While all the calculations were going on in secret, as Kangxi's illness healed, the establishment of the reserve became a matter that could be slowly discussed, and the energy of the civil and military officials turned to the increasingly tense situation in Tibet and the devastating earthquake in Tongwei, Gansu. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the political situation in Tibet was turbulent, and the leader of the Dzungar tribe in the northwest took advantage of the opportunity to covet Tibet. In the fifty-fifth year of the Kangxi reign, in the name of protecting the Yellow Sect, Arabutan sent the Great Ce Ling Dun Dobu and others to lead an army to attack Lazang Khan in Tibet. After the Battle of Damu, the Dzungar army captured Lhasa, and Razang Khan was killed in battle. The invasion of Tibet by the Dzungar forces posed a threat to the frontier security of the Qing Dynasty.

As the war progressed, Emperor Kangxi gradually learned that the Dzungars had come to attack Lazang Khan, but he overestimated Lazang Khan's combat capabilities. When Lazang Khan fought with the Dzungar army, he reported the battle situation to the Kangxi Emperor, and after the Kangxi Emperor received the battle situation reported to him by the Lazang Khan, he was optimistic about the victory of the Lazang Khan army, believing that the situation was improving. However, the Kangxi Emperor ignored the centrifugal tendency of the Tibetan monks and laymen caused by the unauthorized abolition of the ******** lama by Lazang Khan, and underestimated the number and combat effectiveness of the Dzungar army, and the situation of Lazang Khan was not improving but deteriorating rapidly. Because Emperor Kangxi overestimated the strength of Lazang Khan, he did not send troops to rescue in time, which accelerated the fall of Lazang Khan.

Emperor Kangxi originally intended for the Qinghai Mongols to come to the aid of Lazang Khan, and at the same time informed the Qing troops stationed outside the border that they would protect their pastures, wives and children, and would serve as their backup. However, due to the contradictions with Lazang Khan and the contradictions within itself, Qinghai Mongolia did not send reinforcements, but sat back and watched Lazang Khan be wiped out by the Dzungars.

In the first month of the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi, Errent and the guard Azitu received a report from the envoy of Lazang Khan: "Today, Lazang is now holding on to the land of Potala." In February, the Qing court received another urgent letter from Razang Khan: "The ministers have received the grace of the holy lord Hong, and they have no intention of going against the evil and rebellious Alabutan sent 6,000 troops to fight with our Tubert soldiers for several months, although there was no victory, and the enemy soldiers returned to Zhao. The minister is now leading troops to guard the recruiting land, but there are few Tubert soldiers, which is very worrying. If the Kamu, Wei, and Tibetan lands are taken away, the Yellow Sect will be wiped out. For this reason, I beg the emperor to send rescue troops and Qinghai soldiers as soon as possible. By this time, it had been nearly four months since Razang Khan was killed.

After receiving the distress letter from Lazang Khan, Emperor Kangxi sensed that something was wrong, and immediately ordered Xining, Songpan, Dajian Lu, Kasi and other places to prepare soldiers and horses, and called the soldiers of Yang Rusong, the Tusi of Taozhou. At the same time, he ordered the guard Seleng and the scholar Cha Lihun to select a total of 1,400 Manchurian soldiers, green battalion soldiers, and Tusi soldiers from Xining, and discuss with the king of Qinghai and Taiji. However, just two days after this rescue decision was made, the Qing court learned of the rumors of the death of Lazang Khan, and the Kangxi Emperor believed that before the invasion of Tibet by Dace Lingdun Dobu and others, he had ordered the Dzungar army to be stationed on the spot after eliminating Lazang Khan, and he himself had the intention of going to Tibet, so he quickly made a strategic adjustment and canceled the plan to attack Ili with troops in the northwest in order to concentrate on attacking the Dzungar army in Tibet.

Although this time Emperor Kangxi showed a posture of being full of ambition and determined to win. However, what Emperor Kangxi got was an unprecedented fiasco.

