Presumably everyone has heard of the drama "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", I think that this drama was more popular than the north and south of the river, men and women, young and old are favored, and the protagonists in it are even more wonderful to interpret the role.
Among them, Hekun, played by Teacher Wang Gang, is hegemonic and greedy for money, bullying soft and afraid of hard, often patting Qianlong's ass, fighting wits and courage with Ji Xiaolan, living off a "villain" image, and not losing some funny colors, but earning enough laughter from the audience.
So what did the historical Hekun look like? It can be said that he is the "grandfather" of corrupt officials, and his greed for money may be beyond the imagination of everyone. According to some historical records, at that time, Jiaqing was "unaccustomed" to Hekun, knowing that he was full of private pockets and power was tilted toward the opposition, so he took the opportunity to eradicate him and raid his home and confiscate it.
Jiaqing was very angry at Hekun's corruption at that time, and felt that the amount of money he was greedy for was too large. So he asked him sarcastically, can you spend all the money you are greedy for? Unexpectedly, after saying two things to Kun, Jiaqing was dumbfounded, so what exactly did he say?
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He Kun has been a "second generation official" since he was a child, and his father is the deputy capital of Fujian, a high official of Zhengerpin, who should have been prosperous and wealthy for a lifetime, with no worries about food and clothing, and as a rich man, idle and happy for a lifetime.
Unfortunately, the good days did not last long, and Hekun's mother unfortunately had difficult childbirth when he was three years old, leaving him a younger brother and leaving him. His mother died and had a father by his side to take care of him and grow up healthy, but unfortunately his father also left him due to illness when he was nine years old.
Originally, his father was a high-ranking official of Zheng Erpin, and the family's remaining family property could also be used by him and his brother without worries, but there were still many concubines in the family before his father, and once the old man died, these people were busy eating, drinking, and having fun, who would also manage a person who had no relatives with himself, and the property was almost divided up by others.
Since then, Hekun and his brother seem to have become outsiders to this family, living a life under the fence. Fortunately, Hekun is a very contentious child, he studies very hard, reads poetry and books, has a superb memory, and is extremely powerful at a glance and ten lines.
Later, he entered the Forbidden City to study. He cherished this opportunity very much, here, he immersed himself in studying, looking at the six roads, listening to the eight directions, handling things carefully, and focusing on learning, it was bound to get ahead and let himself live a good life. Not only is he able to read through the Four Books and Five Classics, but he is also proficient in manchu, Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan and other languages, and is a rare talent.
Later, the appearance of a person completely changed the fate of Hekun's life. He Kun met The Punishment Department Shangshu Yinglian at that time, yinglian family members Ding thin, only one granddaughter left, has always wanted to find a door-to-door son-in-law, and Hekun is clever, effective, and handsome, so he gave his granddaughter Xu to Hekun.
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As a result, Yinglian took care of Hekun everywhere, and later used his power to get him to the emperor as a royal guard. After that, Hekun became a big red man in front of the emperor step by step, just like an open hanging.
In fact, when he first arrived at the emperor, like Kun and the other guards, he was just a guard and had no right to speak. However, as the saying goes, a person's talent will not be buried in the end, the books read and the work used will not be wasted, and one day it will be able to help you.
After many contacts with the emperor, Qianlong was also deeply attracted by the little bodyguard beside him. He Kun was full of poetry books, very talented, often able to discuss poetry books with the emperor, to relieve Qianlong's boredom, plus he could speak the Tao, have high emotional intelligence, could talk, was very good at pleasing Qianlong, and was deeply loved by the emperor.
As a result, Qianlong promoted him to the position of minister of treasury management, and Hekun did not live up to the emperor's expectations of him, and completed the work very well, doing things without leaking, and was very standard and powerful, which won the emperor's praise.
For the first few years, he was like chicken blood. He worked diligently and diligently, desperately seized every opportunity, and was promoted almost every year, and the emperor relied heavily on him, entrusting him with all kinds of things, large and small.
However, once the power is great, people are prone to fall into the vortex of corruption. At first, he was honest and inspirational, but as he climbed higher and higher, his mentality began to change differently, and he became more and more eager for power and money.
Especially in his later years, it can be said that he "made" to the starting point. With the emperor's love for him, he flaunted everywhere, and did whatever it took for the sake of power. Corruption, forming parties for personal gain, playing small tricks, excluding dissidents, suppressing all voices that are not conducive to himself, and so on are all small tricks he habitually uses.
At one time, the power was tilted toward the opposition and dominated the court, and the people dared to be angry at his behavior. In the later period, in Qianlong's later years, when his physical condition was not good and his consciousness was blurred, he and Qianlong hung the curtain together to listen to the government, and ran before and after running for Qianlong to help him take care of the government.
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So what did such a scheming Hekun say that made Jiaqing dumbfounded? At that time, after Hekun was arrested, Jiaqing decided to give him a white aya to kill him, and before leaving, Jiaqing also came to visit him in the big prison, because in these years, as early as when Qianlong was still in power, Jiaqing looked at Hekun unfavorably, and this move was only to come to the prison to satirize and satirize Hekun, and he did not expect to be dumbfounded by Hekun.
When Jiaqing questioned him about his greed for money, He Kun said that Qianlong Ye liked to travel around, and jiangnan alone went down six times, and these daily expenses were very expensive when traveling, and everything large and small had to be arranged by the slaves, and the emperor did not want to move the money in the treasury because of his face, so the money had to be taken from the slaves' money bags.
And Qianlong Ye also likes all kinds of rare treasures, collects all kinds of treasures and antiques, lives a luxurious life, and is content with pleasure, then these have to be arranged with Kun, and these money spent by slaves, Qianlong Ye never asks, in fact, it is also a default to let And Kun greedy.
In addition, Hekun said that his greedy money was often out of helplessness, others sent him some "small gifts" to ask him to do things, let him help, that many times out of feelings, face, he also accepted, then later more and more greedy.
In fact, like many corrupt officials, he feels that it doesn't matter if you "help each other" because of your feelings, but when your position is higher and the more greedy you are, your desires will not be able to be contained, and finally to the situation of no return, it is difficult to stop.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="50" > Summary:</h1>
If Hekun had been able to maintain his original intention and resist the temptation of power and money to stick to his bottom line, with his talent and ability, he could have gone higher and farther, and he would not have ended up with a family raider.