What was the best development in Qing Dynasty?

On the role of the Qing Dynasty in the historical development of our country, A History of Quiet Night has done a lot of analysis in previous articles. In a word, the Qing Dynasty, as the last unified dynasty in Chinese history, occupies an important position and plays a decisive role in the social development of our country.

So what are the main contributions of the Qing Dynasty to China?

1, maintaining the stability of the Central Plains.

In the field of history, there is an idiom to describe the historical inheritance of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which means that the Qing Dynasty inherited many established systems of the Ming Dynasty and carried them forward.

This is particularly important for the historical development of our country. Because since the establishment of the unified system in Qin and Han dynasties, after the demise of the unified dynasty for a long time, such as the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, the land of the Central Plains is easy to fall apart because of the strong local power and the warlord regime.

Actually, after Chongzhen hanged himself. Li Zicheng, Zhang, Zuo Liangyu, Nanming and other regimes occupied this province or many provinces respectively, and the Central Plains was torn apart.

Generally speaking, foreign enemies are the easiest to take advantage of the division of the country. At this time, colonialists such as Spanish, Dutch, British and Russian came one after another. If the Central Plains cannot be reunified for a long time, it will be carved up by foreign enemies and become a colony of foreign powers.

Regrettably, however, the Central Plains at this time, whether it was Li Zicheng, Zhang or Nanming regime, could not achieve the reunification of the two cities and thirteen provinces. Therefore, the unification of the Central Plains in the Qing Dynasty is both a historical necessity and a great achievement of the Qing Dynasty.

It is precisely because the Qing Dynasty realized the rapid reunification of the Central Plains that the western colonists' attempts to invade China failed one after another.

2. The actual control layout is greatly stable.

The greatest contribution of the Qing Dynasty to today's China is to lay and consolidate the unified territory.

Because the Qing Dynasty originated in the northeast and unified the north and south of China, it paid more attention to the northern Xinjiang than any previous dynasty, which made it possible for the Qing Dynasty to solve the northern border problem effectively and thoroughly.

During the Qing Dynasty, the Mongolian problem was gradually solved by appealing to South Mongolia, North Mongolia and West Mongolia.

1635, Later Jin conquered Monan Mongolia; 169 1 year, Kangxi took charge of Duolun Meng Hui and incorporated Mobei Mongolia into the territory; 17 16, Kangxi expelled Junggar and recovered Tibet; Yongzheng regained Qinghai in 1724. With the elimination of Junggar khanate by Qianlong in 1757, it was declared that the Qing Dynasty had completely solved the Mongolian problem, and it also marked that the Qing Dynasty had completely solved the nomadic problem that had plagued the Central Plains dynasty for thousands of years.

Different from previous classical dynasties, the Qing Dynasty, as a modern dynasty, was more effective in territorial control. The border treaty it signed ensured that the Qing Dynasty kept its territorial control for at least 200 years.

This is the legal basis for the later government of the Republic of China to inherit as much as 1 1 10,000 square kilometers of land, and it is also an important source of 9.6 million square kilometers of land in China today.

The population has greatly increased.

Another great contribution of the Qing Dynasty was the rapid expansion of population.

Because the Qing Dynasty effectively maintained the unity and stability of the Central Plains, the most densely populated areas in China were able to achieve population reproduction in a relatively peaceful environment.

Today, many people describe Kanggan flourishing age as sweet potato flourishing age, to criticize the reality that people can only eat sweet potatoes to satisfy their hunger. However, this just illustrates a problem: due to the large population growth in the Qing Dynasty, the contradiction between man and land was extremely fierce, and the population generally did not have enough to eat.

The population expansion of the Qing Dynasty brought the following historical influences: First, due to the unprecedented fierce contradiction between man and land, the Qing Dynasty had to plant a large number of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes. These high-yield crops, which were introduced into China from the Ming Dynasty, were eventually popularized in a large area, and the cultivated land area also increased, reaching a historical peak.

Secondly, due to the unprecedented fierce contradiction between man and land, large-scale immigration phenomena such as "westward" and "eastward" appeared in the Qing Dynasty, which objectively promoted the ethnic integration of the Qing Dynasty and played a decisive role in maintaining the stability of the frontier.