Where there is greed, there is anti-corruption. In ancient times, most of the property of corrupt officials was ill-gotten gains made by the people, but where did these ill-gotten gains go after being confiscated? Where is it used? People don't know that anti-corruption has long been a road to corruption.
Strictly control eunuchs being investigated, ordered to fight corruption and enrich themselves.
As we all know, the legal system of the Ming Dynasty was extremely strict, and Zhu Yuanzhang's character was even more ruthless. His handling of bribing officials is also unique in the past. He once stipulated that officials embezzled more than 620 taels of silver. Show your head and peel the grass? And hung on both sides of the official position, so that officials were shocked at first sight. In addition, the people have the right to punish corrupt officials by rewarding those who have made meritorious deeds against corruption. Tied up in Beijing for a crime? Privilege can drive the people of the whole country to fight corruption together.
In the end, it is always far from the expected effect. The more anti-corruption achievements, the more greedy. No matter how strict the anti-corruption period is, the wind of corruption has never stopped. Even if the anti-corruption efforts are so great, officials' greed for money and love for wealth cannot be restrained. A big corrupt official in the Ming Dynasty or something? Heroes come forth in large numbers? They risk legal sanctions or even losing their heads, but they are still mired in greed.
Ironically, the first corrupt official in the Ming Dynasty was the eunuch under Zhu Yuanzhang's strict control. This one? Big eunuch? His name is Wang Zhen, a eunuch in the Palace of Li Si, and a pioneer of the ethos of the Ming Dynasty? The hero who walked out of the respect room? There is a glorious history that made ministers pee their pants.
When he was in office, he could return to the throne on behalf of the emperor. Therefore, he publicly sold officials and titles, accepted bribes, and even smuggled arms to sell to the enemy. But no one dared to expose him. He was so naughty that he was killed by Fan Zhong, a military guard who hated him for a long time, and then thoroughly investigated his greed. According to the investigation, after investigation, many of his stolen money is his wealth in the process of being ordered to fight corruption.
Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty believed in Taoism and was obsessed with immortality. Green word? (a sacred musical instrument) pray to heaven. Treacherous court official Yan Song happened to be good at writing blue characters, so he won the favor of Jiajing, was appointed cabinet minister, and was ridiculed by people. Prime minister of Qing dynasty? .
Since then, Yan Song has been in power for more than 20 years, and more than 30 officials competed to become his adopted son. After Yan Song entered the cabinet, he took his son Yan Shifan into the court to be an official, and the father and son were at loggerheads. Big prime minister, little prime minister? Title. They firmly grasped the Royal Guards, which did great harm to Zhongliang. He also sells officials and titles to accumulate private property and control the promotion and demotion of officials. No matter how virtuous, stupid and greedy an official is, he always takes the amount of bribes as the standard, so that there is an endless stream of people who pay bribes to him, scolding and giving gifts on the road, filing papers together and fighting cars. Master of punishments Zhiyuan bribed Yan Song with twenty thousand gold and was promoted to the official department.
Yan Song and his son wantonly took bribes, ransacked them, and their wealth was richer than that of the royal family. They built luxury houses in Beijing and dug artificial lakes with tens of acres of land with migrant workers. There are countless gold, silver and jewels in their homes.
After the incident, it was finally confiscated by Ming Shizong, and it ended in ruin. When he was removed from office, the official in charge of property acquisition registered his property and named it "Tianshui Iceberg Record", leaving a more detailed property list with more than 60,000 words, which shows that Yan Song embezzled a lot of money. According to the records of the Ming Dynasty, Yan Song's family wealth was confiscated, with more than one million mu of land and more than 8,000 houses, accounting for more than 30,000 taels of gold and silver, more than two million taels of silverware, millions of jewels and antiques, and countless other treasures, which is equivalent to the total revenue of the national treasury for one year. Rich in the world? Some people think that the records in Ming History are not true figures, because how many officials, large and small, can resist the temptation when they go to the property to liquidate this huge property. Therefore, no one knows how much of these ill-gotten gains are, how much they eventually went into the state treasury and where they were used.
At the same time, the official was born to copy anti-corruption officials, and the stolen money was first divided.
Yong Zhengdi's anti-corruption efforts in the Qing Dynasty were no less than Ming Taizu's. Shortly after he ascended the throne, he ordered to trace the deficit of the national treasury. As soon as a corrupt official is exposed, his property will be confiscated immediately, and his official records will be copied at the same time. The property has been appraised and sold, so let's make up the deficit first. Did you play cards then? Property theft and? . It shows that the punishment of corruption in all dynasties in history is unambiguous and the means are much more cruel than now. But even so, officials, large and small, sent by the imperial court to fight corruption became greedy in the process of fighting corruption. In other words, some officials just regard anti-corruption as a new way of corruption.
Mr. Jin Yong, a famous martial arts novelist, once wrote a well-known novel Duke of Lushan, which contained a plot description. In the eighth year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, Wei Xiaobao and Suoyutu went to the home of corrupt official Ao Bai and got 23534 18. When they saw such a huge amount of property, they discussed it privately and finally reported it to the emperor 13534 18. The remaining two people collected five taels on 21st, and also took out some small officials below, while Wei Xiaobao got two taels of silver, pearls, nod, jade horse, expensive clothes and so on.
