Qianlong prosperous, incredibly is "the prosperous age of hunger"?

Qianlong prosperous, incredibly is "the prosperous age of hunger"?

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In 1793, the 58 summer of Qianlong, Britain sent the first mission to China.

The English are full of curiosity about this mysterious country. They believe that China, as written in the travels of Marco Polo, is everywhere in gold, and everyone wears silk.                        

However, once on the land of China, they immediately found a shocking poverty. The Qing dynasty employed many ordinary people to the British mission of the ship, for the British side tea pour water, sweeping cooking.

The British noticed that these people were "so thin". "Among ordinary people, it is hard to find a beer belly or a beaming face of a British farmer like a British citizen." These people "have to Yinyuan every time they receive our leftovers." They always scramble for the tea we used, and then boil it and drink it. "

John Barrow, a member of the mission, said in my view of Qianlong:

"No matter in Zhoushan or in the three days of the capital in the back of the White River, there is no proof of any people's rich and prosperous country ... In addition to the village, there are rare trees and ugly shapes.

Houses are usually mud bungalows, thatched roofs. Occasionally there is an independent small building, but there is no such as a gentleman's mansion, or a comfortable farmhouse ...

Neither the house nor the river can be compared with Redriff and Wapping (two towns on the British side of Thames, R.). In fact, the striking is nothing but the sight of poverty and backwardness. ”

There is no doubt that Emperor Qianlong was one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history. Some commentators have even removed the word "one".

William Alexander's painting of the Qianlong dynasty

Indeed, under the reign of Qianlong, China, the longitudinal ratio, is China's thousands of-year history of the most populous, the most prosperous period. Horizontal ratio, is the world's most powerful and richest country. Why is this era of prosperity so bleak in the eyes of the British?

The reason is that the gap between the living standards of Chinese and Europeans in the Qianlong era is too great.

In the 14th century, Europeans were no richer than the Chinese. The proportion of meat in their food was not high, and a large loaf of bread and a bowl of soup had already made the British farmer's Day of hard work contented. But with the development of society, the living standards of Europeans are rising.

In the early 18th century industrial revolution, a regular employee of the Hampshire farm in the UK had the following recipes: Breakfast was milk, bread, and the remaining salty pork of the previous day; lunch was bread, cheese, a small amount of beer, pickled pork, potatoes, cabbage or radish; supper was bread and cheese. Fresh pork can be eaten in Sunday.

After the Industrial Revolution, British life was flourishing. In 1808, the list of ordinary peasant households in Britain also had 2.3 gallons of skim milk, 1 pounds of cheese, 17 pints of light beer, butter and sugar, half a pound, and 1 English two teas.

the English drama "Pride and Prejudice" stills

And what did the Chinese eat in the Qianlong years?

For thousands of of years, the main food of Chinese farmers has been coarse grains and vegetables, meat, eggs, milk are poor, usually in the Choongoong, but also to pick wild vegetables to live. In the Qianlong era, the people eat chaff and swallow vegetables abound.

According to the 18th century China and the world, farmers volume, the average British farmers spend a year, can remain 11 pounds, about 33-44 two silver. And a medium-sized Chinese peasant household income is only 322 silver a year, and the annual expenditure is 352, that is, hard one year, but also debt 32, to live.

So once the famine, the ordinary people will be bankrupt immediately, selling children selling girls is very common situation.

This is just the beginning of a series of surprises in Britain, which is still behind the shock.

As the ship traveled inland, the British noticed that officials were forced to tow a large number of people to "pay about six pence a day", but not to pay for the trip home. This is obviously not a bargain, and many people do not want the salary and keep on fleeing.

To find a hand, officials sent soldiers to nearby villages, unexpectedly pulling some villagers out of bed to join the Porters team. The porters of the soldiers, who tried to flee, or demanded the inoculations of the frail and infirm, had hardly happened overnight.

It is painful to see the tragic situation of some of them. They are obviously deprived and emaciated ... They were always supervised by soldiers or by the servants of small officials, who would not hesitate to draw their bodies as if they were a team of horses. ”

The order of Qianlong's prosperity was established in this way.

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Qianlong prosperous, incredibly is "the prosperous age of hunger"?