When it comes to Zuo Zongtang, our first reaction is that he is a real national hero, and when he was 68 years old, he personally led the army to recover Xinjiang.
Tso. On the road to Xinjiang, people found that there was a coffin in the team, and that coffin was prepared by Zuo Zongtang for himself.
This also proves Zuo Zongtang's determination to recover Xinjiang, and with Zuo Zongtang's efforts, Xinjiang Yili was successfully recovered.
However, no matter how hard Zuo Zongtang tried, he had no way to save the Qing Dynasty at that time, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, whether it was the ** of the Qing Dynasty or ordinary people, they all lived very difficult.
Because the Qing Dynasty signed too many terms at that time, it had to pay too much money to the foreign powers, and the Qing Dynasty had so much money, so they could only spread the money equally to every common man.
All of a sudden, the burden on all the people has become very heavy, but what about the people going to get money? When the money is paid, what is the "going direction" of their lives?
At that time, the low-level people lived in "dire straits" every day, but even if they went to the streets begging in rags, it was difficult to make some progress, because there were too many poor people at that time, ......
Although the life of ** is also a lot more difficult than in the past, compared with ordinary people, their lives are much better.
Because the pressure given by the superiors is pressed down layer by layer, and the superiors oppress them, they will squeeze the people, so a "vicious circle" has been formed.
At that time, the people at the bottom had almost no other skills except for dealing with crops, so it can be said that land was the last thing they relied on for survival.
But even so, they have no way to keep the land on which they depend, and sometimes they have nothing to do when the state imposes heavy taxes on them.
As a result, some people have no choice but to sell the land they rely on for their livelihood at a low price, but what should they do if they have no land to cultivate?
They had only one way left, and that was to rent land from the landlords, because the landlords had more land, but in this case, the food that belonged to them would become even less.
Because whenever the grain came down, they had to give a part of it to the landlords, so that the landlords would be willing to give the land to the peasants.
Some people say, if that's the case, can't you cultivate the land yourself? In fact, such an idea was very good, but at that time, the feasibility was not very strong.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the population was already very large, so the good land had already been divided, and the remaining ones were very barren and extremely difficult to take care of.
Moreover, they don't have enough energy to do other things, and the difference between the grain output in ancient times and the current grain output is also very large.
If the harvest is good, their life may be slightly better, but if God does not give them food, their future life will also usher in hell mode.
They will sell everything they can, including their children, but at that time, if they are sold, they will at least be able to live.
There are some people who have no skills, no neat hands and feet, and relatively good looks, so no one wants to buy them.
These poor people have lost the land on which they live, and there is no one around them, waiting for their fate, and they can only wander around, when they have a mouthful of food, they eat a mouthful of food, and if they don't, they go hungry.
When they are really hungry, they will slowly close their eyes in despair.
Maybe even they don't know why they have such a miserable ending if they haven't done anything bad in their lives.
And the ** people during the Qing Dynasty were also busy with various things, because of the inaction of the Qing **, many countries looked down on our people at that time.
At that time, if foreigners came to China, they were arrogant, and they were allowed to "do whatever they wanted" even though it was their own territory.
Although the life of the aristocracy seems to be no different from before, many things have quietly changed unconsciously.
Many nobles have paid a lot to maintain their glamorous lives, but the inside of their families has long become "empty", but they can't show the slightest.
In addition to farming, poor families would also make some things to sell in the market in normal times, although the money they obtained may not be proportional to their efforts at all.
But despite this, they still have to continue to do the work in their hands, after all, "no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat", and they are not willing to let go of the way to make their lives a little better.
Not to mention clothes, all the living materials at that time were very poor, even the bowls for eating, which were very precious for ordinary people.
If you accidentally break a bowl, you will feel distressed for a long time, if it is not so broken, you can still repair it and continue to use it, if there is a hole on the bowl, it is also a normal phenomenon.
In the previous society, transportation was not very developed, so if a person decides to go out, it is definitely a very difficult decision.
When they go out, they may not be very old, and when they want to return to their hometown, they will give up the idea due to the distance, so they may not be able to return to their hometown for a long time.
In the old society, the burden was not only on the shoulders of men, but also on women's thin shoulders to shoulder part of the responsibility.
After a long period of exercise, they gradually got used to the intensity of life at that time, and for us now, very heavy items can be carried "easily" when they get there.
At that time, not all people had houses to live in, and some families were so poor that they could only live in such simple caves.
Although the place where they live may seem dangerous, this place provides them with shelter from the elements.
At that time, since women began to wrap their feet, they needed to disassemble their footwraps every day, clean them and re-wrap them, and after a long time, their feet would become what they wanted.
Ordinary people need to do this by themselves, but if you are a rich family, you just need to sit down, and the servants will take care of everything.