In the fiftieth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, that is, in 1711, on the night of August 13, in the palace of Prince Yong in Beijing, the future Yongzheng Emperor welcomed his fourth son, "Hongli".
Hongli was intelligent and wise from an early age, and was deeply loved by his grandfather Kangxi Grandpa. There is even a folk legend that Kangxi would pass the throne to the fourth brother precisely because of his love for this little grandson.
On August 23, the thirteenth year of Yongzheng (1735), the Yongzheng Emperor died, and the internal servant took out the edict and announced that Hongli was on the throne. On the third day of the first month of September, the Hongli calendar, the emperor, was located in the Taihe Hall, and the next year was the first year of Qianlong.
Under the administration of the Qianlong Emperor, the Qing Dynasty reached its peak, the country was rich and the people were strong, the economy was prosperous, and the country's GDP could be said to be the first in the world.
It is also such an emperor who has been labeled badly by people in recent years: "Good great joy, sightseeing in the mountains, not thinking about change, closing the country, spoiling corrupt officials."
Although this emperor did delay the development of Chinese history in some aspects, his five major achievements are undeniable.
1. Quell the Jinchuan Rebellion in Sichuan
At the beginning of the Qianlong Dynasty, Dajinchuan Tusi Shaluoben captured the Xiaojinchuan Zewang Seal Letter and attacked Ming ZhengTusi (present-day Kangding). In the twelfth year of Qianlong (1747), Qianlong sent troops to requisition, but after a long time, to no avail, the Qianlong Emperor executed the main general in front of him and changed his faction
Yue Zhongqi
For the general soldiers, crusade against Jinchuan. In the fourteenth year of Qianlong (1749), Sha Luoben asked for surrender, and the Great Jinchuan Incident was initially put to rest.
Later, there were often conflicts between the big and small Kanegawa. By the 1760s, the situation in Jinchuan was once again tense. Qianlong sent troops to requisition again, but what he did not expect was that he was a former enemy
Little Kanegawa
However, the toast monk Kelsang joined forces with the Great Jinchuan Toast Sonomu to oppose the Qing. At the beginning of the war, the Qing soldiers were defeated one after another, so the Qing court sent them
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For the general, increase the number of troops Jinchuan. After many bloody battles, the Qing army won a victory in early 41 qianlong. Since then, the Jinchuan Rebellion has been completely put down.
2. Quell the Dzungar rebellion
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After decades of struggle, the Dzungar forces were not completely dismantled during the Qianlong period.
In 1755, the Qianlong Emperor took advantage of the Dzungar civil strife to invade and occupy Ili, defeat the Dawaqi army, and quell amir Sana's rebellion in 1757. In the first month of the twenty-third year of Qianlong (1758), the Russian envoys informed Amir Sana of his death. The Qing court sent people to the border to examine the corpses. At this point, the Dzungars were completely pacified.
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The Northwestern Brothers took advantage of amir Sana's rebellion and simultaneously launched a rebellion, and in 1759, The Great and Small Zhuo brothers were also pacified, and by this time, the Xinjiang region was fully incorporated into the Chinese territory, and the Ili general was set up to govern it.
4. Revise the four libraries of the whole book
In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong (1773), he began to revise the Siku Quanshu. He felt that he had already achieved great success in martial arts, and he especially admired his grandfather, the Kangxi Emperor, and under the influence of Kangxi, he also wanted to govern the world with Han culture, so he decided to revise the Siku Quanshu. This is not just a book, but a collection of various classics from all over the world, including ancient and modern Chinese and foreign. The compilation of the Siku Quanshu has enabled many classics to be preserved intact, and has greatly protected the arrival of Chinese culture.
V. Quell the Taiwan rebellion
In November of the fifty-first year of Qianlong (1786), Lin Shuangwen, the leader of the Heaven and Earth Association in Taiwan's Changhua region, led more than a thousand people to launch a rebellion in Taiwan, and the team quickly grew to 3,000 people, breaking through many cities and pools in northern Taiwan, becoming the largest rebellion in Taiwan's history. In 1788, the Qianlong Emperor sent troops to encircle and suppress, after many Yi Shuai, and finally under the command of Fu Kang'an, Lin Shuangwen was captured, taken to Beijing, and executed by Ling Chi. The pacification of the Taiwan rebellion also succeeded in safeguarding the country's unity.