Zong Qiongyao's Haoxiang

"By God, the emperor's edict said: officials in Gansu Province colluded with each other, faked disasters and cheated, collected food from the prison, invaded money and stripped the people, and made thousands of dollars. It shocked the government and the public. It is a strange and strange thing that has never been seen! To kill the court In the midst of corruption, clean up the administration of officials, deal with the main culprits in the case, Wang Tingzan and Wang Danwang, the governor Le Erjin, and the prefect of Lanzhou Jiang Quandi and four others beheaded for public display! This is yours!"

In the 33rd year of Qianlong's reign, due to the uprising of the Salar tribe in Xunhua Hall, Su ShisijjQing, this major corruption case involving hundreds of court officials and tens of millions of taels of money was triggered. At the end of the month, officials from all over Gansu Province were cleared up.

The news spread back to Gansu, and the common people rushed to tell each other to celebrate after hearing the incident, and the cannon-burning lion dance was better than the New Year.

The four main criminals had been escorted to Beijing earlier, and after the imperial decree was issued, they were taken to the prison van and escorted outside the Meridian Gate.

The domineering officials of the frontiers in the past are all dressed in prison uniforms and shoulder shackles, standing in the prison car with ashen faces, and being thrown vegetable leaves and rotten eggs by the onlookers on the road, they are really embarrassed.

"Brother, are they those big corrupt officials?"

Among the crowd of onlookers on the street, a six or seven-year-old child who looked up in pink and jade looked up and asked.

The one who was asked by the child was a young man in a blue brocade robe with a face like a crown of jade.The young man couldn't help laughing angrily when he heard that he called him wrong again, stretched out his hand and pressed it on the child's head, and threatened: "Brother, brother, I'm your uncle, and I won't take you out if you make a mistake next time, remember gone?"

"Yes, Miansen remembered it." Although the child said he remembered it on the surface, he curled his lips in disapproval behind his back.

Yong Xing knew what he was thinking when he looked at him like that. This little boy is very cunning, but at the same time he is very stubborn. What he believes is that even ten cows can't even try to get him back. He has corrected it hundreds of times...

Time flies, and it has been almost three years since Haoxiang left, and Yongxin has also grown from a young boy to a handsome and handsome young man.

With the promotion of his status, Fujin's position has been vacant all the time, so the Queen's Kunning Palace has gradually become the permanent residence of many wives. Countless portraits of ladies and gentlemen were sent to the Queen, and many of them were of virtue. The girl who is both tolerant and suitable for the Queen's eyes, but He Yongzhen has made up her mind, and the Queen has nothing to do with him, she can only watch him wait year after year in vain.

Therefore, Yongzhen has always been ashamed of the queen in his heart, but he can only pretend that he doesn't know it, and devotes all his attention to the government affairs, so as not to let himself have the slightest distraction.

In government affairs, the administration of officials was the most troublesome thing for him.

If the government is not clear, the people will not live, and if the people do not live, the country will be in danger.However, in the past few years, there have been few clear and bright officials in the court, let alone those local officials who are far away from the emperor.

As early as the last years of the Kangxi Dynasty, the corruption of officials in the Qing Dynasty had already formed, and then in the 13 years of the Yongzheng Dynasty, due to the deterrence of Emperor Yongzheng's "ransacking the house", it improved somewhat.But in the Qianlong Dynasty, because Emperor Qianlong was very happy and lived extravagantly, the whole court followed suit and spread this corruption to the north and south, so there was such a huge corruption case in Gansu.

After the collective corruption case in Gansu province this time, Yongzheng demanded a thorough investigation, and tried his best to overthrow the chief envoys of several officials in the frontier.Among them, Wang Tingzan, the chief envoy, was a close confidant of Emperor Qianlong. He was awarded by the emperor many times, and he was also the direct wife and uncle of the eighth elder brother. To touch him would be to slap the emperor in the face.One can imagine the difficulty of bringing down these corrupt officials with strong backgrounds.

Fortunately, the emperor has been obsessed with practicing Taoism in the past few years, and then became obsessed with alchemy. The emperor rebuked.

Without the emperor's protection and obstruction, Yongzhen's pressure was reduced by more than half, and the rest was the game between the eighth prince and the eleventh prince.

