How did small Shenyang become the first greedy in Qing Dynasty?

China's biggest greed, unprecedented, after no one, is definitely a small Shenyang. Then, by what means did small Shenyang obtain such huge wealth?

neglect of duty

This is the main means for small Shenyang to raise funds. Xiao Shenyang used to be the highest supervisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Chongwenmen, and was in charge of the Third Library of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a long time. These departments are the direct source of money in small Shenyang. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is responsible for the use of the imperial court, food, armed garrison and other affairs, as well as the use of the palace and all the expenses of the emperor. Tributes from all over the world first pass through small Shenyang.

According to relevant records, in the last years of Qianlong, nine times out of ten the tributes from all provinces were taken away by Xiao Shenyang, and nine times out of ten they entered the palace, so that the treasure in Xiao Shenyang's house was several times more than that in the palace. Little Shenyang has a pearl bigger than the crown of Ganlong. There are more and more beautiful tracts in Shenyang than in Gan Long.

Sell officials for money

Small Shenyang has mastered the official power and financial power. He once asked the provinces to submit a copy of the emperor's memorial to the military, and he held the memorial in his hand, so that he could hold all the officials in the world in his own hands, so that they had to obey their own orders, and those who dared to disobey small Shenyang would be excluded. In this way, from the imperial court to the local government, ministers from all walks of life competed to curry favor with Xiao Shenyang to keep their positions and please them.

Even if it is a routine, if it is not a bribe, Xiao Shenyang will deliberately make things difficult. As for promotion, it is even more necessary to use money to pave the way, and what is the official number. Big officials like Governor Yan and Governor He all have to "pay for treasures". Erhuai Yan Rui bribed 400,000 taels of silver.

solicit/demand a bribe

Many officials paid bribes to Xiao Shenyang, so that many people couldn't find the temple gate when burning incense. A Shaanxi governor sent someone to bring 200,000 taels of silver as a gift to Xiao Shenyang. The man spent 5.2 thousand silver as a tip, but there was a servant in Xiao Shenyang who only gave a receipt. Two hundred and two thousand pieces of silver did not even see the shadow of small Shenyang. Small Shenyang has the habit of stealing pearls. When a pearl dealer learned of this, he wrapped the pearls in red gold and made them into pills to increase the value of the beads and sold them at a price of 20 thousand gold. Despite the high prices, many officials snapped them up and offered them to Xiao Shenyang.

Diversified economy

There are 75 pawn shops and 42 banks in Little Shenyang. There are grain shops, hotels, porcelain shops, brick shops, hotels and so on. And this industry has been established on a large scale. In short, he never let go of any profitable industry. In business, these industries in small Shenyang rely on the strength of small Shenyang to crowd out their peers, monopolize the market, and make huge profits from them. According to the laws of the Qing dynasty, Manchu officials could not do business, but it was useless to small Shenyang.

Mr. St. nick

No matter what little Shenyang likes, he will try his best to get it. Sun Shiyi, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, went to Annan and brought back a beautiful pearl snuff bottle for Gan Long. Sun begged that he had told the emperor and was disappointed. A few days later, Governor Sun saw it and proudly said to him, "I just got a snuff bottle. What do you think? " At first glance, Sun is the one who dedicated himself to the emperor. He asked, "Did the emperor give this pearl pot to adults?" Xiao Shenyang just smiled. Later, Sun Shiyi learned through many inquiries that he never got the pearl pot, which was stolen from him by people around the emperor in collaboration with Shen.

Pull feathers from every passing goose-grab/squeeze as much as possible.

Chongwenmen tax was an important tax source of the Qing government, and when Xiao Shenyang was in power, it became a cornucopia of Xiao Shenyang, which opened the door for him to embezzle state property. There is a "Agate Glaze Statue of Ru Guan Kiln" in Xiao Shenyang. According to historical records, the Northern Song Dynasty imperial court specially instructed Ruzhou, Henan Province to refine two agate glaze statues of Ruguan kiln as a tribute to Mao's birthday. Only passed down from generation to generation by the royal family to the Qing Dynasty; The other is in the palace in little Shenyang.

