The trend of history is a reincarnation, the famous anti-Jin general Yue Fei in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty was to resist the invasion of the Jin people all his life, but in the Qing Dynasty six hundred years later, Yue Fei's descendant Yue Zhongqi was an official in the Qing Dynasty, becoming a hot figure among the military generals of the Qing Dynasty, and the power and status at that time were only second only to the first general of the Yongzheng Dynasty, Nian Qianyao, but the strange thing is that Yue Zhongqi, a person who was loyal to the Great Qing and dedicated to fighting for Yongzheng, was finally sentenced by the Yongzheng Emperor to behead and wait for the crime. Is it really the ancestor Yue Fei who is involved?
Yue Zhongqi's immortal military feats
Yue Zhongqi is a native of Sichuan, he was born in the twenty-fifth year of Kangxi in Chengdu Province, Sichuan, at that time his family was already a rich family, relying on the reputation of Yue Fei's descendants to be respected by the local people, from the perspective of blood and lineage, Yue Zhongqi was Yue Fei's 21st grandson, his ancestor was Yue Fei's third son Yue Lin, his father achieved the position of Viceroy of Sichuan when he was the Kangxi Emperor.
At that time, Sichuan had lost the reputation of the country of Tianfu, because Sichuan had suffered from zhang Xianzhong's war and the massacre of the Qing army into Sichuan in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the population of the people was withered, and the vast land was not cultivated, under such circumstances, it was not a good thing to be the viceroy of Sichuan, but to entrust this burden to you, let you restore the production order here for the emperor, and restore Sichuan to the prosperity and prosperity of the past.
If the Qing Dynasty in the Shunzhi era was still in a state of saboteur and conqueror, then the Kangxi Emperor really unified the world, the Qing Dynasty at this time was already a qualified builder, in the face of the world that was once in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, but because of various wars, it became the appearance of this chaotic world, and the Kangxi Emperor and his Han ministers felt very difficult when building. It is impossible to return to the prosperity of the late Ming Dynasty within at least a few short-term decades.
Yue Zhongqi's father was not only a good hand in governing the localities, his skills in fighting wars were not bad at all, he once relied on the financial support of Sichuan to lead the army to follow the Kangxi Emperor to conquer Geldan in the western region, and made many achievements in the war, which made Yue Zhongqi's family a prominent family in the later years of Kangxi, if you think that Yue Zhongqi is relying on family hereditary relations to ascend to the throne, then you are wrong, Yue Zhongqi family is prominent, but he started from a small soldier.
Yue Zhongqi's military career and lifelong achievements
When the Kangxi Emperor was fifty years old, Yue Zhongqi at this time was already a good man, he gave up his way of taking the imperial examination as an official, joined the Army of the Qing Dynasty as an ordinary person, and at the beginning made a meritorious contribution in the campaign to suppress tuguan in southwest Sichuan, and was awarded the official position of guerrilla in songpan town, Sichuan, by a superior official, which is nothing, these are just a beginning of Yue Zhongqi, and the achievements and things behind him are the highlights of his life.
Eight years later, Sichuan was not only attacked by the Local Tuguan Rebellion, but also had to deal with the Attack of the Zunger Mongol Rebels who drove straight along the Hexi Corridor, when the Zunger Army invaded Tibet, Yue Zhongqi, as a young general, was the first to enter the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at an altitude of more than five thousand meters and fought on it, and in the battle with the Zunger Mongol army, he was invincible, killed countless enemies, and successively pacified the Places Occupied by the Mongols in Litang, Batang and other places, and later used less than a year, Yue Zhongqi killed all the Mongol troops , captured the central Tibetan city of Lhasa.
At this time, Yue Zhongqi had actually established the great feats of the world, and I don't know how he overcame the huge threat of altitude sickness, because in addition to the Tang Dynasty army in the various dynasties of China before, there have been thousands of years of history without this kind of war being an unfavorable reaction on the plateau and an advantageous enemy army, at this time Yue Zhongqi only entered the eyes of the Yongzheng Emperor, thinking that it might be beneficial for this person to follow Nian Qianyao to participate in the northwest war.
In the first year of Yongzheng, more than 100,000 troops of the Qing Dynasty under the leadership of Nian Qianyao and the deputy general Yue Zhongqi expeditioned to the western regions, when Nian Qianyao's military deployment was to lead a large army to attack the Zungar tribe through Mongolia, so that Yue Zhongqi's army would take the old road of the Silk Road from Qinghai to attack and attract firepower, Nian Qianyao did not have much hope for Yue Zhongqi at that time, but hoped that he could drag a part of the main force of Zunger in Qinghai, but what he did not expect was that Yue Zhongqi would pacify Qinghai between his hands. It directly opened up the Hexi Corridor area that had been blocked since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, which made Nian Qianyao look at him with astonishment and feel that this person was available.
