Regarding the death of Hezhen, there has always been a saying called "Hezhen falls, Jiaqing is full". Almost everyone believes that Hezhen was one of qianlong's greatest legacies to Jiaqing, except for the throne. It was the Qianlong Emperor who deliberately indulged and amassed wealth during his reign, and then left it to his son Jiaqing Liwei and became rich. Is this really the case? Not really.
Four years after Jiaqing, Qianlong, as the Emperor Taishang, had just died, and the Jiaqing Emperor announced the twenty major crimes of Hezhen and ordered him to be confiscated. This copy was simply stunned, and the silver was copied out eight hundred million taels, and it should be known that at that time, the annual tax revenue was only seventy million taels. So it was really enough for the emperor to eat.
Because the time of Hezhen's downfall was after Qianlong's death, many people will speculate that he himself was deliberately left by Qianlong to Jiaqing. The most obvious corruption of He yan is Qianlong, why didn't he raid his home himself? I copied it myself to my son too! And if he really wanted to leave a hand to Yin and Zhen in this way, then Qianlong would not marry his favorite Gu Lun and Princess Xiao to Feng Sheng Yinde, the son of He Yan.
He Yan was a person who loved corruption, but almost all of his greedy money was used to spend the qianlong emperor with wine, and he went out on a tour. Because although Qianlong was an emperor, the money in the treasury could not be moved haphazardly, and spending it indiscriminately violated the ancestral legal system. So it is perfect to let He yan come to the back pot to launder money for himself to spend, the notoriety is all he yan, and he can still enjoy it.
Qianlong liked He yan very much, not only because he could help himself to accumulate wealth, but also because he could handle various official positions well, and he could complete his work well in any position, weigh the advantages and disadvantages, and handle the relations between China and China. Therefore, He yan was not only the first corrupt official during the Qianlong period, but also a famous minister.
Therefore, He Yan was definitely Qianlong's favorite right-hand man, not simply a tool, not a property specially left to his son. Besides, it was too exaggerated for Qianlong to be favored for more than twenty years, and qianlong had been fattening him for more than twenty years. Besides, He Yan was so clever that he felt that it was very likely that the emperor was in yin himself, and how could he still wait for death.
One of the reasons that best proves that Qianlong is the true favorite and the concubine is the marriage between Gu Lun and Princess Xiao mentioned earlier. Gu Lun and Princess Xiao were one of Qianlong's most beloved princesses, and there was no one. He got the princess at the age of 64 and was very happy. Moreover, this princess is said to be the most similar to one of Qianlong's children, both in appearance and personality.
It is said that Qianlong said to Gu Lun and Princess Xiao that if she was a boy, she would be made crown prince, which shows that she really loved this princess. There are also records that Qianlong was very angry in his later years, but as soon as he saw this daughter, he would immediately become a kind and pleasant father. After people know about this matter, if they make a mistake, they will take out the little princess to make a shield for themselves. Even Qianlong, whose mother killed the palace maid, did not pursue it, and it should be known that the palace women of the Qing Dynasty were nobles from the Eight Banners.
Qianlong loved this princess so much, then he must have been extremely concerned about her marriage. Of course, he will not send his beloved daughter to kiss him, but will stay with him. So he chose Hezhen's son FengShen Yinde. How perfect is it for a beloved daughter to marry into the family of the most favored courtier? He must have thought that the Hezhen family was the most suitable, because he would cover this family.
However, as soon as Qianlong died, Jiaqing cleaned up Hezhen. This is definitely not qianlong's meaning, you must know that Jiaqing and Yan have lost a lot of power in addition to getting money. Otherwise, why did the Qing Dynasty decline without ZTE? Why didn't the suppression of he suppress other ministers but was even more corrupt?
Therefore, the Jiaqing Emperor was still too tender, and Qianlong left him and Yan not for him to slaughter but for him to use!