We all know that the Qing Dynasty has a very strange social problem, and this phenomenon is basically very pathological, and it also interprets the situation of the Qing Dynasty officials and eunuchs protecting each other extremely well, in fact, this is what people often call the robbery of silver. It would be unlikely if anyone had not known about it, after all, when such a situation first prevailed as a group action planned and carried out by a special organization!
It is estimated that many people do not know much, in fact, the Treasury of the Qing Dynasty is under the management of the Ministry of Households, generally speaking, the Emperor only occasionally goes to the account book, after all, the emperor of a country will not deliberately go to the silver treasury to verify the specific accounts, and there is no habit of checking whether there is something missing, so on the whole, most of the officials who control it are disposing of these silver twos as they want.
In particular, ministers like those whose status and status are relatively noble have tried their best to turn this kind of silver into existing ones, so they have never been able to expose the actions and corrupt behavior of their subordinates, and it is even more important that the gold and silver have basically been changed before they are sent to the treasury. According to the annals of history, during the Qing Dynasty, a single langzhong alone could embezzle as much as 100,000 taels of silver!
To put it bluntly, the only thing that really wants to steal from the treasury is the lower-ranking treasury officials who help carry the silver and silver, and the reason why these people do this is mainly because they can't wait until they are in the treasury like the commander-in-chief, so they will steal in an inappropriate way before they enter the treasury.
In fact, things related to this kind of silver theft were still a relatively common phenomenon in the Qing Dynasty, especially in addition to the fact that the society at that time was not like the monitoring technology now, so even if it was stolen, no one could find it in time, which gave the person who stole money the opportunity!
During the reign of the Daoguang Emperor, the treasury money embezzled by officials and others alone occupied a large part of the country's money, although it is only according to the records of the ledger that there are as many as 12.18 million silver and two, but it is necessary to know that the total deposit of the national treasury is less than three million, so it is not known where the remaining nine million or so went, but it is obvious from this that we can see how serious and uncontrollable the corrupt atmosphere in society was at that time, right?
But in fact, Min Ning did know about this matter at the beginning, and the specific situation was also very clear in the emperor's heart, but it was only when the thorough investigation was carried out later that it was found that most of the courtiers above the original court were almost involved, and considering the stability of the imperial government, this matter could only be finally covered up, and the emperor only punished a small number of low-level managers.
However, in general, it is precisely because of this series of things involving the theft of silver by the Treasury soldiers during the reign of the Daoguang Emperor that we have further clarified the two major idioms that have been circulating in history: First, the law does not blame the public, but the officials and eunuchs protect each other!
I don't know what you think and how you think after reading the story and content told by today's editor? Anyway, I personally think that this phenomenon in the Qing Dynasty is indeed a bit too unbearable, no wonder there will be a shortage of national treasury in the late Qing Dynasty, after all, the corruption among officials is too common, even the emperor can not deal with everyone, I have to say that it is really sad!