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Yongzheng Emperor
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Fiscal and Bureaucratic Reform
The most enduring legacy of the Yongzheng period stems from his uncompromising efforts to rectify the fiscal mismanagement inherited from the latter half of his father's reign. He viewed the provincial tax apparatus as riddled with corruption, specifically targeting the practice of "ghost silver allocation," where stored funds would materialize only when directly observed by an imperial inspector, disappearing immediately upon the inspector's departure [4].
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