Money-greedy historical figures:
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liang Ji, a relative of the family, had a family fortune of three billion. Liang Ji was a native of Anding Wushi (now northwest of Pingliang, Gansu Province) in the Eastern Han Dynasty and served as a general. He has been rampant in the court for more than 20 years and is known as the "Domineering General". Emperor Heng auctioned his property and obtained more than 3 billion silver coins, which was equivalent to half of the national tax revenue at that time.
Cai Jing, the biggest corrupt official in the Song Dynasty was Cai Jing, the traitorous Prime Minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. He lived a corrupt and extravagant life. Cai Jing loved to eat crab roe buns. A meal of crab roe buns was said to be equivalent to the annual income of hundreds of middle-class families at that time. Cai Jing (February 14, 1047 - August 11, 1126), named Yuan Chang, was one of the most powerful ministers in the Song Dynasty and a calligrapher. A native of Chiling, Cixiaoli, Xianyou County, Xinghua Army in the Northern Song Dynasty, he passed the imperial examination in the third year of Xining. He was first a local official and later a member of Zhongshushe. He changed the Longtuge system and knew Kaifeng Prefecture. In the first year of Chongning (1102), he served as the right servant and servant, and later became the grand master. Cai Jing served as prime minister four times and served for seventeen years. He was the first person in ancient and modern times to rise and fall. Cai Jingxing participated in the battle of Huashi Gang; he changed the salt method and tea method, and cast ten coins. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Chen Dong, a student of the Imperial College, wrote a letter calling Cai Jing "the leader of the six thieves". After Song Qinzong ascended the throne, Cai Jing was demoted to Lingnan and died in Tanzhou on the way.
Zhu Meng (1075-1126) was a native of Suzhou (now Jiangsu). A minister of the Song Dynasty and one of the "Six Thieves". Because his father Zhu Chong flattered Cai Jing and Tong Guan, both father and son held official positions. At that time, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was interested in rare flowers and stones. Zhu Meng responded to his wishes and searched for rare flowers and stones from central Zhejiang to donate, and the number increased year by year. During the Zhenghe period, a Yingfeng Bureau was set up in Suzhou, where officials spent a lot of money to search for flowers and stones and transported them to the capital by boat from the Huaihe and Bianhe rivers. They were known as the "Flowers and Stones Guide". This battle lasted for years, and the people were in misery. All middle-class families went bankrupt, and even sold their sons and daughters for extortion. When Fang La revolted, he called for Zhu Meng to be killed. While Zhu Meng was courting the emperor, he also tried every possible means to plunder, accumulate private property, and lead a corrupt life. When Qinzong came to the throne, he demoted his official position and released him to the fields. Later, he was exiled to Xunzhou and imprisoned. The imperial emissary beheaded him and executed him.
Zhang Jun (1086-1154), courtesy name Boying, was born in Chengji of Fengxiang Prefecture. A general of the Song Dynasty, he was once known as the Four Generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty along with Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Liu Guangshi. He later became the leader and became one of the accomplices in the murder of Yue Fei, and thus won the deep favor of Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty. In his later years, he was granted the title of Prince of Qinghe County and became famous for a while. Zhang Jun was extremely favored by the emperor. But this General Zhang Jun is not famous in history for killing enemies and serving the country. He is famous for his greed and the huge wealth he possesses. He annexed land wantonly and occupied a huge amount of land. He became a rare big landowner in ancient times. He claimed to own fields all over the world and his family accumulated tens of thousands. Zhang Jun's family owned more than one million acres of fertile land, and the annual rent was more than 600,000 shi, which was equivalent to more than twice the annual fiscal revenue of Shaoxing Prefecture, the richest city in the Southern Song Dynasty. Through plunder and plunder, Zhang Jun also occupied a large number of gardens and houses. The rent collected alone amounted to 73,000 guan per year, which means that the annual income from the rent alone was 730 million guan. .
