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Chapter 90 The Turning Point of the Three Years of Qianlong

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"Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was the longest reigning emperor in history and the longest-lived emperor. He reigned for 60 years and lived to be 89 years old."

"The reign of Qianlong was long known as the prosperous age of Qianlong in history."

"He has a grandpa, Kangxi, who is magnificent and strategic, and he has laid a rich and stable domestic foundation for him."

"His father, Yongzheng, has never been out of Beijing in his life, and he worked hard to create a foundation for Qianlong to prodigal."

"And the Qianlong era can be called a prosperous age, and it is also the credit of his grandfather and father, and he is just the longest keeper in history."

"The Qianlong era can be called the transitional time from the heyday of the Qing Dynasty to the mediocrity."

"And his position happened to be the time when the Qing Dynasty was declining."

"It can also be said that Qianlong led the Qing Dynasty to gradually decline."

"However, the Qianlong Dynasty was indeed a peaceful dynasty."

"There are no foreign relatives interfering in politics, no generals monopolize power, and no regime that can pose a threat to it exists on the entire land."

"There is no such thing as princes seizing power, eunuchs messing around, and women dominating the government."

"What Qianlong admired the most in his life was his grandfather Kangxi, but he didn't agree that his throne was passed on to him by his father."

"Qianlong believed that the succession of the throne was at intervals. It was precisely because he was recognized by Kangxi that Kangxi passed the throne to Yongzheng as an overstatement, and he was the famous emperor of the Qing Dynasty after Kangxi."

"In the first half of Qianlong's life, it can be said that he was relatively enlightened, and his political skills were considered good."

"After Yongzheng killed several brothers who seized power, Yongzheng imprisoned the fourteenth prince, who had a mother and a compatriot, for ten years."

"And Qianlong is even more afraid of this deeply rooted uncle who once held military power."

"Qianlong's political trick was to release the Fourteenth Emperor's Uncle from captivity, keeping him under his nose at all times, and he did not give him the title of King until his death."

"This is the political drama that Yongzheng and Qianlong loved to use to kill people."

"However, after 13 years of Qianlong, his temperament began to gradually change, which eventually led to the corruption of the government and the slackness of military aircraft, which directly caused the Qing Dynasty to lag behind the development of the world economy, and then triggered the most tragic invasion of foreign powers in history."

"The 13th year of Qianlong's reign led to a complete change in Qianlong's ruling philosophy."

"What happened in the 13th year of Qianlong's reign?"

In the 13th year of Qianlong, Empress Xiaoxian died, and Qianlong's character changed drastically.The ruling style has changed from the original tolerance to strictness.

The queen's funeral turned into a national disaster inside and outside the palace.

Emperor Qianlong was very dissatisfied with the elder brother Yonghuang's reaction to the death of his mother.Eight days later, when Empress Xiaoxian was scheduled for the first ceremony, Qianlong suddenly became angry and punished Zhang Tingyu and Liang Shizheng who taught Yonghuang.And many ministers and officials were severely reprimanded and punished.

In April, Akton of the Imperial Academy was held accountable for his inappropriate posthumous posthumous title, and was sentenced by Qianlong to be executed as a posthumous servant.

In May, the minister of the Ministry of Industry was punished.The officials of the Ministry of Rites were even more punished for not handling the queen's funeral properly.

In the 13th year of Qianlong, because of the death of the empress, Qianlong punished more ministers than in the 13 years since he was in power. After that, Qianlong, who has always been tolerant and opposed the strict, has become more and more severe in his ruling style, and less and less humane .

Then Qianlong decreed that all state affairs work would be stopped within nine days, all civil and military officials should be vegetarians, and their heads should not be shaved while wearing filial piety.

And many officials were all beheaded for shaving their heads during the queen's funeral!The governor of Jiangnan Province, the governor of Hunan, and the governor of Hubei were even dismissed and investigated.

University scholar Zhang Tingyu was an old man left by Yongzheng to Qianlong. Such a hero only used the word "quantai" in the sacrificial rite, which made Qianlong feel that he did not give due respect, and was punished by suspension of salary for one year.

Due to the queen's death, the number of officials killed directly doubled.

