In many Qing Palace costume dramas, the shadow of He Yan and Zhongtang will often be seen by everyone, and the white and fat man and the fat man seem to be the hezhen in everyone's heart, so when it comes to Hezhen, everyone more or less knows something about him, but if Ah Gui is mentioned, I am afraid that some people do not know who he is, but this less well-known General Ah Gui is a big person who is afraid of three points with Yan.
Ah Gui
Ah Gui, zhang jia clan, the son of the Qing Dynasty scholar Aktun, Manchurian Zhenglan Bannerman, later carried into one of the three banners of the Zhengbai Banner for military merit. Ah Gui relied on his father's relationship to first enter the official field and was awarded the official position of Dali Temple, which was not high or low, and in the third year of Qianlong (1738), Ah Gui was given the title of chief of the military department the following year, and was also an official position of Zheng Liupin. After that, he began to be proud of the spring breeze and rose step by step:
In the eighth year of Qianlong (1743), he served as a military machine Zhang Jing (also Zheng Wupin) as Hubu Langzhong (正五品);
In the twentieth year of Qianlong (1755), Ah Gui was successively awarded the posts of Counsellor's Minister, Deputy Governor of Mongolia with The Red Banner, and Attendant of the Ministry of Works;
In the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong (1761), Ah Gui was awarded the posts of Minister of the Interior, Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, Walking of the Legislative Affairs Office, and Commander of the Han Army with the Blue Banner;
In the first month of the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong (1763), Ah Gui was awarded the title of Minister of Military Aircraft and given the honor of riding a horse in the Forbidden City;
In the thirty-second year of Qianlong (1767), Ah Gui was appointed as the general of Ili and rose to the rank of feudal governor;
In the thirty-third year of Qianlong (1768), Ah Gui was awarded the title of Bingbu Shangshu, and soon became the governor of Yungui;
The image of Ah Gui in film and television dramas
In May of the forty-second year of Qianlong (1777), he was awarded the title of Scholar of Wuyingdian University, the administrative official and the commander of the Red Banner of Manchuria; In June, he was put in charge of the White Banner of Manchuria, the president of the Yumu Pavilion, the National History Museum, and the Siku Quanshu, and the consul of Wenyuan Pavilion; In October, the Yellow Flag manchurian capital was adjusted, and the three libraries of the household department were managed;
In the forty-third year of Qianlong (1778), he also managed the affairs of the clan. In July, he signed the Shoshu of the Military Department. In November, he was the chief master of the upper study;
In December of the 44th year of Qianlong (January 1780), after the death of Yu Minzhong, a sergeant and military aircraft minister of Wenhuadian University, Ah Gui ranked first in the rank of university cadets and became the foreman of the military aircraft minister. In just a few years, Ah Gui has become the first heavy minister of the Qing court to "comprehensively manage the affairs of the ministry and praise the Xiang Shu".
In the Qianlong Dynasty, Ah Gui was one of the few generals who entered the cabinet, and he was able to quell the rebellion on the outside, and he could assist the Qianlong Emperor in handling political affairs. Although He Yan also has literary talent, he does have obvious disadvantages compared with Ah Gui.
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First of all, speaking of family lineage, He yan's father Chang Bao was only a deputy capital, and Ah Gui's father Aktun was a scholar of the dynasty, and his status was completely unrecognizable at all, even if he was later promoted to "Hezhongtang" with Yan Rongsheng, but in that hierarchical feudal society, Hezhen's status in Qianlong psychology was still inferior to Ah Gui's.
Speaking of political seniority, Ah Gui first entered the career in the first year of Qianlong (1736), when he was awarded the Dali Temple, and he first entered the career in the thirty-fourth year of Qianlong (1769), so it seems that Ah Gui entered the career 33 years earlier than He yan, and Ah Gui himself was 33 years older than He Yan. In the year when He Yan first entered the career, Ah Gui was already a high position such as Shangshu of the Military Department and the Governor of Yungui, how could a small soldier who had just entered the workplace be compared to the "old fritters" who had been in the official field for more than 30 years.
Although in the late Qianlong period, He Yan was one of the figures who was quite appreciated by the Qianlong Emperor, and his official position was constantly rising, even if he was later appointed as the Minister of Military Aircraft, but at this time, Ah Gui was already the leading Military Aircraft Minister, and even if He Yan was horizontal, he had to endure in front of Ah Gui.
