Due to the successful handling of this case, Xiao Shenyang had to be appreciated and prized by Emperor Qianlong. Xiao Shenyang reported to Emperor Qianlong that Yunnan's bureaucracy was lax and the state and county official libraries were in deficit, which needed to be checked and corrected urgently. Considering that Li Shiyao, the former governor of Yunnan, was investigated, Emperor Long intended to appoint him as the governor of Yunnan to solve the problems in Yunnan. Shenyang should not replace Li Shiyao, but Fu Kang 'an should take over as the governor of Yunnan. On his way back to Beijing, Xiao Shenyang was promoted to Minister of State. Xiao Shenyang completed his mission and reported to the emperor about Yunnan's salt management, coin system and border affairs. He spoke clearly and conformed to the emperor's will. Long made his position clear on the spot, and he was appointed commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief. He married his son Feng?enyende to Princess Xiao He. At the age of marriage, the wedding was held. Xiao Shenyang's investigation of Li Shiyao's case can be described as fame and fortune.
The main experience of Shenyang's anti-corruption is to choose a suitable breakthrough. The breakthrough he chose was the servant who knew the inside story. Prying the servant's mouth, mastering a lot of clues and evidence, and then expanding the results, it is difficult to keep your defense against the respondents. Small Shenyang's "high-pressure anti-corruption" tells us that if an official is corrupt, he can't fool people around him. For illegal things, he is not convenient to do directly, and often needs the help of people around him. In this way, all the shady things he did were mastered by people around him. Under normal circumstances, people around him will keep secrets for him; However, when people around you are censored, they will give up their owner's information for self-protection. Therefore, opening the mouths of domestic slaves is a good way to thoroughly investigate the crimes of corrupt officials.
From anti-corruption officials to corrupt officials' umbrellas
In the forty-seventh year of Qianlong, Qian Feng impeached the Governor of Shandong, Guotai, and the Political Envoy of Shandong, saying that they accepted bribes from counties and counties, and there was a serious shortage of silver in warehouses. Emperor's life, Zuodu suggestion, Liu Yong went to Shandong to inquire, and sent Qian Feng to accompany him.
Shenyang's resolute attitude towards the Cathay Pacific incident is different from that towards the Li Shiyao incident two years ago. What's going on here?
According to Xu's Qing Ji, Qian Feng knew that Cathay Pacific was a running dog, so he set off a few days in advance, arrived in a good country, and stopped traveling incognito. I saw an official's servant riding a good horse and walking along a road, and learned that this servant belongs to Xiao Shenyang. Soon, the servant looked back and it was Lu Yu Qian Feng. Qian Feng searched him and got a secret letter from Cathay Pacific to Xiao Shenyang. There are many argots in the letter to the effect that he borrowed money to fill the official treasury deficit. Qian Feng immediately reported to the court. Little Shenyang has exhausted his knowledge and dare not openly protect Cathay Pacific.
Although he did not explain that Xiao Shenyang tipped off Cathay Pacific, he wrote: "Xiao Shenyang concealed Cathay Pacific and came to the warehouse to draw dozens of silver letters, and returned without defects."
So little Shenyang wants to protect Cathay Pacific, so he has to take great risks and protect Cathay Pacific in front of two principled officials, because Cathay Pacific is his confidant. They are a relationship of "one glory and one loss".
As a long-term official, Xiao Shenyang is good at trying to figure out the will of Emperor Qianlong and using the emperor's anger to frame or cover up people. If you don't take refuge in him, he will try to make the emperor angry with this man to frame him; If he is bribed, even if he has offended the emperor, he will mediate for him, or deliberately delay and leave this person alone until the emperor calms down. Officials rely on small Shenyang to search for the following people to honor small Shenyang.
Slaves in small Shenyang also "dragged down" small Shenyang.
Little Shenyang has too many positions and powers. Wang Chunyu's Biography of the History of Qing Dynasty said, "He reached the peak of power in military, administrative, financial, ethnic, diplomatic, cultural and educational aspects." If the power is great and unrestricted, you will do whatever you want and get carried away; Domination is arrogant.
Zhao Bai, an official of the Qing Dynasty, described the style of small Shenyang in front of lower-level officials like this: Licheng County, Shandong Province ordered XXX to go to Beijing to see if small Shenyang was the bragging capital in the future. He bribed the doorman of Hefu with 2000 taels of silver before he was allowed to wait on his knees in Hefu City. When Xiao Shenyang returned to the mansion, he saw the man kneeling in the car and learned that he was a seven-level sesame official. He roared, "What is a county magistrate? Come and kowtow to him! "
In the first month of Jiaqing four years, Emperor Qianlong died. Emperor Jiaqing immediately issued an imperial edict, announcing 20 charges against Xiao Shenyang and sentenced him to death.
The twentieth indictment of Little Shenyang is: "Liu Quan, a domestic slave, has a family property of more than 200,000 yuan and a big pearl bracelet." The ancients said, "There are seven officials in the prime minister's family." How can seven officials compare with the style and luxury of the "prime minister's family" Little Shenyang connived at sheltering servants, which became his great sin.
How much property was confiscated in small Shenyang? There is no complete and accurate statement so far. At that time, the fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty was more than 60 million taels of silver a year, and some said more than 70 million taels of silver. Some properties in Shenyang are equivalent to 10 year's national fiscal revenue, and some are equivalent to 15 year, 16 year, 18 year or even 20 years' national fiscal revenue. It is no exaggeration to say that he was the first corrupt official to be investigated in the Qing Dynasty. All his property was converted into silver, not twelve thousand, not two million, but one hundred and twenty million.