In this half year, Hongli's sports talent also left a deep impression on Kangxi. Although he is only twelve years old, his quick reaction and precise demeanor are very comparable. Kangxi personally taught Hongli archery, Hongli was also really competitive, and the first time he practiced shooting, he hit five arrows in a row, Kangxi was overjoyed and gave him a yellow coat.

Hongli practiced with a musket for the first time, the teacher tied a sheep a hundred steps away, he tried to shoot for the first time, and he killed the sheep with one shot, Kangxi was very happy.

At the beginning of August, when the autumn was high and the horses were fat, my grandfather took his grandson and began to hunt. In the Yong'an Mangka paddock, Kangxi hit a bear with a musket, the bear fell to the ground for a long time, there was no movement, Kangxi thought that the bear was no longer a threat, so he ordered Hongli to step forward and shoot an arrow, so that the child won the reputation of the bear in the first round. After Hongli got on the horse, for some reason, he didn't move. Kangxi was a little unhappy in his heart. Originally, this child had always been very bold, but why was he scared after seeing the bear today? Kangxi immediately shouted: "Hongli, why don't you move forward?"

Hongli seemed to wake up at this time and urged the horse to advance. Unexpectedly, at this time, the big bear that fell to the ground suddenly turned over, stood upright, let out an angry roar from his mouth, and rushed straight to Hongli's mount. Everyone was stunned for a moment, only Kangxi reacted in time, raised his gun and fired, the bullet entered through the bear's ears, and the bear slammed into the ground like half a wall. Everyone broke out in a cold sweat.

This incident left a deep impression on Kangxi. It seems that there is a providence in the dark to bless this unusual grandson. When he returned to the tent in the evening, he said to the concubine who was accompanying him: "Hongli, this child's life is really precious, if he urges the horse to go earlier, the bear will be frightened, I don't know how big a thing will happen? This child will be more blessed than me in the future!"

After this siege, the emperor deliberately went to the Lion Garden of Rehe Ciyuan of the fourth elder brother to see Qianlong's biological mother. Somehow, Niu Hulu knelt in front of the emperor, his heart full of doubts. The old emperor ordered her to raise her head, watch carefully, and watch it for half a minute, and said as she looked: "If you are a blessed person, you are a blessed person!"

Before meeting his father-in-law this time, Niu Hulu had never been eye-catching. Having this child also failed to help her completely reverse her fate. Until more than ten years before Yongzheng ascended the throne, she was still habitually called Gege, the elder sister in Manchu.

However, Kangxi discovered the difference of this daughter-in-law, this ordinary character, in the future, as Kangxi said, became one of the most blessed queen mothers in Chinese history, with a long life and a smooth situation, enjoying honor and wealth.

Emperor Qianlong's genes are very good from his father's half. The outstanding qualities of the Aixin Jueluo family have been fully reflected in the previous emperors. Extremely high IQ, strong self-control, infinite energy, incomparably shrewd mind, and an enterprising spirit that is difficult to contain, these qualities in Qianlong should mainly be obtained from the paternal line.

What is obtained from the mother is a strong physical foundation that supports these spiritual factors. Emperor Qianlong's physique and longevity are unique among Chinese emperors. Before Qianlong, the average life expectancy of the five emperors was fifty-four years, and Qianlong lived to be eighty-nine years old, thirty-five years higher than the average age of his ancestors. Among the brothers, Qianlong also had the longest life. He had nine brothers, all of whom were different mothers from him. Among them, five people died young, and the longest surviving person was only 60 years old, but Emperor Qianlong was the only one who stood out, which cannot but be said to be related to his mother's genetic factors.

Born in a civilian family, Niu Hulu has completely preserved the strength and sturdiness of the Manchurians honed in the white mountains and black waters. There is a portrait of the elderly Niu Hulu in the picture of Cining Yanxi of the Qing Palace, and the old lady on the picture has big ears, a wide heart and a fat body. Compared with those concubines who were born into rich and noble families, Niu Hulu has a strong body and is playful and active by nature.

After Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, every time he went on a tour, he had to take the old lady with him, and she caught up with the four southern tours before her death, and she did not lag behind once. The old lady has also visited Wutai Mountain three times in her life, climbed Mount Tai three times, and also visited Songshan Mountain. As for the summer resort, I have been there countless times. A year before his death, at the age of eighty-five, he still followed Qianlong to Mount Tai and walked very well.

