Chapter 33 Chapter 2 I am the best person in the world

If you are not pleasing to the eye, you will be put on a big iron shackle, which reflects Emperor Yongzheng's distinctive management style.To describe Yongzheng in one sentence, he is a corrupt official manufacturing machine.Yongzheng once formulated a policy, which was enthusiastically touted by writers such as Er Yuehe, and Yan Chongnian and others continued to praise it. His policy was called the return of consumption and envy to the public. Since the founding of the Qing Empire, the salaries of officials have been very meager, not enough to support their families. Moreover, an official also has aides, masters, etc., and the salaries of these people are also paid by the officials themselves.So where does the official money come from?Only by taking bribes.So at that time, gifts in the Qing Dynasty had various names, some were called Tan Jing, and some were called Bing Jing.When the weather is hot, I will give you a gift, which is called charcoal respect; when it is cold, I will give you a gift, which is called ice respect.Officials rely on these gifts to supplement their salaries. This is bribery, and it has been institutionalized.After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he was deeply dissatisfied with this.So he came up with a very strange idea: he drew a line first, and he thought that a magistrate could receive about 50,000 taels of silver a year, a magistrate could receive about 100,000 taels of silver a year, and a governor could receive about 100,000 taels of silver a year. Two hundred thousand taels of silver.Then it is stipulated that the county magistrate has to pay 50,000 taels of silver to the court every year, the state official has to pay 100,000 taels of silver every year, and the governor has to pay 200,000 taels of silver every year.Is this policy reasonable?Don't forget that there are still stupid officials in the world who can't make money, including honest officials.If you happen to be an honest official and you don't have money to hand over, what should you do?It's too simple, I'll treat you as a corrupt official and get rid of it.So if you're smart enough, go loot the common people.If you are a county magistrate and you snatch one hundred thousand taels from the common people, you hand in fifty thousand taels, and you have fifty thousand taels left.

Therefore, Yongzheng's policy is an out-and-out policy of forcing officials to become bandits. He regards state officials as small bandits, and officials also strictly demand themselves by the standard of a bandit. The amount of silver has increased dozens of times; it is precisely because of the increase of dozens of times that Yongzheng was enthusiastically praised by historians, who believed that he governed the country well.But is it a good thing to steal money from the common people?Such historians are utterly confused. Yongzheng's punishment of the Cao family's salary and ransacking of the house forced Cao Xueqin onto the road of literary creation.Why does this happen?This has something to do with what kind of person Yongzheng was.Speaking of Yongzheng's character, the most accurate one is probably his son, the future Emperor Qianlong.Emperor Qianlong didn't say anything, but it is clear that in history books, Emperor Yongzheng appeared as a saint, that is to say, he thought he was a good person.How good is it?When Yongzheng walked, he would pay attention not to step on people, and if there were ants on the ground, he would go around carefully.He is a saint-like ascetic, very strict with himself, conscientiously guarding the imperial table, constantly reviewing memorials, and pretending not to see so many beauties in the harem.

But Yongzheng is a person with self-personality. His cognition starts from himself. He thinks he is a good person, but in fact he is not.The most frightening thing in the world is that bad people think they are good people, especially those with high positions and supreme power like Yongzheng.The famous Zeng Jing conspiracy case that broke out later was related to his personality. It is said that Yongzheng's accession to the foundation itself is a mystery. At that time, he was the fourth elder brother, with the eldest elder brother, the second elder brother, and the third elder brother in front, and the fifth elder brother, eighth elder brother, etc. who were more competitive behind him.So many elder brothers have never fought against him, but Yongzheng ascended the throne, so all the elder brothers refused to accept it.According to a missionary's record, on the day Yongzheng ascended the throne, all elder brothers made a noise together, thinking that Yongzheng's enthronement edict was fake and forged by Yongzheng.

After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he was a fine to the Cao family in Jiangnan, so what did he do to his brothers? The eighth elder brother was permanently banned and renamed as a pig, and the ninth elder brother was permanently banned and renamed a dog. Their families were all exiled, and the worst one was the eighth elder brother's Fujin.After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he named the eighth elder brother a king, and sent someone to proclaim the decree to ask for congratulations. This Fujin dismissed this and said something like "I don't know where he will die in the future". Women hate it to the bone.Later, he took retaliatory measures. After he killed the woman, he used a file to file the body into powder and burn it to ashes.

The resentment in his heart is so because he thinks he is a good person-people with this kind of perception are most likely to commit evil deeds that both humans and gods hate. After the eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother were imprisoned, all their family members were exiled to Guangxi. At this time, a very interesting thing happened.During the exile, this large group of people was not separated, but walked together. Every day, the group of people chirped and chattered more and more, and finally developed to the point where this group of people went to a high platform to yell. : Fathers and folks, come here, we tell you that Yongzheng, who is enthroned now, is not a good person. He poisoned his father, forced his mother to death, killed his own brother, and killed him. brother.And this group of people also listed seven deadly crimes for Yongzheng.

Everyone in the world knew about this matter, only Yongzheng didn't know about it, because no one dared to tell him. Sitting in the Golden Luan Hall, Yongzheng was still very complacent, thinking that he was a good person, and had no idea that he was regarded as an evil person by the world.