Qianlong's abdication of the matter, if it was placed thirty years ago, Qianlong himself would not take it seriously, and at that time he had already decided that Yan Yan would be the prince, just waiting for him to die, the courtiers took out the secret decree behind the Zhengda Guangming plaque, and Yan Yan would be able to ascend the throne, but who would have thought that he would not die thirty years later, and he really waited for this day.

Why can't Qianlong die?

There is a reason for this, as early as the year of Qianlong's accession to the throne, he made a wish to the previous emperors, "If you are blessed, you will have to reign for 60 years, that is, you will be the heir, and you will not dare to go to the same emperor for 61 years." ”

It means that if he can live a long life, even if he sits on the throne for sixty years and does not die, he will not dare to exceed Kangxi's sixty-one years, at that time Qianlong may just want to ask his ancestors for a long life, who would think that he really lived to such an age, this year he is eighty-five years old, and he has been on the throne for sixty years, if he wants not to let his ancestors blame, he must give way.

If this matter is Qianlong's secret, maybe there is still room for turnaround, it's a big deal that he is making a wish to his ancestors and finding a reason why he can't abdicate for the time being, such as the rampant bandits in the world, he doesn't want to leave a mess for future generations, in order to be responsible, he plans to clear the pirates first, and then abdicate.

But it is good to die or not, this matter has become a secret known to the world, because the Xiucai who met when he went to Liaodong to worship his ancestors was on the book, and the angry Qianlong announced to the world that he had already set up a prince, and swore to his ancestors that he would give way in sixty years. But this was all eighteen years ago, when he was in his sixties, and he himself didn't believe that he could still live until now.

But Qianlong not only lived to the present, but also lived a very tough life, and he didn't need anyone to help him climb the heights.

So whether to abdicate or not to abdicate is not only Qianlong's own problem, but also a problem for the people of the world. Everyone is watching whether Qianlong will abdicate and whether he will fulfill his promise to his ancestors.

Qianlong is an extremely good-looking person, and it is really too embarrassing to break his promise, not to mention that Jun has no jokes, so it is even more difficult to accept that he breaks his promise and gets fat.

In addition, the Chinese who lack natural knowledge generally believed in secret, and Qianlong also believed in secret, and he believed a lot, and even kissed the feet of the living Buddha of Mongolia with the respect of the emperor.

As a result, the closer the 60-year period approached, Qianlong found that his world was more and more eventful, not to mention the rampant bandits, and also made natural disasters at every turn, and the Chinese literati had instilled such a logic in the world for thousands of years, that is, natural disasters must be a warning from God to those in power, and Qianlong could not help but feel that this was a warning from God, let him fulfill his promise, and not occupy the throne.

Especially on the first day of the 60th New Year, that is, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, there was a solar eclipse in Beijing, so the emperor's sons and grandsons paid New Year's greetings to the emperor before the second day of the new year, and this solar eclipse also put a lot of pressure on Qianlong.

Abdication or not, this question has been entangled in Qianlong for several years, in fact, even if he does not abdicate, no one can shake his position, and the political habits formed in the 60 years of being in power will allow him to sit on the throne peacefully until death. He carefully selected Yan Yan is a low-key and even weak prince, who will not pose any threat to him, and has been detained in the palace by Qianlong for a long time, so he has no chance to collude with the officials at all, and will not have the strength to force the palace.

But Qianlong was worried about the blame of his ancestors, and on the other hand, he was worried that the world would laugh at him, and after a complicated mental journey, Qianlong still decided to abdicate, but the emperor could not be improper, and the power could not be put down.

This is not that Qianlong's desire for power is strong, but mainly because he is worried about his situation after abdication, in history, because of the loss of power caused by too many tragedies, he can not accept the tragedy of King Zhao Wuling being starved to death, and Tang Gaozu is not acceptable to the end of being raised by his son in captivity to death.

In fact, the corruption of Fujian officials has not been a year or two, but a disaster has been a disaster for a long time. This was already the case more than 20 years ago, and the Qianlong Chawulana case can even be traced back to more than ten years ago when Fu Lehun was the governor.

Can Qianlong not know these situations, He Shen is the biggest corrupt official in the world, and he also let He Shen be both the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Households, Wu Lana was impeached a few years ago for corruption, but last year Qianlong still accepted Wu Lana's tribute, and as many as eleven times, all of which were handled by He Shen.

Qianlong even agreed with He Shen's suggestion of the atonement silver, because the atonement silver went directly into the internal affairs office, which was equivalent to turning the criminal officials of the world into the emperor's financial resources, which was equivalent to indirectly encouraging crime, and corruption was not afraid, as long as there was enough money to atone for the crime, so it was not that you could not be greedy, but that you should be greedy. Qianlong has done this kind of thing, saying that he is an emperor who does not rub sand in his eyes and cannot see corruption, probably has no credibility.

