The scenery of Hezhen's life, and the smooth path of being an official can be described as a step of green clouds. We all know that Hezhen is a corrupt official, how much treasure is he greedy for? Only then did he become known as an unprecedented corrupt official! There is a word called "rich and invincible", and I think it is really appropriate to use this word to describe Washun.
However, after the fall of Hezhen, the gold and silver copied from his family were comparable to the treasury income of the entire Great Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, which can be imagined. In addition to these silver and gold, as well as Hezhen's own luxurious mansion, people who have been to the Gongwang Mansion know that the luxury of the Gongwang Mansion is comparable to the Forbidden City! So how do so many money and money prevent thieves? Let's talk about the anti-theft technique of Hezhen today.
Before getting into the main topic, let's first talk about the career of Hezhen, who still read some books when he was young, and there was still a little ink in his stomach, not a straw bag. But this ink alone was not enough for him to pass the path of the imperial examination and get the position he wanted.
Therefore, he understood that he could not enter the official field through reading, so he accepted his father-in-law's suggestion and entered the "sticky pole" to become a third-class bodyguard. This is a shortcut that Manchu children who have no way to read, and often take in order to eat mixed food. This is actually a good choice, which is relatively safe from the industry compared to other guards.
Moreover, it also belongs to the ranks of the emperor's pro-soldiers, and has the opportunity to have close contact with the emperor, and to accompany the emperor when he participates in politics and deliberations, and perhaps the right opportunity will be able to soar as soon as it appears. Since he was the first to start, he entered the guard office with the mentality of being promoted to an official and getting rich. Then he would certainly not be willing to be just a small third-class guard, and finally, he waited for such an opportunity.
We all know that the Qianlong Emperor was more fond of showing off his knowledge. From his love of collecting celebrity calligraphy and paintings for his own tasting, and his love for these calligraphy and paintings, the inscription stamp can be seen.
Once, when the emperor was traveling, he casually said an allusion to show off his talents. Let the guards around them answer, in fact, most of the Manchu children who joined the "sticky pole" were a stupid disciple who did not learn any skills. They are the real straw bales, so naturally no one can match them.
And he yan, who has little ink in his stomach, although there is still some distance from taking the meritorious name, but if he answers these small allusions, it is still not a problem. Therefore, He yan seized this opportunity and skillfully answered Banzai Ye's question. Long live ah feel very relieved, the little guard industry also has such a learned person. Therefore, he gave such a young man the opportunity to be promoted, and He yan finally entered the official field.
There is another reason why the emperor loves Hezhen, the historical Hezhen is actually very beautiful, and when you look at it, it is very similar to the concubine who was killed by Kangxi's grandfather, qianlong's favorite concubine when he was young. After all, it was because of his own reasons that he had caused his red face to die, and the Qianlong Emperor had always had a small knot in his heart about this matter, so whenever he saw Hezhen, he could think of the beauty of that year. It is to be more pampered with him and make up for the guilt and guilt in his heart.
In addition, Washu is also a very clever person. He knew that the Qianlong Emperor was a great filial piety, and he was even more filial to his mother, the empress dowager. Therefore, he often visited the empress dowager, starting from the empress dowager, to please the empress. He coaxed the empress dowager to be happy, and the empress dowager liked him very much and would often say good things about Hezhen in front of her son. Then the emperor is naturally happy, and the emperor is happy and can say anything.
After the empress dowager drove the crane to the west, He yan even seized this opportunity to sneak around and shoot the horse. He even ate and slept with the emperor to guard the spirit of the old empress. More attentive than his own mother's death, such a move did achieve the purpose of Hezhen, and in the heart of the Qianlong Emperor, Hezhen added a lot of emotional extra points.
The Qianlong Emperor not only liked to show off his knowledge, but also enjoyed his achievements. In the later years of Qianlong, the Qing Dynasty was a scene of prosperity, which made the Qianlong Emperor begin to drift a little. He even felt that his merits surpassed his father, or even his grandfather, that is to say, his merits surpassed those of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors.
Therefore, He Yan seized on this weakness of the emperor and praised the great merits of the Qianlong Emperor. This kind of horse ass is very comfortable for QianlongYe, so that Hezhen's career path is more frank, and it is more convenient for him to accumulate money. And the Qianlong Emperor was also optimistic about He yan's ability to accumulate money, because when he was inconvenient to open the national treasury for certain purposes, he was able to rely on his own ability to solve difficulties for the emperor.
For example, when Qianlong went down to Jiangnan several times, the money used was raised by Hezhen for the emperor. So how could Qianlong easily attack his big wallet?
In the process of raising money for the Qianlong Emperor, He Yan naturally did not lose himself, and the silver that fell into his own pocket was even dozens of times more than what the Qianlong Emperor really used. So much money, of course, He yan did not dare to deposit it in the silver trumpet like today, it was undoubtedly a notice to the Son of Heaven, I have accumulated countless huge wealth for myself.
Therefore, he could only hide in his own home, and if he hid more, he would inevitably attract a visit from the gentleman on Liang. In order to see his hard-won wealth, Hezhen also took pains in anti-theft.
For example, he re-minted gold and silver, melted and re-formed a large ball, each of which can have more than a hundred pounds, and the surface is smooth. Relying solely on the strength of one person, one can only sigh with joy and there is nothing to do, and the thief has to leave in ashes.
In addition, He yan would also build a large amount of gold and silver, causing the pillars to build the house in his own house, such a method, the thief could not steal it under any circumstances. There is also a kind of mezzanine, in their own wall to make a sandwich, and then put the gold bricks and silver bricks in the mezzanine, not to mention the thief, that is, later when the Jiaqing years raided the house, the Royal Forest Army also took a lot of effort to find out.
Throughout his life, he kept amassing money and became a true scrounger. Step by step, on the road of amassing money, to the end of his life, some people say: The shrewd Qianlong Ye is actually building a backup treasury for his son. And He yan is the watchdog of this reserve treasury, I think it is really very appropriate, dare to be greedy and dare not spend, in addition to building a comfortable mansion for himself, He Yan is really saving money for the later emperor!