The emperor's reward

corresponding

Small Shenyang came up with an idea to set up a "criminal debate silver" project. Mainly designed for provincial governors, salt administration, weaving and tax supervision officials. Once they commit a crime, they must pay a fine to avoid punishment. The amount of the fine depends on the seriousness of the crime. These fines were directly controlled by the emperor. They were a small vault set up by Xiao Shenyang for the emperor, and Xiao Shenyang personally manipulated the matter. Little Shenyang naturally took out some argumentative silver coins and put them in his pocket. Many officials were afraid of being severely punished, and bribed Xiao Shenyang early to prevent accidents.

The establishment of "Argumentative Bank" has given small Shenyang an extra channel to give consideration to public and private interests.

Take advantage of sb's dangerous situation

Small Shenyang often extorts money directly from people who want him, or takes advantage of people's danger to buy their land and real estate at low prices. Little Shenyang has always owned126,600 mu of land, most of which he got in times of crisis.

When Xiao Shenyang was looted, according to the records of Ding Mao's inspection in the first month of Jiaqing's fourth year and the list of items in Xiangfu, the stolen property of his mansion was as follows:

House: 3000. There are 7 main rooms and 33 guest rooms; 1 type, 62 rooms; 42 garden buildings; Room 52, 1 room; 64 Qinci Garden1; 12 building; 130 miscellaneous room; 1 porcelain library; 1 tin warehouse; Rare room/room kloc-0/61; Li Zitan's Six Rooms; Glassware warehouse1; 1 medicine warehouse.

Land: 8000 hectares. Shops: 75 pawn shops; 12 antique shop; 4 jade shops; 2 silk and satin shops; 2 foreign stores; 1 leather goods store. Bronzes: 22 ancient bronze ding; Han Tong11; Wang Ding18; Gu Jian 10 handle; 32 tables with 4288 golden dishes; 32 tables, 4288 silver plates; 500 pairs of golden teeth chopsticks; 120 golden spittoon; 53 golden pots; 150 silver pot; 64 gold mats; There are 683 silver footbaths.

18 golden arhats, each with a height of 1 8 inch; 500 pairs of gold inlaid with jade; 40 Kangping with eight treasures of gold; 20 golden kang beds; 6. Old gold silk bed account; Gold ingot 100 ingot, two for each ingot 100; Silver ingot 9.4 million two thousand; Red 5 million Liang; Placer gold is 2 million taels; Fifty-eight thousand two hundred pieces of silver; The bank has four million taels of silver.

Jewelry antiques: 28 jade bells; 1 is jade, 1 ft 3 inches high and 4 feet long; 1 Guanyin, 1 2 inches high; 18 jade arhat, each height 1 2 inch; Jade 120 handle; Ruyi 387 handle; 99 printing and swallow bowls; 300 cymbals; 154 white soup bowl; 124 white jade glasses; 25 white jade ice trays; 18 emerald ice tray; 800 white jade hookahs; 100 agate hookah.

Hanyu Salt Lake100; 28,000 pieces of gold and pearl jewelry; 60 big east beads; 18 plate of pearls; Ru kiln brush 2; 1 Your official kiln agate glaze statue; Five water pillows in Chizhou in the Northern Song Dynasty; 18 bracelet 326 strings; 180 ruby; 980 little rubies; 4,700 aquamarine; There are 1008 sets of gems; 373 coral beads; 13 set of wax beads; 236 coral caps; 10 coral trees, each 3 feet 8 inches high; 38 automatic bell; Table 100 exotic animals.

Cloth and leather: five-color tweed 800 boards; Yuanyang 1 10 board; Five-color feather satin 600 board; Serge 200 board; 12 fox skin; 800 minks; 1500 fox skins of various colors; 56,000 pieces of miscellaneous skins; 37 mink robes; 54 mink hats; 48 minks; 120 pair of mink boots.

Little Shenyang's wealth is shocking, and many of his treasures are not even in the palace. He robbed the proceeds in 15, and his net worth reached 820 million silver. Corruption in Shenyang weakened the Qing Empire, and the Qing Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline.