For example, General Jiangning submitted a memorial to Emperor Yongzheng, to which Emperor Yongzheng responded with a venomous inscription: "You have no talent other than expressing gratitude. You are still very strange, pretending to be a good person, fussy, and accommodating. You are deceiving your master and stubborn, and your despicable and lowly habits have not changed in the slightest. I do not believe your lies and nonsense."
No, let me ask you, people just greeted each other and were scolded directly. It would have been fine if it was just targeted at one person, but sometimes Yongzheng would call several ministers together to scold them.
For example, in a reply to a memorial regarding a case, Yongzheng specifically requested four people to read it together. Once they arrived, he immediately started scolding them: "What are your duties? You are blind, deaf, and dead beasts!" It's hard to imagine the expressions of the four people reading the memorial together.
When Yongzheng encountered memorials he couldn't understand, he didn't tolerate them at all. He would simply ask, "Are you ill?" No wonder history says Yongzheng was moody.
[Minister: Blah blah blah, Emperor: Got it. Henan]
[I heard that Qianlong’s reply was even more powerful. When many ministers opened their letters, they saw four large characters: “Bullshit!” Zhejiang]
[But he replied to Nian Gengyao, "I really don't know how to love you."
Reply: Then according to the results of his own fortune-telling, he adopted Nian Gengyao's eldest son to Longkodo when Nian Gengyao was away.
Reply: Is this something a human would do?
Reply: Because the fortune teller said that Nian Gengyao would have his first son, and Longkodo would have three sons, but he only has two now. Tell me if both have come true.]
Kangxi scolded Ma Qi, but he still wasn't satisfied, his anger was unquenchable! He went to beat Ma Qi! Ma Qi fought back! Then he stormed off! Only someone from the Fucha family would dare to do that!
[Think about it, you only sleep four or five hours a day, and when you wake up, there are piles of memorials waiting for you to approve. As soon as you open them, the ministers talk a lot of nonsense. How can you not be angry?
Reply: But it is said that Yongzheng liked to review memorials, and he would ask his ministers to submit memorials even if there was nothing important.
Reply: It’s not that he likes to criticize, he’s a workaholic who wants to have everything under his control. He’s afraid that the minister won’t report to him about something.
Re: A controlling workaholic emperor.]
[Yongzheng was a typical person who loved someone and wanted him to live and hated someone. At the same time, he called Nian Gengyao his sweetheart and the Thirteenth Prince his big baby.
Reply: After all, there are only two big treasures in a lifetime, one is the Thirteenth Prince and the other is Hongli.
Reply: Yes, so I really don't understand why some people say that Yongzheng treated Hongli badly. Even the title of Bao is not good enough? When Hongli was a teenager, he wrote the imperial edict to magnify the light. How could he be treated well?
Reply: Old Thirteen was his lifelong treasure, and he wanted to be buried with him after he died, but Old Thirteen disagreed.]
[Yongzheng: I'm already the emperor, and I can't curse whenever I want? What's the point of being an emperor then?]
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