Qianlong's trip to the south of the Yangtze River is not chic, but a political inheritance of the empire's governance of the "four seasons" system, but in the Qianlong era, the economy was rich, the world was peaceful, and the emperor's outing was simply a huge extravagance and waste in the eyes of the people, leaving people with the impression that this kid went to be chic again.
June 15, 2024 Section 532
Recently, I have been watching "Talking about Qianlong" for three reasons. The first is that the director is famous, and the most well-known TV series directed by Fan Mingxiu is the 83 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and later filmed Louis Koo's version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which captured the childhood of many post-80s; The second reason is that the actors are amazing, the cooperation between the handsome guy Zheng Shaoqiu and the intellectual beauty Zhao Yazhi is called a tacit understanding, and the beauty makes people linger; The third reason is that this is the first Qing Dynasty TV series filmed in the Forbidden City, all of which are real scenes, it is said that Zheng Shaoqiu also sat on the real dragon chair, for people like me who love history, the Forbidden City will always be infatuated in my heart.
"Talking about Qianlong" takes Qianlong's descent to the south of the Yangtze River as the main line, and the main content is the lingering love story of the emperor and the three Jiangnan women played by Zhao Yazhi. Of course, the stories in the TV series are all fictional, but there is an accurate record of the history of Qianlong's six visits to the south of the Yangtze River. Why did Qianlong go to the south of the Yangtze River? Did you really go looking for flowers and willows, and go to the mountains and rivers? It's really not, the emperor is for the rule of the empire, and he went down to Jiangnan to appease the hearts of the literati in Jiangnan.
Speaking of which, it is necessary to mention the pain of the governance of the Great Empire.
After the Qin Dynasty unified the Six Kingdoms, the first problem faced by Qin Shi Huang was how to govern such a huge empire. In addition to the reform of the political system of the county system and the cultural reform of the same track and the same text, the first emperor's method also had an important activity, which was to parade around. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu have seen the spectacular parade convoy of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the ages who died of illness in the sand dunes, and also died on the way to the parade.
Why did the emperor work so hard? If he wants to govern the new huge machine of the Great Unification Empire, the emperor really can't be idle. The emperor is like a lion on the grassland, how the lion maintains his dominance, he relies on cruising around, going around here today, going there tomorrow, seeing which little animal is disobedient, and teaching a lesson by the way.
In the Liao Dynasty, the emperor's inspection system was set as a formal system - the four o'clock bowl. The so-called four-hour bowl means that the emperor cruising outside all year round, working on the spot everywhere, not only solving local governance problems, but also trading with the local government. The emperors of the Liao Dynasty all lived in tents, and his palace did not have an inner city like the Forbidden City, which was a large open space. The emperor of the Liao Dynasty, except for the last one who died in the palace, the other emperors all died in tents, you say that the emperor is not hard, for the sake of the empire to rule, this emperor is really not good.
The Qing Dynasty was also a unified dynasty, controlling the Jurchens of Northeast China, the Mongol princes, the Tibetan Lamas, the Xinjiang Hui, and the Han of the Central Plains. Those who have watched "Kangxi Dynasty" should remember the scene of Kangxi's parade, this old man often goes to the summer resort, the princes and ministers of Mongolia, and the local forces of Tibet come to visit, stay in the summer resort for a while, and go to Shengjing and Shenyang to see the ancestors, this is a new version of the four-hour bowl system.
In the governance of a large country, on-site office is a good solution. In fact, the bosses of many enterprises are also inheriting the "four o'clock" system of on-site office in disguise, working in this branch this month and another branch next month, solving problems efficiently and quickly, and greatly improving the efficiency of corporate governance.
Finally, we returned to Qianlong and went down to the south of the Yangtze River. Qianlong's trip to the south of the Yangtze River is not chic, but a political inheritance of the empire's governance of the "four seasons" system, but in the Qianlong era, the economy was rich, the world was peaceful, and the emperor's outing was simply a huge extravagance and waste in the eyes of the people, leaving people with the impression that this kid went to be chic again.