Isn't Liu Jin Zhu Houzhao's most favored person? Why did Zhu Houzhao sentence Ling Chi to more than three thousand knives
Everyone knows that there was a big corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty, it was a world-class official, his name was He yan, his embezzled money and wealth were enemies of the country, and there were folk rumors at that time: He Yan fell, Jiaqing was full, how much money did he embezzle? Can you top a country's fiscal revenue? According to historical records, if the gold and silver treasures embezzled by Hezhen are converted into silver, it is 800 million silver, which can top the financial revenue of the Qing Dynasty for fifteen years, and it is too much to sweat.
However, not all eunuchs were miserable. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a very rich eunuch, and after having money, his life was quite moist! This person is Liu Jin. The reason why Liu Jin is quite proud is because he relies on Zhu Houzhao. It is said that this Zhu Houzhao was really born with a golden key from a young age, only two years old, and he had already been crowned prince at an age when he did not understand anything. In fact, his father and mother only had two children, and later unfortunately his brother died prematurely, and naturally, he got more pampering, and even can be said to be doting. There is nothing in the whole world that he cannot get. A little older is even more lawless. Even though he later sat on the emperor's throne, his playful nature still did not change, and he even regarded the major affairs of the state as a child's play.
Jin handling. Liu Jin's power has gone up, people call him "Emperor Li", that is, the standing emperor, liu Jin who has power began to be crazy and corrupt, because he is still in charge of the East Factory, the power of life and death is in his hands, see who is not pleasing to the eye, he will cure whose sins, and plunder the people's fields near the capital to build mansions, so that local officials have to sacrifice silver 10,000 taels of silver every year, and in a few years, more than three hundred mansions have been built, making the courtiers angry, dare not speak out, and the people are not happy.
It is said that during his reign, Liu Jin also changed the law for the state, and in view of some bad situations in the Ming Dynasty at that time, he made great changes to the political system and implemented a series of new laws. However, during Liu Jin's reign, the politics of the Ming Dynasty were very chaotic, and he often accepted huge bribes from local officials and colluded with those local officials. As a result, contradictions in many places have been intensified, bringing endless disasters to the country and the people. According to historical records, there were six or seven rebellions in the Beijing area alone. After the rebellion was put down, some ministers and eunuchs in the court also exposed Liu Jin's crimes to the emperor.
The emperor eventually murdered Liu Jin, so he decided to personally raid Liu Jin's home, only to find millions of taels of silver in Liu Jin's home, as well as forged jade seals and jade belts and other prohibited items. Among the fans that Liu Jin often held in his service to the emperor, two daggers were even found. The emperor was very angry when he saw this, so he decided to put Liu Jinling to death.
He never seemed to know how to be satisfied, and could only say that this man was too greedy. He obtained illegal money through various means, which is said to add up to more than 50 times the entire treasury, and was even named one of the 50 richest people in hundreds of years. Such a self-interested person naturally will not have a good end, and finally was cut 3357 times and died, just want to say, deserved.
Liu Jin is dead, but the topic is not over. In 2010, the Wall Street Journal Asia considered Liu Jin to be wealthed at more than 12 million taels of gold and 259 million taels of silver, and included him in the list of the world's richest 50 people in the past thousand years, alongside Genghis Khan, He yan, Song Ziwen and others. In terms of purchasing power, even today's richest man in the world is lamenting.