Hejun has a lot of money, you can know by looking at the Jiaqing Emperor's family directory, which is not listed here, and the total amount can be used to reach the total financial sum of the fifteen years of the Qing Dynasty.
Hejun does have his own skills, and most of the wealth is embezzled or operated, and it is certainly not directly embezzled treasury silver.
Otherwise, with such a huge amount of wealth, Ai Xin Jueluo would not be able to operate it early in the morning, and the Qianlong Emperor would not agree.
So, how did Hekan's huge wealth come about?
First, young and high positions, power gains
He was in a high position at a young age, and it was impossible to say that he did not embezzle, but the proportion of pure corruption was not as high as imagined, and of course he could not be whitewashed. To be precise, a large part is power income.
He held and concurrently held dozens of important positions, among which the more powerful were the chief university member of the cabinet, the foreman of the military aircraft, the official shangshu, the household shangshu, the criminal department shangshu, the Rifanin shōshō, and the minister of the interior of the bodyguard.
As for his concurrent Hanlin Academy master, infantry commander, etc., it is a high position in the eyes of others, but it is really not too high a position for Hejun.
These positions do not mention helping people to be promoted to official affairs, just every New Year's holiday, and the gift money is soft.
As for the people who seek peace and promote officials, including high-ranking officials of various ministries and superintendents of various places, the cost of thanking them is naturally expensive.
2. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the emperor's small treasury
There are some positions, not how much power there is, but can handle a lot of wealth, commonly known as "fat difference".
The most typical is the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The reason why royal tribute often appears in Hejun's home is also through this position.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs is in charge of royal affairs, and there are "seven divisions and three courts" under it, and specific matters such as royal meals, clothing, storage, etiquette, engineering, farms, animal husbandry, guards, mountain harvesting, etc., the projects are extremely complicated.
Moreover, the Ministry of Internal Affairs also controls the salt administration, divides the collection of passes, and receives tribute, which can be described as the fat difference among the fat difference. The Qianlong Emperor was very happy, and naturally the internal affairs office needed a lot of money and food.
And Hejun used the slaves of the Internal Affairs Office to use the name of the royal family to take advantage of the situation. During his tenure, he acquired millions of hectares of land and hundreds of properties, worth a lot.
3. At the same time, he is in charge of the two libraries of the Son of Heaven in the north and south
Tianzi Beiku refers to the Chongwenmen tax customs.
After the end of the Grand Canal was changed from Jishuitan to Tongzhou, Chongwenmen became an important passage to Beijing by water.
Later, whether it was transported into Beijing or overland, they had to be inspected and pay taxes here.
Tianzi Nanku refers to the Guangdong Customs, which is a fertilizer unit with the same name as Chongwenmen Tax Customs.
One of the points of Hejunniu is that all the tax silver in these two places is not directly included in the state treasury, but a considerable part is directly put into the Internal Affairs Office, that is, the emperor's small treasury. The Qianlong Emperor was naturally happy, and turned a blind eye to Hejun's corrupt behavior.
Fourth, the old and spicy investment vision
To take an example, in the 52nd year of Qianlong, peasant uprisings took place in several places in the Great Qing Dynasty, and landlords in various places sold their land and real estate at very low prices in order to flee, and Helong took this opportunity to hoard a large amount of land.
When the situation stabilizes and land prices recover, the land will be sold at a high price again, or leased. It is enough to see the vision and boldness of Wachudo.
He has invested in finance, pawnshops, real estate, medicine, commerce, logistics, mining and other industries, and even established business contacts with Guangdong Thirteen Lines and the British East India Company.
5. Generate income without income
He has an excellent mind and creates income without income:
Although the annual salary of Hejun is only more than 100 taels, the maintenance of cheap silver is as high as more than 100,000 taels.
On the birthday of the Qianlong Emperor, officials in various places had to give gifts, and Helong was afraid that local officials would not understand things, so he specially initiated "offering silver", personally responsible for it, and kept silver in his hands;
If an official makes a mistake and does not want to bear the consequences, then create "silver for sin", which can be used to atone for sins, and different prices are set according to different crimes, and the same is kept in silver.
One year Qingzhifu, 100,000 snowflake silver.
This is only talking about the prefect, let alone Hekan. But whether rich or not, Qing or not, after the death of the Qianlong Emperor, the three-foot white aya and Helong were also punished by the Jiaqing Emperor, and all wealth became a passing cloud.