As we all know, Xiao Shenyang was the biggest corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty, but once he became an official, Xiao Shenyang was not greedy. He also had a "brilliant" anti-corruption experience. Xiao Shenyang is a native of Manchu Zhenghongqi. At the age of 65,438+09, he became a palace bodyguard, and it took only seven years to reach the high position of minister of military affairs and minister of the interior.
Investigate Li Shiyao's fame and fortune.
In the first month of forty-five years of Qianlong (1780), Emperor Qianlong asked Haining, a grain storage road in Yunnan, about the violation of the law by Li Shiyao, the governor of Yunnan, and Haining confessed to Li Shiyao's crimes during his tenure as governor. Qianlong immediately sent Xiao Shenyang to Yunnan to investigate Li Shiyao, and seized Li Shiyao's property in Beijing.
Shenyang chose Li Shiyao's "family" (in ancient times, servants were called "family") Zhang Yongshou as a breakthrough, and Zhang Yongshou confessed Li Shiyao's crime of extorting money from his subordinates. Li Shiyao was dismissed for investigation, and Xiao Shenyang sent him to Beijing for trial. Li Shiyao's men were dismissed and sent to Yili, Xinjiang as coolies. Li Shiyao's residence in Yunnan was raided, and gold, silver, jewelry, foreign goods and famous paintings ***90 1 were also escorted back to Beijing by Xiao Shenyang.
Due to the successful handling of this case, Xiao Shenyang was more appreciated and prized by Emperor Qianlong. Little Shenyang reported to Emperor Qianlong that Yunnan's bureaucracy was lax and the official treasury was short of silver, which needed to be checked and rectified urgently. On his way back to Beijing, Xiao Shenyang was promoted to be a minister and a senator, and asked him to solve the problems in Yunnan. After Xiao Shenyang completed his mission, Emperor Qianlong made him the Minister and Commander-in-Chief, and married his son, Feng?enyende, as a filial princess. Xiao Shenyang's investigation of Li Shiyao's case can be described as fame and fortune. The main experience of anti-corruption in Shenyang this time is to find the right breakthrough. Pry open the mouth of a servant who knows the inside story If an official is corrupt, he can't hide it from the people around him.
From anti-corruption minister to corrupt official umbrella
In the forty-seventh year of Qianlong (1782), Qian Feng impeached the Governor of Shandong, Guotai, and Yu, the minister in charge of the dynasty, saying that they demanded bribes from the counties. Emperor Qianlong ordered Xiao Shenyang and Zuodu suggestion Liu Yong to go to Shandong for investigation and interrogation, and sent Qian Feng to go with them. However, this time, Xiao Shenyang changed his resolute attitude when investigating the Li Shiyao case two years ago. What's going on here?
According to records, Qian Feng knew that Cathay Pacific had a confidant in small Shenyang, so he set off a few days in advance and visited Liangxiang incognito. Little Shenyang's servant rode by on a good horse. Soon, the servant turned around and Qian Feng searched him and got a secret letter from Cathay Pacific Airlines to Xiao Shenyang. There are many argots in the letter to the effect that he borrowed money to fill the hole in the official treasury, and Qian Feng immediately reported it to the court.
Xiao Shenyang went to the official warehouse to check dozens of ingots of silver (50 ingots of official silver is one ingot). Without looking at the fineness of the silver or weighing the silver ingot, I got up and went back to the hotel. This is clearly going through the motions, dealing with the imperial court and defending the country. Liuyong insisted on principle, but fabolous made up his mind to pursue it to the end. He demanded that the library be closed. The next day, he carefully looked at the treasury silver and found that the fineness of silver was different from that of official silver, which was borrowed from merchants. The crimes of Guotai and others were verified.
It turns out that Xiao Shenyang has been an official for a long time, and he is good at figuring out the will of Emperor Qianlong and using the emperor's emotions to achieve the purpose of framing or shielding people. If you don't take refuge in him, try to make the emperor angry with him; Even if the emperor is offended, he will mediate for him, or deliberately delay until the emperor calms down. Small Shenyang is regarded as a backer by major officials. The reason why Xiao Shenyang took risks to shelter Cathay Pacific in front of two officials who insisted on principles is that Cathay Pacific is his confidant, and they are in a relationship of "one glory and one loss".
Small Shenyang is also "tired" by domestic slaves.
There are too many positions in Little Shenyang, and his power is unrestricted, so he gets carried away. Xiao Ting Miscellaneous Notes in Qing Dynasty described the style of small Shenyang in front of lower-level officials: a county magistrate from Licheng, Shandong Province went to Beijing and saw that small Shenyang was a capital that could be boasted in the future. He bribed He Fu's doorman with 2000 taels of silver before he was allowed to kneel at He Fu City. When Xiao Shenyang came back to the house, he saw the kneeling man in the car and learned that he was a seven-product sesame official. He shouted, "What magistrate dare to visit me!"
Little Shenyang didn't learn the lessons of corrupt officials such as Li Shiyao. He didn't manage himself and his servants well, so he made the same mistake as Li Shiyao and others. When he investigated Li Shiyao's case, he began by interrogating his servant and followed the clues; A few years later, others began to attack the servants of Little Shenyang, condemning them and shocking them. This really deals with a man as he deals with you. Slaves in Li Shiyao "betrayed" Li Shiyao, while slaves in small Shenyang "implicated" small Shenyang.
In the fifty-first year of Qianlong (1786), Cao Xibao, the imperial adviser, played the role of Liu Quan, the servant of the emperor. He lived in luxury and built a house that exceeded the prescribed standards. When Emperor Qianlong saw that Cao Xibao was going to impeach him, he asked Cao to "expose Chen's private malpractice". Cao Xibao couldn't produce evidence, and Xiao Shenyang also asked his servant Liu Quan to destroy and rebuild the house in advance, so there was no evidence.
In the first month of Jiaqing four years (1799), Emperor Qianlong died. Emperor Jiaqing immediately issued a letter announcing the 20 major crimes of Xiao Shenyang and granting the death penalty. The twentieth indictment of Xiao Shenyang is: "Liu Quan, a domestic slave, has a family property of more than 200,000 yuan and a big pearl bracelet." Little Shenyang indulged and sheltered his 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 and 270 million. Small Shenyang's property is said to be equivalent to the national fiscal revenue 10, and some people say it is equivalent to the national fiscal revenue 15, 16, 18 or even 20 years. It is no exaggeration to say that he was the first corrupt official to be investigated in the Qing Dynasty. All his family's property is converted into silver, not tens of thousands, not millions, but billions.