Tian Wenjing (1662-1732), Yongzheng's most trusted minister, was a fighter in the supervision, and he, together with Li Wei and Ortai, was known as the troika of Yongzheng ruling the country.
Tian Wenjing can be described as the best of the Han people in the Yongzheng Dynasty, and the official to the bingbu Shangshu, who was named the Prince Taibao, can be called a smooth step and a spring breeze.
What is less known is that Tian Wenjing's career was not smooth when he was young, because he was not from a science class, Tian Wenjing only became a seven-pin sesame official in his 20s, and because of his mediocre political performance, he did not have any backing, so he was a grassroots cadre for more than 20 years. Tian Wenjing himself was a little discouraged, saying that there was basically no drama in this life, so he would work mediocrely until retirement.
In the fifty-fifth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Tian Wenjing did not know when to burn Gao Xiang, suddenly came to run, was promoted to a bachelor of aide-de-camp, to the emperor as a classroom teacher, from then on Tian Wenjing was considered to be a great fortune, and he could not think of the situation, because Yongzheng had listened to his own lectures, and he was also his own student. As soon as Yongzheng came to power, tian wenjing used a place of use as soon as he became a courtier, and at this time, Tian Wenjing was already an old man with a flower armor.
However, the energy of Tian Wenjing's whole body had not yet been exerted, and age was not a problem at all, and it did not affect his grand ambitions at all.
After all, the noh is capable, and at any time he can share the worries and difficulties of the emperor's governance of the world, and can see the shortcomings and see the details. In the first year of Yongzheng (1723), when Tian Wenjing was ordered to go to Mount Hua to pay tribute, he discovered that the Inspector of Shanxi had concealed the disaster situation, and after returning, he played a book and reported it. Tian Wenjing was immediately transferred to Shanxi as an official, and Tian Wenjing worked as a magistrate for many years, accumulating rich work experience, and in Shanxi Tian Wenjing had the opportunity to show his skills, and the orderly governance there made the emperor praise him and commend him as an example for hundreds of officials.
In 1724, that is, the second year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng sent Tian Wenjing to Henan as a leader. Henan has always been a difficult place, because the Yellow River often floods, the river is constantly diverted, the basic farmland is flooded by the river, the people are displaced, the hunger is cold, the people are not happy, and the complaints are full of complaints. Coupled with the fact that official corruption has taken advantage of the people, Henan is a place of ghosts, where officials are not flattered, and no one wants to go. But Tian Wenjing is full of self-confidence and specializes in gnawing hard bones. After arriving in Henan, he worked diligently, worked hard, enforced the law impartially, and practiced what he preached, and soon put Henan's governance in an orderly manner, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.
Yongzheng praised Tian Wenjing greatly, and almost every time he made a year-end summary, he praised Tian Wenjing, and Yongzheng said to the hundred officials affectionately, you always complain that this is not easy to do, that is not easy to do, you see people Tian Wenjing has never complained, there is nothing that no one can't do. If everyone is as serious as Tian Wenjing's work, then there is an effect, why worry about the world?
The Yongzheng Emperor once told Yin Jishan, the governor of Liangjiang, to ask him to follow the example of Li Wei, Ortai, and Tian Wenjing and become a good official. But Yongzheng also told Yin Jishan that although Li Wei was loyal and courageous, he was thick and leafy, Tian Wenjing bowed down but was too mean, and Ertai was wise but more arbitrary. Man is not a sage, who can be perfect.
As the saying goes, when the water is clear, there is no fish, and Tian Wenjing pursues perfection too much, destroying the ecology of the officialdom, just more than straight, and not smooth enough.
Because of this, it aroused the dissatisfaction of his colleagues, and everyone was dissatisfied with him as a saboteur of official rules, which was regarded as a thorn in the flesh. Many magistrates treated him in the same way as a man, nitpicking at him and picking his bones from eggs.
But Yongzheng was often absent-minded when he saw the recital, and he laughed and threw aside the impeachment of Tian Wenjing. He also called Tian Wenjing to look at the folds and told Tian Wenjing that they saw Aiqing being favored in front of Yuan, and wanted to separate the relationship between Tian Wenjing and Aiqing. Hmmm, no way. Ministers like Ai Qing are not too many but too few, and they must be protected as national treasures.
When Tian Wenjing sometimes felt that he had been wronged, Yongzheng persuaded him, as long as you trust you, others will say that everything is in vain, and the gossip about Yuanjing cannot be stopped, let alone Aiqing? Ai Qing, you boldly go forward, go forward, do not look back.
With the encouragement of the emperor, Tian Wenjing worked harder and harder.
No one is perfect, Tian Wenjing is a capable courtier, but also a self-righteous person, who feels that all the officials in the world are inferior to himself and are too harsh on his subordinates. Tian Wenjing's defect caused many officials to resent, including those qing loyalists like Tian Wenjing, of which Li Fu was one.
Like Tian Wenjing, Li Fu was honest in government, loved the people like a son, and was also a capable minister who governed the country and the country. In August of the third year of Yongzheng (1725), Li Fu was appointed as the governor of Zhili. When he heard in the DPRK that Tian Wenjing was a leader in Henan, he treated the big guys too harshly, so Li Fu confronted Tian Wenjing with his face, "As a feudal governor, he deliberately trampled on the readers", and the two of them formed a grudge because of this. Later, Tian Wenjing and Li Fu impeached each other, but Tian Wenjing did not have the emperor covered with farts, and Li Fu was almost killed by the deposed official. Fortunately, later Yongzheng found out that he had wronged others and rehabilitated them.
Just when Tian Wenjing and Li Fu impeached each other, there was another flood in Henan, and Tian Wenjing said that there was not much to do, so he did not reflect it upwards. However, without a declaration, the imperial court could not allocate funds for disaster relief, nor could it open warehouses to help the victims. Who knew that the flood spread uncontrollably and protractedly, bringing great disasters to the people of Henan. People are uprooted, displaced, hungry and cold, and their grievances are boiling.
Later, the victims of Henan went to Beijing to beg for food, and Yongzheng Micro Service met them in a private visit, only to learn that Henan was affected by the disaster and quickly took remedial measures. Even so, it was too late and the consequences were already serious.
After this incident, Yongzheng was also uncomfortable in his heart, and he also had an opinion on Tian Wenjing, saying in his heart that I trusted you so much, but you poked me with such a big Lou Zi, which was not interesting enough. However, Yongzheng did not punish Tian Wenjing for the sake of Tian Wenjing's life, but he had snubbed a lot compared to before.
Tian Wenjing is not a fool, he feels that this time he has a big disaster, sorry for the old owner, ashamed and embarrassed to be angry. Yongzheng saw that Tian Wenjing was old, so he allowed him to go home to recuperate. Tian Wenjing died shortly after returning home at the age of 72. Under the conditions at that time, the average life expectancy of Chinese was more than 50 years old, and Tian Wenjing lived so much that he also had a high lifespan.