Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty (7th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty)
Kill Hezhen, suppress the White Lotus Sect uprising, and shut down the country
Mediocre emperor, the Qing Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline
Name: 颙琰, born in 1760, reigned for 25 years from 1796 to 1820, the Qing Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and Western colonialism began to infiltrate
Father: Qianlong Son: Daoguang
After Qianlong exerted great efforts to govern and created a prosperous world, his enterprising spirit was sharply reduced, he began to be proud and complacent, content with pleasure, and the rule of officials became increasingly corrupt, and in the last 20 years of his reign, the people did not have a good life, and when Qianlong abdicated, almost the national treasury was in deficit
Introduction to Wakan
Talented and diligent, he received a classic Confucian education, and soon learned the manchu, Han, Mongolian, and Tibetan languages, in 1769, He Yan inherited the title of third-class light car lieutenant of the ancestors, and the following year participated in the Keju Township Examination, did not pass the examination, and a few years later, the 23-year-old He yan was appointed as a third-class bodyguard, and when the emperor went out on tour, he accompanied the escort
On one of his outings, the emperor discovered the clever and alert Hezhen, and from then on, he became Qianlong's favorite
He Yan was shrewd and capable, and could throw in Qianlong's favor, and in his later years, the treasury was depleted, and Qianlong was extravagant, so He Yan established a system of silver for discussing crimes, allowing officials who were at fault to pay fines instead of punishments, while officials looted the people's fat and people's anointing, and the victims were still the common people
He Yan embezzled and accepted bribes to exclude dissidents, which led to the corruption of the officials, and many people were dissatisfied, including the crown prince Yuanyan, and in 1799, when Qianlong died, Jiaqing began to eradicate Hezhen
Jiaqing treatment and Yan
1: Want to get away with it
Some people say that Hezhen Feiyang should be punished, while Jiaqing says that Hezhen is the favorite of the Emperor Taishang and is ready to reuse him, paralyzing and yan
2: Tune the tiger away from the mountain
Qianlong died, Ouchi wanted to do a funeral, Jiaqing said to Hezhen that you are a heavy minister, you can't leave 24 hours before Qianlong Ling, and tie Hezhen with an invisible rope
3: Surprise attack
Jiaqing issued an edict that the war of the Southern White Lotus Sect was not well fought, and the responsibility lay on He yan and Fu Chang'an, who was dismissed from the posts of hezhen university scholar and other positions, and then put hezhen under house arrest, and all localities responded one after another, and he was extremely evil
4: Punishment and punishment
First raid the house, gold, silver and treasure, etc., and then declare the 20 major crimes of Hezhen, and then let Fu Chang'an watch Hezhen commit suicide
5: Pay attention to strategy
After dealing with Hezhen, there was no strain, which stabilized the political situation
Jiaqing killed Hezhen, did not solve the hezhen phenomenon, did not carry out relevant reforms to alleviate the social crisis, Jiaqing discussed things on the matter, there was no big pattern
White Lotus Rebellion
What Qianlong left for Jiaqing was no longer a prosperous world, but a cluster of contradictions, and piles of problems were rapidly moving towards a decadent world
The arrogance and tyranny of officials made the common people miserable, and the peasant uprising was also surging, the biggest uprising was the White Lotus Sect Uprising, which lasted nine years and was the general outbreak of social contradictions at that time, which brought a heavy blow to the Qing government
Jiaqing is facing a severe test, Jiaqing has also become an emperor at a turning point in China's history, if it can solve the crisis by promoting advantages and eliminating disadvantages, the Great Qing will continue to prosper in the prosperous world of Kangqian, and if it is unable to solve the social crisis, the Great Qing will begin to decline from him
Jiaqing was a mediocre emperor, in the face of the crisis-ridden political situation in the last years of Qianlong, his limited rectification of internal affairs failed to fundamentally reverse the decadence of the political situation of the Qing Dynasty, although he killed Hezhen, but Hezhen was only a typical representative of corrupt officials, and the problem was not fundamentally solved
From 1796 to 1804, it lasted 9 years to suppress the White Lotus Rebellion
In 1810, opium was banned from Beijing
In the twenty-first year of Jiaqing (1816), he rejected the British request to establish diplomatic relations, open a treaty port, and cede the coastal islands of Zhejiang, and in his later years, the traditional concept of closing the country and the irreversible historical development trend, the Qing Dynasty has since declined
Jiaqing was a benevolent emperor, and seeing the suffering of the people and the corruption of officials, he was a mediocre emperor