What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
"One man gains the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven" is a proverb passed down through the ages, and this sentence also reflects the traditional culture that since ancient times, the people have relatives to help each other, which is beneficial to everyone to take care of each other.
However, this traditional culture has to grasp the size well, help less face hanging, help over and drag themselves down. In this regard, the ancients have long seen that many shrewd and powerful family businesses that have been passed down for hundreds of years are not only because everyone is united with each other, but also because they have deep wisdom and will deal with this kind of thing.
He Yan, who has been in the official arena for many years, is a person who knows this well, and sees how he deals with his poor relatives. Born in 1750, his family was one of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and his early life was not like that of the aristocratic prince brothers that people imagined. When he was young, his parents died early, but fortunately, two servants in the family protected him so that he would not live on the street.
When he was a teenager, he suffered all kinds of hardships, and he vowed to become a superior person. In 1773, at the age of 23, he had the privilege of meeting the emperor, and was indeed appreciated and became a red man by the emperor's side. At this time, the relatives who were reluctant to help or take him in before all came, thinking that as long as they made a messenger under Hezhen, they were all fat, and they would take oil and water in their hands and get rich.
What the relatives had in mind, how could He yan not be clear, although he was greedy, he was not faint. He was smiling and squinting, and he was not broken, but he had his own calculations. On the pretext that there is no errand at present, let those poor relatives go to "dry the silver". Relatives entered the storeroom, where they had seen so many gold mountains and silver mountains, one by one, their eyes were drooling, but no one dared to take them.
At first, they thought that Hezhen was testing himself, but as the days went on, some people thought about it, and some people secretly took twenty-two pieces of silver. At that time, twenty-two pieces of silver was enough for an ordinary family to live for several years, and Hezhen was not angry when he knew it, but instead praised the relative to give face, so that everyone did not have to be polite.
There was neither criticism nor punishment, and the greed of the already foolish relatives was immediately unleashed, and in the next few days, each of these poor relatives would take a little. Half a month passed, the silver in the storeroom was less than a thousand and two, and it seemed that everyone had already stolen some silver by hand, and he yan did not liquidate.
He pretended to be worried and said to everyone, I am really sorry to let everyone wait here for a long time, in order to give everyone a good errand, worried about the brain pain. However, the bad fact is that there is no vacancy, and it is really a last resort to send you away. If you really want to, you can come back next year and try it again.
Everyone knew that it was He yan who had issued the eviction order, but after greeding so much silver from others, he was not embarrassed to lie in hezhen's house, and one by one he had to nod his head in agreement, and no one had the good face to say that he would come back next year. Don't look at this only 15 days and He Yan lost more than a thousand taels of silver, and He Yan was also very heartbroken, but his heart was like a mirror, and he calculated clearly.
He Yan knew that if he really made an errand for these relatives, he would definitely ask for more of himself in the future. At that time, the money that should have flowed into his pocket did not know how much he would lose. Moreover, things in the official arena change as they are told, and if relatives cause any trouble, their careers will also be affected. Spend a thousand taels of silver to buy a smooth heart, and Hezhen is still happy.
However, even if He Yan was good at calculation, it was still the emperor who was more powerful than him, but Qianlong had always pretended to be confused. On February 22, 1799, Jiaqing gave him suicide, and the bottom of his home was cleaned, and countless silver were found. It can be seen that people still do not want to be greedy, otherwise they will be punished sooner or later.