The Cao Xueqin family is definitely a rich family in the Kangxi and Yongzheng periods, especially in the Kangxi period, the development of the Cao Xueqin family is unprecedented, under the leadership of Cao Yin, the reputation and power of the entire Cao family have reached the peak, just as the so-called things must be reversed, that is, in the Cao Yin period, the Cao family has buried hidden dangers.
This hidden danger became more and more unmanageable in the Yongzheng period, which eventually led to the Cao family being raided by yongzheng, since the Cao family was one of the most powerful families at that time, how much family property was copied out when Yongzheng raided the family?
The history of the Cao family
As early as the Dolgun period, the Cao family has established a deep relationship with the Qing Dynasty royal family, becoming the clothing slave of Dolgun, after the Qing army entered the customs, the Cao family directly became the qing dynasty royal family's internal affairs office coat, the identity is further than before, that is, the identity of the internal affairs office, which provides convenience for the later development of the Cao family.
As a minister of internal affairs, the Cao family often worked in the imperial palace, and the time of contact with the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was naturally very much, and in the early years of Kangxi, because Xiaozhuang lacked breast milk, he specifically looked for a nursing mother, that is, in this case, Cao Yin's mother became Kangxi's nursing mother.
Cao Yin's mother was very concerned about Kangxi, after Kangxi got smallpox, the rest of the people were afraid of being infected and did not dare to approach Kangxi, but Cao Yin's mother was not afraid at all, and took care of Kangxi as always, that is, under the care of Cao Yin's mother, Kangxi's smallpox miraculously improved, which provided many conveniences for Kangxi to ascend the throne later.
After his condition improved, Kangxi was about to start reading, and Cao Yin became Kangxi's companion, to some extent, Cao Yin could be regarded as Kangxi's brother and Fa Xiao, and the two had a good relationship, although not brothers, but better than brothers. After Kangxi ascended the throne, he began to reuse Cao Yin's father Cao Xi and make him a fat man for Jiangning weaving.
Jiangning Weaving was mainly in charge of the procurement of many materials and the production of clothes in the imperial family, which was definitely a fat difference at that time, and after Cao Xi was appointed, he had been working diligently, and Kangxi was quite satisfied with Cao Xi's work attitude. While Cao Xi served as Jiangning Weaver, Kangxi also appointed Cao Yin as his personal bodyguard.
When Kangxi Zhi captured Aobai, Cao Yin played an important role, which is one of the reasons why Kangxi later paid more attention to and trusted Cao Yin, and after the death of Cao Yin's father Cao Xi, Kangxi appointed Cao Yin as Jiangning Weaving, in order to keep the Cao family prosperous, Kangxi even made the Fat Difference of Jiangning Weaving to the Cao family hereditary replacement.
It can be said that Kangxi was indeed very good to the Cao family, and in four of Kangxi's later six operations to go down to Jiangnan, four of them lived in Cao Yin's home and let Cao Yin be responsible for receiving Kangxi, relying on these beautiful opportunities, the Cao family developed rapidly, and for a time it was brilliant, and the Cao family in the Cao Yin period reached the peak stage of the family.
Unfortunately, many things are always the opposite, the decline of the Cao family follows this law, in the process of Cao Yin receiving Kangxi, the prestige of the Cao family reached its peak, but it was also in the process of Cao Yin receiving Kangxi, Jiang Ning weaving this fat gap deficit more and more, was impeached by many ministers, the decline of the Cao family has buried hidden dangers.
Kangxi and Yongzheng's tolerance of the Cao family
At a time when many people impeached Cao Yin and Jiang Ning weaving deficits, Kangxi also began to pay attention to this problem, so while explaining to those who impeached Cao Yin that Cao Yin had a good idea of Cao Yin's deficit, he also privately told Cao Yin to find a way to make up for the deficit. In order to make up for the deficit, Kangxi even let Cao Yin concurrently serve as the fat difference of the two Huai salt transport envoys, and let Cao Yin borrow the salt tax in the two Huai regions to make up for the deficit, which was tantamount to giving Cao Yin some money to fill the deficit.
