The most lively "slaughtering pigs for the New Year" in history is "He yan fell, Jiaqing was full"

Folk have always had the custom of killing pigs for the New Year. At the beginning of the year, the common people bought back a piglet, raised it hard for a year, raised it fat and rolled, and killed it around the twenty-sixth day of the Waxing Moon, and the Table for the New Year was suddenly enriched. This custom of "lively and lively pig slaughter" has been preserved to this day, and it has become the theme of some rural tourism activities.

Every time I see a pig slaughtered, I always think of another "Nian pig", the famous corrupt official and the big corrupt official in history, and think of the folk song that has been passed down to this day: "He Yan fell, Jiaqing was full", and I always felt that there were still some similarities between He Yan and Nian Pig. After he fell, he copied 800 million taels of silver, and the annual tax revenue of the Qing court during the Qianlong period was only 70 million taels, and the family property of Hezhen was equivalent to the total income of the Qing government for 15 years.

Of course, the reason why the Jiaqing Emperor wanted to kill Hezhen was because of the power competition. Emperor Jiaqing reigned for three years, the Taishang Emperor Qianlong was still unwilling to relinquish power, and as Qianlong's favorite, he naturally understood the master's thoughts, and wantonly suppressed the young Jiaqing Emperor, and for a time his power was in the sky.

The Jiaqing Emperor had no real name, and his heart had long been dissatisfied, but because the Taishang Emperor Qianlong was still alive, he could only make promises and did not dare to resist. Finally survived until Qianlong died, of course, to remove the big brick of Hezhen. That's not much to talk about. Just take a look at how Jiaqing killed the "fat pig" of Hezhen for the New Year.

In 1799, the fourth year of the Jiaqing Emperor's ascension to the throne, on the third day of the first lunar month, the 89-year-old Emperor Qianlong of Taishang died, and he's patron fell in an instant, and the Jiaqing Emperor finally kept the clouds open and saw the moon. On the tenth day of Qianlong's death, the Jiaqing Emperor could not wait to declare hezhen's twenty major crimes, none of which were embezzlement. On the thirteenth day of the first month, He Yan was imprisoned, and after five days of multiple rounds of trials, the eighteenth day of the first month was convicted, and Jiaqing issued a decree to give a white Aya to let He Yan commit suicide in prison.

Hezhongtang, who is above ten thousand people under one person, has come to the end of his life at the age of 49. The Jiaqing Emperor remembered that he had once been a meritorious minister, and he was also the qianlong emperor's favorite gulun and princess xiaogong, leaving him a whole corpse, and the death method was decent.

Therefore, the folk speculate that He yan may be a new pig raised by Qianlong, who used him to accumulate wealth before his death, accumulated a lot of wealth for his son The Jiaqing Emperor, fattened up, and killed the New Year when the time came. He confiscated all of Hezhen's property and replenished the treasury for 15 years. It seems that comparing Hezhen to "Nian Pig" is still quite vivid.