As long as He Shen is mentioned, we will think of Ji Xiaolan in "Iron Tooth Bronze Tooth Ji Xiaolan" or Liu Yong in "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo". He Shen was undoubtedly the big ** during the Qianlong Dynasty, and he was deeply favored by Qianlong, so he did whatever he wanted with Qianlong's support, and almost no one in the court could suppress He Shen. **Ten Thousand Fans Incentive Plan But in this "Iron Tooth and Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", Ji Xiaolan is not afraid of power and always digs a pit for He Shen;
In "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo", Liu Yong didn't take He Shen seriously, and dared to carry He Shen directly.
It can be said that whether it is Ji Xiaolan or Liu Yong, they are the nemesis of He Shen that we take for granted.
But in reality?
That's not really the case in real history :
Although Ji Xiaolan is 26 years older than He Shen, her official position has always been under He Shen, and her main job is to compile books, which is related to words. Even if he was ranked second or even first, he had almost no real power in his hands, so what could he do with Heshen?
What about Liu Yong? The elder He Shen is 31 years old, and his father is still the "real prime minister" Liu Tongxun; Liu Yong has indeed achieved the position of "prime minister"; But Mr. Liu spent most of his time outside Beijing. No one is in the capital, how can you fight with Heshen?
Even when Liu Yong returned to the capital in his later years, although he couldn't get used to what He Shen did, he still didn't carry He Shen hard, but was humble and wrong, and didn't say anything or do anything.
It wasn't until Emperor Jiaqing became pro-government that Liu Yong dared to directly ** and Shen.
In fact, what He Shen is really afraid of in the court is:
Chief Minister of Military Aircraft Zhang Jia Agui,
He Shen is not taken seriously at all, and the only one in the Qing Dynasty who is not from the Aixin Jueluo family was named the king of the county.
Emperor Jiaqing's teacher, scholar Wang Jie.
Let's put aside who Heshen's real jealous opponent is, let's take a look at the three favored ministers of the Qianlong Dynasty that we are more familiar with: He Shen, Ji Xiaolan and Liu Yong, what kind of treatment did they get after Emperor Jiaqing came to power?
Many people have at least two misconceptions about Heshen:
He Shen is the same age as Qianlong and Ji Xiaolan.
He Shen's surname is "and".
Not really!
He Shen was 39 years younger than Emperor Qianlong, and when Qianlong passed the sixtieth year, He Shen was favored by Emperor Qianlong, and he was able to rise to prominence, and it only took more than a year to wear the crown of a first-class master, and the speed of his promotion was really unprecedented.
Even Qianlong's brother-in-law, Fucha Fu Heng, who is both an important minister, a relative and a general, is not as fast as He Shen's promotion.
Of course, He Shen can have such a fast promotion speed, in addition to relying on opportunism and casting Qianlong's favor, it has more to do with He Shen's real ability:
He Shen is the most self-motivated one in the entire Xian'an palace study, not only reciting the five classics of the private school upside down, but also the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, etc., the most important thing is that He Shen actually dabbled in the four languages of Manchu, Han, Mongolian and Tibetan, which is very rare in the entire Qing Dynasty;
He Shen also has super financial management ability, Emperor Qianlong is the most enjoyable emperor in the entire Qing Dynasty, there are hundreds of large and small cruises, not to mention anything else, the cost of just six southern tours is very large; There is also Qianlong's great joy, and the "Ten Complete Martial Arts" also spent a lot of real silver**, so that the treasury began to be tight in the middle and late Qianlong Dynasty.
Qianlong was also worried about this matter, and the appearance of He Shen just helped Qianlong solve this problem.
And He Shen was always unexpected by Qianlong and helped Qianlong create a lot of inputs.
In addition, He Shen is also a master of solving difficult cases, with advanced business philosophy, which makes Qianlong more and more dependent on He Shen. In this way, He Shen became the premier favorite minister (not a power minister) in the court, even when Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, He Shen's status was still unaffected, because Qianlong still held the real power of the Qing Dynasty, and Emperor Jiaqing was a "serving emperor".
Especially after the death of the chief military minister Zhang Jia Agui, He Shen's status was higher, and he succeeded A Gui as the chief military minister, and was in charge of the entire Qing Dynasty with Emperor Qianlong, and He Shen also had the title of "two emperors".
