According to the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty", "He Yan continued to use things, and Emperor Gaozong was tired and diligent, spoiled and greedy, and died in defeat. Emperor Renzong tried to discuss the tang Dynasty's killing of Li Fuguo, saying: "Emperor Daizong is the crown prince, and he is not a few Xi who are slandered by the auxiliary state." and the throne, and the condemnation of his sins, a prison official has been dealt with. "Cover is and Yanfa also."
Giant Greed: Hekun and Fu Chang'an
As we all know, after being emperor for sixty years, the Qianlong Emperor chose to give up the throne to his son Jiaqing in advance in order to fulfill his promise of "not exceeding the term of his grandfather's reign".
However, although Jiaqing took the throne, he still had no real power. Therefore, after the death of the Qianlong Emperor, the Jiaqing Emperor quickly overthrew He yan and a number of great traitors and evildoers.
Needless to say, Hezhen's greed for wealth was the first of the historical ministers of culture and military affairs. In terms of the way of earning money and power, Hezhen can be said to be a person who has never come before or after the ancients.
During his tenure, he actually owned a family property equivalent to the total revenue of the qing dynasty's ten years of national treasury, with a total of about 900 million taels of silver. You should know that one or two pieces of silver in the Qing Dynasty at that time were equivalent to about 50 yuan to 60 yuan now. In other words, the total value of the property confiscated by Hekun is between 4.5 billion yuan and 5.4 billion yuan.
When Hezhen was overthrown, his close associate Fu Chang'an was also raided. Why is it said that Fu Chang'an is a close associate of Hekun?
In the late Qianlong period, when the treasury was empty, with the approval of the Qianlong Emperor, in order to help the treasury accumulate wealth, He Yan specially set up a checkpoint at Chongwen Gate to collect fees from passers-by and officials.
At that time, the people in charge of the fee were He yan and Fu Chang'an. After Jiaqing ascended the throne, he also repeatedly wooed Fu Chang'an, hoping to divide the power of Hezhen, but Fu Chang'an did not express his attitude to the emperor because of his greed for the benefits that Hezhen gave him.
Until later, in order to completely tie up Hezhen, Jiaqing arranged for him to guard Qianlong's coffin, and at the same time secretly sent people to investigate and deal with Hezhen. The result was indeed as planned by the Jiaqing Emperor, and in just half a month, a series of crimes were listed.
Since then, he and Fu Chang'an have been raided together, and the wealth of the two families has been looted as high as 230 million and 100 million taels of silver.
And Kun's sole entrustment before his death
Although Fu Chang'an's embezzled silver two were not huge, but they were also called huge greed, but in the end they were not subject to death, what was the reason for this? This is also related to Fu Chang'an's family lineage.
Fucha Fuchang'an, of the Fucha clan, was a Manchurian yellow flag bearer, the son of Fu Heng and the nephew of Empress Xiaoxianchun. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, he served as a military minister and a Hubu Shangshu.
According to the Qing History Draft, "He Yan has now committed suicide from the order of Leniency, and Fu Chang'an has also changed from Leniency to Beheading, and executed after the autumn." The internal prisoner proposed to Fu Chang'an, went to the Hezhen Prison, personally watched Hezhen commit suicide, and then took him to prison. ”
At the time of hezhen's death sentence, Fu Chang'an, as a close associate of Hezhen, was naturally implicated, and many ministers at that time said that they should also wipe out Hezhen's friends and be sentenced to a decision.
However, Jiaqing did not do this, but instead changed to the Marquis of Beheading. This beheading is also known as "beheading and waiting for the decision". This was the punishment in the Ming and Qing dynasties, in which prisoners sentenced to be beheaded were temporarily imprisoned, awaited the autumn trial, and then decided whether to carry out the punishment after the trial.
After being imprisoned in the cell at that time, He Yan had no hope of escaping from prison, so he also found Fu Chang'an, who was imprisoned on the side, and the two analyzed the current situation together.
He Yan also once said to Fu Chang'an: "We are both grasshoppers on a rope, although I will undoubtedly die, but you have hope to go out, if you are lucky enough to go out, you must remember to help me." ”
But in fact, the matter of Washun asking Fu Chang'an was not for himself, but for his nephew.
He asked Fu Chang'an and said, "After my death, Feng Shen Yin De Gui (he Kun's son) is a donkey, and the emperor will naturally not treat him badly, but my brother and Lin's son Feng Shen Yi Mian may have difficulties, I hope you can take extra care of it."
Although Hekun was a corrupt minister, this entrustment of his nephew before his death was indeed touching.
Bringing down Hekun is not just for anti-corruption
Later it turned out that Jiaqing really did not want to be involved in Hezhen's case. Because there are very few people who have been executed in this big case.
In addition, on the reason for killing Hezhen, the Jiaqing Emperor once replied to Zhang Chengji, the governor of Jiangxi: "If you do not get rid of the gods, the world only knows that there is arsenic, and does not know that there is a decay, it is really out of necessity, it is a non-public argument, it has its own judgment, and there is no need to argue." ”
Moreover, when disposing of Yijiang'a, the governor of Shandong, who was a fellow party member of Hezhen, the crimes listed were: at the time of Qianlong's death, Yijiang'a had written to Hezhen and advised him to mourn, while for the Jiaqing Emperor, he only asked for peace. Therefore, he will be questioned: "I only know that there is a person who is with Himjin" and "I don't know that there is an imperial examination on weekdays, but I don't know that there is a decay today"!
It can be seen that Jiaqing's overthrow of Hezhen is not just for money, and money may only be obtained by accident. For the other co-parties, Jiaqing did not launch an investigation, but instead stopped at Hezhen alone.
The issue of disposing of Fu Chang'an can also be clearly seen, but because of its "copied assets, it is not as good as one of hezhen's one two." "There was no immediate execution, and it was not done.
brief summary
From the fact that the Jiaqing Emperor only killed He yan but did not kill Fu Chang'an, it can be seen that the ultimate purpose of Jiaqing killing He yan is not just to kill corrupt officials, but the more important reason should be that He Yan is the biggest obstacle to Jiaqing's rule, so it must be removed. What do you think?
Reference: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty
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