Jiaqing in film and television dramas
After the Chen De case, Jiaqing rectified the forbidden doors, discipline, and system in the palace, which seemed to have a good effect, but the entire ruling order was scattered.
Once Jiaqing went to Mulan to hunt, but due to the inaction of the minister of management, the deer were few and stopped. In terms of daily performances, if you make an appointment for a certain day after the Imperial Gate to listen to the government, you will not play for five or six days before and after this day, and you will play together on this day, so that there will be several days when you can no longer get up in the morning. To say that the early and upper dynasties of the Qing Dynasty were really a kind of torture for the ministers, especially the older ones, there were specific regulations on what time to get up, dress, ride a horse or sit in a car, how many people to sit in, and how many followers there were. In the TV series, it is often seen that the palanquins of the family members of the elders are waiting in the cold wind, so it is no wonder that these officials and masters are trying to be lazy. Coupled with the fact that the atmosphere at that time had deteriorated, corruption had become so prevalent that all the provinces were in debt to officials and silver, the Qing Dynasty rule was only a shell, and the palace guards were also tight after Chen De's case, and then gradually relaxed. Sure enough, something earth-shattering happened: the Tenrikyo Sect rushed into the forbidden gate.
In August of the eighteenth year of Jiaqing (1813), after Jiaqing went to the summer resort to besiege, he ordered the emperor's second son Mianning and the emperor's third son Miankai to return to Beijing first. On September 15, when Jiaqing was on his way back to Beijing, a major incident occurred in the court: at noon that day, a branch of the Tianli Sect in Beijing, under the leadership of the head of the sect, Led by Chen Shuang, Chen Wenkui and others, and a small number of eunuchs made internal responses, and rushed into the palace from the East and West Huamen respectively.
On the same day, the eunuch Liu Decai instructed Zhu Xian to enter through the Donghua Gate. Some coal sellers in the palace scolded them for arguing with them, the believers' hidden knives were exposed, the officers and soldiers found out that it caused chaos, and after a fight, Chen Shuang and more than ten other people fled. The ministers Baoxing and Yang Shu led an army to resist, and the emperor's second son Mianning also arranged for arrest. Another, larger group of Tianli Sects, who had entered from Xihuamen at the same time or a little later, led by the eunuchs Yang Jinzhong and Gao Guangfu, slashed and killed many people in one fell swoop. Mian ning personally killed the two thieves with a shotgun outside the Yangxin Hall, and the rest of the birds and beasts scattered all over the palace. At this time, the princes and ministers had led reinforcements to arrive, and more than a thousand people from the firearms battalion had also arrived, encircling and suppressing the mob everywhere.
In fact, there were less than a hundred believers coming in from XihuaMen, and they used short weapons against the bows and arrows, spears, and large knives of the officers and soldiers, especially the firearms battalion, which were dozens of times larger, and they could not defeat them at all. However, under such a disparity in strength, the Tianli Sect persisted for two days and two nights, and finally became exhausted due to hunger and thirst, until the seventeenth day, the Qing court searched for the last dozen people, and the uprising was declared a failure.
The rulers of the Qing Dynasty were in disarray internally. There were ministers who panicked and fled for their lives everywhere. On the sixteenth day, the officers and men rushed for a day, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not even prepare meals, so Prince Zhuang Mian and others had to send people to buy burnt cakes and send them to fill the hungry, but several people divided a cake and complained bitterly. The university scholar Lu Kang fled under the pretext of buying grain, and the minister Tao Kaiqing was frightened and hid in the cupboard after being saved by the servant with a sword, and was still hiding inside after the eighteenth day of the incident was settled, and he had been starved of food for three days. At dusk, rumors spread in the palace, some said that thieves had broken the West Chang'an Gate, some said that Taiping Lake was fighting fiercely, and even the garrison near the capital city went into the city to kill them. From this, we can see how weak the ruling class is, the believers are only a hundred people, there is no unified command in the court, and if the rebels have a little experience in struggle, it is possible to win.
After the failure of the uprising, the Qing court trapped Lin Qing. On the way, Jiaqing was shocked to hear about the great change: there had never been such a thing, but it was the Qing Dynasty. Then officials at all levels were held accountable, a number of troops were dismissed, and then strictly ordered to be encircled and suppressed; lingchi was executed when the rebels were caught, leaving only four people led by Lin Qing and others to be personally tried; the emperor's revenge psychology was fiercer than anyone else's.
On September 23, after Jiaqing interrogated Lin Qing and Liu Jinheng in Xiyuan, as well as the eunuchs Liu Decai and Liu Jin, all of them lingchi and sent their heads to the provinces to show the public. Lin Qing and the others' wives, relatives, and family members were all arrested and sat in accordance with the law. However, some of the backbone figures of the uprising, such as Liu Chengxiang and six others, were never caught by the Qing court. After being tortured, the eunuchs who were directly involved in lingchi did an in-depth clean-up among the eunuchs, found out as many as thirty-eight people, and killed and killed them.
This incident, in essence, is the rebellion and struggle of the urban poor, lower-class soldiers, and bankrupt peasants against the feudal rulers, and is the continuation and expansion of Chen De's case. Lin Qing himself had worked as an apprentice, a more husband, a porter and other low-level social workers, and only joined the Tianli Sect in poverty and unemployment, and later rose to the position of local religious leader. Some unscrupulous court officials, such as Cao Lun, sympathized with and helped them, and the oppressed eunuchs in the palace also participated. Jiaqing, Jiaqing, the national situation is here, but long dim sum!