Yue Zhongqi was a famous general in the northwest of the Yongzheng Dynasty, and he served as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, which can be described as a high power. But Yue Zhongqi's life experience was a little embarrassing in the Qing Dynasty, because he was a descendant of Yue Fei, a famous anti-gold general in the Southern Song Dynasty. Therefore, in the Yongzheng Dynasty, there are often people who point fingers at Yue Zhongqi and can't put their minds at ease. **10,000 Fans Incentive Plan
In the fifth year of Yongzheng, Yue Zhongqi returned to Beijing from the northwest to report on his work. On the way, he was cordially received by Cai Ting, the secretary of the Ministry of War, which made Yue Zhongqi very moved。When he met Emperor Yongzheng, he unreservedly revealed his conversation with Cai Ting.
It is taboo for frontier generals to hand over to ministers of the inner court, in the eyes of the suspicious Emperor Yongzheng, this can completely convict the sensitive Yue Zhongqi of "rebellion". However, what is puzzling is that Emperor Yongzheng was indeed furious about this matter, but it was Cai Ting's official who dismissed him, and sentenced Cai Ting to be beheaded and imprisoned, but Yue Zhongqi was unharmed. What's going on here?
If you want to talk about the entanglement between Cai Ting and Yue Zhongqi, this has to mention Nian Qianyao. Nian Qianyao's ability to fight in the Yongzheng Dynasty was second to none, and when Qinghai was pacified, he was the main general, and Yue Zhongqi was his deputy general. But Nian Qianyao's personality is high-flying, fiery and flamboyant, and he can provoke many people wherever he goes. In the second year of Yongzheng, he had an awkward quarrel with Cai Ting, the governor of Sichuan.
At that time, Nian Qianyao had just defeated Qinghai's Luo Buzang Danjin, which was in the limelight, and Emperor Yongzheng also favored him and allowed him to be the "soil emperor" of the northwest and southwest. And Nian Qianyao's behavior is even more presumptuousIn order to increase his financial resources, he applied to Yongzheng to open a silver mine in Sichuan. Yongzheng was in a good mood at the time, and he was directly approved.
As a result, when the holy decree came to Sichuan, Cai Ting, who had long been unaccustomed to seeing the young Qianyao's flying and domineering, had only one reply to this:"Sichuan does not produce **, and cannot open mines. ”
This reason is a bit unreasonable, not to mention that Sichuan can indeed produce a lot of silver mines, just sayBefore Nian Qianyao was promoted to governor, he was the governor of Sichuan. Whether there is a silver mine in Sichuan, this question, Nian Qianyao may know better than Cai Ting.
What made Nian Qianyao even more angry was that Cai Ting was the one who took over his class, and he could be regarded as the person he promotedNow to blatantly contradict oneself with such absurd excuses is nothing short of a declaration of war.
So Nian Qianyao relied on Emperor Yongzheng's favor to him, and directly sued Cai Ting to the imperial court. Yongzheng was really furious, and immediately ordered Cai Ting to be tied up and escorted to the capital to be questioned.
It stands to reason that this is a matter between Nian Qianyao and Cai Ting, and Yue Zhongqi is not very involved in the whole process. But then Nian Qianyao's rapid defeat pushed Yue Zhongqi to the forefront.
Before Cai Ting's prison car arrived in Beijing, Nian Qianyao returned to the capital first, acting arrogantly and without taking the emperor in his eyes, which made Yongzheng extremely angry.
Yongzheng has a characteristic, that isLove wants to live, and evil wants to die, the personality is up and down, and when the sky falls when he is pampered, he has to protect him, and when he hates someone, he wishes he would die quickly. At this time, Cai Ting's prison car arrived in the capital, and Yongzheng hurriedly ordered him to enter the palace, and he wanted to interrogate him in person, in fact, in order to get unfavorable testimony from Cai Ting, who had intensified and made public contradictions with Nian Qianyao.
And Cai Ting is also very good-natured, and immediately described Nian Qianyao's major crimes with oil and vinegar, and avenged himself. Yongzheng, who got the evidence, immediately attacked Nian QianyaoNian Qianyao was removed from all positions and replaced by his deputy, Yue Zhongqi.
As for Cai Ting, of course, Yongzheng will not treat this old general badlyHe not only absolved Cai Ting of his crimes, but also promoted him to the imperial history of the Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and concurrently served as the "King of Governors", who was specifically responsible for managing the governor of the Gyeonggi region.
But what people didn't expect was that Cai Ting relied on Yongzheng's preferential treatment of him, and he also swelled. Nian Qianyao did offend Cai Ting,And although Yue Zhongqi is Nian Qianyao's right-hand man, he didn't do anything.
However, Cai Ting may hate the house and Wu, or he may want to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, anyway, he doesn't like Yue Zhongqi in every way, when Yongzheng nominated him to be the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Cai Ting immediately wrote against it, planning to bring down Yue Zhongqi together. And Cai Ting's book this time can be said to be very unkind, directly saying that Yue Zhongqi is "ill-intentioned", probably really talking about Yue Zhongqi's most taboo background.
