On November 13, 1760, Aisin Kyaw Lo was born.
His father was the Qianlong Emperor and his mother was a famous concubine, namely Empress Xiaoyi Chun of the Wei Jia clan.
He had a favored mother, who studied with bingbu shilang and gongbu shilang from the age of 6, and at the age of thirteen he could read through the five classics and get the emperor's favor.
However, Emperor Qianlong was not the candidate for the crown prince in the Qianlong Emperor's mind.
The Qianlong Emperor had more satisfactory personnel, but unfortunately, he appointed three crown princes in succession, the first two of which died successively, and in the end only Yu Yan survived.
The first was Yonglian, the son of Empress Fucha. The Qianlong Emperor was very satisfied with him, and once said, "Yonglian was born to empress dowager, the concubine of Yuan, intelligent and valuable, and extraordinary."
Unfortunately, Yonglian died at the age of nine, and he never had a chance with the throne.
The second was the seventh son of the Emperor, Yong Chun, who also died of pox at the age of two.
The third was Yu Yan, who was secretly made Crown Prince in 1773.
Sixty years after Qianlong, Emperor Yan was officially made crown prince.
A year later, Qianlong held a Zen ceremony, and Emperor Yan became the seventh emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the jiaqing emperor in history.
In the year of his ascension to the throne, he was 37 years old, and when he reached middle age, he already had the ability to handle major state affairs independently.
However, in the four years after he ascended the throne, He Yan did not have real power, and the real power was still in the hands of Qianlong, who was the master of the entire country.
It was not until four years later, when the Qianlong Emperor died, that the Jiaqing Emperor really came to power.
Those who are familiar with the history of the Qing Dynasty should know that compared with other dynasties, the Qing Dynasty did not have a tyrant or tyrant in the actual sense.
Of the 12 emperors of the Qing Dynasty, only those with strong abilities and weak abilities were weak.
The Jiaqing Emperor was an emperor with weak abilities.
Although after Qianlong's death, he carried out a very strict purging of officials and punished corrupt officials and yan and others. But in the end, his ability was limited, and the world was in a reform environment at that time, so he did not lead the Qing Dynasty to prosperity, but made the gap between the Qing Dynasty and the Western world grow wider and wider.
In 1820, the Jiaqing Emperor died at the age of 61.
Unfortunately, after the death of the Jiaqing Emperor, his successor, the Daoguang Emperor, also did not have the ability to turn the tide and maintain the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty.
Eventually, 20 years after the death of the Jiaqing Emperor, the Qing Dynasty was invaded by the West and became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.