Yue Zhongqi fell from the peak to the trough
In a few months, the Qinghai and Hexi regions were pacified, and such military feats were actually no less than those of Nian Qianyao who later pacified the northwest. After returning from pacifying Qinghai, Yue Zhongqi made the Yongzheng Emperor very happy, and said to the Manchu ministers that he had not seen such a brave Han general since the end of the Ming Dynasty, and after saying that, he rewarded Yue Zhongqi as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and single-handedly led the military and political power in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and only Yue Zhongqi was able to do it among the Han generals at that time, and to find such a Han hero again in the history of the Qing Dynasty, it was also until the end of the Qing Dynasty when no one could use it.
At this time, Yue Zhongqi was probably in his thirties and had surpassed his father's life's achievements, which belonged to the most glorious moment in his life, Yue Zhongqi may have thought that he could go further, but what he did not expect was that life and history made a big joke for him, and since then Yue Zhongqi has continued to go downhill, and almost killed by the Yongzheng Emperor who loves him, so what is the cause of this?
It turned out that after Nian Qianyao initially quelled the rebellion in the northwest, the Yongzheng Emperor killed Nian Qianyao with his own self-esteem, and at this time, Yue Zhongqi saw that his old boss was killed, and his heart was inevitably touched, and he also tied his hands and feet a lot in military operations, afraid that he would follow in the footsteps of Nian Qianyao's killing. By the ninth year of Yongzheng, Yue Zhongqi became the first person to conquer Zungel, and the Jungar tribe at that time was like a weed that was forever eradicated, and after Nian Qianyao was killed, only Yue Zhongqi was available under the Yongzheng Emperor's generals.
But at this time, Yue Zhongqi lost his former divine might, and after attacking Urumqi, he was captured by Hami, at that time it was not Yue Zhongqi's fault, it was Yue Zhongqi's two men Shi Yunqi and Cao Rang who were frightened after seeing the Dzungar army, and did not dare to go to the rescue at all, just watching the Dzungar army plunder hami city and then go away, knowing that after this military situation, Yongzheng was very bored in his heart and executed these two people in the form of holy will, but it became a huge problem in how to deal with Yue Zhongqi.
The reason why Yue Zhongqi was deprecated
Logically speaking, this is the mistake of others, and has nothing to do with Yue Zhongqi, but from the perspective of the military commander, Yue Zhongqi is ignorant of people, appointing these two straw bales to defend such an important place in Hami, just when Yongzheng was superior and undecided, Ortai helped Yongzheng Emperor make up his mind, and he played the impeachment of Yue Zhongqi in the name of auxiliary chancellors. Wisdom cannot anticipate the enemy, courage cannot annihilate the enemy, and sit and make Hami fall."
Ortai's approach is simply to kill people, ah, at the beginning of the point that the Yongzheng Emperor said that such Han people can not be used with full power, not to mention sitting in Shaanxi, Sichuan and other military provinces, he is like a prince like a crowned emperor, if there are two hearts, The world of An Daqing is not dangerous, as for the later fall of Hami and the plundering is actually only a small matter, but Ortai is to seize the heart of the Yongzheng Emperor.
Finally, after a discussion between Yongzheng and the imperial court ministers, it was decided to arrest Yue Zhongqi on the charge of "misleading the country to bear the emperor's favor", and after a series of interrogations by the Manchu ministers, Yue Zhongqi was stripped of all his previous titles and official positions, and was personally sentenced by the Yongzheng Emperor to beheading and waiting. In fact, it was not a military defeat, nor was it the crime of Yue Fei's descendants.
Yue Fei's time has passed six or seven hundred years since the Yongzheng Emperor period, yue Zhongqi although Yue Fei's concubine descendants, but also for the Qing Dynasty to establish this pacifying Qinghai, stabilizing Sichuan, recovering Tibet countless great feats, enough to wash away the reasons for Yue Fei's descendants, the real reason is actually that the Yongzheng Emperor felt that Yue Zhongqi's recovery of the Western Regions has been sealed, and the Manchus at that time saw that there was such a rising star among the Han people, afraid of unexpected things in the future, so in forcing the Yongzheng Emperor in the palace, The Yongzheng Emperor also had no choice but to sacrifice Yue Zhongqi, a loyal vassal, in exchange for the temporary support of the Manchus for his imperial power.