During the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors of the Ancients, the rulers of our country all carried out the transfer of power in the form of Zen concessions. It was not until Dayu passed the throne to his son Yi, and finally was taken away by The Crown Prince, that the Zen system finally ended, and the hereditary system began to intensify.
After Kangxi Zen gave the throne to Jiaqing, he also served as emperor of the Yangxin Hall for three years, what did he do in these three years?
And in the future, Zen will also become a tool, mostly a means for some "chaotic courtiers and thieves" to gain the power of the emperor while maintaining their reputation. For example, when Wang Mang established a new dynasty, it was the time to force the emperor to give way. Then Li Shimin declared himself emperor, that is, forced Li Yuan to hand over the throne, and so on.
However, in the Qing Dynasty, a jing Zen drama was staged, that is, in 1796 AD, the Qianlong Emperor gave the throne to the Jiaqing Emperor, established himself as the Taishang Emperor, and continued to take charge of the imperial government, until his death in 1799, he really handed over the imperial power to Jiaqing, and what was the Qianlong Emperor doing during these three years?
In 1721, when Qianlong, who was only 10 years old, saw Qianlong for the first time, Kangxi felt that Qianlong was extraordinary, so he brought Qianlong into the palace and personally taught him to learn various lessons, and therefore, later, Yongzheng passed the throne to Kangxi, so in the heart of the Qianlong Emperor, it was extremely respected.
From the accession of the Kangxi Emperor to the throne in 1661 to his abdication in 1722, he was emperor for more than 60 years. Moreover, from qianlong's accession to the throne in 1735 to the first month of 1796, that is, in the first month of 60 years, out of respect for the Kangxi Emperor, he did not want to exceed Kangxi's age, so the Qianlong Emperor decided to take the throne.
Although Jiaqing was deeply favored by the Qianlong Emperor from an early age, the Qianlong Emperor's favor for Empress Fucha was even greater, so the crown prince that Qianlong initially appointed was Yonglian, the second son of Empress Fucha, but Yonglian died when he was nine years old, and the Qianlong Emperor made his seventh son Yongqing the crown prince, and Yongqing also died of smallpox when he was two years old.
Because the two princes died of illness one after another, Qianlong was so upset that for a long time, the Qianlong Emperor did not mention the establishment of an heir again, until September 1795, Qianlong announced the Jiaqing Emperor as the crown prince, and in the following year Zen ceded it to the Jiaqing Emperor.
Although the Qianlong Emperor gave the throne to Jiaqing, he himself still lived in the Yangxin Hall of the Emperor's Palace, while the Jiaqing Emperor could only live in the Yuqing Palace where the emperor lived, and the affairs of the court were still managed by the Qianlong Emperor, but the emperor's name was distributed to Jiaqing, and he was changed from emperor to Emperor Taishang.
Jiaqing could not help it, the Qianlong Emperor finally decided to pass the throne to Jiaqing, and all the people were already grateful for this. At this time, Qianlong was already eighty-five years old, and the Jiaqing Emperor did not have to wait too long.
Moreover, the Qianlong Emperor did not idle in the Yangxin Hall for three years, he mainly did three things, one was to suppress the uprising, when the Miao people revolt occurred in the xiangqian land, which made the Qianlong Emperor also feel quite a headache, the Qing court under his arrangement, it took two years to suppress the Miao people's uprising, and as a result, at the same time, there was a larger-scale White Lotus Uprising, so that Qianlong could not be solved until the time of death.
Secondly, it is to "dig a pit" for the Jiaqing Emperor. Before he died, the Qianlong Emperor was extremely fond of Hezhen, because Hezhen was indeed very capable and very neat in helping himself, so even if he knew that Hezhen was corrupt, the Qianlong Emperor did not bother to take care of it and did not let him see more and move less. However, in the three years of the Yangxin Temple, the physical condition of the Qianlong Emperor became worse and worse, so that later he spoke vaguely, only He yan could understand, and whenever he went to the court, He Yan served left and right, becoming Qianlong's spokesman, plus at that time, the internal and external political and military and political powers were controlled by He Yan, and he saw that He Yan became a bigger "second emperor" than Jiaqing.
There is a third thing, whether to sing praises of virtue or to sing praises of one's own virtues. The Qianlong Emperor thought that he was an emperor in the ages, and rewarded himself with "perfect and perfect", and said that he alone wrote tens of thousands of poems, more than the whole Tang, and his talent was comparable to that of the Manchu Tang and the Khan niu.
Eventually, in 1799, the Qianlong Emperor died in the Yangxin Temple, leaving behind his own "narcissism". In the end, Jiaqing really grasped the imperial power, and since he fought Qianlong's favorite Hezhen, there was also a story of "Hezhen fell, and Jiaqing was full". When the Jiaqing Emperor looked at Hezhen's huge family property and thought of Qianlong boasting about the ten great heroes, his heart was also full of emotions - Father, you see what you are raising!