1, Tommy Tam's first southern tour was in the 16th year of Qianlong (175 1), and preparations were started one year earlier. A prince supervised the matter, surveyed routes, renovated scenic spots and built palaces.
The southern tour route is determined as follows: after crossing the Yellow River, take a boat south along the canal, and pass through Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou and Jiaxing to Hangzhou.
2. In the twenty-second year of Qianlong (1757), in the first month, Emperor Qianlong left Beijing in the name of the empress dowager and began his second southern tour.
South tour routes include: Tian Fei Gate, Suzhou and Hangzhou, Xuzhou and other places.
3. The levee in Haining was destroyed, so the neighboring Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou, the richest areas in the country, will be submerged by seawater. Therefore, based on the understanding that "the seawall is the first guarantee for Vietnam and China", in the twenty-seventh year of Ganlong, when Emperor Ganlong made his third southern tour, he visited Haining.
4. On the 16th day of the first month of Ganlong's fourth southern tour, Ganlong set out from Beijing and entered Jiangsu from Shandong. He reduced some soldiers and most accompanying vehicles in Shunheji, Suqian, and then crossed the Yellow River in Xujiaji. Gan Long inspected river affairs in Qingkou, where Huanghuai meets.
Gan Long was 70 years old during his fifth southern tour. Before he left, he thought that the misty rain building could only come again at most, because he was exhausted by the long distance.
6. Emperor Qianlong was 74 years old when he visited the South for the sixth time. He is diligent in politics, advocating pragmatism, exultation and great sorrow, extravagance and waste, all of which are printed in his footsteps in southern China.
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The purpose of the southern tour:
1, travel
Emperor Qianlong is an emperor, arrogant and extravagant. In addition, many cities in the south were densely populated, rich in products and prosperous in economy. Whether it is a scenic spot or a beautiful woman, it can be said to be the best at that time. He visited Jiangnan six times in order to "see the beauty of mountains and rivers and the rich beauty of characters".
2. Courtesy officials and imperial examination talents
During Qianlong's southern tour, he did a lot of work to govern officials and "train scholars". He reused or hired ministers who had made great achievements in handling affairs, such as Chen Shiguan and Shi Yizhi, former university students, and Gao Bin, the governor of Jiangnan River. They were all capable ministers at that time, but they were demoted because of carelessness or dissatisfaction, which made them useless and damaged the country and themselves. They were ordered to be reinstated during their southern tour.
3. Others
During Gan Long's southern tour, he also held many military parades in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiangning and Jiaxing, reviewed military exercises and reorganized military camp activities. Everywhere he went, he assessed and rewarded local officials. In addition, he also traveled all over the south of the Yangtze River, enjoying the antique and pleasing to the eye, reciting poems, writing inscriptions as souvenirs and writing plaques extensively.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Gan Long leaves Jiangnan
People's Daily Online-This is what it was for.