"One fence three piles, one good man three gangs", although the emperor has the most supreme power in the world, but the specific state policy still depends on the ministers to implement. The Yongzheng Emperor was the fifth emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the third emperor after the capital beijing, compared with his father the Kangxi Emperor and his son the Qianlong Emperor, the Yongzheng Emperor reigned not too long, only thirteen years, but it played a crucial role in the continuation of the Kangqian prosperous era, during which the Yongzheng Emperor strengthened the rule of the southwestern nationalities through a series of reforms, reduced the economic burden of the peasants, and greatly improved the corruption of officials since the end of the Kangxi Dynasty. Although Yongzheng's historical sentiment is not as good as his father and son, his importance is not inferior to that of the two, and the following is a look at the five ministers he relied on most during Yongzheng's reign.
Tian Wenjing
Tian Wenjing, born in the second year of Kangxi, was awarded the title of County Clerk of Changle County, Fujian Province at the age of twenty-one, and thus stepped into the career path, but during the Kangxi Period Tian Wenjing's career path did not go well, and at the time of Kangxi's death, the sixty-one-year-old Tian Wenjing was only a Lang official, but the Ascension Emperor's ascension to the throne brought him the opportunity to be promoted. In the first year of Yongzheng, Tian Wenjing was appointed as the envoy of Shanxi province to be responsible for disaster relief, and after his arrival, Tian Wenjing fully demonstrated his ability to govern, sorted out the public affairs accumulated by Shanxi for a long time, eliminated the original chronic diseases, and made the official rule in Shanxi a new one, so Tian Wenjing was appreciated by the Yongzheng Emperor and began to become his confidant. After that, Tian Wenjing successively served as a political envoy of Henan and an inspector of Henan, and during his term of office, he cleared up the arrears, practiced the practice of extortion, restricted the privileges of the gentry, strictly limited the payment of money and grain, strictly implemented the baojia system, vigorously promoted the reform policy of the Yongzheng Emperor, and rectified the maladministration, and later in order to praise Tian Wenjing's political achievements, the Yongzheng Emperor specially awarded him the title of Governor of Shandong, Henan, this official position was specially set for Tian Wenjing, not a rule, which shows his grace. In the tenth year of Yongzheng, Tian Wenjing died of illness shortly after his illness, and after his death, he was buried near the Tomb of the Yongzheng Emperor.
Li Wei
Li Wei, in many film and television works say that he was born as Huazi, in fact, it is not, Kangxi twenty-seven years Li Wei was born in a wealthy family in Feng County, Jiangsu Province, Kangxi fifty-six years through donations to get a position of a soldier foreign lang, and then served as a hubu langzhong, Yongzheng first year Li Wei was appointed as a direct subordinate to the Yi Sect, in charge of the province's Yi delivery, before arriving at the post, he was changed to Yunnan Yanyi Road, in charge of salt administration, because of his outstanding political achievements Yongzheng was promoted to envoy, in charge of the finances of a province, and later Li Wei successively served as the governor of Zhejiang. In less than ten years, the two Zhejiang Salt Envoys and the Governor of Zhejiang have achieved a leap from five idle posts to one product important official and feudal official, and the speed of promotion cannot be described as fast. During his term of office, Li Wei inspected the illegal salt and built a sea pond to resist the invasion of the sea tide, and was also a clean and honest official, and was deeply loved by the people, and when Li Wei died of illness in the third year of Qianlong, the Qianlong Emperor ordered that he be buried according to the governor's routine.
Nian Tang Yao
Nian Qianyao, a native of Fengyang, Anhui, was born in the eighteenth year of Kangxi, his father served as the imperial history of Henan Province, the servant of the Ministry of Works, the inspector of Huguang, etc., kangxi thirty-nine years of the tangyao examination in the middle of the jinshi, appointed to the Hanlin Academy review, Kangxi forty-eight years promoted to the governor of Sichuan, became a feudal official, in the war to defeat the Dzungar chief Cefu Alabutan invasion of Tibet, in order to ensure the logistics supply of the Qing army, showed outstanding talent, Kangxi sixty years later Tang Yao was promoted to the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, after the Yongzheng Emperor took the throne, Nian Tangyao was even more highly relied on, Along with Longkeduo, he was known as the right and left arm of the Yongzheng Emperor.