Chen Ziqiang: courtesy name Mianzhi. The prime minister of the Song Dynasty was a corrupt official. A native of Changle, Fujian. In the fifth year of Chunxi, he became a Jinshi of 1898. At the beginning of the Qingyuan Dynasty, he served as the mentor of the powerful prime minister Han Yuzhou, and he repeatedly promoted Youzhengyan to advise the officials.
Liu Guan, a native of Xiongxian County, Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang punished corrupt officials very cruelly. Officials who embezzled 60 taels of silver would be skinned, stuffed with straw in the skin and placed next to the official seat of the Yamen. Warning to successors. This method achieved certain results at that time. By the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, the biggest perpetrator of corruption was Liu Guan, the senior judicial officer of Zuodu, who had experienced four generations of emperors. Liu Guan violated the law and engaged in massive corruption and bribery. Under his influence, the censors were all extremely greedy. After Xuande dismissed the court in June of the third year, Emperor Xuanzong summoned academicians Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong to Wenhua Gate to ask which official in the court was the most corrupt now? Yang Rong said without hesitation that it was Liu Guan. Xuanzong immediately issued an edict, ordering Liu Guan to patrol the river, which actually removed him from his position as censor. The censors with a keen sense of smell immediately took action upon hearing the news and impeached Liu Guan and his son Liu Fu. In anger, Xuanzong prepared to execute Liu Guan and his son. Later, with repeated pleas from Yang Shiqi and others, he demoted the two to guard the border in Liaodong. Liu Guan finally died in Liaodong.
Liu Jin (1451-1510), a native of Xingping, Shaanxi, whose surname was Tan, was adopted by the eunuch Liu Shun when he was six years old. He later became a eunuch in the palace and changed his surname to Liu. During the Hongzhi period, he was pardoned for his crimes and served Zhu Houzhao. He won the favor of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty and was promoted several times.
After taking power, he took advantage of the opportunity to specialize in government affairs, dominate and exploit the common people, and became the leader of the "Eight Tigers". People at the time called him the "established emperor", and Wuzong was called the "sitting emperor". After Liu Jin was arrested, millions of taels of gold and silver, as well as counterfeit seals, jade belts and other prohibited items were found in his home. He was considered the "richest man in the world" at the time. In August of the fifth year of Zhengde (1510), Liu Jin was sentenced to Lingchi.
Heshen (May 28, 1750 - February 22, 1799), Niu Hulu, formerly known as Shanbao, also named Zhizhai, named himself Jiale Hall, Shihu Garden, and Luye The owner of the pavilion was a native of Erjiala, Zhenghong Banner, Manchuria, an official and businessman during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. When He Shen first became an official, he was smart, capable and honest. He consolidated his position through the Li Shiyao case. Emperor Qianlong favored him and married his youngest daughter, Princess Ten, to Heshen's eldest son Fengshen Yinde, making Heshen not only powerful but also a relative of the emperor. As his power grew, his selfish desires also expanded. He took advantage of his position to form parties for personal gain, amass money, and attack political opponents. In addition, Heshen also personally operated industry and commerce, opened 75 pawn shops, set up more than 300 large and small banks, and had business dealings with the British East India Company and the Guangdong No. 13 Bank. He Shen once held and concurrently held many key positions in the central government of the Qing Dynasty, and was awarded the first-class Zhongxiang Gong and the Wenhua Palace Bachelor. His positions mainly included the chief bachelor of the cabinet, the foreman military aircraft minister, the official minister, the household minister, and the criminal minister. He also held dozens of important positions, including the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Master of the Hanlin Academy, the Chief Compiler of the Complete Collection of Four Treasures, the Minister of the Imperial Guard, and the Commander of the Infantry Army. In the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799), Emperor Jiaqing issued an order to dismiss He Shen and be imprisoned. The wealth He Shen accumulated was worth approximately 800 million taels to 1.1 billion taels of silver. The gold and silver he owned, plus other antiques and treasures, exceeded the total fiscal revenue of the Qing government in the past fifteen years. Fifteen days after the death of Emperor Qianlong, Emperor Jiaqing ordered Heshen to commit suicide.
