Since ancient times, all things have happened by accident, and how great a person's achievements are inseparable from this person's ability, and those who are of high status or very famous are better than others, whether they are good at sneaking horses or good at observing colors or have good moral character and outstanding ability to do things. In short, there will definitely be places that ordinary people can't do, maybe this person will have many shortcomings, but if a person is full of shortcomings, then this person is unlikely to succeed.
He Yan Manchurian Zhenghongqi people, surnamed Niu Hulu, Manchu meaning "wolf". He played his most wonderful, gorgeous, greedy and cunning life.
So if a person wants to be admired and respected forever, then it depends on how this person uses his superiority, there is such an official in the Qing Dynasty, he was the biggest favorite of Qianlong's side, it can be said that at that time he was rich enough to rival the country, very rich, but after Qianlong abdicated, he was killed quickly, and everyone must know who he was referring to.
Yes, he is a very famous corrupt official and Yan in the Qing Dynasty and even in history. So today I will tell you a story about Hezhen. Everyone only knows that He Yan is a very arrogant and very domineering corrupt official, but everyone has thought about it carefully, if He Yan will not know anything but greed, then how can he stay in front of Qianlong for so long, you must know that although Qianlong will enjoy himself, Qianlong is not a dimwitted king.
So Hezhen is definitely superior, so today I will tell you a story of Hezhen. In the Qing Dynasty, there was such a custom that when the emperor had a birthday, he had to hold a banquet for a thousand people, which was actually similar to the banquet held by the old man now, because the Qing Dynasty attached great importance to filial piety, so it advocated this way of giving the old man a birthday, and another reason was to want to improve the emperor's status in the hearts of the people in the world, so that the Qing Dynasty could continue to prosper.
Therefore, this custom began after the Qing Dynasty regime was basically stable during the Kangxi Period, and when Kangxi celebrated his sixtieth birthday, the Qing Dynasty held the first Thousand Sorrows Banquet, the so-called Thousand Sorrows Banquet, which was to let those elderly ministers or people with status come to the palace to feast. This feast was not only the first time, but also left this good impression on posterity, which can be described as a very successful one, so after this feast of thousands of people, Kangxi's influence became higher and higher in the Qing Dynasty.
And here in Qianlong, the Qing Dynasty regime has been very stable, and also very prosperous, so Qianlong also wanted to learn from his grandfather so that future generations can remember himself, so he decided to hold a feast of a thousand sorcerers on his sixtieth birthday, and gave this task to Hezhen, who naturally did not dare to be sloppy, so after receiving the task, he hurriedly investigated the specifications and exquisiteness of the previous thousand feasts, and then decided to take hot pot as the staple food of this feast.
So after consulting with Jiaqing's teacher Zhu Gui, he wrote to Qianlong, Qianlong also felt that this plan was good, so He yan began to prepare the things used for the banquet, in addition to other things needed, the most important side dish of this banquet was the twelve more famous foods proposed by Qianlong himself, but in the process of preparation, he found that there was a side dish that was unevenly prepared, that is, the flying dragon breast, because the flying dragon breast was the meat of a bird on the Changbai Mountain, but because of the weather in that year, it snowed very early. Therefore, hunters cannot enter the mountain, so this kind of flying dragon breast is very rare.
He Yan spent a lot of effort and could not make it, and had no choice but to ask Zhu Gui for help, but because of what He Yan did in the court, and Zhu Gui was a good official, he did not want to take care of He Yan, so he was in a hurry, and what the emperor said could not be recovered, so this ingredient must be available, and He Yan also knew that Qianlong was a person who was very good at food, so he could not falsify it.
Just when He yan was worried, his wife made some watermelon clams to give he yan in order to relieve the pressure, and when he saw these watermelon clams, his brain opened and he immediately thought of a way to solve the problem of not enough flying dragon breasts, and originally sent people to carve a model of flying dragon birds with ice cubes, and then placed the flying dragon breasts on the wings of the flying dragon birds, because the area on the wings of the flying dragon bird was limited after all, so there was very little, so it also solved the problem of not enough flying dragon breasts.
At the beginning of the banquet, almost everyone present was full of praise for the ice sculpture of this flying dragon bird, and no one had gone to see how much the flying dragon was, originally Zhu Gui wanted to take this opportunity to make Hezhen faceless in front of the emperor, but now it was obviously not. In this matter we can see that Hezhen is a very intelligent and flexible minister.
However, because he did not use his ingenuity where he was, it was a pity that he was executed soon after the Jiaqing Emperor ascended to the throne. If was he to use his abilities to govern the country, then he might become a good official. But history is like this we can't change, but we can learn from it and be a useful person to society.