During the feudal dynasty, was the whole world an imperial land? As the head of a country, the emperor is often regarded as the richest man in the world, and the national treasury is regarded as the richest place. Actually, it's not. Some emperors are really poor. When Chongzhen hanged himself in Jingshan Park, Li Zicheng broke through Beijing and went straight to Daming Treasury. He found that there was only 65,438+2 million taels of silver left, which was not enough for Li Zicheng's soldiers. When Puyi, the last emperor of the once glorious Qing Dynasty, abdicated, how much money was left in the treasury of the Qing Dynasty?

The treasury of the Qing Dynasty is mainly composed of the inner government and the household department. The inner library belongs to the emperor's private property, that is, to the emperor's private library. The emperor has free control, and the household treasury is also called the national treasury. It belongs to the national court, equivalent to the current Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Finance is in charge of the country's finance, fiscal and taxation, and various expenses.

Which emperor had the most money in Qing Dynasty? Everyone must immediately think of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. Kangxi, "one emperor for a thousand years", is definitely one of the most promising emperors. When he was a teenager, he occupied Ao Bai, successfully conquered San Francisco, and personally explored Galdin twice. Although Kangxi made outstanding achievements, he was not the richest. By the end of Kangxi, the economy had fallen into crisis and the national treasury was seriously in deficit. When Yongzheng ascended the throne in 1722, Kangxi left Yongzheng about 8 million taels of silver, and the official deficit at that time reached 2.5 million taels.

As soon as Yongzheng came to the top, he immediately set out to set up an iron-fisted prime minister affairs leading group headed by Huang Tianwang, an easy confidant, and set up an examination institute in charge of the money and grain marketing department, which was responsible for cleaning up the money and grain deficit, punishing officials' deficit behavior and vigorously recovering the deficit. Under Huang Hongfa's iron fist policy, the national treasury soon had more than 100000 silver cars. Yongzheng was a famous diligent emperor. He wants to work 24 hours a day and work hard. When he died, he left his son Emperor Qianlong nearly 60 million taels of silver.

1736, Qianlong ascended the throne and the country flourished. Qianlong was also a promising emperor with a good ability to collect money. The national treasury was once filled with 70 million taels of silver. However, this is nothing compared with Yongzheng. After all, Yongzheng had 60 million taels of silver. Emperor Qianlong was really a built emperor and liked luxury. He spends a lot of money on his own birthday and the birthday of the empress dowager, and he also likes to take the empress dowager and his concubines to the south to see the scenery.

People who call themselves "perfect old people" are always ready to use the national treasury to organize large-scale elderly activities. In his later years, Qianlong was lazy and greedy for power. Zen was located in Jiaqing, but he didn't give up power. Many political affairs were entrusted to Xiao Shenyang for management. People everywhere complained, and the Qing Dynasty flourished and declined. Even if the treasury was 70 million taels of silver when Qianlong was the most full, Qianlong only saved100,000 taels of silver on the basis of his father, which shows that Emperor Qianlong was really a black sheep.

Although Jiaqing has a family fortune of 70 million, he is in the upper position. However, due to the laziness of Qianlong in his later years, the mess left behind was even bigger, and the corruption of officials became more and more serious. Peasant uprisings such as An Baili and Tian Li broke out in various places, and Western imperialism began to colonize and infiltrate, selling opium to China, which made people miserable. Jiaqing alone spent more than 100 million taels of silver to wipe out peasant uprisings in various places, and the state treasury soon overdrawn.

Fortunately, Qianlong left Jiaqing a small Shenyang. Jiaqing copied 820 million taels of silver and several cars of cultural relics from Xiao Shenyang's home. Imitation silver is equivalent to ten years' tax in Qianlong period. This is also the reason why the treasury did not accumulate much silver during the Qianlong period. During the Daoguang period, the Qing Dynasty went from bad to worse, and the first opium war broke out (1840). After the defeat of the Qing government, it had to cede land and compensate Britain for 210 million silver dollars, and the national treasury was basically hollowed out. 1850, the state treasury only has1872,000 silver.

From 1856 to 1860, Britain and France launched the Second Opium War. The Qing government ceded a large territory and paid reparations continuously. Russia also took the opportunity to carve up 6.5438+0.5 million square kilometers of territory. As early as1June, 853 (the third year of Xianfeng), the treasury of the Qing government was only 227,000 silver. Xianfeng took a series of drastic measures, such as melting the Admiralty, selling official titles and titles, issuing official tickets, issuing money tickets, and implementing the Likin system. , and finally received1700,000 taels of silver.

However, the silver was soon used as military expenses to suppress the Taiping Rebellion, and the rulers of the Qing Dynasty began to lose more and more family members, one after another. By the time Cixi was in power, the money in the national treasury was not enough. On her 60th birthday, she planned to spend 32 million taels of silver to imitate the grand ostentation and extravagance of Emperor Qianlong's birthday, and ordered to misappropriate funds from various departments, including 4 million yuan for military expenditure, 5 million yuan for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 5 million yuan for the Ministry of Justice and 502,000 yuan for the Ministry of Punishment.

Beiyang fleet's Beiyang Navy, which should be the first in Asia, was easily destroyed by the Japanese after its military expenditure was misappropriated. Cixi, who didn't have enough money, donated money to the people many times and "borrowed money" from Shanxi merchants, Huizhou merchants and government merchants. 1895, the Qing government and the Meiji government of Japan signed the unequal treaty "treaty of shimonoseki" in Shimonoseki, Japan, and the Qing government paid 232 million yuan of Kuping silver to Japan, which was borrowed by the Qing government.

1900, the Qing government lost another 450 million taels of silver, with an annual interest rate of 4%, and paid 980 million taels of silver in 39 years. The Qing government also plans to repay this huge loan debt within nearly half a century. 1908165438+1October 14 Guangxu died, and Cixi finally died more than ten hours later. 1908 65438+ In February, Pu Yi, who was under three years old, was pushed into the dragon chair and became emperor for three years. 1965438.

The government of the Republic of China was kind to the royal family of the Qing Dynasty and promised to give 4 million taels of silver as royal expenses every year. After the silver dollar was issued, it was changed to 4 million yuan. The personnel of the National Government opened the door to the treasury of the Qing Dynasty and made an inventory. The treasury has long been an empty shell, empty except for piles of shameful unequal treaties. In the end, only a small 10 silver dollar was dug up, which was really jaw-dropping.