Historical figures who were greedy for power:
Zhao Gao (? - 207 BC), surnamed Ying, Zhao. The second emperor of China's Qin Dynasty, he was the prime minister and a famous eunuch. Zhao Gao was originally a distant relative of the Qin clan. He entered the Qin Palace as a eunuch, served as the magistrate of the Zhongche Mansion, and also served as the Fu Xi Order, "in charge of affairs for more than twenty years." After Qin Shihuang's death, Zhao Gao launched the Sand Dune Coup. He conspired with Prime Minister Li Si to forge an edict, forcing Qin Shihuang's eldest son Fusu to commit suicide, and appointed Hu Hai, the youngest son of Qin Shihuang, as emperor, the second emperor of Qin, and appointed himself Lang Zhongling. During his tenure, he monopolized power, formed cliques for personal gain, made conscription more onerous, and administered more harshly. In 208 BC, he designed to kill Li Si, who became the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty. In the third year, he forced Qin II to commit suicide and appointed Ziying (the son of Qin Shihuang's eldest son Fusu) as King of Qin. Soon he was killed by Ziying, and the three Yi tribes were punished.
Li Linfu (683-January 3, 753), nicknamed Genu, was originally from Longxi. He was a clan member and prime minister of the Tang Dynasty and the great-grandson of Changping King Li Shuliang. Li Linfu was born in the royal family of Xi in the Tang Dynasty. In his early years, he served as Qianniu Zhichang, Prince Zhongyun, Prince Yude, Guozi Siye, Yushi Zhongcheng, Minister of Punishment, Minister of Libu, and Minister of Huangmen. Later, he served as Minister of Rites. Pay homage to the Prime Minister and be awarded the same three grades. In the 24th year of Kaiyuan, Li Linfu succeeded Zhang Jiuling and was promoted to Zhongshu Ling. Later, he was granted the title of Duke of Jin, and also served as Shangshu Zuopushe. In November of the eleventh year of Tianbao, Li Linfu died of illness and was given posthumously to the Taiwei and the Governor of Yangzhou. Later, he was falsely accused by Yang Guozhong of treason. He was demoted from his official position and reburied. His family property was confiscated and his descendants were exiled. Li Linfu served as prime minister for nineteen years and was the longest-serving prime minister during the Xuanzong period. He held great power, blocked his opinions, and rejected talented people, leading to disorder of discipline. He also suggested re-employing Hu generals to make An Lushan bigger. He was considered one of the key figures who turned the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline.
Li Fuguo (704-762) was a powerful eunuch during the reign of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty. He was the first eunuch to become prime minister in the Tang Dynasty. His real name is Jingzhong, and he was once given the name of Protector of the country, and later changed to the name of Fuguo. His appearance is extremely ugly. Li Fuguo did nothing before he was forty years old. During the Anshi Rebellion, he persuaded Prince Li Heng to inherit the throne. After Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty came to the throne, he was named the Marching Sima of the Marshal's Mansion, began to take control of the military power, and was renamed Fu Guo. Later, he was canonized as Sikong and Zhongshu Ling for his support of Daizong's accession to the throne. After gaining power, Li Fuguo did whatever he wanted, and was eventually assassinated. He was given a posthumous gift to Taifu and his posthumous title was Chou.
Qin Hui (1090-1155), courtesy name Huizhi, Han nationality, was born in Huangzhou and native of Jiangning. A famous treacherous minister and representative of the Zhuhe faction in the Southern Song Dynasty. Qin Hui belonged to the peace-promoting faction in the Southern Song Dynasty court and pursued a peace policy of ceding territory, claiming vassal status, and paying tribute. During his second visit to the prime minister, he tried his best to denigrate the anti-Jin soldiers and prevent the restoration; at the same time, he formed a secret party, expelled dissidents, and repeatedly caused jails. He was one of the famous treacherous ministers in Chinese history.
