Chapter 11: The Causes of the Decline of the Jia Dao
In the hades mansion, the twelve emperors of the Qing Dynasty gathered together and held a family meeting, which was presided over by Nurhaci. In the last time, the Qing emperors had a heated discussion about the reuse of Qianlong and The Emperor, which led to a discussion of the decline of the Middle Ages. (Pick up)
Qianlong:
Yóng Yan, come and explain the reasons for the decline of the Qing Dynasty, people do not say that Kangqian is prosperous, and Jia Dao is in decline. In the decline of the Qing Dynasty, you are mainly responsible.
Jiaqing:
Dad, this is not bad for me, in the root, you have to blame yourself!
How strong the times I governed were, it was obviously you who broke a good deck of cards.
Dad, the cards you left for me are already rotten, even if the Kangxi Emperor takes over, there is no way to govern them.
Kangxi:
Don't get me in trouble when you father and son quarrel!
Yongzheng:
You two are also people who have been emperors, how can you be so small and childish? Wouldn't it be nice to find an informed minister to ask?
Dad is right, Yan Yan, who do you look for? Why don't you ask Washu! I haven't seen him in a long time and miss him a little!
Your water can be leveled, and Hezhen is your "palm brittle", my "nemesis", and it is fair to call him where he came from. It is better to call the old minister who has gone through two dynasties, Liu Yong Liu Luo pot how?
Qianlong (blushed, and suddenly fried hair without a seizure!) ）：
Okay, Puyi, you are the youngest, you go and communicate with the little devil, call Liu Yong here!
Puyi:
Okay, here I go!
Qianlong continued:
Yan Yan, you talk about you, and Yan is so capable that you don't need to use this annoying Liu Luo pot!
Daddy, Washu is your confidant, not mine. He exploits the wealth of the officials of the world under your wing, and the officials of the world go to plunder the wealth of the people, under the whole world, can it be the royal land, this and Yan are robbing our family money? Do you understand this logic, Dad?
To understand is to understand, you pushed Hezhen down, raided his home, robbed him of his huge wealth, and the result was the end of "Jia Dao's decline"? White blinded the "Kangqian prosperous world" that we have worked so hard to create!
Hezhen's family property is quite a lot, enough to cover 15 years of tax revenue, but I got this money on hand, and before I could cover it, I spent it! It cost a lot of silver to suppress the White Lotus Sect uprising, but it is not that the suppression is suppressed, and the hidden dangers of this White Lotus Sect are left by your father when you were in power!
Nonsense, obviously you are incompetent, when I was in power, He yan handled these problems well!
It's a good thing to hide!
Qianlong was speechless...
Liu Yong joined the meeting: I heard that the emperors were discussing the decline of the Qing Dynasty. Let me make a point of my opinion, the weakening of the Qing Dynasty began in the middle and late Qianlong period, although I hate Hezhen, but the problem is not with him.
Qianlong's face was a little green, and he said:
If you want to say the problem is with me, the emperor, you can shut up!
How is the temper so big that people are finished!
Liu Yong continued:
I think the problem is not a certain person, an amount, or an emperor, but the problem is the number of qi in the whole Great Qing.
The silver of the sin led to the corruption of the officials, and the entire imperial court was useless;
The dictatorship of Hezhen led to corruption, from the county officials to the emperor to accept bribes, fish and meat of the people, the people are not happy;
Civilian officials fainted, military attaches were cowardly, military discipline was scattered, military affairs were abolished, and the Jingo iron horse outside the guanwai was never seen again;
Landlords, nobles, merchants, and bureaucrats are all busy exploiting the people's land, and the people have no means of making a living, and the world will naturally be chaotic;
As the saying goes, when officials force the people to rebel, the people have to rebel, and the White Lotus Sect uprising is a means of resistance for the people.
Daqing's qi was exhausted...
Good you Liu Luo pot, say our family is useless!
Liu Yong, you will also play a little trick, far worse than your father Liu Tongxun! What are you talking about, it's not reliable at all!
I think he said it quite pertinently, you listen well, and I won't hold you accountable anyway!
Emperors, have you ever heard of such a thing?
