In the second year of Yongzheng, Nian Qianyao, who had made meritorious contributions to the rebellion of Luobu Zang Danjin in Qinghai, entered Beijing to meet him, and at this time, in front of the gate of the capital, not only all the princes and ministers were present, but Yongzheng also ordered the local officials of various provinces to enter Beijing thousands of miles to meet the general. After returning to the palace, Yongzheng personally set up a banquet to entertain Nian Qianyao, and personally rewarded Nian Qianyao with dazzling eyes, four dragon supplements, yellow belts, gold coins, etc., and announced his achievements in public.

From the first year of Yongzheng to the second year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng gave Nian Qianyao countless treasures, as large as the dragon mink fur coat, as small as lychees, peace pills, and heart tonifying pills, which can be said to have everything, and Nian Qianyao is also a thousand thanks. In this letter of thanks, Nian Qianyao wrote that this favor award is even more embarrassing in the ordinary, and Yongzheng is the only one who will be reluctant to be a role model for the ages.

At this time, Yongzheng wanted to be an example for each other with Nian Qianyao, and the kindness received by Nian Qianyao was very rare for ancient ministers. Yongzheng even said in the recital that you are my benefactor, and I really don't know how to hurt you.

However, only a year later, the situation changed suddenly, and the impeachment of Nian Qianyao was full of twists and turns, and under the instruction of Yongzheng, the ministers listed ninety-two major crimes. In the end, Nian Qianyao was cut by Yongzheng and robbed of his title and committed suicide; his son was beheaded when he was rich; and his descendants were sent to the frontier to join the army.

So what happened between Nian Qianyao and Yongzheng? Not only Nian Qianyao's family, but even Wang Jingqi, who served as his staff, because the essay mentioned the death of the cunning rabbit and the cooking of the lackey to remind Nian Qianyao, Yongzheng also beheaded Wang Jingqi and beheaded him in accordance with the law of great disrespect.

It is said that his skull was hung in the public at Caishikou in Beijing for ten years, and his family was sent to exile. And Qian Mingshi, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, who was promoted by Nian Qianyao, was also convicted of writing poems to please Nian Qianyao, and was removed from his title and sent back to his hometown. Yongzheng personally wrote: "Famous sinners, hanging at the door of his house, every first and fifteenth day of the new year, ask the Changzhou prefect to go to his house to check whether the plaque is hanging?"

The killing of Nian's party made Yongzheng fall into the infamy of being cruel and easy to kill. So why did Yongzheng have to get rid of this favorite minister Nian Qianyao, whom he once relied on as his confidant?

There have been many theories about why Yongzheng killed Nian Qianyao. Some people say that Nian Qianyao wanted to rebel; some people say that Nian Qianyao participated in the battle for the throne between Yinzhen and his brothers, and Yongzheng did this to kill people and kill people; but there are also theories that it was because he was corrupt and domineering, so he was killed, and even Qianlong was puzzled by his own father killing Nian Qianyao, and he thought that a famous general like Nian Qianyao should stay to deal with the war in the northwest. So what is the truth of the matter?

In the sixty-first year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi died of illness in Changchun Garden in the northern suburbs, and his fourth son Yinzhen inherited the throne, and changed his name to Yongzheng the following year. It stands to reason that Yongzheng, who has just ascended the throne, should be proud, but after he really sat on the throne, Yongzheng felt that he was a real loner. It turned out that in the court, except for his uncle Long Keduo, there was no one available to him, and the Eight Kings, the opposition party in the court, had always coveted his throne. Before the throne was secured, an even greater crisis came.

One day Yongzheng was reading at night, a eunuch sent an 800 miles of urgent recital, Yongzheng opened it to see, was shocked, angry, it turned out that Qinghai broke out the Luobzang Danjin rebellion, angry, Yongzheng was even more anxious, because of improper handling, the rebellion was successful, and the territory of the Qing Dynasty would be reduced.

This is a major event to lose the ancestral inheritance, and Yongzheng will also be questioned because of his ability, and he will be seized by the Eight Kings Party and pulled him off the horse. At this time, what Yongzheng needed to do most was to solve the Qinghai problem, but now there were too few people around him to rely on, and he wondered who he should send to successfully quell the rebellion?

