First, arrogance. Nian Gengyao's arrogance is getting worse and worse.

Second, form parties for personal gain. At that time, when selecting civil and military officials, priority was given to officials and soldiers recommended by Nian Gengyao, the so-called "annual election". He also rejected dissidents and appointed private individuals to form a clique headed by him, with officials from Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan as the backbone, including officials from other regions.

Third, greedy for money. Nian Gengyao took bribes and embezzled money and grain, amounting to millions of yuan.

He strategized and galloped on the battlefield. He cooperated with various armies to quell the chaos in Tibet, led the Qing army to quell the Tibetan Tenzin in Luobu, Qinghai, and made great achievements.

Nian Gengyao is arrogant because of his high work.

The rewards he received were generous enough, including the Governor of Sichuan, the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and General Fuyuan. He was also named as a Pacific Insurance, a first-class public official and a big official.

Extended data

In the first month of A.D. 1725 (the third year of Yongzheng), Yongzheng's dissatisfaction with Nian Gengyao became public. Nian Gengyao instructed Shaanxi Governor Hu to participate in Jin Nanying's performance "Shaanxi Post Road", and Yongzheng said that this was the practice of appointing private people and disorderly forming cronies in 2000, and it was not allowed to perform.

In March, the so-called "auspiciousness" of "the combination of the sun and the moon and the five-star joint beads" appeared, and the ministers congratulated them one after another. Nian Gengyao also congratulated Yongzheng for staying up all night and making great efforts. However, the handwriting in the table was scrawled, and for an instant, I mistakenly wrote "morning and evening" as "evening morning".

Yongzheng seized on this and said that Nian Gengyao was not a careless person. This time, he deliberately ignored the words "admonition in the morning and evening" in my ear. And think that this is his "self-reliance, showing disrespect", so his meritorious military service in Qinghai "is also between my permission and disapproval."

Then Yongzheng replaced officials in Sichuan and Shaanxi. First of all, Nian Gengyao's confidant Hu Jiheng was removed from his post, and Tanner, the agent of Sichuan magistrate, was transferred back to Beijing, so that he could not have an accident during his term of office. In April, Nian Gengyao was dismissed from the post of Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and was ordered to hand over the seal of General Fuyuan and transfer to General Hangzhou.

After Nian Gengyao was transferred, officials at home and abroad knew more about the situation and exposed his crimes. In the name of treating courtiers condescendingly, Yongzheng deprived Nian Gengyao of his official position, and in September of that year, he ordered Nian Gengyao to be arrested and sent to Beijing for joint trial. 1February, the court minister presented the trial results to Yongzheng, listed 92 major crimes for Nian Gengyao, and requested the establishment of standardized punishment. The charges are as follows: 5 crimes of disobedience, 9 crimes of bullying, 16 crimes of trespassing, 13 crimes of arrogance, 6 crimes of monopoly, 6 crimes of avoiding engraving, 4 crimes of maltreatment, 18 crimes of greed and 15 crimes of erosion.

Yongzheng said that more than 30 of these 92 paragraphs are to be executed and beheaded, but considering Nian Gengyao's achievements and fame, the reputation of "General Nian" is well known throughout the country. If he is punished, I'm afraid the people all over the world will not accept it. He will inevitably bear the notoriety of being ruthless and killing heroes, so he expressed pity and gave him a jail.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Nian Gengyao