The Yongzheng Emperor once said: "It should be open to goodness, so that we can work hard, so as not to be defiled for life and affect our descendants." This statement refers to the "untouchable system", because the previous dynasties had a distinction between good people and untouchables, and untouchables were not people who had committed mistakes, but they were often discriminated against by others in society, and it was impossible to become good people.
The Yongzheng Emperor pitied the people in the lower society, so he abolished the untouchables, which made the people at that time quite grateful, and there was an important point, the Yongzheng Dynasty had four ministers, Li Wei, Tian Wenjing, Zhang Yanyu and Ertai, of which Tian Wenjing, Zhang Yanyu and Li Wei were all Han, which showed that the Yongzheng Emperor did not often consider the distinction between Manchu and Han in the employment of people.
Tian Wenjing was born in the Kangxi period, although quite capable, but the Kangxi Emperor did not like Han people, so by the age of 61, Tian Wenjing was only a prefecture and county official, a Lang official, but Tian Wenjing's full talent was seen by the Yongzheng Emperor, the Kangxi Emperor died, the Yongzheng Emperor took the throne, Tian Wenjing had the opportunity to show his talents.
However, although Tian Wenjing had the talent to be an official, he was fair and honest, selfless and selfless, and dared to speak out during his official period, but he was not good at handling relations with his colleagues, and in the second year of Yongzheng (1724), Tian Wenjing went to Henan to take up a post and implemented Yongzheng's New Deal: "Officials and gentry are one and the same, and they receive grain as one", which naturally harmed the interests of many people, including those who read books.
Therefore, there was a "boycott" of the examination in Kaifeng, Henan, but Zhang Yanlu, who was then the student and government of Henan, did not take positive measures to solve this, but connived at the behavior of the candidates, Tian Wenjing truthfully informed the Yongzheng Emperor of the situation, so Zhang Yanlu was dismissed.
Who is Zhang Yanlu? He was the younger brother of Zhang Yanyu, the son of Zhang Ying, the teacher of the Yongzheng Emperor, and after the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, he also promoted Zhang Yanyu, who was born as a jinshi, Tian Wenjing participated in his brother's book, and offended the world's readers, Zhang Yanyu naturally remembered Tian Wenjing's name in his heart.
Later, when there was a natural disaster in Jiangnan, the local inspector asked the emperor to transfer grain for disaster relief, Zhang Yanyu deliberately embarrassed Tian Wenjing, telling the Yongzheng Emperor that Henan was rich in grain and could transfer grain from Henan to Jiangnan to relieve the victims, Tian Wenjing learned of this matter, carefully considered it, and told Yongzheng: "Henan's grain production does not conform to the eating habits of the people of Jiangnan, and it is more appropriate to transfer grain from Shandong." ”
However, the disaster relief could not be delayed, since Henan had grain, it was transferred from Henan, and the result was still as Tian Wenjing said, this matter was not as appropriate as imagined, but even so, the Yongzheng Emperor learned from it that Tian Wenjing was fair and careful, considering that Tian Wenjing was not good at handling the relationship between colleagues, and often offended people, it was inevitable that it would be buried in the future.
After all, the emperor listened to ten thousand words every day, and it was inevitable that he sometimes hurt the heart of the loyal ministers, and in order to appease Tian Wenjing, he wrote in his instructions: "Shuo is such a man, such a disposition, such an emperor." If er and other ministers do not fail to live up to the decay, they will not fail to live up to er and so on, and they are reluctant to do so! ”