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This book begins from the 60th year of Qianlong's reign, and describes the official affairs and outlines the characters in a span of five years, including military and state affairs, emperors of the two dynasties, and many court officials. The focus is still on the three years of the abdication. In the three years after the abdication, all major events were inseparable from three people: Hongli, Heshen, and Yongyan. This was the only abdication in the Qing Dynasty, and it was also a period of complex political structure. It was an important historical node in the Qing Dynasty... The abdication was a highlight of Hongli's later years. Although the evaluation was far from being as good as he expected, it was also Emperor Qianlong's attempt to follow Confucian concepts and hope to integrate political rule and Taoism. After the death of the emperor, Emperor Jiaqing raised the banner of "maintaining the status quo" and publicly denounced the pursuit of innovation and change. He became more arrogant and exclusive towards the outside world, and unknowingly led the country into the abyss. At the same time, the three years of abdication were Heshen's proud journey from a favored minister to a powerful minister, and it was also the swan song of his life...

This book is another masterpiece of the author that focuses on the history of the Northeast region and the history of relations between Northeast Asian countries after "Once Upon a Time in Sakhalin". The author looks at the history of the Heilongjiang River Basin for three thousand years, focusing on the important figures and events in the basin in the past 300 years, and focusing on reviewing the reasons for the loss of territory in the Heilongjiang River Basin in the Qing Dynasty. It has historical materials, opinions, and emotions. It is a rare historical non-fiction work.

Since the mid-19th century, Sakhalin, which once belonged to China, has become Sakhalin in Tsarist Russia and a hard labor island where Russian prisoners were imprisoned; and to this day, it still has a special connection in the hearts of many Chinese people, with a lingering complexity and heaviness. This is a topic that looks at the big from the small. Starting from the history of Sakhalin Island, it dwells on the history of exchanges between Northeast China and the Central Plains for thousands of years. It also focuses on the advance, retreat, and war of China, Russia, and Japan in the Heilongjiang Basin in the past five hundred years. The author makes full use of Chinese, Manchu, Russian, Japanese and other sources to give a clearer overview of the history of Sakhalin Island. Through the Russian writer Anton Chekhov's trip to Sakhalin, he horizontally intercepted fragments of the historical appearance of Sakhalin in 1890, and through the historical evolution of Sakhalin for thousands of years, he vertically outlined the relationship between Sakhalin and the Chinese dynasties, giving it both a sense of the scene and a sense of history. Through the author's description, readers have a better understanding or new understanding of that homeland. The author lists "Biographies of the Main Characters" at the front of the text and a "Chronology of the History of Sakhalin" in the appendix, which greatly facilitates readers' reading.

The period from Qianlong to Daoguang was a period of rapid changes in the Qing Dynasty from prosperity to decline. At that time, the scholarly conduct was corrupt, the officialdom was degenerate, and countless temples were corrupted, which continued to erode the foundation of the Empire State Building. The author has long studied the history of the Qing Dynasty, carefully selected from the numerous historical records, more than ten important cases handled by the three emperors Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang from the Qianlong to Daoguang years in the mid-Qing Dynasty. The people involved ranged from governors of dukes to clerks and servants, including the mysterious death of a relief committee member, the last major anti-corruption case before Qianlong abdicated, and a series of gambling cases that held important ministers accountable during the Jiaqing period. , There was also a case of long-term private sales of fake photos by clerks in the Ministry of Household Affairs... During this period, the desolate administration, maladministration, embezzlement, corruption and collusion, bad official regulations, slander and injustice all revealed the decline of society at that time and the insensitivity of officials. Thrilling and intricate. The author peels back the cocoons and truly reconstructs a series of cases that shocked the Qing court two hundred years ago, and can also see the scars under the appearance of the prosperous age.