Ruyi's Rebirth: Ruyi's Disease Retreat Retreat

Chapter 221: Qianlong pardons Hongshi after ascending the throne; Qianlong, the one who betrayed his

However, Zhang Tingyu did not give Qianlong any face and repeatedly asked to retire and return home. Finally, in the 15th year of Qianlong's reign, Zhang Tingyu completely angered Qianlong and was ordered by Qianlong to be dismissed from office and his property was confiscated. Qianlong not only recovered all the treasures that Yongzheng had rewarded Zhang Tingyu with, but also cancelled the treatment of Zhang Tingyu being enshrined in the Taimiao after his death as stipulated in Yongzheng's will.

In the end, Zhang Tingyu returned to his hometown of Tongcheng, Anhui, penniless, and died in Tongcheng in a very miserable old age.

Qianlong treated Zhang Tingyu with the method of giving him a slap in the face and then a piece of candy. Zhang Tingyu was dismissed from office and his property was confiscated, which was considered a slap in the face. However, after Zhang Tingyu's death, Qianlong restored his previously cancelled treatment of being enshrined in the Taimiao, which was considered another piece of candy.

Judging from the fact that Qianlong dealt with people like Yinlu, Hongxi, Zhang Tingyu, who were favored and respected by Yongzheng, this fully demonstrates that his style was completely different from that of Yongzheng. He combined the leniency of his grandfather Kangxi and the strictness of his father Yongzheng. Of course, he dealt with these people more in order to consolidate the imperial power.

In fact, deep down in his heart, Qianlong did not really agree with his father Yongzheng. It can be seen from the fact that he immediately issued an order to pardon his third brother Hongshi after ascending the throne that he did not agree with his father Yongzheng.

Hongshi was Yongzheng's third son and actually the eldest son. Hongshi was straightforward by nature, which was incompatible with Yongzheng's rather scheming character. Therefore, Yongzheng was not very satisfied with him. After he succeeded to the throne, he skipped him directly and chose to secretly appoint Qianlong as the heir to the throne.

Yongzheng's political enemy and younger brother, the eighth uncle Yinsi, was a gentle and elegant man who treated people with kindness and delicacy. Therefore, Hongshi, who was straightforward by nature, had a closer relationship with his eighth uncle Yinsi. When Yongzheng was dealing with Yinsi, Hongshi stood up to plead for Yinsi and accused Yongzheng of treating his brothers cruelly, which angered Yongzheng.

In a rage, Yongzheng adopted Hongshi as his heir to Yinsi. Yinsi was stripped of his title, removed from the clan register and imprisoned. So Hongshi was also removed from the clan register and imprisoned. After being imprisoned for more than a year, Hongshi died of depression.

The first imperial edict issued by Qianlong after he ascended the throne was to forgive and pardon Hongshi on behalf of his father Yongzheng, and to include his identity back in the clan register.

From Qianlong's actions, it can be seen that he actually did not approve of his father Yongzheng's handling of Yinsi and other royal relatives. It's just that he was more shrewd and did not show it in front of Yongzheng like Hongshi did.

When Yongzheng dealt with Yinsi and other brothers, his sons, including Qianlong, actually did not quite agree with it. After all, Yinsi was still very popular, and Hongshi was just not cautious enough to express his dissatisfaction. Qianlong was the one who endured it and did not deny his father Yongzheng until he came to power.

In addition to pardoning Hongshi, after ascending the throne, Qianlong also pardoned Yinsi's cronies, Kangxi's tenth son Yin'e and fourteenth son Yinzhen. Both of them were close cronies of Yinsi. In particular, although Yinzhen was Yongzheng's brother from the same mother, in Kangxi's later years, Yinzhen was very competitive for the throne. Knowing that he could not succeed to the throne, Yinsi turned to fully support Yinzhen in his fight for the throne.

Therefore, Yinzhen once posed a great threat to Yongzheng's throne. If he was not Yongzheng's brother from the same mother, his fate would probably be the same as Yinsi's, and he would be tortured to death by Yongzheng.

After Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, he immediately pardoned Yin'e and Yinzhen, and conferred the title of Fuguogong on them. Later, Yinzhen was conferred the title of Xunjunwang.

Later, Qianlong issued an edict in the name of Yongzheng to pardon Kangxi's eighth son Yinsi and ninth son Yin'er, who were tortured to death, restored the clan status of Yinsi and Yin'er's descendants, and released Yin'er's eldest son Hongsheng who was imprisoned.