Preface
Since ancient times, the emperor must hold the power tightly in his own hands in order to enjoy the supreme treatment belonging to the "Ninety-Five", especially the military power, otherwise if there are some people in the palace who have grown their power, there will always be people who "disagree", and if they engage in a rebellion and rebellion in three days, the imperial power and even the rule of the dynasty will be greatly threatened!
Therefore, after the emperors of all dynasties ascended the throne, they would promulgate a series of measures to consolidate the imperial power, such as the direct "killing of meritorious heroes and powerful ministers", as well as the great wisdom of "pushing grace orders" and "releasing military power with a glass of wine" and so on.
However, at the peak of the feudal monarchy on the mainland, there was an emperor who "did the opposite", and after the former courtiers were charged with beheading the prisoners, he actually did not have any weakening policy towards him, but handed over his country's heavy military power to this former dynasty who seemed to be "guilty of outsiders"!
This emperor who gave military power to an outsider who was convicted of "guilt" was Qianlong, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the most, and this "guilty outsider" was Yue Zhongqi, a descendant of the famous Yue Fei.
But Yue Zhongqi's life should not be extinguished at that time, Yongzheng sentenced Yue Zhongqi to be punished for beheading the prison and punishing Yue Zhongqi, Yongzheng died violently, and Qianlong then succeeded to the throne, Qianlong ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world, including the case of Yue Zhongqi, the former minister of the former dynasty, was also retried by Qianlong, Yue Zhongqi was finally released, and got a "pension" and returned to the countryside to live, which can be said to be a farewell to the old and returned to his hometown.
I thought that Yue Zhongqi's career as a horse was over, but I didn't expect that when Yue Zhongqi was 62 years old, Emperor Qianlong had already eaten the country laid by his father and grandfather, and he had eaten for 13 years.
So Emperor Qianlong decided to reactivate Yue Zhongqi, the general of the previous dynasty, and directly handed over the power of heavy troops to Yue Zhongqi to reactivate!
So the question is, why did Yongzheng position Yue Zhongqi as a "prisoner" instead of directly beheading him? Wasn't he afraid that Emperor Qianlong, his precious son, would once again activate the guilty ministers and "rebel" again? And Yue Zhongqi, who was already dying, had not fulfilled Qianlong's heavy trust?
"Yue Fei's descendant" Yue Zhongqi - the same loyalty to the country
Yue Zhongqi is the 21st grandson of Yue Fei, he has been familiar with the art of war since he was a child, and his parents are all senior officials who fought for Kangxi.
And he has never left behind the martial arts of physical fitness, carrying the expectations of his parents and his own ideals Yue Zhongqi entered the imperial court as an official as he wished, but Yue Zhongqi entered the place where he was a "civilian", Yue Zhongqi worked diligently for a period of time, and found that the civilian job was not suitable for him.
It happened that in Kangxi's later years, people sent by Dzungaria came to invade the border, and Yue Zhongqi took the initiative to invite Ying to enter the border area to fight with Dzungaria, and Yue Zhongqi's military talent began to show.
After the mainland Tibet was invaded by the Tsar of Junggar and Yiqiu Raccoon Dog, Kangxi immediately sent Yue Zhongqi as a deputy general to assist the fourteenth son of the emperor Yinyu to lead an army of 300,000 to fight, when the Tibetan Khan was beheaded, the Tibet region has fallen, this battle is superficially quelling the rebels, but in fact recovering Tibet!
Such a great war was fought extremely difficult, but under Yue Zhongqi's suggestion, the enemy was finally beaten and ran away without daring to turn back under the correct combat policy of our army and the brave and resolute attack of the Qing army.
Yue Zhongqi's recovery of Tibet was also recorded as a great achievement, and he was knighted, but unfortunately Yongzheng succeeded to the throne after the Qinghai rebellion, as the brave general of the previous dynasty, Yue Zhongqi was sent to Qinghai again as a "deputy general" to assess the war, although he was invincible in Qinghai, the record was like the god of war, and he also rescued the "general" Nian Qianyao many times, and set up a great military merit of recovering 690,000 square meters of gorgeous land, and his position was rising.
