Since ancient times, we have produced many corrupt officials in history, and some of them have embezzled a staggering amount of property, such as He yan, whose property is said to be equivalent to the purchase power of silver and silver at that time reached 1.17 billion taels (another said to be 870 million taels), which is equivalent to the sum of the national treasury revenue of the Qing Dynasty for about 11-15 years!
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Today we don't talk about Hezhen, but say that it is one of the four great greedy people in ancient times, Yuan Zai Yuan Gongfu!
There is a saying that has been circulating since ancient times: "Tang Zhiyuan Zai, Song Zhi Cai Jing, Ming Zhi Yan Song, Qing Zhi He Yan"
This sentence explains the status of Yuan Zai in the history of the Tang Dynasty! Compared with the other three, this one has a feature that the other three can't reach! That is, Yuan Zai was so crazy that he didn't even pay attention to the emperor!
Yuan Zai came from a humble origin, so if he wanted to come out, he could only think of a way to climb the family and attach himself to the nobles!
So he married the Tang Dynasty! His wife Wang Yunxiu, this Wang family is not simple! Wang Yunxiu's father was the famous god of war of Tang Xuanzong, and the four towns of Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang, and Hedong were envoys! The man with 260,000 elite soldiers in his hands! Later, he ended up depressed because of falling out of favor!
The Wang family has always looked down on Yuan Zai and often sneered at him! Yuan Zai couldn't stand it and told Wang Yunxiu that he was going to go out and mix! Wang Yunxiu is still very considerate of her husband, and she has a dead heart to go out with him! Also based on poetry!
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Yuan Zai was not from a rich family, just an ordinary family, but he was good at reading and refining his studies, so he changed his situation through the examination and jumped to the first step!
Yuan Zai thought, just relying on his own origin, how difficult it is to climb up! So the time came to exert his climbing ability, and he climbed Li Xiyan! Later, Li Guofu took a fancy to Yuanzai and gave him a lot of care!
During the reign of Emperor Suzong of Tang, Yuan Zai was reused, and he and Li Guofu were in cahoots and did a lot of bad things!
Originally, Li Guofu was a meritorious servant of Emperor Tang Dynasty, and Yuan Zai was promoted to a knight, and they should all thank Li Guofu, but because Emperor Daizong did not like Li Guofu, Yuan Zai helped Emperor Daizong eliminate Li Guofu and another heavy minister, Yu Chao'en! In this way, Yuan Zai became the prime minister and monopolized the government!
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"If it is not a good gold and treasure, and you are on the left side of the road, you are not allowed to enter or leave the imperial court."
This is the rule of Yuan Zaili, if you want to plot things in the DPRK, you must pass his level, otherwise there is no chance!
With the power of Yuan Zai, it began to swell, and his wife Wang Shi also began to be greedy, and with the cooperation of the two of them, both inside and outside the court, they had to pay bribes!
How much money did Yuan Zai really greed?
According to the Book of Tang, "Anointing other karmas, looking at each other in the realm" "The name is very different, and the inner court is not up to it"
Presumably it means real estate, this end to that end, a street is, what servants in the family employ people, strange services, even the palace is not as good as their home!
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It is said that at that time, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an, there were a total of 109 workshops! In general, there are hundreds of households in the folk square! Yuan Zai's real estate occupies three squares so big! If only today, he would be a veritable "Uncle Fang"! In Luoyang, we have also built our own garden!
What's more exaggerated is that his private mansion was built at a great price! The walls are mashed with vanilla and mixed with dirt, so that the house is always fragrant! What window lintels, screen furniture, are made of precious wood! Trimmed with gold and silver!
Yuan Zai's weekday food is also extremely luxurious, what mountain treasures and seafood, shark fin bird's nest are not the same! There are dozens of concubines around! There were hundreds of maidservants!
It is said that when raiding Yuanzai's mansion, as many as 800 stones of pepper were found! This is what the people paid tribute to him, and these 800 stones totaled more than sixty tons! The people of Chang'an City can't eat so much in a year! Pepper was a luxury at the time, as rare as shark fin bird's nest! So he desperately collected the pepper!
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Emperor Daizong was very angry when he saw these things in his family, you are a prime minister, richer than my Li family royal family, I can let you go, so Yuan Zai in addition to the full door was destroyed, even Yuan Zai's ancestral grave was dug up by Tang Dynasty Zong!
In fact, in every prosperous world, there will be such people, they use the power in their hands to seek benefits for themselves, this is also the nature of human beings, in the face of material enjoyment, there is no end!