Just when the imperial court invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in Tibet, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake occurred in Tongwei, Gansu Province, and landslides and houses collapsed in the Tongwei and Gangu areas of the extreme earthquake area. The northeast corner of Tongwei County is flat and cracked, with yellow sand and black mud, the city wall collapses, and Maojia Mountain outside the city collapses. The government offices and houses collapsed. Gangu County moved south from the north to the south, destroying thousands of houses. In the villages northwest of the city, all the livestock were crushed to death. The hard-hit areas include more than 10 counties and cities such as Jingning, Zhuanglang and Qin'an. The earthquake affected Shanxi, Ningxia, Henan and other provinces. More than 40,000 people died and more than 30,000 were injured in the earthquake.

At such a time of natural and man-made disasters, no one can still sit in the court and talk about the establishment of the prince, and all forces invariably want to seek a merit under such an opportunity to impress Emperor Kangxi, and at the same time strive for more favorable political support for their side.

Yin Zhen naturally will not let go of such an opportunity, at this time, in addition to Nian Qianyao, a fierce general, he also gathered a group of capable ministers represented by Tian Wenjing, and constantly put forward the idea of rectifying the accumulated habits to Kangxi.

As a result of years of appeasement, local officials have become corrupt and unstoppable, and with frequent natural disasters and perennial wars, the deficit in the treasury has always been very strict. At the suggestion of Tian Wenjing, Yinzhen took over the important task of rectifying the deficit of officials and investigating corruption. As long as you think about it, you can know that this matter is tantamount to being an enemy of the Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military, and most of the support of the Eight Masters Party is the result of Yinzhen taking money to open the way, so it is natural to attack Yinzhen with this matter, and unite more closely to try to influence Kangxi's thoughts, which is undoubtedly worse for Yinzhen's situation.

I have tried to persuade Yinzhen to think carefully, but Yinzhen stubbornly believes that the emperor is worried about money at the moment, at this time the rectification of the government and urging the deficit will definitely be able to get the emperor's support, it is the best time to meet rarely, although it will make it more difficult for yourself, but it is a major event for the benefit of the country and the people in the community, and you should not give up such a good opportunity with personal interests.

Yinzhen is stubborn, but it is precisely this that makes me more and more determined that it is right to let him sit in that position. He did not hesitate to put himself on the cusp for the sake of the country and the people, so what does it matter if I make some sacrifices to support and help him.

So in this way, under the strong impetus of Yinzhen, the matter of rectifying the deficit of officials in various state governments was launched, which caused an uproar in the court and local resistance emerged one after another. One of the most serious cases was that Gao Chengbiao, the chief military officer of Nanyang, Henan Province, ordered soldiers, because the local officials investigated gamblers and others, went to the prefect's office to quarrel, and carried the prefect Shen Chao to the teaching ground to besiege and humiliate him, and guarded him for three days. In this regard, the governor immediately heard about it, and Yang Rugu, the imperial historian, also immediately inscribed. Emperor Kangxi's order and punishment department secretary Zhang Tingshu and cabinet scholar Gao Qizhuo went to inspect and interrogate. On July 27, Emperor Kangxi instructed Ding Ding, a pacesetter in Nanyang Town, to make trouble: It is rumored that these people are all pretending to be battalion soldiers and colluding with two or three hundred people to deceive the people, not only in Henan Province, but also in other provinces. He ordered all provinces to strictly investigate, and Jiuqing and others discussed the ban on the treaty. On 19 August, it was decreed that if a battalion soldier disturbs the people and hostages the officer, the pretending soldiers will be punished according to the law of being a single person, and the soldiers of the food and rations will also be punished according to this rule. The officer in charge was dismissed, and the concurrently under the jurisdiction, the commander, the commander, and the chief military officer were demoted and transferred respectively. Those who do not report the information of civil servants are demoted and retained.

Facts have proved that Yinzhen's decision is also right, although he has made countless enemies in the DPRK and China in this matter, but with the fall of corrupt officials in various places, he secretly inserted his own people and quickly gathered his own forces. not only got acquainted with Li Wei, who was a member of the military department at the time, but also won the recognition and support of other Qingliu in the DPRK and China. (To be continued.) )