Whenever people talk about He Shen in the Qing Dynasty, then a hat of great greed must be followed. However, the amount of corruption in Heshen is far less than the hundreds of millions of taels rumored in the miscellaneous narratives. According to official records, Heshen's fortune is about 10 million taels. But this is equivalent to one-seventh of the Qing Dynasty's annual income! Therefore, He Shen is indeed a generation of great greed.
But in the face of this "big tiger", why didn't our Qianlong master not do it? What is the relationship between Qianlong and Heshen? Why are they allowed to corrupt, but still reluctant to kill?
When it comes to Qianlong's relationship with adults, people who are familiar with it will think of records in the wild history. According to the record of "The Grand View of Wild History of the Qing Dynasty": When Qianlong was still the prince, he happened to see a beautiful concubine of the emperor father looking at the mirror and dressing up. He found it funny, so he covered the concubine's eyes with his hands from behind and came to guess Guess whose game I am. The concubine didn't know who was behind, so she picked up the comb in panic and hit him on the head.
was bumped into by Qianlong’s mother at this time, thinking that this concubine dared to molest the prince, how could such indecent things happen in the harem, and the concubine was given to death for consideration of the prince’s future. As the crown prince, Qianlong felt sorry for the concubine, so he touched her neck with cinnabar and said, "I killed you. If you are in the sky, we will meet again in 20 years!"
Later, Qianlong became the emperor and Heshen entered the palace as a guard. Qianlong saw Heshen looked like the original concubine who died unjustly. After checking his neck, he saw that there was a red birthmark on the neck and his age was similar. He thinks that He Shen is the reincarnation of that concubine, and has loved him since then.
In this way, Qianlong and He Shen are renewing the forefront, and the two have been rumored to have a "scandal" that they collapsed and slept together in the Imperial Study Room. The relationship can be said to be extraordinary.
However, if you think that being with an adult is simply the reincarnation of a beautiful male part-time concubine, then you are very wrong! In the Qing Dynasty at that time, He Shen was a top talent. Not only did he master the four languages of Manchu, Chinese, Tibetan, and Mongolian, but he also learned outstandingly and was also a master of poetry.
Qianlong admired Heshen's talents very much, and often ordered Heshen to compose poems, and the poems written by Heshen were often appreciated by Qianlong. Moreover, our husband and adults are good at slacking off horses, and they are also very artistic in speaking, which just caters to this complacent "elderly man".
In addition, He Shen is also a good financial manager. We know that Emperor Qianlong was simply extravagant in the late period, but the income of the imperial court could not be made by himself, so He Shen came up with a method of "discussing sin silver", and at the same time, he tried every means to accumulate money to fill the small vault of Emperor Qianlong. This greatly satisfied Qianlong's desire for consumption. Qianlong had such a personal property steward, how could he not love it?
In addition, as a generation of emperors, of course, one side’s power must not be allowed to develop too much. Naturally, two or more opposing groups need to be cultivated to form a certain political balance. Although Heshen was corrupt, he still carried out his orders very well, and he was not reluctant to use it. Of course, he was a very comfortable "slave".
In the late period, Heshen became Qianlong's front chess piece used to clamp down on Emperor Jiaqing. After all, his son sometimes still didn't listen to his own words, so the Supreme Emperor Qianlong made He Da Ren a top high-ranking official and held several important positions. The Qing court officials all bowed down to He Da.
And Master He not only handled all sorts of trivial matters in an orderly manner, but also obeyed the Supreme Emperor’s will, as if he became the current agent of the Supreme Emperor’s administration, while the Jiaqing Emperor on the other side was very dissatisfied with Heshen.
However, despite the close relationship between Heshen and Emperor Qianlong, he is not only his reincarnated "lover", heartfelt minion, and writing hand, but also his personal vault steward and counterbalance agent before the stage. . However, Shen's fate was still parasitic in the fertile soil of Emperor Qianlong. Soon after Qianlong passed away, Jiaqing, who finally took control of the world, gave him three-foot white silk and ended his last life.
