Laoqingji Company sells officials and titles.
Yi, who was in power in the ruling and opposition parties at the end of the Qing Dynasty, was a veteran of selling officials and titles, and his income from selling officials and accepting bribes reached100000 yuan, making him the biggest corrupt criminal in the Qing Dynasty after Daiwa. Anyone who goes to Yimen for an official position will naturally pay a large sum of money. For example, for the post of Shandong Governor,102,000 silver was paid, and Yuan Shikai, Xu Shichang and others also spent a lot of money to buy bigger posts.
In the year of Xin Chou, before Yi became a military commander, everyone knew that he was greedy for good goods. At that time, people called the Qing dynasty palace the old Qingji company selling officials and titles.
19 1 1 year, the post of Shangshu in the Ministry of Postal Services was vacant, which was easy to release news and sold 302,000 yuan. When Sheng Xuanhuai offered to buy it, it was easy to know that he had money. If others could have 300,000, you would have to have 602,000. Later, Sheng Xuanhuai asked for a bargain, and only offered 300,000 yuan to buy this black veil, but it was easy to ask for cash and refused to accept anything else.
According to Xu Zhiyan, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, Chen Yuan was one of Rong Lu's confidants. After Rong Lu's death, he got in touch with Yi through his wife, and his official career soared and he became the governor of Zhili. When the real dragon is in charge of the straight line, it worships tens of thousands of ice charcoal every year, half of which goes in, other satin horses, food, good plays and so on. Will be ignored. On one occasion, Yi said to Chen, You are too troublesome. You must save trouble in the future. Dragon respectfully said: My son-in-law's pity is still bothering adults, so why should I be safe? Please don't worry about such trifles in the future. Xu Zhiyan said: After listening to it, Lao Qing naturally established a tacit understanding in his heart.
More importantly, Chen Bi, the postal minister, was only a small official in the capital, quite poor and embarrassed, before he ascended the throne of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, a gold shop owner was willing to contribute to help him. But the requirement: he should be rich in the future. Fortunately, don't forget each other. Therefore, the owner of the gold shop presented the valuable Dongzhu snuff bottle to Yi in the name of. Iraq smiled at it, and took this opportunity to kneel at Iraq's knees, claiming to be his godson. He also flattered and praised Wang Shouzhi with 50,000 gold coins from the owner of the gold shop. Chen Bi became an assistant minister and settled down in the newly established Qing postal department. As a result, the owner of the gold shop abandoned business and went into politics, and got the price difference of the railway bureau director who was easy to make money.
Crazy bribery and selling out
Yi not only sells officials to collect money, but also accepts bribes in various names. His collusion with Yuan Shikai laid a huge hidden danger for the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. 1903, the foreman's military aircraft Rong Lu was seriously ill. Yuan Shikai calculated that Yi succeeded to the throne and gave 100,000 taels of silver as a gift. Yang Shiqi said: Bao Gong knew that the prince would join the military plane soon. People who work in the military department have to go to the palace to serve Lafayette every day, and there must be many eunuchs around Lafayette, and the money is considerable. Therefore, this money is only pocket money when the sovereign arrives, and it will have to be specially served in the future. . After Wang Qing officially took up his new post, Yuan Shikai had monthly rules, festival rules and annual rules. When he met with Fujin's birthday song and dance, his children got married, which was arranged by Yuan and didn't cost the palace a penny.
1908, Yi's seventieth birthday, the ceremony, has become a good opportunity for officials to cling to friends, and Yi is even more greedy for money and taking bribes. Devotees from all over the country are in an endless stream, and there is a lot of traffic in front of the Qing palace. In order to hide people's eyes and ears, it is easy to warn family members not to accept gifts in the light, but secretly order subordinates to make four books. According to the quantity and thickness, the givers are divided into four levels. The first level is recorded in the Book of Blessings. Anyone who has more than 10,000 yuan in cash and more than 30,000 yuan in gifts is registered in the book, leaving a name to compromise. Cash more than 5000 yuan, give a second-class land sticker with a value of more than 3000 yuan for registration. Third-level birthday book, all gifts worth more than 3 thousand yuan are recorded in this book. Four-level happy characters book, including cash 100 gold and gifts worth hundreds of gold, is recorded in this book. The same giver doesn't care about the size, and even lists the one that is less than 100 gold as a book. Life words, poems, poems and couplets are also recorded in books. This 70 th birthday, the cash from the game is as high as 500,000 taels of silver, and the gift value is over one million!