Shi Miyuan (1164-1233), named Tongshu. A native of Yin County, Mingzhou (now Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province). The son of Shi Hao, the prime minister and right servant of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the 14th year of Chunxi (1187), he passed the Jinshi title. Shi Miyuan had been in power for twenty-six years in the two dynasties, and had been trusted by Ningzong and Lizong of the Song Dynasty, and was granted numerous titles and titles. His seven cronies were called the "Four Woods and Three Evils" by people at the time. Shi Miyuan and others surrendered and compromised against the Jin Dynasty, but plundered the people of the Southern Song Dynasty wildly. He seeks power and accepts bribes, and bribes are fair to the public. They also printed a large number of new huizi, and no longer exchanged them for gold, silver, or copper coins, but only exchanged new huizi for old huizi, and discounted the old huizi by half. As a result, there were too many parties, the currency value dropped, prices soared, and people were in dire straits. In the sixth year of Shaoding (1233), Shi Miyuan died of illness and was granted the title of King Wei, posthumously named Zhongxian.
Wei Zhongxian (1568-December 11, 1627), courtesy name Wanwu, was a native of Suning, North Zhili, Han nationality, and his original name was Li Jinzhong. The surname was restored by the talented Wang family. After he became the eunuch of Bingbi, he changed his name to Wei Zhongxian. Eunuch in the late Ming Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty, he served as the eunuch Si Li Bingbi. He was highly favored and was known as the "Nine Thousand Years Old". He excluded dissidents and arbitrarily ruled the country, so that people "only know that there are loyal and virtuous people, but they don't know that there is an emperor." After Zhu Youjian succeeded to the throne, he cracked down on the eunuchs and punished Wei Zhongxian for ten major crimes. He ordered Wei Zhongxian to be arrested and punished, and he hanged himself. The other parties were also eliminated.
Cixi (November 29, 1835 - November 15, 1908) was Empress Xiaoqinxian, Yehenala, the concubine of Emperor Xianfeng and the biological mother of Emperor Tongzhi. She entered the palace in 1852 and was given the title of Lan Guiren, and the following year she was granted the title of Concubine Yi. In 1856, the emperor's eldest son Aixinjueluo Zaichun (Emperor Tongzhi) was born, who was granted the title of Concubine Yi. After the collapse, she and Empress Xiaozhenxian were honored in the two palaces, and were called the Queen Mother and Empress Dowager Cixi. Later, she joined forces with the Empress Dowager Ci'an and Prince Gong Yixin to launch the Xinyou Coup, killing eight ministers and seizing power, forming the "Second Palace" The curtain is drawn down, the prince discusses politics" pattern. The Qing government temporarily entered a period of tranquility, known in history as the Tongzhi ZTE. In 1873, the Queen Mother of the two palaces returned to power. In 1875, Emperor Tongzhi passed away, and his nephew Aixinjueluo Zaitian was chosen to succeed Xianfeng. The reign was Guangxu, and the two palaces once again managed the affairs behind closed doors. In 1881, Empress Dowager Ci'an died, and in 1884 Cixi launched the "Jiashen Yishu" to remove her. Prince Gong began to take charge of power alone; in 1889, he returned to Guangxu and retired to the Summer Palace; in 1898, after the imperial party conspired to surround the garden and kill him during the Reform Movement of 1898, Cixi launched the Reform Movement of 1898, imprisoned Emperor Guangxu, beheaded the Six Gentlemen of 1898, and re-supervised the government; After the Gengzi Revolution in 1900, the New Deal of the late Qing Dynasty was implemented to reform military, business, academic, and official laws. In 1908, Emperor Guangxu passed away. Cixi chose three-year-old Puyi as the new emperor. She was honored as the Empress Dowager that day. She died at 17:00 the next day (three quarters before midnight) in the Yiluan Hall and was buried in the Dingdong Tomb in Putuoyu.
