Gaozong Emperor (高宗)

Overview

Gaozong Emperor was a ruler.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Regnal name	Qianlong	乾隆	Qianlong

Life and dates

Death

AD 1799 四年正月
From Source Date: Text: 四年正月 · Regnal Year: 4 · Month: 1 · Western Year: AD 1799
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 319, passage 87

Attested activity

AD 1795 乾隆六十年九月
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 319, passage 88
AD 1799 四年正月
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 319, passage 87
AD 1795 to AD 1799 高宗朝至四年正月崩
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 319, passages 70, 80, 87

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Jiaqing Emperor (嘉慶帝)
late father 皇考
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 319, passages 88, 93, 97

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 319, passage 70

Events and relationships

Checked
Political · Authority · With Heshen (和珅)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 319, passage 85
Wished to make grand secretary
Appointment · Authority · With Zhu Gui (硃珪)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 319, passage 80

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 319, passage 70

References in the histories

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 319Volume 319 Biographies 106: Yu Minzhong, He Shen Son: Feng Shenyinde, Younger Brother: He Lin, Su Linga · 11 passages

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和珅柄政久，善伺高宗意，因以弄竊作威福，不附己者，伺隙激上怒陷之； He Shen had held power for a long time. Skilled at reading the Gaozong Emperor's wishes, he wielded usurped authority and acted with arbitrary power. Those who would not attach themselves to him he watched for an opening to rouse the emperor's anger and bring them down;

硃珪舊為仁宗傅，在兩廣總督任，高宗欲召為大學士，和珅忌其進用，密取仁宗賀詩白高宗，指為市恩。 Zhu Gui had formerly been tutor to the Jiaqing Emperor. While serving as governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Gaozong Emperor wished to summon him as grand secretary. He Shen envied his advancement, secretly took the Jiaqing Emperor's congratulatory poem and showed it to Gaozong, accusing Zhu of currying favor.

高宗大怒，賴董誥諫免； Gaozong was greatly enraged, and only Dong Gao's remonstrance saved Zhu from punishment;

高宗雖遇事裁抑，和珅巧彌縫，不悛益恣。 Though Gaozong checked him when matters arose, He Shen cleverly patched things over and, undisciplined, grew ever more wanton.

仁宗自在潛邸知其奸，及即位，以高宗春秋高，不欲遽發，仍優容之。 The Jiaqing Emperor had known his treachery from his time as heir apparent. Upon ascending the throne, because Gaozong was advanced in years he did not wish to act rashly and still treated him with forbearance.

四年正月，高宗崩，給事中王念孫首劾其不法狀，仁宗即以宣遺詔日傳旨逮治，命王大臣會鞫，俱得實。 In the first month of the fourth year Gaozong died. Supervising Secretary Wang Niansun was the first to impeach He Shen's unlawful conduct. On the very day the mourning edict was proclaimed, the Jiaqing Emperor issued orders for his arrest and trial. Princes and ministers jointly investigated, and all charges were verified.

詔宣布和珅罪狀，略曰：「朕於乾隆六十年九月初三日，蒙皇考冊封皇太子，尚未宣布，和珅於初二日在朕前先遞如意，以擁戴自居，大罪一。 An edict announced He Shen's crimes, stating in part: "On the third day of the ninth month of Qianlong 60 I received my late father's investiture as crown prince, though it had not yet been publicly announced. On the second, He Shen ahead of me presented a ruyi scepter, taking the posture of one who had aided my accession—first great crime.

皇考聖躬不豫，和珅毫無憂慼，談笑如常，大罪六。 When my late father's sacred person was unwell, He Shen showed no sorrow and joked and laughed as usual—sixth great crime.

皇考力疾批答章奏，字跡間有未真，和珅輒謂不如撕去另擬，大罪七。 My late father, straining despite illness to approve memorials, sometimes wrote imperfectly. He Shen would say it would be better to tear them up and redraft—seventh great crime.

皇考升遐後，朕諭蒙古王公未出痘者不必來京，和珅擅令已、未出痘者俱不必來，大罪十。 After my late father passed away, I ordered that Mongol princes who had not had smallpox need not come to the capital. He Shen on his own authority ordered that both those who had and had not had smallpox need not come—tenth great crime.

五十年，自吏部員外郎超擢，歷兵、工、戶三部侍郎。 In Qianlong 50, from a department vice director in the Ministry of Personnel he was exceptionally promoted and served successively as vice minister in the Ministries of War, Works, and Revenue.