He Yan was the most famous corrupt official in Chinese history, and his family property that was finally confiscated, including silver alone, reached an astronomical figure of 800 million taels, which was the sum of the financial revenue of the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years. However, although He yan is a corrupt official, he also has his own unique set of things, which often makes people praise the ingenuity of his approach.
For example, the Qing Dynasty once distributed free porridge to the victims of the disaster, but some people who were not victims also mixed with them to eat and drink, but who can tell who is the real victim and who is the fake victim? But he immediately screened them out, and in front of the people, he threw a bunch of small stones into the porridge, so that the porridge was not particularly clean, and those who came to eat and drink were gone.
Not only can he deal with the things where his duties lie, but he can come up with unexpected tricks, and when faced with some personal relationship problems, he can often be unexpected, neither hurting the face of relatives and friends, nor harming his own interests, winning the unanimous praise of his relatives and friends.
He yan's ancestors were originally nobles of the Qing Dynasty, but because someone in his ancestors made mistakes, he was already a fallen nobleman in his generation, and his parents died early and were raised by a loyal domestic slave. When he grew up, he once went to participate in the imperial examination, but his name was Luosun Mountain. He wanted to go to his relatives, and few developed relatives were willing to take him in. Helplessly, he could only rely on his father's meritorious name to become Qianlong's bodyguard.
Although being a bodyguard is a hard thing, it is good to have more contact with the core of power and have a great chance of being appreciated by Qianlong. Sure enough, after serving as a bodyguard for several years, he once again had a chance encounter with Qianlong, and he had the opportunity to show his talent in front of Qianlong. He Yan was proficient in Chinese and good at financial management, and under the influence of his self-selling and boasting, Qianlong became very interested in him.
Soon she was promoted, because he was particularly good at patting the horse's ass, and also had some real skills in governing the country and managing money, and soon won qianlong's trust, Qianlong in order to test him, specially let him be the minister of treasury management, and He Yan used his financial expertise to greatly increase the inventory of cloth, and Qianlong was further promoted.
At the age of 26, Qianlong gave He yan a fat difference, that is, to become the head of the internal affairs office. The main role of this official position is to manage the cashier, financial revenue and expenditure, sacrifice ceremonies, what construction to be carried out in the palace, what projects to be carried out, and he also manages it single-handedly. Just at that time, Qianlong wanted to renovate the Yuanmingyuan, and everyone else could not believe it, so he found Hezhen. Of course, He Yan was full of promises, and all the means of doing engineering, inside and outside in terms of quality and quantity, were full of oil and water, how could He Yan not agree?
However, I don't know who leaked the news, and the news that Hezhen received the fat difference in the renovation of the Yuanmingyuan quickly spread out, and some of the relatives who were "just able to build the eight poles" of Hezhen also knew about it, so they went together to turn to Hezhen, saying that they were "craftsmen" and could come to build for the renovation project of the Yuanmingyuan of Hezhen.
How could Washu not know their thoughts? He himself was an exquisite figure, as refined as a ghost, how could he not know what these "poor relatives" were here for? It is nothing more than wanting to mix some money in the project, and it is a little difficult to ask for money directly from Hezhen, so I use this way to ask for money.
But can Washu promise them? Can't promise it! Although He Yan is also a big corrupt official, but this is something that Qianlong personally wants to repair with Zhen Yan, the quality that should be there still must be, if these "poor relatives" run in and take what should not be taken, then Qianlong blames it, who can afford to wait? But He Yan is not easy to refuse directly, after all, China is a personal love society, if he offends these relatives, he will be troublesome in doing things in the future.
So He Yan came up with a brilliant plan, he said: "The people on the other side of the Yuanmingyuan have already been arranged up and down, and I am embarrassed to let you go again." But I have another job here, would you like to do it? ”
Originally, the "poor relatives" of Hezhen heard that there was no one there, and thought that Hezhen had rejected them, but they heard that Hezhen said that he had other work to do, so Liu Dark Flower Ming, of course, replied that he was willing to do it. He Yan asked them to "dry the silver". What is there to "dry" silver? He Yan told them that there was water in the silver, and once it was dried, the water would come out, and then the silver would return to its normal weight. Hearing this explanation from Hezhen, the crowd inexplicably went to dry the silver, but they never saw the silver out of the water, and the weight of the silver did not change, so Hezhen scolded them for not "drying" seriously.
Everyone is also irritable, are you teasing us? Where can the silver be light, so they have a leader to secretly take a piece of 10 taels of silver, and told Hezhen silver to be 10 taels lighter, and Hezhen praised them, seeing this, the people in the back are also bold, everyone you have one hand, I have one hand, half a month later took away 2,000 taels of silver, at this time Hezhen said to everyone: "This year I have no job to provide you, if you want to find a job, come back next year." ”
The pockets of the poor relatives were stuffed with silver, and when he said this, everyone understood what he meant, and it turned out that "drying silver" was to give them silver, but not directly to them for the sake of decency. The relatives who turned the corner thanked Hezhen one after another, praised him in their hearts for his cleverness, and then packed up their things one by one and went home.