After the Yongzheng Emperor gave him the death of Tang Yao, how did he treat his 80 wives and concubines? The method is somewhat cruel
The year of the clouds
People who have watched historical TV dramas or read history books may be impressed by a famous Qing Dynasty general, that is, Nian Tangyao.
Nian Qianyao, who was subordinate to the Yellow Banner of the Han Army, became a jinshi at the age of 21, and later rose all the way to the governor of Sichuan, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, the general of Fuyuan, and was given the title of Taibao and the first rank duke.
This great general galloped on the battlefield, calmed down the chaos in Tibet, and quelled the rebellion in Qinghai, which can be described as a generation of famous generals who have made outstanding military achievements.
It was also because of this military achievement that Nian Qianyao also received special preferential treatment from the Kangxi Emperor and later the Yongzheng Emperor.
Nian Qianyao's father served as a imperial historian and a servant of the Ministry of Works in Henan Province, and later became an official inspector of Huguang. Growing up in the home of the inspector official, Nian Qianyao loved to read since childhood and was also quite talented, and became a jinshi at the age of 21. For many years, he served as a township examiner and a cabinet bachelor.
However, in addition to his knowledge, Nian Qianyao was more skilled in martial arts. Before he was thirty years old, Nian Qianyao was particularly appreciated by the Kangxi Emperor and was promoted to inspector of Sichuan, becoming a feudal governor at that time.
Of course, Nian Qianyao was also grateful and vowed to do his best to repay. After taking office, Nian Qianyao made many measures to promote the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages, so that Sichuan at that time was very well developed, and thus appreciated by the Kangxi Emperor for what he did.
Subsequently, Nian Qianyao defeated the Dzungars' invasion of Tibet, ensuring the logistical supply of the army and making great contributions.
Faced with the loss of the military heart of the Sichuan Governor Kang Tai and the inability to face the invasion of Tibet by foreign tribes, Nian Qianyao asked him to personally go to the battlefield to help manage military affairs, quell the war, and add a Sichuan garrison after the war.
The Kangxi Emperor rewarded Nian Qianyao for doing solid work, and specially promoted Nian Qianyao to be the governor of Sichuan, who was in charge of both military and political affairs and civil affairs.
Later, Nian Qianyao went in and out of Tibet and Qinghai many times to quell the rebellion, becoming a heavy vassal of the Western Province, and has always been used by the Kangxi Emperor.
After the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, two ministers, Nian Qianyao and Long Keduo, jointly assisted Yongzheng and became his right and left arms. Nian Qianyao's younger sister was a side Fujin before Yongzheng ascended the throne, and after Yongzheng ascended the throne, she was also favored by Yongzheng and became an imperial concubine, second only to the empress.
In this way, the relationship between Nian Qianyao and Yongzheng's monarchs and subjects went a step further due to the relationship between the emperor and the relatives. On the battlefield, Nian Qianyao was stationed in the town of Xining to personally command the pacification of the Qinghai Rebellion, and the prestige of the "Nian Dajun" had also been shocking Xi'an.
Yongzheng was thus promoted to the rank of Nian Qianyao and rewarded with a viscount, and Nian Qianyao also became the main confidant of the Yongzheng Emperor.
The monarch knows the encounter and the discord
In addition to the close monarchy relationship between Nian Qianyao and the Yongzheng Emperor because nian Qianyao later protected the frontier and protected the hot land for the Yongzheng Emperor on the battlefield, in fact, it originated earlier from the time when the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, that is, the famous "Nine Sons and Concubines" in history.
At that time, the Kangxi Emperor had 24 sons, of which 9 princes participated in the struggle for the throne. The second brother was deposed by the Kangxi Emperor twice as crown prince because of his alliance with the party for personal gain, and was eventually imprisoned to death. The eldest brother was imprisoned by Kangxi for harming the second brother. Faced with the chaos of the second brother being deposed and the eldest brother imprisoned because of his exposing the eldest brother, the third brother voluntarily withdrew from the struggle for the throne.
The Eight Brothers, the Ninth Brothers, and the Ten Brothers all support the Fourteen Brothers. At that time, only the thirteenth brother supported the fourth brother, that is, the later Yongzheng, but the fourth brother did not have much idea of competing for the throne at that time, but more supported the second brother of the prince, and only wanted to assist the good prince and do everything as a vassal.
However, when the second brother was deposed as the crown prince for the second time, the fourth brother saw that the second brother had no possibility of restoration, so he changed from passive to active, and began to form a party for personal gain and participate in the struggle for the throne.
With Nian Tangyao's younger sister as the side fujin of the four brothers, the four brothers had the support of the nian general.
Although the Eighth Brother was virtuous, when the Second Brother was deposed as the crown prince for the first time, the Kangxi Emperor was dissatisfied with the selection of the Eighth Brother as the crown prince by the courtiers, because at that time the Kangxi Emperor still wanted to restore the Second Brother as the crown prince, and at that time Kangxi was still strong and strong, and seeing the courtiers so electing the Eight Brothers inevitably caused suspicions in their hearts about the Eight Brothers' alliance for personal gain. So later the Kangxi Emperor attacked the Eight Ye Party many times.
Eventually, at the time of Kangxi's death, the fourteen brothers supported by the brothers were far away in the northwest, and the four brothers were in Beijing.
Under the internal and external echoes of the Kangxi dynasty ministers Long Keduo and Nian Qianyao, the four brothers eventually succeeded to the throne and became the Yongzheng Emperor. It can be said that the fourth brother can smoothly ascend the throne and become the Yongzheng Emperor, which is inseparable from Nian Qianyao's support and help.
After Yongzheng ascended the throne, Nian Qianyao was of course reused, and even more favored by the Yongzheng Emperor, whether it was the court or the military, Yongzheng would adopt Nian Qianyao's suggestion.
This also made the Chinese military ministers particularly respectful of Nian Qianyao, and even later there would be ministers who would perform the ritual of bowing down to Nian Qianyao, and the increasingly proud Nian Qianyao gradually became accustomed to this preferential treatment, and gradually forgot the courtesy of the monarch and the way of being a subject that should be observed, which caused Yongzheng to be very dissatisfied, so that Yongzheng began to doubt and hate, and openly attacked Nian Qianyao.
When officials inside and outside the imperial court saw such a scene, they exposed their old crimes one after another, exposed their arrogance and fortune, formed parties for personal gain, and embezzled money.
In this way, the good times did not last long, and Nian Qianyao was eventually stripped of his official title by the Yongzheng Emperor, and listed ninety-two major crimes; the Yongzheng Emperor remembered his outstanding merits, did not punish him, and ordered him to commit suicide.
More than 80 wives and concubines were exiled into slavery
After Nian Qianyao was given the opportunity to commit suicide, his father and brother were all stripped of their ranks, his son Nian Fu was beheaded, and the rest of his sons and heirs over the age of fifteen were sent to the frontier.
The more than 80 wives and concubines he once owned were also implicated and sent to Xinjiang as slaves and were not allowed to leave.
In ancient times, the land of Xinjiang was still an unexplored area, full of jackals, tigers and leopards, and exile on the frontier was another kind of death penalty, which for women who were weak meant to fend for themselves and eventually die on the way to go or in that desolate land.
Just as the so-called merit is high, it is difficult to protect oneself. However, Nian Qianyao, however, did not restrain himself after his meritorious service, and sometimes even interfered in the affairs of the dynasty, and openly opposed the emperor's decision-making, which caused the dissatisfaction and hatred of the emperor and many ministers, so that the Yongzheng Emperor had to lose this confidant for the throne, and Nian Qianyao eventually ended up in ruins.
