Many people know that Li Wei should be derived from "Li Wei as an Official" and "Yongzheng Dynasty", and the role of Li Wei in "Li Wei as an Official" is the most deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, in this drama, the beggar Li Weiyin and Yang mistakenly have a connection with the official government, and with this little wisdom, he eventually entered the dynasty as an official and became the right-hand man of the Yongzheng Emperor. Li Wei, who was angry and angry, was not only a confidant general needed by the Yongzheng Emperor, but also a good official in the hearts of the people, he dared to think and dare to do it, he was not afraid of power, and eventually the official was in a high position.
Of course, there is a difference between Li Wei in history and Li Wei in film and television dramas, such as birth, Li Wei in "Li Wei as an Official" was originally a beggar, poor do not want, and the historical Li Wei was born in a relatively wealthy family, because of this, he was able to buy officials to do. Li Wei originally entered the official field through the donation system, which is simply to donate officials and buy officials, and this kind of behavior of selling officials and knighthoods is a kind of court behavior.
Of course, not only the Qing Dynasty had donations of officials, as early as the Qin Dynasty, there was already this kind of selling officials and knighthoods, and almost all the dynasties and generations that followed, especially during the period of frequent wars. We know that war is the most expensive, so once there are more wars, naturally a lot of money is needed, and the national treasury does not necessarily have so much money. At this time, the imperial court would usually sell officials and knights, such as the Han Wudi period, the Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion, and so on.
Only before the Qing Dynasty, this kind of behavior of selling officials and knights was only temporary, after all, it could not fundamentally solve the financial problem, so it was only when the imperial court was particularly short of money. However, by the Qing Dynasty, the donation system had become a system, not temporary, and effective for a long time, and most of the Qing Dynasty had this kind of selling officials and knighthoods at the imperial court.
Therefore, when we look at the officials during the Qing Dynasty, there are mainly three kinds of official channels: one is naturally the famous imperial examination; the other is the donation system, which can buy officials to do if you have money, and as for what officials you buy, the imperial court has the final say; the third is the door shade into the shi, which is basically since ancient times. Many officials during the Qing Dynasty were officials who obtained through the donation system, of course, the officials bought in this way were usually not large, there were no real positions, and there was no hope for promotion.
But Li Wei is an exception, Li Wei is a Jiangsu native, the family is relatively wealthy, but Li Wei does not like to read, although not to the point of not being illiterate, but basically belongs to the level of illiteracy. However, he could not stand the fact that his family had money, and the imperial court allowed him to buy officials, so Li Wei bought a foreign lang in the late Kangxi period and took the position of a soldier and a foreign lang.
Li Wei had ambitions from the day he bought the official, he must get ahead, so he worked very actively, he also had a brain, and the important thing was to dare to think and dare to do, which was very important, and it also made him stand out quickly, but he achieved Hubu Langzhong in two years. When the Yongzheng Emperor succeeded to the throne, Li Wei's style of doing things was very favored by the Yongzheng Emperor, in order to clean up the mess left by the Kangxi Emperor such as the deficit in the national treasury, the Yongzheng Emperor urgently needed officials like Li Wei who dared to think and dare to do it, so Li Wei soon became the Yongzheng Emperor's right-hand man.
Li Wei did the most work in the Yongzheng Dynasty was to manage salt and suppress thieves, both of which were not easy to do, most officials chose to cover up or ignore it, and the salt industry itself was a profiteering industry, which was even more difficult to handle, and many officials were mixed in, so the officials who managed salt were usually jealous.
But Li Wei didn't care so much, he managed salt and anti-theft very well, that is, he became the lord of the people and solved the problem for the Yongzheng Emperor, and because of this, Li Wei's officials became bigger and bigger, and in the tenth year of his official donation, that is, in 1727, he became the governor of Zhejiang. Li Wei was the first governor of Zhejiang in the Yongzheng Dynasty, when the Yongzheng Emperor had just divided the viceroy of Fujian and Zhejiang into the viceroy of Fujian and the viceroy of Zhejiang, and Li Wei became the governor of Zhejiang in the same year, a real feudal official, and later became a soldier Shangshu and so on.
It can be said that Li Wei was a well-known and important minister in the Yongzheng Dynasty, of course, after Yongzheng died and Qianlong succeeded to the throne, Li Wei was still a heavy minister, but once the Heavenly Son was a courtier, Li Wei was not really used by Qianlong, especially at this time, the party was fierce, in 1738, that is, the third year of Qianlong's succession, Li Wei died, and when he died, he was only 51 years old, which was considered to be in his prime.
After Li Wei's death, he left five sons, and when they grew up, they all became officials in the dynasty, but none of them reached the height of Li Wei. Among them, the eldest son, Li Xingyuan, was also a tanhua in the martial arts examination, and was directly awarded the second class bodyguard. However, Li Xingyuan did not become a big official before Li Jianyao, but later he was valued by Li Shiyao, who promoted him a lot, and with the rise of his official position, Li Xingyuan gradually could not hold on to it and began to embezzle.
In 1764, Li Xingyuan, who was then the commander-in-chief of Youjiang Town, was convicted of embezzlement, and Qianlong appointed Li Shiyao as the governor of Liangguang to detain and execute Li Xingyuan, but Li Xingyuan could not bear to be promoted by himself, and gave him a light sentence. As a result, Li Shiyao was demoted, while Li Xingyuan was still executed.
In addition to the eldest son, Li Xingyuan, Li Wei also had four sons, namely Li Xingju (official to Fujian Yanjian Shaodao), Li Xingcan (official to the prefecture), Li Xingsu (official to Hubei Governor of Grain Province), and Li Xingfu (official to Liangjiang after the supplementary governor of The Imperial Household), all of which can only be said to be relatively mediocre.
Although Li Wei himself was very successful as an official, worthy of the emperor and worthy of the people, he also valued and cared for the readers, but his sons were still not very outstanding, of course, this may also be because after Li Wei's death, his sons were affected by the party strife, so in the official arena can only be regarded as mediocre, the only good eldest son Li Xingyuan was also executed for corruption.