It is precisely because He Shen has such a high status that he seriously threatens the imperial power of Emperor Jiaqing, so he is regarded as a thorn in the side of Emperor Jiaqing, and he must be eliminated quickly.
Emperor Qianlong, who held the real power of the Qing Dynasty for 63 years and four months in the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, finally died of illness, and the first thing Emperor Jiaqing did was not to bury his father Qianlong, but to get rid of the traitor and Shen.
Emperor Jiaqing ordered He Shen and his henchman Fu Chang'an (Fu Heng's youngest son) to be fully responsible for Emperor Qianlong's funeral, in fact, He Shen and Fu Chang'an were placed under house arrest in the palace, preventing the outside world from having any contact with the two.
On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Jiaqing issued an edict to exterminate the White Lotus Sect, and pointed the spearhead at the chief military minister He Shen;
On the fifth day of the first month, Emperor Jiaqing decreed that all the folds must be sealed and secretly played to Emperor Jiaqing himself, and the real power of the Qing Dynasty was restored to his own hands; At the same time, he hinted to the ministers: he wants to completely eradicate Heshen**.
Sure enough, soon there were many ministers in the DPRK and Shen.
On the eighth day of the first month, Emperor Jiaqing issued an order to arrest He Shen and Fu Chang'an.
On the 15th, He Shen was convicted of 22 major crimes;
On the 18th, Emperor Jiaqing allowed He Shen to commit suicide and die.
In addition, the Heshen Mansion was confiscated, and the Heshen Mansion was divided into two, half of which was continued to live by the lord of the Hexiao Palace and the Efu Fengshen Yinde, and the other half was given to the youngest brother of Emperor Jiaqing, Yongxuan.
In this way, He Shen, who had been favored for more than 20 years, fell directly in just over ten days after Emperor Qianlong died of illness.
It is said that He Shen made a desperate poem before he died:
"Fifty years of dreams, now I will give up my hand and thank Hongchen.Some people interpret Heshen's desperate poem in this way: the first two sentences say that Heshen's predecessor was actually Ma Jiashi, a favorite concubine of Emperor Yongzheng, who was favored by Emperor Qianlong, but Qianlong's biological mother, Empress Xiao Shengxian, thought that Ma Jiashi was a fox and bewitched the master, so she directly gave Ma Jiashi to death. Before he died, Ma Jiashi said that he would be reincarnated in 20 years and come back to reunite with Qianlong, and it happened that the year He Shen was born was 20 years after Ma Jia's death.He is full of water and dragon day, and he keeps cigarettes behind. ”
Under such a coincidence, Qianlong regarded He Shen as the reincarnation of Ma Jia's family.
The last two sentences talk about He Shen's next life: the year before He Shen was given to die, the Yellow River burst its banks and flooded, and the last two sentences say that the next time He Shen was reincarnated as a human was when the Yellow River flooded again. Coincidentally, thirty-four years after He Shen's death, the Yellow River did burst its banks again, and this year Yehenala Xingzhen was born, and the second daughter was the well-known Empress Dowager Cixi.
Of course, this is just speculation of later generations, and there is no need to take it seriously.
Ji Xiaolan is completely different from He Shen, even if He Shen does not participate in the imperial examination, he has the identity of a flag man, and he can also enter the official career through the pen post style or enter the palace as a guard; And Ji Xiaolan is different, Ji Xiaolan is a Han Chinese, and she can only enter the officialdom through the only way - the imperial examination.
Ji Xiaolan was 24 years old and entered Beijing at the age of 31 to take the entrance examination and was on the list, and won the Jinshi.
Since then, Ji Xiaolan has officially entered the office and entered the Hanlin Academy as a Shujishi.
He successively served in the positions of bachelor's degree and academic administration, and gradually won the favor of Emperor Qianlong.
I thought that Ji Xiaolan was beginning to rise steadily, but I didn't expect that because of the news to her in-laws, Lianghuai Yanzheng Lu Jianzeng, Ji Xiaolan was exiled to Urumqi for three years. Three years later, he returned to the capital and started from scratch.
From the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong to the accession of Emperor Jiaqing to the throne, Ji Xiaolan spent most of his time compiling books:
In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong, the "Synopsis", "Concise Bibliography", "Summary of the Four Libraries" and "Rehe Chronicles" of the "Yongle Canon".
In the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong, "Pingding Liangjinchuan Ya" and "Pingding Liangjinchuan Song".
