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In the ten years of Yongzheng, Ortai and Orqi are undoubtedly dazzling political star brothers. The governor of the three provinces, Ortai, was recalled to Beijing and served as a scholar of the Bohol Temple And the Shangshu of the Military Department, handling military aircraft affairs, although he was ranked after Ma Qi and Zhang Tingyu, but he was awarded the title of first class uncle for the merits of changing the land and returning to the stream. Hubu Shangshu and infantry commander Orqi, also the translation of the township examination examiner.
For this pair of Xilin Jue Luo brothers, Zhao Tang wrote an interesting story in the "Miscellaneous Records of the Pavilion".
Orchi is short-sighted, but intelligent, and after becoming famous, he is addicted to sound, contrary to his brother Ortai's interests. One day, Ertai washed his feet at home, and Erqi pushed the door in. Ortai didn't have time to cover it, so he hugged his leg in his arms. Orchi was very strange and took a cigarette and tapped it. Ortai trembled.
Erqi asked: How rare is this great white cat, and it is cherished by his brother in his arms.
Erqi was within easy reach, and he couldn't see Ortai's embarrassment as he sat cross-legged on a chair. Such a highly myopic patient was entrusted by the Yongzheng Emperor for a long time to manage the national financial resources and the Gyeonggi garrison.
Erqi was a Kangxi fifty-one-year scholar, changed to Shu Jishi, and taught editing in the scattered halls. After Yongzheng ascended the throne, Erqi IV moved to Shilang (侍郎), the Second Ministry of Li Gong and Li (礼二部), and the Shilang (侍郎) of the Military Department. For five years, he was promoted to Shangshu of the Household Department and was also the commander of the infantry army.
In September of the eleventh year of Yongzheng, the doom of Orqi came. Li Wei, the governor directly subordinate to him, impeached Orqi for "catching and transgressing control, abusing the ministry and cards in detail, sheltering private individuals, and corrupting the law and interfering with the people's various paragraphs" ("Qing Shi Liechuan Ortai Biography").
Erqi put his hand into Li Wei's jurisdiction, and Li Wei was very unhappy, so he secretly filed a complaint with the Yongzheng Emperor. They were all people that the emperor valued, but they were also favored over the other, and Yongzheng immediately dismissed Erqi from his post and handed him over to the wang chancellor for trial. Such an arrangement is to make it impossible for Ortai, an assistant minister in the cabinet and a military aircraft officer, to intervene.
After the report was submitted, the Yongzheng Emperor said: "Erqi has been deeply favored by Erqi, has been defiled by his duties, and has greatly failed Brother Ortai to teach him a lesson." It is reasonable to punish the crimes severely, and to remember that Ortai benefits a lot of state affairs and offsets them. Where Orchi doubled his punishment, he was spared. ”
The Yongzheng Emperor's previous long-term reuse of Orqi was not based on Ortai's affection. When Erqi was in charge of the household department and the nine gates of the viceroy, Ortai was still experimenting with the transformation of land and returning to the stream in the governor of Yunnan-Guizhou. Orqi is much more prominent than Ortai.
This manifestation of Orqi was given by the Yongzheng Emperor in combination with his actual ability.
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Yongzheng was an emperor who came to power with institutionalization and institutionalization, and at the beginning of his reign, he took extraordinary measures, selected such talents as Tian Wenjing and Li Wei, and vigorously and gently promoted the institutionalization of official governance, so that those who wanted to be greedy did not dare to be greedy, and drove away all the mediocre ones, but made a series of heart-warming rewards for honest and honest officials with political achievements.
The Yongzheng Emperor was extremely harsh and profound about officials who perverted the law and did nothing in their administration, and dealt a severe blow to them. Like Chang Sanle, who was directly subordinate to Wuqiao County, dereliction of duty and dereliction of duty, he was dismissed by Yongzheng order. For example, Qiu Yuanzheng, the chief soldier of Yunnan Kaihua, was dragging his feet, and Yongzheng ordered him to send Shi home.
He did not tolerate greed, nor did he tolerate laziness; he grasped with both hands and hardened both hands, and often organized officials to observe the scene by killing corrupt officials.
