We will look closely at "Drafts of Qing Dynasty·Volume 16" and "The Legend of the Condor Heshen" and will find that Heshen's power is already threatening to the government and the people. He even thinks that "He Fatty" is the Wang Mang and Cao Cao of the Qing Dynasty . For this reason, he seriously asked about the fifth-rank military machine at that time Chapter 1 Jing (later promoted to Zhili Governor, Henan Governor, Huguang Governor) Wu Xiongguang .
Although Wu Xiongguang was excluded and bullied by Heshen, he did not take any action: "He didn't even have a close friend among the ministers of Manchu and Han Dynasty. Even if he had the heart of being unjust, he was powerless."
Wu Xiongguang's objective words allowed Heshen to protect the leader and exempt him from the clan's punishment. After the officials and officials discussed with the princes and ministers, he convicted Heshen twenty major crimes, Heshen admitted fifteen, "Only, more than 2 million military salary was deducted, the palace maid was released as a concubine, and the military newspaper was concealed, and the five subsidies of the government and the school administration were not recognized."
Heshen's money was wide and stable, and he would not risk killing the head for two million taels of silver. As for marrying the palace maid as a concubine, it was originally something everyone was doing: the Qing Dynasty had regulations that when the palace maid reached a certain age, he would release it and marry him. Even the in-service palace maid in the palace, the emperor would also use it to reward the ministers when he was happy. Why can't Heshen do what Liu Yong's father, , Liu Tongxun, (it is said that he didn't want it, he got married), and Ji Xiaolan, the chief editor of ", Siku Quanshu " do?
It is not a crime to marry a laid-off palace maid as a wife. Heshen naturally refused to admit it. Heshen never dared to admit it because once he admitted it, it would involve two big businesses. If he investigated it, let alone scouting the family and extermination of the clan, he would have to dig up the ancestral grave.
The remaining fifteen items are not a big deal in any dynasty. For example, riding a horse into Yuanmingyuan , which was licensed by Qianlong. There were more than 30,000 taels of gold and more than 3 million taels of silver at home. This is not unique among first-rank officials. He admitted his mistakes and did not admit his guilt. In the end, Yongyan could only give him white silk to deal with the matter.
Whether Heshen died in a power struggle or was too greedy, it doesn’t matter, because all the crows were as black as in the world in all dynasties, and Heshen and Ji Xiaolan could at most be considered gray-bellied and white-necked - pulling out officials of the Qing Dynasty (we only talk about the Qing Dynasty) into rows and beheading one by one. Perhaps one or two were wronged, but if one was cut off one by one, there would be many people missing the net.
Heshen is damned, there is no doubt that from the perspective of the people, especially when it comes to real life, we will find that Heshen’s billions of wealth are very pickled. We only take the two big businesses he does as examples, and we will find that he is not unfair to cut him into pieces.
Heshen hidden more than 26,000 taels of gold in the wall, more than 6,000 taels of gold in the private treasury, and more than 3 million taels of silver buried in the cellar. This huge amount of wealth reported and handed over by the raided official may not even be half of the actual amount. This was a very popular "win-win" practice at that time: if the number of reports is small, Heshen's crime is lighter, he will not expose it; most of the hidden gold and silver becomes everyone's "hard work", and no one is in vain.
The more than 30,000 taels of gold and more than 3 million taels of silver did not all come from Heshen's embezzlement and bribery. Among Heshen's "Twenty Major Crimes", there was neither corruption nor bribery. These gold and silver mainly came from Heshen's "legitimate business behavior."
Heshen's biggest source of income is real estate. After checking the historical materials such as "Yong'an Notes" and telling us: "Heshen had 8,000 hectares of land, and historical materials recorded that he collected 1,266 hectares of taxes. It was not unfair to Emperor Jiaqing kill Heshen, it was not unfair to at all!"
Why could Heshen own so much land? The only tip of the iceberg is shown in his twenty major crimes: "Last year, Kuishu reported that the two thieves in Xunhua and Guide robbed Qinghai, and Heshen rejected the original fold and hid it."
Heshen plundered and gathered land in a relatively popular sentence, it was called "raising enemies to feed themselves": the more chaotic the world, the cheaper the land.
During the Qianlong period, was not as stable as we thought. White Lotus Sect and other Taoist sects were surging. Big and small landlords were all in danger: "White Lotus Sect came here, I couldn't even keep my head. Why do I need land? I'd better sell the land and take the money to the capital as an apartment!"
Everyone wanted to sell land, so they formed the buyer market , and the price was less than one-tenth of the normal one. Heshen knew that the war was lit up by himself and knew when it would be extinguished, so he bought a large amount of land and hoarded it.
Landlords outside the capital sold their land and wanted to buy a house in the capital. Heshen happened to be the largest real estate owner in the capital. He immediately increased the price of the property and used the money from selling the house to buy land. This is called making money from both ends.
When the houses in the capital were sold out, enough land outside the capital had been bought. Heshen immediately announced peace in the world and chaos in the surrounding areas no longer existed. Those landlords who bought houses in the capital found that their daily consumption was too high, so they lowered prices to sell real estate and returned to their hometowns. Then the housing prices in the capital plummeted, and land prices outside the capital recovered, and Heshen purchased real estate and sold land.
This cycle repeats itself, and gold and silver flow into Heshen's warehouse like flowing water: Where is the bandit chaos, and when will the bandit chaos be pacified, Heshen can control it.
Heshen made a fortune using military intelligence, making himself rich and the world suffer, but he was not satisfied. He didn't even let go of the last copper bank - he monopolized the "bargain" business in the capital.
Ordinary "bar room" is to carry a coffin, while the "bar room" opened by Heshen is a "one-stop service": from funeral supplies to coffin transportation and drummers to cemetery construction, all of which are handled by Heshen's family.
Heshen is both an official and a businessman. He earned hundreds of millions of gold and silver by doing business, but the people cannot afford to live or die. These two "businesses" alone mean that Heshen will have no descendants: his youngest son died young, and his son Fengshen Yinde only left two daughters - he gave birth to several sons, none of whom lived to name it.
Heshen worked hard for half his life, and in the end he had only a knife, a glass of wine, and three-foot white silk to choose from. Yongyan slaughtered the fat duck and ate it all over his mouth.
After reading Heshen in the historical materials, half a pot of old wine suddenly felt a little amused and crying. There is a joke circulating on the Internet, saying that a fake person who sells fake goods meets a government official who is a little tight: "You sell fake goods, I will not pay back the debt, let's settle the matter. If you dare to ask for the debt, I will deal with you!"
Heshen was dealt with by Yongyan. When he thought about it carefully, this "He Fatty Man" was left to Yongyan for the fattening of Qianlong. Heshen was kind and worked hard to manage it. Finally, he clenched his fists. This is the same as the old saying goes: Drinking cold water and making dirty money will sooner or later be sick; making fun of it, and pulling the list will all be in vain.
