Emperor Jiaqing, notoriously good temper, how good is it?
It is said that even the Korean envoys, who were international friends at that time, reported to the King of Korea many times. "Yongyan is a man who holds a heavy weight and measures open-mindedly".
But it was such a good-natured emperor whose reputation had spread to foreign countries, but one day he suddenly issued an edict to the cabinet.
The content of the edict expresses only one meaning: I am angry and want to kill!
What is it that makes Jiaqing, who has always been lenient, so angry?
Even if you want to kill to calm the anger?
This matter also starts from the Empress Xitala clan of Jiaqing.
Hitara was born in Manchuria under the White Banner, and his father was the Minister of internal affairs, the deputy governor and Erjing.
She married Yongyan, who was still the crown prince, at the age of 15. He gave birth to a son and two daughters.
After Jiaqing ascended the throne, he crowned the Hitara clan as empress, but unfortunately, this woman with a red face and a short life was killed after only one year as empress.
The death of the empress was supposed to be a national mourning, a piece of musu.
But at that time, Jiaqing's father, Qianlong, was already old.
It is very taboo to "die" this thing. In order to take care of his father's mood, Jiaqing could only hold the queen's funeral very low-key.
Even the folded Zhu grading blue batch could not be done.
Jiaqing felt sorry for the Empress of the Middle Palace.
Not only did he not see the last of himself before he died, but he could not hold a solemn funeral after death.
With this feeling of guilt, Jiaqing took extra care of the mother's family of the Hitara clan and gave them the rank of knight.
In particular, the brother of the Hitara clan, Shengzhuo
As the eldest brother-in-law's residence, Jiaqing naturally also looks up to it.
In just eight months, Shengzhu was promoted from Gongbu Shilang to Hubu Shilang, and then to Gongbu Shangshu.
It is reasonable to say that Jiaqing has taken good care of this brother-in-law, and the arrangements are all fat, which is clearly to acquiesce in his fishing for oil and water.
But this dwelling, it is simply mud can not support the wall, greedy and stupid, so that Jiaqing lost all face.
Shengzhu held the trust of the emperor and became more and more bold.
Privately, he took the jewelry and jade treasures treasured in the inner courtyard of the imperial palace and even the imperial treasures of the emperor to the market to sell.
After being caught, he also slyly argued: "After this department has made it clear that it is contracted, please handle it separately."
He said that I had asked the emperor for advice and made a report when I did this, and directly threw the pot at Jiaqing's head.
The Jiaqing Emperor angrily dismissed ShengZhu from his post and asked him to go home and think about it behind closed doors.
After a while, Jiaqing thought of his empress Xi Tara again, so he thought of his brother-in-law,
I want to give him a chance to reform.
Therefore, Sheng Zhufa was assigned to the QingXi Tomb as the minister of internal affairs to supervise the construction of the Changling Tomb and let him wear the guilt and make meritorious contributions.
It is also to give the brother-in-law a step down, if Shengzhu has done this errand well, then the reinstatement of the official is also a matter of one sentence.
For this uncle with a bad deed, Jiaqing also fulfilled his benevolence and righteousness.
On the one hand, he did this because he wanted to use his affection to emotionally affect his brother-in-law and let him do things for himself.
On the other hand, I also want to tell the Wenwu Hundred Officials that the Emperor Taishang on jiaqing's head is no longer there, and I have the final say on the affairs of the Qing Dynasty in the future.
Whoever I want to use, I use, you guys less.
But what Jiaqing did not expect was that once Sheng stayed, he actually embarked on the road of no return.
In the Qing Dynasty, there were five major festivals and twenty-four minor sacrifices.
During the great festival, the emperor himself had to go to the Dongling and Xiling tombs to hold solemn memorial activities.
Small festivals are held on the first and fifteenth day of the first month of each month, and are generally held by the ministers of the Tombs of Xiling or Dongling on behalf of the emperor to perform sacrifices for the ancestors
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As the minister in charge of the Ministry of internal affairs, Shengzhu was supposed to burn incense on behalf of the emperor himself when it came to the small festival.
As a result, Shengzhu casually sent his men away, which was simply rebellious and disrespectful to the ancestors.
So is it because the work of building the imperial tomb is too busy to get out?
It turned out that he was busy opening a pond to get stones!
Yi County, Hebei Province, is rich in Yi Shui Yan, so the local stones are particularly precious.
There are a large number of such stones in the Qingxi Mausoleum, and after the discovery of shengzhu, it is like seeing a huge business opportunity.
You know, when the Qing Emperor repaired his mausoleum, he would surround himself with a circle of feng shui.
There are boundary piles on the edges of the Royal Feng Shui realm, there are wooden and stone, and within this boundary pile,
Only the guards who defend the tomb can enter.
In order to warn the people, a pile was erected, which read, "Royal Feng Shui Forbidden Land, Strictly Forbidden to Enter"
It is even strictly forbidden to dig sand and soil inside, quarry, and hunt, and whoever goes in will be destroyed.
Greedy and sexually held, openly mining stone yards within the feng shui boundary pile, and selling them privately, it was simply a dog's guts.
Jiaqing received the whistleblower's message, and after reading it, his forehead was full of sweat, and he was almost self-conscious, as if he had been slapped by someone.
Jiaqing thought to himself: I see that in the face of the Hitara clan, you have pushed you to this point, and your boy has actually done such a disobedient thing.
Is it almost like cutting the dragon vein of the Great Qing?
Jiaqing was very angry and ordered the people to take the shengzhu lock to Beijing, and the three divisions tried it and demanded severe punishment.
