* "He Yan fell and Jiaqing was full", which was a very popular saying in that year, but He Yan fell, jiaqing did not eat enough, it seems that the emperor of the Qing Dynasty will never have enough to eat.
* The more popular saying is that the family property of Hezhen is the treasury income of the Qing Dynasty for fifteen years, that is to say, as long as the home of Hezhen is copied, even if Jiaqing does not collect any taxes for fifteen years, the national treasury is also substantial. But in fact, Jiaqing did not collect less at all, and in the end it was still not enough, and the people who were forced to go desperate by the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes rose up one after another, and once even broke into the palace, and the Jiaqing Emperor himself was chased by assassins in broad daylight.
* The foregoing is a bit off-topic, let's return to the book, look at the twenty major sins that Jiaqing gave to Hezhen, it is nothing more than the horse's ass slapped on the horse's leg (sending Ruyi), sitting in a palanquin into the Shenwu Gate (Qianlong allowed), marrying a eliminated palace girl (ordinary people can also marry), Qianlong was sick He was not in a hurry (wronged), and the family had a huge amount of property (did not say that the source is unknown).
* Although there are twenty major crimes, but in the calculation, dismissal from office for the people is too severe punishment, how can it be that the order to commit suicide has become "lenient treatment"?
* He Yan is damned, and he is not wronged to die ten times, but the crime of killing him is really ridiculous, because the Jiaqing Emperor did not dare to mention the real damn crime of He Yan, and the officials of the three judicial divisions (the Punishment Department, the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, and the Dali Temple) who presided over the trial did not dare to ask, but everyone knew it: As a capable and dozens of officials, it is not a big deal to do something wrong, just change it! But there is one great crime, which must be killed, and that is embezzlement and bribery, and the amount is extremely large.
* Everyone may not believe it, but there is no crime of "embezzlement" in the "Great Qing Laws", only a "guard who steals money and grain from the warehouse", and the amount reaches forty-two silver, then he will lose his head.
* The biggest embezzler was Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, who was known as the Qianlong Emperor.
* To say that this Qianlong Emperor was still good in the early stages of the government, developing the economy to improve people's livelihood and maintain unity, he still did some practical things, but as the world rose to peace, the emperor began to be proud and complacent and even corrupt, so that he became one of the best embezzlers since the Qing Dynasty (the one who can match him is Cixi).
* At this time, some people will feel incomprehensible: the whole world is his, "the whole world can not be the royal land", how can he spend his own money call corruption?
* In fact, this idea is justified in the era of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties (late slavery), when the fiefdom was the private property of a certain person, and in feudal society, the emperor and the state were two different things, the state's money was the state's money, and the emperor's money was the emperor's money.
* This situation was especially clear in the Ming and Qing dynasties: unruly expenses, or Hubu Shangshu did not approve notes, the emperor was overbearing, and did not want to take out one or two pieces of silver from the national treasury, if Hubu gave and the emperor did not pay back, then Hubu Shangshu would have to lose his head and bear the stigma of "Yu Chen".
* But the emperor also has to eat, but also to have marriage and funeral, don't worry, there was also a way: the household department allocated funds to him on a monthly basis, reasonable expenses, such as the emperor's marriage (limited to the empress), death, this money is reimbursed separately.
*How much appropriation did the household department of the Qing Dynasty give to the emperor in a year? According to the regulations, it is 600,000 taels per year, that is, 50,000 taels per month, and this money is directly allocated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to spend, including the empress's annual salary of 2,000 taels, gold 20 taels, the empress's 1,000 taels, the imperial concubines 800 taels, until the noble concubines, concubines, concubines, nobles, and often decreasing, to the emperor's lowest-level wife is about 50 taels.
* The rest of the palace women and eunuchs are tens of thousands, that is, they nibble on steamed buns and drink thin porridge every day, and fifty thousand taels of silver per month are not enough, not to mention the poverty and luxury of gold and jade, so in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the matter of starving the little eunuchs happened from time to time.
* Fifty thousand and twenty a month is certainly not enough, but as an emperor there are other incomes, including the emperor's own land (that is, the emperor's own land, Qianlong's most, reaching more than one million and a half million acres), and all the income from that land goes into the emperor's small treasury; There are also the emperor's monopoly on the trade of ginseng, pi zhang, and Xinjiang jade (the emperor also does business, and the errand runners are called imperial merchants, who sometimes operate salt and iron monopolies), and the local specialties of tribute from various places (of course, they are all valuable things).
