If you talk about wealth experts, everyone will definitely think of Heshen.
At that time, He Shen was also a young talent, and he was full of spirit, sold his property, and was admitted to the Xian'an Palace School of Tsinghua University in the Qing Dynasty.
Here, He Shen, whose dead father had no power and no power, and only had the identity of a banner man, met his nobleman, Feng Yinglian, the governor of Zhili, and he married his only granddaughter to He Shen.
Since then, He Shen, a professional skating master and financial management expert, has been hanging all the way. When Jiaqing ordered the raid, he actually copied 800 million taels, which was 11 times the tax revenue of the entire Qing Dynasty.
The Eastern Han Dynasty also had an expert in collecting money, and he was also a eunuch.
He is Zhang Rang, one of the famous Ten Standing Servants of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Zhang Rang was sent to the palace by his father as a eunuch at the age of seven, and served as a small yellow gate when Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty.
Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang both participated in the killing of Liang Ji, and Zhao Zhong was made the marquis of the capital. Although Zhang Rang played well with Emperor Huan, he did not receive a reward.
When Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty arrived, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong were finally promoted to Zhongchang Servants together and were named liehous. After the death of the eunuch leader Cao Jie, Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang took over all affairs and began to collude with the powerful and accept bribes, which was very prestigious.
The Yellow Turban Uprising broke out, the people revolted everywhere, Zhang Jun in Langzhong wrote to kill the Ten Standing Servants, and Zhang Rang united the Ten Standing Servants to design Zhang Jun to die in prison.
After the death of Emperor Ling, his relative He Jin wanted to kill the eunuchs, and Zhang Rang used the Empress Dowager He to trick He Jin into the palace and ambushed He Jin.
Therefore, this eunuch Zhang Rang actually has some means.
When Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was the Marquis of the Pavilion, his pocket money was too small, and he often sighed to himself. When he took over the throne of his cousin Emperor Liu Zhi of Han Huan, he lamented that Emperor Han Huan did not know how to run a personal wallet and had no private money.
After Emperor Ling of Han settled Dou's relatives, he set out to collect money. He did not collect money for the treasury, but for personal expenses.
At this time, Zhang Rang, a wealthy person, came out. The two hit it off.
The way to accumulate wealth without profit is to sell officials.
In all dynasties, in fact, there were incidents of selling titles, because there was no real power, the number was small enough, and most of them did not have much influence, but Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty directly sold officials.
Zhang Rang put forward a whole set of standards, such as from Guan Neihou and below, to Guangluxun's subordinate Hu Ben, Yu Lin and other positions.
The basic principle is that the price of the official position is calculated based on the official's annual salary, and 10,000 yuan is generally added after the annual salary. The magistrate is twice as high as the court official, and the county magistrate is different. Those who buy officials can participate in the bidding, and the highest bidder wins the office.
For example, the price of an official position of 2,000 stone of grain per year is 20 million yuan, and the price of an official position of 400 stone a year is 4 million yuan. If you want to be a third public, you need at least 100 million yuan.
Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, a stone of grain was sold for about 50 to 100 yuan, but after the troubled times, inflation caused the grain to rise to several hundred yuan.
In other words, if you only get paid, it will take you almost 20 years to earn it back.
It is clear that you have to rely on your official position to make oil.
It is said that although Duan Cheng, Zhang Wen and others have made great contributions, they also paid the money first. Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, spent 100 million yuan and finally became a lieutenant.
This kind of public selling lasted for more than ten years, and it was sold at first, but after the sale, it was found that there were not enough, so those who were transferred and promoted were also charged. The standard is to pay at least one-third or one-quarter of the list price of the official position.
Later, installment payments were also invented, with a down payment of only 30% and the rest to be paid after taking office. It seems that these methods have been used by the ancients.
And Zhang Rang was the main promoter of this bidding, collecting countless fortunes for Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty and spending extravagantly. Emperor Ling often praised Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong and said, one of you is my father and the other is my mother.
Such a eunuch does not have much ink in the history books, and his popularity is far lower than that of Zhao Gao and Wei Zhongxian, but what he does is also unprecedented and unprecedented.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, officialdom was corrupt, warlords were divided, and the people were poor, which directly led to the Yellow Turban Uprising.
This system and Zhang Rang can also be regarded as the culprit.