The Qing Dynasty from Nurhaci to the last emperor Puyi a total of 296 years of time, in these 296 years a total of 12 emperors, the real heyday of the period, is the "Kangqian prosperous era", Kangqian prosperous world maintained for 134 years, it can be said to have reached the peak of the point, at that time, regardless of the territory, population, taxation, in the country, are one of the best, many people think that "Kangqian prosperous", the greatest credit is Kangxi and Qianlong, in fact, this is wrong, really meritorious, It was the Yongzheng Emperor who reigned for only 13 years.
(Yongzheng Emperor)
The Kangxi Emperor reigned for 61 years, and his lifelong achievements were remarkable and outstanding, and the merits he made were beyond doubt, but in the later years of the Kangxi Emperor, the national treasury was in deficit and the officials were corrupt, and the Kangxi prosperity was only a superficial prosperity, and when Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, he decided to raid the deficit and rectify the rule of officials. As soon as the Yongzheng Emperor took the throne, he began to thoroughly investigate the deficit of money and grain among officials, which was a historical problem left over from the Kangxi dynasty, which involved relatives of the emperor and many ministers of culture and military affairs. Problems such as large area, large number of people, and complicated things.
In order to thoroughly investigate the deficit, the Yongzheng Emperor issued an edict to the Household Department, asking the Household Department to thoroughly investigate, and the Yongzheng Emperor felt that in addition to the thorough investigation of the Household Department, it would not be able to solve the problem, and the Yongzheng Emperor also specially set up the "Huikao Mansion", the main leading group was headed by Yin Xiang, the Prince of Yi, supplemented by the infantry commander Long Keduo, the university scholar Bai Huang, the Zuo Du Yushi and the official Shangshu Zhu Shi, and other officials, and the Yongzheng Emperor also stipulated that if the deficit was not filled in three years, the heads would fall to the ground.
The Yongzheng Emperor made up his mind to thoroughly investigate the deficit, but he still encountered some resistance, some of the emperor's relatives and relatives, these people did not buy the account of Prince Yunxiang of Yi, and the Yongzheng Emperor told Yunxiang, "If er cannot investigate, he will send another minister, and if the minister can no longer investigate, he will personally find out." From here, it can be seen that the Yongzheng Emperor's iron fist, no matter who owes the treasury silver, will definitely not be soft, under the rectification of Yongzheng, the deficit of the entire country has been checked, the financial revenue of the Qing Dynasty has been steadily improved, and the silver deposited in the treasury has reached fifty million taels.
After 6 years of rectification, the Yongzheng Emperor cleaned up the deficit in the national treasury and the bad habits of the officialdom in the later years of the Yongzheng Emperor, and the next plan of the Yongzheng Emperor was to start the fire consumption to the public, before the fire consumption was collected by the local officials, and when the Yongzheng Emperor arrived, it began to be collected by the provincial officials, and the inspector and the envoy department coordinated the handling. State and county officials may not retain any of the retained funds without determining the amount of fire consumption levied.
The Yongzheng Emperor promoted the return of fire consumption to the public, so that the central or local fiscal revenue, has been greatly improved, but also to make up for the deficit of various provinces, in addition to the implementation of fire consumption to the public, Qing officials have no funds in their hands that can be mobilized, Yongzheng also improved the treatment of Qing officials. The Yongzheng Emperor ordered to crack down on the arbitrary apportionment of local officials and to raise incorruptible silver.
Yongzheng is the most industrious emperor of the Qing Dynasty, but also the most capable emperor, although Yongzheng succeeded to the throne has some unjustified names, but he is a monarch who really thinks about the common people, although Kangxi's light is greater than his, but the Yongzheng Emperor has been working diligently and diligently, from a few hundred taels of silver in the Kangxi period to tens of millions of taels in the treasury, the Yongzheng Emperor laid a solid foundation for the Prosperity of Qianlong, although Yongzheng offended many people in the stall, making him bear a lot of infamy, but it was a non-meritorious deed. Let future generations comment on it!