Emperor Qianlong's dynasty, there are a lot of things, even more than the Kangxi Dynasty, the frontier can be described as "chaotic coaxing, you sing and I will appear".

We all know that Qianlong favored He Shen in his later years, but we will leave the content of He Shen to be discussed separately later. In Qianlong's later years, a variety of measures were unsatisfactory, and even this dissatisfaction was more than the evaluation of the measures taken before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's "Luntai Guilty Edict".

But I have to say that in the early days of the Qianlong Dynasty, he was actually very energetic, and his employment and control were also above Yongzheng.

He did a lot of measures to make up for his father's sins (in fact, it is also possible that Yongzheng specially left Qianlong to win people's hearts). First of all, he released Yue Zhongqi and the fourteenth son of the emperor, Yinyu. Wang Shijun, who also strictly dealt with the accumulation of money that Yongzheng had wrongly reused before, also explicitly reprimanded the long-deceased cool official Tian Wenjing, saying that Tian Wenjing, as a governor, was "harsh on searching, and the officials competed for exploitation, and the people of Henan suffered from it."

Shi Yizhi, who had always opposed Tian Wenjing's harsh government, was directly promoted to the governor of Huguang by Hongli, and then successively transferred to the Ministry of Industry, the Criminal Department, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials and the Governor of Zhili, and when Qianlong was nine years old, he was further appointed as a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion.

In fact, in the Yongzheng court, there was no one who dared to speak or could speak, Qianlong specially recalled the former criminal department and household servant Sun Jiagan, who had been demoted to "Hubu Yinku Walking" and "Acting Hedong Salt Administration" because he was too straightforward, and let him still be a servant of the Ministry of Officials, and concurrently serve as the imperial history of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Sun Jiagan is not a person who does nothing, he can be described as a famous minister of the Manchu Dynasty, a rare talent. He once left an immortal note, and we mentioned it when discussing Kangxi's employment earlier, which said how a gentleman can beware of villains and get close to gentlemen. "The villain and the gentleman retreat, without him, use talent instead of virtue, so also. The virtuous person is the only one who is a gentleman, and the gentleman and the villain are together, and the villain wins. The language is right, the gentleman is arrogant and the villain is vain, and he is accustomed to the eyes of the (human king). ……”

It stands to reason that a monarch like Qianlong should be furious when he sees such a concerto, thinking that he is ridiculing himself, but as we said earlier, Hongli at this time is actually quite vibrant, not only is he not angry, but he declares it inside and outside. After that, he was directly transferred to Sun Jiagan as the governor of Zhili, and was in charge of the river, and was transferred to the governor of Huguang, although he was demoted to the governor of Jiangxi in the eighth year of Qianlong, but only a year later, he was promoted to the left deputy capital of the imperial history, the military department of the squire, the Ministry of Engineering, the head of the Hanlin Academy, the secretary of the department, and the "co-organizer of the university".

Sun Jiagan's reputation is very famous among the people, quite straightforward, to what extent, in the fourth year of Qianlong, someone used his name to write a memo to impeach Ortai and Zhang Tingyu, and in the sixteenth year of Qianlong, someone used his reputation to write that Qianlong had "five incomprehensible and ten transgressions", and Qianlong refused to blame Sun Jiagan.

Xie Jishi, who was imprisoned for opposing Cheng and Zhu Lixue and angering Yongzheng, recalled him from the place where he was confiscated after Qianlong ascended the throne, and still let him be the imperial history. Subsequently, he was appointed as the "Hunan Post Supervisor", and in the eighth year of Qianlong, he was referred to a book saying that he was deviant, and Qianlong said that "I do not sinner people with words and writing".

Qianlong could indeed be regarded as a virtuous lord at that time, compared to those monarchs in the middle and late Ming Dynasty (Xianzong, Wuzong, Shizong, Shenzong, etc.), it can be described as crushing.

As for the officials, especially the imperial history, they have always had a right, that is, "rumors and rumors", that is, they do not need to have real evidence to impeach others, and they believe that the collection of evidence is the responsibility of the judicial organs, not the responsibility of the supervisory organs, which is called "inference of guilt" in the current law, which is absolutely not allowed, because it is too easy to have unjust, false and wrongful cases.

At that time, there was a scholar Zhao Guolin, who was annoyed by the impeachment of the imperial history, and a fire of ignorance came up, and complained to Qianlong: Such an imperial history should be punished! As a result, Qianlong not only did not punish him, but was promoted to the official of the imperial history.

From this point of view, in the early stage of the Qianlong Dynasty, the state apparatus and governing ability were quite good, and then it was time to deal with the problem of the frontier, and it was also a situation of chaos.