Forty-five years of Qianlong, "List of Official Positions of the Past Dynasties".
In the forty-sixth year of Qianlong, "Khitan National Chronicles".
In the forty-ninth year of Qianlong, "Heyuan Chronicle".
Fifty-five years of Qianlong, "Eight Banners Tongzhi".
After Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, in the first year of Jiaqing, Ji Xiaolan served as the secretary of the military department, and not long after that, he was appointed as the imperial history of the left capital, and really began to serve in a position of real power.
The following year, he was appointed secretary of the Ministry of Rites.
Ji Xiaolan spent her whole life, and in her old age, she finally became a first-class member after she was over seventy.
Ji Xiaolan is a very talented and intelligent person, and Emperor Qianlong has always asked Ji Xiaolan to compile books, instead of dealing with tricky court affairs with He Shen in the court, which is a manifestation of Qianlong's knowledge of people and employing people. After Lu Jianzeng's incident, Qianlong knew very well that Ji Xiaolan's strengths lay in compiling books and literature, rather than being an official in the court.
After arriving in the Jiaqing Dynasty, Ji Xiaolan, who had compiled books all his life, could be regarded as accumulating a good reputation, and Emperor Jiaqing respected Ji Xiaolan very much; However, Emperor Jiaqing had no real power in his hands in the first three years, and he couldn't promise Ji Xiaolan anything.
But after Emperor Jiaqing came to power, it was different.
As soon as Emperor Qianlong died of illness, Emperor Jiaqing made a move against Heshen, and a generation of traitors were executed by Emperor Jiaqing.
Those courtiers who had been bullied by He Shen finally came to raise their eyebrows, and they wrote to ** He Shen one after another, including Ji Xiaolan. Ji Xiaolan went on two folds in a row, ** and Shen's remnants.
After that, Ji Xiaolan was responsible for the compilation of "Gaozong's Records" and served as the vice president, which was completed after more than a year. "Gaozong Record" can be said that Ji Xiaolan has put a lot of effort into it, and his credit is that no one in the Record Museum can compare, so everyone in the Record Hall invited Emperor Jiaqing to discuss for Ji Xiaolan.
In the Qing Dynasty, "Yixu" was a management system for court officials.
In the assessment, those who perform well will be discussed. Generally speaking, there are two ways to discuss the narrative:
Plus. Recording.
But some people couldn't get used to it, so they made a stumbling block and said to Emperor Jiaqing: Ji Xiaolan has already been deeply gracious, and if he talks about it again, it will make the courtiers dissatisfied.
Emperor Jiaqing had some hesitation, it stands to reason that Ji Xiaolan's actions in his life, even among the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, can be compared to few people, according to Ji Xiaolan's contributions and qualifications, he should also be worshiped as a scholar.
In fact, in the first year of Jiaqing, Emperor Jiaqing proposed to promote Ji Xiaolan to a university scholar, but Qianlong refused.
Emperor Jiaqing did not have a pro-government, so he could only do what his father said.
In this way, Ji Xiaolan was cold for six years, but he was only transferred to several positions such as the Shangshu of the Military Department and the Imperial History of Zuodu.
But some people in the court objected, and Emperor Jiaqing was also very embarrassed, and temporarily approved Ji Xiaolan as "Youxu".
After arriving in the Jiaqing Dynasty, Ji Xiaolan has entered old age, and she is indeed old, but Emperor Jiaqing still entrusts her with important tasks, and Ji Xiaolan is more loyal to her duties. In March of the seventh year of Jiaqing, Ji Xiaolan once again served as the examiner of the examination to select outstanding talents for Emperor Jiaqing.
In his later years, Ji Xiaolan's official position became higher and higher, and his reputation became better and better.
In the eighth year of Jiaqing, June 15, it happened to be Ji Xiaolan's 80th birthday.
On this day, Jiaqing specially sent Chang Gui, the secretary of the courtyard, early in the morning, to Ji Xiaolan's house to congratulate Ji Xiaolan with the congratulatory gift that Emperor Jiaqing had given him. Ji Xiaolan knelt down to thank her, grateful.
Then Ji Xiaolan's relatives, friends, protégés and others all came to congratulate Ji Xiaolan on her birthday, and for a while, Ji Xiaolan's Reading Wei Caotang became a crowd. Other important ministers of the imperial court, such as Liu Yong, Zhu Qi, Dong Hao, Bao Ning and others, came to congratulate Ji Xiaolan on his birthday in a sedan chair after the next dynasty.