The level of corruption during the Jiaqing period, you can't imagine, the extravagance of those officials was even more exaggerated than in the Forbidden City. A small river governor invited guests to dinner, killed fifty pigs, but only took a piece of plum meat on the pig's back for cooking, and the rest was thrown away, and the people of the world lived in the terrible situation of "changing children and eating". The real and terrible situation, the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu once said in a poem: Zhumen wine smells of flesh, and the road has frozen bones! That's what it says.
There are not a few such cases...
It is intolerable that some officials have lived more luxuriously than we do!
Hongli, your focus is wrong!
Oh, Grandpa, no, no, just a little hungry!
I kind of heard clearly, liu yong, this Hanchen is right...
Well, Liu Yong, you can back off, we are going to continue the meeting!
(Liu Yong left the meeting)
After Liu Yong left, Kangxi suddenly became angry:
The ancestors handed over the country and mountains to my hands, but they made it like this, I am sad, I am ashamed of the country, ashamed of the ancestors! I am now becoming more and more aware that the reason for the demise of the Great Qing Dynasty is not outside, but in the imperial court, that is, in the hands of my descendants! Think about it, the old crooked neck tree where the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian hanged the Coal Mountain has been watching you closely behind the Forbidden City!
I passed on the country to you, and that's how you govern the world? From the root, I didn't take the matter of governing the country to heart, and all I thought in my heart was to be the emperor, was the emperor so good? yes...... The Qianlong Emperor and the Jiaqing Emperor?
Grandpa, you are discouraged, we are all dead, what are you thinking about these things?
Kangxi suddenly calmed down when he heard this:
If I could live another five hundred years, Daqing would not die...
Dad, you have lived so long, I am afraid that I will not survive the succession!
As the longest-lived emperor of our Qing Dynasty, I don't mind sharing my secret to 89 years old in front of my family...
Hongli, you just think that the fa is avoiding the heavy and light, and the matter of 'Jia Dao Zhong'' has not yet come to an end!
Grandpa, you just said don't care!
Now I want to hear the views of the two of you, Qianlong, Jiaqing, which of you said first?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh Grandpa I admitted my mistake. In my later years, I was a little extravagant, pursuing a luxurious life, which led to the collapse of the government, and indeed there were some sins. However, at that time, I really didn't know it, I always thought that I was a perfect old man with perfect martial arts, perfect and flawless!
Hongli, you are an ostrich with its head buried in the soil, deceiving yourself!
Although the transformation of the Qing Dynasty from Shun to Decline began with me, it was not bad for me to continue the downhill road of the Qing Dynasty after that, which depended on them...
Dad, it's really good that we hurt each other like this.
Jiaqing, let's also talk about your merits.
Back to Grandpa, I admit that I am a mediocre emperor, far less than the wise divine martial arts of the Three Emperors of Kang Yongqian. If I were to talk about my deeds, I would say three things,
I got rid of the corrupt officials and cleaned up the court, in fact, I cleaned up the mess for my father Qianlong;
I abolished the prison of words and stopped the persecution of intellectuals, which was to clean up the mess for the previous emperors;
I spent 120 million taels of silver for nine years to quell the White Lotus Rebellion, which was to clean up the mess for the entire Qing Dynasty.
Dear emperors, when I took over the throne, this was already a mess, I was difficult...
Alas, you have always flaunted the "Fazu", but in the most core place you have deviated from the traditions of your ancestors, you have the qualities of diligence, benevolence, and frugality, but your vision, concept and courage are far less. Therefore, there is the end of "Jia Dao's decline".
This pot, Qianlong and Jiaqing, your father and son carried together, and the back was fixed!
Daoguang secretly rejoiced:
It's none of my business!
Kangxi suddenly raised his voice:
Which emperor signed the treaty of Nanking, the first unequal treaty in history, with foreigners? Come up and get beaten!
The light of the road was eclipsed...
(In this article, Liu Yong explains the reasons for the decline of Jiadao, namely corruption, corruption, military ruin, and land annexation, including Qianlong's reasons and Jiaqing's reasons, so that the two emperors finally set an ending for each of them to admit their faults.) Writing such an article and controlling the emperor's words and deeds feels like a word "cool"! ）
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