In the later years of Kangxi's life, the treasury was empty, the deficit problem was serious, officials at all levels wantonly borrowed money from the treasury and did not repay it, and the official style was corrupt, and they could not stand in the official field without borrowing money. In the 46th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Yellow River flooded, and the entire Qing Dynasty household department could only come up with less than 500,000 taels of silver. What Yongzheng did before he ascended the throne was to use an iron fist policy to control the flooding of the Yellow River, and the iron face selflessly recovered the silver owed by the national treasury, forcing some of the country's pillars to die, although the recovery of arrears failed, but gave Yongzheng a pro-government and pointed out the direction of governance.
After Yongzheng ascended the throne, his merits were roughly as follows:
1) Establishment of the Military Aircraft Division. Due to the establishment of the Yongzheng Northwest army, the Military Aircraft Department set up a military aircraft minister, and the military aircraft minister generally came from the cabinet minister, and the military aircraft minister directly obeyed the emperor. This strengthened centralization.
2) Quell the unrest in the northwest and quell the Rebellion of Lobzang Tenzin. Strengthen the direct rule over Tibet and Qinghai, and set up ministers stationed in Tibet.
3) In 1727, the Treaty of Brensky was signed, and in 1728, the Treaty of Kyakhta was signed, which stipulated the Sino-Russian Treaty. To a certain extent, it has promoted economic development and trade in the Sino-Russian border areas.
4) The return of land to the stream has struck a blow to the hereditary privileges and interests of toast, and to a certain extent, promoted the economic development of the southwest region.
5) Spreading the land into acres, Ding Yin and Tian Endowed with the amount of land and acres, reducing the burden of landless and landless people, this policy directly led to the outbreak of the population of the Qing Dynasty.
6) Fire consumption is returned to the public, and fire consumption refers to the collection of money and silver by local officials on the grounds of consumption and loss. Yongzheng fixed the system of returning fire to the public, and to a certain extent improved the rule of officials.
7) Abolish untouchability and reuse Han Chinese. To a certain extent, the class contradictions were eased and the Manchu-Han contradictions were eased.
8) The official gentry should be sent to receive grain, which is a really good system, but Yongzheng has also offended many readers because of this, so Yongzheng's reputation has always been very poor, and it is these officials and gentry who give bad practice.
shortcoming:
Diplomatically, it is still closed to the country, and there is ideological confinement, and since the Kangxi Dynasty, China has further lost the opportunity to contact and learn from Western technology.
To sum up, although Yongzheng is not an emperor of the ages, Yongzheng is the most diligent emperor of the Qing Dynasty and loves the people, Kangxi and Qianlong are not comparable, he boldly reformed, vigorously and vigorously, is a great and promising prince in modern China, far from the lowly image in film and television works, Yongzheng's various policies laid the foundation for the prosperity of Kangqian, and was the greatest emperor of the Qing Dynasty.