There are many legends about the relationship between Liu Yong and Gan Long. For example, Liu Yong is the adopted son of the Queen Mother, so he is the adopted brother of Qianlong. There is also the legend that "Little Shenyang is a bad actor, long live Liu Yong", which has also been included in the traditional cross talk "officialdom bucket". In a word, Liu Yong is described as a character who is not afraid of the emperor and even dares to play tricks on him. Of course, these things have no basis and cannot happen. They just reflect the good wishes of the people. So, what is the relationship between Liu Yong and Gan Long in history?
Liu Yong is the son of great scholar Liu Tongxun. His early advance and retreat in officialdom was largely related to his father's experience. Liu Tongxun was the trusted minister of Emperor Qianlong, so, on the whole, Qianlong took care of Liu Yong during this period. Liu Yong was released to Anhui and Jiangsu to study politics, and both Gan Long and Gan Long gave each other poems, showing their concern and expectation. Later, Liu Yong was beheaded in the magistrate's office in Yangqu County for a successful deficit case, and Gan Long was lenient and resurrected because of Liu Tongxun.
Of course, Liu Yong, as a middleman in officialdom, attaches great importance to his relationship with Qianlong himself. In the autumn of the forty-second year of Qianlong, Liu Yong, then a scholar in Jiangsu Province, invited Emperor Qianlong to personally publish and engrave the imperial system "New Yuefu" and "Quanyun Poetry" for distribution in Jiangsu Province, and suggested that they be published and engraved in various provinces. This suggestion naturally made Emperor Qianlong feel very comfortable, and for a period of time, Liu Yong's official position also improved rapidly.
After Liu Yong entered the DPRK as an official, although he was repeatedly scolded by Emperor Qianlong for being lazy and acting strangely, his official position was still stable. It is said that when the 60-year-old Zen of Qianlong was located in Jiaqing, there was a "great treasure dispute". According to a report to the monarch by a North Korean official who attended the Zen ceremony at that time, Emperor Qianlong refused to hand over his seal when he was congratulated, so Liu Yong prevented ministers from congratulating the new emperor and went after Dabao himself.
"After a long hard work, the pawn came out with Dabao and the wedding ceremony began." If this record is true, it proves that Liu Yong still maintains a "strong and straight" style in major events, and is not blindly rigid. At the same time, it is also vaguely seen that Liu Yong, who has been in charge of the study for a long time, seems to have a closer relationship with the new country Wang Jiaqing.