People who have seen "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan" must think that Hekun is an out-and-out, greedy and lustful person who likes to pat himself on the back, but the real Heyan in history is a very clever wizard, and his financial management ability can be described as admired by everyone, which can be said to be in
After Hezhen, the Qing Dynasty never had such an outstanding financial master.
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His original surname was Niu Hulu (祜禄氏), and his name was Zenho (善保). He Yan's early life experience was very bumpy, the teenager was particularly difficult, although he was born in the family of the vice capital, but when he was only three years old, his mother died of difficult childbirth, his father also died of illness when he was 9 years old, fortunately, thanks to the loyalty of the domestic servants, he let he and his brother and lin brothers live in the family, did not get driven out, and later he went to Xian'an Palace to study, and he worked hard, he knew that the opportunity was not easy to come by, and he refused to waste a little time, during the Xian'an Palace, he did not accompany the children of The Xian'an Palace, studied every day, and read through the Four Books and Five Classics.
I actually learned the manchu, Chinese, Mongolian, and Tibetan languages
Due to his hard work and outstanding achievements, the teachers Wu Shengqin and Wu Shenglan brothers were very fond of him.
Although he studied hard, the drama was that hezhen's real career began by marrying the granddaughter of Feng Yinglian, the governor of Zhili, after which he participated in many scientific expeditions to fall into the sun mountain, and finally was awarded the position of third-class bodyguard by the relationship of his father-in-law, and was selected as the alternate guard of the sticky pole, although the official position was not large, but it made he extremely excited, because the sticky pole was the emperor's most trusted confidant, the position was not high, but if he was lucky, he would soon be able to get the emperor's favor, and it might be difficult to achieve one step to the heavens at the grassroots level. But at the top it was just a matter of the emperor's words
。 In 1773, at the age of 23, He Yan became an attendant in the Honor Guard of the Qianlong Emperor.
There are many legends about the acquaintance of the Qianlong Emperor and Hezhen, and it is said in the book "Lang Qianjiwen" that once the Qianlong Emperor was reading a report and learned that a major criminal (said to be a descendant of Dolgun) had fled, and he was angry in his heart, so he casually said a sentence from the Analects: "The tiger is out of the woods." Many of the guards around him did not know what the Qianlong Emperor meant,
He Yan said, "The pawn keeper must not resign his responsibility." The Qianlong Emperor was very angry, and when he heard that He yan could understand his own words, he asked He Yan with great interest: "Have you read the Analects?" ”
He Yan took the opportunity to show his talents, so that the Qianlong Emperor was very impressed with it, and it was not long before He Yan was sent by Qianlong to manage Buku, he began to learn how to manage money from this job, so that buku's accounts were clear, the number increased greatly, and the Qianlong Emperor was very satisfied after learning about it, and only two years later he promoted him to be a qianqing gate guard.
Only a month later, he was promoted to the position of imperial bodyguard, but what Ling Hezhen did not expect was that he created a legend of promotion in the Official Field of the Qing Dynasty, and only two months later, Hezhen was promoted to the right attendant of hubu, and after two months, he became the minister of military aircraft, and at this time, Hezhen was only 26 years old.
Another month later, Hezhen was again appointed Minister of the Interior,
In one year, the official of He yan was promoted again, and in June of the following year, he was promoted to the position of hubu left shilang and concurrently served as the right attendant of the official, and the clear-eyed people can see that he is a rising star in the political arena, and more than half of the financial power and personnel power are in his hands.
At this time, he was really smooth sailing, and in just a few years, he was promoted from an unruly honor guard to a military minister, which was a legend in any dynasty.
Qianlong had great trust in Hezhen, and even felt that the Manchu Dynasty was wenwu, only Hezhen could understand him, which was also one of the most important reasons for the Qianlong Emperor's promotion of Hezhen, Qianlong was arrogant and arrogant in his later years, for the world situation, Qianlong was at a loss, the policy of closing the country to the country had gradually plunged the Qing into crisis, qianlong prosperous world has shown many hidden dangers, especially the Qianlong Emperor spent decades of spending money like flowing water, but also made the weak imperial economy overwhelmed, and Hezhen tried his best to maintain the finances for twenty years, and he was able to barely operate. In order to make money to subsidize the finances, he once proposed to the Qianlong Emperor to increase the number of treaty ports and do business with foreigners.
The shrewd He Yan found that the tea and porcelain of the Qing Empire were very popular in Western countries, but the foreign cloth and foreign objects of Western countries were difficult to have a market in China, and He Yan believed that this was a good opportunity to make a lot of money, if the country could be opened, it would inevitably fill the national treasury, and there would be a steady stream of funds.
However, this proposal made Qianlong furious, all the dynasties and dynasties have been based on agriculture, and even introduced a policy of heavy agriculture and suppression of commerce, if once opened, I am afraid that it will hurt the country, he severely reprimanded He yan, and returned home with sorrow, but experts from the history department of Henan University pointed out that if the Qianlong Emperor had listened to He yan's advice, I am afraid that China's national fortunes in the next hundred years would have changed, and China would have taken off long ago!
If Qianlong can seize this opportunity in time, it will not only bring huge wealth to the Qing Dynasty, but also introduce Western technology, which may not be a good thing for the Qing Dynasty, but it will certainly be a big step forward in history for China. Unfortunately, the Qianlong Emperor was unable to seize this opportunity after all, and eventually the Heavenly Dynasty became scorched earth and became the prey of western countries, resulting in the subsequent centuries of humiliation and national disasters.