19 1 1 year, until the Qing empire was about to perish, Yi was still morbidly accumulating personal wealth. According to Guangxuan, after the Wuchang Uprising, Liang, the former governor of Sichuan, volunteered to lead the army to supervise the war in Shaanxi, but Yi, who has always sold officials to collect money, still asked him for a bribe of 82 thousand. Liang was furious: he never bought an official with a dollar in his life. What's the situation now? After the outbreak of Wuchang Shouyi, it was difficult for the north and the south to reach an agreement on whether the Qing emperor abdicated. 191265438+1October 17 at the first meeting of the headquarters, Yi and Pu Lun advocated abdicating on their own initiative and enacting * * * peace, but Pu Wei and Zai Ze resolutely opposed it, but it was fruitless. The headquarters meeting was held again the next day, but there was still no result. After the meeting, more than ten warring factions, including the Zongshe Party headed by Liang Bi, went to besiege Yi, but Yi did not change his mind. According to the memory of the imperial clan Pu Run, Zhao Yi entered the palace, saying that the revolutionary army was 50,000, and the former enemy soldiers of our army had no intention of fighting. Pu Run said that Yi is adhering to Yuan Shikai's will. In fact, Yuan Shikai, who coveted the throne of the great president, spent 3 million taels to bribe Yi Jin to be a lobbyist!
When the Qing Empire was overthrown, the property that was easy to accept bribes was equivalent to more than 200 million taels of silver, while the fiscal revenue of the Qing Empire was only more than 80 million yuan a year. However, Yi's corruption is well known overseas. 19 1 1 The Times published an article "The Biography of the Prince of Qing Dynasty", saying that Yi lived in the north of the Imperial City, and all officials, big and small, in Beijing ran around his door. This is what China said.
Easy to corrupt, psychological compensation is at work.
Someone commented on the game like this: manage the internal affairs well, the internal affairs will be barren, manage diplomacy well, and diplomacy will be invincible ... playing the first sinner in the Qing Dynasty in the royal family. It can be said that Yi's greatest skill is corruption!
So, what makes games a great greed? The answer is strong psychological compensation.
Psychology regards compensation as a psychological displacement. That is, it is a psychological adaptation mechanism to overcome one's physical defects or psychological inferiority, develop one's strengths and advantages in other aspects, and catch up with or surpass others. Salary can form powerful achievement motivation and effective motivation. Compensation can also enhance the sense of security, improve self-esteem and maintain the level of mental health.
Grandpa Yi has always been the seventeen favorite sons of Qianlong, and also the half-brother of Jiaqing. He was once a mighty emperor. However, in the second year of Xianfeng, the descendants of Yong were taken back to the Qing palace by the internal affairs office because of infighting. As Luo Baoshan said: Yi has experienced the ups and downs of his grandfather, father, uncle and cousin since childhood, and has developed a mediocre appearance, but he is very clever at heart ... Yi also tries to satisfy his desire for domination and power materially.
After Yi regained her favor, she relied on her high position, and even Cixi relied on herself, taking bribes and doing whatever it takes to make up for the insecurities buried in her early years. Before the game, the Prince and Baylor marched for their country, and there was no such thing as embezzlement. After the signing of the "Xin Chou Treaty", Cixi was somewhat disheartened, and Yi presided over the daily affairs. According to "Chengbei Wen", Yiluan Hall was destroyed by fire during the Boxer Movement. When the Queen Mother came back from Xi 'an, she felt very sad when she remembered her former residence. Judging from Li's words, it took five million yuan to rebuild the palace, and Yi and Lian occupied half of it. The queen mother said to the speaker, "It is sincere to take advantage of the imperial court and take money online." I steal games for the benefit of others, so they can trust me. "It can be seen from here that Cixi knows about corruption and bribery, but there are no useful people in the DPRK. Your dear, young and energetic, has no ruling experience. So Cixi also had to play games.
