In the first month of the first year of Yongzheng, Emperor Yongzheng, who had just ascended the throne, received a secret letter from Shandong Governor Huang Bing, exposing the former Shandong Governor and the Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Jiang Chenxi 2 embezzled more than 2 million taels of silver.
Yongzheng was the most thoroughly punished corruption and fought corruption in the history of the Qing Dynasty. Even if corruption was 2,000 taels, he would end up in the confiscation of his family and dismissal from office. More than two million taels, Jiang Chenxi probably had 10,000 heads that were not enough for Yongzheng to cut. However, the final result was a shocking result.
Jiang Chenxi's person and his affairs
Jiang Chenxi, from Changshu, Jiangsu, the Jiang family is a premier family in Changshu . His father Jiang Yi was a Jinshi in the 12th year of Kangxi; his younger brother Jiang Tingxi was a military minister and a grandson of the Yongzheng Dynasty.
The Jiang family was prominent in the Kang, Yong and Qianlong dynasties, and two prime ministers (the other was the Grand Secretary of the Qianlong dynasty, Jiang Pu ), a governor, a governor, and four Jinshis.
Jiang Chenxi was the second Jinshi in the 24th year of Kangxi, but he failed to enter the Hanlin Academy as he wished. After the imperial examination, he was appointed as the magistrate of Fuping, Shaanxi.
Judging from the political achievements and official voices in the first half of his life, Jiang Chenxi can be regarded as a rare good and capable official in the dynasty of Kangxi. According to historical records, in the 25th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, there was a drought that occurred in Fuping County for decades, and the people were displaced.
Jiang Chenxi opened the warehouse to release grain, but there were too many victims, and the official grain could not provide many victims. As a last resort, Jiang Chenxi spent his family property and paid more than 80,000 taels out of his own pocket to allow the people to survive the crisis.
Such a feat soon reached Emperor Kangxi's ears, and he issued an order to transfer Jiang Chenxi to the head of the Ministry of Rites. As the saying goes, a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger. After Jiang Chenxi took office, he was successful in supervising the pros and cons and was soon promoted to the Ministry of Rites.
After that, Jiang Chenxi's career rose like a rocket. In the 41st year of Kangxi, he was transferred to Tianjin Road in Zhili, and was promoted to the magistrate of Henan in 45 years. In the 47th year, he was promoted to the governor of Shandong, and in the 48th year, he was promoted to the governor of Shandong, and in the 55th year, he was promoted to the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou.
In the 59th year of Kangxi, Jiang Chenxi was deprived of his post for delaying the opportunity to transport grain. Kangxi ordered him to make meritorious service and asked him to carry grain and grass into Tibet. The following year, Jiang Chenxi died of illness on the way.
Emperor Kangxi still had a high evaluation of Jiang Chenxi, saying: "Jiang Chenxi has never been famous, nor has he ever had any greed. The place is quiet and he is a prosperous year. Such a good official is."
Shandong Valley Donation Case.
After Jiang Chenxi took office as the governor of Shandong, in view of the fact that local warehousing was not good, he proposed to the court the plan of "storing grain for relief" , encouraging local governments to donate grain actively, and then the court granted fame.
Emperor Kangxi approved Jiang Chenxi's suggestion, and Shandong Province soon set off a wave of valley donation. After years of accumulation, Jiang Chenxi received a total of more than 3.1 million taels of silver donations.
According to the original plan, Jiang Chenxi should send the money to various prefectures, prefectures and counties to purchase grain into warehouses for disaster relief. However, Jiang Chenxi allocated only more than 930,000 taels, and the remaining more than 2.1 million taels entered his own pocket.
Until Emperor Kangxi's death, the Shandong Valley Donation Case was kept in the dark. In the first year of Yongzheng, Huang Bing, the new Shandong Governor, discovered the bad debt while inspecting the treasury, so he quickly reported it to Emperor Yongzheng.
At this time, Jiang Chenxi had passed away. Yongzheng focused on the investigation and punishment of the government on Li Yuanlong, the governor of Dengzhou, who was responsible for the donation of the valley case with Jiang Chenxi, and ordered Li Yuanlong to be severely punished.
After receiving the imperial edict, Huang Bing immediately launched an investigation and found that Li Yuanlong was actually a good official and did not get involved in the national treasury at all. Yongzheng was naturally dissatisfied with this result. In September of that year, Yongzheng ordered Prince Yi to take over the case.
After more than a month of investigation, Yunxiang quickly reported the results to Yongzheng.
The bill shows: " One liang per grain is checked for one liang, and a total of 311,160 liang of grain is the discount of 311,160 liang. When the storage is divided, each grain is divided into three liang per grain, and a total of 933,48 liang of silver is stored.The remaining silver is 2177,112 taels, and Jiang Chenxi is all his own. "
The fact that the evidence has come to this point is conclusive and a foregone conclusion. Such a huge corruption is not an exaggeration to charge Jiang Chenxi.
Why did Yongzheng turn a blind eye?
The shocking case caused shock to the government and the public, and ministers suggested raiding the house. However, Yongzheng was in trouble, and the reason was that Yongzheng was very favored by Jiang Chenxi's younger brother Jiang Tingxi, and he was unwilling to embarrass Jiang Tingxi in this matter.
Jiang Tingxi learned the holy heart and saw that Yongzheng did not want to make a big deal, so he submitted a memorial to defend his brother Jiang Chenxi. Yongzheng It was just a sloppy donkey, giving Jiang Tingxi a great face, saying that the person had passed away, so there was no need to investigate this matter.
Seeing Yongzheng say something, the court officials dared not argue, let alone Jiang Tingxi's power is so powerful that he is in high spirits and the sages are in high spirits, so there is no need to provoke him.
However, Yongzheng was preparing to investigate the deficits nationwide at this time. If Jiang Chenxi was let go so easily, then the officials in other provinces would be betrayed.
Finally, Yongzheng thought of a compromise: halved compensation . The imperial edict made it very clear that "My brother Tingxi entered Chen and the imperial edict reduced compensation halved. "
is to reduce the compensation by half, and Jiang Chenxi's descendants also had to take out more than one million taels, which is obviously a superficial article. There is no record of whether the Jiang Chenxi family finally compensated as much as possible, but it can be roughly guessed that the Jiang family should have symbolically taken some silver, and it will never be as much as one million.
There is no doubt that Jiang Chenxi is actually corrupt, and it can even be said to be a huge corrupt in the Yongzheng Dynasty. However, such a person was called a "good official" by Emperor Kangxi and was protected by Emperor Yongzheng's supreme power, which was actually a strange thing in the Qing Dynasty.
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