In June of the twenty-fifth year of Qianlong, a new prince fell to the ground in the spring of the Yuanmingyuan Tiandi family, and this person was the later Jiaqing Emperor. Among the many sons of the Qianlong Emperor, the conditions of the Jiaqing Emperor were actually not good, and there were 14 brothers in front of him, but in the end, the throne of the Qing Dynasty fell on his head.
Why didn't the Qianlong Emperor have strong ability, or yong xuan, the eldest son, but the mediocre Jiaqing Emperor? On this issue, the double standard of the Qianlong Emperor is perfectly embodied, and while he criticizes the ancients' practice of "establishing his son because he loves his mother", he himself secretly established the fifteenth prince Yongyan as the crown prince.
According to the historical records, soon after the Qianlong Emperor succeeded to the throne, he followed the practice of the former emperor Yongzheng and secretly registered the crown prince, and the eldest son Yonglian and the second son Yongzhen were successively secretly appointed as princes, but these two princes did not become emperors, and within a few years they fell ill and died. The Qianlong Emperor was heartbroken, and the matter of the establishment of the state was temporarily set aside. Moreover, because the emperor's eldest son Yong Huang and the emperor's third son Yong Zhang did not show sadness at the funeral of Empress Fucha, the Qianlong Emperor also deliberately ordered that these two people be publicly deprived of the right to inherit the throne, indicating that "these two people cannot stand."
Although the Qianlong Emperor was a gentleman in his life, he was like his father Yongzheng, and he was not prosperous under his knees. In the winter of the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong, the Qianlong Emperor had to face a very serious problem, when there were only 7 living princes under his knees. Moreover, among these 7 people, Yong Juan and Yong Yao have already passed on to others as heirs and have lost the qualification to inherit the throne. That is to say, the Qianlong Emperor could only choose the heir to the throne from the remaining five, and several of the remaining five princes were not in good health.
These five princes were Yongxuan, Yongxuan, Yongxuan, Yongxuan, Yongyan, and Yongxuan, of which Yongxuan was the most honorable, he was born to Qianlong and the second empress, Nala, and could be regarded as the de facto eldest son of concubines (the other princes died early). In terms of ability, Yong Xuan was also far superior to several other princes, and he was also the eldest son of Qianlong and the empress, but Qianlong passed the throne to the fifteenth prince Yong Yan, who was not outstanding, that is, the Jiaqing Emperor.
Needless to say, the talent of the Jiaqing Emperor is that the Qing Dynasty was in decline at his hands, and he was not even the King of Shoucheng, and the biggest advantage was probably that there was no advantage. As one of the most mediocre emperors in history, the Jiaqing Emperor did not inherit the genes of his grandfather Yongzheng in governing the world, not even his father Qianlong. Although he also had the determination to revitalize the Qing Dynasty, his talent was not enough to accomplish this, and he could only watch the Qing Dynasty continue to decline.
Of course, all this was invisible to the Qianlong Emperor, and he probably did not expect that the emperor he had chosen would lose the qing dynasty so quickly. Although he left Jiaqing a hezhen, so that Jiaqing could easily obtain a huge fortune, how could he not understand the reason for sitting on the mountain and eating the sky? Even if Jiaqing gets all the family property of Hezhen, sooner or later there will be a day of defeat.
So, why can Jiaqing still sit on the throne of God? This actually stems from the Qianlong Emperor's practice of "wanting to have a son because he loves his mother". In the forty-third year of Qianlong, the Qianlong Emperor and his ministers discussed ancient emperors, criticized the ancients' practice of "establishing their sons because they loved their mothers", and gave two examples, Zhu Yijun and Liu Bang. Qianlong believed that although the two of them had made great achievements as emperors, they were not wise enough in the matter of appointing a crown prince, and they were easily troubled by private feelings.
For example, Zhu Yijun, in order to make zhu Changxun, the prince of Fu, born to his beloved Concubine Zheng Guifei, the crown prince, launched a decades-long dispute with the Manchu dynasty ministers. In Qianlong's view, this is very unwise, as an emperor, he should not be troubled by private feelings. Although Qianlong said that the head was the Tao, when it was his turn, he still could not get rid of this rule. He passed the throne to Jiaqing, not because he favored Concubine Ling.
When Empress Fucha died, the Qianlong Emperor immediately deprived the two princes of the right to inherit the throne, which was enough to prove that Qianlong was not as rational as he thought. Although Yong Xuan was intelligent and capable, and was praised by the times as "talented and pure, and extremely talented", but because his birth mother Empress Nala was not in harmony with the Qianlong Emperor, when the Qianlong Emperor was crown prince, the first one excluded Yong Xuan.
In the matter of appointing a crown prince, the Qianlong Emperor can definitely be regarded as a double standard. While mocking the ancient emperors for being irrational and that the crown prince would be affected by private feelings, he also excluded Yong Xuan from being the heir to the throne because of his disagreement with empress nara. Then, because of his harmonious feelings with Concubine Ling, jiaqing, who was not outstanding, was appointed as the crown prince. Speaking of which, There is no difference between Qianlong and Liu Bang, Zhu Yijun and others, but it is just fifty steps and a hundred steps.