We know that corruption was the main cause of the destruction of the country and the family in ancient times, and corrupt officials and corrupt officials harmed the people for their own selfish interests. The emperor sat high in the temple and ignored it, but the people were already complaining. Although the power can be oppressed for a while, it is a long lifelong rebellion. Many dynasties declined as a result, such as the Ming Dynasty.
Although Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang had vigorously suppressed corruption during his reign, during his reign of 31 years, he had executed 100,000 corrupt officials. This also led to the Ming Dynasty Ancestor Zhu Di period, creating the Yongle prosperous era, the national strength was strong for a while, but after Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty did not have a few saintly monarchs.
So that the late Ming Dynasty traitors were hungry, and they were a famous giant greedy such as Liu Jin and Wang Zhen. So that by the chongzhen years, it was already an internal and external problem, and finally there was no chance to turn around. With the lessons of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty also had its own regulations on the suppression of corruption, and there was once such a small story.
During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a man named Tang Wenyao. He was born into poverty, and after growing up, he went through a period of hard study, and finally passed the entrance examination, and finally entered the official field, and became the governor of Liangjiang. Such inspirational characters naturally have a good reputation. Moreover, he was still diligent and thrifty after his official position as governor of Liangjiang.
Even three meals a day are reluctant to eat meat, and each meal is only cooked with one cabbage to eat. This news was later passed on ten times, and then it reached Yongzheng's ears. Yongzheng was very puzzled after hearing this, the governor of Liangjiang was not a small official position. One month's salary is enough for a family to eat and drink and even add a few servants.
So Yongzheng became suspicious, either grandstanding or having some unavoidable grievances. He ordered Li Wei to find out the reason. In the end, Yongzheng could not have imagined that this would be such a situation. It turned out that Tang Wenyao really liked to eat cabbage, but his eating method was different from ordinary people.
First of all, he is the cabbage to peel off the outer layers and eat only the cabbage hearts inside. And the more exaggerated one is to make the cabbage taste more flavorful, or more nutritious. Tang Wenyao actually used ginseng instead of charcoal matches to cook cabbage. In modern parlance, it is "madness".
When Yongzheng learned of this news, he almost didn't fall off his chair. "I am an emperor, usually reluctant to eat ginseng, you use it as firewood?" Therefore, he immediately ordered that Tang Wenyao's family property be copied in its entirety and beheaded all over the door. Now it seems that this one is somewhat exaggerated, and according to research, this story is indeed made up by later generations.
The Viceroy of Liangjiang was established in 1645 and belonged to the feudal governors. It administers Gangnam Province and Jiangxi Province. During the 13-year reign of Yongzheng, a total of 8 people appointed or acted as governors of Liangjiang. They are Fan Shixuan, Shi Yizhi, Gao Qizuo, Yin Jishan, Wei Tingzhen, Gao Qizuo, Zhao Hongen, and Zhao Hongen. Obviously, there was no such person as Tang Wenyao during the Yongzheng period. But this interesting story has been passed down.