He Yan's greedy ink means claimed to be the second in the Qing Dynasty, and no one dared to call it the first. He formed a party and private sector, amassed money, and finally hanged himself, which can be said to have left a thousand years of infamy, but there is definitely a reason why he became Qianlong's first favorite. Once, He Yan went to Yunnan to handle the case and came back to bring back a rare rare bird to Qianlong, but what was puzzling was that when he walked halfway, he stewed the pair of rare birds and ate them. This is the secret for you:
He Yan went to Yunnan on Qianlong's orders to investigate the case of Li Shuyao's embezzlement, and as the king of a country, he also had a very clear understanding of the disposition of his ministers, so he sent the Eight Banner Soldiers to follow He yan all the way and monitor him all the way to prevent him from making mistakes. He Yan was clear in his heart, but with a smile on his face, he pretended to be honest and went to Yunnan.
After He Yan arrived in Yunnan, after a secret visit by Ming Cha and three pushes and six questions, Li Shiyao's case of greed for ink was quickly clarified. Li Shiyao illegally obtained countless possessions, not only gold and silver jewelry, but also antique porcelain, but also celebrity calligraphy and paintings, and there were eight banner soldiers around Himan who were under the supervision of Ji Tai, even if he was moved by these treasures, he did not dare to do anything, he honestly recorded all the stolen goods in the book, and then loaded them on the car, ordered people to transport them directly to the capital, face the emperor, and fill the national treasury. After he finished the case, at the celebration banquet, he held a wine glass and whispered to the magistrate, "Are there any rare animals and animals in Yunnan?" ”
The magistrate hurriedly said: "There are big lizards, mountain turtles, golden eagles, and so on..." He Yan listened and shook his head repeatedly, and the rare birds and beasts that the magistrate said were ugly, some fierce, some had no ornamental value, and all of them did not meet his own wishes, which was equivalent to not following the wishes of the Qianlong Emperor.
After the celebration banquet, the magistrate led Hezhen around the garden of his house, and Hezhen looked at several local rare birds and felt that few of them could enter the eyes, but when he passed the pool, he was stunned, and he saw a pair of very beautiful waterfowl swimming in the pool.
At first, he thought that the pair of waterfowl were a pair of ducks, but if you look closely, they are different from the ducks, only to see that the "ducks" have a bright coat color, one mouth is red, the other mouth is black, and there are thin white eyebrows around the corners of the eyes. The head has gorgeous crown feathers, and the body is covered with a layer of slippery feathers, which shine a metallic luster in the sun. What's even better is that they appear in pairs on the sparkling pool water, like couples with excellent feelings. It's just that this "duck" is small and the feathers are much more exquisite, but I don't know what kind of duck it is.
The local magistrate who accompanied him explained, and He Yancai suddenly realized: It turned out that this was not a duck, but a mandarin duck that the literati rioter repeatedly chanted in the poem. He Yan asked the yunnan magistrate to make a few more pairs, put them in cages, and then transport them to the capital and offer them to the emperor.
Qianlong also has a royal garden in the Forbidden City, where there are many rare birds and beasts, but there is a shortage of Mandarin ducks, and in order to please Qianlong, he will collect rare birds and beasts every time he is on a business trip, and dedicate them to the emperor to please the son of the day.
On the day of He yan's return to Beijing, the local officials in Yunnan were afraid that he would not be able to serve the mandarin ducks well, so he sent a servant who could raise mandarin ducks to accompany him all the way, but after they walked for two consecutive days and 200 miles, the servant stopped the carriage with the wooden cage of the mandarin duck, and He Yan asked, "Why don't you leave?" ”
The servant replied, "Lord, if we go too fast, this Mandarin duck will die!" "You know, the Mandarin ducks in Yunnan are born in the tropics, while the northern capital has a cold climate, and the temperature is not suitable for the mandarin ducks to live." Therefore, every time you walk for a period of time, you must rest in place for a few days, in order to make the Mandarin Duck gradually adapt to the temperature that the farther north it goes, the colder the temperature, so the delay time is necessary, which is a necessary process for the Mandarin Duck in the south to be able to live in the north.
He Yan was anxious to hear this, and he kept complaining: "This is still done, and when you arrive in the capital, the emperor must blame me for not doing a good job!" So he hurriedly urged his men to hurry, and as a result, halfway through, the Mandarin Ducks died several times, and the feathers of the remaining two Mandarin Ducks also fell a lot, and the coat color was not bright, looking at the image of their heads and shrugging their heads, it was indeed miserable. And Yan yi pondered, this thing is not done, even if the remaining Mandarin ducks can live to the capital, Qianlong Ye will not like this kind of hairless, bald old duck-like Mandarin duck, maybe he will complain about him, and Yan eyeballs turned, had a good idea, he ordered the chef to secretly kill the Mandarin Duck, and then stewed a pot of delicious "immortal soup", at noon, he will all be Tong Er Ji Tai to find, and then the two people began to feast, and Yan yan while eating, but also rewarded the servant with a bowl, the three people quickly reimbursed the two Mandarin ducks, Eji Tai and the servant ate, The two of them also said vigorously, "Delicious, delicious."
He Yan was not so kind, stewed mandarin duck meat to share with the people around him, in fact, he was shrewd, in order to be afraid of EjiTai and the servant, he exposed his sin of not offering mandarin ducks to Qianlong, they ate the "immortal soup" cooked by these two mandarin ducks, and the three of them were now grasshoppers on a rope. They wanted to expose Washu, and Hezhen borrowed their eight guts.
He Yan can be a very popular subject, and it cannot be said that he is not smart. But cleverness is cleverness, crime is crime, good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and in the end he was ordered by Jiaqing to be imprisoned, and he fell into a tragic end of hanging himself.
Wen xiucai, editor-in-chief of Wenlan Hairun Studio, this article is written by: Special history writer: Feng Doudou