Not long ago, he was rich in luxuries and surrounded by beautiful women, not much worse than the emperor. But now he lives alone in a cold kiln with broken tiles, eating humble meals and wearing a yellow jacket.
The gate he saw was not a bustling place in Hangzhou, but a small castle outside Hangzhou, perhaps a beacon tower.
There are few people around, only a little shepherd boy who often comes here to graze. He is young, only ten years old, and Nian Gengyao is an old friend.
On this day, Nian Gengyao played chess with him for a while. As a scholar, he lost to the young shepherd boy.
Yongzheng decreed that Nian Gengyao should be put to death.
Li Wei came to carry out the will of Yongzheng.
Li Wei and Nian Gengyao were both students before Yongzheng, and Li Wei worked under Nian Gengyao.
The feelings of two people are extraordinary, but who would have thought that one of them was the executioner and the other was the prisoner.
It should have been a long time since they met, so Nian Gengyao Li See Wei Lai knew that their time was up and cried.
Li Wei didn't say much, and faithfully performed his duties.
The little shepherd boy has run away.
He probably didn't know until he grew up that this middle-aged man who lost to himself at chess was one of the best generals in the Qing Empire and was once a red man in Yong Zhengdi.
What he didn't expect was that the last game of chess revealed many helplessness and resentment in Nian Gengyao's heart.
Nian Gengyao's loss to the little shepherd boy at chess has two meanings.
1 building, the shepherd boy represents the villain and loses to him at chess. Nian Gengyao thought he was hurt by a villain.
After the northwest counter-insurgency, Nian Gengyao can be said to have made great contributions to Yongzheng, but before Yongzheng was demolished, the ministers of the DPRK began to attack Nian Gengyao in succession.
At first, what these people said was reasonable, arrogant and corrupt.
However, some of them were deliberately planted.
For example, some ministers think that the death of the Queen Mother is Nian Gengyao's panic.
So Yongzheng was very angry and thought it was unreasonable.
At this point, ministers who want to kill Nian Gengyao, just like decent Wulin people in Jin Yong's novels, pretend to be decent, but what they do has no morality at all, and the benevolence taught by saints has long been thrown outside the cloud nine.
Without these little people, Nian Gengyao would not be demoted to death.
The second meaning, he thinks that Yongzheng boy is not enough.
Ministers impeached Nian Gengyao and Nian Gengyao made a mistake, but at the same time, these ministers hoped to influence the situation and control Yongzheng.
When Yongzheng first became emperor, the Eight Emperors tried to control Yongzheng by protecting Nuo Min, but Yongzheng was cruel at that time, apologizing to everyone, admitting his mistake and killing Nuo Min, which made the Eight Emperors fail.
However, Hachi is not the only person in North Korea who has similar ideas. For many ministers, Yong Zhengdi is unlikely to be a decisive power.
Once I have the chance, I will try to force Yongzheng to submit.
Deal with Nian Gengyao, nominally because of Nian Gengyao's mistake, in fact, they want to weaken the prestige of Yongzheng to protect their own interests.
So, after killing Nian Gengyao, Yongzheng regretted it very much, not only regretted it, but even offended all the literati in the world when the ministers jointly impeached another of his cronies, Tian Wenjing.
In fact, when Nian Gengyao was demoted to the military, Yongzheng thought he had done enough, so he was excused. After all, when ministers impeached Nian Gengyao, apart from disrespect for the emperor, the biggest stain was that Nian Gengyao embezzled more than 4 million taels of silver.
To tell the truth, Nian Gengyao is very overbearing in the northwest. Isn't that to protect Yongzheng and help him win the rebels?
As for corruption, in the Kangxi period, corruption and bribery had become the acquiescence of the court and the emperor.
So, when Wei Dongting was managing grain transportation, he earned millions of taels of silver. Kangxi knew that when Kangxi went to the south of the Yangtze River, he spent millions of taels of silver in Wei Dongting's home twice. I couldn't get the money by my own salary until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
So, when Wei Dongting turned to 13 May for help, 13 May was very surprised:
You should have made a lot of money transporting grain for so many years. Why do you need to borrow money from the state treasury?
Therefore, Nian Gengyao, a person who has made great contributions, may not be encouraged by the emperor at that time, but he will certainly understand, and Nian Gengyao's corruption in Yongzheng is very clear.
When Yongzheng was Prince Yong, Nian Gengyao prepared a birthday present for the emperor's mother, which was very valuable.
He knows very well that it must be corruption for Nian Gengyao to spend money to make such an expensive gift.
So Nian Gengyao's biggest mistake was that he should not disrespect Yongzheng.
Yongzheng thought it was enough to push Nian Gengyao to the end.
Moreover, if Nian Gengyao has been here, no matter he is an official or an ordinary soldier, or even goes back to his hometown to farm, he can be a pawn of Nian Gengyao.
After losing to the little shepherd boy at chess, Nian Gengyao gave him a copper coin, indicating that he thought he had become poor in Yongzheng's eyes and would be killed sooner or later.
At the same time, it is believed that the fundamental reason for this result is that Yongzheng failed to control the Qing Dynasty and was influenced by ministers with ulterior motives.
So, shortly after Nian Gengyao's death, the northwest garrison was attacked by rebels, and lost 0/000 tons of grain and grass/kloc-,which made Yongzheng very angry, but he had to follow the advice of the Eight Sovereigns and reward the generals who were attacked by rebels.
The situation is better than people. Although Yongzheng was tough, he had to compromise in front of the overall situation, which was the result of killing Nian Gengyao.
Fortunately, Yongzheng did not continue to make concessions, did not make concessions to the subsequent policies such as the integration of officials and gentry and the integration of grain, and initially completed the reform plan, which also made him the first model worker in the Qing Dynasty!