Bad luck in officialdom
1768, Lu, the favorite of Emperor Qianlong, was found guilty of informing on his in-laws and exiled to Urumqi. Just when Ji Xiaolan was in the officialdom, a bad luck of officialdom came to him quietly.
This year, Lianghuai Salt Transportation Company was short of 6.5438+million yuan of silver, and Emperor Qianlong was ready to kill successive Lianghuai salt transportation agents. Lu, who had returned to China at that time, was also under investigation. Because of in-laws, he disclosed it in private, so that he could be transferred to the family property as soon as possible.
Ji Xiaolan's way of letting the cat out of the bag is also interesting. It is said that when Emperor Qianlong later traced the leak, Ji Xiaolan claimed that he had never written a word. Even Emperor Qianlong wanted to know how Ji Xiaolan let the cat out of the bag.
The way Ji Xiaolan leaked it.
According to the book Biography of Ji Xiaolan in the Song Dynasty, "After careful consideration, he finally came up with a wonderful idea: he took a pinch of salt and a pinch of tea, put them in an empty envelope, sealed them with paste, and sent them to Lu Jianzeng's house overnight without writing a word inside and outside.
After receiving the envelope, Lu was dumbfounded and puzzled. He poured the contents into several boxes, looked at them again and again, speculated for a long time, and finally understood the intention:' Check if the salt box is empty!'
Therefore, Lu Jian quickly made up the borrowed public funds, and the remaining assets were settled elsewhere. Everything is ready. It has been half a month since the raid. "
Ji Xiaolan is in exile in the frontier.
Some scholars also said that the above list is not true. The fact is that Ji Xiaolan told the news to Lu Qian, the son of Lu Jianzeng, face to face after sniffing out that Gan Long wanted to trace the deficit in the salt case. Lu Qian wrote to his father Lu Jianzeng. In fact, when pursuing the salt case, Lu had already left his post and retired. However, although the method of Ji Xiaolan's leak described in the above-mentioned Ji Xiaolan Biography is worthy of scrutiny, Ji Xiaolan leaked the news after all. In addition, it is also true that Lu Jian once received two silver coins from salt merchants 16000 when he was the salt envoy of Huaihe River.
Later, Ji Xiaolan's secret was discovered. At the same time, it was found that more than one person disclosed the news to Lu, as well as Xu Buyun, alternate secretary of the cabinet, and Shangshu of the Ministry of War 100. Later, these people were also implicated in this case. In the end, except for more than 20 people who were killed, all the other people involved were exiled to the frontier to work for atonement.