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Chapter 91 What are the dangers of seclusion? 【Subscribe】

"Bastard!"

"Is it my fault to close the door and lock the country?"

Qianlong was furious when he saw this.

"My grandfather, my father, which one didn't implement this policy?"

"Why did you come here, it's so unbearable!"

"Besides, what's wrong with implementing the closed-door policy?"

"I am here to maintain the stability of China."

"It's just a barbarian country in the west, but it still wants to establish an equal relationship with my Qing Dynasty?"

"I am in the Qing Dynasty, and the barbarians are also worthy?"

"As far as their skills are concerned, how can I take a fancy to them?"

"It's just some heresy."

"I'd like to see if the closed-door policy I've implemented will bring disaster to future generations?"

"I don't believe this."

It seems to cater to Qianlong's words.

The projection on the sky continued to change.

[There may be many emperors who will ask, isn’t it just a small closed-door policy, China is a kingdom of heaven, and it needs to establish a cooperative relationship with a small barbarian country? 】

[If the emperors think so, they are as stupid as Qianlong. 】

[There is a saying that describes it well, the lion and the rabbit also use their full strength. 】

【Looking down on others will often pay a price. 】

[Emperor Qianlong underestimated the so-called small barbarian country in his eyes. He died a hundred times, which had no impact, but it was a catastrophe for later generations and even the whole of China. 】

[The policy of closing the country to the outside world not only locks the country, but also locks up ideas, locks up discoveries, and locks up the future of China. 】

[Emperor Qianlong spent 60 years creating a "hungry age" in which the country was rich and the people poor, and a "progressive age" in which Chinese history regressed.]

【Why do you say that? 】

[Because in the eyes of Westerners, China is a mysterious country. 】

[They believe that China is like "Marco Polo's Travels", where gold is everywhere and everyone wears silk and satin. 】

[But what about reality? 】

[As soon as they landed on the land of China, they immediately discovered shocking poverty. 】

【The Qing Dynasty hired many common people to come to the ship of the British mission to serve tea, pour water, sweep the floor and cook for the British. 】

[They noticed that these people were all so thin. Among ordinary Chinese people, it was difficult to find a beer belly like a citizen of their country or a beaming face of a farmer. 】

[In this seemingly prosperous Qing Dynasty, ordinary people live a different life. 】

[They said: These ordinary Chinese people, every time they receive our leftovers, they are grateful. They always greedily snatch our used tea, and then boil water to drink. 】

[Mission member John Barrow said in "My View of the Prosperity of Qianlong": No matter whether it was in Zhoushan or in the three days of going up the Baihe River to the capital, he did not see any evidence that the people had enough food and clothing, and the countryside was rich and prosperous...except for the villages Around, there are rare trees, and the shape is ugly. 】

[The houses are usually one-story houses with mud walls and thatched roofs. 】

[Occasionally a small detached building, but never a gentleman's mansion, or a comfortable farmhouse. . . Neither the houses nor the waterways can be compared with those on the banks of Reddrive and Wapping. 】

[This once great and prosperous Chinese country, in fact, is nothing but a scene of poverty and backwardness. 】

[The closed-door policy has dire consequences? 】

[Horizontal comparison, an ordinary employee on a Hampshire farm in the handsome country, the recipe for three meals a day is as follows: breakfast is milk, bread, and bacon pork left over from the previous day; lunch is bread, cheese, a small amount of beer, bacon pork, Potatoes, cabbage, or turnips; bread and cheese for dinner. 】

[After the industrial revolution, the living standards of the handsome people have been booming. 】

[Later, skimmed milk, cheese, light beer, half a pound each of butter and sugar, and tea would be added to the consumption list of the average peasant family in Handsome Country. 】

[And what did ordinary Chinese people eat during the Qianlong period? 】

[For thousands of years, the main food of Chinese farmers has been coarse grains and green vegetables, with very little meat, eggs, and milk. Usually, during the spring famine, they have to pick wild vegetables to survive. 】

[In the Qianlong period, there are many records of people eating bran-swallowed vegetables. 】

[This is the small barbarian country in Qianlong's eyes. After a year of consumption, ordinary farmers can have about eleven pounds left, which is about 30 taels of silver. 】

[The total income of a medium-sized Chinese farmer is only 35 taels of silver a year, while the annual expenditure is 40 taels. 】

[So once there is a famine, ordinary people will go bankrupt immediately, and selling children and daughters is very common. 】

