Chapter 40 1.1 billion property

Generally speaking, many of our readers are more willing to accept such a point of view: He Shen is a big, big corrupt official, and his family property is countless.Therefore, it is psychologically easier for our readers to accept some legendary stories that can prove how rich Heshen's family was.It is precisely because of this that the editors of some film and television dramas can easily follow the thinking of our readers to write some stories about how He Shen himself is greedy, so as to satisfy our readers' curiosity about He Shen. In the vast unofficial history notes of the Qing Dynasty that we can see now, there are many stories that can prove that Heshen was rich.However, the authenticity of these stories is worthy of our doubts, and we need to do further research.

Let me tell you the most widely circulated story first.A story that many writers of so-called "official history" often quote to describe Heshen's wealth. According to the story, Prince Yongcong, the seventh elder brother Zhe in the palace, smashed a jasper plate that Emperor Qianlong loved, and was frightened and at a loss.The younger brother of the seventh elder brother, the eleventh elder brother, became Prince Yongxuan and said: "Don't be afraid, go to Heshen, he must have a solution." So the two brothers went to Heshen to explain the situation and asked Heshen to find a way.He Shen made it difficult, saying that this thing does not belong to the world, and there is nothing I can do about it.Prince Zhe Yongcong cried in anxiety.Prince Cheng Yongxuan pulled He Shen aside and talked for a while, and He Shen agreed to find a way.The next day, He Shen gave Prince Zhe Yongcong a jasper plate that was bigger than the original one, but better.We can imagine how many treasures He Shen has in his hands.

Of course, this is just a story, a story in unofficial history.I doubt the veracity of this story.According to my research, this story should never have happened in history.why? First, Prince Yongcong, the seventh elder brother Zhe, has never met He Shen. In "Manuscripts of Qing History Volume 221 Kings Seven", it is clearly recorded that Yongcong, Prince of the Seventh Age Zhe, died of chickenpox when he was 2 years old.It was the twelfth year of Qianlong's reign, that is, 1747, when the seventh prince Zhe Yongcong died. Three years later, in 1750, the fifteenth year of Qianlong, He Shen was born in Beijing.Therefore, it can be said with certainty that Prince Yongcong of the seventh elder brother Zhe has never met He Shen.These two people are yin and yang!

Second, the seventh elder brother Zhe Prince Yong Cong has never met the eleventh elder brother Cheng Prince Yongxuan. The Eleventh Elder Brother became Prince Yongxuan lived a little longer, but he had met Heshen.However, he should have never met Prince Yongcong of the seventh elder brother Zhe.The reasons are as follows: In "Manuscripts of Qing History Volume 221 Seven Kings", it is clearly recorded that Yongxing was 72 years old (71 years old) when he died in 1823.That is to say, the 11th elder brother, Prince Yongxing, should have been born around 1752, and his age was slightly younger than Heshen.That is to say, when Prince Zhe Yongcong, the seventh prince, died in 1747, Prince Yongcong, the eleventh prince Cheng, should not have been born yet.Therefore, the eleventh elder brother, Prince Yongxuan, has never met the seventh elder brother, Prince Zhe, Yongcong.

Since the protagonist in the story, the seventh elder brother Zhe Prince Yongcong, has never met the two supporting characters in the story—the eleventh elder brother Cheng Prince Yongxuan and He Shen, so my conclusion is: this story is purely fictional and purely fictional. It is a frame-up against Heshen. Although the above story is purely fictitious and framed against He Shen, it is an indisputable fact that He Shen has a lot of property!In history, especially unofficial history, there are many records of Heshen's family property.But there are different opinions on how many.Attached are three copies of Heshen's "home raid list" from different sources.