Qianlong accepted the tribute of the world's officials without moderation, has reached the level of madness, about tribute, the Qing Dynasty has regulations, only the governors have the right to pay tribute, as a channel between the governor and the emperor to contact the feelings, and do not pursue value, and in order to avoid causing a burden to the locality, but also strictly control the number of attacks, every year is limited to the winter solstice, Mid-Autumn Festival, and the emperor's birthday, only allowed to pay tribute, called the three festivals. In Qianlong's later years, under the auspices of He Shen, these rules were all broken. The local political envoys, envoys and even the inner court Hanlin in Beijing also began to pay tribute, and Qianlong did not refuse to come, knowing that he was not in harmony with the rules, but he never corrected it.

The local officials saw the doorway, and in order to curry favor with the emperor, they didn't care about the restriction of three festivals a year. In addition to the three major festivals, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Shangyuan Festival, and the Double Ninth Festival, the ministers are enthusiastic to pay tribute. In addition, the ministers used their brains to create countless new names for tribute: the emperor went out on tour, passed through the place, and the ministers greeted the tribute, called "Yingluan tribute". The emperor went to Rehe every year to escape the summer, and the ministers paid tribute, called "Mulan Gong". The ministers went to Beijing to meet the emperor, and the tribute they offered was called "Your Majesty's Tribute". The emperor promoted Jia'en, and the tribute he offered was called "Thanksgiving Gong...... Sometimes, the emperor wanted something, but there was really no excuse, so he simply called it "pass on the tribute".

Qianlong made a 41-year tour of the east, and the magistrate welcomed Luan's tribute. However, Yingluan tribute was previously limited to officials in the places they passed, but this time, the governors and officials of Huguang and Guangdong all traveled thousands of miles to offer a large amount of property, which was completely out of order, and Qianlong also accepted all the orders, and also praised the filial piety of these governors.

Moreover, Qianlong's request for tribute is no longer like the Kangxi Yongzheng period, but only a symbolic interaction with the locality, and Kangxi Yongzheng's tribute to the local governor is often returned more, in order to show the emperor's gift. But Qianlong had no worries, and asked for tribute to be exquisite. He even specially instructed the Guangdong Customs to let them purchase tribute gifts and not save money. Overseas pearls, tortoiseshells, and ivory gems were sent to the palace one by one. But the Guangdong Customs would never pay this money, and in the end, it was the thirteen merchants who came out. The name is called Banggong, which means to help the governor complete the tribute.

It is impossible for Qianlong not to know these circumstances, because the governor of Yunnan negotiated the tribute to the downward, the governor had a showdown with the officials, and the officials had a showdown with the merchants, and in the end all the people at the bottom paid the bill, and even caused turmoil, and finally Qianlong ordered the investigation, and the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Hengwen, was raided, and then found that the tribute he paid to the emperor was only a small part of what he looted.

Qianlong knew these situations, but he knew that he just couldn't restrain himself.

There is a saying in later generations that the root cause of the frequent corruption cases in the Qianlong Dynasty was that Qianlong himself was greedy, causing the local officials to extort money in the name of paying tribute to Qianlong. In fact, the reason is very simple, it is an economic phenomenon, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, all countries will have such a stage when the economy is at a high point, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, and the government is corrupt.

The same is true in the late Qianlong period, as the population reached the top of Chinese history, after reaching a population of 400 million, the agricultural economy based on this entered the peak, the handicraft industry also reached a high level, the gap between the rich and the poor, and the corruption of officials, this is a normal phenomenon, and there are few major corruption cases in the early days of each dynasty.

So Qianlong himself knows that local officials are greedy, but Qianlong is not a person who is extremely concerned about this kind of thing like Yongzheng, he is the kind of casual and indulgent person, who likes to do things as he wants, and has a bit of an ancestral style, and the reason why he wants to punish Wu Lana is just because he wants to establish authority.

Before he gives way, he wants to let the governor of the world see that his killing is decisive! After the establishment of the power was completed, he announced that he would abdicate and supervise the world, and sure enough, everyone expressed their allegiance. After all, giving way is a matter of the future, and whoever is not well-behaved at this time has to think about the ending of Woolana.

The governor of the world wrote a letter to retain, which was also what Qianlong wanted, and he took the opportunity to announce that he was not ignorant of things, and that ordinary affairs would be handled by the emperor in the future, and major matters would still be decided by him, the emperor; If he made an order to abdicate, the governors of the world wrote to praise him for his high style and bright manners, so that Qianlong had no way to answer. The governors of the world have written to save them, which created momentum for Qianlong to continue to seize power.

Judging from these means, Qianlong is still quite politically skillful, but he did not devote his heart to governing the country.

Zhou Lang was just a little puzzled, why Taiwan was in turmoil like that, Zhangquan and Fuzhou were all occupied by Zhou Lang, and Qianlong still had the heart to play these tricks.

However, Zhou Lang's actions in Fujian may not have been known before Qianlong, according to time calculations, he only received news from Beijing on the third day after entering Fuzhou, the Manchu post station has not yet been abolished, hurry up, and the news can be sent from Beijing to Guangzhou in 18 days, and the time to Fuzhou will be shorter, calculate the time, the time when Qianlong publicly abdicated was probably when Zhou Lang attacked Zhangzhou.

Even if Qianlong didn't know about Zhou Lang's big action in Fujian, but the whole of Taiwan was lost, Qianlong could ignore it, and this heart was big enough.

Zhou Lang found that he had a little thought of Qianlong before, and he also looked down on Qianlong.