One day in 1688 AD, the moon was still high in the sky, and the Yangxin Hall in the Forbidden City shrouded in night was already as lively as ever: Emperor Yongzheng got up. According to records, Emperor Yongzheng got up at two o'clock every morning to read and approve memorials,

One day in 1688 AD, the moon was still high in the sky, and the Yangxin Hall in the Forbidden City shrouded in night was already as lively as ever: Emperor Yongzheng got up. According to records, Emperor Yongzheng got up at 2 a.m. every day to read and approve memorials, held a meeting of military ministers at 3:30 a.m., and went to court at 6 a.m. After that, apart from eating, he spent the rest of the time in the Yangxin Hall to handle official business until 10 p.m. go to sleep. Emperor Yongzheng was a diligent emperor unparalleled in Chinese history. He reviewed a large number of memorials every day, ranging from ten or twenty to thirty or forty. During his thirteen years in office, he insisted on personally reviewing memorials every day. Some of the comments on tens of thousands of preserved memorials even amounted to more than a thousand words. He claimed that he "has no shame in admiring heaven and earth, and praises and criticizes in his own way."

As long as a person pays, people will not forget him. Just like Emperor Yongzheng, although the evaluation of him in history was mostly negative, with the passage of time and the development of history, people gradually recognized the true side of Emperor Yongzheng. Now we can basically treat him from a fair and just perspective, and we still give him great recognition for his efforts. It was Emperor Yongzheng's series of social reforms and political activities such as punishing corruption, rectifying finances, suppressing rebellions, and being diligent in political affairs that played a key role in the continuous development of during the Kangxi and Qianlong dynasties. enabled the continuous development of the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong and became the Qing Dynasty 's heyday.

In the history of China, there is another person who has received more abuse than Emperor Yongzheng for his efforts. He also paid for it, but he is " getting a lot of abuse after his death." This person is Qin Shihuang who destroyed the six kingdoms and unified China, and established a centralized state with Han people as the main body.

Among ancient Chinese emperors, Qin Shihuang was also a rare diligent emperor. According to later generations, Qin Shihuang had to review 120 kilograms of documents and memorials every day (texts in that era were written on bamboo slips or wooden slips), which amounted to about 300,000 words. That means he worked continuously for 12 hours a day and had to read every hour. Just enough for 20,000 words. Even when going out for hunting and hunting, you still have to review memorials and read books at night.

Qin Shihuang is a famous politician, strategist, and reformer in Chinese history. He completed the great cause of unifying China for the first time and established a multi-ethnic centralized state. It had a profound impact on Chinese and world history and laid the foundation for more than 2,000 years of Chinese history. He was hailed as "one emperor through the ages" by the Ming Dynasty thinker Li Zhi .