List one: The main house has thirteen entrances, with a total of 78 rooms; the east house has seven entrances, with a total of 38 rooms; the west room has seven entrances, with a total of 33 rooms; One house, a total of sixty-two rooms; one garden, forty-two towers; one imperial garden, sixty-four pavilions; twelve watch towers with four corners (120 watchmen); Seventy-two rooms (one hundred and eighty soldiers in the stall); more than sixty miscellaneous rooms. One Han bronze tripod, thirteen ancient bronze tripods, and thirteen jade tripods; ten Song inkstones and more than seven hundred Duan inkstones; twenty jade pans; two ancient swords; ten large and three hundred small chiming bells More than two hundred and eighty foreign watches; one jade horse (one foot two inches high and four feet long); eight coral trees (three feet six inches high); more than sixty big east pearls (each weighing Two hundred and thirty-six strings of pearl bracelets (eighteen pieces each); eleven sets of pearls and plain beads; one thousand and ten sets of gemstone beads, fifty-seven sets of coral beads, and ten sets of dense beads Three plates, three hundred and eighty-three small rubies, two hundred and eighty large rubies, and forty-three sapphires; one white jade Guanyin (one foot two inches high), one Chinese jade birthday star (one foot three inches high), Eighteen agate arhats (one foot two inches high), eighteen golden arhats (one foot three inches high); 1,980 ruyi sticks, 1,600 ruyi inlaid jade ruyi sticks, 230 ruyi whole jade ruyi sticks; 16 large white jade ice trays, 99 jasper tea bowls, 153 jade soup bowls 1, 32 tables of gold dishes (4,288 pieces in total), 32 tables of silver dishes (4,288 pieces), 120 white jade wine cups, and 1 crystal cup One hundred and twenty pieces, two hundred pairs of gold-inlaid jade chopsticks, two hundred pairs of gold-inlaid elephant chopsticks; two hundred and twenty red gold spit bowls, more than two hundred silver spit bowls, forty-three red gold basins, and fifty-six silver basins 1, 374 white jade snuff bottles, 276 Hanyu snuff bottles; 16 carved gold eight-treasure screens, four carved gold eight-treasure beds (complete with single gauze curtains), carved gold Thirty-six eight-treasure kang screens, two red gold carved silk beds, twenty-four gold carved eight-treasure kang beds, twenty-four jade-inlaid kang tables, sixteen jade-inlaid kang tables; More than 8,000 pieces), 100 red gold ingots (each weighing 1,000 taels, estimated at 1.5 million taels of silver), 100 silver ingots (each weighing 1,000 taels), more than 20,000 taels of raw gold sand (estimated at 1,500,000 taels of silver) 160,000 taels), 5.8 million taels of red gold (87 million taels); Yu Liang, 58,000 yuan in foreign money (estimated at 40,600 taels of silver), 1,500 strings of coins (equivalent to 1,500 taels of silver); more than 680 catties of ginseng (estimated at 270,000 silver in silver) ).

Seventy-five pawnshops (30 million taels of principal), 42 silver houses (400,000 taels of principal), 15 antique shops (300,000 taels of principal); ), four silk and satin warehouses (estimated silver 800,000), two porcelain warehouses (estimated silver 10,000), two foreign goods warehouses (eight hundred versions of five-color woven fabrics, one hundred and fifteen versions of mandarin ducks, and six hundred versions of five-color feathers , 200 pieces of five-color Serge); two skin warehouses (12 pieces of Yuanhu, 1,520 pieces of Sehu, 36,000 pieces of miscellaneous foxes, and more than 800 pieces of mink fur); six copper-tin warehouses rooms (a total of 26,937 pieces); six delicacy stores, six iron pear rosewood rooms, and one glassware storehouse (a total of more than 800 items); 713 mink men's clothes, sable More than 650 pieces of leather women's clothing, 860 pieces of miscellaneous leather men's clothing, 437 pieces of variegated women's clothing, 3,888 pieces of men's clothing with cotton and single yarn, three women's clothing with cotton and single yarn One thousand one hundred and eighteen pieces, fifty-four sable hats, thirty-seven sable gowns, forty-eight short sable coats, one hundred and twenty-four sable boots; More than 8,000 hectares of land (estimated at 8 million silver).

