The sky is also a day, and the brothers are divided equally.
- Yuan Ming
As the most famous corrupt official of the Qing Dynasty, the talent of He Yan itself is needless to say. Yuan Ming of the Qing Dynasty even praised him as a talent of "Qingtian Holding the Sun". And the most powerful thing about Hezhen is the accumulation of wealth, a huge Gongwang mansion, which brings together a comprehensive financial income of more than fifteen years of the Qing Dynasty. According to statistics, The family property of Hezhen is 800 million silver to 1.1 billion silver, no wonder people say that "Hezhen moved down, Jiaqing was full".
In 1776, since he served as a household attendant, he began to embezzle and pay bribes, and the Qianlong Emperor naturally knew the small actions of Hezhen. But why has he been indulging in heinous and not punishing him? Is it really like the legend, He Yan looks like Qianlong's dead concubine?
In fact, the reason why Qianlong did not punish He yan, but instead connived at his corruption and bribery, on the one hand, was because many of He Yan's property was for the purpose of filial piety to Qianlong. Ancient emperors had their own private small treasury called the "inner treasury", while the property of the state was called the "national treasury". If the emperor wanted to live a little extravagantly, build a building, go out to tour Jiangnan or something, he would have to take money from the inner treasury, and could not use the money of the national treasury. However, whenever there is a disaster, the national treasury will be insufficient from the internal treasury to make up for it, so the emperor is not as comfortable as we think, and the reason why Qianlong indulges and indulges is also because he can enjoy it.
In addition, he himself is also a talent, whether it is to govern the country or experience business is a scarce capable person, the "Qing History Draft" has a high rating of him. He Yan was born in 1750, which was the fifteenth year of Qianlong, and the Qianlong Emperor was already 40 years old. When he was three years old, his mother died, his father died of illness at the age of nine, and his parents died at a young age, and he grew up in foster care at a relative's house. Later, he inherited the title as a student and was awarded the position of imperial bodyguard by Qianlong.
In this way, He Yan rose all the way up, serving as the manager of Buku and the servant of the household department, until 1786, when he served as a university scholar and managed the two departments of the official department and the household department, and the power was tilted to the opposition. He had an extraordinary talent for managing government and business, opening 75 pawnshops, more than 300 silver trumpets, and even the British East India Company had to cooperate with him. But even Hezhen has a group of poor relatives, and his attitude and methods are perfect. How exactly did he solve this problem?
As the saying goes, "No one asks if you live in a busy city, and there are distant relatives who live in the mountains of the rich" and the poor relatives of He Yan came to the capital thousands of miles to find him. These relatives are not simple, they are not here to "fight the autumn wind", just give a few silver to go. After learning that He yan was in a high position, he wanted him to help him find several official positions in order to have no worries about food and clothing.
He Yan naturally knew his poor relatives very well, and he couldn't read a few big characters, let alone become an official. So he came up with a good idea and called all his relatives over to help them "dry the silver." He opened the basement, looked at the silver of the white flowers and said to his relatives, "From now on, you will be responsible for helping me "dry the silver." Relatives know that there is a number of silver, and all of them dare not take it privately, so they carry the silver out of the sun every day.
As a result, when he took someone to check the silver at night, he said, "This silver is not right, and it should be less after a day of sunbathing." For several days in a row, He Yan would sigh a few words every day, and finally a relative couldn't help it, took two hundred taels, and when He Yan found out, he said: "This is right!" In this way, the relatives began to take the silver in the basement, and it was not until it exceeded one thousand taels that He yan explained to everyone: "There are no good positions this year, so you should come back next year." "The crowd knew that they were wrong, and they could only go home in ashes.
He Yan treated his poor relatives, neither arranging jobs for them, nor letting them go back empty-handed, and most importantly, they all felt ashamed. It does not count the number of classics and forget the ancestors, and it is not close to people,but it has not brought a burden to the imperial court, and it is worthy of a generation of capable subjects.