According to the laws of the Great Qing Dynasty, shengzhu knew the law and violated the law, not only to ask people's heads to fall to the ground, but also to quarrel with the nine tribes.
When the criminal department official in charge of the case told Jiaqing the results of the trial, Jiaqing was soft again.
After all, it is the brother of his wig wife, if it is really a family raider, wouldn't it be that the wife's family will be extinct?
Therefore, the Jiaqing Emperor only stripped Shengzhu from his post and sent him to Urumqi, Xinjiang, to atone for his sins.
After the light sentence, Jiaqing still felt sorry for his brother-in-law, and added him the official title of deputy capital.
Ten years after Jiaqing, Shengzhu died, and Jiaqing took great care of him and gave his family funeral expenses.
But what Jiaqing did not expect was that three years later, someone reported Shengzhu again.
The content of this report made Jiaqing completely angry, threatening to "dissect the coffin and kill the corpse".
The green bricks and stones built in the Qing Dynasty Mausoleum were fired in Linqing, Shandong, and the workers of the green brick factory went to the imperial court to ask for explanations because they had not received wages for several years.
When the imperial court checked, it was another mess left behind by Shengzhuo:
When Changling was built in that year, it rained heavily in Shandong, caused flooding, rose raw materials, washed out the road with heavy rain, and increased the freight of the project.
The imperial court allocated 50,000 taels of mark-up silver from the household department, which did not reach the hands of the brick merchants, so that Shengzhu intercepted it.
Not only that, but at that time, the 160,000 taels of silver allocated to the Changling Project to purchase stone materials were deducted from Shengzhu and 40,000 taels were deducted.
JiaQingqi's hands were trembling, and after he ascended the throne, the treasury was empty.
In order to save money, Jiaqing gave up the expensive golden silk nan wood and chose the cost-effective pine and cypress wood.
Under careful calculation, the total cost of building the Changling Tomb cost a total of 2 million taels of silver, holding one person, and embezzling a total of 90,000 taels of silver in the two before and after.
No matter how good the Jiaqing Emperor's personality was, he couldn't sit still, and in his anger, he did three things:
First: scolding
The Records of Emperor Qingrenzong records that "if he is still alive, he will personally interrogate the court, and he will be punished by the punishment class, and the punishment will be corrected."
This means that if he is still alive, I will definitely give him a finger, then play the board, and finally correct the Fa on the spot.
Second: Kill Shuangfu and Crane Ling
These two people were Shengzhu's subordinates and co-defendants, and killing these two people was to kill 2 substitute ghosts, which relieved Jiaqing's hatred in his heart.
Third: Punish the family members who live in the house
The post of Deputy Metropolitan Was withdrawn, and the pension was withdrawn.
The father paid off the debt, and the three unfortunate sons and two grandsons went to see the execution scene of Shuangfu and Heling and then distributed to Heilongjiang.
It was only at this time that the evil qi in the heart of the Jiaqing Emperor came out.
After the case was closed, Jiaqing said: Fortunately, my mausoleum was repaired, and if it was the mausoleum of the previous emperor, I would definitely have to "dissect the coffin and kill the corpse."
In the end, it is still soft hearted.
This big case of greed is handled here, but the bad things about Changling are not over
Wave after wave after wave after
When the newly appointed shangshu changlin of the co-organizing university was ordered to inspect the quality of the project in the QingXiLing Tombs, he suddenly received a letter of denunciation.
It is said that the stone statues on both sides of the Changling Shinto are fake.
The stone statue is a stone man and stone beast on both sides of the mausoleum Shinto, symbolizing the honor guard of travel.
According to the regulations, it must be carved in the whole stone, and if there is a defect or the carving is broken, the whole piece must be discarded and re-carved.
In the face of this content, Chang lin did not dare to be careless, and after careful inspection, he found that
The stone statue does have some fine parts carved and are glued to it.
The Jiaqing Emperor's response was to let the construction of the project be repaired together with the minister of supervision.
And that's not all, here comes the more heart-wrenching thing:
A minister reported: "The Wannian Auspicious Land Project, due to the rain for several days, the palace gate, the Ming Tower and other places have been leaked, the east side of the hall is cracked, and the oil is decorated with a small piece of bare wood, which is played according to the actual instrument."
Meaning: all the buildings in changling have quality problems: water seepage, broken glazed tiles, painted paintings falling off, and there is no place to worry.
In the face of such a tofu slag project, Jiaqing first sent a fire, scolding the minister who built the hero for being distraught.
Then calm down, three different crimes are convicted according to different guilts, and the ministers are allowed to pay for repairs according to the crime.
Because the amount of work is really huge, it can only be repaired a little in phases and batches, and it has been repaired for two years.
In feudal society, the mausoleum was the place where the soul and body inhabited after the emperor's death.
Generally, when the emperor has just ascended the throne, the most important thing is to start site construction.
This is regarded as a top priority related to the rise and fall of the country's fortunes.
And his own Changling has only been completed for five years, and there are constant problems.
The same location as the Jiaqing Emperor's mausoleum, his grandfather Yongzheng Tailing, and his grandmother Empress Xiaoshengxian's Tai dongling were safe and sound.
The entire Changling Tomb could not hide the signs that the Qing Dynasty was declining.
From the relatives of the emperor to the relatives of the state, down to the civil and military officials, and even the Nine Pin Sesame Officials, they all enriched themselves in the process of private fraud
No one is serious about doing things like this dynasty, and it is strange that it does not decay.