Why are there so many people criticizing the Kangqian prosperous era and what happened at that time?

Generally speaking, the prosperity of the times, that is, the common people live in peace and prosperity, the country is stable, people are living in a well-off society, but at least the problem of eating can be solved, but from the records of some foreign missionaries, we see that the common people are skinny, all day long in order to eat a full stomach, the people at that time obviously lived below the food and clothing line, can only eat sweet potatoes to maintain life, so they say that the Kangqian prosperous era is the sweet potato prosperous age, so through these points, people say that the Kangqian prosperous era is a false prosperous era, Is it the prosperity of the rulers, is it really the situation they are talking about, you must know that the population of the Chinese at that time, from the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population has grown to about 400 million, under the ancient agricultural economy with low productivity, no dynasty can say to feed such a large population, think the population of the Wenjing period is only about 60 million, compared to the 400 million people in the Kangqian period, I think it is more difficult to do the same as the Kangqian period.

1. Economically, the economy that has been damaged since the end of the Ming Dynasty has been fully restored, and agriculture has been vigorously developed, which has prepared rich material conditions for the arrival of the prosperous era. Beginning with Shunzhi, especially the three dynasties of Kang Yongqian, they attached great importance to agricultural production, took agriculture as the foundation of the country, and made great efforts to develop the agricultural economy. This is embodied in the ideas expressed by Kangxi.

2. Politically, when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the first thing was to rectify the rule of officials, strictly rectify it, and win the hearts of the people. The corruption of officials in the late Ming Dynasty was one of the main reasons for his demise. The rulers of the Qing Dynasty always took the death of the Ming Dynasty as a warning, vigorously rectified the rule of officials, and swept away the greedy and decadent trends since the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties adhered to the great unification of the country, formulated and implemented correct ethnic policies, stabilized the frontiers, and eliminated border troubles.

3. In the field of ideology and culture, the three dynasties of Kang Yongqian firmly established Confucianism as the ruling ideology, established schools, ran education, and cultivated a large number of talents; Vigorously promote the further development of traditional culture, sort out the classics, compile a large number of books such as the "Siku Quanshu" and other books that are the signs of the times, and collect the culmination of traditional culture, which plays a great role in the formation of the prosperous era.

The main reason for the emergence of the prosperous Kangqian era was that the adjustment of production relations promoted the development of productive forces.

In order to restrict the development of land annexation since the end of the Ming Dynasty and restore agricultural production, the Qing Dynasty adopted the policy of "emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business".

We should evaluate the merits and demerits of this period with an objective and realistic attitude. "Kangqian Prosperous Era" is an imperfect prosperous era and a mediocre prosperous era.