After thinking about it again, Yongzheng decided to use Nian Qianyao. Nian Qianyao was in the forty-eighth year of Kangxi, and when Yinzhen was crowned Prince Yong, he belonged to his disciples, and he was the old man of Yinzhen's mansion, and Nian Qianyao's sister married Yinzhen as a side blessing, so Nian Qianyao is also Yinzhen's brother-in-law, and the two know each other. After Yinzhen ascended the throne, he immediately shocked the eight kings Yinzhen through Nian Qianyao, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and stabilized the situation in the northwest.

Yongzheng once asked the office to make four treasures of agarwood, one for Prince Xiangyi, one for his uncle Long Keduo, one for Nian Qianyao, and one for himself, which shows that these three people were Yongzheng's henchmen at that time and were favored. Qinghai rebelled, and the war broke out again in the west, Yongzheng was the first to think of Nian Qianyao, and asked him to take over as the general of Fuyuan, and sit in Xining to command the counterinsurgency.

Yongzheng said to Nian Qianyao: "I handed over the soldiers and horses to you, that is, I entrusted the safety of Sheji to you, you must have thunder means, you can not have the slightest softness, you can do what you want, and you will destroy the rebels, you are my benefactor." Yongzheng not only doted on Nian Qianyao to the extreme, but also loved Nian Qianyao's sister Nian Fei.

In the first year of Yongzheng, the concubine was named the concubine. In order to repay Yongzheng's kindness, Nian Qianyao was determined to make a career, and the first thing he had to do was to establish his prestige in the Northwest Army. At that time, not only were there many factions in the DPRK and China, but among the more than 200,000 Northwest Army troops that had just been brought together, there were also many people from the Eight Princes, among whom Fu Ning'an, who controlled the grain and grass, was a faction of the Eight Princes.

In order to establish prestige in the Northwest Army, Nian Qianyao actually let Fu Ningan fall into the encirclement of the enemy. This move made the ministers of the DPRK and China impeach Nian Qianyao one after another, but Yongzheng firmly stood on Nian Qianyao's side, asking him to let go and do it, and fully supported him.

Nian Qianyao relied on iron-blooded means, and in a short period of time, he established prestige in the army. One winter, Nian Qianyao traveled, the accompanying soldiers put their hands on the handrails of the sedan chair, the snow fell, Nian Qianyao was afraid that their hands would freeze, and ordered to go in the sedan chair, which means that you take your hands down, but the soldiers heard a misunderstanding, the general asked us to go, picked up the knife and cut off their own hands, Nian Qianyao wanted to shout to stop It was too late, it can be seen that Nian Qianyao ordered the power of the order.

Nian Qianyao, the general of Fuyuan, who received the stealing order, mobilized elite troops from all over Shaanxi and Gansu and went to Qinghai to quell the rebellion of Luo Bu Wei Danjin, but when the Qing Dynasty counterinsurgency army had not yet arrived, the Luo Bu Zang Danjin rebels began to besiege Xining, but Nian Qianyao was calm, held the city with empty city plans and suspicious soldiers, and sent troops to attack the enemy camp and won a complete victory.

As soon as he came out of the division, he achieved such a big result, which made Yongzheng overjoyed, and rewarded Nian Qianyao with great gratitude, and Nian Qianyao was also grateful to Yongzheng. Every time the emperor's edict arrived, Nian Qianyao kowtowed and thanked him. The treasures and delicacies rewarded by the emperor are also specially enshrined.

One day, Yongzheng, who was reviewing the recital in the palace, heard that Nian Qianyao's wrist was injured, and immediately asked again and again in Nian Qianyao's recital, and told Nian Qianyao's father Nian Yaoling's situation in Beijing. Yongzheng also said to Nian Qianyao in the middle of the play, I miss you too.

After approving the folds, he ordered the eunuch around him to bring a box, Emperor Yongzheng commanded a few words, and let the eunuch retreat, when this box was sent from the capital to the northwest camp for thousands of miles, Nian Qianyao thought it was Yongzheng's urgent order, but he didn't expect him to open it and see that it was a fresh eggplant branch, this reward is comparable to Emperor Tang Ming for Bo Yang Guifei smiled, thousands of miles to send eggplant branches.

