The prefect's family property is revealed, and the wealth of the Qing Dynasty in the Yongzheng period is the richest
In the later years of Kangxi, due to the poor condition of Emperor Kangxi's sons after they ascended the throne, Emperor Kangxi showed a relaxed side to the management of **, and the problem of officialdom corruption in the Qing Dynasty during this period was very serious. After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he ordered Prince Yi Yunxiang to immediately set up a parliamentary chamber and vigorously carry out financial censuses in all provinces across the country, officially calling for it"Control the deficit"。
In the three years from the first year of Yongzheng to the continuous investigation of the deficit, a large number of local ** were dismissed, and hundreds of people were raided. Therefore, the valuable information left in the literature can also be learned from these materials about the actual attribution of the ** at all levels.
As the saying goes:"Qing Governor's Mansion for three years, 100,000 snowflakes of silver"In fact, in his later years, Kangxi, as the prefect of Sipin, accumulated a wealth of far more than 100,000 taels in three years. In Shandong, take Li Yuanlong, the governor of Dengzhou, as an example, to take a look at the wealth of the Zhizhou family.
Li Yuanlong belongs to the local middle level, there are not many historical records of him, and it is roughly estimated that his family background must be very good, because his grandfather was a Jinshi of the Shunzhi Dynasty, and his father was a political envoy of Kangxi Henan, and he was a typical son of an official eunuch.
In June of the first year of Yongzheng, Li Yuanlong, then the governor of Dengzhou, Shandong, was ordered by Yongzheng to investigate the shortage of money and grain. Qing History"Printing the solid book"His property and other belongings are recorded, and there is a clear list of confiscations, but this list is now lost.
However, the Criminal Department, which is dedicated to hearing Li Yuanlong's shortfall case this year, has a relatively complete narrative on confiscating Li Yuanlong's family property, which can help us understand the asset structure of Li Yuanlong's family.
Today, Li Yuanlong's existing family property is divided into two according to the original value of 46,552 taels and four centsThe principal and interest of the debt are 16,156,677,29 dollars and six cents. Six cents of silver were repaid 114,773 taels of eight cents, and six cents of silver were 13,300 taels ...In the name of Prince Cheng, to the second-class household king.
In Fu", all of Li Yuanlong's property, jewelry, clothing, tableware, and the number of family members living in it have a very detailed list, due to space reasons, I will not list them one by one here, I will only introduce the general situation of Li Yuanlong's family's property.
According to the valuation report, the value of Li Yuanlong's assets is estimated at **460524 taels, about 1353 taels of gold and silver, about 1952 taels of silver enamel4 taels, loan principal and interest 2835711 tael, it is estimated that the family is about 2,690 taels, so that the total assets of Li Yuanlong's family are about 330,000 taels.
Fucha Zhangyu also explained that Li Yuanlong gave Prince Yunzhi 1330,000 taels of silver, but although there is an opinion that the silver should be returned, from the definition of property ownership, it is"Send", then the property has been transferred, so it cannot be equated with borrowing. or the case is related to **, involving the prince's intimacy, and he does not dare to care, so he does not care.
The small governor, the family property amounted to more than 33 million taels, according to this reasoning, there must be ** among them. In fact, according to sporadic records, Li Yuanlong is not a good official, but he is not **, it should be said that he is one"General officer"。
During the Kangxi period, the legal income of a magistrate was nothing more than a salary without silver, and the annual income of a fourth-level prefect was 105 taels, and the bulk was still above the scandal regulations, basically two or three million a year. Li Yuanlong's grandfather and father were both civil servants, and the family's savings were normal, and he used most of the silver to pay off the interest on the loan.
Li Yuanlong did not finish in Dengzhou Mansion, only for more than two years. The main reason why he raided Yongzheng's house was that he left a big deficit in his service, and he had a good relationship with Prince Cheng and committed Yongzheng's taboo, so Yongzheng decided to control Li Yuanlong's home in the name of greed.
Yongzheng said Li Yuanlong"There are still millions of greedy private property", but judging by the results of the raid,"millions"Obviously exaggerated. But objectively speaking, the wealth of Li Yuanlong's family is also very huge, after all, during the same period, most of the cases left by the family ** were tens of thousands of taels. Li Yuanlong's family property set a record for the middle-level ** family property in the Qing Dynasty.
During the period of Emperor Yongzheng, Li Yuanlong gave instructions in the investigation of Huang Bing, the governor of Shandong"This kind of ugly kind has one side of hair and one side of it. Isn't this move of chasing hundreds of thousands of dollars to help the people of Shandong?Don't look at his unhappy face that day, everyone must be on guard. Chased to the top of the mountain, after all, he asked his children and grandchildren to do a bunch of errands, according to my thoughts. "
Yongzheng seems to hate Li Yuanlong to the core, but at this point, Yongzheng seems to be exaggerating. Li Yuanlong's family property was confiscated, not as he said"Raise the people of Shandong", but directly handed over to the Guangdong Political Envoy Department of the Internal Affairs Office, which became the emperor's private property.