In the history of China, there have been many emperors known for their diligence and thrift. Such as Song Xiaozong Zhao Xie, Han Wen Emperor Liu Heng, Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youfan and so on. However, if we talk about the most diligent and thrifty emperor, there has always been a consensus in the field of history, that is, the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
The Daoguang Emperor was frugal and diligent in government affairs throughout his life, and was a rare good emperor in the late Qing Dynasty. During his reign, he rectified the rule of officials, suppressed the rebellion of Zhang Ge, and vigorously smoked bans. Lin Zexu's sale of cigarettes was carried out under his orders.
But it is a pity that the Daoguang Emperor has the heart to be a Ming Jun, and does not have the wisdom to be a Ming Jun. Under his rule, the Qing Dynasty only recovered some decline, and did not glorify for too long. Especially after the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty was irretrievably in decline.
And the corruption of officials has always been very serious, even the Daoguang Emperor wanted to eat a bowl of mutton noodles, under the layers of corruption of lower-level officials, this bowl of noodles actually cost 70,000 taels of silver, and Daoguang angrily beheaded seven ministers.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >, Daoguang Emperor</h1>
The Daoguang Emperor can be said to be an alternative among all the emperors of the Qing Dynasty. But this alternative is not an absolute positive or negative meaning. Rather, the Daoguang Emperor had been a special case since he was born. Daoguang was the only emperor in the three hundred years of the Qing Dynasty to inherit the unification as the eldest son of a concubine, and Jiaqing had the heart to make him emperor very early.
As the eldest son of Jiaqing, Daoguang was deeply loved by Jiaqing and Qianlong since childhood. Especially Qianlong, who liked his eldest grandson very much, often took Daoguang out hunting. Such a growth environment allowed Daoguang to grow into a prince who was both literate and martial, and stood out among the princes. Especially what happened later, it made the Jiaqing Emperor completely establish the determination to pass the throne to Daoguang.
In the eighteenth year of Jiaqing, the Tianli Sect, a branch of the White Lotus Sect, grew and grew, threatening the foundation of the Qing Dynasty's rule. Moreover, the scope of activities of the Tenrikyo Sect was very close to the capital at that time, so the imperial city was often threatened by the Tenrikyo Sect.
Just in time for one day, the Jiaqing Emperor left the palace to go to the summer resort, and the defensive forces in the palace were empty. Seeing this situation, the Tenrikyo Sect decided to launch a general attack on the imperial city, gathering more than 200 rebel troops, intending to usurp power under the cooperation of the eunuchs in the palace.
At this time, only the Daoguang Emperor was sitting in the palace, and when he learned of this, he was not in danger, and ordered the remaining internal guards in the palace to urgently close the gates of the inner palace to prevent the rebel army from rushing in. But at this time, there were still several rebels on the wall of the inner palace who climbed over the wall and came in.
In a hurry, Daoguang grabbed the fire bolts around him and aimed them at the rebels, killing them all. After a while, reinforcements from outside the palace arrived, slaughtering the rebels inside the Forbidden City. When the Jiaqing Emperor heard about this, he quickly returned to the palace. Seeing that it was only a false alarm, and hearing about Daoguang's heroic performance, he was very happy, and he was named the Prince of Zhi, which can be said to be sitting firmly on the future throne.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > second, frugality is not mistaken by corrupt officials</h1>
In the twenty-fifth year of Jiaqing, the Jiaqing Emperor fell ill and died, and Daoguang succeeded to the throne, becoming the eighth emperor since the Qing Dynasty entered the Customs. Daoguang, who has just ascended to the throne, has great ambitions and wants to inherit his father Jiaqing's will and show his fists and feet in the position of emperor.
However, at this time, the Qing Dynasty was in the midst of "the decline of jiadao", and after Qianlong, the Qing dynasty had already embarked on a downward slope. Officials were corrupt, militarily backward, domestic uprisings were constant, and foreign countries faced commercial oppression by Western powers.
