After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he also opened Enko, but in the examination room, he was found by the chief examiner that there may be someone cheating, which involved a lot of importance, and he did not dare to be too vocal, and finally he found Li Wei, who led the soldiers into the examination room to search and found the fraudsters.
Li Wei is not a military general, why do he have military power in his hands? How much military power does he have? Why is it that only he can solve this matter?
Examination fraud
After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the scientific examination system was gradually improved, and by the Qing Dynasty, it had its own set of systems, with a fixed examination time, and after the new emperor ascended the throne, there would be an additional scientific expedition, known as Enke. The imperial examination is also an important way for the ancients to select talents, giving low-level readers a chance to cross the class.
Therefore, the rulers attach great importance to the imperial examination, hoping to select truly excellent talents through the examination, but there are often frauds in the imperial examination, and even in advance of the question, which is also very disgusted by the emperors of the past, whenever they encounter this kind of thing, the readers of the world are united and pick up their pen poles to denounce the imperial court.
Once it is handled improperly, it will even cause public indignation, so whenever there is a cheating in the examination, whether it is really involved or not, the chief examiner and several people cannot escape the interference, and there will even be a danger of the family. After Yongzheng ascended the throne, it was discovered that some of them had cheated.
At that time, the examination had been officially opened, the chief examiner and the deputy examiner were sitting in it, and after the deputy examiner found the fraud, he first found the examiner to discuss whether to inform the emperor of this matter, but the other party vetoed it. The deputy chief examiner was also worried that if this matter was true, he would inevitably be implicated.
If it was false, he hastily informed the emperor that he still could not get rid of it, so he found the three princes at that time.
Li Wei helped
After the Third Prince learned the news, even if he was the emperor's son, he did not dare to act rashly, for fear of being implicated, he proposed a name to the deputy chief Kao, and this person was Li Wei. He said that as long as he told Li Wei about this matter, the other party would definitely be able to solve it, and only he could solve the matter.
Later, the deputy chief examiner did find Li Wei to inform this matter, Li Wei learned the news, without too much hesitation, directly with his soldiers rushed into the examination room, in his opinion, since there was a fraud case in the examination room, and then investigate where the test questions were leaked, who sold and bought the test questions has been very complicated.
It is also very difficult to operate, it is better to directly enter the examination room to search these students again, as long as the evidence of cheating is found from whom, you can thoroughly find out the matter, so Li Wei directly led the soldiers into the examination room for a search, and sure enough, he found the person who cheated for personal gain.
The complete settlement of this matter also makes our descendants very curious, how much military power does he have in his hands? Why would Wang Ye say that only he could solve this case?
The reason behind it
Li Wei was born in the Jiangsu region, and his hometown was very wealthy, so in 1717, the family donated money to him for an official position. Two years later, he served as Hubu Langzhong, and after the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, he was reused by the other side.
In 1727 AD, he became the governor of Zhejiang, and he was a very capable man, he had inspected salt, built sea roads, was very methodical, and always had a surprising victory, and had a certain reputation in the jianghu and the officialdom. Yongzheng was not originally cultivated as a prince.
Kangxi forbade his son to form a party in the dprk for personal gain, so after Yongzheng ascended the throne, there were not many confidants around him, and he also attached great importance to this imperial examination. As his confidant, Li Wei naturally knew about this matter. Moreover, this person was very bold, and once led soldiers to raid the Cao family in Jiangning.
When Li Wei encountered resistance, he would always shoot from elsewhere and solve the problem unexpectedly, and the reason why the Three Princes recommended Li Wei was also in this regard. Moreover, Li Wei was deeply trusted by the Yongzheng Emperor and was also very loyal to the emperor, and it was up to him to lead the soldiers to raid the examination hall so as not to arouse the emperor's jealousy and suspicion.
Li Wei has held several different official positions, but most of these official positions are some feudal officials, handling local government affairs, and actually do not have any military power in his hands.
Instead, they are the soldiers of the government, who are more similar to the duties of today's police or armed police, and are not serious soldiers of the army. At that time, the Qing Dynasty garrison, one was the Responsibility of the Green Battalion, the other was the Prefectural Guards, most of which were under the responsibility of the local inspectors.
The two different teams are different in formation and equipment, and their usefulness is also very different. At this time, Li Wei mobilized the fu ya soldiers, and the number was not very large, probably around 1,000-2,000 people.
epilogue
The reason why Li Wei was able to solve the case of fraud in the examination hall was not only because he had military power or the amount of military power in his hands, at that time, the maximum number of people he could mobilize in his hands was 2,000 people, and there were more officials in the capital than he commanded, and the reason why only he could solve this matter was that he could solve this matter.
It is entirely because he has won the trust of the emperor, coupled with his wild and uninhibited personality, only listening to the words of the emperor alone, he can always find another way and surprise him when he encounters problems.