Kangxi Yongzheng and Qianlong, who are the benevolent lords who are kind and soft-hearted? This question is not easy to answer, because the TV series has been performed, and it is also written in the novel: Kangxi Is Wise and Divine Martial, Qianlong is wise and benevolent, these two Ming Emperors and Heroes have joined forces to create the "Prosperous Era of Kangqian", and Yongzheng has not even spared his own brothers, punishing and killing many ministers with an iron fist, which is naturally mean and unkind.
However, when we look at the history with a deep heart, we will find an interesting phenomenon: these three generations of ancestors and grandchildren, if we take the Erpin grand master as the standard, it is precisely the "benevolent" Qianlong who kills the most people, followed by the "wise" Kangxi, and the one who kills the least is the "mean and unkind" Yongzheng Emperor Yinchen. At this time, we have to ask: Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong Three Dynasties killed a total of ninety-four or more senior members of the second grade, most of them died at the hands of whom? Who are these three grandsons and grandsons who are benevolent kings and who are tyrants?
According to completely accurate statistics, the Kangxi Dynasty killed a total of thirty or more senior officers of erpin, and if we do not count the eight people killed during the dictatorship of Aobai, including Feiyanggu and Suksaha, the number of senior members who died at the hands of Kangxi (including imprisonment and suicide) was twenty-two or more, of which Zu Zeqing, the general soldier of Gaolei Town in Guangdong, Ma Bao, the chief soldier of Qujing Town, Yunnan, Liu Jinzhong, the chief soldier of Chaozhou Town, Guangdong, and Li Benshen, the viceroy of Guizhou, were all executed by Ling Chi.
The Yongzheng Dynasty began in Nian Tangyao to Liu Shiming, the governor of Fujian, who was a thief, and eleven Erpin officials were executed. This includes the rebbe attendant Cha Siting, who was killed after the death, but does not include the legendary Yu Hongtu who was beheaded at the waist - the official history records that Yu Hongtu was a beheading decision, this person served as a bachelor in Henan, and the official position should be between five and six pins, so it is not in the ranks of the Erpin grand officers, and only with the title of shilang of each ministry to supervise the study of politics in each province, it is counted as a second product.
Finally, let's take a look at the Qianlong Emperor who was the most capable of killing more than two pins: from the soldier Shangshu and the infantry commander Eshan began to sacrifice the sword, to the Fujian inspector Pu Lin sealed the sword, Qianlong alone killed fifty-three two or more senior officers. Qianlong killed more gold content, including The Bohedian University Scholar, the First Grade Guoyi Gong Ne Kin, the WenhuaDian University Scholar, the Governor of Chuanshan, the First Rank Cheng'en Gongqingfu, and the Dongge University Scholar and the Governor of Yungui, Yang Yingju, and so on. The most innocent are Inspector Echang of Gansu and Peng Jiaping, envoy of Jiangsu Province, whose crimes are "singing with Hu Zhongzao and the party against the enemy" and "collecting reverse books." The most bizarre thing is that Qianlong died his wife, and the governor of Huguang, Sai Leng'e, and the governor of Jiangnan River, Zhou Xuejian, shaved their heads during the funeral and were also ordered by Qianlong to commit suicide.
At this time, some people said that it was normal for Yongzheng to reign for a short time and kill fewer people, but if you compare the records of Qianlong and Kangxi, you will find that the time of reign is almost the same, and Kangxi has experienced major events such as the destruction of Aobaiping San Francisco, and the two or more senior officers he executed are basically related to Wu Sangui Gengjing's loyalty, so in terms of "decisive killing", Kangxi is far inferior to Sun Qianlong.
As for who counts as a benevolent prince, let's see who has done what none of the emperors of previous dynasties did, which is very important and has had a profound impact on history - the complete abolition of slavery.
At this time, some people may have to raise objections: Since Qin Shi Huang, has not he already entered the feudal society? How did the Qing Dynasty still have slavery? If we turn to history, we will know that at least in the early Qing Dynasty, slaves always existed, and Wang Mang wanted to completely abolish the system, and finally it was not possible. After the Eight Banners entered the customs, slaves had formed a special class of large numbers.
The laws of the early Qing Dynasty and the local chronicles recorded: "Large households buy servants at a high price to cultivate, and grow their children and grandchildren, they are known as world servants (generations of slaves). "With a servant as a servant, the children and grandchildren will not be allowed to take the test with the child (not allowed to take even the most basic imperial examinations)." "The tenants resold with the land, ordered them to serve, and did not allow him to be suitable (the peasants became accessories to the land and sold them together at a price)."
These people are the private property of princes, nobles and large families, and their situation is not necessarily stronger than that of cattle and horses: "When their cold weather and snow are cold, and they are enriched with cold water, they are iron locked at night, and they are tied to the edge of the bed, and they cannot drown, and it is especially difficult to toss and turn." "Although the royal palaces do not have the right to live and kill, but there is a black punishment of urns, which has lasted for more than two hundred years, and many people have been detained." The princes and ministers committed numerous atrocities, and the Manchu officials who were the first to surrender to the Qing court and mixed into feudal officials were not willing to show weakness: "There are too many slaves to be bought by the overseers, and there are thousands of people." Of course, no governor could use a thousand slaves in his home, and the slaves they "bought" or robbed were actually a commodity that could be given away or resold.
Seeing this, some people may have been angry and rushed to the crown. But don't be in a hurry, the things that make you even angrier are still to come. The "Kangxi Emperor", known as the "First Emperor of the Ages" (please note that it is in quotation marks), was very concerned about the escape of slaves, and the "Law of Escape" had been "well enforced" in the Kangxi Dynasty, which you can see the "Great Qing Law": Shunzhi stipulated that slaves escaped twice and corrected the law on the spot, and Kangxi twenty-two years "extra enlightened", the escapees did not kill, but they had to be "sent to Ningguta to be slaves with poor soldiers" - this actually gave the Eight Banner Soldiers of Ningguta the opportunity to obtain slaves for free. At this time, we can't throw the pot to Ao Bai, because when Kangxi was twenty-two years old, Ao Bai was dead, San Francisco was already flat, and no one could restrain Kangxi's imperial power.
In the twenty-seventh year of Kangxi, a statistical report placed on the emperor's Longshu case also made Kangxi very angry: "Eight banners escaped a total of 8,814 men and women." There were more than 8,000 people who escaped, but where they came from, they were full of Han, and the readers must know it.
All this did not have any hope of ending until the first year of Yongzheng: "Lazy people" and "beggars" were all abolished and "listed as gangsters", that is, all people had household registrations, and anyone's descendants (some people would be three generations later) could take the imperial examination, which is the famous "abolition of untouchables" in history.
Benevolent or unkind, and see if he can treat all equally. Yongzheng's approach was very different from that of his father Kangxi, and his son Qianlong did not follow it, so until the Qianlong Jiaqing period, the slaves who escaped three times had to be sent to Heilongjiang as slaves...