Jiaqing ascended the throne and gave death to Shen, what is Ji Xiaolan's final fate?
Jiaqing came to power only after He Shen's death. What is the ending of Ji Xiaolan, Heshen's arch-rival?
In 1799, the Jiaqing Emperor finally ended the transitional rule of his predecessor, the Qianlong Emperor. He quickly removed He Shen from all his official positions and sent him to prison. A few days later, He Shen was executed in prison, ending his life at the age of 49. What is the fate of Ji Xiaolan, the accomplice of He Shen, who often appears in movies and television? We will analyze it in detail later.
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He Shen was a close minister during the Qianlong period, and his son married Qianlong's daughter and became a relative of Emperor Qianlong. With the gradual accumulation of power, He Shen's courage is getting bigger and bigger, on the one hand, he maneuvered around the party camp, filling his own pockets, and on the other hand, through his official position, he participated in the operation of pawnshops and silver trumpets, hundreds. In the transaction between Jiaqing and He Shen, it can be said that He Shen's property is equivalent to all the income of the Qing Dynasty for fifteen years, and his huge greed for money is indeed jaw-dropping.
Jiaqing ascended the throne. After Jiaqing ascended the throne, because the power was still firmly in the hands of Emperor Qianlong, he mainly dealt with some minor government affairs. In the fourth year of Qianlong, Qianlong died suddenly, and Jiaqing finally had the opportunity to govern himself. He appointed Liu Yong as the crown prince and put him in charge of investigating the issue of ** and collusion with the Heshen group. Liu Yong identified 20 cardinal sins committed by the Heshen group and played them to the emperor. Jiaqing immediately ordered He Shen to be placed under house arrest and immediately executed.
Ji Xiaolan is 26 years older than He Shen.
The relationship between He Shen and Ji Xiaolan is exaggerated in the play, but in fact they are not sworn enemies. Ji Xiaolan is actually He Shen's teacher. When He Shen first entered politics, Ji Xiaolan had been in officialdom for many years, and gave He Shen a lot of officialdom experience and advice on how to deal with people.
At the time of He Shen's death, Ji Xiaolan was 75 years old and held a high position, serving as a scholar of the household department, a university scholar, and a prince and Taibao. She was highly respected in the palace, but due to her advanced age, she no longer managed the affairs of the palace herself. Although she is still serving in the palace, she has long since put down her heavy work and enjoyed the comfortable life of the palace.
When Ji Xiaolan was eighty years old, Emperor Jiaqing held a birthday celebration for him in recognition of his outstanding contributions. However, Ji Xiaolan died of illness at the age of eighty-one, ending his long court life.
Therefore, Ji Xiaolan and He Shen are not rivals, but confidants. Their fates were very different, with He Shen's excessive extravagance and ostentation leading to his eventual depravity, while Ji Xiaolan's wisdom and prudence allowed him to live a worry-free life in his later years.
In the first year of Jiaqing (1796), Ji Xiaolan served as a squire in the military department and was transferred to the left squire in front of the imperial army. The following year, he was transferred to the Ministry of Rites. In the tenth year of Jiaqing (1805), the crown prince Shaobao was appointed as a scholar. In the same year, he died in Beijing at the age of eighty. On his deathbed, he wrote his own couplet:"Swimming in the sea is like a seagull, and life and death are like silverfish"。After his death, the palace gave him 500 taels of silver as funeral expenses. Ji Xiaolan was the main compiler of the Siku Quanshu, and his works were included in the Qing Historical Manuscript.