Do you know how He Shen died back then? There are different opinions about He Shen's death, some say that he was executed by Ling Chi, some say that he was poisoned, some say that he was assassinated, and some say that he committed suicide. So how did He Shen die? It all started in 1799.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year in 1799, Emperor Qianlong died, and He Shen kept filial piety for three days. Three days later, Emperor Jiaqing sent someone to raid Heshen's house immediately, why was Emperor Jiaqing so anxious? Because Emperor Jiaqing said: "If I don't kill He Shen, the people of the world only know He Shen but not me." Copied Heshen's home, a total of 1.1 billion taels were copied, worth more than 360 billion yuan, which made Emperor Jiaqing angry. Therefore, there was a saying that He Shen fell, and Jiaqing was full. After copying Heshen's house, he was also convicted of 20 capital crimes of beheading Heshen. Emperor Jiajing said that he would put He Shen Lingchi to death. The decision has been made. On the night of the sixteenth day of the first month of the first month of 1799, He Shen Lingchi was to be put to death. This Ling Chi wants to use a fishing net to catch people, this executioner holds a knife to cut off the meat exposed in this fishing net hole, piece by piece, cutting off more than 3,000 pieces of meat from him, before this person can not die, this side of the meat, while feeding him ginseng soup, but also to wipe him bloodstains, saying that if he accidentally dies in the middle of the way, then this execution will fail, this is really the so-called thousands of knives, but I didn't expect that before He Shen was executed by Ling Chi, his favorite woman was his third daughter-in-law, Wu Qinglian, a famous prostitute in Jiangnan, took a secret edict, this secret edict was left to him by Emperor Qianlong before he died, and He Shen opened this secret edict in prison, which had never been opened before, why? Because He Shen always thought that Emperor Qianlong had left him a Shang Fang sword to protect him. After opening this secret edict, He Shen cried on the spot, why? Because of the secret edict left by Emperor Qianlong to Heshen, the word "Leave the whole corpse" was written on it: leave the whole corpse. He Shen understood at this time that he couldn't live, Emperor Qianlong didn't want to keep him at all, he always thought that Emperor Qianlong was very favored, but he didn't expect that he was just a pawn of Emperor Qianlong. He Shen was desperate, so he took a three-foot white silk and hanged himself, at least Emperor Qianlong also left him a whole corpse, if it weren't for Emperor Qianlong's secret edict, he would have been executed by Ling Chi. Therefore, when it comes to Heshen's final end, I don't know whether it should be said to be happy or sad.