* These miscellaneous incomes add up to a million taels per year, and statistics say that during Qianlong's reign of sixty years, the total income of his ministry of internal affairs was eighty million taels, and it is said that the income of one hundred and twenty thousand taels per year was enough to be spent--but it had to be a normal emperor, and Qianlong, a poor and extravagant master who wanted to talk about pomp and circumstance, seemed to be stretched, so he wanted to extend his hand to the treasury.
* However, the national treasury was borrowed by officials during the Kangxi period, leaving only a bunch of IOUs, and the Kangxi Emperor was not personally rich, so he knew that the deficit of Jiangning weaving Cao Yin was eaten by his southern tour, and he could not come up with money to pay off Cao Yin's debts, and as a result, Cao Yin was raided.
* It is not easy for Yongzheng to save up some family foundations, Qianlong can use the war disaster relief, but buy jewelry for the big and small wives or travel by themselves, this unjust money household department is absolutely unwilling to give.
* At this time, the sympathetic Hezhen appeared, and his most profitable position at that time was the Chongwenmen Taxation Officer (Chongwenmen Supervision) - here readers should not think that this position is to guard the Chongwen Gate to collect taxes, in fact, this Yamen is in charge of the collection of taxes in the whole capital, and the "tax surplus" is to enter the emperor's pocket.
*However, in that year, a fixed amount of tax was implemented, and within the quota, it was to be handed over to the household department, where did the surplus come from? This is where he has to find a way: take out the ability to grab ice, make fire, roll sand and ask for oil, and strip the official Shang Jiapan who entered Beijing and stripe away, and the silver will be divided into two strands like seawater, one into Qianlong's pocket and one into Hezhen's private pocket.
* Some people have summed up the four major irons of the relationship between superiors and subordinates, including "sharing the booty together", and one of the other three is not suitable for children, so let's not say.
* After sharing the first sum of stolen goods with Qianlong, he and Yan Qingyun went straight up, and the internal affairs office and the household department were all under the control of Hezhen - this is equivalent to a unit accountant and cashier working part-time, and the spending account can be done as much as you want.
* He Yan's corruption is to share the booty with Qianlong, and of course, if you accept a bribe, you must also share it with Qianlong, which is not called sharing the booty, this has a nice name, called "jin offering".
* Qianlong wanted to build a pure gold pagoda to hold the hair of his mother (empress), the gold was not enough, and He Yan called on manchu Wenwu to "donate", and of course, he Yan came out with the largest share. He Yan also invented the "Silver of Discussion", in which anyone who committed a crime or could commit a crime was required to pay a sum of silver to He Yan (actually to Qianlong) to be exempted from punishment.
* Qianlong liked the Southern Tour as much as his grandfather Kangxi, but unlike Kangxi, who was poor and cao Yin, Qianlong Southern Tour was a boy who scattered wealth, not only the huge amount of money spent, but also the rewards everywhere, often thousands of taels of silver, but every time he came back, there was a surplus - this is also thanks to Hezhen, who had publicly asked for "contributions" from local officials and salt merchants in advance, which was actually an open bribe.
* He Yan collected money, Qianlong sealed the official, these two people cooperated with tacit understanding, and the bribery was thus completed in front of the people of the world. Qianlong ate well, drank well, had fun, his pockets had become bulging, and when he went home, he could still buy some gold and silver jewelry for his wife, and as for how many heads he had drawn from it, Qianlong naturally turned a blind eye, hello and hello, as for how the people below exploited the people back to their roots, this is not something that the Qianlong Emperor and the chief military minister should care about.
* He Yan fed Qianlong, Qianlong fattened He Yan, and finally he Yan this fat duck was slaughtered by the Jiaqing Emperor, so did He Yan's family property enter the treasury controlled by the household department? Sorry, you are disappointed, according to the "regulations", this money went into the Internal Affairs Office, that is, into the personal pocket of the Jiaqing Emperor, and even the large mansion of Hezhena, which was comparable to the imperial palace, was also given to the seventeenth brother Yongxuan by the fifteenth brother, becoming the largest royal palace in the Qing Dynasty.
* Seeing this, I think the readers have already understood: the main envoy of Hezhen's corruption and bribery is Qianlong, which is also the fundamental reason why the Jiaqing Emperor did not dare to deal with Hezhen with the crime of embezzlement and bribery, although the Jiaqing Emperor was called "Renjun", but in the face of Hezhen's huge family property, it was not as noble as some people imagined, the qing dynasty's treasury was as poor as ever, the emperors were as rich as ever, the common people were as miserable as ever, and the Qing Dynasty was running wild on the road to extinction, and Ladu could not hold back...