"Zhongtang" originated from the Tang and Song dynasties in Zhongshu Province, for the prime minister to handle government affairs, the middle hall because the prime minister in the province of Zhongshu office named, later called the prime minister also called the middle hall, the Ming and Qing dynasties became the title of the cabinet university scholar. Qing Dynasty university scholars often have to manage a department, Beijing officials generally have a full Han divided sitting in the east and west, which is empty, if there is a management department university scholar present, they sit in the middle, so it is also called the middle hall, the Qing Dynasty including the co-organizers of the university are used this name.
Therefore, some people listed He yan together with Liu Yong and Ji Xiaolan as the three major halls in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
Among the three, Zhonghe Yan held the highest official position, and was made a first-class loyal duke and an official bai wenhuadian university scholar by Qianlong, whose positions mainly included the chief university scholar of the cabinet, the minister of military aircraft for the foreman, the shangshu of the official department, the shangshu of the hubu, the shangshu of the punishment department, and the shangshu of the Lifan yuan, and also concurrently held dozens of important positions such as the chief of the internal affairs office, the head of the Hanlin Academy, the minister of the interior of the leading guards, and the commander of the infantry. He Yan was deeply favored by the Qianlong Emperor, and he was able to guess his intentions, always go to the Tang Dynasty for the Emperor, and handle the affairs of the Qianlong Emperor properly, and the things that the Qianlong Emperor was worried about were all handled by He Yan. Over time, Qianlong naturally regarded Hezhen as a part of himself, and of course he would reuse it, so Hezhen also enjoyed the highest honor of being a courtier in Qianlong's time.
However, when the Jiaqing Emperor succeeded to the throne, it also heralded the end of the era of Hezhen, and on the third day of the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, the Taishang Emperor Qianlong died in the Yangxin Temple, and the Jiaqing Emperor ordered the funeral of Prime Minister Hezhen; only ten days after the death of the Qianlong Emperor, that is, on the thirteenth day of the first month, the Jiaqing Emperor declared the twenty major sins of Hezhen, and ordered the family to be raided, and the silver was copied to 800 million taels. During the Qianlong period, the annual tax revenue of the Qing court was only 70 million taels. The property hidden by Hezhen was equivalent to the income of the Qing government for fifteen years at that time. On the eighteenth day of the first month, the court deliberated on Ling Chi, but he's daughter-in-law Gu Lun and Princess Xiao and Liu Yong and others suggested that although he had committed the most heinous crimes, after all, he had served as a minister of the previous dynasty, and he should commit suicide in prison instead of He yan, and finally gave He Yan to commit suicide with a white silk in his own home.
In modern film and television dramas, Liu Yong and Ji Xiaolan have both fought with He Yan, although all three of them are highly valued by the Qianlong Emperor, but Liu Yong and Ji Xiaolan have not entered the Military Aircraft Department, Liu Yongguan to Tirenge University Scholar (Zheng Yipin), Ji Xiaolan Official to Associate University Scholar (from Yipin), and He Yan is the chief university scholar of the cabinet, the foreman of the military aircraft minister, is the real prime minister, the "Qing History Draft" said that "university scholars are not concurrently military aircraft department, must not be the real prime minister."
Although Liu Yong and Ji Xiaolan did not enter the military plane and were not real prime ministers, they both survived well.
Liu Yong was the eldest son of Liu Tongxun, a university scholar, and his father Liu Tongxun successively held important positions such as Shangshu of the Punishment Department, Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, Shangshu of the Bureaucracy, Scholar of the Cabinet University, Bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and Minister of Military Aircraft. Therefore, Liu Yong is also a proper official of the second generation. Because of his father's relationship, Liu Yong participated in the examination and the palace examination as a person of Enyin, and was awarded the second rank of the second rank in the examination, and was awarded the Hanlin Yuan Shu Jishi, at this time Liu Yong was 32 years old, after which the official sea rose and fell, after several ups and downs, successively served as the prefect of Taiyuan Province, the prefect of Jiangning Province, the cabinet bachelor, the scholar of Tirenge University, etc., and was known for his obedience to the law and honesty. Jiaqing died of illness in the ninth year, at the age of eighty-five, and was posthumously awarded the title of Prince Taibao and given the title of Wenqing.
Ji Yun, also spelled Xiaolan, was also a second-generation official, but much worse than Liu Yong's father, Liu Tongxun, whose father, Ji Rongshu, successively served as a subordinate official of the Household Department and the Punishment Department, and was sent to the prefect of Yao'an in Yunnan. Ji Xiaolan entered Beijing with his father at the age of eleven, qianlong nineteen years, the examination of the jinshi, after which the official Zuo Du Yushi, bingbu, rebbe Shangshu, co-founded university Shi Jia Prince Tai custodian guozi supervisor Zhi Shi, once served as the chief editor of the "Four Libraries Of the Whole Book". Ten years after Jiaqing, Ji Yun died of illness in the capital at the age of 82.