The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in China, and it was also the culmination of all the dynasties, dominating the entire East, without a single opponent, and all enemies were destroyed. There is also a set of internal governance, the people generally do not starve to death, so there is little rebellion, the income of officials is also very high, in addition to salaries and subsidies, the proportion of corrupt officials is much lower than the previous dynasty. Rao was so, but he still produced one of the biggest corrupt officials in ancient times, that is, He yan, whose assets reached the sum of the fifteen years of income of the Qing Dynasty's national treasury, which was simply unimaginable.
In 1750 AD, He Yan was born in the Fujian capital Chang Bao family, perhaps it was a bad luck, his mother died when he was three years old, and his father also died of illness when he was nine years old, fortunately, an old family member was very loyal, and has been protecting and raising He Yan and his brother, which enabled He Yan to grow up. He Yan became a bodyguard at the age of twenty-two, and in less than a year he became a servant by Qianlong's side, and since then, he has been smooth sailing, rising step by step, and sitting in a position above ten thousand people under one person, which shows Qianlong's favor for him.
How many bad things did he do? There are simply innumerable, just to name a few, Qianlong forty-five years, He Yan served as the president of the Siku Quanshu Library, he vigorously promoted the prison of writing, framed innocent literati as "secretly hiding rebellious books, intending to rebel", and then executed, and some even exterminated the Nine Tribes. He Yan also controlled the imperial examination, as long as someone was willing to bribe, he guaranteed that the other party could be on the list, and he also excluded dissidents through the imperial examination, and those who had "problems" were removed, so that almost all the disciples in the Qianlong period came from Hezhen's disciples. There were also the Qianlong Emperor who went down to Jiangnan six times, and he pulled the tiger skin to make a big banner, and ordered the provinces to contribute funds, except for the emperor's expenses, the rest were all embezzled by him.
In the fourth year of Jiaqing, the Taishang Emperor Qianlong died, and within a few days, He Yan was arrested, and announced his twenty major crimes, each of which could be sentenced to death, and the Jiaqing Emperor also ordered the raid on the house, a total of 800 million taels of silver, in addition to antique calligraphy and paintings, real estate fields are countless, it is really "He Yan fell, Jiaqing ate enough." Although he was extremely evil, he was after all the favored subject of the former emperor, and the imperial court decided to make lingchi, and Jiaqing changed it to Bai Aya to give death. After hearing the emperor's will, He Yan did not have the slightest fear, and calmly took out Qianlong's will, which was the life-saving edict left to him by Qianlong before he died, and told him to take it out only when he encountered danger. After opening the will, his face changed drastically, and three words came out of his mouth: "Leave the whole corpse." It turned out that Qianlong had long known that He Yan would die, and had no intention of saving him at all, but only left a whole corpse for He Yan so that he could accompany him to sleep in the ground.