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Emperor Kangxi rewarded those that reclaimed wastelands, offered giant sums of cash for water conservancy tasks and lowered the land taxation throughout his 60-year’s reign, which enormously stimulated the restoration and growth in agriculture of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Emperor Yongzheng adopted his father’ (Emperor Kangxi) footsteps and continued to encourage agricultural trade. The social financial system was very affluent through the reign of Emperor Qianlong, so the later historians known as this era “The Golden Age of Three Emperors”.
Massive wasteland was put underneath the plough within the first 100 yr of the Qing dynasty, with the nationwide farming land masking an space of 5,260,000 hectares within the 18th yr (1661) of Emperor Shunzhi’s reign, which elevated to eight,510,000 hectares and 17,250,000 hectares within the 61st yr (1722) of Emperor Kangxi’s reign and third yr (1725) of Yongzheng’s reign respectively. With the output of grains rising yr after yr, the variety of inhabitants had reached 360,000,000 by the third yr (1725) of Yongzheng’s reign, and the high-yielding candy potatoes planted in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces had unfold to the Yangtze River space and the Yellow River space. The planting space for industrial crops had additionally enormously been expanded, together with tea, cottons, sugarcanes, tobaccos and mulberries, most of which turned commodities within the Qing dynasty.
The variety of farmers who specialised in planting greens elevated enormously within the Qing dynasty, a few of whom planted cucumbers and leeks in winter with the assistance of tunnel greenhouses, gaining increasingly revenue. With the cotton-planting prevailing throughout the nation in Qianlong Interval, the cotton-planting space took up 4/5 of the overall space in Hebei Province, and the sugarcanes had been extensively planted in Guangdong Province and Taiwan, whereas the tobaccos had been extensively cultivated in Shandong Province, Zhili and Shangyu, all of which offered extra uncooked supplies for additional growth in handicraft trade.
Some vegetation imported from South American additionally contributed rather a lot to the rising variety of inhabitants within the Qing dynasty, together with maize, candy potatoes and potatoes, which had begun to develop in China from South America by way of Southeast Asian Nations because the Ming dynasty. The planting, storing and processing methodology of candy potatoes was absolutely described within the Agriculture Encyclopedia written by Xu Guangqi from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), which loved a excessive fame within the filed of agriculture, and the planting methodology of candy potatoes was perfected in Qi Min Si Shu written by Bao Shichen from the Qing dynasty.