Yongzheng arched horses ordinarily, and often fell ill after middle age. Qianlong was born good at sports, with excellent agility and balance, all kinds of weapons, quick to get started, martial arts riding and archery, second to none among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty. He was active all his life, unhappy to live in peace, and traveled around, so much so that he was called the emperor immediately. He lived to be eighty-nine years old and never had a serious illness in his life. He reigned for sixty-four years, dealing with the recitals every day, managing everything every day, and rarely feeling tired. This is probably inherited from the mother's line.

In the sixty-first year of Kangxi, two months after Emperor Kangxi returned to Beijing from the summer resort, he suddenly collapsed and died in Changchun Garden. The reason why Kangxi called Hongli's biological mother to meet him at that time was also because of the meaning of entrustment. In the decision to pass on Yinzhen, Hongli definitely played a role. For this son, Yongzheng has a special feeling of gratitude in his heart.

Emperor Kangxi was seriously ill and knew that he could not get up again, so he summoned the old Ma Qi and said to him: "My fourth son is the most virtuous, and I will be the heir after my death." Yinzhen's second son, Hongli, has a heroic atmosphere and will be crowned the crown prince. ”

By the time Yongzheng had just succeeded to the throne, the name of the future Qianlong Emperor and his special relationship with his grandfather were already widely known throughout the country. From the time Yongzheng ascended the throne, Hongli has become the first choice of the crown prince, which is an indisputable fact. In the first year of Yongzheng, Emperor Yongzheng went to the Temple of Heaven for the first time after ascending the throne and held a ceremony to pray for the valley.

After returning to the palace, Yongzheng summoned Hongli to the Heart Cultivation Palace, gave him a piece of meat, and let him eat it, but did not say a word otherwise. Hongli silently ate this piece of meat, and the taste was very delicious, but he couldn't tell what kind of meat it was. After eating the meat, he didn't say much, and withdrew.

However, he was deeply impressed by this incident. Because before that, no matter what, his father treated him and his younger brother Hongyang equally. And this time he was only summoned alone, and it was after he had just returned from the Temple of Heaven, which obviously had a deep meaning. From that time on, the wise Hongli already knew that he was tacitly designated as the crown prince by his father.

In the sixty-first year of Kangxi, his father ascended the throne as Emperor Yongzheng. In the second year, the first year of Yongzheng, Emperor Yongzheng secretly built a reserve. Due to Hongli's combination of grace and power, and his means of being lenient and fierce, Emperor Yongzheng often assigned him as his own envoy to Beijing to do business, as well as to participate in the decision to use troops in the northwest and change the land in the southwest. Political ability allowed him to gradually gain the favor of his father.

In the fifth year of Yongzheng, Hongli married his wife Fucha. After the marriage, Hongli moved from Yuqing Palace in the Forbidden City to Ganxi No. 2. In six years, one of his concubines, the Fucha clan, gave birth to his first child, the emperor's eldest son, Yonghuang. In the eleventh year, Hongli was named Prince Heshuobao, and his residence was given the name Leshantang, and there was no palace outside.

In the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, Emperor Yongzheng died. Hongli was officially enthroned as the emperor by the prince of Mili, and at the same time, the edict ordered Prince Zhuang Yinlu, Prince Guo Yinli, and university scholars Ortai and Zhang Tingyu to be auxiliary ministers to assist the new monarch in handling government affairs.

After Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, he governed with the concept of leniency and fierceness, successively pacified Xinjiang and Mongolia, and also made Sichuan, Guizhou and other places continue to change the land and return to the stream, and the population continued to increase, breaking through the 300 million mark in the last years of Qianlong, accounting for about one-third of the world's population at that time. In the 38th year of Qianlong, he ordered the compilation of the "Siku Quanshu", which took nine years to complete, and was the largest encyclopedia in the world at that time.

