During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, he was a scholar of the University
Liu Yong (1719–1804), courtesy name Chongru, was a Qing Dynasty politician and calligrapher, and his father, Liu Tongxun, was a major minister during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. In the sixteenth year of Qianlong (1751), he successively served as a Shujishi of Hanlin Yuan, the prefect of Taiyuan Province, the prefect of Jiangning Province, a cabinet bachelor, and a scholar of Tirenge University, and was known for his obedience to the law and honesty.
Liu Yong, kangxi 58 years (1719) was born in Zhucheng, Shandong, the family was a famous family at that time, his great-grandfather Liu Bixian was a jinshi during the Shunzhi period, his grandfather Liu Tong served as a political envoy in Sichuan, and his father Liu Tongxun was a generation of famous courtiers of the Qianlong Dynasty. Liu Yong grew up in the famous Xiangfu, where family members had been officials for generations and received a good education since childhood.
In the sixteenth year of Qianlong (1751), liu Yong, because of his father's relationship, participated in the examination and the temple examination as a person of Enyin, and the second place in the examination was awarded the Hanlin Academy Shu Jishi, who served as an editor in the Sanguan, and soon promoted to the position of waiter, which became the starting point of his career.
In October of the twentieth year of Qianlong (1755), Liu Yong's father Liu Tongxun was imprisoned for improper military affairs, and Liu Yong was implicated and punished. Later, the father and son were relieved, and Liu Yong was demoted to the position of editor of the Hanlin Academy. From the 21st year of Qianlong (1756), Liu Yong was released as a local official, and for more than 20 years, he mainly served as a local government, successively serving as anhui xuezheng, Jiangsu xuezheng, Taiyuan prefect and Jiangning prefect. During his tenure as an official, Liu Yong basically adhered to the integrity and vigor of his father Liu Tongxun, rectified the accumulated maladies in the field and the vices of the officialdom within his ability, and did practical things for the people. At the same time, he actively implemented the emperor's will, banned books, and arrested the party, which was approved by the emperor.
In June of the twenty-first year of Qianlong (1756), Liu Yong served as the examiner of the Guangxi Township Examination, and in October he was promoted to Anhui Xuezheng. Before Liu Yong went to Anhui to take up his post, Qianlong also specially summoned and gave poems, including the sentence "Haidai Gao mendi, Yingzhou Xinhanlin", which means that he hopes that Liu Yong can not dishonor the lintel and make achievements. During his term of office, in view of the chaotic management of gongsheng and inmates at that time, Liu Yong "asked the prefecture and county to restrain the gongsheng and ordered them to check the advantages and disadvantages", and proposed practical and feasible remedies, which were affirmed by the emperor.
In October of the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong (1759), Liu Yong was transferred to Jiangsu Xuezheng, and before he took office, the Qianlong Emperor still had poems to give, which shows that he had high hopes for Liu Yong. Liu Yong also did not dishonor his mission, he was serious and serious about politics, and when he was in charge of studying politics, he tried Yangzhou, because the control was strict, so that some people who wanted to cheat and fooled through the customs did not dare to enter the final entrance. He also wrote to the emperor that "those who cause trouble in the prison of life are looked after by many officials in the prefecture and county, and do not add ai." (Administrative officials) are afraid of both the people and the prisoners, and they are also afraid of the servants, so that they hesitate to do things, and they do not distinguish between them, and after committing crimes, those who should be blamed for the revolution do not blame the revolution, but they are really lazy and lazy, and they are suing the sticks and beetle officials, because they have to sell their adultery to each other. This view was profound and to the point, and was deeply appreciated by the Qianlong Emperor, who praised his "system of government." Liu Yong twice oversaw Jiangsu Xuezheng, and later changed his style of dealing with officials from junli to calm and soothing, but seriousness was consistent.
In the twenty-seventh year of Qianlong (1762), Liu Yong was appointed prefect of Taiyuan, Shanxi. In the thirtieth year of Qianlong (1765), he was promoted to Jining Daotai. The following year, Liu Yong was sentenced to capital punishment for failing to detect the successful embezzlement of the state treasury Yinliang by the Yangqu County Lingduan, and was dismissed from his post according to the law. However, the Qianlong Emperor loved Qicai, and Jia En was exempted, only to be assigned to the military platform to serve atonement for his sins, and after being pardoned the following year, he served as a walker in the shushu office.
