For the feudal dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, it should be for us ordinary people that the brightest moment of this dynasty should be the so-called Kangqian prosperous era in history. If we calculate from the succession of Kangxi to the abdication of Qianlong, the prosperity of Kangqian lasted a total of 134 years. In these 134 years, the Qing Dynasty can be said to have exerted feudal centralized rule to the extreme, and China's feudal society has also reached an extreme point, with a population of more than 100 million for the first time. Moreover, in the subsequent development, the population has exceeded 300 million, which is a situation that has never been reached by any dynasty in China's history, and it can be regarded as one of the more important contributions made by the Qing Dynasty to our entire Chinese nation. Even now when we talk about the prosperous era of Kangqian, the most important of which should be that the Kangxi Emperor and the Qianlong Emperor often forgot that there was still a 13-year reign of the Yongzheng Emperor between Kangxi and Qianlong.
And in a literal sense, KangQianshengshi seems to have nothing to do with this emperor, or even mention it. So what is the significance of the 13 years of the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor for the Kangqian dynasty of the Qing Dynasty for more than a century?
First of all, we cannot deny that the Kangxi Emperor should be regarded as the most outstanding emperor in the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty was also under the successful governance of Kangxi for decades, and the early stage of the kangqian dynasty, which was gradually moving towards the glory, was also laid down by the Kangxi Emperor. When the prosperous era of Kangqian reached the Qianlong era, it began to slowly develop to the peak. But in fact, what we don't know is that Kangxi left a lot of messes in that year, if dealt with with Qianlong's temper and personality, there may be a big problem, fortunately, it was not Qianlong who succeeded Kangxi that year, but his father, the Yongzheng Emperor.
The mess left by Kangxi was, first of all, the corrupt officials. When Yongzheng had just taken over the Qing Dynasty, it can be said that there were no officials and no greed in the entire imperial court, and the imperial court allocated ten silver pieces of silver, and the real hair to the bottom may not even have one or two. Therefore, during the reign of Yongzheng, the management of officials was very set, and he even developed his own eyeliner to send them to all parts of the country to inquire about the news, and implemented a secret folding special to have news directly as the emperor and bypass local officials, this method was extremely effective, and the deterrent effect on many officials was very obvious.
Moreover, Yongzheng's assessment of the appointment and dismissal of officials is very strict, and it is relatively transparent, in the first few years of Yongzheng's reign, the entire Qing Dynasty's official rule, the entire official field can be said to be a new look, which is of far-reaching historical significance to the Qing Dynasty.
What is rare is that Yongzheng not only used extremely harsh means and measures to demand the officials below, but even he himself followed extremely harsh and complicated work, and it is said that this industrious emperor spent most of his day working on the desk and rarely had his own leisure time. This attitude of work is not to say that among the emperors, I am afraid that even ordinary officials are not as good as him.
During his reign, Yongzheng attached great importance to peasants and farming, because he was very soberly aware that the Qing Dynasty itself was mainly based on agriculture, and if the foundation of agriculture was not solid, the foundation of the Qing Dynasty was unstable. Under such a premise, Yongzheng resolutely implemented the practice of dividing the land into acres to reduce the burden of landless and landless peasants, and such measures are conducive to promoting the development of agriculture on the one hand, and on the other hand, they also have a remarkable effect on population growth.
In addition to the emphasis and management of the officialdom and agriculture, Yongzheng did not slacken off for a moment in the management of the frontier and the management of the frontier land, and implemented the political strategy of "reforming the land and returning to the stream", which made the Qing Dynasty's ruling force over the remote areas stronger and stronger. This also had an extremely far-reaching impact on the stabilization of the entire territory of the Qing Dynasty in the later period.
Regarding the problem of Li Chu, Yongzheng took the lead in adopting the method of secretly establishing a reserve, which greatly relaxed the situation of competition for the throne between princes since Yongzheng, which is very beneficial to the inheritance and succession of the entire power and throne.
Yongzheng worked for a full 13 years under such a line of thinking and his own strict requirements, and these 13 years were almost 13 years of hard work for Yongzheng, and finally his body was completely dragged down by these 13 years and came to the end of his life. Although these 13 years are insignificant compared to the entire Kangqian prosperous world, their significance is very far-reaching. It can be said that without the foundation laid by Yongzheng, it is still unknown whether Kangqian Shengshi can exist. Without these 13 years, at least Yongzheng's son, the Qianlong Emperor, might have faced a much more complicated situation when he took over the throne.
But it is such an emperor with such merits that is very understated in the history of the Qing Dynasty, especially for us ordinary people, and most of the impression of Yongzheng is based on how he seized the throne. Most of The achievements and feats of Yongzheng are turned a blind eye, so Yongzheng will be a Qing Emperor with a very low sense of existence, both in history and in film and television materials.