Although Yongzheng is emotionally extreme, he also knows that he doesn't want to make things bigger. He was not influenced by Cai Ting, and continued to promote Yue Zhongqi, and then backhanded removed Cai Ting's position as the imperial history of the left capital and the governor of Zhili, and asked him to serve as the secretary of the military department. I think this is also Yongzheng's gray humor:You said that Yue Zhongqi had ill intentions, then I will let Yue Zhongqi work under your nose, and if you want to check, you can check enough.
Of course, Cai Ting also knew Yongzheng's dissatisfaction. Therefore, I had to restrain myself a bit. But a person's character can only be disguised for a while, not for a lifetime. So Cai Ting still secretly poked and poked at Yue Zhongqi. And Yue Zhongqi, who was far away in the northwest and led troops to fight, had no idea about the intrigue in the capital.
In the fifth year of Yongzheng, Yue Zhongqi returned to Beijing for the first time from the northwest to report on his work. Cai Ting also knew that Yue Zhongqi was a person who was deeply trusted by the emperor, and he had slandered him in front of the emperor for personal grudges, which would be difficult if Yue Zhongqi heard it. So Cai Ting found Yue Zhongqi in advance and complimented him. Yue Zhongqi had always been plagued by all kinds of gossip about his origin, but now when he saw that the military department was so reasonable, he couldn't help but be grateful.
As a result, this gratitude did not matter, when Yue Zhongqi met Yongzheng, he told Cai Shangshu about his cordiality and friendliness, and thanked Emperor Yongzheng for finding him such a sympathetic leader.
Zhong Qi said with tears in his eyes, but Yongzheng was angry。Okay, you Cai Ting, I scolded Yue Zhongqi in the book before, but now that Yue Zhongqi is here, you are so flattering to him, such a servant and a servant, two-faced and three-faced, it is simply a bully.
Cai Ting**Yue Zhongqi's matter is not a secret in the capital. Soon, Yue Zhongqi received the news that Cai Shangshu had suspected you of evil intentions. Of course, Yue Zhongqi was scared like five thunderbolts, after all, his identity is sensitive, Lord Shangshu scolded him with his front foot, and his back foot was close to himI'm afraid that the emperor listened to Cai Ting's ** and sent him to test himself, right? And his original performance, will he be finally convicted of the crime of "befriending close ministers"?
The more Yue Zhongqi thought about it, the more frightened he became, so he simply went to the book, saying that he was only a shallow scholar and could not take on such a heavy responsibility as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and hoped that the emperor would remove him from his post and find a casual errand for himself in the future to make a living.
As mentioned earlier, Emperor Yongzheng's joy and anger are very extremeAs soon as he saw Yue Zhongqi say this, of course he issued an edict to appease, saying that this is all villain nonsense, you work hard, I still believe you. then turned his head and characterized Cai Ting as a cunning villain and put him in prison.
Of course, the reason why Yongzheng is so ruthless to Cai Ting is not just because Cai Ting ** Yue Zhongqi, but becauseCai Ting himself also committed something else, that is, the famous friend case of Yongzheng Dynasty.
The so-called Pengdang case refers to the contradiction between Emperor Yongzheng's confidant and favorite general, Henan Governor Tian Wenjing and Zhili Governor Li Fu. The reason for this incident is that when Cai Ting was serving as the imperial history of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he recommended a fellow villager named Huang Zhenguo to serve as a county magistrate in Henan Province. As a result, this Huang Zhenguo relied on his backstage to be hard, and he was rampant and domineering in the county, and he was checked by Tian Wenjing, and planned to bring him to justice.
Tian Wenjing is Yongzheng's confidant and a firm executor of Yongzheng's reform. And there are many ministers in the court whose interests have been damaged because of the Yongzheng reform, and the leader elected by these ministers is Li Fu, the governor of Zhili.
Li Fu and others couldn't oppose the emperor on the surface, so they had to regard Tian Wenjing as a mortal enemy. Their method is that all those who are supported by Tian Wenjing will be opposed, and all those who are opposed by Tian Wenjing will be supported. Since Huang Zhenguo was ** by Tian Wenjing, then he must have no problem. For a while, Yongzheng was up and down, and there was a sound of overturning the case.
Huang Zhenguo was recommended by Cai Ting, of course he couldn't admit that he had a problem, so he joined forces with Li Fu to oppose Tian Wenjing. But in Yongzheng's view, these are the empirical evidence that the courtiers formed a group of friends. Therefore,Yongzheng used thunderous means to suppress Li Fu and others, and piggybacked on the evidence that Cai Ting himself was ***.
So in a sense, when Cai Ting found Yue Zhongqi, his status itself was already in jeopardy, and he was close to Yue Zhongqi, so isn't this also a choice for self-preservation? It's a pity that he didn't expect his behavior to be directly interpreted by Yongzheng as a two-faced and three-edged knife, which accelerated his fall. can only say that the pit Cai Ting dug for himself in front of him is too big, and he has driven himself to a dead end. After all, even if Cai Ting didn't look for Yue Zhongqi, with Emperor Yongzheng's dislike for Cai, it would be a matter of time before he was taken down.
Just imagine, if Cai Ting could talk about things at the beginning and have a good relationship with Yue Zhongqi, then Yongzheng would look at Yue Zhongqi's face when he committed the crime, and there was a high probability that he would spare himself. Cai Ting is narrow-minded, pampered and arrogant, and finally cocoons himself, and it is inevitable to get such a result.