My father is Yongzheng, and I am Qianlong?

Chapter 445 Everyone kneels down to receive the baptism of the weapons of justice!

Fu Hai's face suddenly changed drastically, turning as white as if painted with white paint.

Xiao Chaogui, Hengwen, and other ministers who had just been actively advising against war against Korea, all had faces as pale as villainous characters on a stage, with their eyes wide open.

Hongli snorted coldly and said righteously, "I have always detested war, and the military action against the Miao region was a last resort! How could I arbitrarily launch a campaign against a vassal state because of my personal hatred?"

"If I were to use force, it would not be out of personal grudges, but rather as the will of Heaven and the sentiments of the people!"

Hongli immediately put himself in the role of a benevolent ruler who loved peace.

The princes and ministers dared not object to Hongli's narcissistic remarks.

At this point, Hongli glanced at Fuhai again: "But there are those who betray their masters for personal gain, who would love for me to become a warlike and incompetent ruler!"

"And yet they keep using a personal grudge to incite me, forcing me to act like a tyrannical ruler. Do they really think I can't see through their wicked intentions?!"

"As for the matter of my cousin Fucha Ying being beheaded, I will ask about it, but I will absolutely not raise an army to punish him and start a large-scale war without considering the people's strength."

"I have already issued an edict to my brother-in-law, Fucha Fuqing, who was sent to Korea, instructing him to question the Korean royal court on my behalf regarding this matter."

"I believe that the Joseon royal court will give me a satisfactory answer, and it will also give the people of the world a satisfactory answer!"

"And you need not worry about whether I will lose my mind because of a momentary personal grievance."

"Aren't you all well aware of how cautious I am as an emperor?"

At this moment, Hongli appeared particularly tall and upright.

Even the sentimental Neqin couldn't help but shed tears at this moment.

Marseille reacted the fastest, immediately stepping down to kneel before the court and shouting:
"Our master is indeed virtuous and wise!"

"Although I am also angry with my master for the beheading of the royal relative, why didn't I think of a way to have the royal brother-in-law punish Korea instead of sending troops?"

"This method not only upholds the dignity of the Celestial Empire, but also demonstrates the Master's seriousness regarding the matter of divine retribution!"

"With a ruler like this, the nation is fortunate, and the world is fortunate!"

Seeing this, Hongli said to Marseille, "Rise, let's end today's court affairs here."

"Whoo!"

"We, your servants, take our leave!"

"Your Majesty, please leave!"

Therefore, the princes and ministers all withdrew.

Fu Hai was also dragged by the guards to the headquarters of the Infantry Commander.

As Fu Hai was being dragged away, Heng Wen kept quietly waving his hand and shaking his head at him, signaling Fu Hai not to betray him.

Xiao Chaogui and Shen Qian also frowned deeply.

They are terrified right now.

They never expected that Hongli would directly accuse Fuhai of betraying his master for personal gain, leaving Fuhai completely bewildered and unsure how to respond. He also pinned the burning of Zhang Tingyu's bestowed garden and the false accusations of the fourteenth prince's rebellion on Fuhai.

This has made them realize very deeply that the current emperor is indeed more arrogant and domineering than the retired emperor was back then.

Because, at least when an emperor emeritus punishes someone, he will do some superficial work and find some reasons to do so.

For example, the fact that Nian Gengyao was framed and killed actually provides evidence of many of Nian Gengyao's arrogant and domineering behaviors.

But the current emperor did nothing; he simply slapped a huge label on him.

"What a formidable master! No matter what methods you use to provoke him, he won't fall for it!"

Hengwen sighed inwardly at this.

……

"How amazing Emperor Qianlong was!"

"The death of Fucha Ying, and the previous rumors of annihilating the Xu and Gahali Fucha clans, did not sway his will. Instead, he used this opportunity to achieve his own goals."

"Why bother with the nationality system? It's not worth mobilizing a large army for it. Now, let alone wiping out an entire clan, even planting spies outside the Great Wall has become much more difficult."

"The one who strikes first is actually less effective than the one who strikes later."

"And indeed, the Qing Dynasty only became more and more centralized."

The man, dressed in coarse cloth and respectfully addressed as Mr. Ziwa by acquaintances, turned green with emotion upon learning that Hongli had not launched a military campaign against Korea despite the beheading of Fucha Ying, and had even turned the tables by accusing the ministers who advocated for the campaign of war against Korea of ​​treason.

The woman with bound feet beside him, Luo Qiu, chimed in:
"He is indeed remarkable! Just as you said, he took advantage of this opportunity to replace the generals and deputy military commanders of the three northeastern provinces, and also took the opportunity to promote the nationality system, making it difficult for foreigners to cause trouble in the three northeastern provinces outside the Great Wall."

"But his fearlessness in offending the Rakshasa Kingdom, even his willingness to deliberately provoke them, is truly baffling!"

"Even the retired emperor wouldn't do this!" "Isn't he afraid of creating a lasting feud with the Rakshasa Kingdom and harming future generations?!"