Yongzheng Emperor
In May of the first year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng issued an edict: "If there is a place to dispatch soldiers and use grain and wages, the minister of border defense and the governor of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan, Futi Town, etc., will handle it according to the year." In this way, Nian Qianyao took charge of all the affairs of the western region, and actually became a close agent of Yongzheng on the front line in the western region, and in October of the same year, the Luobuzang Danjin Rebellion occurred in Qinghai, and the situation in Qinghai was suddenly in chaos, and Yongzheng ordered Nian Qianyao to take over as the general of Fuyuan, the governor of the various armies, stationed in Xining to command the counterinsurgency, and achieved a real victory the following year, Nian Qianyao himself was also awarded the first class duke for this merit, and his father Nian Qianyao was also promoted to a first-class duke, plus the title of Taifu, at this time Nian Qianyao's power reached its peak, but at the end of the month, he lost. The triumphant Nian Qianyao did many things beyond his duty, which gradually attracted the suspicion and jealousy of the Yongzheng Emperor, and in December of the third year of Yongzheng, Nian Qianyao was stripped of his title by the Yongzheng Emperor, listed ninety-two major crimes, and ordered him to commit suicide.
Roncodo
Long Keduo, a Manchurian yellow flag man, the younger brother of empress dowager Kangxi Xiaoyiren of the Qing Dynasty, and the third son of Tong Guowei of the first rank, according to the generations, the Yongzheng Emperor also had to call him uncle. In the twenty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Long Keduo was appointed as a first-class bodyguard, and soon after he was promoted to luan Yi envoy, and before the death of the Kangxi Emperor in the sixty-first year of Kangxi, Long Keduo was summoned to the imperial court and became a minister of gu orders. In the first year of Yongzheng, Longkeduo, because of his meritorious service and the affairs of the chancellor of the university Shimaqi, and inherited the title of duke of the first rank, he was crowned as a bureaucrat Shangshu, a very popular subject, and the Yongzheng Emperor directly called him an uncle instead of his name, and the official quan xuan Longkeduo at the beginning of the Yongzheng reign could also be arbitrarily selected without being asked, which shows the grace he received. However, in the fifth year of Yongzheng, the Yongzheng Emperor announced his forty-one major crimes on the grounds that Longkeduo had formed a party for personal gain and secretly hid jade, and imprisoned him forever, and the following year Longkeduo died in the place of confinement.
Zhang Tingyu
Zhang Tingyu, Kangxi was born in the eleventh year of the Zhang family in Tongcheng, Anhui, his father Zhang Ying was an official to the Wenhuadian University scholar, Libu Shangshu, Kangxi thirty-nine years Zhang Tingyu examination in the middle of the jinshi, conferred the Hanlin Academy Shu Jishi, Kangxi forty-three years into the South Study, into the center of power, favored by the Kangxi Emperor, in the Kangxi Dynasty Zhang Tingyu successively served as a cabinet bachelor, a ceremonial attendant, a bureaucrat left shilang, a punishment department right shilang and other positions, political talent continued to be prominent. After the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, Zhang Tingyu became the main assistant who assisted him in planning the country's major policies, and he was given the posts of Prince Taibao, Hubu Shangshu, and Hanlin Yuan's chief scholar, and gradually became one of the cardinals, and in the sixth year of Yongzheng, Zhang Tingyu was promoted to a scholar of the Bohol Temple, and also in charge of the affairs of the Shangshu Department, and the following year Yongzheng set up a military aircraft department in Longzongmen, and Zhang Tingyu shared his affairs with Prince Yunxiang and Jiang Tingxi, of which the main system of the Military Aircraft Department was planned by Zhang Tingyu. In the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, before his death, the Yongzheng Emperor took Zhang Tingyu and Yunlu the Prince of Zhuang and the university scholar Ortai as the same minister of gu orders, and after the Qianlong Emperor took the throne, he was given the title of Minister of Prime Minister affairs and a third-class earl. However, later Zhang Tingyu and the Qianlong Emperor gradually became suspicious, and after Zhi Shi returned home, the evening scene was desolate, and finally died in the twentieth year of Qianlong, at the age of eighty-four, and was buried in Longmian Mountain, Yuwen He, worthy of the Taimiao Temple, in the entire history of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Tingyu was the only Hanchen who deserved to enjoy the Taimiao Temple.