As the saying goes, having money can make ghosts grind, and most people's temptation to money is often overwhelmed, so there have been moths such as corrupt officials in all dynasties and dynasties, and even now, there are many high-ranking officials who secretly chen cang and fill their own pockets. Speaking of corrupt officials, everyone naturally thinks of the first corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty.
And the one I want to talk about today, second only to He yan, he is the second largest corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Qiwang, who embezzled 220 million yuan of ill-gotten wealth and tried to spend 100 million yuan to cover up his corruption crimes.
1. From Wang Wang Ying-ho
Wang Qiwang was born in a family of officials and eunuchs in Shanxi, his ancestors have been officials for generations, his father is the governor of Jiangxi, serving as a high-ranking official, his status is very good, and his natural family is also very superior, Wang Qiwang can be said to be a rich young master born with a golden spoon.
Such a growth environment is destined that he will not live a hard life like ordinary people, and he is not careful in learning, especially greedy, the father saw his baby son playing life, he was very anxious, he forced him to pass the examination, in the Qianlong years, not everyone in the examination has an official to do, so his father used the relationship to spend money to buy a ZhiXian to do for his son.
The usual food and clothing of this second generation of officials is all brocade and jade food, and they have never understood the sufferings of the people, so it is conceivable that once such a person becomes an official, how can he achieve two sleeves of clean wind and one heart for the people? But Wang Qiwang did not care about these things, when he was serving in Zhi County, it can be said that the official luck and prosperity have been promoted all the way, and the official is getting bigger and bigger, and he is naturally very proud.
Some people are curious, is it his super ability? Of course not, all this is behind the rich father's black box operation. And those who are officials who can not get along with the silver of white flowers, of course, the more the merrier.
Therefore, Wang Qiwang's future is all laid out by his father with money, of course, this money is not in vain, his father will try to find ways to get it back from other channels exponentially, and this old fox will not do a loss-making business.
Second, fabricate the floods in Gansu for money
In his official career, Wang Qiwang did not have any dazzling political achievements, all his thoughts were devoted to corruption, this emotional intelligence is also very high, and the road to corruption also needs to dot various immortals to broaden the financial road, so that a wave of operations, the family foundation is more and more abundant.
On the official road, he constantly bribed high-ranking officials with generous gifts, so his official fortunes also prospered all the way and prospered. Once, when he was sent to Gansu to be an inspector, he started XiaoJiujiu in his heart, and he must not let go of this opportunity to make a lot of money.
Gansu, where the mountain is high, the emperor naturally does not ask too much, and with a clever move, he has united many high-ranking officials to plan a corrupt activity of "donation and relief", of course, before implementing the plan, he has already done a good job of dividing the proportion of stolen goods.
Local officials also have oil and water to take, this cunning fox naturally will not let himself suffer losses, Wang Qiwang dared to lick the money on the tip of the knife, it is also courageous enough. When he was an official in Gansu, he reported to the imperial court, falsely claiming that gansu had suffered a major flood that had not been encountered in a hundred years.
When the imperial court received the local flood notification, it immediately allocated a large amount of silver to relieve the disaster, Wang Qiwang was like a fox seeing meat, the saliva was about to flow out, he and many officials pocketed hundreds of thousands of disaster relief funds, and Wang Qiwang, who ate the sweetness, boldly lied about the military information several times.
Later, when Qianlong found out that this matter was very strange, he had doubts in his heart: In this part of Gansu, the ministers in gansu have reported on the recital over the years that they have encountered drought, so why have they encountered floods again and again? So he sent a Chincha minister to Gansu to investigate the situation.
Third, invest 100 million yuan to settle corruption
The situation seen by the investigation team sent by the imperial court in Gansu was completely different from the situation reported by Wang Qiwang, and the sun had been shining high for days, so where was there any major flood? What nonsense! In fact, when Wang Qi looked at this last amount of money, his heart was also uneasy.
After all, there are more than half a million taels of silver in the family, equivalent to 220 million yuan now, and hiding where it is is also a nerve-wracking thing for him, but also does not forget to give some benefits to officials at all levels, and is also afraid of the East Window incident, and his life is not guaranteed.
So he thought of a way to donate 100 million yuan to the construction project, in fact, he wanted to use a trick of a golden cicada to hide his eyes and ears and reduce his stolen money target, after all, the construction of the sea pond project is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, and it has also invested such a large amount of money.
Ordinary people can't doubt the truth of his corruption, this trick is also to pave the way with money, Wang Qiwang is a veteran of corruption, destroying the clues and traces of the corruption process to no end, using money to block the mouth of the accomplices of the crime, such a meticulous plan, I have to admire his cunning.
4. Order investigation and punishment
People say that they often walk by the river, where there are not wet shoes, the night road is more, there will always be ghosts, just like Wang Qiwang goes farther and farther on the road of corruption, addicted to it and unable to extricate himself, it is impossible to do perfectly in every corruption, and there will always be some small flaws.
Although the investigation and punishment of him above was once at an impasse, in the follow-up investigation, a roster of inventory was accidentally found, recording the corruption crimes of him and local officials up and down Gansu.
Qianlong was furious when he heard this, and Qianlong was already suspicious of the flood disaster in Gansu, so he immediately ordered an investigation of Wang Qiwang, sealed his place of residence, and sent a number of officials to liquidate his property. Wang Qiwang had 220 million yuan after all his family foundations and various shops were converted, how much benefit did he have to get from various channels and Gansu? According to historical records, the motorcade that moved him was a huge street, equivalent to a train today.
Of course, all this money was confiscated to the imperial court, and naturally it all fell into Qianlong's pocket, and the largest corruption case in the history of the Qing Dynasty finally came to an end. Wang Qiwang also could not escape the doom, was beheaded and paraded to the public, and sentenced to capital punishment.
Nearly 200 local officials who were in the same boat with him were also punished as they deserved, the lightest was sent to the frontier, the amount of raids also broke the historical record of the Qing Dynasty at that time, these moths that relied on natural disasters to seek money were swept away, and all the corrupt ones were spat out, which was really a corruption for them.
5. Summary
The high hanging of the mirror is the belief that the officials should abide by, and the purpose of the parents and officials is to seek the well-being of the people and serve the whole country. In Wang Qiwang's official career, he never really did a meritorious thing to the people, and the organs were too clever.
Under the eyes of the emperor, he spent all his thoughts and schemes on corruption, and eventually buried himself in these ill-gotten gains. Whether it was the eyes of the heavens or the ulterior motives and means of the emperor, but many acts of injustice would kill himself, he was punished after all.