Before Li Hong ascended the throne, he was made a prince treasure. When he was a teenager, he was brilliant, he could speak and use martial arts, and he was very talented. Yongzheng had high hopes for him, which was unparalleled among governors. As early as August of the first year of Yongzheng, Li Hong was established as the Crown Prince by "secretly building the Crown Prince". Prince Hongshi once competed with him for favor, but his ancestral home has been removed. However, Yongzheng accepted the lesson of Kangxi and refused to let the prince participate in politics. Similarly, before he ascended the throne, Li Hong never participated in government affairs, nor did he hold an important position in military and political affairs. It was only in the thirteenth year of Yongzheng that he took part in dealing with scenic spots. 1735, Yongzheng died and Qianlong succeeded to the throne. Emperor Qianlong in his youth
After Gan Long ascended the throne, the first thing he faced was the struggle of emerging groups. When he came to power, he made it clear that he hated factional struggles and banned private cronies to warn E Ertai and Zhang, who were in the heyday of the imperial court at that time. However, because he had never been exposed to politics before, lacked experience and prestige, and failed to have any cronies, he was struggling in the face of the pressure of cronies and imperial clan at the beginning of politics. He used various means to make Zhang and Hubei factions contain each other and slowly recover their rights. After the four-year "rebellion against Hong" in Qianlong, he devoted himself to excluding the imperial clan from the political power, making full use of the functions of the Ministry of War and acting arbitrarily, thus making the autocratic monarchy unprecedentedly strengthened and the centralization of power reached its peak.
Politically, Qianlong corrected his father's leniency and strictness, implemented the policy of "combining leniency with strictness", managed the country pragmatically, rectified the bureaucracy, formulated various laws and regulations, gave preferential treatment to scholars, and appeased the imperial clan hit by Yongzheng Dynasty. Economically rewarding land reclamation and building water conservancy projects, the whole country is showing a trend of prosperity. The early and middle years of Qianlong were the most dynamic period in the political life of Emperor Qianlong, which was praised by later generations. In the later period, he relied heavily on Yu Minzhong and Xiao Shenyang, especially the corrupt official Xiao Shenyang. In addition, Emperor Qianlong himself was old, ambitious, rigid, ambitious and arrogant, unable to get rid of corrupt officials' administration, rampant corruption and intensified contradictions, which cast a shadow over his life. Diligence and love for the people are always advocated by Qianlong, so many officials of the Qing government take care of civil affairs as their own responsibility. Among the competent officials whom Qianlong trusted, there were many incorruptible officials. For example, Sun Jiagan, a great scholar, is a newcomer to Jiangxi. Qianlong asked the governors and ministers of all localities to be solid and oppose empty talk. He also boldly used all kinds of competent officials demoted by Yongzheng. During the Qianlong period, there were countless people who were capable and ambitious, regardless of civilian military commanders, including Fu Heng, A Gui, Liu Tongxun, etc. However, due to the strong government control of the Qing emperor and the concept of "incompetent officials in this dynasty", the talents of detained officials were shrouded in the great shadow of the emperor. In developing social production, Qianlong mainly inherited the economic and political systems since Kangxi and Yongzheng, and the greatest achievement was the thorough implementation of the policy of "returning farmland to the stream", "spreading land into mu" and "returning fire to consume people" during Yongzheng period. Therefore, Qianlong listened to the advice of Zhang Guangsi, the minister, and adopted the measures of appeasement before conquest, which quickly put down the rebellion of ethnic minorities. The implementation of these measures made the national strength of the Qing Dynasty reach its peak. Qianlong monopolized power all his life, and absolute monarchy reached the peak of China's history. He can save the people from fire and water, and rescue the disaster at all costs; You can also ruthlessly suppress all kinds of forces against him. During his administration, cruel and bloody literary prisons were everywhere, and incidents of killing hundreds of people and even government officials were common.