In the twentieth year of Qianlong, in February 1755, Qianlong ordered the dispatch of troops to Ili and formally launched an attack on the Dzungar Khanate. It was a difficult military decision. The Qing Dynasty fought a war with the Dzungars for more than eighty years. Beginning in the 22nd year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the two sides began to fight. This was not a weak tribe, their power had once expanded to Central Asia, and it was a very powerful state, only nominally maintaining a tribute to the Qing Dynasty.
Although the Kangxi Emperor personally conquered and swept away the Kaldan of the Dzungar Khanate, the Dzungar Khanate did not die, in fact, they later sent troops to Tibet, but they failed to succeed. By the ninth year of Yongzheng, the Dzungar Khanate had defeated the Qing army, and the Qing Dynasty had killed 14 generals above the rank of deputy capital. This defeat shocked the Qing army greatly.
Therefore, when Qianlong prepared to use troops in the Dzungar Khanate, many ministers in the imperial court strongly opposed it. However, Qianlong's choice to go to war was not without reason. During the 10th year of the Qianlong Khanate, plague began to break out in the country, and soon after, the country was greatly weakened by a seven-year civil war for the position of Great Khan. Qianlong thought this was a godsend.
However, war is not as simple as an instruction from the emperor, it requires all aspects to cooperate together, from the deployment of troops to the logistics of soldiers, each of which requires extremely detailed consideration. With the opposition of the dprk and the chinese ministers, the advice of the minister of military aircraft seems to carry weight. Since the establishment of the Military Aircraft Department in the Qing Dynasty, this institution has replaced the former South Study And Cabinet as the highest institution in the center of the Qing Dynasty.
The ministers of military aircraft were all senior officials of the imperial court and had a very high weight in themselves. In this year's Military Aircraft Department, laibao, Fu Heng, Liu Tongxun, Nayantai, and Wang Youdun served as military aircraft ministers. In fact, from the nineteenth year of Qianlong to the twentieth year of Qianlong, the military aircraft department of the Qing Dynasty changed very frequently.
In the previous year, there were eleven military ministers in the Qing Dynasty Military Aircraft Department, but for various reasons, they were either transferred to the military camp, prepared in advance, or dismissed. Lai Bao, Fu Heng, Liu Tongxun, Na Yantai, and Wang Youdun all had different attitudes before the war because of their respective identities.
For Fu Heng, he has always been loyal to Qianlong and has worked hard and complained. Fu Heng was the younger brother of the first empress of Qianlong, Fu Chashi. The Fucha family made meritorious contributions at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. Fu Heng himself also started from the military aircraft, was specially promoted by Qianlong all the way, had experience in the local central government, as well as in the affairs of the imperial palace of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and was trained by Qianlong as the successor of ne kin.
In the military aircraft department of Qianlong's twenty years, Fu Heng was also an early person who joined the military aircraft department and had a relatively stable status. Therefore, in the use of troops in Qianlong, Fu Heng clearly expressed his support at the beginning, and he was also the only minister who initially openly supported Qianlong.
After the war began, Fu Heng personally commanded the Military Aircraft Department, and from military strategic decisions to rear material supply, he had to assist Qianlong in making correct decisions. This is not an easy job. Moreover, the war does not end in a day or two, but lasts for two years, which is a great drain on a person's body and spirit.
Therefore, Qianlong thought of this after the war and gave Fu Heng the treatment of another first-class duke on the duke, but Fu Heng refused, believing that he did not deserve such a big reward. Of course, this practice was more satisfactory to Qianlong, so soon after, Fu Heng was listed as the first meritorious hero of the Purple Light Pavilion.
For a meritorious military minister like Wang Youdun, he was also awarded the third rank of military merit. Wang Youdun was a minister of Han origin, and he was a student of Zhang Tingyu, the former military aircraft chief. At the beginning, Wang Youdun did not make a clear statement. In terms of major matters, it is not so easy, and it may be responsible in the future.
Especially in the era when the emperor was in charge, making decisions with the emperor, and if he was wrong in the future, he would definitely carry the pot for the chancellor. If Wang Youdun had expressed his support at the beginning, if he had been defeated in the future and drawn out the list, he would certainly not have been able to escape.
Liu Xuntong is a very typical example. After the war began, he was sent by Qianlong to the northwest to supervise military affairs, and when he arrived at the front, he wrote to Qianlong that he should avoid the battle and avoid the enemy's front, and as a result, he was dismissed by Qianlong. If it were not for the later victory in the battle, Qianlong would be in a good mood, and Liu Xuntong would inevitably be punished more severely in the future.
Therefore, Wang Youdun did not express his position, and when the emperor really wanted to go to war, he did his best to support and work hard. As for Laibao, he was 75 years old at the time of the war. He did not explicitly support it at first, but he did his best after entering the war.
When Qianlong wanted to execute that official because of the unfavorable handling of the affairs of the Dzungar Khanate, he came to protect and stop him. Nayantai was a Mongolian official valued by Qianlong, but was often sent abroad by Qianlong to handle official affairs. It was also the support of these people that greatly helped the Qing Dynasty to pacify the Dzungar Khanate.
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