Earlier in the Su 43 uprising, the imperial court urgently mobilized tens of thousands of officers and troops to gather in Gansu Province to suppress the bandits. However, the lack of military pay caused the suppression to last for a long time and failed to win.This time the army was commanded by the [-]th elder brother's cronies. In order to avoid the eleventh elder brother's reprimand, he shifted the responsibility to the governor Le Erjin, saying that he did not obey the command.At that time, Yong Xing was furious because of the ineffectiveness of these officials, but he couldn't get angry with Eleven Brothers.

Someone has to take responsibility for this matter, and the result of the game between the two sides was the dismissal of Governor Le Erjin.

The downfall of Le Erjin made all the guilty officials in Gansu terrified all day long, so Wang Tingzan submitted a booklet saying that he was willing to pay 4 taels of silver himself as military expenses in an attempt to get out of the predicament.

However, his move aroused the doubts of Yongzheng and Heshen. Gansu is located in the northwest, where disasters are rampant all the year round, the land is barren and the people are poor, and the officialdom is even more difficult.Realizing that something was wrong, Yongzheng immediately sent Heshen to Gansu secretly to investigate the matter.

Unexpectedly, this investigation uncovered a shocking case.

In this case, Governor Le Erjin, chief envoys Wang Tingzan, Wang Danwang and others took the lead in lying about the disaster situation, thereby defrauding the court of disaster relief funds, and privately converted the donated food into two taels of silver, and then all the converted silver fell to the corrupt officials. hands.

He Shen conducted secret investigations in various prefectures and counties in Gansu for several months, and finally got evidence of the collusion among officials in Gansu Province.After Heshen returned to Beijing, Yongzhen quickly dispatched the censor of the Procuratorate, and persuaded Agui, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, to go to Gansu to seize all the officials involved in the case and their property, so as to prevent the criminals from escaping privately with the money, count the amount involved, and escort Wang Tingzan and others into the palace. Beijing was tried.

Yong Xing's speed was too fast, Wang Tingzan and others were imprisoned before the eighth and eleventh brothers could react.Afterwards, the eighth elder brother personally went to Yongzheng and asked him to release Wang Tingzan, but Yongzheng vetoed it on the grounds that Wang Tingzan was embezzled and perverted the law.

Then Eighth Prince sent someone to the Summer Palace to seek an audience with the emperor, slandering Yongzheng for abusing his power and privately detaining the ministers of the court.

Without the obstruction of the emperor, things will be much easier to handle.Yongzhen holds all the evidence of Wang Tingzan and others being corrupt and breaking the law. In addition, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is clean, and the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Agui, who participated in this matter, is also upright. These people will never allow this case to be closed hastily.And in the ruling against Wang Tingzan and others, both the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Agui gave Yongxi absolute support.

The eighth elder brother, the eleventh elder brother and others secretly received a large amount of tribute money from Wang Tingzan and others. If Wang Tingzan and others were executed, their source of income would be completely cut off.However, after being reprimanded by the emperor, they had nothing to do, knowing that the situation had reached the point of irreversibility.Therefore, it was inevitable that he would be involved in the case, so the eighth elder brother could only watch helplessly as Wang Tingzan and others were sent to the execution ground.

"Miansen, do you have any thoughts when you see them?" Yong Xing pointed to Le Erjin and others who were incontinent because of seeing the Meridian Gate, and lowered his head to ask the child who only grew up to his waist.

"Are you trying to say that corrupt officials don't end well?" Mian Sen raised his head, saw his deep eyes, and asked back.

"Yes and no, my purpose of killing corrupt officials is not only to eradicate corruption, but also for the sake of the future of the Qing Dynasty. Just remember: the rule of law is clear, and the country is governed. And for this goal, we still have a long way to go." Let's go." Yong Xing patted Mian Sen's head, watching the four prison cars gradually go away, but his eyes remained firm.

"Well, I remember." This time Miansen was not as perfunctory as before, but looked straight into Yongxin's eyes seriously, and nodded slowly in agreement.

Seeing the child answering him solemnly, Yong Xing couldn't help laughing out loud, patted his head lightly, and said with a smile, "What do you remember? Little brat."

"Hmph, I just remembered. I'm still young, but there will always be a time when I grow up. When I grow up, I'll help you." Little Miansen snorted and muttered softly.

"Hahaha, then I'll just wait for you to help, don't break your promise and get fat, otherwise you will become like your little fat boy." Yong Xin laughed out loud at the kid's words, even if he didn't say anything to him. Tong Yan and Tong Yu took it to heart, but Miansen's young adult demeanor really dispelled the haze that had been lingering in his heart for many days because of this case, and Yong Xin's smile was extraordinarily bright because of this.