At the same time, in order to crack down on his friends and strengthen his ideological control over the people, mainly the Han people, Qianlong set up a literary prison and used this to burn books to suppress the spread of anti-Qing ideas among the Han people. However, Qianlong exaggerated the seriousness of the national contradictions and struggles when the Han subjects had recognized the Qing Dynasty's rule over the whole country, miscalculated and showed oversensitivity in the decision on the prison and the ban on books. In addition, in the literary prison of the Qianlong period, it was not only the Han nationality that was targeted, but also the Manchus such as Echang among the victims.

After middle age, Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River many times, appeased the people, inspected the army, inspected water conservancy, increased the imperial examination, and exempted taxes.

Wulanala clan, Manchuria Zhenghuangqi, the daughter of Zuoling Narbu, was born in the 57th year of Kangxi, seven years younger than Hongli. During the Yongzheng period, she was selected as a show girl, and Emperor Yongzheng assigned her to Hongli as a side blessing. After Hongli ascended the throne, she was named Concubine Xian, and Qianlong was named Concubine Xian in ten years. In the thirteenth year of Qianlong, Empress Xiaoxian, the queen of Hongli, died of illness, and the back seat of the middle palace was vacant. The queen mother saw that the concubine was dignified and gracious, and had the style of motherhood, so she ordered Qianlong to establish the Wulanala clan as the queen.

Hongli could not go against the will of the empress dowager, but Empress Xiaoxian was canonized as soon as she died, and she couldn't bear it, and he didn't like Ulanala very much, so he took a compromise approach, first promoted Xian Guifei to the imperial concubine, acting as the queen, and taking charge of the six palaces. It was not until the fifteenth year of Qianlong that the ceremony of canonizing the queen was officially held.

At the age of thirty-three, the Wulanala clan was made empress, and a year and a half later, in the seventeenth year of Qianlong, the emperor's twelfth son, Yongxuan, was born. In the following year, he gave birth to the fifth daughter of the emperor, and in the twentieth year of Qianlong, he gave birth to the thirteenth son of the emperor, Yongjing. Within five years, the Ulanala clan gave birth to two boys and one girl, which is enough to show that after she established herself as the queen, she was more favored than before. So what happened later that made her fall out of favor in the Middle Palace, and even Emperor Qianlong was unwilling to be in the same cave with her after her death?

In the thirtieth year of Qianlong, Emperor Qianlong had an illness, and the two princes Yonglu and Yongqi died of illness one after another, which made him even more sad. The minister and Shen suggested that the emperor go to the south of the Yangtze River to relax, and the Qianlong Emperor respectfully invited the empress dowager to go with him, and the empress dowager suggested that the empress go with him. And it was this Jiangnan parade that made a decisive turn in the fate of the Ulanala clan.

Originally, this trip was very lively, and on the birthday of the tenth queen in early February, Emperor Qianlong also added a reward for vegetables. On the 18th, when he had breakfast, the emperor also rewarded the queen with many meals, but when she had dinner that night, the queen did not show up again, and the queen's name was also pasted in the meal book, and she was replaced by the name of the imperial concubine. Later, I learned that Qianlong had sent someone to send the queen back to Beijing by water. Soon after returning to Beijing after the southern tour, Emperor Qianlong ordered the recovery of the four treasures in the empress's hands and the reduction of her servants. By July, there were only two palace maids left under the queen, and according to the Qing palace system, there were only two palace maids in Changzai.

The queen's situation changed suddenly overnight, the world was stunned, no one knew what happened that night, about the queen in Hangzhou and Emperor Qianlong against the final abolition, the official book almost did not record, at that time later generations also deduced many versions of the emperor and queen's anti-purpose, among which the most widely circulated is the Jiangnan Hunting Beauty Theory.

After the southern tour to Hangzhou, Emperor Qianlong was obsessed with beautiful women, and even traveled in micro-clothes late at night and did not return. Out of love for the king, the queen repeatedly admonished him to no avail, but instead attracted a fierce reprimand. On the night of the queen's abolition, the two had a big quarrel, and Emperor Qianlong kicked the queen out of the door in front of the prostitute and angrily accused her of plotting rebellion;

The queen's hair was broken because during the southern tour, Emperor Qianlong not only prostituted the royal girl, but also acted with a female monk of Chang Miao'an, and was bumped into by Queen Nala, and in a fit of anger, the queen cut off her hair. And when the queen was critically ill, Emperor Qianlong ruthlessly left the queen and went to Mulan to play, and he didn't even see the last side.