Xu Zheng starred in the TV series "Li Wei as an Official", let us know a good official in the Yongzheng period, this person who is not highly educated and relies on money to become an official, but he is the most powerful cadre under Yongzheng, although he is not a big member of the Yipin, but the practical things he did made Yongzheng also impressed.
Li Wei was treated differently during the Qianlong period, and eventually became depressed, and the idols built by the people for Li Wei were also burned by Qianlong, so why did Qianlong target Li Wei so much?
Li Wei became an official
In ancient times, the imperial examination is the only way out for ordinary people, only through the imperial examination as an official can achieve the counterattack of life, but the difficulty of the imperial examination system, not everyone can overcome, if you take the current college entrance examination to compare, that is, the national students to participate in the same examination, non-natural talent, it is difficult to get the rank.
In fact, he is not even a reader, he barely knows some words, and his understanding of history all comes from Mr. Storyteller on the street, such a person, naturally has nothing to do with the imperial examination and the official, but Li Wei also encountered his own opportunities.
After the Pacification of San Francisco, the recovery of Taiwan, the conquest of Kaldan, etc., constantly consumed the national treasury, this consumption is completely irreparable by the tax office, in order to fill this consumption, the Qing Dynasty opened the biggest income project: selling officials, ordinary people regardless of their knowledge, as long as they spend money to become officials. Li Wei seized this opportunity and became a petty official.
According to common sense, these people will immediately raid civilians after becoming officials, not only to recover their own capital as officials, but also to make money more and more intensely, but Li Wei is different, from the first day of becoming an official, he is determined to be a good official, and it just so happens that Yongzheng needs this kind of practical minister.
Li Wei and Yongzheng
Before Yongzheng ascended to the throne, Li Wei showed his upright side, no matter what kind of high-ranking officials and nobles, Li Wei dared to enforce the law impartially. In the early stages of his official career, there were countless high-ranking officials and nobles who clashed with Li Wei, and although Li Wei was not promoted at that time, all of this was seen by Yongzheng.
In the first year of Yongzheng, Li Wei was assigned a very embarrassing errand to manage the salt transport in Yunnan, salt is an important strategic material of the state and is controlled by the state, but because of the huge profits inside, private salt has never been effectively managed, which not only affects the state's tax revenue, but also affects local public security.
This appointment, although on the surface seems to give Li Wei a mess, but also a test of Li Wei, if Li Wei can handle it well, it means that Li Wei is very capable and can also hold a higher position, if Li Wei does not handle it well, being a petty official is his best destination.
Facts proved that Li Wei did not disappoint Qianlong, and within a few years, the salt transportation in the entire Yunnan region was back on track, making Yongzheng look at Li Wei with admiration. Subsequently, Li Wei's promotion path became very stable, and with his excellent political achievements, Li Wei was awarded the title of "Model Governor" by Yongzheng, and promoted him to the position of Governor directly under him, which was a major member of the party.
In many novels and wild histories, the relationship between Li Wei and Yongzheng is very good, the two are not called masters and servants in private, but as brothers, and Yongzheng even shows strong concern for Li Wei's son, which is unique in the entire history of the Qing Dynasty.
Yongzheng was very concerned about Li Wei, and even at the time of Yongzheng's death, he also made very proper arrangements for Li Wei, knowing that when Yongzheng was dying, in addition to Li Wei, all the three dynasties elders who were arranged were Zhang Tingyu, which showed Li Wei's position in Yongzheng's mind, but Yongzheng did not expect that Qianlong would do the opposite to his appointment.
Qianlong and Li Wei
After Qianlong ascended to the throne, he not only ignored the last words of his father Yongzheng, but also suppressed all the officials that Yongzheng had reused in the first place, and local officials like Li Wei naturally suppressed even more severely.
Regarding Li Wei's death, Qianlong superficially expressed regret and gave him a knighthood and a thick burial, but this superficial effort did not last long. Three years later, Qianlong withdrew all the rewards given to Li Wei, publicly slandered Li Wei, and burned the idols built for Li Wei by the people of Hangzhou, and a generation of Qing officials became qianlong's "immoral people".
For his father Yongzheng, Qianlong had countless dissatisfactions, and this dissatisfaction gradually turned into opposition, and Qianlong would oppose almost everything about Yongzheng. From aesthetics to ways of doing things, so the officials that Yongzheng originally reused, Qianlong without exception all abandoned, no matter how capable he was, plus Li Wei originally relied on buying officials to enter the imperial court, and naturally he would be disliked by Qianlong.
Three years after his death, Li Wei was met with almost devastating malice by Qianlong, all of which stemmed mainly from Qianlong's southern tour.
In the Zhejiang region, Li Wei's influence even surpassed that of the Yongzheng Emperor at one point, and Li Wei not only cracked down on a large number of smuggled salt dealers in the Zhejiang region, but also attacked many criminal and evil forces in the Zhejiang region, so that the level of public security in the entire Zhejiang region reached its peak.
In addition, during his tenure as the governor of Zhejiang, Li Wei's care for the common people was meticulous, the tide of the sea came, Li Wei shared hardships with the civilians on the front line, and he and the imperial court fought for subsidies, and built embankments for the Qiantang River many times.
This performance of Li Wei made the local old white man trust Li Wei from trust to worship, and finally the people spontaneously built a statue for Li Wei, known as the god of lakes and mountains, and accepted the worship of the locals every day, as if they were in the Xianban.
After Qianlong arrived in Zhejiang, it was logically necessary to worship the local gods, and Qianlong never refuted this, but when Qianlong saw that the god he worshipped was actually his former courtier, Qianlong was very angry.
He did not care about any etiquette, righteousness, and shame, so he destroyed Li Wei's idol on the spot and began to slander Li Wei, if it were not for the large number of historical records of Li Wei's merits, an excellent minister would be drowned in history.
In fact, for Li Wei, Qianlong also had a fair judgment, he understood that Li Wei was a good official, but for various reasons, Qianlong naturally would not reuse Li Wei, and with such outstanding talents as He yan, Li Wei naturally could not enter Qianlong's eyes.
However, what Qianlong did not expect was that his own son also followed his own old path, and within three days of Qianlong's death, Qianlong's most trusted minister, He Yan, was given death, and the brutality of the means was even worse than Qianlong's. Unfortunately, at Jiaqing's side, no one was able to take over Hezhen's position, and since then the Qing Dynasty has gradually moved towards a low point.