In the process of Yinzhen competing for the throne, the Eight Kings Party and the Fourteenth Elder Brother Party formed a friend party and became his biggest competitor, so he held the most grudge against his subordinates for forming a party, and Nian Qianyao promoted his cronies almost without concealment. The most taboo thing for Yongzheng is that the ninth son of the emperor, Yinyu, was placed under house arrest in the northwest and handed over to Nian Qianyao to manage, but Nian Qianyao played and said that Yinyu knew how to converge, which was obviously saying good things for other princes.

Although Yongzheng gave him some privileges in this regard, Nian Qianyao misunderstood Yongzheng's true intentions. If they are not liquidated as soon as possible, more misunderstood ministers will inevitably follow, and the situation will be even more serious at that time, but the time to punish Nian Qianyao has not yet come.

At that time, Nian Qianyao was the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and almost all affairs in the west were in charge of all affairs, and in fact became Yongzheng's cronies and agents on the western front, and his power position was above that of other governors. The entire northwest, even Qinghai and Tibet, were under his jurisdiction, and in the midst of Nian Qianyao's play, there was an army of the Eighteenth Route dispatched by the ministers. There are more than 36,000 people in the cavalry battalion, firearms battalion, and guard battalion alone.

Nian Qianyao held such military power in his hands, controlled the military affairs of the five provinces, and the troops with the strongest combat effectiveness in the country were all there. And after quelling the rebellion in the northwest, he still holds the seal of the general. Yongzheng's punishment of Nian Qianyao at this time may cause him to lead the elite troops to rebel and force the palace.

Yongzheng still didn't think of a way to cut last year's military power, and at this time, Nian Qianyao gave Yongzheng a dismount. It turned out that there was such a rumor circulating in the capital, saying that Yongzheng rewarded Nian Qianyao for his military exploits, and he listened to Nian Qianyao's words, what does this mean? In other words, Yongzheng has no opinion and no idea, and these words greatly hurt Yongzheng's self-esteem. These rumors made him unbearable, and finally moved his mind to get rid of Nian Qianyao.

At this time, it has been three years of Yongzheng, and the political situation has been slightly stable, with the victory of Nian Qianyao's border pass, the external troubles have been eliminated, and the Eight Kings Party led by Yinci has gradually lost power, and the imperial power has become more stable. Just as Yongzheng was meditating hard and looking for a reason to punish Nian Qianyao, Nian Qianyao himself sent the handle to Yongzheng's hands.

In February of the third year of Yongzheng, there appeared in the sky the sun and the moon are combined, the so-called auspicious of the five-star beads, the ministers congratulated, and the year of the sun and the sun were also on the congratulatory table, praising the Yongzheng long-awaited night, and making great efforts, who knew that this watch turned out to be the reason for the great disrespect of the year of the year, and the handwriting in the greeting table of the year was sloppy, and the Chaogan Xi Ti was written as the Xi Ti Chao Gan.

After Yongzheng grasped this handle, he said that Nian Qianyao was not a careless person. This time, it was he who relied on his own merits and showed disrespect, so he made war exploits in Qinghai, and it was also between what I allowed and what I didn't allow. Yongzheng compromised in this Zhu criticism and officially fired at Nian Qianyao. And just a year ago, Yongzheng had already issued a warning to Nian Qianyao.

In the second year of Yongzheng, Nian Qianyao entered Beijing to meet, on the way to Beijing, he asked the governor of Zhili, Liwa Yijun, and the governor Fan Shijie to kneel to greet him, and the secretary knelt outside the Guangning Gate, Nian Qianyao sat on the horse and passed by, without looking at it, and the princes and ministers dismounted to greet him, and he just nodded. What's more, he sat cross-legged in front of Yongzheng, without the etiquette that a courtier should have, and his attitude was very arrogant.

After Nian Qianyao returned to office after seeing His Majesty, he received an edict from Yongzheng, in which Yongzheng changed the tone of praise and praise in the past, and warned Nian Qianyao to be cautious and self-controlled. As a result, Yongzheng never expected that Nian Qianyao not only did not know how to repent, but also did not attribute the four words Chaogan Xiti to Yongzheng. The resentment that had been accumulated for many years finally broke out at this moment.

