Bai Juyi, a Poet of the Tang Dynasty known as a poet, wrote the famous "Harem Words" in order to express his dissatisfaction with the unfair treatment of women in the palace, in which the verse "Poor red face is always short-lived, the most ruthless imperial family." "It has been praised by future generations. Not only for the palace women, but for the ministers, especially the ministers of the previous dynasty, the emperor would always be very fierce to remove them.
On February 7, 1799, the Qianlong Emperor died, and his son Jiaqing ascended the throne. According to the custom of filial piety in our country, it is not allowed to see blood within one year of the death of the former emperor without special circumstances. However, Jiaqing put Qianlong's first minister and the Yan family to death only 15 days after Qianlong's death. Judging from the custom of filial piety, Jiaqing's behavior is a great disrespect to his father. Why did Jiaqing do this?
Historians have put forward different opinions on this, some people think that Qianlong was indulging in hedonism and went down to Jiangnan many times to play in the emptiness of the national treasury, and Jiaqing really had no money to do it during the filial piety period; some people think that Qianlong was afraid of Hezhen to prepare to run away, so as not to make a quick shot in the night; most people think that Qianlong was Qianlong's favorite vassal, and he was not a concubine minister supported by Jiaqing, the so-called heavenly son of heaven and a courtier, Qianlong was already dead, and naturally he wanted to execute Hezhen immediately.
The reason for Jiaqing's actions is unknown, but when Qianlong ascended the throne, he also immediately executed a courtier of the Yongzheng period. Unlike Hezhen, the courtier Zeng Jing, who was executed by Ling Chi, was not a high-powered minister, and was even captured by Yongzheng from Hunan to the capital because of his anti-Qing and restoration ideas. What kind of story is going on here? Zeng Jing is a native of Yongxing County, Hunan Province, who has been following the teachings of his father since he was a child and reading poetry and books, and zeng Jing has realized from the way of Confucius and Mengmeng that the emperor of the Qing Dynasty is now a Manchu, and a barbarian is not orthodox in the world. As a result, Zeng Jing became a loyal anti-Qing and re-enlightenment person, and instilled his own thoughts on the people around him. At the beginning of the Yongzheng Emperor's ascension to the throne, many folk rumors that Yongzheng had tampered with the edict after killing Kangxi, so he wrote a letter to Yue Zhongqi, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, on this reason, hoping that Yue Zhongqi would rebel against the Qing. Yue Zhongqi directly played the letter to the Yongzheng Emperor, and Yongzheng immediately sent someone to arrest Zeng Jing and take him to the capital. Since Kangxi, few people have said anti-Qing and restoration remarks, and Yongzheng also wanted to know why Zeng Jing had such thoughts, so he personally went to prison to talk to Zeng Jing. After a short conversation, Yongzheng discovered that Zeng Jing was just a sour xiucai with little insight, and he had an idea: to cultivate Zeng Jing from an anti-Qing and revival advocate to a courtier loyal to the Qing Dynasty.
Yongzheng began to brainwash him repeatedly with some Qing Dynasty books and periodicals, and used the official position of the imperial court to seduce Zeng Jing. It didn't take long for Zeng Jing to express her willingness to change her mind and to express her remorse in the DPRK. Yongzheng also recorded the dialogue between the two in the "Mystery of the Great Righteousness", and asked the Manchu ministers to take Zeng Jing to give speeches everywhere, and at the same time, Yongzheng also used the theme to play a role, and took out the anti-Qing and Restoration literary artist Lü Liuliang to dissect the coffin and kill the corpse, killing the Lü family and disciples.
After Zeng Jing returned to the court after his speech, Yongzheng sent him as an official, but many Manchu ministers were hostile to him, and Yongzheng issued a promise in the hall: "As long as I am still in power, I will keep you from dying." Unfortunately, Yongzheng died two years later, and after Yongzheng's death, Qianlong executed Zeng Jinglingchi for insulting Emperor Xian.