What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In the sixtieth year of Qianlong (1795), Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong, was located in the fifteenth son, Emperor Hongli chan, and was scheduled to return to power next year, changing it to the first year of Jiaqing.
When he ascended the throne, the Qianlong Emperor was already 85 years old, and it is said that at this age to become the Emperor Taishang, it should be a time to retreat to the second line and raise the heavens and the years, but once the taste of power is tasted, it is not so good to give up, although the Qianlong Emperor is ostensibly Zen and returns to the government, but still through the "training of government" method to actually grasp the power for up to 3 years, which is equivalent to the Jiaqing Emperor for a full 3 years, until the third day of the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799), the Qianlong Emperor died in the Yangxin Temple. The Jiaqing Emperor really began to pro-government.
So how did the 85-year-old Qianlong Emperor continue to manipulate the power after handing over the throne, which symbolizes the supreme ruling power of the whole country to his son Jiaqing Emperor, through the way of Zen concession, and has not yet turned against the father and son of the Jiaqing Emperor, after all, an emperor, a Taishang Emperor, can be described as two days in the sky, the Qianlong Emperor is so empty of his son Jiaqing Emperor, has not yet attracted the backlash of the Jiaqing Emperor, it is indeed very intriguing, today Song Anzhi came to talk specifically.
The reason why the Qianlong Emperor could continue to manipulate power during the reign of Emperor Taishang was that until his death, he still firmly grasped the use of human rights, army command, and decision-making power of the imperial court, to put it bluntly, when he ascended the throne of Jiaqing Emperor, he did not transfer the core power of the emperor to the Jiaqing Emperor at all, which means that he has always firmly grasped the power, and the Jiaqing Emperor is just a puppet emperor.
In addition to grasping the core power, the Qianlong Emperor also insisted on personally managing government affairs, and after the death of the Qianlong Emperor, the Jiaqing Emperor recalled that "since the imperial examination last year, he occasionally felt the wind and cold, and after the adjustment, although his temperament was inferior to the previous, he was still pro-patrolling the government and did not try to quit." It can be seen from this that although the Qianlong Emperor was the Emperor Taishang, the things he did were no different from those of the emperor, and he was constantly and uninterruptedly personally in charge of government affairs.
In addition, the Qianlong Emperor's favorite vassals and Yan yan also played a great role.
After the Qianlong Emperor became the Taishang Emperor, he could be said to have abused his power even more, such as stipulating in advance the matters performed by the ministers of culture and military affairs of various ministries, stipulating that the ministers of military aircraft should be notified in advance, which can be said to have infringed on the imperial power.
And the reason why he did this, in fact, is to put it bluntly, to take checks and balances against the Jiaqing Emperor, to prevent the Jiaqing Emperor from slowly grasping real power; and he is so arrogant that he can monitor the Jiaqing Emperor in an all-round way.
Was Hezhen doing this in a plot to usurp the throne?
Definitely not, because it is not said that he has this ambition, he simply does not have this strength, otherwise the Qianlong Emperor has just died, he was taken care of by the Jiaqing Emperor, on the whole, the basis of Hezhen's power is not how much power he has, because he really does not, but that he has the support of the Qianlong Emperor behind him, and the reason why the Qianlong Emperor did this is, of course, to use him to make himself better and actually grasp the power.
Of course, there is also a key point that the Jiaqing Emperor is obedient to the Qianlong Emperor.
The Jiaqing Emperor can be described as a benevolent emperor, and his temple name "Renzong" is enough to prove how good he is, after all, the emperors who can get the "Renzong" temple number are all well-known Renhou Emperors, and this reference song Renzong Zhao Zhen knows.
And the Jiaqing Emperor was benevolent, for the Qianlong Emperor only obeyed the order, but also constituted an important reason why the Qianlong Emperor could actually hold the power, if replaced by an ambitious generation, it may endure the Qianlong Emperor for a period of time, but it will never be like the Jiaqing Emperor who has endured for three years, when the father and son are bound to have contradictions, and even it is not impossible to turn against each other.
Of course, even so, the Jiaqing Emperor must have been dissatisfied with the Qianlong Emperor, and the relationship between father and son seems to have always been good, but the more time goes on, the greater the hidden danger of burying the conflict, after all, no one wants to be a puppet emperor all the time, even if it is a benevolent emperor like the Jiaqing Emperor.
Fortunately, the Qianlong Emperor died three years after actually manipulating the power, and it can be said that this time is almost the limit that the Jiaqing Emperor can tolerate. If he lived for another two or three years, the Jiaqing Emperor could not bear it, and the huge political crisis hidden behind him broke out, whether the Jiaqing Emperor resisted successfully or not, the father and son were destined to split, fortunately, the Qianlong Emperor died before this huge political crisis broke out, and once he died, the contradictions caused by "two days in the sky" naturally subsided, and the son Jiaqing Emperor finally took over the government, and He yan was quickly taken down and given to death, and everything slowly returned to the right track.