What kind of relationship between He Yan and the Qianlong Emperor has always been a topic of discussion and debate by posterity. Why are people so interested in this topic? Because Hezhen is really the biggest corrupt official in history! How much money did he embezzle? According to the Jiaqing Dynasty's "Investigation and Handling of the Case of He yan" and Xue Fucheng's "Complete Works of Yong'an" in the late Qing Dynasty, the initial valuation totaled about 1.1 billion taels of silver. What is this concept? At that time, the annual revenue of the Qing government was only 70 million taels of silver. In other words, the money embezzled by Hezhen is equivalent to the financial income of the Qing court for 15 years! Did the Qianlong Emperor know about this huge and terrible number? He must have known. He knew, why didn't he punish Hezhen yet? That's the mystery! Therefore, the biggest reason why people speculate about the relationship between Qianlong and Hezhen is that Qianlong knows that there is such a huge greed around him, but he has always been by him, letting him be a mighty blessing for more than 20 years, and he has not been investigated and punished until his death. You know, among the ancient Chinese emperors, Qianlong was still a heroic and martial emperor!
According to the statistics of existing archives, when He yan was raided, in addition to the houses and gardens confiscated, a total of more than 3 million silver (equivalent to 2.83 million yuan of Kuping silver), more than 32,000 gold, more than 1,000 acres of land in various places, more than 1,000 mu of rented houses, many pawnshops, silver trumpets, and various jewelry, clothing, etc., the total value of his family property was about 10 million taels. This is basically in line with what the Upper Decree said, although in the process of handling, Jiaqing instructed that "there is no need to search too much", but it is impossible to leave out much. He Yan was able to control the government for a long time, tilted his power to China and foreign countries, and did everything possible to accumulate huge family properties and become rich in the world, relying on Qianlong's extraordinary grace. Once Qianlong's patron and host are lost, the indispensable Hezhen will become a kite with a broken line. When he was in prison, facing the bright moon on the night of the Lantern Festival outside the window, he once regretted the poem "Hurt the past on the scene, Huai Cai mistakenly made this body", but who misunderstood him?
There are many women around Washun, but there are not many children, which is known to everyone. He Yan had two sons and two daughters, both of whom were born to his wife Feng Shi, and the eldest son, Feng Shen Yin De, was very popular with He Yan. The second son was only in his forties, but unfortunately, he died not long after. The eldest daughter was born to Hezhen and the eldest sister, of whom the second daughter was born to Hezhen and the concubine Cardamom, and the history of the second daughter is not recorded, but the eldest daughter, Nuhulu, later married Yongzheng Belle, the grandson of Prince Yunyou of Chun.
He Yan loved his eldest son very much, but he did not expect that Qianlong also liked it, and in addition to personally giving his name to the eldest son, he also married Gu Lun and Princess Xiaoxiao under his knees to him. However, after Qianlong's death, the Jiaqing Emperor, who had just ascended the throne, raided Hezhen's home. After the fall of Hezhen, Fengshen Yinde ended the first half of his comfortable and comfortable life. Although he avoided sitting together because his wife was a princess, Feng Shen Yinde was still stripped of some titles.
It seems that the reigning Jiaqing Emperor at that time can be said to have a deep hatred for Hezhen, so he will remove Hezhen shortly after the death of the Qianlong Emperor, and he naturally looks down on the son left by Hezhen. After He Yan was dismissed from his post and raided his home, under the intercession of his daughter-in-law Gu Lun and Princess Xiao, he was left to commit suicide with a whole corpse. And Fengsheng Yinde was also dismissed from the titles of First Class Duke, Baylor, earl and so on. Since then, although FengSheng Yinde has still had no worries about food and clothing, the setbacks in life and career still make him feel depressed, perhaps because of these reasons, he did not have children.
In the eighth year of Jiaqing, because Feng Sheng Yinde was reported for some crimes, he was imprisoned at home and thought about. In the eleventh year of Jiaqing, he was transferred to Ulyasutai in Mongolia and separated from his wife. Feng Shen Yinde was even more disheartened and the situation was bleak. He died of illness only four years later, at the age of 36. Therefore, after the death of FengShen Yinde, in fact, there were no direct descendants in this family, after all, they did not have children. Although Gu Lun and Princess Xiao later felt guilty and adopted a child named Fu'en, after all, it was not a blood line, and could only be counted as its descendants. ”
The Jiaqing Emperor's city government was very deep, and he knew that as long as Emperor Qianlong was still alive, he would not be able to move Hezhen, and he could to a large extent influence Qianlong's will, and if he did not get it right, it would be unfavorable to himself, so he Taoguang cultivated obscurity, obeyed emperor Taishang in everything, did not express his own opinions, and did not make any changes in political affairs, in fact, he tolerated Hezhen's continued dictatorship, and only looked at Hezhen's every move in his eyes, but did not move at all. When someone said to him that Heyan was not good, he criticized him instead, saying, I am going to rely on Hezhen to govern the country, why do you oppose him? Even if there is something to play Ming Qianlong, Jiaqing also has the intention to play with Andun to express full trust in Hezhen. After a period of mutual temptation, Jiaqing finally paralyzed Hezhen. On the third day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Jiaqing (February 7, 1799), the eighty-nine-year-old Qianlong died of death, and he yan's patron fell down in an instant, and Jiaqing had no scruples. However, Jiaqing did not immediately take action against Hezhen, and on the same day, he also appointed Hezhen and Prince Rui Chunying to join the premier's funeral event. However, on the same day, Jiaqing, in the midst of grief and turmoil, still did not forget to summon his teacher Zhu Jue to return to Beijing as soon as possible, and he had already sent a signal.
Character determines destiny, status determines marriage. As the first corrupt official, He yan is not only eager to covet the world's money, but also greedy for everything, whether it is money or beauty; As a powerful courtier, he was powerful and omnipotent, so he was eager to possess the beautiful women of the world, enjoy the flow of the world, and even touch the women around the emperor. In fact, corrupt officials and powerful officials like Hezhen have never been the only one in the past, and even in modern times, there are many people, but today's laws are ruthless, whether it is accepting sexual bribes or raising second-hand lovers, they can only be carried out secretly, and they cannot be blatantly wrongdoing as they were in the past.
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