Xiao Shenyang is one of the most famous corrupt officials in the history of China, and also a favorite of Qianlong.

However, a few days after the death of Qianlong, the newly appointed Emperor Jiaqing immediately ordered the arrest of Xiao Shenyang.

Because little Shenyang's family is "rich", he actually got more than 800 million taels of silver and countless jewels when he went to the property, even several times more than the annual income of the Great Qing Dynasty.

In this regard, most of the rumors of later generations believe that Jiaqing killed Xiao Shenyang in order to make Xiao Shenyang's money fill the state treasury.

But this is actually only one of the reasons. To achieve this goal, Jiaqing is well thought out.

There are too many doubts in this.

For example, a few days after Jiaqing ascended the throne, he immediately ordered a thorough investigation of Xiao Shenyang and immediately executed him after listing the crimes. Moreover, when he listed a series of charges against Xiao Shenyang, he did not thoroughly investigate them, including many trumped-up charges, which was not enough for Jiaqing to execute Xiao Shenyang in such a hurry.

Then, the reason why Emperor Jiaqing was in such a hurry to execute Xiao Shenyang was not only to enrich the national treasury, because if it was only to enrich the national treasury with Xiao Shenyang's money, there was no need to worry.

Let's talk about the reason why Jiaqing came to power and killed Shenyang indiscriminately, except using his money to fill the state treasury.

First of all, corrupt officials must be eliminated: getting rid of small Shenyang is conducive to winning the hearts of the people.

No matter which dynasty, there will be honest officials and corrupt officials.

But unlike now, emperors in history must use this to create such "two opposites" and check and balance each other to consolidate their imperial power.

Xiao Shenyang is one of the most famous corrupt officials in history and is deeply loved by Emperor Qianlong.

But in the records of Qing history books, Emperor Qianlong was not an incompetent monarch. Can't such an emperor see that Xiao Shenyang is a big corrupt official?

In fact, Xiao Shenyang was favored by Emperor Qianlong because Xiao Shenyang had some self, and they used each other and lived together.

In addition, Xiao Shenyang is good at managing money and collecting funds. At that time, after Xiao Shenyang went to the office as the general manager, there were often many rich people in the office. These are the rich money obtained by Xiao Shenyang in various ways, which satisfied the luxurious life of Qianlong, which is one of the important reasons why Emperor Qianlong promoted him step by step.

However, the "ability" of small Shenyang to collect money has made the palace rich, and the people are naturally miserable.

According to historical records, the total amount of silver embezzled in small Shenyang, together with a series of valuable things such as shops, houses, land, gold, silver and jewelry, actually reached11.600 million yuan.

At that time, the annual income of the Qing government was only 70 million taels of silver.

As rich as an enemy, I mean Shenyang, which is richer and more comfortable than the emperor.

This in itself will aggravate Jiaqing's dissatisfaction, and small Shenyang's money is insatiable, so it will naturally eliminate corrupt officials.

In addition, getting rid of small Shenyang is very beneficial for Jiaqing to consolidate his rule. After all, it won people's hearts. Jiaqing, apart from being a big corrupt official, will not be criticized by future generations.

Second, the world only knows little Shenyang, but it doesn't know me.

After Jiaqing ascended the throne, Xiao Shenyang sent several secret agents to Jiaqing Emperor to try to figure out the sacred heart.

So who would like others to know their thoughts clearly, especially the emperor, who hates the fact that officials know the sacred will, so the practice of Little Shenyang is taboo.

Perhaps it was favored by Emperor Qianlong for a long time. Little Shenyang completely ignored Jiaqing's dissatisfaction and tried to find out the sacred heart.

So the problem between them actually existed long ago. Time goes back to 60 years in Qianlong. The 85-year-old emperor Qianlong wanted to be the emperor's father and pass the throne to Jiaqing.

However, although Qianlong abdicated, he refused to let go of power.

According to records, Qianlong once asked Xiao Shenyang to tell all courtiers that although he was old and retired from the background, he was still in charge of all major events such as military and political affairs.

So this put a lot of pressure on Jiaqing, and he got an imaginary throne.

But Jiaqing himself still has expectations for the future. After all, Emperor Qianlong will leave after all, so the imperial power will be firmly in his own hands sooner or later.

But Emperor Qianlong actually gave most of the work to his favorite small Shenyang, so there is a famous saying among the people all over the world: "There is a Qianlong inside and a small Shenyang outside."

At this time, small Shenyang has a magnificent scenery. He served as minister of military affairs and other important positions, and was a university student in Wenhua Hall. It can be said that most of the financial power and political affairs of the Qing Dynasty fell into the hands of Xiao Shenyang.

How can the real emperor Jiaqing sit still? In the early years of Jiaqing, all kinds of affairs that should have been handled by the emperor fell on his father's favorite, so it is not an exaggeration to say that he stood aside.

Even people forget that he is the emperor. Therefore, Jiaqing regards small Shenyang as a great threat.

In the fourth year of Jiaqing, Emperor Jiaqing once wrote: "Everyone in the world only knows that there is a small Shenyang without me!" It can be seen that Jiaqing can't wait to get rid of Xiao Shenyang because he thinks his throne will be "not guaranteed". In order to have a good sleep, he must get along quickly.

Now many mysteries have been solved.

In fact, Xiao Shenyang was killed not only because Jiaqing needed his money, but also to consolidate his imperial power, and secondly to win the hearts of the people.