One day in February of the second year of Yongzheng, a good news was delivered from the battlefield in Qinghai to the hands of Yongzheng in the Forbidden City of the capital at an expedited speed of 800 miles. The great victory in Qinghai not only kept the territory of the Qing Dynasty from splitting, but also a great help to Yongzheng, who was on the throne, and at the same time could also deter the Eight Kings who were about to move. Yongzheng was excited, but it caused more rumors and laid the groundwork for the subsequent disaster.

The excited Yongzheng kept calling Nian Qianyao his benefactor, and Yongzheng also said to Nian Qianyao: "You are doing this heart, I really don't know how to hurt you, so you have the face to face the gods of heaven and earth." ”

Yongzheng not only flattered Nian Qianyao in words, but also gave Nian Qianyao supreme power. In the personnel of the four provinces of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Nian Qianyao directly intervened in the appointment, and Yongzheng, a major event in the court, also discussed with Nian Qianyao, who was far away at the border. Yongzheng also because he could pronounce his words, let him convey his will and write an edict, and Nian Qianyao became the Minister of Prime Minister's Affairs. But as everyone knows, just when Yongzheng wanted to be an example for the eternal monarchs and ministers with Nian Qianyao, he suddenly received a secret letter, and Nian Qianyao's performance disappointed him.

In the secret compromise, he reported how arrogant Nian Qianyao was in the army. It is said that Nian Qianyao arranged for more than 1,000 people to send him fresh vegetables from Sichuan every day, and when he traveled, he was followed by several carts of Chinese cabbage, and General Nian only ate a few leaves of cabbage inside; General Guangda's trip cost 20,000 taels of silver a day. Not only that, but there are more and more secret folds to impeach Nian Qianyao.

One day, Cai Ting, a subordinate who was dismissed from his official position by Nian Qianyao, sent a secret letter to Yongzheng, and when he opened it, he was even more angry. It turned out that this secret was all about reporting how Nian Qianyao was corrupt. This letter of Zen impeachment of Nian Qianyao wrote that the inscription was made up for officials, and Xie Yi received more than 400,000 taels, which means that Nian Qianyao received money to help others get promoted, which obviously belonged to buying and selling officials, and 400,000 taels was not a small number.

Yongzheng later wrote in Zhu Pi's recital: "Nian Qianyao lived up to my high expectations, acted as a prestige without authorization, opened the door to bribery, and after all kinds of behaviors were exposed, I had no choice but to enforce the law." ”

It is enough to prove that Nian Qianyao's corruption is one of the main reasons why Yongzheng killed him. When he learned that Nian Qianyao's corruption was so huge, Yongzheng's mood could be imagined. But for the sake of the example of the eternal monarchs and ministers, Yongzheng pretended not to know, but Nian Qianyao still did not relent, but intensified.

According to statistics, Nian Qianyao's corruption and bribery and erosion of money and grain amounted to millions of taels, and other valuable property was even more astonishing, just transported to the provinces for storage, there were more than 2,000 mule carts, more than 200 mule sedans, hundreds of carts, and other real estate acres are too many to count. Nian Qianyao seems to have become the number one greedy in the army. And Nian Qianyao's corruption made it impossible for Yongzheng to rectify the rule of officials, and became his biggest companion on the road to anti-corruption.

However, because the situation in the imperial court has not yet stabilized, the rebels in Qinghai have not been completely eliminated, and Nian Qianyao has just been rewarded, he is afraid that he will be said to have killed the heroes by the world. Even if Nian Qianyao's corruption made Yongzheng very unhappy, Yongzheng did not punish Nian Qianyao. But at this time, there was an incident that made Yongzheng even more taboo about Nian Qianyao.

The documents sent by Nian Qianyao to the governor and the general were originally parallel official documents, but they were arbitrarily renamed Ling Yu and used the tone of the chief to admonish his subordinates, which was tantamount to putting himself above the contempt. Even the king of the Mongolian county of Zasak, who was attached to Abao, had to bow down when he saw him. Nian Qianyao treated the imperial guards given to him by Yongzheng as slaves and followed him around.

Not only that, at that time, in the selection of civil and military officials, all those who were promoted by Nian Qianyao were given priority in the recruitment of the second department of the military department, known as the annual election. A Nian group was formed with him as the leader and Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan officials as the backbone.