Since the beginning of the great unification of the world, countless prosperous situations have emerged on the land of China. There is a saying in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: "He Tianqu was in a prosperous world, and he surpassed a thousand years and achieved great achievements." "Marvel at how vast and beautiful the scenery of prosperity is, in history, the earliest prosperity is the rule of Wenjing of the Great Han, followed by the rule of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, and in the Qing Dynasty, the most famous is the kangqian prosperous world."
Living during this period can be described as the people living and working in peace and contentment, and the society is a peaceful atmosphere. However, the emergence of a prosperous scene often requires many historical factors and conditions, and the person we are talking about today, without him, the prosperous world of Kangqian would not have occurred. This man was the Yongzheng Emperor.
As we all know, the prosperous kangqian appeared in the Qing Dynasty, the word "Kang" represents Kangxi, and the word "Qian" refers to Qianlong. However, Kangxi and Qianlong were grandfathers and grandsons, and there was a Yongzheng Emperor in the middle, so why did the world praise this period of history, but skip Yongzheng?
Kangxi and Qianlong were the two happiest emperors of the Qing Dynasty, and the country was prosperous and strong all their lives, and they themselves were very long-lived, although this was related to their self-cultivation, but they also had to be envied.
Compared with these two people, Yongzheng is not so lucky, Yongzheng is a controversial emperor in the history, his ascension to the throne makes people suspicious, some people say that he is seeking power and usurping the throne, some people think that he is worthy of his name; the cause of his death is different, some people say that he was punished by heaven and was punished, and some people think that he died of poisoning with great alchemy...
To be sure, Yongzheng was indeed a short-lived emperor, having been more than half a hundred years old when he ascended the throne, and died suddenly after only thirteen years on the throne, although the Qing Dynasty's time with Yongzheng was very short, but this is not the reason why he can be forgotten.
In particular, Yongzheng's contribution to the Qing Dynasty is obvious to all, and it is recorded in the Qing Dynasty secret archives that Yongzheng was an extremely diligent and pragmatic emperor, who only rested on the day of his birthday throughout the year, and spent the rest of the time reading chapters and handling government affairs. Compared with the competent, Yongzheng is definitely not inferior to Kangxi and Qianlong, so what is the reason that people at that time were reluctant to mention Yongzheng's name in the "Prosperous Era of Kangqian"?
This is precisely because of Yongzheng's pragmatism and vigorous behavior that officials can no longer continue to stir up trouble, harm the people, and seek only profits, but can only be officials in a disciplined manner, and "get rich and get rich" pass by. During the reign of the Kangxi Emperor, Yongzheng, as the crown prince, saw the situation in which officials and officials in the court were protecting each other, and was determined to rectify it well.
So, about a month after he ascended the throne, he took the finance as an opening and began to rectify.
At that time, the treasury was empty, which was very different from the numbers it should have been, and the reality of this serious deficit of money and grain made Yongzheng have no time to think about how to "please" officials and give them benefits, such as amnesty to make everyone grateful for laying the foundation for the stabilization of the throne, but instead began to vigorously investigate the crimes, dismiss them, and punish them severely.
This practice made the officials who had always been "pampered" by the Kangxi Emperor feel afraid, so one by one, their original forms were exposed, and they were punished by Yongzheng one by one.
Whether it was the emperor's relatives or the founding ministers, the interrogation of guilt, the raiding of the family, the exile of exile, for a while the imperial court was filled with a sense of worry, and the corrupt officials were afraid and resentful of Yongzheng, and began to publicize Yongzheng's "atrocities", so yongzheng was almost a ruthless and ruthless emperor in the eyes of the people at that time.
Not only that, Yongzheng also required officials to pay taxes and serve like ordinary people, but they did not have to really serve, they only needed to exchange money for it. In this way, not only did the Deficit of the Kangxi Emperor's many years of rule make up for it, but also the national treasury became increasingly surplus, so that the Qing Dynasty could truly be called a prosperous and prosperous country during this period of time.
However, this cut off the financial path of those who wanted to make a fortune by becoming an official, making them even more resentful of Yongzheng, and compared with the generous favors given by Qianlong after he ascended the throne, Yongzheng could be described as a "tyrant" in the eyes of officials.
However, we have to wonder whether Yongzheng's approach is right or wrong. In the eyes of the officials, this made them no longer greedy for money and pleasures, but for the people of Li, Yongzheng was really a good emperor who sought welfare for the people, and the abundance of the national treasury and the honesty of the court under Yongzheng's administration made the people live a happy and happy life, and the worry that there was no natural disaster or man-made disaster could not be cured, and it left a large amount of wealth and hidden resources for his son Qianlong.
On the other hand, Qianlong, without Yongzheng's open source and throttling, there was no foundation to support his generosity, especially for the attitude of great greed and greed, so that the incorruptible wind created by Yongzheng was destroyed, and at this point, the Qing Dynasty began to decline.
Therefore, there is no "Kangqian shengshi" at all, only "Yongzheng shengshi", this deliberately ignored emperor, determines the fate of the Qing Dynasty, so that the "prosperous world" of the Qing Dynasty will not become a joke.