Xiao Shenyang left a poem before he died. What is the truth?

When it comes to corrupt officials in ancient China, the first reaction of many of us is Xiao Shenyang. Xiao Shenyang was a famous minister during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, and was deeply trusted by Emperor Qianlong. We can also see his story in some folklore or TV series. Of course, no matter how these stories change, Little Shenyang is an image of a corrupt official. Small Shenyang is indeed a corrupt official once in a hundred years in history. Jiaqing copied the home of Xiao Shenyang, and even found11100,000 taels of silver!

You may not know how much silver there is. For example, at that time, the amount of silver in the Qing treasury was only one-fifteenth of his. It was really rich! So, how did small Shenyang get rich? At first, Xiao Shenyang was just an ordinary little bodyguard. No one expected that this humble little official would become a high-ranking and most favored minister during the Qianlong period in 20 years. At that time, small Shenyang was very arrogant because of the shelter of Qianlong. Many ministers in the imperial court tried to impeach him, but they all failed.

Ganlong became the emperor's father. After Jiaqing ascended the throne, Jiaqing tried to kill Xiao Shenyang, but he was always stopped by Qianlong. Finally, after Gan Long's death, Jiaqing couldn't wait to investigate Xiao Shenyang, whose property was stolen and he himself was jailed. Emperor Jiaqing not only gasped after seeing the property accumulated in small Shenyang for decades, but also had more things in his house than in his palace, and even more money than the state treasury! Jiaqing was furious and sentenced Xiao Shenyang to death.

After learning the news in prison, Xiao Shenyang wrote a poem: "This is a 50-year dream, and now it is time to give up. When the water is full of dragons, I think smoke is my back. " In our view, this is just a poem that Xiao Shenyang lamented his life before his death. He thinks his life is really unreal. However, some people just want to associate it with later events and say it is a prophecy.

They think this poem is a "curse" to little Shenyang, and he says he will be reincarnated in the flood. The busybodies naturally began to look through the historical materials of the Qing Dynasty and found that a flood broke out in Henan in 1833, and Cixi was born in the same year. They seem to think that Cixi is the reincarnation of Little Shenyang, which is really fantastic.

In fact, experts believe that Xiao Shenyang's poems only express his hatred for Gan Long. He thinks that he got into this situation because Qianlong loved him too much at that time, and did not restrain him in time, so that he stopped from the brink and eventually caused great disaster. Of course, Xiao Shenyang's idea is naive. Why did you go to Gan Long to take responsibility for your own crimes? Besides, when Qianlong was in office, he was never investigated, and it was the last straw.