The governor of Liangjiang ate cabbage at once, and Yongzheng sent Li Wei to investigate, and after finding out the results, he angrily beheaded his entire family!
In the Qing Dynasty, the Viceroy of Liangjiang belonged to Congyi Pin and was one level lower than the Yipin grand officers such as Taifu, Taibao, and Diange University Scholars, but he was still a member of the imperial court and held a high position of authority. During the Kangxi Dynasty, officials were corrupt and produced many corrupt officials who committed the most heinous crimes. But there were also some well-known Qing officials, such as Tang Wenyao, the governor of Liangjiang. He lived a simple life, two sleeves of fresh wind, usually living only eat cabbage, so why did the later Yongzheng Emperor cut him all over the door?
This story is not from the main history, but from the TV series "Li Wei is an official". Li Weiben in the TV series is a charlatan who hooks up with the Yongzheng Emperor, who was still the Prince of Yong at the time, by virtue of a chance encounter. From then on, Li Wei became Yongzheng's confidant minister, so he strictly implemented every policy of Yongzheng. It happened that someone impeached Tang Wenyao, the governor of Liangjiang, for corruption, so Yongzheng sent his confidant Li Wei to investigate.
He especially likes to eat cabbage, and only eats cabbage hearts. But his extremely keen sense of taste found that no matter how the cabbage is cooked, it will have a muddy taste, and if the mud taste can be removed, the taste of the cabbage will be more delicious. Later, he found that he used ginseng as firewood to cook cabbage, so that the boiled cabbage would have no mud taste! So he bought ginseng in large quantities, all of which were used as firewood. Finally, Li Wei found evidence of his crime, reported it to the Yongzheng Emperor and raided Tang Wenyao's home, and found more than 2,000 ginseng sticks in his home, all stacked in a room like firewood.
Li Wei brought back from Tang Wenyao's mansion a delicate jade pot, which was embedded with various treasures, full of light and beauty, and Li Wei did not dare to hide this valuable treasure, so he offered it to Yongzheng. Yongzheng loved it, but did not understand its use, so he went to the court to ask everyone, everyone did not understand its use, and finally a personal maid in Tang Wenyao's room said that this was Tang Wenyao's night pot, Yongzheng was greatly angry after hearing it, one was that he felt that he had played with a night pot for so long, it was a little shameful, and the other was that a night pot was so exquisite, from which he further felt Tang Wenyao's luxury, so he was furious and sentenced to a decision.