Why would Qianlong allow a corrupt official to run rampant in the court all the time, and what ecstasy he gave Qianlong to Qianlong could get Qianlong's favor in the court, and it would last a long time.
Unlike the image in the film and television dramas, it is not without talent that he can be reused by Qianlong. The historical Washu was not only good-looking, but also a versatile minister. He was smart and decisive, not only a master of doing things but also a well-known financial expert, at least in terms of making money, he deserved to be reused by Qianlong.
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Qianlong and Kangxi Yongzheng were different in that they did not have the frugality and simplicity of these two emperors. His life as an emperor can be described as luxurious, luxury life money is the foundation, and Hezhen is the best helper to help Qianlong make money.
It didn't take a few years for the heavily used Hezhen to fill the empty shell of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Qianlong could also enjoy himself, so Qianlong relied on Hezhen.
While replenishing the treasury for Qianlong, He Yan did not forget to fill his own pockets, and He Yan "succeeded in making money, and failed in being too rich", and a minister's ability to eat and wear had reached the emperor's standard.
The tombs built by He yan for himself were built according to the standards of the imperial tomb, and the Qianlong people were called "second emperors", which showed that the power of He yan was so great that it had threatened the imperial power.
He Yan was like a time bomb, which was the most important reason why the Jiaqing Emperor wanted to kill him.
In 1795, Qianlong decided to abdicate the throne and retire to the throne, and Qianlong's most important courtier, He Yan, also ushered in the most tense moment. The so-called "one emperor and one courtier", and Hezhen could not guarantee that his status would remain unchanged with the next emperor.
At this time, Qianlong was already an 85-year-old man, and how much time there was still to be heaven to decide. As for why Qianlong ascended the throne, it was because he had great respect for his imperial grandfather Kangxi, and when he succeeded to the throne, he once said: If he can bless himself with a reign of sixty years, he will personally give the throne to the crown prince, which will not exceed the reign time of the emperor's grandfather Kangxi, which is also a promise made by Qianlong.
As early as 1773 AD, Qianlong had already established the candidate for the crown prince, which adopted the method of Yongzheng Li Chujun and wrote the name of the future crown prince in the box behind the Zhengda Guangming plaque.
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Qianlong had 17 princes in his lifetime, and the crown prince would be born from them, and four of the 17 crown princes were concubines. Qianlong was a long-lived emperor, who reigned for a long time, and the candidates for the crown prince he favored died in front of him, and the white-haired people sent black-haired people, which dealt a lot of blows to Qianlong, but the prince still had to stand.
By 1773, there were only seven princes left, of whom the fourth son of the Emperor, Yongcheng, was succeeded to Prince Lu, and the sixth son of the Emperor, Yongyao, was succeeded to King Shenjun.
The scope of the crown prince's selection was narrowed down to five princes, namely the eighth son of the emperor, Yongxuan, the eleventh son of the emperor, Yongxuan, the twelfth son of the emperor, Yongyan, the fifteenth son of the emperor, and yongxuan, the seventeenth son of the emperor. One of these five princes must be excluded, and the eighth son of the emperor, Yongxuan, suffers from a foot disease and has no possibility of inheriting the throne, and now there are only four princes left. Among them, Yong Yao was the most talented, and Qianlong was also very optimistic about him, but he had no intention of taking the throne. Yong Xuan was also very good, but his birth mother was of the Uranara clan, and because his birth mother had offended Qianlong by cutting off her hair, Qianlong disliked Yong Xuan very much. The seventeenth son of the Emperor, YongXuan, was the youngest, and he could not inherit the unification at all, and finally only the fifteenth son of the Emperor, Yongyan, remained.
Among the remaining princes, the ministers were all optimistic about Yong Xuan and Yong Xuan, and He Yan also had the same view as the ministers of the DPRK, and did not think about Yong Yan at all.
