When Cao Xueqin's house was raided, how many properties did they have? Yongzheng's heart was half cold after getting the list

Among the four great Chinese masterpieces, the author of the book Dream of Red Mansions is Cao Xueqin, who was poor in the second half of his life and can be said to be a down-and-out literati, but if you really check the information, it is not difficult to find that Cao Xueqin's family is very prominent. It is said that his father became a Jiangning manufacturer and was deeply valued by the emperor, but why Yongzheng would confiscate his family property and why did he make Yongzheng's heart half cold, history is actually very interesting to tell you slowly.

The rise and fall of the family described by Cao Xueqin in Dream of Red Mansions, as well as the love story of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, are very poignant, and the description in the Grand View Garden makes people think of a rich family, whether the Grand View Garden described by Cao Xueqin will be the epitome of his ancestors. To say that Cao Xueqin's family has to start from the Dolgon era, when the Qing Dynasty has not yet entered the customs, the Cao family is the coat on the Dolgon Mansion, it can be said that Dolgon trusts the Cao family very much, relying on Dolgon's Cao family is also a little famous, and later Dolgon died The Cao family took refuge in the Shunzhi Emperor to serve, many times when Kangxi went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he lived in the Cao family many times, as for the cost, the Cao family can embezzle public funds even if they can't afford it, anyway, just make Kangxi happy, Cao Xueqin was born in such a family is naturally a famous family.

But soon with Yongzheng's succession to the throne, the Cao family began to be liquidated by Yongzheng, you must know that being an official in the officialdom is naturally to understand corruption, the Cao family bribed officials themselves to get oil and water, Kangxi can turn a blind eye when he is in power, but Emperor Yongzheng is not used to the Cao family, Yongzheng has been reigning for more than ten years is to do the work of anti-corruption and clean government, in his eyes, whether it is a member of the imperial court or a seven-grade county order, if you borrow public funds and can't pay them back, then you will go to jail, at that time Suzhou made Li Xu was reported by the minister of the court, and he was arrested, during the interrogation process, Li Xu told all his corruption, and his home was also copied, and people were also demoted to commoners, and Li Xu also confessed Jiangning's Cao family in prison, for which Yongzheng was very angry and originally wanted to copy the Cao family, but thinking about the relationship between the Cao family and Emperor Kangxi, he also issued a holy decree, asking the Cao family to hand over all the money owed to the treasury within three years, otherwise the Cao family would be raided, and Cao Yin replied that he must make up for the shortfall.

But after five years, Yongzheng found that the Cao family still did not make up the shortfall, but the accounts were in a mess, and in anger, he asked the chief inspector to copy the Cao family.

You must know that in the eyes of the governor, the Cao family is a famous family, and they must be able to search a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, but when the family property is counted, it is found that the Cao family has a total of more than 480 houses and 19 hectares 60 acres of land with a population of more than 140 silver tickets and more than 100 silver tickets, this number made the governor suspect that the Cao family was hiding the money, so he raided it again, but unfortunately nothing was confiscated, the Cao family also owed the court public funds 31,000 taels of silver did not pay back, the governor told Emperor Yongzheng about this, Emperor Yongzheng was very surprised, his heart was already half cold, he knew that when Cao Yin was manufacturing, but he embezzled so much money, where did the money go.

Later, after further investigation, I learned that all the money was given to Huo Huo by more than 100 people in the house, and every time Kangxi stayed at the Cao family, Cao Yin contributed most of the family property, so the Cao family actually didn't have so much money, Yongzheng figured it out and released all the people of the Cao family, and later the Cao family paid off the public funds through a friend's relationship, Cao Xueqin was just a teenager at the time, he watched the officers and soldiers come in and rummage through the cabinets, and his grandmother hugged him very frightened, so the prototype of Dream of Red Mansions is Cao Xueqin's own big family。

Later, when Qianlong succeeded to the throne, after reading Cao Xueqin's book, he immediately ordered a ban on the sale of this book, which was nothing more than to see the Cao family's dissatisfaction with his father Yongzheng, but still did not send someone to hunt down Cao Xueqin, which can be regarded as an open side.