On the first day of the first lunar month of the first year of Jiaqing, the Qianlong Zen Emperor jiaqing officially took the throne. However, after that, the government was still in the hands of the Qianlong Emperor. It was not until the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, when Emperor Qianlong of Taishang died, that Jiaqing was able to pro-government.
During the more than twenty years of the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor, there were many administrative difficulties, so in most cases, the Jiaqing Emperor was in a state of pain and confusion. The Jiaqing Emperor even wanted to give up power several times and retreat into the background. However, Jiaqing persisted, and until the day before his death, he still handled government affairs on the case.
From the outsider's point of view, Jiaqing may be very diligent in government, working hard to govern, every time he gets up early and goes to bed late, no quarter of an hour is idle, but Jiaqing's thinking at this time has spoken, rarely arterial thinking, basically copying the governing policy in the "Record" to deal with government affairs.
In the twenty years of Jiaqing, the servants of the Liqing King's family committed crimes and were secretly imprisoned in the inner chamber by the Prince of Li, and the torture methods were very cruel. When Jiaqing heard about this, he immediately interrogated Prince Li, and after finding out the truth, imprisoned him in the Zongren Mansion and stripped him of his title. This incident also happened during the Kangxi Dynasty, when the King of Pingjun killed civilians for no reason and broke the limbs of two innocent people, and how did Kangxi deal with the King of Pingjun at that time?
At that time, only the title was stripped, not taken into custody. So after referring to this example, Jiaqing believes that Prince Li's crimes are much lighter than those of King Pingjun. So, Prince Li was released.
It is precisely because of this that indiscriminately only know the principle of copying, the Qing Dynasty after the prosperous era soon moved towards aging, and the Jiaqing Emperor also went to his old age in a chaotic nightmare.
Looking back at Jiaqing's career, it is not difficult to see that the twenty years of Jiaqing's reign were only a transitional period between the prosperous era of Kangqian and the Opium War, and the confused policy of the Jiaqing Emperor led to the gradual collapse of the Qing Dynasty. In qianlong's late years, the corrupt cells had invaded all aspects of the state apparatus, and when Jiaqing ruled the country, the specimens were not in place, and the late Jiaqing state apparatus had reached the point of terminal illness, and all kinds of drawbacks spread like a plague. The country was in distress and the people were poor, and the Qing Empire quickly consumed the essence and broke the candle in the wind.
Therefore, we cannot blame too much of the fault on Daoguang and Cixi, after all, the festering of the Qing Dynasty is already from the outside to the inside, and can only be slaughtered at will.
Huang Taiji once said: "The most important thing in everything is pragmatism." Yongzheng also mentioned: "This dynasty rose outside Guanwai and unified the world, relying only on 'martial strategy' and 'implementation'. Our clan has never advocated the whitewash of false words, and all the policies adopted are in line with the experience of the Ming Emperors of the past, and there is no lack of inadequacy. It can be seen that the importance of implementation is far greater than the fiction. ''
Jiaqing imitated his ancestors and shouted the slogan of Fazu, but he did not understand the core of Fazu at all, and he was always in a state of fear of failure, so the first thing he lost was the spirit of the ancestors who dared to fight. Jiaqing's excessive reliance on the "Records" to govern the country not only lost the spirit of reality, but also became an emperor who did not dare to experience failure and did not dare to let the shortcomings of the country be presented, then he paid attention to becoming a mediocre person and had no way to complete the great cause.
If just because of the dogma, the Jiaqing Emperor was evaluated as a emperor, this evaluation is actually not accurate, after all, the Jiaqing Emperor still needs a lot of land is worth learning from future generations, when Jiaqing reigned, there were ministers who wanted to send troops to transport jade to the palace, and the Jiaqing fire, he believed that the responsibility of the soldiers was to defend the family and defend the country, not to transport goods. The Jiaqing Emperor ordered the jade to be thrown away.
Judging from the above events, the Jiaqing Emperor was actually a very benevolent and frugal emperor, but he was born at the wrong time, and in the face of the turmoil that has not been encountered for a thousand years, if he wants to turn the country into a safe place, he cannot rely on benevolence and frugality to succeed. A sensitive political sense, as well as a spirit of constant struggle and seeking truth from facts, are still very important. Unfortunately, these qualities Jiaqing Emperor did not have, so the talent fell into the title of Jiaqing Zhongde, and the biggest sadness of the Great Qing is that when the Great Qing is in difficulty, the person in the high position is not an emperor who can kill and decide, only a very mediocre monarch, and it is precisely because of this that the Qing Dynasty has gradually gone to the top. Therefore, at any time, whether it is to be a person or a person, or to govern the country, it is very important to seek truth from facts.