He could see Qianlong's thoughts from the marriages arranged by Qianlong for several princes, and he spent a lot of effort to arrange the marriage of the future prince. In contrast to Yong Xuan and Yong Xuan, Yong Yan's marriage was not dominant, but no one could see Qianlong's heart.
Yong Yan, who was most unfavorable to He yan, eventually became the prince.
Although there was no direct conflict between He Yan and Yong Yan, he offended Zhu Jue. Zhu Jue was Yong Xuan's benefactor, and he was a clean official who did practical things for the people. He Yan was a notorious corrupt official, and the two were sworn enemies in the court. Under the influence of his teacher Zhu Jue, YongXuan saw and remembered what Hezhen did.
In 1795, the fifteenth son of the Emperor, Yongyan, was made crown prince and also changed his name to Yongxuan.1 The following year, He xuan succeeded to the throne with the era name "Jiaqing".
In order to have a good relationship with the Jiaqing Emperor, He Yan personally went to the door to announce the good news to Emperor Jiaqing, who originally did not like his Jiaqing Emperor to see He yan take the initiative to come to the door, and did not embarrass him, but his attitude towards him was lukewarm, and He Yan was also very worried in his heart. He never expected that Qianlong would abdicate the throne at the same time as the crown prince, but the overall situation had been decided, and he could only accept it gladly.
After Qianlong abdicated, bad luck was like finding He yan, and bad luck followed, probably because he was too greedy and spent all his good luck, and the rest was all bad luck.
During the Jiaqing period, Hezhen's favorite son died prematurely, and he was deeply saddened. Before he could calm the grief in his heart, his brother and Rin also died, which was simply a thunderbolt for Hezhen, and Helin was a strong pillar in his officialdom. Later, the grandson also died prematurely, and the wife who had accompanied him for 30 years also left him, as if the heavens were telling Hezhen that your death date was coming. He Yan also thought about resigning his official position and going into hiding, but neither Qianlong nor Jiaqing gave him a chance, and He Yan could only continue to work in the official arena.
Although the Jiaqing Emperor sat on the throne, he did not have real power, but was only the nominal emperor, and did not dare to deal with Hezhen for the time being.
Qianlong sent people to stare at the words and deeds of the Jiaqing Emperor, and although the Jiaqing Emperor was dissatisfied, he did not dare to act rashly, and he could only disguise himself as a well-behaved emperor with Qianlong. After all, Qianlong is already old, maybe one day he will die, first bear with it for a while. The real power was not in the hands of the Jiaqing Emperor, and although he had no more dissatisfaction with Hezhen and did not dare to move the old father's people, he could only quietly wait for the opportunity.
The elderly Qianlong abdicated and fulfilled the promise he had made to the Jiaqing Emperor, but he was unwilling to retreat from the whole body, unwilling to hand over the power in his hands, the actual emperor of the Qing Dynasty was still Qianlong, and the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee were all "first Qianlong, then Jiajing", as long as anyone did not obey this unspoken rule, the big prison was beckoning to him.
There was a Qing Dynasty minister Bi Yuan, who was ignorant of current affairs, who wrote the Jiaqing Emperor in front of Qianlong when he wrote the book, and finally met with the big prison, and Qianlong really did not give the Jiaqing Emperor any face.
He Yan seized this point and picked up a big bargain in it, he grabbed Qianlong's mind and attacked the people around The Jiaqing Emperor, and Zhu Jue was Jiaqing's only patron.
One day, Zhu Jue wrote a letter to Qianlong congratulating the Jiaqing Emperor on his ascension to the throne, and He Yan seized the matter and sued Zhu Jue in front of Qianlong, but it had no effect. He Yan continued to stare at Zhu Jue's every move, and the Emperor Did not pay off, and He Yan finally caught the handle of the Jiaqing Emperor and Zhu Jue.