[This is still the middle class, the life at the bottom is horrible. 】

[Is this so-called prosperous Qing Dynasty really feasible? 】

[From the perspective of the people's lives, the emperors don't understand, but from the comparison of the combat effectiveness of the army, the emperors can understand. 】

[Most of the military weapons in the Qianlong period were arquebus guns. This kind of weapon was extremely rough, and its effective range was only about 100 meters, or sixty steps, and it might not be able to hit. 】

[And what about the western barbarians in the eyes of Emperor Qianlong at this time?After the Industrial Revolution, their weapons improved a lot. 】

[Most of them use improved flintlock guns, with an effective range of about [-] paces. 】

[At the same time, they are also equipped with powerful artillery. 】

[Because of Qianlong's arrogance and ignorance, the financial resources of the Qing Dynasty continued to decline after Qianlong, and there was simply not enough funds to continue research and development of new firearms. 】

[In this environment, it is normal for Huaxia's strength to regress. 】

[China's strength is regressing, but the Western powers have not stopped moving forward. 】

[By plundering the wealth and resources of the colonies, the Western powers have accumulated a lot of capital. After the Industrial Revolution, their strength has made a qualitative leap. 】

[On the other hand, China's strength is constantly regressing, and it has been thrown off several levels by the Western powers. 】

[The once glorious Huaxia is no longer there. 】

The emperors of various parallel dynasties were shocked when they saw this.

"Meng Tian."

"Your Majesty, here is my minister."

"The equipment given by the immortal last time should be this new type of weapon, right?"

Ying Zheng asked.

"Returning to Your Majesty, it is this kind of weapon, and its lethality is astonishing."

Ying Zheng nodded.

"Looking at it this way, this western barbarian country does have some skills."

"The descendants of this generation are too useless. The land of barbarians is solid and can rise. What are they doing?"

"Yangyang Huaxia has fallen to this point!"

"It seems that our thinking is also time to change."

Datang.

Seeing this, Li Shimin was also filled with emotion.

"The Qing Dynasty seems to be so prosperous, but ordinary people at the bottom still can only eat wild vegetables?"

"On the other hand, farmers in the West are living so well?"

"My aristocratic life in Tang Dynasty is nothing more than this?"

"No, maybe not as good as them."

"It seems that the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty is only on the surface."

"By the way, General Li, what is the range of my Tang army's archers?"

Li Jing on the side replied: "Your Majesty, in my Tang army, the effective range of archers is [-] steps. If you want to kill the enemy, you need at least [-] steps."

"Factors such as wind direction, wind speed, and enemy armor defense must also be considered."

"Fifty steps?"

Li Shimin muttered to himself: "This thing made by Westerners has an effective range of three hundred steps, and its power is extremely powerful."

"How do you fight this?"

"Under the premise of such a large gap in equipment, I really can't think of any way to break the situation."

"It seems that Qianlong has harmed my Huaxia a lot!"

Qing.

Qianlong saw the video above the sky, and the more he watched it, the more something went wrong.

"Western barbarians actually have such weapons? How is it possible?"

Qianlong was dumbfounded.

He has fought many battles with muskets, so he is more intuitively aware of the lethality of this musket.

And when he heard that the so-called barbarians in his eyes were using new-style muskets, he could no longer remain calm.

The opponent's troops are even equipped with artillery.

What kind of force is this?
"Did I really do something wrong?"

"Shouldn't I practice closed-door policy?"

"No! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"I don't believe it!"

Emperor Qianlong suddenly became irritable.

"I don't believe that the mere western barbarians have such strength. My Qing Dynasty is so prosperous, but they haven't been able to reach that level. How could they achieve it?"

"I am the Great Qing Dynasty, the most in the world!"

"Someone must be bragging on purpose so that I can admit my mistake."

"Impossible! I am absolutely not at fault!"

"I am the perfect emperor."

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Lin Zhou outside the screen saw that Emperor Qianlong didn't know the attitude of repentance at all, so he shook his head helplessly.

"This Qianlong, he still doesn't know where he is wrong?"

"As an emperor, don't you have this pattern?"

"Closing the country and ruining China for hundreds of years!"

"If China hadn't lagged behind the world back then, it wouldn't be impossible to become the number one power now!"

"This old man Shiquan is really too self-righteous."

"Since that's the case, I can only provide some serious information, so that he can get a better understanding of himself."

(End of this chapter)