The Financial Crisis And Its Response In Guangxi During The Xianfeng And Tongzhi Period

In the process of governing the frontiers,the Qing government was stationed in the frontiers with stabilizing Xinjiang as its primary goal,and used the cooperation system to ensure its military supply.This strategy of governance has led to too much dependence on the border region to the Mainland.Once the state’s political situation is unstable or financial changes,the chain reaction will be triggered,and the fiscal supply in the frontier will have a crisis.In the early years of Xianfeng,the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement broke out from Guangxi gave a heavy blow to the Qing court.Due to the exhaustion of the Qing court’s finances,a serious fiscal crisis also appeared in the frontier.Guangxi,as the source of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement,is also the frontier area,and internal farmers’ uprising has continued.Facing the sudden political changes,the Central Government of the Qing Dynasty and local officials in Guangxi,in addition to facing the pressure of politics and military,how to ensure the supply of military expenditure in financially,is also an urgent problem that needs to be resolved.Therefore,studying the financial supply of Guangxi in the same year has important academic value.The paper is centered on the financial supply of Guangxi in the same year.Firstly,the problem of fiscal revenue and expenditure of Xiantong’s previous Guangxi was analyzed;secondly,the fiscal crisis and response of Guangxi during the same year were analyzed.Officials discussed the crisis response strategies on the spot;finally analyzed the supply effect of Guangxi’s finance in the same year.Through sorting out the literature,in the same year,in the face of the financial crisis in Guangxi,local officials in Guangxi adopted many self-rescue strategies,such as changing large money,collecting money,actively calling for merchants and people to donate troops,detaining and raising clean silver.To the extent,it relieves the pressure of Guangxi’s military expenditure and maintains the stability of the southwestern frontier region,but it still cannot meet its military expenses.To this end,the governor of Guangxi had to repeatedly invite the neighboring province to work.Under the strict order of the Qing government,Guangxi and the nearby Guangdong,Jiangxi,Hunan,Sichuan and other provinces formed a weak finger-dialing relationship.Under the conjunction of many provinces,although it is owed from time to time,it has achieved great results.In this process,Guangxi adopted a strategy of self-rescue and supplemented by cooperation,and worked hard.In particular,the emergence of Jijin has made its fiscal revenue structure a significant change.To a certain extent,Guangxi relies on the pressure of relying on the Jihui of foreign provinces,and ensures that the military supply of military demand in Guangxi...