Tang Wenyao was the governor of Liangjiang during the Yongzheng period, and on the surface he was very incorruptible, eating cabbage every day and wearing tattered clothes, but in fact he was a corrupt official.
The Yongzheng Emperor got information about Tang Wenyao's corruption, so he sent Li Wei to investigate, and Li Wei used the means of chicken and dog thieves to send his henchmen to Tang Yao's mansion to go undercover, and after some investigation, he really found evidence of Tang Wenyao's corruption.
So the Yongzheng Emperor ordered the confiscation of Tang Wenyao's family property, and in the process of raiding the house, Li Wei seized more than 2,000 kilograms of dried ginseng, sun-dried ginseng, and a beautifully crafted porcelain pot. Therefore, Li Wei took these treasures and escorted Tang Wenyao to Beijing to report the case to the Yongzheng Emperor.
The Yongzheng Emperor personally interrogated Tang Wenyao and asked him why he wanted to collect so many dried ginseng? Tang Wenyao said that since he was a child, he did not have enough to eat, he did not wear warm clothes, it can be said that he begged everywhere for a living, and in such a difficult environment, he developed the habit of loving cabbage, so after he became an official, he still ate cabbage every day.
But he wanted to increase the nutrition of cabbage, so he dried ginseng, and when the firewood was burned, he wanted to inject the nutritional value of ginseng into the heart of cabbage through combustion, so that cabbage would have more nutritional value.
There was also that porcelain pot, Yongzheng felt very strange, this exquisitely shaped porcelain pot embedded with gold gems, what is it used for? Open the lid and a faint smell will catch your nose.
The emperor asked, your teapot is also too luxurious, right? Tang Wenyao said that this is not a teapot, this is his urine pot. When the Yongzheng Emperor heard this, he was furious and ordered that this corrupt and corrupt person be executed and confiscated from the family property.
In addition, in addition to the family property, Tang Wenyao's family also has more than 30 wives and concubines, in order to distribute fairly, Tang Wenyao himself made a cash cow, let these wives and concubines use shoes to fight, who has more money, and spend the night in whose room.
As a result, the corrupt official was executed and his family property confiscated.
In fact, the story is a fabricated story, and during the thirteen years of the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, there was not a single governor of Liangjiang named Tang Wenyao, a fictional character from a TELEVISION series.
However, to a certain extent, it also reflects the reactionary decline of feudal society, and the corruption of officials, the darkness of politics, and the injustice of society are all reflected in this one figure. He grew up as a poor child with no food and no clothes, but he was very ambitious, and he was struggling to survive while constantly learning.
In the end, he gained status, gained prestige, and also gained wealth. But he was not satisfied, he used this as a means of revenge on society, so he began to embezzle and corrupt, amass money and absurd pleasure, which is a manifestation of a deformed personality under a deformed society.
The reactionary and decadent political system of feudal society has created favorable conditions for a large number of corrupt officials to be trained, and the political corruption in feudal society has created conditions for corrupt officials to go up and down, squeeze the people, and accumulate money.
He was the collective portrait of all the feudal bureaucrats of that era, almost all the bureaucrats of feudal society, almost all hypocrites like him, full of benevolence and morality, a belly full of male thieves and female prostitutes, two-faced people. Before people, they have a set, and after people, they have another set.
In front of people, this set of grandiose responses is the public deceiving society, and the set behind it satisfies selfish desires and exposes his true face. Therefore, Tang Wenyao himself did not exist, but he really existed in every place of the Qing Dynasty. Because of Tang Wenyao, he is the personification of the corrupt rule of the Qing Dynasty.