Sushun And Xianfeng Council

Under the violent impact of the national Anti-Qing Uprisings centered on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, why could the Qing Dynasty change the crisis into the safety, and avoid being overthrown? Someone had summarized Nalashi and Yixin's merits with their vitalizing the Qing Dynasty by means of appointing the Han ministers. In fact, it was Sushun killed by them that had advocated the strategy of appointing the Hans resisting the Hans, and they inherited this strategy. It was Sushun that inherited Wenqing's will, rejected the opposite opinions, appointed the Han ministers, and led the Xianfeng Emperor to accept the view. Therefore, Zeng Guofan, Hu Linyi and Zuo Zhongtang could control the political and military authorties in the localities.Sushun was finally killed, because he was lack of insight, and couldn't resist the Empress dowager royalties. People can draw lessons from his holding position and his stories.On condition that the Qing Authority was in crisis, Sushun came into power. He advocated the gap between the Mans and the Hans, and let the Han generals control the political and military authorties in the localities. In order to raise financial necessities, Sushun urged to cast coin, send out the paper money, reform the Salty Law and the Cao Yun, and reduce the Mans' salaries. It aggravated the inflation. Sushun attacked the old aristocrats of the Mans and the Hans with the strategy of strictly using the laws, in order to throw away the political obstacles. Sushun strongly urged to insist on national foreign relations. He refused Russian desire to expand territories during the territorial negotiation between China and Russia. On condition that the Qing Dynasty could't win the foreign enemies, it finally signed up the treaties unequally.After the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, Sushun dealt with the national affairs in honour of the minister to help the Emperor. In the course of his power, political situation had changed. Sushun was not aware of the varied situatian, and didn't know how to protect himself either. Therefore, he was defeated in the Qixiang Incident. Nalashi and Yixin, as the inheritants of power, killed Sushun instead of abandoning his strategy, and even more urged to appoint the Hans, so that they could develop the Qing Dynasty vigorously, which changed the political situation of the late Qing Dynasty as follows: the central authority was weakened, the local authority was enhanced, and the local governors controlled the national political and military power.We should deeply catch Sushun's experiences and lessons and how to lead to them, the change and developing tendency of the Xianfeng Dynasty, against the historical background of internal and external troubles, and connected with the uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Second Opium War. Sushun was the key person in the Xianfeng Dynasty during the period of political transition. He played the important role in promoting the course of the modern history of China.