fell on Yinzhen's face, forcing him to speak out quickly with their eyes.

Yinzhen:……

Yinzhen's face flushed a little.

Although this thing is a means, as an emperor of a foreign race, it is really difficult to tell the people in front of me.

Liu Che saw something and started to urge and comfort him:

"Go ahead and tell me. I know this is definitely not a glorious thing, but the master also said that it was your son who made it so serious. We just want to know, so don't worry!"

Being stared at by a group of people, Yinzhen had no choice but to grunt and whisper:

"The Qing ancestors once submitted to the Ming Dynasty, received official titles and titles, and obeyed orders. After they took control of the Central Plains, all dynasties kept this historical event secret."

"Therefore, the relevant historical books were all deleted and banned, and anyone who continued to compile or even collect them was executed for high treason... This is one of them."

"The second reason is that, because a small tribe ruled a large country, the Han people outnumbered the Eight Bannermen countless times, and they were nostalgic for the old Ming Dynasty. Even though the Qing Dynasty had ruled the Central Plains for decades, the popular movement to resist the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Kangxi was still like wildfire, and it was impossible to put it out. It was the Han scholars and gentry from the south of the Yangtze River who fanned the flames. As for how much they missed the old Ming Dynasty, in fact, they didn't. Most of them just felt that the Qing Dynasty took whatever the Han gentry wanted, and they refused to submit."

"So...so this prison was opened to target the literati who fanned the flames of rebellion. I and my father were not affected too much."

Everyone was stunned.

Understood.

Isn’t this similar to Emperor Qin Shihuang’s burning of books and burying of scholars?
Both were for the purpose of consolidating the power in their hands, but the First Emperor burned the books of the Six Kingdoms and buried the alchemists and Confucian scholars; while the Qing Dynasty destroyed its own dark history of submission to the previous dynasty and buried the group of people who intended to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

As Han emperors, they were certainly not happy about this. But if you look at it from the emperor's perspective, there is actually nothing wrong with this.

An emperor of a foreign race is also an emperor. In order to suppress civil unrest, the emperor can use all means, whether it is gentleness or violence, to make do with the current situation. This is a monarch.

Song Shen nodded and took over the conversation:
"Yes, during the reigns of Kangxi and Yongzheng, this move was not considered too extreme, and was mostly intended to serve as a warning to others. But it was different under Qianlong."

"He also followed his father's example and used literary inquisition to punish cliques and rectify the administration of officials. After the middle of the Qianlong period, the Qing court used the excuse of searching for old books and compiling the Siku Quanshu to conceal the ban and impose taxes, and fabricated many cases. As a result, from the 39th to the 48th year of the Qianlong period, there were unjust literary inquisitions every year, all over the country."

"This is what he specifically came up with to punish people who have different political views from him."

"As for what you want to know, where did he get all the military funds he spent..."

"Let me tell you one thing first. In the tenth year of Emperor Qianlong's reign, foreign trade volume reached a historical peak of more than 36 million taels of silver. The Qing Dynasty traded with foreigners, and the economy prospered unprecedentedly. Naturally, tax revenue would not be reduced."

"During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, the maximum expansion of the border reached 1453 million square kilometers. The time of controlling more than 900 million square kilometers of land was longer than that of all other monarchs combined. Not only could they collect taxes, but they could also shave their heads."

"He is extremely good at spending money and making money, which is why he dares to fight so many messy wars."

"In terms of military accomplishment, this guy is indeed not bad, but his ability in this area is definitely not as good as that of the founding fathers present here. The reason why he was able to conquer such a large territory is nothing more than his determination to spend money. If you had so much money, you could have built a prosperous empire!"

"As long as you are ruthless enough, spend enough money, and use enough force to intimidate, you can become a god."

"Doesn't Tubo have a living Buddha? When the living Buddha was disloyal and betrayed the country, he would spend money to beat him up, and then turn around and grind the living Buddha to ashes. By the way, he also made a rule that prohibits the illegal reincarnation of the living Buddha without the emperor's permission. See what it means that money can make things happen and money can give people courage!"

"If you ask me, the "Qian" in Qianlong should be changed to "Qian" in silver money!"

Everyone was shocked.

Holy shit... can you play like this?!
(End of this chapter)