On September 21, 2005, a grand funeral was held in the city of Beijing. From the cabinet university scholars, down to the six ministries and nine secretaries, even Zhang Tingyu also put down his work and went to attend the funeral. On such a scale, people can't help but think that it should be which prince or imperial court official died.
What people did not expect was that the identity of the deceased was just ordinary people, a well-known stonemason in the capital at that time, whose name was Yu Junbi. Since the deceased was a stonemason, why could such a grand and solemn funeral be held? But why did they cause these many dignitaries to come to the spirits of the dead and bend down their noble waists and bend their noble golden knees? Speaking of which, it is nothing more than for the word "money".
It turned out that this Yu Junbi was not an ordinary stonemason, in today's terms, a high-level contractor, who undertook royal projects, and the silver naturally existed. At that time, the Ministry of Works undertook a royal project, and the minister had to be sent to survey it, then the Ministry of Households allocated funds, and finally the Minister of Repair designated the specific craftsmen.
The so-called royal projects are all corrupt projects, and the household departments, the ministries of works, and even the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who participated in the construction were all divided into them, and basically 70% of the project money was taken away by these moths, and the rest were used for labor.
However, for the craftsmen who specifically undertake the project, anyway, the water is rising, and the budget of the project is increased as much as possible, so that the wool is added to the sheep, and the silver of the national treasury is used.
Yu Junbi and the Ministry of Works have been dealing with each other all their lives, participating in the construction of almost every project, and accumulating a large amount of family property over the decades, which is said to be as many as a million taels.
Unfortunately, Yu Junbi, who has such a wealth, has no children under his knees. So before he died, he took in many dry sons, dry daughters, and dry grandchildren. As soon as this person lost his breath, these dry children and daughters thought about how to inherit the family property.
Yu Junbi had a son named Xu Bingyi, who had followed Yu Junbi for many years, had strong mobility, and was very familiar with the officials of the various departments of the imperial court, so he wanted to swallow the family property alone. However, after all, his name is not right, and it is difficult to overwhelm the Yu family and other cadres and daughters. Therefore, he used his communication skills to stage this big drama.
Xu Bingyi found Xu Wangyou, who was then a minister of ceremonies and a cabinet scholar, and gave him a generous gift to the Zong family. Then he asked Wang You to come forward and invite the Manchu Minister of Culture and Military Affairs to attend the funeral. He also promised that all those who came to the funeral would be paid an unequal amount of silver according to their official rank. A minister of a pin can get three thousand taels, and a petty official can get five hundred taels.
As the saying goes, "a thousand miles to be an official is only for wealth", a trip to the spirit, you can get hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and there is Xu Xueshi to come forward to invite, not only to do the human kindness, but also to get silver, where to find this kind of beautiful thing? No wonder those Yipin ministers, when they were the prime minister of the dynasty and the elders of the three dynasties, also had to take care of the system and come to the yu stonemason's spirit to worship.
It is said that Xu Bingyi had the support of Xu Wangyou, and so many ministers of culture and martial arts came, frightening the Yu clan and other cadres and women to have to retreat and watch Xu Bingyi alone swallow this property alone. But I didn't know that there was a storm in the air.
The funeral of the Yu family was so lively and beautiful that it caused a sensation in the city of Beijing when it was boarded. When Qianlong heard that the civil and military officials had actually gone on strike to give the stonemasons a funeral, qianlong was furious and decided to rectify and rectify this unhealthy trend.
Qianlong immediately sent his trusted minister Eshan to sternly interrogate him. Eshan was a Manchurian yellow flag bearer, who served as a third-class bodyguard in his early years, and later as the governor of Yungui, and is currently the viceroy of the Nine Gates and the Shangshu of the Bingbu. The ministers who participated in the condolences heard that the emperor had sent Eshan to investigate, and one by one they quickly recovered the names of the condolences to the Yu family, pretending that there was nothing wrong.
However, this matter is not difficult to investigate, the paper package can not hold the fire, Eshan a little investigation, the ministers participated in the condolence activities of the truth was immediately exposed. After Eshan's investigation was clear, he reported to Qianlong one by one, and Qianlong was both angry and sad, and approved the treatment of several ministers who participated in the condolences. Qianlong said sadly, "You ministers have disregarded your dignity to bow down to a stonemason, you don't love yourself, but do you not care about the dignity of the country?" ”
What made Qianlong even more angry was that there was a Shuntianfu Yin Zhang Mingjun, who heard that the emperor wanted to investigate the funeral of the Yu family, and without asking for instructions, he privately sent someone to the Yu family to dig up the silver buried in the ground for himself.
Qianlong was extremely disappointed in the Manchu Dynasty Minister of Culture and Military Affairs, but Eshan was deeply praised, and Qianlong also praised him for his ability and integrity, and rewarded him with the honor of riding a horse in the Forbidden City. Qianlong thought that with such a reward and punishment, the civil and military officials would learn a lesson from it, and everything would be on the right track. Who knew that things were far from being as simple as Qianlong thought.
Less than two months after the decision on punishment in this case was announced, Qianlong suddenly received a letter from Yushi Zhongyongtan, impeaching the Nine Gate Admiral Eshan, who also accepted a bribe of 10,000 taels of silver in the handling of the case, which was sent by Yu Changgeng, the grandson of Yu Changgeng, the grandson of Yu Mason.
Qianlong was very annoyed when he saw the recital, Eshan was his closest confidant, how could he accept bribes in handling cases, this must be the officials who were punished were unconvinced in their hearts, deliberately making things up out of nothing, fabricating facts to attack Eshan. So Qianlong ordered that Zhongyong tan's crime be cured, but Qianlong was not a faint prince, and he immediately sent someone to investigate, and the result was really as Zhong Yongtan said, and Eshan really received ten thousand taels of bribes, which greatly shocked Qianlong.
Qianlong summoned Eshan to inquire, but at first Eshan did not admit it, but later Qianlong told him that as long as he admitted it, he could be sent down lightly, and if he refused to admit guilt, he would be punished severely. Eun Seol believes that it is true, so he admits that he was careless for a while and accepted other people's money. Qianlong was very sad and gave Eshan to commit suicide, which was also the last aftermath of this stonemason's funeral.