It is common for officials dealing with corruption cases to embezzle ill-gotten gains privately. During the Qianlong period, Shandong Governor Chen Zuhui was a corrupt official. Gan Long ordered the Governor Wang of Zhejiang Province to handle this matter and recover the stolen money. As a result, Wang embezzled some stolen goods during his anti-corruption trip. After the incident was exposed, Gan Long sent Xiao Shenyang to fight corruption. However, small Shenyang not only embezzled property, but also took a fancy to a stunning young aunt in Wang Jiayi and took this stunning young aunt as his own. In addition, Xiao Shenyang, a corrupt official, was also responsible for investigating Li Shiyao, another corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty. All kinds of gold, silver, jewelry, antique calligraphy and painting found in the Li family accounted for 90 1 piece, and many of them went into their pockets. What the hell is this? Corrupt your corruption, corrupt your corruption. ?
Confiscating the property of important officials who have lost power and influence has fattened the royal family.
Besides being embezzled by other corrupt officials, some of the property of corrupt officials was privately distributed to the emperor's relatives, and even directly entered the emperor's own? Small vault? .
Zhang, the greatest politician and reformer in Ming Dynasty and an outstanding cabinet official in China history, died of illness in the ten years of Wanli. Zhang gained the complete trust of the Regent's biological mother at that time. He presided over all military and political affairs for ten years before and after he took office, and carried out a series of political and economic reform measures, which offended many officials and even made him an enemy of the emperor. Six months after his death, he was exposed? Taking bribes, monopolizing politics, neglecting gratitude and seeking national infidelity? . Shortly after Zhang's death, Emperor Wanli ordered Zhang Cheng, the right assistant minister and eunuch, to copy Zhang's home in Jingzhou. And recover the money transferred and spent by family members. The court's anti-corrupt officials are still on the way. Local officials in Jingzhou surrounded Zhang Zhai, and all the property of Zhang's brother and son was confiscated. Finally, * * * copied out twenty-two thousand gold and more than one hundred and two thousand silver, but there were more than two hundred and two thousand silver. Later, the emperor relented and did not pursue it again.
Many of the 2 million taels of silver that disappeared were hidden in their pockets by anti-corruption officials or accepted bribes. Even if it is less than 2 million, the money is still a considerable wealth. After his son Zhu knew about it, he had been eyeing the confiscated property of the Zhang family and wanted to take it for himself, so he immediately asked for it. Ming Shenzong dotes on this son very much. How could he refuse his request and agree to it? Since then, Zhang's confiscated property has been owned by Zhu.
A greedy emperor who is as rich as an enemy? Small vault?
Some people say that in his later years, Ganlong deliberately connived at the corruption of officials, so that he could order the property to be looted, so that huge amounts of property could be used by the court or pocketed by himself.
Modern people know that Xiao Shenyang is the biggest corrupt official in Qing Dynasty, and also a notorious corrupt official in the history of ancient and modern China and foreign countries. As a favorite of Emperor Qianlong, he has been in charge of state affairs for more than 20 years. When Xiao Shenyang was in charge of the Qianlong dynasty government, he was corrupt, arrogant, insatiable and amassed wealth. Through various illegal means, such as greed, occupation, robbery, extortion, deception, etc., greedy family wealth is even more than the national treasury. Emperor Qianlong could not have been unaware of this, but he turned a blind eye to what he had done, or connived at it, and there were also important reasons.
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On the third day of the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing (1February 7, 799), Qianlong died. After Emperor Jiaqing acceded to the throne, Wang Niansun was the first to disintegrate Small Shenyang, and Emperor Jiaqing immediately announced that he was a college student and was imprisoned. 19 calendar inventory of 20 major crimes in Shenyang, immediately property:? Nanmu house is illegal, according to Ningshou Palace system, because it is no different from Pengdao Yaotai in Yuanmingyuan. 、? The mausoleum in Jizhou has a temple and a tunnel. Why is it called Ling by local residents? . There are 800,000 mu of land, 75 pawn shops, 42 banks, 5.8 million red gold, 2 million placer gold, gold ingots 1000, silver ingots 1000, 9.4 million silver ingots, and pearls, white jade, corals, agates, clocks and watches, precious stones, silks and satins, porcelain, etc. According to the calculation, the total amount of confiscated property exceeded 800 million taels of silver, while the annual revenue of the national treasury at that time was more than 80 million taels, which was equivalent to the total revenue of the national finance in the Qing Dynasty 10, showing the amount of stolen goods and wealth. But this is only a superficial number. What was squandered by gentlemen and what was stuffed into their pockets by property officials is countless. Jiaqing was most happy to seal up the property of small Shenyang, because these confiscated huge sums of money were not deposited in the state treasury, but were all returned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, that is, the emperor's? Small vault? , is there anything else? Small Shenyang fell, Jiaqing ate? Statement.