But wherever there is interest, there is the peep of outlaws, and in some past dynasties, corruption has become a corrupt atmosphere and widespread, that is, the 5 most famous corrupt officials in history, each rich and enemy country, which is the number one big greed? Let's take a look!
The 5th, Cai Jing, as the great evil man in "Water Margin", the Northern Song Dynasty Prime Minister Cai Jing was also a great evil man in the real society, as a famous adulterer, taking advantage of the beginning of Wang Anshi's change of law, Cai Jing took the opportunity to pretend to be public and private, and collected property.
With the improvement of his status, Cai Jing was "both expensive and greedy", he hoodwinked Emperor Huizong of Song, received more than a cent of Qilu, and his land industry reached 500,000 mu, and the West Garden where Cai Jing lived, the degree of luxury even exceeded the location of the emperor's residence, but with the Zen position of Emperor Huizong of Song, song Qinzong, who was not pleasing to his eyes, relegated him to Lingnan, and the prime minister of the dynasty eventually died in Tanzhou.
The 4th, Shi Chong, as the sixth son of Shi Bao, the founding father of the Jin Dynasty, was agile and intelligent when he was young, Shi Chong, who became the Xiuwu County Commandery in his 20s, after this, he was even more peaceful and qingyun, using his power to frantically amass wealth, Shi Chong built the famous Jingu Garden, surrounded by dozens of pavilions, high and low, even his toilet, but also to build gorgeous, prepare a variety of perfumes, according to the new language records of the world, Shi Chong's property is as incomparable as the mountains and seas, hundreds of wives and concubines in the back room, each Aya luo silk. "Rich in property, magnificent in the room. The back room is hundreds, all of which are embroidered and golden. Silk bamboo did everything at that time, and ate the treasures of the poor land and water. However, during the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, Shi Chong was involved in the struggle, and was eventually killed and destroyed by the three tribes.
The third, Liu Jin of the Ming Dynasty, as a eunuch during the Zhengde period, Liu Jin was once deeply trusted by Emperor Wuzong of Ming, so he was highly used by the emperor, and eventually he was also promoted to the position of eunuch of the Eunuch of the Imperial Household, and Liu Jin had a great pursuit of money, but all officials who entered the capital to meet and envoy must pay a huge "meeting gift" to Liu Jin, and returned to zhou key in the matter, because of the suicide without gold, for a time people were panicked, Liu Jin formed a party in the dprk, committing crimes, until his crimes were exposed Emperor Mingwuzong eventually found millions of taels of gold and silver from Liu Jin's home, and even forged forbidden items such as jade seals and jade belts, and Liu Jin's intention to rebel was exposed, and he was eventually executed by Ling Chi.
The second, Yan Song, a jinshi-born Yan Song, was also an official who opposed Liu Jin and was therefore degraded, but after he was reinstated as an official, he also began to pat himself on horses and collect money for personal gain.
During the Jiajing period, Yan Song was reused, and from this extremely popular subject, "fifteen years ago, it was called Ji Province, and the funds were already six or seven million", Yan Song's son Yan Shifan once laughed arrogantly in the treasure house of his home: "The imperial court has no wealth for me!" In fact, the father and son of the Yan family did accumulate amazing family property by taking bribes and withholding, selling officials and lords, and after the two raided their homes, the officials received more than 32,000 gold and 2,020,000 pieces of silver, and as for other houses, land and treasures, they exceeded the storage of the Ming Dynasty royal family.
As for the first, Qing Dynasty He yan, I believe that this is not controversial, as the most famous corrupt official in ancient history, He Yan also became the most important minister in the middle and late Qianlong dynasty, and he also hung the title of the world's richest man. He Yan used his power in the DPRK to open seventy-five pawnshops, set up more than three hundred silver trumpets, and also had trade with the British East India Company, and finally after the fall of He Yan, according to Ye Shi, the wealth he collected reached 800 million silver, more than the sum of the Qing Dynasty government's fifteen years of fiscal revenue, according to statistics, Qianlong's fifty-five to sixty years of tax revenue was half of Hezhen's tax, and in 2001, Hezhen was also selected as one of the world's richest men commented by the Asian Wall Street Journal.