In the first four years of his reign, Aisin Gioro Armadillo had no real power. After the death of Emperor Qianlong, he took power alone. Meanwhile, he hates corruption. He eliminated bureaucracy and punished corrupt officials, such as Xiao Shenyang. However, in order to maintain political stability, his anti-corruption efforts against the ruling class were limited, so that the results were not great. At the end of Jiaqing, the problem of corruption was not solved, but more serious.
During the Jiaqing period, the Qing Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline. Historians call this period "the decline of virtue", official corruption became increasingly serious, peasant uprisings such as An Baili School and Tian Li School broke out one after another, and western colonialism began to infiltrate.
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Emperor Jiaqing punished Xiao Shenyang.
On the third day of the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, Qianlong collapsed in hall of mental cultivation, the Forbidden City. In the last years of Qianlong, I was in charge. Armadillo took decisive measures to punish the powerful minister Xiao Shenyang during the funeral of Emperor Daku Ganlong. Before, Xiao Shenyang tried his best to limit Jiaqing and cultivate and appoint his cronies. Xiao Shenyang thinks he is clever, and he is self-defeating. When he was a prince, the armadillo was named Chu Jun.
Little Shenyang knew the secret, and just the day before Qianlong announced Jiaqing as the Crown Prince, he gave the Spring Festival Evening a handle, suggesting that he had the strength to support Jiaqing's succession. Jiaqing smiled on his face and hated in his heart. Jiaqing's punishment for small Shenyang was quick, clean and appropriate, and it was very successful.
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Aisingioro gala-Baidu encyclopedia