Because the Jiaqing Emperor was celebrating Zhu Jue's promotion, He Jue ran to Qianlong to play Zhu Jue. This time was not as lucky as the last time, Qianlong believed that the Jiaqing Emperor was wooing the ministers of the DPRK and had the idea of abolishing the Jiaqing Emperor, fortunately, the chancellor of the DPRK advised Qianlong in time, and the Jiaqing Emperor escaped the disaster.
After this incident, all of Hezhen's words and deeds were remembered by the Jiaqing Emperor, and in order to prevent Hezhen from constantly seeking trouble for him, the Jiaqing Emperor did the opposite, using the tactic of "paralyzing" Hezhen and saying to Manchu Wenwu: He wants to govern the country by Hezhen.
The affairs of the court were entrusted to Hezhen, and Hezhen really believed the Jiaqing Emperor. Later, he did not bother with the Jiaqing Emperor again, so he slowly immersed himself in the beautiful dream of the two dynasties.
In 1799, the 89-year-old Qianlong died in the Yangxin Temple, and the happiest should be the Jiaqing Emperor, who finally survived the death of the Taishang Emperor.
The resentment that the Jiaqing Emperor had accumulated for a long time could finally be vented, and he yan's "good days" had come to an end.
When Qianlong died, a funeral was to be held, and the Jiaqing Emperor asked He Yan and Fu Chang'an to guard Qianlong's soul, because they were Qianlong's most valued ministers.
"The imperial order cannot be violated"! He Yan and Fu Chang'an had to obediently enter the palace to guard the spirit of Qianlong. They guarded the spirit day and night, weeping and mourning with hundreds of officials, and could not leave a step, the Jiaqing Emperor indirectly put them under house arrest, and He Yan was completely unaware that he had entered the trap of the Jiaqing Emperor.
The Jiaqing Emperor cut off their contact with the outside world, replaced all the soldiers inside and outside the palace, blocked all information inside the palace, took zhu Jue, a teacher who was far away in Anhui, back to the capital overnight, urgently summoned Yushi to write a letter of impeachment and impeachment, and quickly collected evidence of his crimes on the charge of the White Lotus Sect general for pretending to be rewarded for his merits.
When the crimes had been collected, the Jiaqing Emperor ordered that Hezhen be stripped of all his duties, that all the evidence of Hezhen's crimes be handed over to the Punishment Department, and that all of Hezhen's family property be inspected.
He Yan, who was still guarding the spirit of Qianlong, was completely unaware, until the officers and soldiers appeared in front of him, and then he suddenly woke up, and in just a few days, He Yan went from a Qing Dynasty heavy minister to a prisoner under the ranks, and He Yan finally committed suicide by hanging himself.
After that, the Jiaqing Emperor announced all the crimes of Hezhen to the world as a warning to the ministers of the court.
Within 15 days of Qianlong's death, the Jiaqing Emperor quickly overthrew the powerful ministers and Emperor Yan. When the Jiaqing Emperor ordered people to raid the Mansion of Hezhen, it was no exaggeration to find that Hezhen's private wealth was described as rich and invincible. He Yan managed his life's wealth, and finally all of them entered the small treasury of the Jiaqing Emperor, and finally made wedding dresses for others.
He Yan was a shrewd and agile official who could be a good helper for the emperor to govern the country, but driven by selfish desires, he failed to fulfill the duties of a human subject, embezzled money, squeezed the people, used his power to act recklessly, and gradually deviated from the track, went astray, and constantly challenged the bottom line of imperial power.
In that ancient era, when imperial power was supreme, no emperor allowed his ministers to challenge his rights, so the first thing the Jiaqing Emperor did after holding the imperial power was to get rid of Hezhen, who was the most threatening to him.
As everyone knows, neither the Qianlong Emperor nor the Jiaqing Emperor wanted to let him go, Qianlong was hiding a hidden hand, the Jiaqing Emperor was paralyzed and ruthless, and finally quickly brought him down, and he yan fell such a tragic end as a "light enemy" and deserved it!