Chapter 610: Greed

Western literature likes to use evil dragons as a metaphor for some evil people, and one of the most special habits of evil dragons is that they like to collect treasures, so there are so many dragon slayers who kill evil dragons not to eliminate evil and promote good.

Treasure is of no use to a powerful creature like a dragon, because in the face of absolute power, currency has no value, but why does the dragon still like to collect treasures?

It's just pure greed.

Just like corrupt officials, they already have power, in fact, their demand for currency is limited, because what they want, there will be many people who want to tie them up to help them get it, but why do they embezzle huge amounts of currency?

Just like He Shen in the most popular TV series "Iron Tooth Bronze Tooth Ji Xiaolan" recently, not only in the TV series, but also in history, it is recorded that He Shen's house was raided after his death, and his home was 20 million taels of silver, and other houses, treasures, and real estate and fertile land totaled about 1.1 billion taels of silver.

He Shen's family property was equivalent to the total tax revenue of the Qing court for fifteen years in its heyday, and he alone was enough to pay off the war indemnities of the two Opium Wars, the First Sino-Japanese War, and the Eight-Nation Alliance.

At the same time, it was also evaluated by foreign media as one of the top ten historical richest people in world history, crushing the Rothschild family who made their fortunes in Europe during the same period.

He Shen can be said to be a truly rich country, but according to common sense, he shouldn't need so much extra wealth, so why should he hoard and make money indefinitely?

It's a kind of human greed familiarity, he doesn't need it, but it's pure greed, and there aren't too many extra thoughts.

And all this kind of corrupt officials in history, throwing out some people who want to rebel, most of them are because of this greed, they sit on the power of one person and ten thousand people, but they are simply greedy for the excess wealth they don't need, as a pleasure or a habit.

The common people's hatred of corrupt officials is also a hatred of greed in human nature.

The part of the black economy that Wang Yao once calculated was built on top of this kind of greed, but once he grasped the lifeblood of these greeds, black eating black was a very safe way to quickly gather funds.

For these people, black eating black is not blackmail, although they don't know who the blackmailer is, but when they get to their position, they also know the powerful relationship.

The people who can hold this kind of evidence will not be small people, and it is the best way to avoid disasters, and although they are greedy, they will not be too distressed.

Because as long as they are in their place, there will be no shortage of money.

The bureaucratic system is also a unique culture in the Huxia civilization, and under this culture, there are many wise and martial emperors and generals in ancient times who have not completely changed it, and there is naturally a reason for this.

For example, He Shen was greedy for so much money from the Qing court, but Emperor Qianlong did not punish him in any way, until after Qianlong's death, the main reason why Jiaqing killed He Shen was that He Shen intended to rebel and rob his family to enrich the treasury, but it did not change the national situation, but made the Qing court from prosperity to decline.

In the TV series "Iron Tooth and Bronze Tooth Ji Xiaolan", there is a paragraph of He Shen and Ji Xiaolan's 'Corrupt Official Theory' that tells the analysis of the necessity of the existence of a corrupt official, which is very meaningful.

But on the other hand, Emperor Qianlong's connivance with He Shen has another layer of intentions.

First of all, the historical He Shen is not the kind of obscene and ugly image played by Wang Gang, the historical He Shen is known as the most famous beautiful man in the Qianlong period, and he is also feminine and beautiful.

And not only handsome, but also talented, Qing Shizai and Shen Xi read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Spring and Autumn", proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics, he agreed with Zhu Xi's concept very much in his early years. Although he later embraced realism, he also liked to hang out with literati and artists in his spare time.

"Dream of Red Mansions" was a banned book at that time, and it was preserved by He Shen to appreciate Cao Xueqin's talent, and it became a classic to become a classic, and the literary heritage was not weak Ji Xiaolan, a talented man of the same period, but He Shen's talent was all used to cater to Qianlong's aesthetics, and He Shen's deep favor was partly because he was proficient in all of Qianlong's psychological orientations, and catered to Qianlong's aesthetics, taste, and deep Qianlong in poetry.

In this regard, He Shen's fawning over Qianlong is like the flattery of modern entertainment stars to fans, this modern popular business model, He Shen was very proficient in it hundreds of years ago, and catering to the emperor is much more difficult than catering to fans.

However, these are not the most critical points of He Shen's favor, the most critical point is that He Shen was raised by Emperor Qianlong, as the leader of the Manchu faction in the court to compete with other factions, and Qin Hui in the Southern Song Dynasty belonged to the same state.

Qianlong set up the Military Machinery Department to nullify all the powers of the cabinet and the six ministries, and under this kind of notice, the effect of centralization was infinitely expanded, so there was a situation in the Qianlong period where the population and economy exploded at the same time but there was no chaos.

But this method also left a disaster for the later Jiaqing.

And He Shen, as one of the ministers of the Military Aircraft Department, is also the minister with the most tacit understanding with Qianlong, he is equivalent to a doppelganger of Qianlong, that is to say, He Shen's greed is not only his personal greed, but also Qianlong's greed.

He Shen's money is not only his own, but also Qianlong's treasury, this is the relationship between the two.

Although the huge greed of He Shen and Emperor Qianlong is a model, it is not a model that can be replicated, because it happened to catch up with a good era at that time, and the Huaxia of Emperor Qianlong was equivalent to ripe crops that could be harvested.

However, this model is indeed a reference model for centralizing power and supporting logistics, and it has been used to this day.

A very famous entrepreneur once said that his money is not his, it is all temporarily managed for the people, well, this is the truth.

So the emails sent by Wang Yao last night were equivalent to a 'tax collection note' for those people, so they also handed them over happily.

"It seems that there is really no less greed, and those who pay taxes pay so quickly. Wang Yao sorted out the remittance account and found that most of the people's accounts were from foreign accounts, no wonder they couldn't find out the direction of some of the money before.

This huge amount of money is enough to meet the cash needs of the construction of the South City.

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At the same time, the heavenly stream was depressed today, and the great and luxurious hall seemed empty, with no waiters and no women with those signs.

The mother Wu who received Wang Yao yesterday and a group of people who had experienced it were all standing in a row, not daring to look at the mysterious man who was sitting on the sofa with his back to everyone and swallowing clouds and mist.

"Boss, boss, we really don't know what's going on, and we started answering complaints from members early this morning. Wu's mother said with a sad face.

"Who's in the company's computer room?" the mysterious man's voice was very low and magnetic.

"It's me. A middle-aged man replied, "Boss, there has been nothing abnormal in the computer room recently, and no one has invaded, and every day we listen to you engrave all the videos into discs for storage, and then delete the records, such a thing will not happen at all." ”

"Is it possible that someone will be able to recover the data?" the mysterious man asked.

"It's impossible, the memory will cover the traces, and it's impossible to recover them all, within a week at most. The middle-aged man said.

"Is it okay to store the discs?" asked the mysterious man again.

"No, there is absolutely no possibility of losing it. The middle-aged man assured.

"Alright, I got it. "The mysterious man snuffed out the cigar" What's the matter, you all have a break for a while, you have worked hard all these years. ”

Wu's mother knelt on the ground and cried, "Boss, it really has nothing to do with us." ”

"Didn't I say it's none of your business? The mysterious man stood up and chuckled, his features could not be seen clearly against the light, but from the figure it could be seen that he was tall, but not burly.

The mysterious man ignored everyone and walked downstairs on his own, muttering "It's kind of interesting." ”

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