| Summary: | 博士 === 中國文化大學 === 政治學系 === 100 === The Yongzheng Emperor is the third monarch of the Qing dynasty, whose reputation and honors he possessed are well-known to all. However, people knew the Yongzheng Emperor mostly from his negative image of implementing literary inquisition, killing meritorious courtiers, founding the Grand Council and having autarchic dominion. Passed away three hundred years ago, the Yongzheng Emperor left an unfavorable impression on people by reason of most research projects conducted with the prejudice of values arising from the contemporary opinions in the early years of the Republic of China, and such criterion of evaluation exaggerated his defects. In addition, the long-time evolution of numerous works of historical records composed in the different eras that passed through many hands have gradually created a stereotypical image of the Yongzheng Emperor as stated above. Would the truth be like that, ambiguous and disputed?
This paper is intended to explore the change of the character and role of the Yongzheng Emperor, one of the decisive figures in the political history of Qing dynasty, during the process of his pursuit of individual prospects and the development of the nation and the people through observing his sophisticated personality and ruthless individual characteristics. This paper examines his long-term accomplishments in the aspect of political innovation during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor and discovered that in the pattern of combination of morality and punishment, while the Yongzheng Emperor adopted the ruling technique of conciliatory and highhanded autarchy exercised concurrently in the society at that time, he showed his sympathy and concern for the people of the bottom layer of the society. From the viewpoint of running a country, his courage of consolidating and reorganizing court discipline and eminent art of governance had definitely a great influence on the political development of Qing dynasty.
The ultimate purpose of this paper is to detect the political innovation, influence and achievements of the Yongzheng Emperor in Qing dynasty through surveying his art of governance produced from the combination of his thought, ability and talent, personality, attitude and ambition and further to construct a model that can be interpreted according to scientific regularization to help people to realize the value of the Yongzheng Emperor’s innovation and contribution to Qing dynasty and know how to employ it to serve as reference for the present.
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