Mr. Ziwa frowned, and as he spoke, his teeth began to chatter, and sweat began to bead on his forehead.

Luo Qiu took out her embroidered handkerchief and wiped his sweat with a look of heartache.

Mr. Ziwa shoved her away in a fit of anger, muttering to himself, "Why, why? He's different from other emperors. He doesn't care about the feelings of the Rakshasa Kingdom. Why is that?"

……

"I will tell you why, why our master is not afraid of offending the Rakshasa Kingdom and does not care about the Rakshasa Kingdom's feelings?"

"Because our master is well aware that whether foreign barbarians can be friendly with us, especially those ignorant and uncivilized barbarians, depends not on whether we are friendly and polite enough, but on whether we are strong enough and whether we possess many rich and prosperous lands!"

"Our greatest crime against the Russian Kingdom is not how much face we have lost or how many people we have killed, but that we did not hand over many fertile lands to them, but instead took them for ourselves."

Heilongjiang City.

Yue Zhongqi was addressing important officials in the three northeastern provinces, explaining why Emperor Hongli was not afraid of offending the Russian Empire.

Influenced by the idea of ​​seeking only temporary peace, many officials outside the Great Wall, even the Manchus, instinctively believed that maintaining friendly relations with the Russian Kingdom in the north was the long-term solution for pursuing tranquility.

Therefore, Yue Zhongqi needed to do some ideological work with these officials.

After all, not all officials fully understood that the Qing Dynasty, as an empire with abundant high-quality resources, would be coveted no matter how tolerant and friendly it was.

Zhao Hui and the others, who were sitting at the lower end of the table, nodded after hearing this.

Subsequently, Yue Zhongqi and other key Qing officials in the three northeastern provinces consistently upheld Emperor Hongli's will, unafraid of offending Russia, and even willingly offending Russia for the sake of their own Qing interests.

"Kneel down, all of you!"

Several months later, one day.

Near a government-run mine.

General Zhao Hui of Heilongjiang ordered the group of Russians to kneel down, and looking at the illegal immigrants who had been brought to the mines to work, and the miners who would rather be fugitives than be subjects of the Qing Dynasty, he said:
"Tell them, let them all see clearly, if they don't actively mine, they'll only face death!"

“We will not really wait for their country to ransom them and waste our own food.”

"They don't understand etiquette and are unwilling to work to atone for their sins, so the Great Qing can only use weapons to make them apologize and atone for their sins!"

Zhao Hui waved his hand and shouted, "Shoot!"

Then, a volley of arrows, like a dark cloud, shot towards the kneeling Rakshasa people.

These Rakshasa were hit by arrows on the spot, and each of them instantly became a hedgehog.

They were killed because they refused to actively mine.

After all, Hongli had already agreed to Yue Zhongqi's punishment policy.

The miners turned pale upon seeing this, but had no choice but to continue mining.

Pashkov, the military governor of Nerchensk in Russia, recently learned from Russians who had escaped back that the Qianlong Emperor was now implementing a nationality system, screening the nationality and identity of the people within the Qing territory, and killing and punishing a large number of illegal immigrants and those who refused to submit to the Qing.

Pashkov frowned: "The Qianlong Emperor in the south first relocated people to places like Heilongjiang, and now he is implementing a nationality system to strengthen his rule. This shows that he harbors a lot of ambition."

"Regardless of their ambitions, we should send Cossacks to punish them. These infidels are killing and punishing our people so wantonly; they simply don't respect our Rakshasa Kingdom!"

The Nerchensk district official, Chergov, put forward his opinion with a stern face.

"That's right! We should send troops to teach Nikan in the south a lesson!"

"Kill them all! Loot them all! Until they surrender!"

Other Cossack officers echoed this sentiment.

At this moment, Pashkov's face darkened, and he shouted, "Their army is vast, how can we kill them, how can we plunder them? The entire Far East has less than ten thousand people, you all know that!"

Pashkov's question silenced all the Russian civil and military officials.

"But we can't just swallow our anger like this."

“I know the strength of these Manchu soldiers very well. Their firearms are outdated, their mobilization is also outdated, and they are very suspicious of each other. The nobles generally only want to live a comfortable life inside the Great Wall. Their defense is okay, but their ability to launch large-scale expeditions is also terrible.”

"Therefore, we should primarily use diplomatic means to warn them not to challenge our bottom line, punish the officials responsible, safely return our people, and provide compensation; otherwise, once our large army arrives, it will be too late for them to regret it."

"In order to demonstrate our strength, our small number of regular troops and all the Cossacks in the border region should gather together for a drill, so that their spies can see our power."

"In addition, we contacted and bribed Mongolian princes, nobles and missionaries in Qing China, and asked them to help exaggerate the consequences of offending us."

"In short, we must keep intimidating them, making their own people panic first, so that their internal situation will fall into chaos, which will make it easier for us to achieve victory in our conquest of them!"

After Pashkov said this, he also sent his representative Ignati to Yaksa to request an audience with the Qianlong Emperor.

(End of this chapter)