Why was a good piece of Hetian jade thrown into the desolate Gobi under the command of Emperor Jiaqing?

Emperor Jiaqing gave the impression that the world was mediocre, compassion was not merciful enough, weakness was not mediocre enough, bullying was afraid of hard work, weakness was not weak enough, but some were better. He paid more attention to the social and people's livelihood issues. Although the effect was not ideal, it was also a problem full of drawbacks and difficult to solve for a long time in the late Qianlong period. Let's take a look at "Jiaqing Emperor Throwing Hetian Jade".

There is a mountain in Xinjiang, China called Mitai Mountain, which is rich in Hetian jade. According to historical records, high-quality jade articles have been used here since the Han Dynasty. For thousands of years, court jade articles and merchants have been taking jade here. Mildai Mountain is known as "all mountains are full of jade". There are countless Cixi and a large number of jade articles. Throughout history, the peak of jade was in the Qing Dynasty, especially in the period of Cixi and the later period of Cixi. According to statistics, Cixi ordered Mitai Mountain to carry out six large-scale mining.

One of the most famous is that Qianlong introduced a 5-ton Hetian jade in Milwaukee, and it took a person three years to transport it back to Beijing. Finally, it was carved into "Dayu Water Control Map". "This huge hetian jade has worked hard and hurt people, but it can't stand the love of Qianlong. Qianlong also heard that there are three pieces of jade in Mildai Mountain, the heaviest one is 10,000 Jin, and the smallest one is more than 3,000 Jin, totaling more than 20,000 Jin, 10 tons. In fact, if you put it up now, it will look like a big truck. However, in ancient times, the roads were uneven and the equipment was incomplete, and it was all by manual transportation. The difficulty can be imagined.

This time, for a long time, I couldn't imagine that these Hetian jade were still in Wushtala three years after Jiaqing ascended the throne. When Jiaqing learned about these jade articles, he found that people would suffer indescribable pain. Wherever they go, they will certainly plunder people, local food must be supplied, and people will continue to die on the road. Then he couldn't stand the people's pain and immediately ordered. Ye erqiang still has a long way to go from Beijing. To transport jade and solve jade, where to go is to give up. Emperor Jiaqing first explained the losses and reasons caused by Hetian jade transportation, and then ordered that the field should be sent to any place no matter what the situation. At the same time, officials were ordered to give these people two silver coins to return to their hometown as soon as possible. People were unhappy when they learned that Jiaqing was a good emperor.