After Daoguang took the throne, he very much wanted to do something. In order to reverse the decline of the Great Qing Kingdom, Daoguang made a lot of efforts. The most obvious manifestation is that he is very frugal, arguably the most frugal emperor in the world, and there is no one.
How frugal is he? According to historical records, the brushes used by the Daoguang Emperor, Yantai, etc., are all folk bargains. All the clothes, except for the dragon robe, were patched, and in addition to this, he also required all harem concubines and so on not to wear splendid clothes.
Even at his mother's wedding banquet, the Daoguang Emperor left only a bowl of noodles as a congratulatory gift. But even so, the empress dowager was still very happy, because of Daoguang's frugality, she had long ordered that all kinds of banquets in the palace were strictly prohibited, and she was very happy that the Daoguang Emperor could celebrate her birthday. It can be seen that the Daoguang Emperor was frugal.
However, the frugality of the Daoguang Emperor did not play much of a leading role in the Qing dynasty court at that time, but instead cultivated a batch of corrupt officials. Although the Daoguang Emperor was frugal, his experience was much worse than that of the old fritters who had been officials for decades.
In the past, his eating and wearing was not at his own expense, but pointed out by the national treasury. This gives corrupt officials in the DPRK an opportunity to take advantage of it. On weekdays, very cheap folk goods may only need a few copper plates, but under the corruption of layers of exploitation, they have reached the sky-high price of tens of thousands of taels of silver. The most famous of these is the Daoguang Emperor's bowl of 70,000 silver lamb noodles.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" >3, sky-high lamb noodles</h1>
Lamb noodles are not ordinary for ordinary people. For Daoguang, a child who grew up in the palace since childhood, to act, I really haven't seen much. He had only eaten a few times when he had accidentally left the palace again. And that bowl of lamb noodles left a deep impression on Daoguang.
Although he was very frugal, he occasionally wanted to taste the meat, so he ordered the imperial dining room to make a bowl of lamb noodles to taste. But it didn't matter what he thought, the imperial dining room actually asked for seventy thousand taels of silver at the beginning.
Dao Guang was suddenly shocked and angry, so he asked the head of the imperial dining room, why can this lamb noodles reach a sky-high price of 70,000 taels?! The Daoguang Emperor even felt that the Imperial Dining Room had deceived himself as a fool. And the general manager of the imperial dining room is even more reasonable, and the head is Daoguang's bargaining.
It is said that this bowl of lamb noodles needs to be built in a shed to raise sheep to kill now, and it needs to be freshly ground to make noodles, etc., and there is no such condition in the palace, so it has a sky-high price of 70,000 taels. Dao Guang heard him say this, although his heart was furious, but as a generation of emperors, he still suppressed the anger in his heart and planned to sweep away the moths in the court.
Under his stripping cocoon, a huge corrupt group in the DPRK was dug out by him. The seventy thousand taels of silver for this bowl of mutton noodles alone were divided into two major organizations, the Imperial Dining Room and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, of which the three ministers in the dprk were led! Daoguang's anger was not suppressed this time, and he directly beheaded the three people, and only then did the corruption in the DPRK ease somewhat.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > Summary:</h1>
Although the Daoguang Emperor was very frugal, and hated traitors and corrupt officials, he also tried his best to save the country from declining. However, at that time, the Qing Dynasty had lagged behind the world for too long, with constant internal and external troubles, and the corruption in the DPRK and China could not be understood by killing a few ministers.
Compared with other emperors, he was already much better than many emperors, but he did not have the brain and intelligence to make the Qing Dynasty prosperous, and he could only say that he was definitely not a dimwitted emperor. In the words of Xiao Yishan, a famous Historian of the Qing Dynasty, "After Jiaqing, there was no competition in force, the discipline was corrupted, the believers were scattered, and the people did not have a good life." But The simplicity of Emperor Renzong and the frugality of Emperor Xuanzong are all commendable."