Yuewei Caotang naturally can't accommodate so many people, so many of the three or four products who came to congratulate the birthday**, as well as some of the low-status **, went back after sending the congratulatory gifts, and did not participate in the birthday banquet at noon.
In the first month of the tenth year of Jiaqing, Ji Xiaolan was finally awarded the title of co-organizer of the university and the title of prince and prince.
It's a pity that only a month later, he died of illness.
After Emperor Jiaqing learned the news of Ji Xiaolan's death, he was very sad, and immediately sent the minister Detong to lead ten guards to pay tribute to Ji Xiaolan, and rewarded him with five hundred taels ** for his funeral.
Emperor Jiaqing gave Ji Xiaolan the nickname "Wenda", and in this way, Ji Xiaolan completed his long and meaningful life.
Liu Yong was born in a famous family in Zhucheng, Shandong
Great-grandfather Liu Bixian became a member of Guangxi in the Kangxi Dynasty.
His grandfather, Liu Di, became a political envoy in Sichuan in the Kangxi Dynasty.
His father, Liu Yong, was even more powerful, and he became the Minister of Military Aircraft in the Qianlong Dynasty, and was called "the real prime minister" by Qianlong
Born in such a family of eunuchs, Liu Yong naturally received a very good education since he was a child; And because of his father, Liu Yong has the identity of "Enyin Lifter", and he does not need to be like Ji Xiaolan to take the exam step by step before he can enter Beijing to participate in the examination. Liu Yong can directly participate in the general examination and the palace examination, and he won the second place in the second class in one exam.
After being on the list, Liu Yong was able to enter the Hanlin Academy as an editor.
From the 27th year of Qianlong to the 45th year of Qianlong, Liu Yong has been serving outside Beijing and has fulfilled the post of governor of Hunan.
In the forty-seventh year of Qianlong, Liu Yong finally returned to the capital, joined the South Study, and soon moved to the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry. Liu Yong, who returned to the capital, was an official in the same dynasty as He Shen, because He Shen had become the most favored minister around Qianlong, and Liu Yong could only be false and wrong, neither an enemy nor a good friend.
In the 48th year of Qianlong, Liu Yong was appointed as a co-organizer of the university and the governor of Zhili.
From the 51st year of Qianlong to the 59th year of Qianlong, before he was appointed as a cabinet scholar and secretary of the ministry, Liu Yong made many mistakes and was reprimanded and punished by Qianlong.
After Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, Liu Yong's career was back on track.
In the second year of Jiaqing, at the suggestion of Emperor Jiaqing, Liu Yong was appointed as a scholar of Tirenge University.
In the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, Emperor Qianlong had just died and had not yet entered the ground, and Emperor Jiaqing directly took action against Heshen, and Heshen fell. In the trial of the Heshen case, Liu Yong has always been involved in it, and he is also one of the main leaders of Heshen.
After the ministers of the DPRK and China discussed the crime against He Shen, many people suggested that He Shen Lingchi should be put to death;
And Liu Yong showed his upright side, and together with his friend Zhu Jue, he said to Emperor Jiaqing: He Shen is indeed a heinous crime, even if Ling Chi is executed, it is not too much; But after all, he was the minister of the first emperor, and he hoped that the emperor could make some changes.
In this way, Emperor Jiaqing issued an order to allow He Shen to commit suicide.
At the same time, people who were close to He Shen were also punished, such as He Lin, Feng Shen Yinde, Su Ling, Taifu Siqing, Li Guangyun, Shilang Wu Xinglan, and others.
At this critical moment, Liu Yong and others were worried that someone would use the Heshen case to frame and hold some ** in the court, so in order to avoid the expansion of the Heshen case, it was suggested that the case should be stopped and the Zhulian would be prohibited, and this suggestion was adopted by Emperor Jiaqing.
After the fall of Heshen, Liu Yong, Wang Jie, Zhu Jue and others were reused by Emperor Jiaqing, and Liu Yong became the head of the ministers; As a Hanchen, Liu Yong can be reused and favored like Manchen, which is indeed very rare.
There is no Heshen above the court, and Liu Yong has a place to play.
