EAS105H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Daoguang Emperor, Zuo Zongtang, God Worshipping Society

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As developed areas became more crowded, farmers tried cultivating more intensively, making more use of irrigation and fertilizer and weeding more regularly, techniques that made possible denser population in the richest areas. Only lands suited to agriculture that were out of bounds manchuria (qing maintained as a preserve for the manchus) Hard time: average of living suffered, families could raise more than 2 children and saw sons as necessities. Set an example of frugality at court and encouraged his officials to cut every possible cost, but the fiscal situation steadily worsened. Problem facing: supporting the hereditary military force, the banners the best thing he could hope for was to keep bannermen from becoming beggars, bandits, opium smugglers, or opium addicts. European were permitted to trade only at the port of guangzhou and only through licensed chinese merchants. 18th century, great britain and other western nations used silver to pay for steadily increasing purchases of tea.

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