1September 2, 820, in the 25th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty, a sudden explosion shocked all parts of Qing Dynasty: Emperor Jiaqing died at the age of 6 1!
Especially before the news of this death came, the armadillo of Jiaqing Emperor had been in office for twenty-five years and was in charge of state affairs for twenty-two years. He was recognized as the "Iron Man" emperor in China. In the words of many scholars today, his "workaholic" level has caught up with Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The board is tough, and with his usual show-off, he told the minister that it is nothing for me to live to seventy or eighty years old. Even a few days before his death, he was still on his way to the summer resort and plunged into the farmland along the way to see the crops with great interest. He doesn't feel tired after walking with his legs and feet for a long time. The night before his death, he carefully approved a stack of memorials and made several important instructions!
Then, the next morning, he suddenly died!
Moreover, compared with this tough body, in the past twenty-five years, the enterprising Emperor Jiaqing was more famous for his "bitter days" at that time. In his imperial career, there were even two assassinations that almost hung by a thread! Such a healthy emperor, blessed and fatal, died off guard. Is it really a natural death?
Therefore, until today, the cause of death of Emperor Jiaqing has been discussed by many scholars at home and abroad. Even Harding, a Swedish scholar who can't get away from it, has a magical research result: the energetic Jiaqing Emperor occupied a craftsman's wife in the summer resort, which led to the ruin of the craftsman's family. The result caused widespread indignation and discontent, and was struck red-handed by a thunder in the sky. In He Ding's original words, "This is really a punishment from heaven"!
But give up the "heavenly punishment" that can be used for fiction. The death of Emperor Jiaqing is indeed a great anecdote in history of qing dynasty: his cause of death is the closest to the historical truth, and it is also the epitome of the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty!
This matter, but also from the bizarre death of the emperor, the emperor's life looks very mediocre!
Two: a "mediocre" strongman.
As the fifteenth son of emperor Qianlong, the ranking is bleak. Since he was sensible, he has been a man with his tail between his legs. On weekdays, he seldom talks and never shows off when he meets difficulties. It means reading and studying step by step every day. According to his own poems, his biggest hobby every day is "reading the motto of burning lights at night", which means studying until midnight. Like an honest boy.
But history once again proves that honest children do not suffer. This good boy, the armadillo, finally won the favor of his harsh father, Emperor Ganlong, with his honest performance for 30 years. First of all, he was carefully trained as a successor. Then when his father was eighty-five years old, he was officially promoted to the throne. Under the supervision of Emperor "Tai shang huang" Qianlong, he was a good emperor for three years. However, when Emperor Qianlong died, Emperor Jiaqing finally broke out suddenly and officially took charge of the imperial power, which was another storm!
Especially to the surprise of the Qing Dynasty, the 88-year-old Emperor Qianlong just died. The next day, Emperor Jiaqing gritted his teeth and gave an order: remove Xiao Shenyang, a big corrupt official who was loved and earned by Emperor Qianlong all his life, and investigate! Sharp soldiers, the first time, the first speed, turned the first etiquette house upside down during the Qianlong period. Turned against faster than books, this let Wu Wen surprised out in a cold sweat!
But for the ruling Emperor Jiaqing at this time, his real feeling at this time is by no means the pride of turning over as a master, but the general fear of sitting on the crater: the land of the Great Qing Dynasty has long been ruined by his father to the point of boiling against the sky. Officials are corrupt, big and small things are gone, and the state treasury is empty. Even the large-scale riots of the White Lotus Sect have been fooled and concealed by local officials for many years. At this time, it has reached the point where the southwest land is falling apart! The Qing dynasty has reached the most dangerous time!
In order to fill the hole left by his father, Emperor Qianlong, Emperor Jiaqing started his crazy working mode: the big corrupt official Xiao Shenyang was killed, and the amazing wealth of Xiao Shenyang before his death also made great contributions to the poor treasury of the Qing Dynasty! Most of this money was basically invested in the war to pacify An Baili in southwest China and control the Yellow River flood that has intensified in the Central Plains since the middle and late Qianlong period. Everything has been hanging for many years, and it's a mess. Emperor Jiaqing is under pressure!
As for his hard life, the corruption he hated for a long time is his zero tolerance for death. The execution of Xiao Shenyang is just an experiment. Then there was the violent suppression of counter-revolutionaries, and the anti-corruption work in the Qing Dynasty showed a rare fierce scene of encountering demons and killing demons. For example, in order to celebrate his father's death, provincial officials sighed and said that it would be nice to have 10% to 20% good officials. Jiaqing simply means: take one if you find one. National 1 1 The governor told him that he had won six games in a row. Then, we pay attention year after year. During the whole Jiaqing period, the total number of officials, large and small, who were dismissed for corruption was conservatively estimated to be twice that of the Qianlong period, and the results were very fruitful!
