Speaking of the Jiaqing Emperor, in the long history of the emperor is not remarkable at all, his father is the longest-lived emperor qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and because of his longevity, Jiaqing did not have any political achievements in the early stage of being a son, although Qianlong abdicated and gave the throne to Jiaqing, but he was unwilling to really delegate power and still had the highest power.
After Qianlong's death, Jiaqing really had the opportunity to be pro-government, and thought it was a good time to prove himself, but the real problem directly poured cold water on Jiaqing.
He had to deal with a society where the people's livelihood was poorly decorated by his father, the peasant army that did not have enough to eat, and the dark politics above the court. Even the final violent death, until now people do not know the exact cause of death.
What has he experienced in this life?
If you want to talk about Jiaqing, you must not be able to avoid his father, Qianlong.
Qianlong created the Kangqian prosperous era in the history of the Qing Dynasty, but to be fair, if he had not been left to him by his grandfather Kangxi and his father Yongzheng, he might not have been able to create such glory.
With money and peace and the country's Qianlong began his fabrications, several times down to Jiangnan, Ming to investigate the people's feelings, in fact, for pleasure, by the way to find concubines.
Calm is only superficial, in fact, in China at that time, land annexation reached a new height, rich merchants and gentry used various means to buy land, so that land ownership was highly concentrated, while ordinary people went bankrupt and rushed to work for a mouthful of food.
Of course, the Qianling Emperor knew, but if he, as the supreme ruler, solved this problem, he would open the knife to the vested interests, that is, his own ministers, so he dragged this matter over.
The peasants who did not have enough to eat could no longer wait, and in the forty years of Qianlong, the leaders of the White Lotus Sect began to revolt, but the uprising soon failed, and in the fifty-eighth year of Qianlong, the Qing court's pursuit of the White Lotus Sect fugitives aroused public indignation, and the power of the rebel army expanded rapidly.
In his later years, Qianlong was worried about this time, and he could not solve this problem, so he could only throw this mess to his son Ai Xinjue Luo Yuanyan, and even said to his ancestors: "If he is not virtuous, he is willing to steal his calculations, so that he will not be mistaken, and he can also choose another Yuanliang." ”
This means that if this son is not able to bear the responsibility, let him die quickly, and I will look for a more suitable candidate.
I don't know what kind of mood the Jiaqing Emperor felt when he knew that his father was talking about himself behind his back.
Qianlong did not want to reign longer than the Kangxi Emperor, so he took the initiative to abdicate, gave the title of emperor to Jiaqing, and became the Emperor Taishang himself.
However, he only gave the title of Jiaqing Emperor, and the emperor's rights were still firmly in his hands, until the death of the Qianlong Emperor, Jiaqing really had the rights that belonged to the emperor.
The era belonging to Jiaqing officially kicked off.
Compared with his grandfather Yongzheng, he is indeed not the most labor-loving and diligent person among the emperors of the entire Qing Dynasty, but he does handle the various tasks at his disposal very seriously.
Without as much energy as his father, the 17 concubines in the harem were much less than those of his grandfather and father.
The first thing Jiaqing did when he ascended to the throne was to get rid of Hezhen.
As the first favorite vassal of the Qianlong era, the power and accumulated wealth in his hands reached an unparalleled point, and even the news that Jiaqing had won the throne was passed on to Jiaqing by Hezhen, who originally thought that he could get a stable old age by having a good relationship with the little prince early.
But he didn't know that Jiaqing had already heard about Heqing and was extremely disgusted with him, and after Jiaqing became emperor, Heyan repeatedly did not give Jiaqing face and refuted his ideas, which made Jiaqing's dislike for Hezhen reach the top.
Therefore, as soon as Qianlong died, Jiaqing put a rope around hezhen's neck, and raided the family and the qing government's treasury for several years, which supported Jiaqing's various policies, including the suppression of the rebel army.
Although the Jiaqing Emperor worked very vigorously, it has to be said that the Qing Dynasty was slowly declining under his rule, which was historically known as "Jiadao Zhongde".
The Jiaqing Emperor originally thought that his father could live for such a long time, his health would not be bad, and he could take it slowly, but God did not give him this opportunity.
The Qianlong Emperor's mother lived to the age of 89, and the Qianlong Emperor also lived to be 89 years old, and according to genetic genetics, Jiaqing as a son should not live very short, but reality made a joke to him.
Twenty-five years after Jiaqing, Jiaqing led the mighty concubines and ministers to the Mulan Paddock for the last hunt of his life.
In fact, on the way, the Jiaqing Emperor had mild symptoms of heat stroke, but he did not take it too seriously and still followed the itinerary to Rehe.
After arriving at Rehe, looking at the weather was very good, the Jiaqing Emperor also rode on horseback for a while, and after riding the horse, he went to visit the City God Temple and Yongyou Temple, and after all these were over, he lived in the Smoke Wave Zhishuang Hall of the Summer Resort.
It was getting dark, the clouds were thick, and I saw a heavy rain fall.
When the palace maid went in to serve the next day, she found that the Jiaqing Emperor had died in bed, only sixty-one years old.
In fact, when the Jiaqing Emperor lived in the summer resort, there were already imperial doctors to see him, and at the beginning the imperial doctor also treated the emperor according to heat stroke, but opened some fresh tea drinks, chidai tea drinks and other to regulate the humid heat of Jiaqing.
After the treatment of the imperial doctor, the Jiaqing Emperor was directly bedridden and could not get up, and even his spirit could not be concentrated all the time, and for a time there was a coma.
But the strange thing is that the emperor is already so serious, the imperial doctors have not been around, Jiaqing's death was only discovered the next day, jiaqing's violent death became a pending case of the Qing Dynasty.
The emperor is dead, and the most urgent task before everyone is who the next emperor is.
Since the ninth son of Kangxi took the concubine, successive emperors have placed the next emperor candidate behind the Qianqing Palace Zhengda Guangming Plaque, but when everyone went to look for it, they did not find it.
While the people were arguing, this important edict was discovered on a small eunuch, and this edict was written in the early morning of the tenth morning of the first month of April in the fourth year of Jiaqing, and the heir chosen by the Jiaqing Emperor at that moment was Mianning.
That is, the Daoguang Emperor.
There has never been a conclusion about the violent death of the Jiaqing Emperor, some people say that it was misdiagnosed by quacks, some people say that he was poisoned to death, and even some people blamed the thunder shower that day, saying that the emperor was killed by lightning.
It all went on with time, and slowly no one mentioned it.
To be sure, the Jiaqing Emperor was a hard-working and hard-working emperor who was trying to change the darkness in the court and the problems of society, but none of this could change the world situation at that time, and the British ships were about to open the door to China.
All this not only reminds people of Qianlong's words: if he is not virtuous, he is willing to steal his calculations, so that he will not be mistaken, and he can also choose another Yuanliang.