Chapter 2794: The 23rd Year of Qianlong

He took out the mirror and looked at it, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that the braids were too ugly, so Shen Long retreated from the guest room, came to the suburbs, and turned into a Taoist priest in a flash. Let the hair grow out, and then take out the Taoist robe from the space and put it on.

Why do you want to become a priest? No way, in my Qing dynasty, Taoist priests were the only ones who could stand upright without shaving their hair. Taoism was not very prosperous in the Qing Dynasty, and I don’t know if this is one of the reasons.

Following the avenue to the next city, Shen Long knew the current year and month from the notice on the gate of the city. It is now the 23rd year of Qianlong's reign, which is 1758 if converted into the year of the AD.

In this year, Russia occupied East Prussia; Rousseau began to write "On Theatre"; 32,000 British troops led by Prince Ferdinand of England defeated 47,000 French troops at the Battle of Clifford in the Seven Years War, and sent The French army rushed back to the west bank of the Rhine; Austria defeated Prussia at the Battle of Hochzi in the Seven Years' War.

In the same year, after Washington was elected as a member of the Virginia State House of Representatives, he resigned from his post in the militia; Halley's comet appeared for the first time at the time predicted by people, and Czech astronomy enthusiast Baliqi discovered it. The victory of human wisdom is a great victory of science.

At this time, thirty-one years have passed since the death of the great Isaac Newton, and eight years have passed since Europe started the industrial revolution, and this ancient oriental country is still under the ignorant rule of the Qing Dynasty.

The soldiers at the gate of the city looked listlessly at the passers-by. They only got a little more energetic when they charged entry fees and extortion. When Shen Long walked into the gate, these soldiers saw Shen Long's expensive Taoist robes, Not only confiscated his entry fee, but also nodded and bowed to greet him with a smile.

After entering the city, he found a hotel. The waiter in the shop hurriedly welcomed him into the private room. Shen Long ordered a few signature dishes, thinking about it while eating. Just now at the gate of the city, Shen Long had already learned that he is now in Hangzhou. He is quite familiar with the nearby Jiaxing Mansion. He has lived here for a long time in the world of "Legend of the Condor Heroes".

According to memory, Xiao Jian had just paid homage to his family in Hangzhou, and was about to go north to find Qianlong to avenge his revenge, and then Shen Long crossed over.

Looking at it this way, Little Yanzi has not met Ziwei yet, because in the original book, when Little Yanzi and Ziwei became friends, they informed each other of their ages. Little Yanzi said that she only knew that she was born in the year of Renxu. The moon is not clear; and Ziwei is also born in the year of Renxu! My birthday is the second day of August.

The Renxu year is the seventh year of Qianlong, 1742 AD, and sixteen years have passed. Even if calculated according to the false age, neither Ziwei nor Little Swallow is eighteen. Shen Long estimates that the plot will not really start until next year.

The painting of Ziwei used as a keepsake reads, "In the autumn of the Xinyou year, by the Daming Lake, misty and rainy, draw this hand scroll, and talk about it for Yuhe to appreciate." The signature is "Baoli painted in October of the Xinyou year! Here is me Father's seal! The engraved on the seal is Changchun Layman."

The year of Xinyou was 1741. Hongli and Xia Yuhe had a few cannonballs by the Daming Lake in October, and Ziwei was born in August. The time was right.

Guess that little Yanzi should be a female snitch in the capital now, right? Hey, it's Xiao Jian's younger sister anyway, I'll go and bring her back, so that she won't fail in the future when she gets together with Ziwei and Yongqi.

After dinner, Shen Long bought a horse and rode slowly all the way to the capital. It's still early, so don't rush to the capital, let's check the life of the people in the south of the Yangtze River while walking!

Originally, Shen Long was in a relatively relaxed mood.

But looking at it, I can't stand it. Jiangnan is a rich and prosperous place, and I have met many suave and big-spending princes and brothers. However, the life of the people in the countryside is too hard. Because of the disaster, the land was taken away by the landlord. Those who were displaced, those who were squeezed by the silk industry because of planting mulberry and silkworms and went bankrupt... Similar situations emerged one after another, and people begging along the streets in cities abound.

Hey, this is the so-called prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong. I don’t know what the reaction will be if those literati who boasted about the Qing Dynasty are brought here to experience the lives of these common people? Shen Long muttered in his heart.

The ability of the Qing Dynasty to collect taxes is stronger than that of the Ming Dynasty, especially after Qianlong’s father, Yongzheng, settled into the mu, the annual income is about 30 million taels of silver, but the income is high and the expenditure is also high. In addition to the hard-core crop positions of the Eight Banners, Qianlong used soldiers year after year , The cost is huge; now they start hunting in the south and hunting in the north, extravagance and waste, coupled with the corruption of officials, filling their own pockets, the accumulation of the previous years has almost been squeezed dry.

At the same time, the annexation of land became more and more serious, and the people's life became more and more difficult. Therefore, various peasant uprisings broke out one after another in the late Qianlong period. Teaching uprising and so on.

From this point of view, there is a foundation for the peasant uprising. It only needs a strict organization and a little spark to completely ignite this decaying empire.

Go to the capital first to find Little Swallow, and then find a place to plan an uprising. It would be easy to go directly to the Forbidden City and kill Qianlong, but it would be too cheap for him. It was destroyed, and then let Qianlong die desolately, so it is enjoyable!

Leaving Jiaxing Mansion and going northward, I came to Songjiang Mansion. Since the Ming Dynasty, there has been a saying that Songjiang’s clothing has been ruled by the world. The handicraft workshops here are extremely prosperous. Unfortunately, the life of these machine owners is too miserable. Those big businessmen are all rich. But the enemy country can't enjoy it every day, but they can barely make ends meet.

Then go north through Suzhou and Nanjing. These two cities are also famous for their affluence, but they are no different from other places. The rich live in luxury, and the poor without money live in poverty. "The wine and meat of the Zhumen stinks and the bones are frozen to death", Shen Long sighed after seeing it.

When he arrived at Jiangning Mansion that day, Shen Long found an inn to rest, and at night, on a whim, he came out of the window and turned over to the roof, intending to find an official to rob the rich and help the poor, although there are gold, silver and jewels in his space, but Since it can make these officials unhappy, why not do it?

Stepping on the roof and jumping all the way, not long after, he reached the magistrate's yamen, went to the backyard and searched a pile of gold and silver from the magistrate's house, and Shen Long returned with a full load.

But when he went back, a small courtyard caught Shen Long's attention.