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We know that in ancient times, corruption was the main reason for the decline of the imperial court, and many of the rebellions that arose from the people were unable to survive hungry due to the suppression of local officials, and could only go to the road of uprising and rebellion. Since Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty in 1368 in Daming Province, a total of 100,000 corrupt officials have been executed during his eleven reigns. But to say that the biggest corrupt officials in history still appeared in the Qing Dynasty.
This person can be said to have already been infamous and everyone knows, he is Hezhen. Strangely enough, Qianlong was a very clever and political emperor in history, who was emperor for sixty years from 1736 to 1795. He ordered five pardons for the world's money and grain taxes, so that the Chinese mouth broke through 100 million for the first time in 1740.
Speaking of his father Yongzheng, he ascended the throne because of Qianlong, and it was precisely because Kangxi saw the qualifications of Hongli, that is, Qianlong, that he tried his best to pass the throne to Yongzheng, hoping that Yongzheng would be able to pass the throne to his favorite emperor in the future. However, it was under Qianlong's rule that a big corrupt official like Hezhen entered and produced.
How greedy is Washu? Almost as long as he could get it in his pocket, he did not let go, and after decades of being an official, he actually embezzled the total income equivalent to the total income of the Qing Dynasty in ten years at that time, about 800 million to 1 billion taels of silver. This was already astronomical at the time, but as a moth in the imperial court, he did not seem to have the slightest fear of being caught.
A large part of the reason for this is the existence of a person who can be called the real patron behind Hezhen. He is Hezhen's younger brother and Rin. Yuan Ming once wrote such a poem in "Zi Bu Shu" to lament the brothers He yan and HeLin: "Qingtian and Sun, the brothers are equally divided." ”
He Yan was a civil official, a well-known courtier and imperial merchant. He was also "pro-family" with Qianlong, and Qianlong's favorite young daughter, the Tenth Princess, was married to Fengsheng Yinde, the eldest son of Hezhen. Therefore, this is also an important reason why Qianlong yi has never moved and Yan.
Another reason is that Hezhen's younger brother Helin was also a powerful military general, and successively held important positions such as Bingbu Shilang, Gongbu Shangshu, and Governor of Sichuan. More importantly, he also befriended the then general Fu Kang'an.
Fukang An is the prototype of Falcon in the TV series "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" that we often see. The difference is that in history, Fu'an Kang was more heavily used and was one of the military ministers of the Qing Dynasty.
After Fu Ankang's death in 1754, he was posthumously honored as the King of Jiayong County, and was entitled to the Taimiao Temple. After Fu Kang'an's death, He Lin became the manager. Ordered to suppress civil unrest, he died of miasma in 1796 at the age of 42 during the siege of Pinglong.
At that time, Qianlong had abdicated as the so-called "Emperor Taishang", and when he learned that Helin had contracted illness and died, he posthumously honored Helin as a first-class duke. Hereditary inheritance is allowed to succeed. However, after Qianlong's death, Jiaqing officially took the throne. Before the throne was hot, he immediately announced the twenty major sins of Hezhen and ordered the hezhen family to be copied. Nearly a billion taels of silver were copied.
After Helin's death, it symbolizes that there is no longer any military support behind Hezhen, and he is destined to become a lamb to be slaughtered. Finally, fifteen days after the death of the Qianlong Emperor, on February 22, 1799, the Jiaqing Emperor gave he yan to commit suicide at home with a white aya, and died at the age of 49. In the end, even his brother and Lin were implicated and disqualified from enjoying the Taimiao Temple. It can be said to be very miserable.