Small Shenyang in TV series is often portrayed as an ignorant and ugly funny character, but the real small Shenyang in history is not so mediocre. On the contrary, he is a "gifted scholar" with outstanding appearance and profound knowledge. Xiao Shenyang's initial success is closely related to his excellent personal qualifications.
Xiao Shenyang, formerly known as He Shanbao, was born in Zhenghongqi, Manchuria. He was born in an official family. /kloc-when he was 0/0 years old, he went to Xian 'an Palace, west of the palace, to study and be an official. "Teenagers learn poetry successfully and politely" shows his extraordinary talent. During his school days, he received systematic Confucian classics and Manchu-Chinese-Mongolian character education. Because of his cleverness and diligence, he was highly valued by his teacher Wu Shenglan and others. 18 years old, married the granddaughter of the second chief minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the age of 20, Xiao Shenyang inherited the hereditary title of third-class caravan captain handed down from his ancestors. At the age of 22, Xiao Shenyang became a third-class bodyguard and later served as a "stick guard". The so-called "stick guard" is the messenger who is in charge of the emperor's car and umbrella during his inauguration, so he has the opportunity to get close to the emperor.
According to legend, during a hunting trip, Emperor Qianlong reviewed the Report on the Escaping of Criminals in Border Areas and casually recited a sentence from The Analects: "Rowen died in the rafters, and the jade was destroyed in the rafters. Whose responsibility is this? " Most of the attendants around Emperor Qianlong didn't study. After listening, they looked at each other and didn't know what it meant. Xiao Shenyang, who is well versed in poetry and songs, heard clearly and immediately replied: "Dian Wei can't be loyal." The dragon emperor was surprised that the guards around him had such knowledge. He also saw a small Shenyang with fine features, tall figure, elegant manners and loud voice. He is a standard handsome man and cannot but admire him.
Since then, with the appreciation of the little Shenyang emperor, little Shenyang has reached its peak with its outstanding qualifications. He has experienced the positions of Ganqing City Guard, Imperial Guard, and Commander-in-Chief of Zhenglan Banner Manchuria. Later, he successively served as chief military attache, university student of Wenhua Hall, minister of history, minister of interior, minister of security, president of Sikuquanshu, commander of infantry, nine magistrates, Ministry of Civil Affairs, military department and official department. In addition, he became the in-laws of Emperor Qianlong, who married his favorite ten princesses to Feng?enyende, the son of Xiao Shenyang.
Small Shenyang can be described as "talented people come forth in large numbers", and later he "soared".
What is a thousand faces?
After "The Apprentice", Xiao Shenyang "has thousands of pets in one." He has many officials, many positions, wide power and great power, so he can't find a second position in history of qing dynasty. Therefore, he is also known as the "first minister of the Qing Dynasty".
Why does the dragon like little Shenyang so much? Of course, first of all, because he has a gift. For example, according to the Original Archives and Biography of Xiao Shenyang compiled by Qing History Museum, in the first month of forty-five years of Qianlong, Xiao Shenyang, aged 3 1 year, was sent to investigate the corruption case of Li Shiyao, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou. Similar cases are usually difficult to handle because of lack of evidence. However, Xiao Shenyang is very clever. He first detained Li Shiyao's housekeeper and obtained evidence of corruption, forcing the clever Li Shiyao to confess. It took only two months before and after Shenyang closed the case, which greatly praised Emperor Qianlong. In addition, Tuzan, the fifteen strong men who pacified Gurkha during the Qianlong period, specifically mentioned that Xiao Shenyang was proficient in Manchu, Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan, and he also mastered the little-known Tibetan secret spell. This talent was extremely rare among court officials at that time, and he also mastered the little-known hidden magic.