But the tree was very popular, Nian Qianyao was first given to death by Yongzheng in the name of "rebellion", and it didn't take long for Yue Zhongqi to be rumored to be a so-called "rebellion".
After the Nian Qianyao incident, Emperor Yongzheng was most worried about the "people with different surnames" around him, especially some generals who held military power, and Yue Zhongqi, as a "feudal official" at that time, was undoubtedly in line with Yongzheng's two most worried points.
Coupled with the whispers and some rumors of the ministers around Yongzheng all day long, Yongzheng couldn't help but wonder if Yue Zhongqi really had the "intention of rebellion".
Although Yue Zhongqi knew that he was innocent, in order to avoid Yongzheng's suspicion, he directly reported to Yongzheng very humbly that the source of the "rumor" was that someone maliciously created a momentum, and Yongzheng himself believed in this Yue Fei's descendant, and the matter was over.
But later, there was another Xiucai named Zeng Jing, who was "disgusted" by the current Qing imperial examination system, so he heard that there was a descendant of Yue Fei named Yue Zhongqi in the current dynasty who wanted to "oppose".
immediately wrote a letter to Yue Zhongqi, and asked his students to send it to Yue Zhongqi in person, expressing his desire to invite Yue Zhongqi to "oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty".
Yue Zhongqi, as a descendant of Yue Fei, how could he be disloyal, but the lack of re-start has been smeared many times, in order to find the mastermind behind the scenes and set out more clues, Yue Zhongqi pretended to accept Zeng Jing's student's request, and after getting the specific details, he immediately reported it to Yongzheng.
岳钟琪被雍正帝王之术所“困”
This time, Yongzheng was busy with the border war, and before he could read Yue Zhongqi's content, he let Yue Zhongqi go to the battlefield, but Yue Zhongqi was deceived by the Galdan people who surrendered by fraud, and Yue Zhongqi lost the battle with a wrong step.
Yongzheng saw that Yue Zhongqi actually lost, but what no one expected was that he just lost a battle, and Yongzheng punished Yue Zhongqi for being ineffective and wanted to get rid of Yue Zhongqi's post.
Yue Zhongqi himself is upright, never accepts bribes, and has made countless enemies in the imperial court, Yongzheng this time, it is countless impeachments that attack Yue Zhongqi, all kinds of messy slander, rumors, and rumors entered Yongzheng's ears, and finally Yongzheng made a shocking decision to "hand it over to the Ministry of War".
Coincidentally, Yue Zhongqi offended Yue Zhongqi in the group of people in the military department, and gave Yue Zhongqi a "beheading decision", and when it was later handed over to Yongzheng for reconsideration, Yongzheng was stunned and said: "For the time being, the crime will not lead to death!", and finally changed it to "beheading the prisoner"!
After that, everyone knew that Yongzheng died violently, and Qianlong pardoned Yue Zhongqi, which is a major reason why Qianlong is not afraid of Yue Zhongqi's rebellion, Yue Zhongqi will be pardoned by Qianlong in the first battle, and re-enable the power of his heavy army, in Yue Zhongqi's eyes, Qianlong is his "confidant" and his "light", as Yue Fei's descendants, he has been loyal to the minister, and now he is directly "loyal to death"!
Under the command of the experienced and resourceful Yue Zhongqi, the situation of the Great and Small Jinchuan Battles directly turned the tide and became smooth, and after the end of the Great and Small Jinchuan Battles, Qianlong was overjoyed that there was such a general, so Qianlong gave Yue Zhongqi the beginning of the days of "pointing where to fight".
The elderly Yue Zhongqi is "quite old", but he is very happy, and there is no one who is not victorious in the war with Yue Zhongqi's participation, but it is a pity that Yue Zhongqi has been shuttling in the difficult battlefield, suffering from serious tuberculosis, and finally died in a foreign country.
Yue Zhongqi deserves to be admired by future generations, Qianlong who learned that Yue Zhongqi died, was very heartbroken, not only carried out a beautiful funeral for him, but also called him "the martial arts giants of the three dynasties" and so on, many posthumous seals!
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