In the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong, the eighty-two-year-old Qianlong Emperor wrote the "Ten Complete Records", which described the "Ten Complete Martial Arts" of his life. The Qianlong Emperor therefore called himself the "Ten Perfect Old Men". Qianlong reigned for 60 years, from February 1736 to February 1796. However, such an emperor finally died in regret, because at that time the White Lotus Sect revolt was raging.
Although the White Lotus Sect was a small force, it was good at mobile warfare, so the White Lotus Sect could not be eliminated for a long time, and qianlong had not yet been eliminated when he died. It can be said that Qianlong saw the Qing Dynasty going downhill, because this was unprecedented in the Kangxi and Yongzheng periods, and according to the metaphysical point of view, this White Lotus Sect greatly affected the Qi number of the Qing Dynasty, or the Qi number of the Qing Dynasty has entered the countdown.
The Qianlong Emperor is also the longest-lived emperor in Chinese history, and he died at the age of 89! So in the 268-year history of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong's life journey accounted for 33% of the Qing Dynasty's life expectancy. That is to say, when Qianlong remembers, it was the stage of the Qing Dynasty's rising flowers and flowers, fiery cooking oil. When Qianlong died, there were already signs of the weakening of the dynasty.
Dynasties such as the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty can actually be called "dynasties", and "dynasties" have the meaning of "all countries to come to the dynasty", so in ancient times, those dynasties that were unified or lasted for more than a hundred years can be called "dynasties". If it is short-lived, or if the local area is divided, then it is "generation", which has the meaning of "substitution", such as "five generations and ten kingdoms", which cannot be called five dynasties and ten countries. Even for a unified dynasty, its peak period may be only thirty or forty years, for example, the Qing Dynasty was the most prosperous during the Kangxi dynasty from the removal of Aobai to the Kangxi recovery of many territories, and by the end of The Kangxi Dynasty, it had accumulated many drawbacks.
By the time of Yongzheng Qianlong, only the autocracy had reached its peak, and it was expected that the world would last forever, but the weather had begun to decline. In order to look forward to the eternal transmission of the world, the Qianlong Emperor determined the three generations of names for future generations of "Mian", "Yi", and "Zai". It was connected with the three generations of "Yin", "Hong" and "Yong" determined by the Kangxi Emperor.
In the third year of Jiaqing, The Qianlong Emperor pointed out the marriage of the 13-year-old Zaixi, which was already the same hall of the fifth dynasty, and the reason why he was anxious to give him a marriage was that Qianlong hoped that "the sixth generation would be in the same hall". Perhaps when the sixth emperor was in the same hall, the seal of the Qianlong Emperor would engrave a seal of "sixth glory" in addition to "Ancient Rare Heavenly Son", "Ten Perfect Old Man", "Treasure of the Eight Signs of Immortal thought", etc.
However, the heavens were not beautiful, and the Qianlong Emperor died on the third day of the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, and in the end he failed to realize this dream, although he had already lived a long life. Zaixi, who was married by Emperor Qianlong at the age of 13, although he gave birth to Puqing in the eighth year of Jiaqing, died in that year because of early childbearing, less than one year old. If the Qianlong Emperor lived for another 4 years, he would be able to meet the descendants of the same generation as Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Zai Xi was the same generation as the Guangxu Emperor Zai Xiang, and he was the first Zai Zi of the Ai Xin Jue Luo family, so he was definitely much older than Guangxu, and bigger than the last emperor Puyi. Puqing of the same generation turned out to be a full 103 years older than the last emperor Puyi.
The powerful Nine-Door Admiral, can he rebel by closing the gates of the city? The emperor was not stupid, and had long been wary