Henan Xuezheng Yu Hongtu was severely punished for leaking secret examination questions by concubines, and made the famous waist beheading case with seven "miserable" characters, which made Yongzheng very embarrassed in history. But the other side that he rarely talks about is actually very cute, such as getting together after the completion of tasks such as giving instructions on the reports of ministers who have both ability and political integrity and courage to take on responsibilities, transferring their sons back to take care of public and private affairs for leading cadres who are sick and want to see their sons, counting the officials who want to meet and personally writing to inform them that it is not appropriate to travel far away to come back next month in the near future, and taking special care of the old mothers of filial piety officials who are far away from home. The most interesting thing is that when the new monarch ascended to the throne, Sun Jiagan, a hairy young man in the Hanlin Academy, accused him of having an unpleasant quarrel with his brothers when he fought for succession, but he did not expect that yongzheng, who was provoked, praised his courage and gave him a heavy responsibility after calming down.
He also severely reprimanded the officials who had been reused for their mediocre political performance, and even more ruthlessly dealt a ruthless blow to those corrupt officials and friends. He promoted benevolent and moral government by "spreading out the land into acres," and also used two prongs to achieve the political clarity of "Yongzheng dynasty, no officials are clear."
This is a kind of thinking, a pattern, a basis and mechanism that promotes the prosperity of the country.
Erqi, a capable visually impaired person, was reported by Li Wei for bad law and personal gain, disorderly control and disturbance of the people, and undoubtedly bumped into the muzzle of the gun.
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The Yongzheng Emperor wanted to severely punish Erqi because he violated the bottom line of rectifying the rule of officials. However, in the end, he did not convict Ortai in the face of Ortai.
On the smallness of sin, take it away as a matter of necessity. The Yongzheng Emperor had special political considerations. Ortai was in charge of the military department as a university scholar and entered the military aircraft department, while his brother continued to take charge of the guards of the Beijing Division, and the emperor had certain worries. Just as Yongzheng took out Long Keduo and Nian Qianyao, who had made great contributions to his succession, it was strictly prevented from the important ministers who held great power from "making friends and cheating on all things" ("Qing History Manuscript Longkeduo Biography").
As for the chancellor Long Keduo and Nian Qianyao at that time, the Yongzheng Emperor once said: "At the beginning of the Imperial Pole, Long Keduo and Nian Qianyao all sent their confidants to each other, and there was no guess. He who knows that he is regarded as one virtue, but he has two hearts, recruits power and bribes, acts as a blessing, deceives and disobeys, how can he tolerate and raise adultery? If Xiang Ri Mingzhu and Suo Ertu have formed a party for personal gain, and the Holy Ancestor has dismissed him from his important post and left him idle, how can he be more trustworthy? Long Keduo, Nian Tang Yao, if they don't know fear, change their past wrongs, want to be like pearls, etc., they can't do it too! Special ceremonies should not be invited again, and mistakes should not be repeated, and each should be vigilant and fearful, and should not be self-destructive. "Longkodo was once the commander of the infantry of the Shoshu Bureau of the Riken Temple.
Volume VIII of Yuan Ming's "Collected Writings of Xiaocang Shanfang" records that when the Yongzheng Emperor first made Orqi the commander of the Bingbu Shangshu and the commander of the Nine Gate Infantry Army, Ertai learned of it and urged the Yongzheng Emperor not to use it so heavily. The Yongzheng Emperor asked, "Qing Shu'erdi anti-Yahweh?" Ortai replied, "Soldiers and powerful people are one and must not return to the hereafter." The Yongzheng Emperor did not think so, and still insisted on his own opinion.
Erqi did not do the Bingbu Shangshu, but only acted as the Bingbu Attendant before. However, after Ortai took charge of the Shangshu Department as a university scholar, Orqi tipped over the nine gates of the Beijing Division, and Yongzheng may not be undefended against the brothers.
The Bingbu Shangshu and the infantry commander could not be the same person, Ertai saw it, didn't the wise Yongzheng Emperor see it? Of course, the Yongzheng Emperor would not let Ortai manage the military department with the Bohedian University, and also let his brother who could restrain him manage the garrison of the Gongwei Jing Division.