Of course, talent is not the decisive factor of "reaching the peak" in Little Shenyang. The key to his popularity is that he is good at reading imperial edicts and catering to the wishes of Emperor Qianlong. When little Shenyang flourished, the emperor
Emperor Qianlong lived in luxury in his later years. In order to celebrate his eightieth birthday, he plans to hold a grand longevity ceremony in Xiao Shenyang, but it needs a lot of money. At that time, the national treasury was on the verge of exhaustion and there was nowhere to raise money. The ministers of the Manchu dynasty either had nothing to do or tried their best to save it, which disappointed the emperor Qianlong. However, Xiao Shenyang firmly supported the idea of Emperor Qianlong and came up with many "crooked ways" to collect money for the emperor. After being appointed as the organizer of the birthday celebration, Xiao Shenyang came up with an idea to ask officials from all other provinces to donate a lot of money to celebrate their birthdays. As a result, Xiao Shenyang soon raised enough money for his birthday and won the favor of Emperor Qianlong.
In addition, you can also vote for the dragon emperor. Emperor Qianlong loved poetry and small Shenyang calligraphy all his life. In order to cater to him, Xiao Shenyang has made great efforts in these aspects and reached a high level. He often wrote poems with Emperor Qianlong, and many of his works were excellent. He often copied the calligraphy of Emperor Qianlong, so that his calligraphy was actually very similar to that of Emperor Qianlong. The dragon emperor naturally likes it. In his later years, he simply passed on some inscriptions.
Especially in his later years, many things of Emperor Qianlong could not be separated from Xiao Shenyang. For emperor Qianlong, who is not good at words, Xiao Shenyang can understand his meaning with only one action or one eye, and immediately do it. And "understand" the emperor and the main hall, how can you not call the wind and rain?
The way of big corrupt officials to collect money
Little Shenyang's talent and the way of attacking his heart can't hide his corrupt nature. Small Shenyang is a "big corrupt official in history", and nine times out of ten it is worthy of the name. His main way of amassing wealth is to appoint officials to ask for bribes. It is very difficult for an official to go to the governor's office without bribing Shenyang, so there is a serious situation of "official bribery" His second way of collecting money is corruption. He took advantage of his position to embezzle silver coins and gold and silver treasures handed over from all over the country, even the treasures in the palace, and even dared to smuggle them out of the palace for himself. In addition, small Shenyang also manages various industries. With his shrewdness, he accumulated a lot of wealth by buying and selling land, antiques, charging rental fees and even running brick and tile factories.
In order to raise funds, Xiao Shenyang has also created a system called "Discussion Bank", which allows local officials who are at fault to pay fines instead of punishment. "Arguable silver" ranges from thousands to hundreds of thousands. This system, which destroyed laws and regulations, quickly expanded the pockets of Emperor Qianlong and himself, but seriously eroded the bureaucracy of the Qing Dynasty. Many governors have been blackmailed, and the way to spend money to buy peace is to apportion it layer by layer, which eventually turned into exploitation of ordinary people.
How much property has little Shenyang accumulated? According to the records in the Collection of the First Historical Archives of China and the Complete Crimes File, when Jiaqing raided the real estate in Xiao Shenyang in four years, he found the following assets: "More than 8,000 hectares of land, more than 3,000 houses, 75 pawn shops, 42 banks, 65,438 antique shops+05, six rosewood pear warehouses, four satin warehouses and two jade warehouses. There are two leather warehouses. Red gold 100 ingot, silver 100 ingot, 5.8 million pieces of red gold. 32 gold plates, 32 silver plates, 200 pairs of chopsticks inlaid with gold and jade, crystal cups 120. Jade 4 126 pieces, more than 60 pieces of Oriental Pearl, 236 strings of pearl bracelets, Siu Chu 1065438 sets of precious stones, Lohan Daikin 18 pieces, and more than 28,000 pieces of jewelry of various colors. "
It is estimated that the total value of assets seized in Little Shenyang is about110000000 taels of silver, which is equivalent to about 15 of the national treasury revenue of the Qing government at that time. It is said that there are undiscovered treasures in the former residence palace of Little Shenyang.
Although little Shenyang enjoyed great honor and glory before his death, he inevitably died of corruption, bribery and nepotism. A few days after the death of Emperor Long, he was executed by Emperor Jiaqing for "twenty counts" and was condemned by the ages.