The corrupt official Xiao Shenyang has amazing means of collecting money under his nose.

In addition to a large number of rewards from emperor Qianlong, the means of collecting money in small Shenyang mainly include four aspects: first, generosity; The second is to use authority to commit corruption; The third is to use the official department to blackmail officials; The fourth is investment operation.

According to Xue Fucheng's Yong 'an Notes, the total property value of Xiao Shenyang is about11060,000. It is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty/KLOC-0.5 to 20 years.

In fact, as the first favorite of Emperor Qianlong, a large part of Shenyang's property comes from the reward of Emperor Qianlong! In other words, a large part of the property source of small Shenyang is actually legal income!

First, get rich.

In North Korea, it is very important to be well-informed, especially those officials with lower positions and no access to the core of power. Whether they can get ever-changing internal information from big officials determines their future and destiny.

Therefore, in order to get this information, there will always be people who spend huge wealth to get through the joints. This is why in history, officials often curry favor with and collude with eunuchs, in order to create a little trouble in the court from the population around the emperor, so as to act according to circumstances.

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The location of small Shenyang is undoubtedly the first goal of pursuers. He can make a fortune by using the "inside information" of the court. For example, an incident of 1780 made little Shenyang rich.

Here's the thing. This year, Emperor Qianlong decided to make a fifth southern tour.

Just after taking refuge in Siyang County, Shenyang, Cathay Pacific received a secret letter from Shenyang. The letter said that the emperor's southern tour was bound to sacrifice to the Confucius Temple. After Confucius' Festival, the emperor must pass through Siyang County, and the place where the emperor passed should be fifty miles east of the county seat. Shenyang ordered Cathay Pacific Airlines to build an exquisite palace here to win the favor of the emperor. Guotai immediately mobilized skilled craftsmen in the county to build a palace at a designated place in Little Shenyang.

After offering sacrifices to Kong Lin and Confucius Temple, Gan Long went south. When he passed through Siyang County, he found this beautiful and unique building and ordered people to enter the palace. He saw the palace was very beautiful, which made Gan Long feel extraordinary.

Dragon immediately ordered to summon Cathay Pacific. Guotai met the emperor and calmly responded; Xiao Shenyang is full of praise. The two were overjoyed and immediately issued a decree to upgrade Cathay Pacific to a platform. Thankfully, Cathay Pacific Airlines immediately sent a lot of gold and silver to Xiao Shenyang. Other officials who took refuge in Small Shenyang were also very excited when they learned that Cathay Pacific was promoted to Taiwan Province Province in one or two pranks in Small Shenyang, and they presented gifts to Small Shenyang.

From this incident, we know that Xiao Shenyang has "enough interest" in being an official: he provided a message to Cathay Pacific for free, which enabled Cathay Pacific to seize the opportunity of promotion. After the promotion, Cathay Pacific will definitely repay Xiao Shenyang. At that time, ordinary people would not think that it was immoral for Shenyang to accept gifts from people like Cathay Pacific.

Second, the use of authority for corruption.

Since the age of 28, Xiao Shenyang has served as Minister of the Interior for a long time. The responsibility of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development is to manage the world's money and grain. Therefore, small Shenyang can use his position to engage in corruption. Please note that I use "yes" here. Why? There is really no evidence that Xiao Shenyang used this position for corruption.

It is said that the Qing Dynasty stipulated that the capital should pay taxes at Chongwenmen. Long knew that this position was really a fat job, so he gave it. The tax control of Chongwenmen in Shenyang is very strict: all businessmen and officials who come and go, even candidates who come to Beijing to take the exam, have to pay taxes. Officials outside Beijing, the higher the position, the higher the tax.

Lu Zhongcheng, Shandong's political envoy, went to Beijing from Shandong to see the emperor, but he didn't receive the high tax required by customs officials when he arrived at Chongwenmen tax gate. In desperation, I had to put all my clothes and bedding outside the city, leaving only one attendant and entering the city empty-handed. he is

First of all, there is no way to find out whether there was corruption when Xiao Shenyang was the Minister of Personnel. The Shandong political emissary we just mentioned came from' unofficial history'. First, insufficient; Second, even if it is true, it can only prove that small Shenyang is improper in employing people, but it cannot prove that small Shenyang is corrupt-after all, it is the behavior of small Shenyang's subordinates.

Second, to be honest, as the Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, I watch so much money coming and going from my own hands every day. If there is no supervision mechanism, it will be too difficult to avoid corruption.

