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"There was the Qing Dynasty, and arsenic was a political product."

"In order to balance the relationship between the Manchu and Han officials, and to increase the rule of the Manchu court, Qianlong gave birth to people like He Wen."

"Of course, He Arsenic is also a good financial manager. Emperor Qianlong was so extravagant and wasteful. If there was no steward who was good at financial management, the country of the Qing Dynasty would probably be ruined by him."

"He Arsenic has to be said to be a very smart person. He once studied at the Imperial Academy of Xian'an Palace, and the courses taught in this school include a subset of classics and history, minority languages, martial arts riding and archery, and firearms."

"And He Wen is not only outstanding in his homework, but also develops in an all-round way in other areas of suspicion. His grades have won unanimous praise from the whole school."

"It can be said that Hearsen is a comprehensive talent."

"And He's empathy is more in line with Qianlong's temper."

"Not only Qianlong, but even Emperor Jiaqing later praised Hearen."

"He is dexterous in all aspects and is good at handling various affairs. He has highlighted his talents in investigating and dealing with corruption, rectifying salt affairs, and border affairs."

"In the later period of Qianlong, Hear's power became more and more powerful, and the financial system, management of cultural affairs, especially diplomatic aspects, were quick in thinking and easy to handle."

"He edited the Siku Quanshu, the unified annals of the Qing Dynasty, and the spread of the Dream of the Red Chamber, among which he contributed a lot."

"After seeing He Arsenic, the British envoys commented that He Arsen is a rare talent, with a sharp and profound understanding of issues, and a mature politician."

In history, traditional literati often dismissed financial management, but He Wen had a natural business acumen.

He made use of various means of embezzlement, on the one hand to expand investment in real estate, and on the other hand to invest in industry and commerce.

From the current point of view, Hearsenic invests in a very comprehensive industry.

Finance, real estate, mining, logistics, medicine, business.Moreover, he has as many as twelve pawnshops in the capital.

In addition, he also runs printing shops, account bureaus, porcelain shops, medicine shops, antiques, bows and arrows, and even grain shops, hotels, and lime kilns!

It can be said that as long as it is an industry that makes money quickly, there will be Hearsenic.

After becoming Qianlong's personal assistant, his business talent was even more reflected.

In the 41st year of Qianlong, he began to serve as Minister of Internal Affairs.

Prior to this, the financial institutions of the Qing Dynasty were unable to make ends meet.After Hearsen came to power, he not only made up for the previous fiscal deficit, but also made a surplus.

Emperor Qianlong was even more impressed with Hearsen's financial management skills.

All the financial departments were gradually divided into one person, He Wen. He successively served as the minister of the household department, the secretary of the household department, managed the three treasuries of the household department, and the minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

And this also created favorable conditions for the corruption of Arsenic.

Qianlong needed money, and He Arsenic just gave him a pillow, which became He Arsenic's biggest backer.

In his later years, Qianlong's desire for wealth was also growing. At this time, the criminal silver system proposed by Youhe Arsenic stepped onto the stage of history.

As the administration in the mid-Qianlong period became more stringent, the emperor felt that the amount of fines was too small to guard against the civil and military affairs of the Manchu dynasty. However, this regulation gradually became a system after he took power, and it also became a source of income for Qianlong's small treasury. main source.

Therefore, under the suggestion of He Arsenic, the scope of the criminal silver system is like a net, including the entire Qing Dynasty.

From major mistakes such as financial deficits to a few typos in memorials, they can all be resolved with the crime silver system.

As soon as this method came out, it immediately received echoes from many ministers.

This is a good way.This can not only reduce one's own fault, but even bribe the emperor in disguise, which kills two birds with one stone.

Therefore, all over the country, everyone who was more flexible in their minds turned up one after another to explain their faults.Then a large amount of snowflake silver was sent to Qianlong's small treasury continuously.

"The governor of Henan failed to find the key criminal in time and fined himself 2 taels."

"The governor of Shaanxi and Gansu punished himself with 4 taels for making mistakes."

"What's more, he accidentally put incense ash on Emperor Qianlong's Zhu Zhu, and immediately punished himself with 3 taels of silver!"

It is estimated that Emperor Qianlong was a little embarrassed looking at this, and hurriedly said: "It's not that serious, just pay 1 taels."

Such an absurd thing is simply unheard of. This ethos of corruption and bribery swept through the Qing Dynasty like a hurricane. The officials racked their brains and tried their best to hand over the money. Emperor Qianlong was elated and accepted the officials with peace of mind. The crime silver they sent over.

Where did the tens of thousands of taels of silver come from? Didn't Emperor Qianlong really know?
The salaries of officials in the Qing Dynasty were very low, and it was far from possible to support these needs.

But Emperor Qianlong didn't care about these, all he thought about was how to fill his small treasury.

According to Emperor Qianlong, the crime-discussion silver system is very good, and it can urge all officials to become clean.

This seems to be harmless to the state, it did not increase the burden on the people, it allowed the emperor to have enough pocket money, and it also awakened many lawless officials, which really serves multiple purposes.

In fact, this is an evil policy with extremely serious consequences!

And the final result of this is the burden of the people in the family, making the lives of the more miserable people even more difficult.

Such a prosperous Qianlong era, such a perfect old man, looks like a farce in history.

It can be said that Emperor Qianlong is absurd, even if he is a waste emperor is also appropriate.

It was the collection of several million taels of criminal silver that caused the Qing Dynasty to suffer losses as high as hundreds of millions of taels.

No matter how corrupt officials are in this system, they can be exempted from punishment as long as they pay a certain amount of money. Why not do such a thing? Prisoners' sentences can be bought with silver taels.

This kind of thing followed suit layer by layer, and in the end, the entire Qing Dynasty fell into an endless loop.

He Arsenic is a corrupt official, but he is only a corrupt official under the decadent system of the dynasty. Apart from him, there are countless corrupt officials, large and small, throughout the Qing Dynasty.

The greed of arsenic was acquiesced by Qianlong.

An old man with perfect martial arts, an emperor who ruled martial arts through the ages.A distinguished ruler of the empire.

Which one of these does not require countless money to accumulate.He arsenic died of greed, and also died of position.

As an old minister, what he should do is to please Emperor Jiaqing's approval, but Qianlong lived for too long, so that He Wen, who was caught in the middle, could only continue to rely on his old master to live.

So after Qianlong's death, the first person Jiaqing wanted to kill was Hearsen.

After the death of He Arsenic, the Houjin Group represented by He Arsenic was severely suppressed.

Emperor Jiaqing began to reuse Han people slowly. From the center of national power to local governments, more Han people began to have the right to speak. This situation continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Although He Arsenic knew how to be an official, in that environment, he could only bite the bullet and continue to move forward. Rather than saying that He Arsenic accelerated the corruption of the dynasty, it is better to say that Emperor Qianlong accelerated the Qing dynasty. Steps towards death.