Li Wei is an official!
In Chinese history, there are two emperors who like to rectify corrupt officials, one is Zhu Yuanzhang and the other is Yongzheng. Zhu Yuanzhang especially hated corrupt officials, and once he found that there were corrupt officials, there was only one word--kill, and there was no chance of bargaining at all.
Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, Yongzheng was indistinguishable from each other, and after he ascended the throne, he severely punished corrupt officials and killed many corrupt officials. At that time, there was Yushi impeaching Tang Wenyao for corrupting the law, and he was a big corrupt official, which stumped Yongzheng.
Yongzheng still knows Tang Wenyao, he is a clean official, the reputation is not bad, how did he become a corrupt official? There were also many ministers above the court who washed away Tang Wenyao's grievances, and they all said that Tang Wenyao was a Qing official.
Hearing is false, and seeing is believing, Yongzheng sent Li Wei to visit Tang Wenyao's home to see who Tang Wenyao really was.
Li Wei went to Tang Wenyao's home as a guest in the name of making friends, Li Wei was a red person around Yongzheng, Tang Wenyao naturally did not dare to slacken off, good wine and good food to entertain him.
Li Wei took a look around Tang Wenyao's home in the name of the toilet, and it turned out that Tang Wenyao had a total of 36 concubines, and his wives and concubines were in groups. What surprised Li Wei was that Tang Wenyao used ginseng to cook on the fire, which was simply a very luxurious.
Li Wei told Yongzheng what he had seen and heard, and after Yongzheng heard it, he was furious and beat Tang Wenyao into prison.
When Li Wei was raiding Tang Wenyao's house, he found a delicate jade pot, and he handed the jade pot to Yongzheng. This jade pot was made of Hetian jade and was studded with diamonds, and even Yongzheng had never seen such a delicate jade pot.
Out of love for the jade pot, Yongzheng took it in his hand and played with it, played with it when eating, and played with it before going to bed, just like people now play with mobile phones, and love it.
Three days later, Li Wei told Yongzheng a very bad news, and he told Yongzheng that this thing was not a jade pot at all, but a "drowning device". What is a drowning device? In layman's terms, it is a urinal pot.
Yongzheng loved it, and the thing he played with every day was Tang Wenyao's urinal pot, which made him feel embarrassed. Yongzheng remembered that he was still playing with it when he was eating that day, and he had tears in his heart.
Tang Wenyao's urinal pots were all so luxurious, you can imagine how luxurious his own life was, if he was not a corrupt official, how could he have the money to get such a good jade pot.
In a fit of rage, Yongzheng ordered Tang Wenyao's family to be beheaded to relieve the hatred in his heart. Yongzheng killed Tang Wenyao for two reasons, the first Tang Wenyao was a corrupt official, the second Tang Wenyao humiliated Yongzheng, the emperor played with the minister's night pot, can the emperor be happy?
References: "Li Wei as an official", "Qing History Draft", etc