1904, Jiang's suggestion exposed Yi's corruption: I got wind that last year 1 1 month, King Qingyi sent1200,000 private property to the British Commercial Bank in Dongjiaominxiang for deposit. Since Jane was appointed military affairs minister, Yi hasn't donated money in detail, and her home is like a city. Because of his father and son's extraordinary luxury in life, food, carriage and clothes, he can still save a lot of money. But since then, nothing has happened, and Yi's heart of corruption has also expanded, eventually betraying the court and gaining a reputation.
It can be said that the game is proportional to the reality. They all come from prominent families, but their wealth has declined. They all made their fortune at the age of 14 or 15, and they were even reused by the court. After they came to power, they both tried their best to be corrupt. Although he has been involved in greed many times, he has not shaken his greed. The income from corruption is the sum of the fiscal revenue in the ten years of Qing dynasty; The income from gambling corruption also exceeded the total fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty in one year.
Corruption accomplished nothing.
Despite widespread corruption, Yi, who is 15 years old, was squandered by his sons. According to Aisingiorro Puquan's The Story of My Father Celebrating the Sacrifice of Prince Zhen, Zaizhen, Zaibo and Zailun inherited Yi's huge legacy and lived a parasitic and enjoyable life in vain.
In Qingwangfu, Tianjin, Zaizhen gets up at about two o'clock every afternoon, and the male and female servants do their own things at once. After washing, go to the Buddhist temple to burn incense and worship Buddha, and then have breakfast. After eating opium and smoking opium, if the weather is fine, I will stroll around the garden and enjoy fish, birds and flowers. He used to raise the day pearl fish, goldfish, swans, wild ducks and Ying Ge with tiger skin. Later, he also raised dozens of tropical fish and hired people to feed them. Besides, Jae-jin also likes Peking Opera, especially Shang Xiaoyun and Tan's plays. Zaizhen will also generously give these Peking Opera actors some gifts, such as jade, tooth carving, antiques and so on. , and sometimes give money.
However, Yi's sons are not good at managing money. They just live on Laozi's money and live on empty pockets. They don't know how to do business, and they won't run any enterprises. They just live a luxurious life by paying interest on bank deposits and selling their inheritance. Pu Quan records: My father lived in Tianjin and relied on bank deposits and interest for a long time to maintain Wang Fu's huge expenses. In the later period of the Japanese puppet regime, counterfeit money depreciated, deposits were folded again and again, and the source of economic income was lost. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the situation was unstable, prices soared, and Wang Fu's economy became more and more difficult. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously sell rare antiques and jewels to maintain Wang Fu's life and expenses.
It is easy to do everything possible to sell officials and take bribes, but in the end it is the sons who enjoy the success. Sadly, money comes easily and goes quickly. Yi himself was evaluated by Pu Yi as: (Yi) Yuan Shikai's money persuaded the Queen Mother and destroyed the country and the world in the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years. After Yi's death, his family asked posthumous title, and Puyi wanted to give Yi a bad death, an ugly death, seclusion and an ugly death. But in the end, I adopted the advice of the study room and gave a secret word, which means to make up for the past. Secret is the most ugly word in posthumous title's The Prince of Qing Dynasty, and the corruption of Yi accelerated the demise of Qing Dynasty. In this sense, Yi is undoubtedly the great hero of the Revolution of 1911, and it can be called the biggest latent of the revolutionary party in the imperial court.
Interestingly, Grandpa Yi was once envious of Hehe's greed. He made it clear to his brother (later Emperor Jiaqing) that he hoped to own half of Hehe Garden in the future. Emperor Jiaqing made peace after the death of Emperor Qianlong and gave more than half of his garden to Yong. And when I was greedy, I knew that in the end I just made wedding clothes and makeup for others! Similarly, if Yi knew that several sons had squandered so much bribes, would he have been so greedy at the beginning? !