Miansen rolled his eyes at his words, then patted his stomach which started to growl, and raised his head to remind, "I'm hungry."

"Let's go, Uncle will take you to grandma's house for delicious snacks..."

"Ama doesn't let me eat snacks. He said that I need to eat more to grow taller..."

"Let's eat secretly, and he can't see it. As long as you don't leak your words, it's fine..."

In the crowd, there was a man standing opposite, reading the freshman novel, laughing and walking away, clenched his fists hard.

"Yo, I said eleven, people are gone, why are you still staring there?" the eighth elder brother Yongxuan suddenly stood up from behind, saw his expression of wanting to eat people, and mocked.

Brother Eleven withdrew his gaze, looked back at Brother Eight, and said, "I just want to know who is that child he is leading?"

"Heh, it's gotten to the point that even children who are close to him can't stand it? Forget it, he is the famous Prince Rui, he is a person who can make us hurt with just a flick of a finger. My brother advises You'd better stop daydreaming, think more about our great cause in the future to be serious, ah." The eighth elder brother took the eleventh elder brother's shoulders and walked in another direction.

The eighth elder brother has long known that the eleventh elder brother is devoted to the twelve, but the twelve is the empress's son, and they are not in the same way at all, not to mention that the twelve is determined to rectify the government, and has already put all the people under their hands. Renqing has gone out a lot, and this time he directly cut off his wife and uncle.

Therefore, the eighth elder brother hated the twelfth to the bone, and he couldn't understand the eleventh elder brother's wishful thinking but didn't dare to take it.

"I just want to know who that child is?" Brother Eleven repeated impatiently with a cold face.

"Hmph, how would I know?" Seeing that he didn't listen to persuasion, the eighth elder brother threw off his shoulder angrily, and said a lesson: "I won't miss his ass all the time like you, what do I care about him? Do you want to arrest him so much and lock him up in your own home, it just saves us trouble!"

"..." Brother Eleven remained silent, passed Eighth Brother after a while, and said expressionlessly, "I can check it myself."

"You...you wake up! Don't be obsessed! If this matter delays my important event, don't blame me for being ruthless!" Standing behind him, the eighth elder brother pointed at the eleventh elder brother and said angrily.

However, what answered him was Eleven's back in a hurry.

Brother Eleven returned to Prince Zhe's mansion, and asked the people below to check on the child Yongxin was holding in his hand today.

Recalling the bright smile that Yongzheng showed when he faced the child at that time, Brother Eleven couldn't help being jealous, crazily jealous!

How long has Twelve not smiled at him, why can a child make him so happy?In the past, Twelve and him were the closest people, why did it become like this?

'Won't you catch him and lock him up in your own house if you want so much?Just saved us trouble! The eighth brother's words suddenly appeared in his mind.

Although this idea was circling in his mind all the time, and he put it into practice, none of the people he sent had ever returned.Behind Twelve, there are some powerful figures who protect him all the time.

But so what?Can it be more powerful than thousands of troops?Wouldn't this kill two birds with one stone?

So why not take a chance?

Twelve, you will always come back to me!

Brother Eleven chewed on Brother Eight's words, and his thinking suddenly turned in a dangerous direction.

The author has something to say: The "Gansu Fake Relief Case" mentioned in the article occurred in the 46th year of Qianlong. It is known as the "biggest corruption case in history". The amount of supervision is tens of millions of taels, and the specifics are no longer available.

The main criminal, Wang Quanwang, was rewarded by Emperor Qianlong several times, and was later transferred to Zhejiang Province and promoted to governor.And Wang Tingzan is the confidant of Emperor Qianlong, who was once trusted by Qianlong.

Corruption had become common in the Qianlong Dynasty at this time, and the government was corrupt to a certain extent.In this case, none of the officials in Gansu Province was clean, and no one reported it. The officials and officials protected each other to such an extent!

Counterfeit relief: Lie about the disaster situation to the imperial court and defraud the imperial court of disaster relief money.

Donate to the prison: Rich merchants become supervisors by paying a certain amount of food to the imperial court or the local government.These grains were originally used as relief.

Wang Danwang, Wang Tingzan and others asked the emperor to make a donation by falsely reporting the disaster situation. The emperor asked them to donate to the prison without a thorough investigation, and it has been out of control ever since.In the end, it became the largest corruption case in history.

Another: Because of the needs of the plot, I wrote the time as the 33rd year of Qianlong, which is 13 years ahead of schedule.