As the supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty, every time Emperor Qianlong visited Jiangnan, it was bound to be vast and crowded. The first time I went to Jiangnan, there were at least two thousand people around me. After five trips to Jiangnan, the entourage remained at the scale of more than 3,000 people each time.

This is just an attendant. Wherever Emperor Qianlong went, thousands of civilian staff were needed to provide him with logistical support services. Therefore, the total number of emperor Qianlong's entourage reached more than 6.5438+0 million, plus ships and horses, which looked like a long dragon, covering the sky.

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The purpose of Qianlong's six trips to Jiangnan:

1644 after the Qing army entered the customs, it implemented the policy of "shaving and changing clothes", which aroused the resistance in Jiangnan area. The Qing army took bloody pressure against the resistance of the people in the south of the Yangtze River. The famous "Jiading Three Slaughters" and "Yangzhou Ten Days" all took place in the south of the Yangtze River. It can be said that wherever the Qing army went, there were countless lives and rivers of blood.

The seeds of hatred have been sown. /kloc-For more than 0/00 years, the anti-Qing sentiment in Jiangnan area is still very strong, and the anti-Qing thoughts, words and deeds have been constant. Even if the Qing court imposed a harsh "literary prison", it would not be completely extinct.

Emperor Qianlong came to the south of the Yangtze River, offering sacrifices to Yuling at Huiji Mountain in Shaoxing, reducing taxes in the south of the Yangtze River, and inspecting the coastal defense of river workers, so as to appease the people in the south of the Yangtze River, win over the literati and consolidate the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

Jiangnan area has fertile land, numerous rivers, developed economy and rich people, and has been a famous "land of plenty" since ancient times. Jiangning house, Suzhou, Yangzhou and Hangzhou, the most prosperous cities in the early Qing Dynasty, are all in the south of the Yangtze River. In order to stabilize the economic situation in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces alone pay about 20.8% and 30% of the national total every year.

People's Daily Online-Expert: Every time you spend money in Jiangnan, it is far more than 1 20,000.