Guizhou became a province in the Whole Country during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, which is simply formally established as a province, and the establishment at that time was called the Department of Political Envoys. Who was chosen by Guizhou's first provincial-level official? How did he behave in the process of managing Guizhou?
In order to find the first Guizhou envoy, it can be said that the Ming court still made some difficulties. Because at that time, officials always thought that Guizhou was a remote area, the living conditions were very poor, plus the province had just been established, there was no family foundation, and it was very poor! Therefore, no official is willing to come to Guizhou to become an official. People with strong abilities are reluctant to come, and those who are not strong in ability are not assured by the imperial court, for fear that they will not be able to stabilize the situation. Therefore, Shi Zhi once recorded: "Guizhou set up a political envoy department ... It's hard to get on. The emperor struggled with the selection of people, chose to go, and finally found a person named Jiang Tingzhan to serve as the first envoy of Guizhou, that is, the first "governor" of Guizhou after the establishment of the province.
Who is this Jiang Tingzhan? Why did the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty choose him to serve as the first envoy of Guizhou?
Jiang Tingzhan is a native of Huaxian County, Henan. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, during the Hongwu period, he served as a general judge in Jiaxing (in charge of grain transportation, water conservancy, and litigation in a place). In the early years of Yongle, he participated in the suppression of Toast in Sinan, Guizhou. As for why the Yongle Emperor let Jiang Tingzhan administer Guizhou? Probably because he was involved in the Sinan Rebellion.
From the perspective of Jiang Tingzhan's position, before sending him to Guizhou, he participated in the government as the political secretary of Huguang, and the position was under the envoy. Transferring him to the position of envoy in Guizhou was considered a promotion, from the Beijing official Sanpin to the erpin feudal official.
In this way, Jiang Tingzhan came to Guizhou. Regarding Jiang Tingzhan's political achievements in Guizhou, there are not many records in the historical records. The record in the Guiyang Chronicle reads: "Ting zhan specializes in resting with the people, and the nobles cherish it." The name of the shrine. "The writing is empty and not specific. During the Ming Dynasty, the book "Qianji" written by Guo Zizhang, the inspector of Guizhou, among which the "Biography of Eunuchs" was written for Jiang Tingzhang," which was written vividly and interestingly. According to this biography, the imperial court "thought that Ting zhan had a prestige over Qian, and thought that he was a political envoy of Zuo Bu." When he first took office, he preached the virtues of the imperial court to the people of Guizhou, and his response was good. But after two years, he did a humiliating thing. So, what is this? The Qianji makes a colorful description:
"Thirteen years of Yongle, Ting Zhan said, is the northern expedition to the division, to Sinan Wuchuan County Dayan Mountain, there is a voice even long live the three, Xian said the emperor Enwei spread far away, the mountain follows the spirit." What does that mean? This is to say: "After the news of the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di's northern expedition to banshi came out, the Great Rock Mountain in Wuchuan County, Sinan Province, Guizhou Province, made a voice that called out to long live, and people said that it was the emperor's grace that made the mountains and rivers appear. For this strange news, even The Rebbe Shangshu Lü Zhen also led the group of courtiers to celebrate. But, who is Zhu Di? That was the emperor who created the Yongle prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and naturally understood that this was Jiang Tingzhan patting his ass, so he criticized Jiang Tingzhan and said: "When people and ministers are ministers, when they take the right path, it is an act of contempt." Between the valleys of noise, the echo of emptiness, this is common sense, is not a strange thing. The magistrate did not notice, thinking it was auspicious. "As a minister of the country, Rebbe Shangshu cannot distinguish between right and wrong, and he wants to enter the form of flattery, which is not the way of a gentleman at all." After being badly criticized by the emperor, this farce ended in ashes.
Statue of Zhu Di, Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty
This record describes Jiang Tingzhan's mentality and the flattery of the Rebbe Shangshu into three points, and also writes out the Yongle Emperor's attitude of fluttering, dim-witted, and objective and rational when he listens to the meat and hemp odes, like some dimwitted monarchs.
Originally, the emperor sent Jiang Tingzhan to Guizhou to ask him to sit in Qianjiang, do more serious things to stabilize Guizhou, and it is not uncommon to blow and pat, and make up some nonsense such as valley echoes and long live the three to invite favors. It seems that this envoy of Jiang Dabu slapped the horse's ass on the horse's hoof, so he attracted the emperor's rebuke, which was really humiliating. The "Qianji" records that "Ting Zhan died after the official", and it is not said that he later did some commendable and serious things. It seems that guizhou's first "parent official" did not do a good job.
Source: Liu Xuesu, "The Beginning of Qianjiang"