Of course, Yongzheng knew that it would not be easy to kill Nian Qianyao. So to deal with Nian Qianyao, he adopted the method of purging the periphery and creating public opinion. First, in February of the third year of Yongzheng, he hinted that the military and political dignitaries who had worked with Nian Qianyao in various places would cut off contact with Nian Qianyao, and even wrote a secret letter to inform everyone that Nian Qianyao had said bad things about them.

In April, he was relieved of his post as governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi and transferred to the post of general of Hangzhou, where he was succeeded by his subordinate Yue Zhongqi. After May, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs was encouraged to report and expose Nian Qianyao, and the officials figured out the holy will and played Nian Qianyao's various crimes one after another. In the end, under the instruction of Yongzheng, the ninety-two major sins were summed up and Nian Qianyao was punished.

Yongzheng wrote in his recital to Nian Qianyao's thanksgiving: "I am really very cold, you don't know how to thank God for this situation, if I lose you, heaven and earth will perish, if you are negative, I don't know how God will send you down?"

According to the Qing law, more than 30 of the 92 crimes committed by Nian Qianyao should be sentenced to death and beheaded. However, Yong Zhengnian's meritorious service in Nian Qianyao is outstanding, and his prestige is well known throughout the country. If he is beheaded, I am afraid that the people of the world will not be convinced, and he will inevitably bear the notoriety of being ruthless and killing heroes. So he expressed his kindness and ordered Nian Qianyao to punish himself in prison. And after Nian Qianyao's self-determination, the entire Nian family, except for Nian Qianyao's father and brother, who was deprived of official positions, all the men over the age of fifteen in the clan were exiled.

"I am such a man, such a temperament, such an emperor, if you and other ministers do not live up to me, I will not live up to you, and encourage them. "The words of such a true temperament came from Zhu Pi of Tian Wenjing, the governor of Henan, whom Yongzheng valued him.

Yongzheng is a reform strongman, he is indeed strong. Spreading the land into the mu, returning the envy to the public, setting up and raising incorruptible silver, rectifying the administration of officials, and cracking down on corruption left a relatively abundant treasury reserve and a clean and clean environment for the subsequent Qianlong Dynasty. But this is not because he was born with a love of money and a love of stealing homes.

Before Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, Kangxi had many problems left in his last years. It is undeniable that Kangxi was diligent in government and loved the people all his life, but he was determined to retreat in his later years, but under the leniency, there were many problems. In the last years of Kangxi, the gray area and bad rules were rampant, resulting in heavy consumption of the people, corruption of the rule of officials, and a serious financial deficit.

The original meaning of fire consumption was the loss of silver when it was recast by fire, and when the magistrate collected the money tax, he would collect more money and silver on the grounds of loss. Due to the perennial low income of the Qing Dynasty, fire consumption became an important gray income for officials, but there was no unified standard in various places. Although it is not legal, reality forces that if the local government has no money, it has to do things, so Kangxi also acquiesced.

Although the fire consumption was distributed through donations, gifts, and ministry fees, it still caused a deficit in the national treasury, and at the same time caused serious bribery and corruption. In the 61st year of Kangxi's reign, the household department had a deficit of more than 2.6 million taels of silver, and the local government owed more than 10 million taels. The treasury had only eight million taels of silver.

Under financial pressure, Yongzheng adopted the suggestion of Nuo Min, the governor of Shanxi, and decided to start the reform of returning envy to the public, turning gray income into regular income, prohibiting bad rules such as rituals, ministry fees, and donations, and at the same time setting up incorruptible silver to stabilize local officials and no longer collect corruption privately.

By the eighth year of Yongzheng, the national treasury of silver reached 62 million taels. The treasury is just a barometer of the country's finances, and even if it seems to be too much, it does not necessarily mean that it is good. But at that time, Yongzheng had the courage to change the problems left over from the previous dynasty, and it was worth learning to break the solid habits of thousands of years, and this had to be changed.

