In the history of China, there are many resentful corrupt officials, these people use the power in their hands to embezzle corruption, causing a great burden to the common people, China has appeared many corrupt officials for thousands of years, among which the person who is called the biggest corrupt official is Hezhen, who embezzled the state's financial revenue for 15 years, was arrested for 10 days, hanged himself in prison, this person named Hezhen can be said to be a well-known corrupt official in history. He was originally a relatively ordinary person, relying on some special opportunities, when he came to Qianlong, he was very good at speculating on people's psychology.
When he worked with Qianlong, he often made Qianlong happy, so the Qianlong Emperor gave him a lot of rights, and often let him take charge of important work, and he was not only a confidant of the Qianlong Emperor at that time, but also a famous courtier in the imperial court. It is said that at that time, if a foreign official went to Beijing to report for duty or participate in public activities, he had to run to Hezhen in advance to pay some money to bribe him, otherwise he would be punished, and if any official wanted to be promoted, he would also run to Hezhen's side to make a point, otherwise his promotion would not succeed at all, and he might be deposed by the imperial court because of offending Hezhen.
Under the oppression of He yan, the officials of the Qing Dynasty were like shivering birds, they did not dare to compete with He yan, they could only succumb to hezhen's hands, obey his orders, the Qianlong Emperor actually knew what he was doing, but he did not directly manage, but turned a blind eye, always let Hezhen be loyal to himself, after the death of the Qianlong Emperor, he had long taken action against Hezhen and his dissatisfied Jiaqing Emperor, and finally he would be arrested and punished. He also confiscated all the property in his family.
According to relevant information, the embezzled property of He yan in that year was equivalent to the financial revenue of the Qing Dynasty for 15 years, and to some extent, He Yan was considered to be rich and invincible, so there is a folk proverb called, He Yan fell to Jiaqing to eat. Although the Jiaqing Emperor eliminated Hezhen, he did not fundamentally solve the various shortcomings of the Qing Dynasty, and finally watched the Decline of the Qing Dynasty. After the Jiaqing Emperor, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty were inferior to the next generation, and eventually collapsed completely due to the strong resistance of the people.