We know that the Qing Dynasty existed for more than 270 years, went through twelve emperors, and finally came to an end in 1912.
In these two hundred years, there have been many emperors who have been remembered by history and gossiped by the people, and the Three Dynasties of Kang Yongqian are the most widely known eras, but in the history of the Qing Dynasty, there is such an emperor, known as the most critical emperor, this person is the Daoguang Emperor!
Daoguang (September 16, 1782 – February 25, 1850) lived in an era when the external environment was not friendly to himself and to the Qing Dynasty as a whole.
During his reign, he already embodied the crumbling trend of the Qing Dynasty, during which the tragic Yadi War in Chinese history occurred, which brought heavy disasters to China.
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The Qing Dynasty had reached the middle and late stages at this time, but its system had not changed much.
When the Qing Dynasty began with the Qianlong Dynasty, it was already an era of spending money with a lot of money, to Jiaqing, and then to Daoguang. It can be said that the treasury of the Qing Dynasty was almost empty.
The Yapian War used up 30 million taels of silver from the national treasury, and at the same time, the post-war reparations made the Qing Dynasty stretched thin, and coupled with the floods of the Yellow River for many years, Daoguang used up 23 million taels of silver for disaster relief. Daoguang had to tighten his pants belt to get by!
According to legend, Daoguang once had a reluctance to eat eggs for breakfast, and Chinese food was limited to 4 dishes, and many county officials spent much more than Daoguang.
In the 22nd year of Daoguang, the treasury treasury, Zhang Chengbao and Zhang Hengzhi, in order to donate Zhizhou to Zhang Hengzhi's son Zhang Lihong, wanted to get the shortage of Zhizhou by donating 11474 silver. In the process of operation, the combination of inside and outside caused more than 4100 pieces of silver to be collected less, and when the Zhang family was ready to transport the more than 4,000 pieces of silver out of the warehouse, they were discovered by others, so they asked the Zhang family for a benefit fee, and they poked this matter out without giving it. In the end, he was unable to keep the secret.
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Historical records record: In the twenty-third year of Daoguang, the treasury officials were unevenly divided into silver and silver, and they attacked themselves internally, and their affairs could not be re-concealed, reaching the heavenly court."
That is to say, because of the uneven distribution of the stolen goods, and finally poked this matter out, Daoguang knew that after the anger, and then let the household department check the account inventory, the result is that the book surplus is 12.18 million taels, the actual treasury silver is only 2.93 million taels, that is to say, the stolen treasury silver reached 9.25 million taels.
Faced with this situation, Daoguang was also helpless, killing several ministers, but failed to recover the stolen Treasury Silver.
Daoguang began his hard life, once the queen had a birthday, he killed two pigs to entertain the courtiers, and the staple food was actually a bowl of brine noodles per person.
What's even more funny is that in order to oppose the extravagant wind, Daoguang's dragon robe is washed off and discolored, and it is patched when it is rotten. The following group of courtiers saw that Daoguang was dressed like this, and deliberately patched their imperial clothes to cater to Daoguang's taste.
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How did officials such as Fukuku Hyogo Ding steal so much silver from the Treasury of the Qing Dynasty?
It is said that there are various methods, and we know that the treasury of any dynasty must be strictly guarded, and it is impossible to come up with things so easily, and the Qing Dynasty is no exception.
Before the kushi soldiers enter the warehouse to work, they must change into overalls to enter the silver warehouse, first take off their clothes, go through an inspection channel naked, and then put on their overalls in a special place to change their overalls and start working. After the work is done, I have to take off my overalls, pass through the inspection channel naked, and wear my own clothes when I come out.
Why does a seemingly flawless program cause the Treasury to be taken out of the Treasury?
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There are still three main factors:
1, collusion between the top and the bottom, accomplices to commit crimes, as long as it is a matter of people doing, there will be loopholes, can not do everything. If the entire Kuding kuo hyogo management is one heart, then even if there are these procedures, the treasury can be taken out of the treasury.
2, "teapot with silver", this is a kind of blind spot using inspection, for this wave of operation, they customized a special teapot, this teapot pot is deep and narrow, when they enter the treasury in winter, they load tea, and then put the silver into the teapot, use the low temperature to freeze the silver in the pot, when the warehouse is inspected, pour out the tea, and the silver frozen on the inner wall is still in the teapot, so that it is unconsciously brought out of the silver vault.
3, "macaques steal silver", this method is also very magical, it is said that during the Qing Dynasty, in order to prevent the theft of treasury silver, the treasury soldiers trained several macaques to guard the inner library, macaques like to imitate people's movements, so the treasury soldiers came up with a strange trick, let the monkeys imitate people to smoke, and this kind of smoke is added to the smoke of the ya piece, smoking will be addictive.
After the monkeys become addicted, they train the monkeys to steal the silver, and when they steal the silver, there will be smoke, and if they don't steal, there will be no smoke, and when the addiction occurs, the monkeys have to listen to them and steal the silver.
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In fact, I want to say that the first possibility is the most likely, the latter two methods, it is impossible to take out silver in large quantities, only the first method can do it, in fact, Daoguang also knows the reasons for this, but he is not a strong emperor, and many times he can't help himself. To say that he was a good emperor is not to be said, but he was at least not a bad man.