The last resort in reform is not only reflected in the urgent things to be done, which seems to be a drastic move, but is more the inevitable trend of historical development. For example, the reform of changing the land and returning to the stream, which was the internal requirement of the development of Chinese history to the Qing Dynasty, continued to expand outward, and in the eighteenth century, the exchange and integration of the inland and frontier regions was an inevitability. There is also the apportionment of the mu, and this reform is to abolish the poll tax that has been levied for a long time in the entire traditional Chinese society.

From the perspective of personal characteristics, Yongzheng himself has a strong sense of responsibility and mission. Yongzheng may not really realize that his father will pass on the throne to him, and he feels a great responsibility for Kangxi's entrustment. He was forty-five years old when he ascended the throne, and there was a sense of urgency that could spur him on to become one of the most diligent emperors in modern China, and his determination to reform was evident.

There is also a saying that the barbarian is only a hundred years old, which makes Yongzheng feel pressure. There was less than a hundred years of the Yuan Dynasty, and it has been seventy-nine years since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs to Yongzheng's accession to the throne, and it will be a hundred years in another twenty-one years, which may have stimulated him more and gave him a sense of responsibility.

Yongzheng expanded and perfected the system of folding and folding, which was the most direct and private way of communication between the emperor and officials. Although it existed in the Kangxi Dynasty, it was extremely developed during the Yongzheng Dynasty. Some people say that this is the world's first happy book, and I am afraid that it cannot be wrong. The system mainly expanded the emperor's sources of information, so that officials could supervise each other, and thus supervise hundreds of officials. Yongzheng can use the twists to promote his own reform policies, and even use the twists to isolate political opponents and eliminate dissent.

Through Yongzheng's performance, he made great use of talents, and his heart-to-heart exchanges with some officials were also conducive to their loyalty to me, and these people were also very capable. For example, Tian Wenjing, the governor of Henan, Zhang Tingyu, the minister of military aircraft, and Li Wei, the governor of Zhejiang, who had served the Yongwang Mansion before, were all talents he valued very much.

And when the government and the opposition are up and down, the power is vested in the emperor alone, and the minister's words and deeds seem to be under Yongzheng's observation. Since ancient times, no one can compare with Yongzheng. Yongzheng once said in the recital: "Although I have a lot of opportunities, I can still handle the minister's family affairs." ”

It is not easy to be an emperor with your heart. But does he really have time? In fact, with a series of institutional guarantees to strengthen centralized power and the support of talents, Yongzheng's life is still very tasteful and leisurely. For example, rowing in the Old Summer Palace, the supervision office made a rosewood carved nine-dragon side hook mud gold and copper gilded plaque for the Old Summer Palace, or eight or nine inches in diameter, two or three inches in diameter, a flower tube in the belly, two or three inches high, three or four inches in diameter, etc. The Emperor's life was not comparable to that of the present.

Of course, the motives and results of Yongzheng's reform are not without question. For example, is the secret reserve system really that good?

Kangxi had thirty-five sons and twenty daughters, and the so-called struggle for the heirs in Kowloon not only made the fourth master feel uneasy, but also caused a serious problem of friends, which has always plagued Emperor Kangxi. After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, he did not follow the inheritance system of the eldest son, but set up a secret prince, avoiding the distinction between the heirs and the concubines.

However, based on the emperor's opinion, he thought that whoever could could would have the possibility of inheriting the throne in the future. If Daoguang chose Yixin instead of Emperor Xianfeng, would there be no Cixi? But without Cixi, would modern Chinese history have been rewritten? History cannot be assumed.

For example, cracking down on the punter party was actually aimed at cracking down on political opponents? Yongzheng's attack on Nian Qianyao, Long Keduo, and other punter party members was aimed at striking at political opponents, because these people knew the truth about his succession to the throne? In any case, the dispute between the punists was definitely a threat to the imperial power. He wanted all people to be protégés of the Son of Heaven, even if their interests differed.