When Qianlong dynasty wants to say who is the most favored, I am afraid that he will point the spearhead at Hezhen. Judging from the positions held by He yan, let alone the Qianlong Dynasty, even the dynasties and dynasties have no one to match him. The level of pampering is simply overwhelming.
Many people call Hezhen the "Second Emperor", and even the child emperor Jiaqing is jealous of him. The title "Second Emperor" appeared in the second year of Jiaqing, after the death of Ah Gui, a university scholar and chief military minister. That is to say, during Ah Gui's lifetime, he's power did not reach its peak. The topic to be talked about in this issue is related to this Ah Gui.
Ah Gui's relationship with Hezhen is very complicated, and on the whole, they are not the same person. Ah Gui is very unaccustomed to Hezhen, and at the same time, Hezhen is also trying to find ways to bring down Ah Gui. But judging from the process of their power struggle, no one has overwhelmed anyone.
From the perspective of He yan's plot and Qianlong's trust in him, as long as he wanted to be a whole person, there was no whole person, but why did he always return in front of Ah Gui, and it was not interesting to ask for himself? Some people may say that Ah Gui's military merits are great and he is the main contributor to the achievement of Qianlong's ten perfect martial arts, but in fact, the problem is far from being so simple.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > military merit is the foundation of Ah Gui's life</h1>
Ah Gui's family background is much stronger than that of Hezhen, his father Acton is a university scholar, and Ah Gui also embarked on the path of his aristocratic children. But unlike Hezhen, who was good at business, Ah Gui's rise was mainly due to his military merits.
Ah Gui participated in important battles such as the pacification of the Great and Small Jinchuan, the Great and Small Hezhuo Rebellion, and the conquest of Burma. He was promoted to first-class public servant, university scholar, and chief military minister because of his repeated military merits, and was the hottest minister of the dynasty after Fu Heng.
The Qing Dynasty attached great importance to military merit, and the court awarded knighthood mainly based on military merit. Obviously, as a nobleman with a different surname, he could be knighted as a first-class duke, which was already the top of the sky. Although He Yan was also a first-class duke, the gold content could not be compared with Ah Gui, which was Qianlong's special care for him.
Ah Gui was an outstanding military general, but his talent in administrative affairs was not as good as that of He yan, and it was not as good as he yan would curry favor with Qianlong. He Yan's talent mainly lies in the aspect of financial management, he has been in charge of the household department and the ministry of internal affairs for nearly twenty years, and whenever Qianlong wants to use money, He Yan can think of a way, which is the main reason why Qianlong is most favored by Qianlong.
Although Ah Gui served as the chief military aircraft minister for a long time, from the relevant historical data, he did not spend much time presiding over the work in Beijing, but for a long time he served as a variety of errands abroad. For example, leading soldiers to fight, renovating projects, inspecting river works, and so on. The work of the Military Aircraft Department is actually presided over by He yan, so whenever Ah Gui arrives in Beijing, He Yan generally does not go to the military aircraft department on duty, so as not to cause unpleasantness when meeting each other.
During the reign of He Yan, only a few ministers in the DPRK dared to confront him head-on, and the main figures were Ah Gui, Wang Jie, and Dong Xuan. Wang Jie and Dong Yu were also university scholars, and they also served in the Military Aircraft Department, so he was really unable to bring down Ah Gui.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > Ah Gui's position in Qianlong's heart</h1>
He Yan and Ah Gui had a completely different position in Qianlong's mind, Qianlong had always regarded Ah Gui as a major subject of the country, and when the country encountered danger, only Ah Gui could take on a heavy responsibility. As for Hezhen, he is Qianlong's personal nanny in daily life and qianlong's god of wealth. To put it mildly, Ah Gui is doing the right thing, and Hezhen is for entertainment.
Qianlong was the most capable of controlling the group of courtiers among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, and he knew the strengths of the use of people and avoided them. Although Qianlong had such and such bad problems, there was no doubt about one thing, that is, he was never ambiguous in defending territorial integrity and national unity. And Ah Gui is just a trump card in his hand, and with his foundation of the Qing Dynasty, it can be stable.
If Qianlong is compared to the general manager of a company, then Ah Gui is the cadre of the sales department, which is related to the company's performance; He Yan is the director of the office, responsible for the internal pat of the boss's ass. At the moment of life and death, it is still Ah Gui who comes out.
Balance and balance with Ah Gui
This is the crux of the matter, and we know that Qianlong has a famous saying called "Tai'a cannot be held upside down", which means that the highest power absolutely does not allow others to touch it. After all, Qianlong was not a emperor, and his fascination with power exceeded that of any emperor in the Qing Dynasty.
For an authoritarian emperor, no one was absolutely trusting him, and Neither Ah Gui nor Yan could share a shred of imperial power from the cracks of his fingers. The loyalty of Ah Gui and He Yan was tested for a long time, and it was on this basis that Qianlong would give them great power.
From the perspective of power, Hezhen is higher than Ah Gui, and his tentacles involve almost all fields of politics, economy, military, and culture. Once such a high level of weight is indulged, it will form a trend of tail power. Although Qianlong could control Hezhen, he also had to defend, so it was also the most appropriate person to use Ah Gui to contain Hezhen, in fact, as long as Ah Gui had this qualification and prestige to restrain Hezhen.
Speaking of this, some people may ask, since Qianlong was not absolutely assured of Hezhen, then why did Ah Gui posthumously award the first assistant and chief military minister of the Hezhen cabinet? This is also to be said.
Ah Gui died in the second year of Yu Jiaqing, and Qianlong immediately gave the position of chief military aircraft and first assistant of the cabinet to He yan. But this does not mean that Qianlong has completely trusted Hezhen, but at this time Qianlong believed in Jiaqing.
After all, in history, there are many examples of Emperor Taishang being seized by Emperor Si and imprisoned, Qianlong is familiar with history books and he is a nearly 90-year-old man, he does not want to see any accidents in his lifetime.
Qianlong was also very reluctant to pass the throne to Jiaqing, but on the day he succeeded to the throne, he swore an oath, saying that if the heavens could reign for sixty years, they would pass the throne to their sons. But the Qianlong Zen throne is a joke, and Jiaqing is actually still the emperor.
In order not to repeat the mistakes of history, Qianlong can only use Hezhen to contain Jiaqing, which is also Qianlong's consistent style of employing people, in short, no matter who it is, they cannot share the highest power, as for what the end of Hezhen is after his death, Qianlong probably also knows, but this is not what he wants to consider.