In addition to the housing department, he is also in charge of the grain depot, silk depot, pigment depot, Yuanmingyuan tea restaurant, election office, Shangsiyuan, Thai hospital, royal pharmacy and other financial-related departments, which means he is in charge of the country's economic lifeline.

At the same time, he is also responsible for manufacturing various items used in the inner palace, building and maintaining palaces and gardens. In fact, although Xiao Shenyang has never held the post of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, he has taken the power of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology into his own hands. In this way, he controlled the financial power of the whole country by himself.

Third, use the official department to blackmail officials.

Since the age of 32, Xiao Shenyang has been a government minister for a long time. The duty of the official department is to manage officials. Therefore, Xiao Shenyang can use his position to blackmail officials. Of course, some people really value small Shenyang and don't want to be blackmailed by small Shenyang.

Every few years, the court ordered local ministers to report to Beijing to check the governance situation in various places. When local ministers come to Beijing, they usually bring some rare things as tributes to the emperor 2.

One year, a governor named Sun Shiyi returned to Beijing from the Annan front to report his work. The governor is called the "governor" and is responsible for the administrative and military affairs of one province or several provinces. He is a high-ranking official of the imperial court, and is generally a person whom the emperor trusts extremely. They hold high positions in the imperial court, and ordinary officials respect them.

It is said that Sun Shiyi went to the Golden Temple to meet you and went to the small Shenyang outside the palace gate. Little Shenyang saw what was in his hand at a glance and asked him to come and have a look. It turned out to be a snuff bottle made of beads, as big as a bird's egg, beautifully carved and crystal clear. After seeing it, Xiao Shenyang couldn't put it down and praised it again and again. After playing for a while, he said to Sun Shiyi, if you don't dislike me, can you give me this thing? When Sun saw that Shen personally came to ask for it, he didn't know what to do, so he had to tell the truth:' This thing was originally presented to the emperor, and the Xiaguan explained it to the emperor, and the emperor liked it. It should have been presented to the adult, but Xiaguan could not explain it to the emperor. I hope you can forgive me. Little Shenyang didn't expect Sun Shiyi to refuse him. He felt humiliated and had to hide and say,' I'm just a joke.

Think about it, too. Go back to Beijing to report on your work and bring some gifts to the emperor, the supreme leader of the country, instead of directly promoting you and managing your personnel organization minister. From this perspective, it was human nature to ask for bribes in Shenyang at that time.

There is another thing that can explain Xiao Shenyang's bribery.

It is said that there is a big jeweler in Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. He hid the extra-large pearls in a round box made of gold, which was equipped with exquisite wooden boxes, one of which was worth 20 thousand gold. Although the price is high, some officials are scrambling to buy it for fear of not being able to buy it. Someone asked these officials: What's the use of buying such expensive beads? These officials replied: Dedicated to nave.

Although the two things mentioned just now also belong to "unofficial history", they are not sufficient. But this kind of thing must happen in small Shenyang, no problem.

Four. commercial activity

Some people think that Xiao Shenyang's money is ill-gotten wealth, which was obtained by illegal means such as corruption. In fact, this is all wet. A lot of money in Shenyang is earned through its own business activities. In these commercial activities, the annexation of land brought the most wealth to small Shenyang.

Unofficial history said that he had 8000 hectares of land, but in fact he didn't.

However, in any case, there is no problem that small Shenyang owns a lot of land. Most of his land is distributed in the area centered on Baoding in the south of Beijing, and even in Jinzhou in the northeast.

Part of his land was given by Gan Long, and the other part was purchased by Xiao Shenyang himself.

In the traditional society of China, land sale is a big event, and most landlords will not sell their land easily. However, after a series of unstable events such as the Anbar Uprising, many landlords were unwilling to keep their land, and they exchanged their land for safer, safer and more portable gold and silver. As a result, land prices have fallen sharply. Small Shenyang has a natural talent for business. He seized the opportunity, depressed the land price, bought a lot of land with very little money, arranged the management of cronies, and charged extremely high land rent.

In the process of buying land, he really realized that he only recognized money but not people. Regardless of the place of relatives and friends, he ruthlessly pressed the price to the lowest and bought the highest. Moreover, he didn't buy and sell land in the ordinary way, but in the so-called' pawn' way, that is to say, the landlord pawned the land to small Shenyang like a pawnshop, instead of buying it at one time in small Shenyang. The price of pawn is naturally much lower than the market price. The original landowner can redeem the land after raising enough funds to pay high interest. During this period, all the land income belongs to Xiao Shenyang. The original landowner was unable to redeem his land, or did not want to redeem it, and the land became the permanent property of Little Shenyang.

