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Speaking of the big corrupt official and Shen, because of the screen performance of the old drama bone teacher Wang Gang, everyone knows and everyone knows!
However, the real history of the adult, not to mention how he is a person, just from the point of view of appearance, and Mr. Wang Gang is diametrically opposed!
He Shen belongs to the handsome appearance of the cream Xiaosheng, in modern society, it is a veritable "little fresh meat", of course, He Shen's appearance is not the focus of this article!
As a well-known corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty, He Shen was favored by Emperor Qianlong, but Emperor Jiaqing hated him to the core!
So, how did Emperor Jiaqing play death and Shen after he ascended the throne? Let's take a look at the specific process, after reading it, you will feel that Emperor Jiaqing still has some means!
In 1796 AD, Emperor Qianlong held a ceremony to take the throne, passed the throne to the emperor's fifteenth son, Prince Jia, and became the emperor, which was the first year of Jiaqing.
However, at this time, Qianlong actually did not give up his power, he clearly stipulated: all major matters of militarism and employment and administration must be personally inquired into, and He Shen was still able to dictate power at this time!
But Qianlong was very old at that time, and one day he would delegate power, and He Shen was very worried and afraid that Jiaqing would settle accounts after the autumn, and he would dispose of him after Qianlong's death, so he took corresponding countermeasures!
For example, try your best to restrict Jiaqing from cultivating and appointing his own people!
After Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, his teacher, Zhu Jue, who was also the governor of Guangdong, "entered the book of songs", which was originally a very normal thing.
But He Shen complained in front of Emperor Qianlong and made accusations, but Qianlong ignored them.
Soon after, Qianlong was ready to summon Zhu Jue back to Beijing and be promoted to a university scholar, and He Shen felt that this was a great threat to himself!
When Jiaqing wrote a poem to congratulate the teacher, He Shen couldn't wait to take the unfinished poem manuscript to complain to Qianlong, falsely claiming that "the emperor is grateful to the master"!
This time, Qianlong was really angry, and asked Dong He, the Minister of Military Aircraft next to him, and said: "What kind of behavior does this belong to in law"?
Fortunately, Dong He immediately knelt down and admonished: "The Holy Lord has no faults"! Qianlong gave up at this time, but Zhu Jue's internal summoning and promotion was finally unfinished!
Subsequently, He Shen found an excuse to encourage Qianlong to demote Zhu Jue's position as governor of Liangguang to the governor of Anhui.
Later, Zhu Jue was successively promoted to the secretary of the military department and the secretary of the ministry, and was supposed to return to Beijing to serve, but He Shen never arranged for the new governor of Anhui to take office, so that Zhu Jue could only continue to stay in office and wait for the handover procedures.
At the same time, He Shen sent his teacher Wu Xinglan to Jiaqing's side, nominally to help Jiaqing sort out the poems, but in fact to monitor Jiaqing's every move.
Emperor Jiaqing also knew very clearly in his heart at this time: as long as Emperor Qianlong was still alive, he would not be able to move Heshen!
Moreover, He Shen can also influence Qianlong's will to a large extent, and if he doesn't do it well, it will be bad for himself!
Therefore, he not only obeyed the emperor in everything, but also never expressed his own opinions, and did not make any changes to political affairs.
tolerated Heshen's continued dictatorship, and only watched all the actions of the gentry, but he was silent at all!
When someone told him that Heshen was not good, he criticized and angrily reprimanded: "I am about to rely on Heshen to govern the country, why should you oppose him"!
If Jiaqing wants to play Ming Qianlong for something, he will even rely on He Shen to play on his behalf, so as to show his full trust in He Shen!
After a period of mutual temptation, Jiaqing finally paralyzed He Shen successfully!
In 1797 AD, that is, in the second year of Jiaqing, the foreman of the military aircraft A Gui died of illness, and He Shen naturally became the new foreman of the military aircraft.
And at this time, Wang Jie, a university scholar, was not used to seeing Heshen, so he had already retired due to illness, and Dong He, the minister of military aircraft, was also worried at home because of the death of his mother.
He Shen even took the opportunity to cut off the connection between Dong He and Emperor Qianlong, so that Dong He could not participate in the military aircraft for two years.
After that, He Shen began to dominate the family in the military aircraft department, wantonly calling for wind and rain!
Moreover, at this time, Emperor Qianlong was getting older, and his memory became extremely poor, and even "yesterday's things were forgotten recently, and what he did in the morning was late or unconscious"!
He Shen immediately "issued the order of the cashier, spoke of the heavenly constitution, commanded the command, and did whatever he wanted", and "the seal was better than the day before yesterday, everyone looked sideways, and no one dared to do anything"!
There is a saying: everything will flourish and decline!
After Jiaqing ascended the throne, He Shen's luck became very bad, and the "unfortunate things" in his family happened one after another!
As early as July of the first year of Jiaqing, the second son who was regarded by He Shen as a pearl in his palm died at the age of two, and a month later, his brother and sister He Lin were infected with miasma in the Guizhou military camp and died!
Such a major misfortune made He Shen lose his arm and suffered a major blow in his life!
Immediately following the following year, that is, in the second year of Jiaqing, He Shen's only grandson also died, and even in February of the third year of Jiaqing, his wife Feng also died and returned to the West!
Although He Shen had many concubines, he had a very deep relationship with his wife Feng, and he wrote many poems to mourn his deceased wife.
Among them, there is a sentence: "Today I cry, who will send me in his year"! Unexpectedly, it became a prophecy!
After losing four relatives in a row in just three years, He Shen himself is about to face the same tragic end!
On February 7, 1799, the third day of the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, Emperor Qianlong died at the age of eighty-nine!
He Shen's backer fell in an instant, and Jiaqing had no scruples, but Jiaqing didn't do anything to He Shen right away.
On the day of Qianlong's death, Jiaqing also designated: He Shen and Prince Rui Chunying and others will take care of Qianlong's funeral!
However, on the same day, although Jiaqing was in a state of grief and chaos, he had secretly passed the message to his teacher Zhu Qi.
Let him hurry back to the capital, and the death knell of He Shen and Lord He has begun to ring secretly at this time!
The next day, that is, on the fourth day of the first lunar month, Jiaqing issued a special edict.
condemned the generals who suppressed the White Lotus Sect uprising at the front: "Wei Si plays with soldiers to raise Kou, and minds risking merit to be rewarded", the spearhead is directed at the backstage and Shen!
On the same day, he was relieved of his post as the minister of military aircraft of Heshen and Fu Chang'an, and ordered him to keep watch in Da Nei day and night, and was not allowed to enter or leave, cutting off the two from the outside world and placing them under house arrest in the palace.
Another day, that is, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, Wang Niansun, who served in the city, and Yushi Guangxing, etc., wrote letters to impeach He Shen for various crimes, which may have been specially instructed by Emperor Jiaqing.
Three days later, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, at the same time as the edict of Emperor Qianlong was announced, Jiaqing announced the dismissal of Heshen and Fu Chang'an from all their positions, and handed them over to the Criminal Department for imprisonment.
He also ordered Prince Cheng Yongxuan, Prince Yi Yongxuan, Prince Ding Mianen, as well as scholars Liu Yong and Dong Huan, and Shangshu Qinggui of the Ministry of War to be responsible for confiscating their family property and interrogating them together.
Three days later, on the 11th day of the first lunar month, after the preliminary investigation and interrogation of the two, Jiaqing announced Heshen's 20 major crimes.
Among them, the main crimes are: "deceiving the monarch and recklessly recklessly, suppressing and shelving military newspapers, appointing private individuals, arrogating the system, and greedy accumulation" and so on.
Emperor Jiaqing also informed the governors of the provinces and ordered them to discuss the conviction of He Shen, which meant that they all wanted to make a statement!
Because Jiaqing condemned He Shen for being convicted of the former emperor Qianlong everywhere in the edict, then it would be more justified to deal with this former emperor's favored minister during the mourning!
Five days later, on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Hu Jitang, the governor of Zhili, was the first to report the recital.
The compromise said: "He Shen is mad, has no king, is sick and sick, greedy and debauched, and is really a shameless villain, please ask the emperor to issue a special decree, and immediately escort He Shen to the city Cao according to the great law, and Ling Chi will be executed"!
Jiaqing immediately approved the royal approval: "Officials above the three grades of Beijing's civil and military affairs, and Han Zhan Kedao, carefully discuss and play, if there are different opinions, you can also seal the performance by yourself."
Jiaqing actually set the tone with this, and at the same time issued an edict, once again reiterating Heshen's 20 major crimes and supplementing the crimes.
Two days later, that is, on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, on February 22, 1799 A.D., a meeting was held in Beijing to meet the Minister of Culture and Military Affairs, and a request was made: "He Shen will be executed according to the Great Reverse Law, and Fu Chang'an will also be beheaded according to the plan of the Friends Party, and the Dharma will be carried out immediately"!
Jiaqing immediately said: He Shen deserves it, and how to deal with it is not too much!
But considering that he was the first and auxiliary minister, for the sake of the national system, he was given the grace to commit suicide, and at the same time, Fu Chang'an changed to "beheading the prisoner", but let him kneel in the cell and watch He Shen commit suicide!
In this way, Jiaqing, who had just been pro-government, from the fourth day of the first month to the eighteenth day of the first month, it only took me fifteen days to solve this favored minister of the former dynasty who had leaned towards the government and the opposition for decades - Lord He Shenhe!
In other aspects, except for Heshen's cronies Yi Jiang'a and Wu Xingqin and others who were punished, those who were promoted by Heshen's promotion or had bribed and welcomed Heshen, Jiaqing ordered that none of them be held accountable!
This move also ensured the stability of the political situation of the Qing Dynasty, and after the death of He Shen, the twists and turns of the governors and governors of various places arrived one after another.
Regardless of their close relationship with He Shen on weekdays, these governors all said that He Shen was extremely evil and should be set up as a model.
Jiaqing said many times in the imperial approval of these twists and turns that he was forced to deal with Heshen: "I have no choice but to suffer, the subjects of the world should know the ears, this fact is not easy, knowing that I am not my own public opinion"!
But Heshen's greed for fame is known to everyone in later generations, and people pay more attention to his huge wealth that rivals the country's wealth, so how much is Heshen's family property?
There are many theories about this, one of which is that the value of the confiscated family property is as high as 220 million taels of silver, which has the greatest influence and is even adopted by some scholars in their research.
In addition, there is also the "Qing Barnyard Banknote" during the Republic of China, which actually said: "If you have no family property, you will have a strange amount of 800 trillion," that is, more than 800 million taels of silver!
This was obviously impossible, and at that time, the national treasury only had an annual income of about 70 million taels of silver.
No matter how greedy He Shen is, it is impossible for him to embezzle the wealth equivalent to the country's fiscal revenue for more than ten years in more than 20 years.
According to the approximate statistics of the existing authoritative archives, when He Shen raided his home, in addition to the confiscated garden residences, a total of more than 3 million taels of various silver coins and more than 32,000 taels of gold were copied.
There are also more than 1,000 hectares of land, that is, more than 100,000 acres, more than 1,000 rent-collecting houses, pawnshops and silver horns, as well as various jewelry and clothing, etc., with a total value of nearly 10 million taels.
This is basically consistent with what the edict said, although in the process of handling, Jiaqing's instructions do not need to be too searching, but it is impossible to miss much.
He Shen was able to control the government for a long time, tilt his power at home and abroad, and do everything possible to accumulate a huge amount of family property, and become rich in the world, relying on Qianlong's extraordinary favor to him.
Once Qianlong is lost as a backer and host, the favored ministers and adults will become kites with broken strings.
Many people must have a question at this time, why did Emperor Qianlong still favor He Shen so much after knowing that He Shen was a huge greed?
In fact, the essence lies in the fact that He Shen is good at observing words and feelings, and can read the heart of Emperor Qianlong!
For Emperor Qianlong in his later years, the ideal state is that he doesn't have to say a word of nonsense.
With just one look or one movement, the official can grasp his intentions and execute them perfectly!
From this point of view, He did an extremely good job, and in the later years of Emperor Qianlong, Qianlong called himself a "perfect old man" and indulged in luxury.
But enjoyment requires burning money, and He Shen is undoubtedly a once-in-a-century genius in terms of managing finances and accumulating wealth.
He not only kept the finances of the Qing Dynasty in good order, but also established the "Guilty Silver" system, so that the money in the hands of corrupt officials could flow directly into Emperor Qianlong's own small treasury without going through the household treasury.
This move supported Emperor Qianlong's huge hedonistic expenses, so it was extremely trusted and reused by Emperor Qianlong!
In the last 20 years of Emperor Qianlong's reign, he became more and more tired of government, indulged in pleasures, and the corrupt behavior of favored ministers such as He Shen could no longer be restrained, which also led to the upward and downward effects, and the atmosphere of officialdom deteriorated!
He Shen amassed a lot of wealth during this period, which appeared to be corruption on the surface, but in essence it was "holding for the country"!
No matter how strong your ability to operate and how rich the wealth you have accumulated, in fact, in the end, you will find out that you have just made a wedding dress for the royal master!
So in the end, "Qianlong enjoyed himself, and He Shen took the blame", and He Shen's money was finally returned to the treasury!
Just imagine, if there is no Heshen and no one is so effective in serving, Qianlong will definitely be unhappy!
However, with more Heshen, he was comfortable to be served again, and after that, he could leave some money for his son Jiaqing, Emperor Qianlong deserved to be the emperor, and this move was extremely clever!
In short, in essence, Heshen is not a "huge greed", Emperor Qianlong is, and the relationship between monarchs and ministers like Qianlong and Heshen is also ubiquitous in modern life, which is also very worthy of thought!
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