Speaking of Zhang Tingyu, everyone is no stranger. He was a major courtier of the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, and the only Han official in the entire Qing Dynasty who was worthy of the Taimiao Temple. The most distinctive military aircraft department of the Qing Dynasty was jointly established by Yongzheng and Zhang Tingyu, who was also the first military aircraft minister of the Qing Dynasty. During his assistance to Kangxi and Yongzheng, he reformed the laws and taxes of the Qing Dynasty, and made important contributions to the economic prosperity of the Kangqian dynasty.
It was such a hero who was reused by Kangxi and Yongzheng that he was coldly received during the Qianlong period. Zhang Tingyu's political views were not taken seriously by Qianlong, and in his later years, he was also raided by Qianlong, which can be described as miserable and bleak. Qianlong's move was to unload and kill donkeys? If you explore the power division of the Qianlong dynasty at the beginning of the reign, you can know one or two.
In the first year of Qianlong (1736), Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty ascended the throne. Before Qianlong ascended the throne, Yongzheng left him three ministers to assist him in governing the country: Yunlu the Prince of Zhuang, Zhang Tingyu, and Ortai. Among them, Yun Lu and Ortai were manchus, while Zhang Tingyu was a Han official. In fact, whether it was full of Han, these three talents valued by Yongzheng were not reused by Qianlong, because the Qianlong Emperor was jealous of the forces of the old dynasty.
For example, Zhang Tingyu, although he was incorruptible and capable, because of his huge roots in the DPRK, qianlong, who had just taken over the imperial court, was uneasy. Moreover, what made Qianlong most embarrassed was that he could not move Zhang Tingyu, first, the han official team headed by Zhang Tingyu could form a trend of confrontation with the Manchu official team, and Zhang Tingyu and Ortai were almost at a point of incompatibility between water and fire during the dynasty, and whenever there was an opportunity, they were bound to ridicule or fight back. If the Qianlong Emperor suppressed Zhang Tingyu too much, it would lead to the excessive power of the Ortai side.
Second, Zhang Tingyu was once his mentor, in addition to the love between master and apprentice, due to the traditional morality of Confucianism, he could not destroy his relatives in a big way, and really did something that destroyed people's common sense. Despite these restrictions and blessings, Zhang Tingyu's overly harsh personality often made the Qianlong Emperor feel helpless. Although Zhang Tingyu had no intention of controlling the imperial government, Han officials of the same faction as him would use the deterrent power of his words to monopolize the power in the imperial court.
In order to take the imperial power into his own hands, the Qianlong Emperor had to set an example, openly attacking the three ministers who were concerned about their orders, and secretly cultivating new forces. In the fourth year of Qianlong, he first extended his sword to the first minister, Yunlu, to eliminate the Yunlu party for the crime of "forming parties for personal gain and secretive exchanges" by Yunlu and his royal nobles, and the threat of power of the clan nobles was gradually eradicated. At this time, the greatest threat to the imperial power of the Qianlong Emperor was Zhang and E.
During the Yongzheng period, zhang Tingyu promoted people who were already "in the world", and even more so when the Qianlong Emperor had just ascended the throne, Liu Tongxun once said: "There are nineteen people such as Zhang Tinglu and other people in the Current Zhang Clan Dengshi version, and there are thirteen people such as Yao Kongzhen and other eunuchs who are married to the Yao clan and the Zhang clan. ...... Public opinion in the outside world was moving, and Yao Chengzhang and Yao were surnamed, accounting for half of the gentry. Of course, the Qianlong Emperor was also well aware of the harm of the partisans, and once made a statement to remind the two.
Ertai was more intelligent and knew how to observe the color of speech, so he got a good ending. After the death of Ortai in the tenth year of Qianlong (1745), the Qianlong Emperor immediately began to draw salaries and replace the blood in the imperial court. Since the Minister of Military Aircraft was previously served by Ortai, according to the regulations of the Military Aircraft Department, Manchu han officials should serve as military aircraft ministers according to their turns, so it should be Zhang Tingyu who took over. However, the Qianlong Emperor directly promoted Fu Heng to military minister after Zhang Tingyu, which showed his thoughts.
Many people know that Fu Heng was a confidant of the Qianlong Emperor because he was the empress's mother's family. Fu Heng was a pawn of the Qianlong Emperor to collect imperial power, and the target of this pawn was Zhang Tingyu and all the Han officials. Zhang Tingyu actually saw the qianlong emperor's inner thoughts, so he applied for retirement and resignation in the thirteenth year of Qianlong (1748). However, the Qianlong Emperor decreed: "Qing qing has received great favors from the two dynasties, and has been ordered by the emperor to enjoy the Taimiao Temple in the future." Is there any reason to return from the Ancestors to the field and end up old? In fact, it was not that the Qianlong Emperor was reluctant to him, but mainly that the Qianlong Emperor had been looking for an opportunity to severely punish Zhang Tingyu, and he could not let Zhang Tingyu leave so easily.
Zhang Tingyu also wanted to be able to retire like Ortai, so in the winter of the same year, he once again went to the old man to return to his hometown. If the Qianlong Emperor did not allow it again, it would really be easy to cause micro-words, so he had to allow it. However, Zhang Tingyu, who had devoted his life to the dynasty and worked hard for the dynasty, was really wronged, and the Yongzheng Emperor had already made him worthy of the glory of the Taimiao Temple, just because of the Qianlong Emperor's plot, to ruin the honor he deserved? Zhang Tingyu made this request at the time of his departure from the dynasty, and it was precisely the request of the "Taimiao" that made the Qianlong Emperor once again have a heart of suppression.
The Qianlong Emperor sought revenge on Zhang Tingyu, revoked him from the honor of enjoying the Taimiao Temple, and stripped him of his title. After this incident, Zhang Tingyu not only failed to return to his hometown, but was demoted and became more and more depressed in the DPRK. In the fifteenth year of Qianlong (1750), Zhang Tingyu's relative Zhu Xiao was convicted, and the following year his friend Yan Ruilong was also dismissed, followed by raiding his home and confiscating the gifts given by the former imperial court.
In fact, in the last few years, even if Zhang Tingyu was careful, he would eventually be punished by Qianlong. Because the Qianlong Emperor had already made it clear that he wanted to dispose of him, in order to be able to annihilate the Han officials in one fell swoop, Zhang Tingyu became a victim of this power struggle. However, the Qianlong Emperor probably also felt uneasy about his conscience, and the Han officials who were so favored by his father were persecuted by himself and were still his former benefactors. Therefore, after Zhang Tingyu's death, the Qianlong Emperor still gave him the honor of the Temple, and returned the rewards he had collected, which could be regarded as a fulfillment for Zhang Tingyu and himself.