After some operations by Kangxi and Cao Yin, the money in Jiangning weaving deficit was basically made up, and by the time Cao Yin died, there was only a difference of 230,000 taels, after his death, Kangxi asked Suzhou Weaving Li Xu to help the Cao family continue to fill the deficit, and soon these deficits were basically filled.
Unfortunately, the next few successors of the Cao family were very weak, and they really did not do anything during their reign, resulting in a continuous increase in deficits, and by the time Cao Fu served as Jiangning Weaving, the cao family's deficit was already quite serious, which attracted the attention of the new emperor Yongzheng.
After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he began to rectify the deficit of the Cao family, but considering the relationship between the Cao family and his own family, Yongzheng was still more tolerant of the Cao family at the beginning stage, and even after finding out the deficit, Yongzheng did not directly shake the Cao family to the end, but ordered Cao Fu to make up for the deficit within three years, so that he could not blame the past.
Yongzheng, who has always been indifferent, can treat the Cao family so tolerantly, in fact, it is quite difficult, if the Cao family can attract enough attention at that time, maybe everything will be better, but the Cao family has long been accustomed to the past life, and did not pay attention to Yongzheng's words, which led to the later tragedy.
Yongzheng raided the Cao family
After cao fu received Yongzheng's order, at first he wanted to use Li Xu's help to fill the deficit, but unfortunately, Li Xu was soon investigated and punished by Yongzheng, and Cao Fu's idea of wanting to use Li Xu's help went bankrupt, relying on his own ability to make up for the deficit, and it was obvious that Cao Fu was still a little embarrassed.
From this time on, the Cao family was full of mistakes, at first Yongzheng found that there were quality problems in the clothes made by Jiangning Weaving, and later he found that his clothes would fall out, which made Yongzheng completely angry, and repeatedly talked to Cao Fu, hoping that Cao Fu would strengthen the quality of the product, but unfortunately Cao Fu continued to perfunctory.
What's worse is that in order to fill the deficit, Cao Fu actually dared to go to the extortion of the station, wanting to take the opportunity to get money from the station to fill the deficit, this matter came out, shocked Yongzheng's jaw, in the minister's impeachment, Yongzheng finally attacked the Cao family, after some investigation, Cao Fu was dismissed by Yongzheng on the charge of harassing the station, economic deficit, transfer of family property, etc., and the prosperity of the Cao family fell.
After the raid, the imperial court counted the Cao family's family property, a total of 32,000 taels of money obtained from the raids, but unfortunately this is the money owed to the Cao family by outsiders, in addition to these money, the Cao family has no extra money, and even owes the imperial court a deficit of 31,000 taels, Yongzheng ordered the Cao family to use foreign debt to offset the deficit.
In addition to money, the rest of the Cao family's family property is quite a lot, such as a total of 483 real estate, a total of 19 hectares and 67 acres of land, these family properties were not confiscated by Yongzheng in the end, and after the Cao family went to the capital, Yongzheng rewarded Cao Fu and others with seventeen and a half rooms to live in.
You see, even if the Cao family has made such a big mistake, Yongzheng still did not kill it in the end, just after raiding the house, it is finished, it can be seen that Kangxi and Yongzheng treated the Cao family quite well, as for the fact that the money obtained by the raiders at that time was only 32,000 foreign debts, although many people did not want to believe it, but that is the historical record, if you want to know whether it is true or false, I am afraid that you can only find Yongzheng to understand.
epilogue
When the Cao family was raided, Cao Xueqin was still young, and when he grew up, he learned about the various legends of the Cao family, but unfortunately he did not personally experience it, and could only leave the infinite emotion in "Dream of the Red Chamber", which is a pity and another harvest!
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