He Yan was a famous courtier of the Qing Dynasty, and he also had a shortcoming, that is, he was greedy for money. During the Qianlong period, he was deeply trusted and appreciated by the emperor, and the tenth princess also became his daughter-in-law, which was equivalent to receiving the supreme honor, and even other ministers had to give him three points, and the treatment of Hezhen made many people envious.
However, after Jiaqing succeeded to the throne, on the fifteenth day after the death of the Qianlong Emperor, He yan was also given to commit suicide at the age of 49. Moreover, after Jiaqing announced the 20 counts of Hezhen, he immediately ordered the raid on his home. The result was 800 million taels of silver, a huge sum, and his wealth added up to more than the total income of the Qing Dynasty in the past 15 years.
This is enough to show that during the years that He yan was an official on the spot, he has been constantly accumulating wealth. In fact, when He Yan first became an official, he was also very clean as an official, but the greater the power, the easier it was for him to lose his way. He Yan will end up with such a fate, which is also caused by himself, and everyone should be responsible for their own actions. When he was collecting wealth, he should have thought that there would be such a day.
Raiding the house is a big thing, and everything in the palace must be moved, but there is one thing that the Jiaqing Emperor did not dare to move, it is still in the Palace of Gong in Beijing, and this object is the Fuzi monument written by Kangxi for Empress Xiaozhuang. Some people will ask, since it was written by the Kangxi Emperor and given to Empress Xiaozhuang, why did it fall into the hezhen family?
We all know that He Yan was a high-ranking minister in the Qing Dynasty, and it is not surprising that this stone tablet was obtained by him. Of course, he himself knew how valuable the origin of this stone tablet was, and he wanted to put it in his home and bring himself a certain blessing. The Jiaqing Emperor was in front of the Kangxi Emperor, after all, he was a descendant, and not moving this stone stele was also a kind of respect for the Kangxi Emperor in his heart.
Although Jiaqing immediately ruled Hezhen after succeeding to the throne, the defeat faced by the Qing Dynasty was a situation that had long been doomed. Everything he did for the Qing Dynasty, including the rectification of the bureaucracy, the exemption of money and grain, and other measures, could not avoid the decline of the late Qing Dynasty. Because at this time, the world has entered the period of the rise of the Industrial Revolution, opium has flowed into the Qing Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect and the Tianli Sect have revolted, and most of the things are not within the control of Jiaqing, what else can he do?
Perhaps in the eyes of modern people, he is indeed relatively mediocre, but in fact, Jiaqing has done his best in the government and politics, and even only knows how to handle government affairs according to the knowledge taught by the ancestors, and has become a little numb in the state. As early as the late Qianlong period, the Qing Dynasty had already experienced decay, so the incompetence of the Jiaqing Emperor was also reasonable.