Greedy historical figures:
Liu Ziye (February 25, 449 - January 1, 466), Xiaozi Master. The eldest son of Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty, Liu Jun, and the sixth emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In 453, he was established as crown prince. In 464, Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty died, Liu Ziye came to the throne, changed the Yuan Dynasty to Yongguang, and granted amnesty to the world. When Liu Ziye was in power, he was brutal and brutal, killing ministers indiscriminately, and even his uncle was not spared. Liu Ziye is a famous incest emperor in history. He took his aunt into the harem as a concubine and had incest with his half-sister. He once ordered the palace maids to chase and tease each other naked, and those who refused to obey were killed. He also often asked his left and right ministers to force him to rape his uncle, King Liu Xiuren of Jian'an, his biological mother Yang Taifei. In 466 AD, Liu Ziye was killed by his uncle Liu Yu, King of Eastern Hunan, and others because of his incest and cruelty. He was seventeen years old.
Liu Ao (51 BC to 7 BC), known as Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty in history, was the twelfth emperor of the Western Han Dynasty. He was the legitimate son of Emperor Liu Xi of the Han Yuan Dynasty and Empress Xiaoyuan Wang Zhengjun. After Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty came to the throne, he indulged in drinking and sex, and his relatives were good at politics. Almost all political affairs were controlled by the Wang family of the Queen Mother's family, which laid the foundation for Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han Dynasty. Peasant uprisings and iron official uprisings broke out in various places.
Bai Juyi (772-846), whose courtesy name was Letian, also known as Xiangshan Jushi, and also Mr. Zuiyin, was originally from Taiyuan. He moved to Xiagui when his great-grandfather was around. He was born in Sincheng, Henan. He was a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three major poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen jointly advocated the New Yuefu Movement, known as "Yuan Bai" in the world, and "Liu Bai" together with Liu Yuxi. Bai Juyi's poetry has a wide range of themes, diverse forms, and simple and popular language. He is known as the "Poetry Demon" and the "Poetry King".
As a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi liked women. He had two concubines who he liked very much. One was Fan Su and the other was Xiao Man. Fan Su had a small mouth and Xiao Man had a small waist. Bai Juyi wrote a poem to praise her. : "Cherry Fan Su mouth, willow small waist." Since then, people have described women with slender waists as small waists, and women with small mouths as cherry mouths.
Zhu Wen (852-912), a native of Dangshan, Songzhou, was the founding emperor of the Later Liang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. He participated in the Huangchao Uprising in his early years, and later left the Qi regime of Huangchao and returned to the Tang Dynasty. Later, he was named Zhu Quanzhong by the Tang court. After the Tang Dynasty Jianliang Dynasty, he was renamed Zhu Huang. In the first year of Kaiping (907), Zhu Wen deposed Emperor Ai of the Tang Dynasty Li Jie, proclaimed himself emperor, and established the capital in Kaifeng. The country was named "Daliang", and the history was called "Hou Liang". He was the Taizu of Hou Liang. From then on, the Tang Dynasty ended During his reign of 289 years, Chinese history entered the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. When Zhu Wen was in power, he attached great importance to agricultural development and ordered that there should be no scientific allocation in addition to the two taxes. But he is lewd and lustful.
Li Yuanhao (1003-1048), also known as Yuxiao, also known as Weili, was a member of the Dangxiang tribe and the founding emperor of Xixia. Li Yuanhao, like many rulers in history, also has his own inherent shortcomings and shortcomings that are difficult to overcome. He believed that the imperial power was already very stable, and he was intoxicated with his illustrious military exploits. In the later period, he ignored the government affairs and often played and indulged in sex with the concubines in the palace in Helan Mountain. He gave his second son, Li Ningling, a wife with no surname. Seeing her beauty, he took her as his own and made her the "new queen".
Wan Yanliang (February 24, 1122 - December 15, 1161), a Jurchen named Digunai, with the character Yuan Gong, was the fourth emperor of the Jin Dynasty. Wan Yanliang was lustful and lustful. He once told the minister Gao Huaizhen about his ambitions: "I have three ambitions. All major national affairs are my responsibility. The first one is to command troops from far away and take charge of their superiors to hold those who are guilty before them accountable. The second one is to lead troops to attack far away places. The second one is to hold the commander in charge and hold accountable those who have committed crimes." Regardless of whether they are close or not, having the most beautiful wife in the world is the third principle."