There are other achievements: the Anbashism turmoil that lasted for many years was forcibly suppressed by him, and the tax revenue of the Qing Dynasty, which had been poor for many years, once had a slight surplus. Cultural achievements are also remarkable. Although it is difficult to compare the scale of All Tang Wen compiled with the money in my teeth with that of the Four Books, it has preserved many precious historical materials that were almost destroyed by the Four Books. Torre Gan Long left a big hole. He worked very hard to fill it and finished it beautifully.
Even as a reference, we have to admit that if it weren't for the 20-year-long forced pit filling by Emperor Jiaqing, I'm afraid the Qing Dynasty would have collapsed long before the Opium War. It is conservatively estimated that the Qing dynasty will take at least 50 years!
With such brilliant achievements, will a powerful worker like Emperor Jiaqing be proud of himself? On the contrary, since he ascended the throne, it is this anxiety and pain that has enveloped his life!
The more you fill the pit, the more you find that you can only slow down the decline of the Qing Dynasty, but you can't recreate a prosperous Qing Dynasty that you dreamed of when you were young. What impressed me most was that he narrowly escaped death twice!
Three: Nothing, I'm clear.
The first death trial of Emperor Jiaqing took place in the eighth year of Jiaqing. It was not only thrilling, but also quite shocking: at that time, a former chef named Chen De gave a howl and jumped at him with a knife when Jiaqing Emperor just walked to the entrance of the Shenwu Gate of the Forbidden City. The guards who were supposed to defend Emperor Jiaqing were petrified with fear. If Emperor Jiaqing's brother-in-law Lavando had not fought to the death, the Qing emperor would have been killed by the cook's knife!
After the trial, it was even more thunderous: it turned out that this Chen De was dismissed by his master, and there was an old mother, wife and children to raise at home. When he was desperate, his blood swelled, and he wanted to kill Jiaqing and export evil spirits! Although the incident happened suddenly, the guards around the emperor were useless. In shock, Emperor Jiaqing sent all the guards!
Ten years later, Emperor Jiaqing died for the second time, and there were more guards in front of him, but it was the Forbidden City in ouchi-Lin Qingzhi's change! At that time, Tian Li leader Lin Qing raided the Forbidden City in the middle of the night under the banner of "Tian Mingshun". The defense of the whole Forbidden City is a mess. If it hadn't been for the good son of Emperor Jiaqing, Suining, who kept calm in a crisis and quickly commanded the army to pacify, Beijing would have been destroyed by this group of people. Emperor Jiaqing was furious and wanted his life back. He wrote a poem cursing: nothing happened, but he went out of the Qing Dynasty!
In the past, the Royal Guards could stun in front of assassins, but when Lin Qing rebelled, all the soldiers fled in fear. After further investigation, it was found that not only many eunuchs were bribed by Tianjin, but also Qing Dynasty imperial clan general Qing Yao and imperial clan Hai Kang. these
Behind these shocking chaos is the increasingly corrupt bureaucracy of the Qing Dynasty. Even if Emperor Jiaqing made a heavy fist rectification, the atmosphere of corruption was still overwhelming. Even the Yellow River regulation project he painstakingly managed has become a high platform on the Yellow River dam. Officials at all levels sing in the opera house and polish the thunderous scene of migrant workers. The bad habit of smoking opium even spread from officialdom to court. If the Qing Dynasty began to recover from a serious illness in the last years of Qianlong, then Emperor Jiaqing only relieved the symptoms, far from cutting off the root cause!
So, after so many painful scenes, Emperor Jiaqing couldn't help it. After the regime change, Lin Qingzhi wrote a letter of apology, but in the letter, officials at all levels neglected their duties countless times and every sentence was filled with indignation. He said that the senior officials of the imperial court knelt down and wept bitterly, but did they kneel? What or what!
Therefore, this political strongman, a diligent emperor who seems to have accomplished a lot in his life, has been working in such a painful state of mind for a long time. In the twenty-five years of Jiaqing, on his way to chengde mountain resort, he still read official documents with high intensity every day. Not a day goes by without stopping from bumping all the way to reaching the palace. Such a painful work intensity, coupled with such a painful mentality, no matter how good the body is, naturally it can't be stretched! Death, seemingly sudden, is actually inevitable!
If any emperor in the whole Qing Dynasty was born at a bad time, it should be the diligent Jiaqing emperor first. If he had been born in the Qing Dynasty, his iron fist and tenacity would have created a more brilliant career than his father. Unfortunately, after being born in Qianlong, he can only bear the responsibility of filling the pit stubbornly. But I have to say, he did a good job.