Note: This list is from the "Complete Crime Files of Heshen" collected by the First Historical Archives of China. This list should be used as the official historical basis for researching Heshen's family wealth. List two: One main house (thirteen rooms with seventy-two rooms), one east house (seven rooms with thirty-eight rooms), one west house (seven rooms with thirty-three rooms), one Hui-style new house (six rooms with twenty-two rooms) rooms), one garden (42 towers), one side room of the east house (52 rooms), one imperial garden (64 towers, 12 watch towers at four corners, 12 watchmen) ten), miscellaneous rooms (more than 120 rooms), ancient bronze tripods (22 seats), Han bronze tripods (11 seats), Duan inkstones (more than 700 square meters), jade tripods (18 seats), Song inkstones (eleven sides), jade pans (twenty-eight frames), ancient swords (ten pieces), large chime bells (nineteen pieces), small chime bells (nineteen pieces), foreign watches (more than one hundred pieces), large East beads (more than 60 pieces, each 12 taels), 18 pearl bracelets (226 strings in total), pearl counting beads (18 sets), big rubies (180 pieces), small rubies (more than 980 pieces), sapphires (4070 pieces in total), gemstone beads (1008 sets), coral beads (373 sets), honey wax beads (13 sets) , jeweled coral hat tops (236), two jade horses (one foot two inches high and four feet long), ten coral trees (three feet eight inches high), one white jade Guanyin, eighteen Hanyu Arhats Zun (one foot and two inches long), eighteen golden arhats (one foot and eight inches long), white jade Jiuruyi (three hundred and eighty-seven), arsenic seal big swallow bowls (ninety-nine), white jade soup bowls ( 154), white jade wine cups (124), 32 tables of gold bowls and dishes (4,288 pieces in total), silver bowls and dishes (4,288 pieces in total pieces), Ruyi inlaid with jade (1,601 pieces), Nine Ruyis inlaid with jade (1,08 pieces), Crystal wine cups (123 pieces), Gold-inlaid jade hairpins (500 pairs), the whole Jade Ruyi (more than 120 sticks), gold-inlaid elephant chopsticks (500 pairs), white jade ice trays (25 pieces), arsenic seal ice trays (18 pieces), white jade smoking bottles (more than 800 pieces) arsenic seal smoking bottles (more than 300 pieces), agate smoking bottles (more than 100 pieces), Hanyu smoking bottles (more than 100 pieces), white jade spittoons (more than 200 pieces), gold spittoons (1 One hundred and twenty), silver spittoons (more than six hundred), gold basins (fifty-three), silver basins (one hundred and fifty), gold basins (sixty-four), silver basins (eighty-three 1), gold-inlaid eight-treasure kang screens (forty frames), gold-carved eight-treasure screens (twenty-three frames), gold-inlaid kang screens (twenty-four frames), gold-inlaid kang beds (twenty beds), four seasons Single gauze tents (all), old golden silk bed curtains (six tops), eight-treasure kang beds inlaid with gold (120 beds), kang beds inlaid with gold and glass (32 beds), gold jewels and emerald jewelry ( 28,000 pieces in size), 1,000 gold ingots (each weighing 100 taels, totaling 1.5 million taels of silver), 1,000 silver ingots (each weighing 100 taels), and 580 gold ingots One hundred thousand taels (estimated at 17 million taels of silver), more than two million taels of raw sand gold (estimated at 18 million taels of silver), 9.4 million taels of ingot silver, and 58,000 yuan of foreign money (estimated at 18 million taels of silver) 40,600 taels), 1,055 strings of money (estimated at 1,500 taels of silver), more than 680 taels of ginseng (estimated at 270,000 taels of silver), and seventy-five pawnshops (estimated at 1,500 taels of silver). 30 million taels of original silver), forty-two silver numbers (40 million taels of original silver), thirteen antique shopsSeats (200,000 taels of original silver), two jade wares (estimated at 700,000 taels of silver), two silk and satin warehouses (estimated at 800,000 taels of silver), two foreign goods warehouses (800,000 taels of five-color cloth, and 100,000 mandarin ducks. Ten boards, more than 600 boards of five-color feather satin), a fur warehouse (twelve pieces of Yuanhu, 1,500 pieces of foxes of various colors, more than 800 pieces of mink fur, and 56,000 pieces of miscellaneous skins), a warehouse of porcelain warehousing (estimated at 10,000 taels of silver), tin wares (total estimated at 64,137 taels of silver), sixteen delicacy warehouses, six Tie Li red sandalwood wares (more than 8,600 pieces), Glassware warehouse (more than 800 pieces), mink fur women's clothing (610 pieces), mink fur men's clothing (806 pieces), miscellaneous fur men's clothing (806 pieces), miscellaneous fur women's clothing (437 pieces), cotton-padded single-gauze men’s clothing (3,208 pieces), padded single-gauze women’s clothing (1,108 pieces), mink hats (54 pieces), Diaomang robes (37 pieces), mink coats (48 pieces), mink boots (120 pairs), medicine room (estimated at 5,000 taels of silver), more than 8,000 hectares of land (estimated at 8 million taels of silver) )...

Note: This list is selected from Xue Fucheng's "Yong'an Notes", Volume 3 "Checklist of Heshen's Residence and Garden", and it is only about the results of the inspection of Heshen's residence and garden.It is similar to the overall figures in the "Complete Files of Heshen Crimes" collected by China's First Historical Archives that we transcribed earlier. List three: 3,000 houses, 8,000 hectares of land, 42 silver shops, 75 pawn shops: 60,000 taels of red gold; 100 large gold ingots, each weighing 1,000 taels (a total of 100,000 taels); Each weighs 100 taels (a total of 5.66 million taels); 9 million silver ingots, 58,000 yuan in foreign money, and 1.5 million coins; more than 600 catties of Jilin ginseng; more than 1,200 handles of jade ruyi; 230 strings of pearl bracelets, longan big pearls 10 pieces, 10 big rubies, 40 sapphires, 40 tables of silver bowls, 11 coral trees, each more than three feet high, a total of 14,300 pieces of silk and satin gauze, 20,000 sheets of woolen serge, 550 pieces of fox fur, sable There are 850 pieces of skins, 56,000 pieces of skins of various thicknesses, 361,000 pieces of copper and tin wares, 100,000 pieces of precious porcelain, 24 gold-carved eight-treasure kang beds, 460 Western clocks, and 7,000 pieces of good clothes for four seasons. There are 606 family members and 600 women.

Note: This list comes from Xue Fucheng's "Yong'an Notes" Volume 3 "Checklist of Heshen's Family Property". Based on the two records in Xue Fucheng's "Yong'an Notes", we combined and analyzed as follows: During the inspection, all of Heshen's properties were listed as No. 109, of which No. 26 had been appraised, with a total value of about 264 million taels of silver. ; The unvalued No. 83, according to this calculation, should be worth more than 842 million taels, and the total value is about 1.106 billion taels.