In history, there are many officials with two sleeves and a crane, and even when they take office, they only carry a piano and a crane, but there are also many people who are moths of the country and rely on exploitation and oppression to jump up. There is such a person in history, who has been glorified in novels and film and television dramas, but in fact, at the age of 60, he still lived by squeezing the people. This person is Tian Wenjing.
In 1683, at the age of 22, Tian Wenjing was ordered to serve as a county magistrate in Fujian, and because of his ability, he was soon promoted to Zhi County, and he thought that he would soon be promoted again, but he did not expect that 22 years later, he would be promoted again and become Zhizhou. At this time, although he was still a petty official and could not see the emperor for a year, due to years of polishing at the grass-roots level, he had already seen the ups and downs of the official sea and accumulated a lot of administrative experience.
Tian Wenjing's re-promotion was indeed due to his ideas, and in 1716, he went to inspect Yanzheng and made some achievements when he went to the book. You know, in ancient times, the salt industry was a profiteering industry, basically only officials could sell it, if you can manage this matter well, it is a great achievement. After Tian Wenjing inspected, he wrote to the emperor to the effect that there was more than fifty thousand salt banknotes missing here, and that the taxes and profits of the merchants should be increased, and many ministers at that time agreed with him, so he became a cabinet attendant.
By the time Kangxi died, Tian Wenjing was already sixty-one years old. For him, the political turning point came, yongzheng reused Tian Wenjing after taking the throne, and he also rose from the position of small prefecture and county commander to a higher official, and at this time he also accumulated a reputation of loving the people like a son. At that time, Shanxi was hit by a disaster, and after Tian Wenjing inspected it, he explained the situation in Shanxi clearly and ordered him to go to Shanxi to relieve the disaster. Previously, the Shanxi Inspector also concealed the situation, and in comparison, Tian Wenjing seemed to be more important.
Tian Wenjing began to become Yongzheng's confidant, and even more because he never formed a party for personal gain, Yongzheng was infinitely tolerated. In 1726, Tian Wenjing was at odds with Li Fu, and both ran to the emperor to file a complaint. At that time, someone also ran out to count Down Tian Wenjing and told Yongzheng about his greed, who knew that Yongzheng thought that they had formed a party with each other and intended to cover up, so he was angry and executed a bunch of people who participated in Tian Wenjing, and Li Fu was demoted because of this.
However, this is indeed the case, in his later years, Tian Wenjing was no longer as indignant as he was in middle age, and he also did something to hide the disaster. He told Yongzheng that Henan had indeed suffered a little disaster, but it had no impact on the harvest and the survival of the people, so they could pay taxes according to the original tax profits. However, this can satisfy Tian Wenjing's political achievements, but it makes the lives of ordinary people very painful, there are corpses everywhere, and even people live by buying children.
After this matter was broken, Yongzheng did not blame him, but made excuses for him, saying that he was too old to be deceived by his subordinates to make such a move, so he called him back to recuperate, and after a period of time reinstated him as an official. Tian Wenjing also earned a lot of money by relying on his early fame, and even became a minister of feudal territory. In his later years, the Qianlong Emperor accidentally let people raze his tomb to the ground, and it can only be said that the debt owed will eventually be repaid.
Nowadays, novels and TV series have blackened plots, but as far as Tian Wenjing's life is concerned, his blackening does not make people feel cool, but makes the onlookers very angry. Because of his existence, many people have suffered greatly, and he has no repentance, and such a change is frightening.