The Yongzheng Emperor did not want Ortai to become the second Longkeduo or Nian Tangyao.
The Yongzheng Emperor revered Xiangrui, and Ertai made Xiangrui to please him. Yongzheng changed the land and returned to the stream, but Ertu did not hesitate to kill. For such a ruthless role of obedience and ability to do things, the Yongzheng Emperor dismissed Orqi from his post but did not investigate and deal with it, that is, quietly removed the possible threat of force that Ortai might have, and made him concentrate on his work.
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Ortai was promoted to the rank of Kangxi for thirty-six years, and six years later he was promoted to the rank of emperor, but he was always a low-level clerk in the Kangxi Dynasty. After the Yongzheng Emperor came to power, he thought he was a talent, and first promoted him to the post of envoy of Jiangsu Province, and then promoted to the inspector of Guangxi. On his way to Guangxi, the Yongzheng Emperor suddenly changed his mind and became the governor of Yunnan, concurrently in charge of Guizhou and Guangxi provinces.
In Ortai, Yunnan, he has been busy, busy making Xiangrui, and frequently saying that Yungui appears such as Jiahe, Ruihe, Qingyun, And Liquan. On the eighth day of the first month of December in the sixth year of Yongzheng, Ortai reported: On the day of the Wanshou Festival, the three counties of the four provinces of Yunnan "five colors of Qingyun, brilliant and brilliant day", and the next day "brilliant and multiplied". In July of the seventh leap year of Yongzheng, Ortai recounted that Xiangyun in Guizhou appeared seven times in a month.
Ortai did not hesitate to destroy his own reputation to create such and such a so-called auspicious rui, and to invent auspicious omens for the legitimacy and rationality of the Yongzheng Emperor's succession. The Yongzheng Emperor was very appreciative of his loyalty and asked him to sit in the position of inspector in Yunnan to perform the duties of the governor, and the governor Yang Mingshi was also very knowledgeable in taking care of the governor's chores.
With blood-colored force, he experimented with the "return of the land" debated by the imperial court.
In October of the fourth year of Yongzheng, Ortai, who had been the governor of Yungui for one year, was given the actual post of governor, added the rank of Shangshu of the Military Department, and used troops to deal a devastating blow to the Guangshun Changzhai Tusi who provoked the officers and soldiers. The governor of Ortai, Yun, Gui, and Guangxi, further formulated a plan for changing the flow and using troops, resolutely suppressed the rebellious big and small toasts, and soon conquered more than 2,000 villages.
The Yongzheng Emperor reformed the frontier official system by changing the land and returning to the stream, and Ertai, as the protagonist of this major event, was summoned back to the imperial capital to worship him. The Yongzheng Emperor used troops in the northwest and two roads to Dzungar, and Ertai, who had rich combat experience, went to the Shaanxi-Gansu front to supervise the division and go through military affairs.
At the time of the Orqi case, Ortai had already returned to Beijing to resume his life, and he was still concurrently serving as a shangshu of the military department and a shangshu of the bureau. The Yongzheng Emperor only dismissed Orqi from his post, both as a gesture of goodwill to Ortai and potentially as a warning. More than a year later, the natives of Guizhou rebelled, and the Yongzheng Emperor obeyed Ortai's request and stripped the earl. Before the yongzheng emperor died, he still made Ortai a minister of his life, and with his tongzhuang prince Yunlu, the prince of Guo, and zhang Tingyu, the university scholar, he left the Qianlong Emperor as the chancellor's minister, and left him and Zhang Tingyu to enjoy the Taimiao Temple after their deaths.
On the surface, the Yongzheng Emperor regarded Ortai as a confidant, and the Qianlong Emperor also said that "on that day, Ortai, Tian Wenjing, and Li Wei were all the most praised by the imperial examination, but in fact, Tian Wenjing was inferior to Li Wei, and Li Wei was inferior to Ortai" ("Banana Window Rain Talk", vol. 10), but the public discord between these three people, as well as the secret struggle between Ortai and Zhang Tingyu, created a perfect opportunity for the Yongzheng Emperor and even the Qianlong Emperor to take measures against the qiu ministers.