In the "Art of War of Sun Tzu", it is said that "the general who will be outside, the king's order is not affected", it is said that the general who leads the army outside can selectively listen to the emperor's orders, that is, there are many who do not have to listen, even like the Northern Zhou general Zhao Kuangyin, it is even more fierce, leading the army just twenty miles away from the capital, it is directly "yellow robe plus body" to become the emperor, so it is normal for the emperor to take precautions against the generals who lead the outside.
It is precisely because of the emperor's precautionary heart, naturally there will be a variety of tentative moves, and the outside generals will inevitably be worried about this, if in the face of the emperor's temptation, a careless person may really lose his life, so in ancient times, as a general, not only military wisdom, but also political wisdom, The Manchu Qing Dynasty Zhang Jia Agui happened to be such a general.
Ah Gui was born in 1717, his father Acton is a very legendary figure, although the family was originally mediocre, but because of his youth, he successfully passed the Examination for the Kangxi Dynasty, so he was able to enter the dynasty as an official, and his career was smooth, and later he entered the ranks of the most senior officials in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, becoming a university scholar and prince Taibao, and also the Shangshu of the Rebbe and the Bingbu.
Acton changed his destiny with his knowledge, so that his son Ah Gui had a choice to choose to do what he liked and was interested in. Ah Gui is different from his father, he likes to practice martial arts since he was a child, and he is extremely obsessed with the knowledge of military art, so under his father's arrangement, the starting point of his career is in the military department, such a department specializing in dealing with the military.
At the beginning of the thirteenth year of Qianlong (1747), Ah Gui followed Bingbu Shangshu to the Jinchuan military camp in Sichuan on a business trip, and as a result, he encountered a rebellion of the big and small Jinchuan, in fact, this matter originally had nothing to do with Ah Gui, but since he met, he had to help the local military system boss Ne Qin and Zhang Guangsi to deal with the problem, after all, he was also nominally a subordinate of the family.
However, this business trip caused him trouble, although a lot of silver money was consumed, but Ne Qin and Zhang Guangsi did not put down the rebellion in time, these two high-ranking officials were executed by the Qianlong Emperor, to the holy will, and the large and small officials who helped Ne Qin and Zhang Guangsi to participate in this matter were also punished to varying degrees, and Ah Gui, who was originally just passing by, was also demoted to go home.
Subsequently, the Qianlong Emperor transferred the generals Fu Heng and Yue Zhongqi into Sichuan, and the two quickly and neatly quelled the rebellion of the great and small Jinchuan, but by the thirty-sixth year of Qianlong (1771), the originally surrendered Jinchuan Tusi died, and his young heir did not have much fresh understanding of the military strength of the Qing Dynasty, so he brazenly launched a rebellion.
At this time, Yue Zhongqi and Fu Heng had both died, and the Qianlong Emperor looked around, and only Ah Gui was more familiar with the big and small Jinchuan, so he sent Ah Gui to quell the rebellion. However, Ah Gui also lost soldiers at the beginning, so he strictly ruled the army, very much killed several staff generals Li Wei, so that the morale of the Manchu Qing army was great, and successfully quelled the rebellion, but it also offended some powerful families, and various impeachment books flew to Qianlong like pieces of paper.
In order to quell some of the impeachments, the Qianlong Emperor publicly stated that he would send the crown prince Yong Huang to give Ah Gui a cup of poisoned wine, and Ah Gui was also worried after learning the news, but when he greeted Yong Huang, he found that Yong Huang only brought two guards, so he understood that this was only a temptation of the Qianlong Emperor, and if he really gave poisoned wine, it would be led by a large army led by the general, so he was excited to take the "poisonous wine" that Yong Huang handed over and drank it all.
Reference: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty