Emperor Qianlong's Purse
by Lai Huimin
About This Novel
"Emperor Qianlong's Purse" is the academic result of Professor Lai Huimin's decades of painstaking research on the financial history of the Qing Dynasty. This book focuses on the Qianlong Emperor's purse, the income and expenses of the royal family's "little treasury." The author believes that the difference between royal finance and national finance is that land tax is the main source of income for the country. Although the Qing imperial family owned more than one million acres of land, its important income came from commercial aspects, such as land rent, tariffs, pawn shops, interest income from merchants, and additional expenditures from salt merchants. The income of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Qianlong Dynasty was astonishing, and Emperor Qianlong used this to build a large number of Tibetan temples in Beijing, Rehe and other places, driving economic activities in the temples. At the same time, Tibetan Buddhism was cleverly used to achieve the purpose of ordering all Mongolian and Tibetan tribes, integrating Mongolian and Tibetan society, and maintaining rule. However, while the Qing Dynasty's foreign aggression problems were alleviated, internal problems caused by the royal family's accumulation of wealth continued to emerge, which laid the foundation for the future decline of the Qing Dynasty.
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