Yong Zhengdi, the fifth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was the third emperor to enter the Central Plains with Beijing as his capital. The first two emperors were the emperor shunzhi and Kangxi. Yongzheng, formerly known as yongzheng emperor, was in office at 13.

Yin Zhen won the post of Jiuzi in the later period of Kangxi. After Kangxi died in Changchun Garden, Kangxi spread to Yin Zhen.

This paper analyzes the real contribution of Yongzheng in history from three aspects: politics, economy and culture.

During the Yongzheng period, in order to reform the problems left over from the late Kangxi period, a series of new policies were implemented and certain achievements were made. After the death of Yongzheng, Qianlong left a huge legacy.

Yongzheng's political achievements

1. Enhanced secret folding system

Secret folding helps the emperor to understand the social dynamics and adjust the strategy according to the dynamic development, which is conducive to stable rule. Yongzheng extended the scope of secret folding to the deployment of political envoys, provincial judges and scholars. , involving customs and habits.

2. Establish a military department

The emperor selected ministers to form a military department, which became the place where the emperor issued orders, while the ministers only conveyed the will of the emperor. The military department is the symbol of the peak of centralization, which is beneficial to the rule at that time.

3. Employment system

Yongzheng boldly used Han Chinese as officials and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility. These Han people have played a great role in the development of society, such as Li Wei, Tian Wenjing and Zhang.

4. secretly build the crown prince

In order not to happen again, Yongzheng established a secret storage method, wrote down the name of the heir to the throne and put it on the "fair and square" plaque in Gan Qing Palace, which could only be taken out after the emperor died. Since then, it has been used until the Qing Dynasty.

5. Orderly management

Yongzheng used "thunder means" to control corruption and trace the deficit of the state treasury. He plundered property when he moved, and killed his head when he moved. The repressive measures were very strict, and the official management was relatively clear for some time.

Yongzheng's military achievements

During the Yongzheng period, Nian Gengyao was appointed as a general to fight back against the northwest rebellion and defeated the 200,000 troops of Luobu Zangdan, and Qinghai was completely incorporated into the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

Yongzheng's economic achievements

1. Fire consumption goes to the public, and the money collected by fire consumption goes to the central government and is distributed by the central government, which can not only reduce the burden on the people, but also enable officials to get money to maintain honesty and avoid corruption.

2. Spread the land into acres, change the standard of taxation according to the head and the field, and count the poll tax into the field, so that people who have no land do not have to pay taxes, greatly reducing the burden on the people.

3. Officials and nobles are paid as officials. Officials, like gentry and people, have to perform military service and corvee. No one has the privilege, so as to win the hearts of the people and stabilize the rule.

Yongzheng's achievements in ethnic policy, such as the native place reform of local people, the abolition of the chieftain system and the management of school officials, can alleviate the oppression of the people to some extent.

As for Yongzheng's cultural achievements, Yongzheng, like several emperors before him, practiced cultural autocracy and founded literary inquisition. Among them, Lv Liuliang was discredited, and many of his students were implicated. At the same time, Yongzheng also respected Confucianism, especially put Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism in the first place, advocated the idea of "respecting Confucianism and attaching importance to Taoism", and used Confucianism to strengthen the rule.

Yongzheng's diplomatic achievements

Yongzheng's diplomacy is mainly based on the prohibition of the sea and self-defense. At that time, many foreigners came to China for trade and brought advanced ideas and technologies, but Yongzheng ignored them, which led to the Qing Dynasty missing a development opportunity.

In a word, history speaks highly of Yongzheng's life. He is a very diligent emperor. He was able to serve the country wholeheartedly and summed it up with a lyric of Yongzheng Dynasty: "I am dedicated to governing the country, and I am famous in history. It is hard to say."