In order to raise funds, Xiao Shenyang also runs dozens of pawn shops. In addition to real estate and pawn shops, small Shenyang also operates grain shops, hotels, antique shops, porcelain shops, gray tile shops, cabinet shops, bow shops, bars, saddle felt shops and small coal mines. In addition, he also bought 80 big carriages and began to sell them long distance. Under the background that everyone in society looked down on businessmen at that time, although Xiao Shenyang was a senior official, he kept company with businessmen regardless of his reputation, which was what Emperor Jiaqing called a shameless villain.

The problem is that according to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, standard-bearers are not allowed to engage in various commercial activities. That is to say, although all kinds of commercial activities in small Shenyang were completed by small Shenyang with wisdom and hard work, legally speaking, these activities themselves are illegal. Although these commercial activities can't be called corruption and bribery, at least they use power for personal gain.

As can be seen from the above, little Shenyang is really obsessed with collecting money and has done its best. At that time, he was involved in almost all the ways he could think of collecting money.

Other forms of verbs

Of course, some things make it difficult for us to tell how small Shenyang makes money. When Gan Long visited the South for the sixth time, something happened.

As early as before the sixth southern tour, Wang Rulong, a local official in Yangzhou, received a secret letter from Xiao Shenyang Kuaima. Shenyang attached a picture of "ChristianRandPhillips" to the letter and told Wang Rulong that he could find a beautiful woman for the emperor according to the picture. If it is done, that would be great.

It turned out that there was a high-ranked imperial concubine in Gan Long's harem, who was deeply loved by Gan Long. Her name is Rong Fei. She is called "ChristianRandPhillips" because she is not only born with beauty, but also born with a strange fragrance. Rong Fei was originally a beautiful woman. She returned to Xinjiang to present gifts. Later, she rebelled back and forth in various outstanding ministries in Xinjiang, and sent troops to suppress it. Dragon's wife, the daughter of a rebellious country, has to be more and more alienated. In the south of Yingtai in Zhongnanhai, she built a building called Bao Yue Tower, and compared Bao Yue Tower to the Moon Palace. The wife in the building actually became the Chang 'e who lived in Guanghan Palace.

It was Xiao Shenyang who noticed this and ordered Wang Rulong to search south of the whole Yangtze River. He must find a woman who looks like a princess to solve the emperor's worries.

For Wang Rulong, the arrival of Little Shenyang Secret Letter is tantamount to opening the door to wealth and power. Traveling to Yangzhou in Longnan, Gansu, he was really obsessed with this woman found by Wang Rulong. Old Gan Longnan recalled his lost youth from her and felt warm and happy for a long time. Wang Rulong was highly praised by Wang Rulong, and his official position was immediately promoted. For this reason,

Xiao Shenyang believes that we must be able to intimidate people like Rainbow, otherwise we will not be able to get rid of his ambition. So, Xiao Shenyang summoned Wang Rulong privately, and when they met, they put on a grim expression, as if full of anger, which made Wang Rulong feel uneasy. The original pride and cunning have disappeared by half. Then, Xiao Shenyang suddenly said, "Teacher, congratulations on getting the favor of the emperor!" " "A pair of eyes like a layer of ice, imposing manner. Wang Rulong became more and more at a loss, quietly waiting for the lesson of Xiao Shenyang, only to hear Xiao Shenyang's sudden angry accusation: "You know sin! Confused the beauty of the emperor, humiliated the king, and deserved beheading! Wang Rulong was so frightened that he knelt down and begged the adults to forgive him, saying that he had long fallen in love with adults and would certainly worship God. Hearing this, Xiao Shenyang felt that his purpose had almost been achieved. At this time, he slowly stretched his locked eyebrows and put on a kind expression. Wang Rulong deeply felt that although he was rich, he was scheming. However, in the world of Qing dynasty, his life is still in jeopardy. Xiao Shenyang is a real person who can make love. If you can be loyal to him, be attached to him and let him know your loyalty, you will definitely ascend to heaven in the future.

After the deterrence of small Shenyang, Wang Rulong restrained his original eagerness and willingly became a pawn of small Shenyang. In order to show his loyalty to Xiao Shenyang, he gave a famous painting and a silver ticket to Xiao Shenyang. Wang Rulong's painstaking efforts naturally failed and he was soon promoted.

Little Shenyang is really rich and loves money too much. His means of collecting money was too clever in the society at that time. His existence has seriously threatened the interests of the Qing Dynasty. It should be said that Jiaqing had no reason to kill him.