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With the Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa concluded and the Qing forces shattered, the Son of Heaven was left with little choice but to call Nguyễn Huệ to Beijing in order to discuss matters of peace and submission to the Dragon Throne.
In the waiting period though, the Qianlong Emperor had much to ponder. The armies of the Great Qing had been met with great difficulty in the grand campaigns launched throughout his life - especially moreso now at the end of it. Not that anybody would admit it. But though he was absolute, the Emperor was by no means stupid.
Though he was old and the day-to-day administrations began to slip from his grasp, he was still perfectly capable of seeing the winds of change and he knew full well that they were blowing in a direction that might make life very hard for his successors.
Perhaps those winds could be redirected.
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