As we all know, He Yan was a famous corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty, and his film and television drama images and literary images were particularly numerous. In TV dramas, Hezhen is often portrayed as a person who does not learn any techniques and only sneaks around and shoots horses. However, if you think about it carefully, if you can only sneak around and pat your horse, can you win the appreciation of the Qianlong Emperor?
After the death of the Qianlong Emperor, the Jiaqing Emperor quickly copied he yan's home, and at that time, the various assets of the he yan family included more than 50,000 gold and 2,000 yuan treasures, 1,000 yuan treasures, and about 6.55 million taels of silver, plus his various field properties, as well as pawnshops and other transactions, which were converted into about 900 million taels of silver, you know, during the Qianlong period, the annual fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty was only 70 million taels of silver, and the GDP of the Qing Dynasty at that time accounted for about 40% of the world. The total assets of Hezhen are equivalent to the total income of the Qing Dynasty for 14 years.
How much of this wealth translates into the current renminbi? Let's first calculate the price of silver, one or two in the Qing Dynasty is equivalent to the current 37.3 grams, we calculate according to 4 yuan a gram, the price of this silver is as high as 134.28 billion yuan or so. Of course, this calculation is obviously inaccurate, we have to combine the purchasing power at that time to calculate, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the purchasing power of a amount of silver is equivalent to more than 200 yuan now, and during the Qianlong period, the purchasing power of one or two silver was much higher, and it could reach more than 500 yuan, so it is roughly estimated that the assets of Hezhen are more than 450 billion yuan, which is converted into 642.49 US dollars.
This figure is obviously very frightening, and it can be seen that the current rich Chinese businessmen such as Ma Yun, Ma Huateng and Xu Jiayin did not have money at the peak of hezhen that year. If you put Hezhen on the Hurun rich list, his assets are second only to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg. This shows the level of wealth of Hezhen. At that time, Hezhen could be said to be rich and invincible.
If you have not been able to intuitively feel the wealth of Hezhen, let's take another example, the Rothschild family, which is now famous around the world, in the 19th century, the total wealth of the Rothschild family was only six billion US dollars, and from 2010 to 2011, the total assets of the Rothschild family were 9.65 billion euros, which is still a big gap with Hezhen.
But in general, it was definitely not a good thing for He yan to be able to make this list, because it was the peak of Kangqian's prosperity at that time, and then it was the prosperity and decline, and the material pole must be reversed. At a time when Qianlong was still complacent, the West was already undergoing a series of changes, and the ensuing innovations would profoundly change the pattern of the entire world at that time, while the Qianlong Emperor at that time was still immersed in the tranquility before the storm.