"If the key to power is held in the hands of a mediocre king, it will be disastrous. What's even more terrifying is that there is a treacherous minister who is lying beside the mediocre king."

"If the key to power is held in the hands of a mediocre king, it will be disastrous. What's even more terrifying is that there is a treacherous minister who is lying beside the mediocre king."

In the later years of Qianlong, he was nominated for the Best Treacherous Minister Award. Heshen is definitely a well-deserved winner. Throughout Heshen's life, we can find that Heshen was able to become the most powerful minister of the Qing Dynasty who held the position of more than a dozen important officials of the Qing Dynasty.

All this shows that Heshen is not the villain we see in our appearance, he only knows how to flatter. On the contrary, Heshen is a terrifying person with strategy, a stubborn and real talent.

In the later years of Qianlong, Heshen set up a perfect game. The governor of Zhejiang, who held military power and had great military achievements, was killed because of a sentence. From this game, we can't help but feel that underestimating the world and thinking about it carefully. Perhaps, every treacherous minister has many terrible things that we cannot see.

Heshen and Agui

Started from Heshen becoming a favorite minister of Qianlong, Agui, as the first military officer of the Qianlong Dynasty, was his only opponent he regarded as a strong enemy. Agui was not only a man of nobles, but also different from Heshen.

Agui portrait

Agui's life experience is very prominent. He is the second generation of top officials among Manchus. His family is very terrifying in the court's China relations network. More importantly, Agui is brave and good at fighting, and is praised by many as the number one general of the Qianlong Dynasty.

Every treacherous minister has a narrow personality of power. They always want to enjoy the fruits of power. Therefore, they always try to get rid of their opponents in the court, and Heshen's opponent is A Gui.

As an excellent treacherous minister, his vision is always to see a farther dangerous area. The reason why Agui can firmly suppress himself is not only Agui's own military achievements and background.

Fusong portrait

also has a large number of powerful generals under his command, and even some officials with real power. Among them, Fusong is a core member of Agui Group.

Heshen’s layout

At this time, the timeline had reached the last few years of Qianlong’s rule. Heshen was an extremely smart person. He knew that the next emperor had always regarded him as a treacherous minister who harmed the Qing Dynasty. If he did not fight back, he would not make arrangements in advance.

Then the only thing waiting for him is to be killed, and Agui, who holds military power, is one of the changes. In order to weaken Agui's power, Fusong must die.

In order to eliminate Fusong, Heshen first arranged an internal response around him. After all, only by knowing oneself and the enemy can we kill targetedly. Moreover, Heshen has always been very cautious in his work.

He has been in the officialdom for decades. He knew that if he wanted to take down a first-class and high-ranking official like Zhejiang Governor Fusong, and he was also a person recommended by A Gui himself. Without solid evidence, it would be difficult to kill him. As long as there is a loophole on his side, A Gui can let Fusong survive.

Thanks to Heshen's intelligence layout in the Lianghuai area, he soon learned about an information from his insider: as much as 220,000 taels of official silver were misappropriated by the Lianghuai salt transport envoy Swift ridge gods unconsciously.

The key point is that after learning the truth, Fusong unauthorizedly agreed to this subordinate who was greedy for money and boldness that he could make up for it in a while.

Breakthrough

It is from this "small" piece of information that the keen Heshen seemed to have found a breakthrough. This is a good opportunity to connect blessings and corruption and bribery.

However, Heshen, who had always been cautious, knew that it would be difficult to get rid of Fusong by relying on this alone. So he instructed his subordinates to continue digging deeper, and his "traitorous officials" and "official experience" told him that none of the officials in the Qing Dynasty were clean.

He reminded his subordinates to open the gap from Swai Rieng at all costs. Finally, Heshen bet right again. In this person's work record, the sentence "Give blessings one thousand taels of money" made Heshen extremely excited. He knew that Fu Gong of this sentence was the "killer weapon" to win Fu Song.

In fact, the blessing here refers to another great corrupt person in Qianlong's later years - Fu Chang'an. This person is completely different from his brother, Fukang'an. His brother is brave and good at fighting. He is a pillar of the Qing Dynasty. This person is one of the best corrupt officials and second-generation ancestors in the Qing Dynasty, and this person is also in love with Heshen.

Fu Chang'an Portrait

With this working record, Heshen successfully pulled Fu Chang'an onto the chariot that framed Fu Song. Although Fusong was a great military achievement, he could not fight the joint efforts of two treacherous ministers. What's more, Heshen, who was cautious, kept silent before taking Fusong, in order to give the enemy a decisive kill.

The ultimate kill

After Heshen was ready, he took a very decisive move. He made several moves in succession, in addition to instructing his subordinates to impeach Chai and Fu, he also directly said that the blessing in "Gives one thousand taels of blessings" in was Fusong.

Then he asked Qianlong for the right to handle the case. Heshen further instructed his subordinates to start from Swai Ryok, who was greedy and afraid of death, and to use all methods. He must let Swai Ryok bite this "Fu" to death to Fusong, and to let Swai Ryok publicly accused that Fusong was openly asking for bribes from him.

Just like that, Heshen got the evidence, Qianlong was very angry when he saw the testimony below, but Qianlong could not fully believe that Fusong, who was originally brave and good at fighting, would become corrupt so quickly. In addition, Qianlong had to worry about Agui's face, so he still issued an order to escort Fusong to the capital for trial again. The second generation ancestor Fu Chang'an was suddenly panicked. But how could Heshen, who had a lot of "struggle experience", not have a solution?

On the one hand, he forged a "line" that Fusong was dissatisfied with the court and insulted Qianlong. On the other hand, he also gave Fusong a glass of poisonous wine directly on the road, making it impossible for Fusong to come to the capital to overturn the case.

is a treacherous and capable minister

It can be said that From the "Death of Fusong", we do see Heshen's terror. His meticulous layout thinking, his calmness, decisiveness and insight are all top-notch.

Heshen was able to reach this level now, not only because he could figure out the holy intention, but also because he was indeed a person with real materials. . In a pertinent sentence, Heshen was a treacherous minister and a capable minister.

Just imagine that during Qianlong's reign, he continuously used troops to the southwest region. He made six "private private visits" and these major events were all work of burning money, but Heshen could always do it properly.

Moreover, in real history, Heshen gave Heshen a . "Although he is greedy for money, his talent is still worthy of recognition." commented pertinently that his outstanding financial management ability, his outstanding diplomatic ability, and his literary literacy are the reasons why Heshen became an important official of Qianlong.

Heshen, who is worth 800 million yuan, was indeed the most veritable corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty, but in terms of power and conspiracy, he was indeed an extremely terrible corrupt official. In the Fusong case, he was able to find a breakthrough from the simple "Give blessings one thousand taels of money" , which undoubtedly showed a different Heshen to future generations.

As some historians in later generations said, if Heshen hadn't relaxed his vigilance when Emperor Qianlong passed away, he wouldn't have thought that Jiaqing would have moved himself during the funeral of Qianlong, perhaps Jiaqing and the "terrible Heshen" would have had a wonderful "Jiahe dispute"?