Strictly speaking, in fact, not long after Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, Liu Yong was already worried about the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty, after all, the Qing Dynasty began to have problems such as the White Lotus uprising, the Yellow River flood, and Cao Yun, but at that time, Qianlong and He Shen had the final say, and Liu Yong could only do some things within his ability:
In the third year of Jiaqing, Liu Yong, who was already old, went to Shandong in person, not only to handle the case, but also to inspect the Caoyun and the river, and to write down the situation he had investigated to the imperial court.
Liu Yong will not say anything good about the river transport, nor will he accept ** bribes, and he and Emperor Jiaqing can upload and distribute well. According to Liu Yong's performance, Emperor Jiaqing did do a lot of measures to rectify the Cao Yun and reduce the floating harvest of Cao grain, but it was opposed by many people.
To this end, Liu Yong put forward many suggestions on solving the problem of Caoyun funds, which were all adopted by Emperor Jiaqing. However, Liu Yong is not so good at this area after all, and the suggestions put forward cannot completely solve the problem of Caoyun funding.
However, as an old minister of the Qianlong Dynasty, Liu Yong was respected and loved by Emperor Jiaqing.
Liu Yong also often showed his poems to Emperor Jiaqing, and they were written in small characters, which moved Emperor Jiaqing very much.
Not only that, Emperor Jiaqing took good care of Liu Yong, who was over eighty years old. The emperor's grace made Liu Yong a little more complacent, but at the same time, Liu Yong was very worried about the fate of the Qing Dynasty.
Some of the measures taken by Jiaqing when he was in power did give Liu Yong hope, but slowly Liu Yong realized that Emperor Jiaqing was actually far worse than his father Emperor Qianlong.
It stands to reason that Emperor Jiaqing Taoguang has been in obscurity for many years, and finally waited until Qianlong died and took power alone, and he should have something to do; But no matter how you look at it, it's unlikely, because Emperor Jiaqing is too concerned about his power:
Liu Yong's friend Na Yancheng was directly kicked out of the military aircraft department.
General Ili was deposed.
Prince Makoto Yongli was purged.
Yin Zhuangtu's request to abolish the bad rules was also refuted.
Hong Liangji, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, was almost beheaded because of the sparse performance.
Emperor Jiaqing's actions chilled the world, and Liu Yong became more and more disappointed in Emperor Jiaqing.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this reason that Liu Yong is becoming more and more lazy in court politics, and Emperor Jiaqing, who is facing internal and external difficulties, is also more and more dissatisfied with Liu Yong:
In the fourth year of Jiaqing, Liu Yong and others were punished because of the insufficient cost of Guozijian;
In the seventh year of Jiaqing, Liu Yong was reprimanded again.
However, Liu Yong was still Emperor Jiaqing's trusted minister, and when Emperor Jiaqing went to Rehe to patrol Xing, he left Liu Yong in the capital to deal with court affairs. At this time, Liu Yong was still walking like a fly, and his eyes were embarrassed.
In the eighth year of Jiaqing, Wang Jie, a scholar, resigned due to illness, and sent a letter to Emperor Jiaqing before leaving, hoping that Emperor Jiaqing could rectify the problem of corruption in the imperial court, and put forward his own measures. Emperor Jiaqing ostensibly said that he would adopt it, but he never really put it into action.
In December of the ninth year of Jiaqing, Liu Yong died of illness. Two days before his death, Liu Yong was still on duty in the south study and entertained guests in the evening.
It can be said that Liu Yong can indeed be regarded as the end of his life and his merits; After Liu Yong died of illness, Emperor Jiaqing gave him the nickname "Wenqing" and allowed him to enter the Xian Liang Temple.
Because of the influence of film and television dramas, several ministers we are more familiar with during the Qianlong Dynasty are He Shen, Ji Xiaolan and Liu Yong. Except that He Shen was executed because he was a big ** and a traitor; The ending of Ji Xiaolan and Liu Yong was still relatively good, and after Emperor Jiaqing came into power, the two were not only reused, but also respected.
And they all died in their 80s, and their names went down in history.
It can be seen that those who are officials can stick to their own hearts, be honest and honest, and devote themselves to the court and the people in order to die well, although the process of Ji Xiaolan and Liu Yong being extremely popular ministers is a bit long, but the final result is good.
And the speed at which He Shen is on the rise is indeed very fast, but the speed of his downfall is even faster, which shows that the official is treacherous, has an improper heart, and only considers personal gains and losses, and will definitely go further and further down the wrong road, and end up being scolded by everyone.