The Yongzheng Emperor — Qing Shizong
Ascendió al trono bajo una nube permanente de rumores sobre cómo, y luego gobernó más duro que el emperador anterior a él o el siguiente: los impuestos de tierra y cabeza se fusionaron, los recargos provinciales se pusieron al descubierto, se creó el Gran Consejo, y se ideó un sistema de sucesión secreta para que nadie tuviera que luchar por el trono nuevamente.
雍正帝 · 清世宗
“Thirteen years of work that paid for his father's reign and his son's”
He came to the throne under a permanent cloud of rumour about how, and then governed harder than either the emperor before him or the one after: the land and head taxes merged, provincial surcharges brought into the open, the Grand Council created, and a secret-succession system devised so that no one would have to fight over the throne again.
He read memorials until two in the morning and annotated them in red at extraordinary length; a great deal of what we know about eighteenth-century China comes from those notes.
Empress Xiaojingxian, his wife of nearly forty years, died in 1731 and he was too ill to attend the funeral.
The empress of this reign
Painted on silk in gemstone mineral pigments by Xiang Li.
About this page
Written for this site to place Yongzheng's reign around the paintings. For the full biography, the dynastic histories and the scholarship behind them, start at Wikipedia.
Every Qing emperor
| Reign | Emperor | Painted empresses |
|---|---|---|
| 1616 – 1626 | Nurhaci 清太祖 Nurhaci 努爾哈赤 / 努尔哈赤 | |
| 1626 – 1643 | Hong Taiji 清太宗 Hong Taiji 皇太極 / 皇太极 | |
| 1643 – 1661 | Shunzhi 順治帝 · 清世祖 / 顺治帝 · 清世祖 Fulin 福臨 / 福临 | |
| 1661 – 1722 | Kangxi 康熙帝 · 清聖祖 / 康熙帝 · 清圣祖 Xuanye 玄燁 / 玄烨 | |
| 1722 – 1735 | Yongzheng 雍正帝 · 清世宗 Yinzhen 胤禛 | |
| 1735 – 1796 | Qianlong 乾隆帝 · 清高宗 Hongli 弘曆 / 弘历 | |
| 1796 – 1820 | Jiaqing 嘉慶帝 · 清仁宗 / 嘉庆帝 · 清仁宗 Yongyan 顒琰 / 颙琰 | |
| 1820 – 1850 | Daoguang 道光帝 · 清宣宗 Minning 旻寧 / 旻宁 | |
| 1850 – 1861 | Xianfeng 咸豐帝 · 清文宗 / 咸丰帝 · 清文宗 Yizhu 奕詝 | |
| 1861 – 1875 | Tongzhi 同治帝 · 清穆宗 Zaichun 載淳 / 载淳 | |
| 1875 – 1908 | Guangxu 光緒帝 · 清德宗 / 光绪帝 · 清德宗 Zaitian 載湉 / 载湉 | |
| 1908 – 1912 | Puyi 宣統帝 / 宣统帝 Puyi 溥儀 / 溥仪 |