The luckiest emperor in the Qing Dynasty was not Qianlong, but his son Jiaqing. what do you think?

Jiaqing is located at (1796- 1820). Although the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty was constantly corrupted and there were peasant uprisings in An Baili and Tian Li, it was still in the afterglow of the empire in the prosperous period of Kanggan. The overall domestic situation is controllable. The key is that GDP is still the first in the world without the interference of external forces.

Portrait of Emperor Jiaqing

Embarrassing Emperor Jiaqing, people say that Qianlong is the luckiest emperor. With the rich family wealth accumulated by my grandfather Kangxi and my father Yongzheng for decades, I won 60 years of wealth in vain. His son Emperor Jiaqing lived in the shadow of his father all his life. His accession to the throne is just a good name to fulfill the Qianlong Zen position. When dad is alive, he should be careful about everything. It is also humbled for the emperor's father to ask for advice when he refuses to delegate power in major events.

The journey to the west was hard to get through, and Jiaqing exposed the disadvantages of ambitious but lack of talents. In addition to winning the bright spot of small Shenyang at the beginning of his administration, he is already dying, and he is a typical gentleman. But in fact, Jiaqing's luck is not worse than Qianlong's. During his reign, the four seas rose to peace and he was emperor for more than 20 years. The key is to avoid the invasion of Russia, a strong neighbor in the north.

Of course, it is not that Russia does not want to fight the Qing Dynasty, and it is not that it has no strength. It's that Russia has focused on the European part, which is really too busy. Otherwise, comparing the strength of the two countries, the door of the Qing dynasty is likely to open decades in advance.

Russia's conspiracy Russia was originally a landlocked country. To realize the real dream of empire, we must strive for the sea and become a real land and sea power. Especially after the opening of the era of great navigation, Russia saw that Britain, the Netherlands and other small island countries in western Europe gained large colonies and huge wealth through maritime plunder and became a world power, and its idea became more urgent.

In order to win more sea ports, from Peter the Great, Russia and Russia went hand in hand and launched a series of wars around the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. To the east, Russia was invincible, crossed Siberia, and soon conquered thousands of square kilometers of land in the Far East, reaching the small town of jaxa in the north of Qing Dynasty.

In the battle of jaxa, the Qing Dynasty only won the expedition of Russia.

At this time, the Qing Dynasty was the Kangxi period, and its military strength was naturally much stronger than that of many tribes in Siberia. Russia, which underestimated the enemy, was really blocked here. For this reason, the two sides also had a limited-scale war, which can be said to have won and lost each other. Finally, the seemingly equal Sino-Russian Nebuchadnezzar Chu Treaty was signed, in exchange for 100 years of border peace.

Although Russia, unable to cope with it, signed a contract, but Russia never stopped spying on the Far East. Its ultimate goal was not only to win the outer Manchuria of the Qing Dynasty, but also to win a large territory north of the Great Wall of China. This is the famous "Yellow Russia" plan.

Portrait of Alexander I

During the same period of Jiaqing, the ruler of Russia was Alexander I (180 1-1825). After the signing of the Treaty of Nebuchadnezzar, Russia originally wanted to launch a formal attack on the Qing government, but because the political center of Russia was always in Europe. At this time, in order to win the right to enter and leave the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, Russia waged a war with Turkey and Sweden for several years. The two sides fought a long and bitter war, which made them too busy to look east.

Plus 18 12, at the peak, Napoleon led 600,000 troops to launch a large-scale attack on Russia and quickly marched into the hinterland of Russia, which led to the near extinction of Russia. However, due to lack of materials and cold weather, the French army was finally forced to retreat. After losing more than half a million people, Napoleon fled in a panic. Although Russia finally won the war, it was also weakened, and domestic contradictions became more and more fierce, so it temporarily relaxed its attack on the Far East.