And the elder brother and the third elder brother were reprimanded by Qianlong because they did not show due grief at the queen's funeral, "we must not inherit the great rule, such an unfilial son, I cannot bear to kill such an unfilial son." All kings and ministers learn from each other.

Treating his own son like this is really beyond the understanding of the ministers.

The eldest elder brother Yonghuang was frightened and died of illness because of this incident.

And this year, a peasant uprising broke out in the Fujian area, and Qianlong, whose temperament changed drastically, ordered to execute all the people involved.

The Yellow River was flooded, and Emperor Qianlong became even more irritable.Gao Bin, who was Qianlong's father-in-law at the time, was scolded by Qianlong day and night even though he was over seventy years old, and finally died of exhaustion on the river embankment.

In the history of the Qing Dynasty, perhaps 13 years was a threshold. Emperor Yongzheng died in power for 13 years, and after 13 years of Qianlong, Qianlong built countless gardens to consume the treasury. pursuit of enjoyment.

In terms of employing people, he gradually alienated the upright and loyal ministers in the court, and began to like the people who flirt and sycophant.

Internally, ideological imprisonment has been tightened, and different voices in the DPRK and China have been prohibited.

And if a country wants to become strong, the most important thing is to have advanced thinking as a guide.

The early stage of the industrial revolution in the world was due to the emergence of the Renaissance movement in society.

The Spring and Autumn and Warring States period before the Great Qin Dynasty was actually a time when a hundred schools of thought contended. At that time, various schools of thought prevailed, and all countries in China were actively looking for ideas suitable for their own national conditions.

Even these ideas have been absorbed by neighboring countries and used to develop their own economy and national strength.

The Shang Yang Reform of the Great Qin Dynasty established the foundation of ruling the country according to law, and it also strengthened the political line based on military merit.

Although Wang Mang's restructuring in the Han Dynasty failed, it was also a technological flow with relatively advanced thinking.

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, dressed in clothes and traveling south, although the war destroyed the will of China to a certain extent, it was also a time when schools of thought continued to progress.

The three provinces and six ministries of the Sui Dynasty, the imperial examination system, and the perfect land equalization system of the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Anshi's reform in the Song Dynasty.Zhang Juzheng reformed in the Ming Dynasty.Both played a role in promoting the dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty before Qianlong, culture was a pool of stagnant water.

Not only did Qianlong not advocate cultural renaissance, but he also engaged in literary inquisition in a disguised form. Even if a poem contains Qing characters, it will cause death.

This kind of dynasty that is not confident in ruling, this kind of emperor who feels good about himself but is flustered in his heart, is also a symbol of a faint king in any dynasty.

The cultural confinement of the Qing Dynasty reached its peak during the Qianlong Dynasty.

The strength of character of the Chinese literati was gone, and hundreds of thousands of books were destroyed by Qianlong.

The loss of these different ideas and cultures is the heaviest disaster in Chinese history.

Qianlong also took advantage of this measure to strengthen the control of public opinion and thoughts.

During the reign of Yongzheng, people's thinking was still very open. Zeng Jing once listed the ten crimes of Yongzheng. This crime was originally a crime of beheading, but it was dealt with lightly in Yongzheng's hands.

Yongzheng personally wrote "Dayi Jue Milu" and ordered Zeng Jing to write "Guiren Shuo" as an annex to declare the orthodoxy and superiority of culture, as well as political dominance and master-slave relationship, to prove the legitimacy of the Qing Empire's rule of the world.

Because Yongzheng knew that if the Manchus and Han people wanted to live in harmony, and if the Qing Dynasty wanted to gain the approval of the people, it could only be unified ideologically.

In the reign of Qianlong, Qianlong ordered the book to be taken back and destroyed, and Zeng Jing was executed.The world must not criticize the legitimacy of the Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, from 1735 to 1796, the Daxing Literary Prison had an average of more than two cases per year, and some years even had as many as six or seven cases.

While the literary inquisition created a psychological intimidation for the Han scholars of "avoiding the seats and fearing the literary inquisition", it also harmed the intellectuals of the scholars and cultivated a large number of foolish people, resulting in a sad situation where all horses and horses are silent, hindering the progress of society.

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