Therefore, whether it is family lineage, official position or power, He Yan is not as good as Ah Gui. In the last ten years of Qianlong's reign, although Ah Gui was the foreman of the military aircraft, he was basically on the move, rarely in the capital, and He Yan took this opportunity to control the political situation of the imperial court. Ah Gui was very bitter about the chaotic government of hezhen's dictatorship, but because the Qianlong Emperor was old, coupled with his own age and inability to do so, he had no choice. However, he did not want to join forces with Hezhen and did not have any contact with Hezhen on weekdays except when summoned by the Qianlong Emperor to discuss politics. But whoever stood next to the imperial steps, Ah Gui must be more than a dozen steps away from Hezhen to show his "stunned independence". Even if He Yan took the initiative to discuss political affairs with him, Ah Gui only "responded to it" and did not move a step.
Ah Gui and Hezhen in the film and television drama
Ah Gui is more than 30 years old and has military merit, so he also has the capital to "look down" on He Yan, and if there is no intersection between the two of them, in fact, there are still some.
In the forty-sixth year of Qianlong (1781), gansu underwent a change, and the Qianlong Emperor ordered Ah Gui and He Yan to go to quell the rebellion, and at that time Ah Gui was supervising the river work in Henan, and Qianlong ordered He Yan to go first. After arriving in Gansu, he supervised the suppression of the rebellion, but although the Hui rebel army was small, the resistance was particularly tenacious, and the Qing army could not conquer for a long time and killed and wounded more than a thousand officers and soldiers.
Soon Ah Gui arrived at the Gansu front, and He Yan put the blame for the defeat on the generals who did not listen to the dispatches. Ah Gui believes that if there is such a situation, it should be dealt with by military law. So he joined he in summoning the generals to deploy a strategy of warfare. Every command issued by Ah Gui was answered by the generals. Ah Gui said to Hezhen, "The generals will not see their slowness, when who will condemn them?" Washu was ashamed and hateful, unable to say a word. The Qianlong Emperor also issued an edict reprimanding He Yan for not reporting the actual situation of the war, saying: "Since Ah Gui came to the army, the measures were always organized, one person was enough to deal with thieves, and He Yan was in the army, and things were not the same." "Ordered and Yan to return to Beijing." This incident made Hezhen even more jealous of Ah Gui, and the two have not been friendly ever since. After He Yan returned to Beijing, Ah Gui dispatched troops and dispatched generals, and soon put down the Hui rebellion.
Ah Gui
Therefore, compared with Ah Gui, although He yan was extremely powerful, he had to endure. Although Ah Gui had several unsuccessful careers, in the Qianlong Dynasty, he was definitely one of Qianlong's most trusted people and one of Qianlong's most favored ministers. In the fifty years of Qianlong (1785) and the first year of Jiaqing (1796), the Qing court twice held a banquet for thousands of people, and Ah Gui was ordered to be the foreman. During the Qianlong Emperor's Zen ceremony, Ah Gui was responsible for the "Fengzhi Treasure".
Ah Gui's four-time map of the Purple Light Pavilion (the Purple Light Pavilion was the Qianlong Emperor's meritorious commendation for emulating The Tang Taizong Li Shimin Ling yan Pavilion), the 20th year of Qianlong (1755), the Pingding Ili Huibu (also known as the Battle of the Western Regions of Pingding), Ah Gui ranked seventeenth among the top 50 meritorious men;
Qianlong Forty-first Year (1776), "Pacifying the Battle of Jinchuan", Ah Gui ranked first among the top fifty heroes;
In the fifty-second year of Qianlong (1787), "the Battle of Pacifying Taiwan", Ah Gui was the first assistant and still ranked first;
In the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong (1792), at the Battle of Gorkha, Ah Gui was still ranked first with his high rank, but he was humbled to the commander Fu Kang'an, so he was ranked second.
In August of the second year of Jiaqing (1797), Ah Gui died of illness at the age of 81, and the Jiaqing Emperor heard the obituary and first sent emissaries to the memorial, posthumously gave Ah Gui the title of Taibao, and in September, he personally visited his funeral, gave him the title of "Wencheng", and allowed him to enter the Xianliang Ancestral Hall. Compared to Hezhen being robbed of his family and committing suicide, Ah Gui's ending is much better.