In the popular TV series "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" and "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", the story of Liu Yong, Ji Xiaolan and the big corrupt officials and the battle of wits and courage is told in a strong way, the plot is gripping, and the ratings are very high. However, Liu Yong, Ji Xiaolan and He yan do not have much intersection, the so-called fighting wits and courage is purely fictional by the screenwriter, please do not enter the seat.
In real history, there was a minister who had a fierce battle with Washu. He is the protagonist We are going to talk about today.
Zhu Jue (朱珪), also spelled Shi jun ,号南崖), was born in 1731. Zhu Jue was brilliant and sensitive since childhood, studying hard, and in 1747, at the age of 16, Zhu Jue entered high school and became a good story. After that, Zhu Jue entered the career path and successively served as the editor of the Hanlin Academy, the chief examiner of the Henan Township Examination, the Fujian Grain Road, the Fujian Envoy, the Hubei Envoy, the Shanxi Envoy, the Hubei Envoy, and the Inspector of Hubei.
Just as Zhu Jue was steadily rising in the imperial court, he was hated by a person. This man was the one who was in the sky at that time. Although he did not even obtain the status of a person, he was very favored by the Qianlong Emperor, and he was very popular with the Qianlong Emperor, and he was an official to lead the guards of the Interior Minister, the Minister of Parliament, the Scholar of the Wenhua Temple, and the Chief Military Aircraft Minister. He Yan regarded the honest and honest Zhu Jue as his political enemy, intending to get rid of him and then quickly.
In 1794, when Zhu Jue was the governor of Liangguang, he fought against the British army that invaded the coast of Guangdong and captured many British troops who tried to land and wander around. When the Qianlong Emperor found out, he planned to promote Zhu Jue to a university scholar—the Qing Dynasty did not set up a chancellor, and a university scholar was equivalent to a prime minister, a position that many civilian officials dreamed of. At this time, He Yan secretly played to the Qianlong Emperor, saying that Yikou was very rampant along the coast of Guangdong and was wandering around robbing people's property. The failure of Zhu Jue, the governor of Liangguang, to go out to sea in time to arrest Yi Kou was a dereliction of duty and should be severely punished.
Originally, Zhu Jue found that the strength of the Qing army's marine division warships was poor and could not go to sea to fight, so he paid 5,000 taels of silver to build the warship. The warships were not built, and it was naturally difficult to go to sea. He Yan seized this point and attacked Zhu Jue, which was also a grasp of Zhu Jue's weak ribs.
When the Qianlong Emperor learned of this, he was very angry, and instead of promoting Zhu Jue to a university scholar, he was demoted several ranks in a row, and he was demoted to the position of inspector of Anhui.
Zhu Jue did not defend himself and did not complain. He knew that in the case of a ghost with Hezhen, all the defenses were pale. When he left the governor of Liangguang, he took out another 15,000 taels of silver and left it for the next governor of Liangguang to build warships.
The fifteenth son of the Qianlong Emperor, Yu Yan, was a student of Zhu Jue, and he did not understand the teacher's approach and asked the teacher why he had donated so much silver. Zhu Jue said lightly: "The imperial foreign affairs are big, and money is spared." These eight words were understated, but they were very touching to Yuanyan.
Zhu Jue knew that he could not get along with Himan, so he decided to have a good relationship with Huan Yan. Although as early as 1773, Emperor Qianlong had not yet announced this matter, and no one knew that Emperor Qianlong was the future emperor, so Zhu Jue was only "gambling" - betting on his own future and destiny. After all, the Qianlong Emperor had so many sons, and if the heir to the throne was someone else, Zhu Jue's life would be even more difficult in the future.
Soon, though, the question was answered. A year later, in 1795, Emperor Qianlong was officially made crown prince. On the first day of the first lunar month in 1796, the Qianlong Emperor gave the throne to Emperor Jiaqing.
At the beginning of the jiaqing emperor's reign, the Qianlong emperor planned to summon Zhu Jue to the capital as a university scholar, and the Jiaqing emperor wrote a poem to congratulate Zhu Jue. He Yan immediately ran to the Qianlong Emperor and complained, saying that the Jiaqing Emperor was wooing people's hearts and minds, "Shi En". The Qianlong Emperor was very angry, but fortunately the military chancellor Dong Yu gave a bitter advice, saying, "The Holy Lord has nothing wrong with it. The Qianlong Emperor gave up.
On February 7, 1799, the Qianlong Emperor died at the age of 89. The Jiaqing Emperor quickly summoned Zhu Jue to the imperial court, entered the Zhinan Study, managed the three libraries of the household department, and added prince Shaobao. Zhu Jue finally entered the core of power. At the same time, the Jiaqing Emperor pronounced 20 major sins against Hezhen, dismissed him from his post and raided his home, and finally gave Hezhen suicide in his home with a white aya.
After Hezhen's death, Zhu Jue became the right and left arm of the Jiaqing Emperor, who obeyed him. In 1806, Zhu Jue died of illness at the age of 76. The Jiaqing Emperor personally went to Zhu Jue's home to pay homage. The gate of Zhu Jue's mansion was too narrow for the Jiaqing Emperor's royal car to carry inside.
[References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, "Qing Cao Liang Festival" Zhu Jue, etc.]