In the thirty-fourth year of Qianlong (1769), Liu Yong was reinstated for his father's sake and granted to the prefect of Jiangning. Liu Yong cherished this opportunity very much, for the sake of political justice and honesty, the reputation spread far and wide, the people admired Liu Yong's character, compared him to the Song Dynasty's Bao Zheng. Later, in the early years of Jiaqing, the bullet poem "Liu Gong's Case" was based on the story of Liu Yong's decision-making of doubts and making decisions for the people during his tenure as the prefect of Jiangning.
In the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong (1772), Liu Yong was transferred to Shaanxi as an envoy.
The following year, his father Liu Tongxun died of illness, and Liu Yong resigned from the government and returned home to serve as a funeral. In the forty-first year of Qianlong (1776), Liu Yong returned to Beijing after serving his mourning period, and the Qing court remembered Liu Tongxun's many years of meritorious deeds, conferred the cabinet bachelor, and served in the South Study. In October, he was also appointed as the vice president of the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" library, and was also assigned to be the president of the "Western Region Atlas" and "The Old Wen Kao under the Sun". In July of the following year, he was appointed as an examiner of the Jiangnan Township Examination, and soon after he was reinstated as a student in Jiangsu. During his term of office, Liu Yong impeached Xu Shukui, a qin prefecture official, for rebellion, and demanded that he be punished according to the law, and at the end of the year, because of his meritorious work and outstanding achievements in supervising the government, he moved the right shilang of the household department, and later transferred the right shilang of the official department.
In the forty-fifth year of Qianlong (1780), Liu Yong was promoted to governor of Hunan. At that time, many places in Hunan were affected by disasters, and some disaster-free prefectures and counties were involved in theft cases, and corrupt officials and officials were rampant. After Liu Yong took office, he ascertained the reasons for the situation, impeached corrupt officials according to the facts, and suggested that they be dealt with strictly. On the one hand, we inspected the inventory, built the city and built a warehouse valley to help the victims. In just over a year, the treasury was full of silver and the people's grain was abundant, and Liu Yong was loved by the local people.
In the forty-sixth year of Qianlong (1781), Liu Yong was promoted to the post of Left Capital Imperial History of the Metropolitan Inspection Bureau, and in March of the following year, he was appointed to the Southern Study Room, and soon became the president of the Three Links Pavilion. At this time, Yushi Qianfeng impeached Shandong Inspector Guotai for forming a party for personal gain, and Liu Yong was instructed to accompany Him Yan to try the Shandong Inspector's fraud case. Liu Yong went to Shandong to disguise himself as a Taoist and made a private visit on foot, finding out that Shandong had been affected by the disaster for three consecutive years, and Cathay asked for merit and rewards to repay the wealth with waste. When collecting taxes, all those who could not pay were punished, and 9 jinshi and people who entered the province to ask for the people's lives were brutally killed. Liu Yong truthfully reported to the imperial court, was ordered to open a warehouse to help the people, and arrestEd Guotai and returned to Beijing. At this time, the imperial concubine had already interceded for Cathay, and some imperial histories also echoed from the side, and Hezhen also intended to protect Cathay. Liu Yong then used the evidence obtained from the civil investigation to count the crimes of Cathay Pacific, and argued on the basis of reason, and finally brought Cathay to justice. Later, according to this matter, the folk wrote a popular novel "Liu Gong Case", which praised this "package formula" Liu Daren.
In the forty-seventh year of Qianlong (1782), Liu Yongfeng was transferred to Beijing to serve as the imperial history of Zuo Du and walked in the South Study. At that time, He Yan was very hot, and Liu Yong could only "entrust the snake to the snake, but to be funny and pleasant", showing the other side of his personality and officialdom: in the face of He Yan's exclusive favor with Qianlong, Liu Yong had to be silent and self-defensive, funny and ambiguous.
In the forty-eighth year of Qianlong (1783), Liu Yong was promoted to viceroy of direct subordination and official Shangshu, and also in charge of the affairs of the state.
In the fifty-first year of Qianlong (1786), he served as the vice president of the Yumuguan. However, in the years that followed, Liu Yong continued to make mistakes, and his official voice gradually became inferior to that of before, and he was repeatedly reprimanded by the emperor.
At the beginning of the fifty-second year of Qianlong (1787), Liu Yong was dismissed from his post as a university scholar for leaking the contents of his conversation with the emperor about Ji Huang and Cao Wendi. In August, Qianlong entrusted Liu Yong to preside over the worship of the Temple of Literature, but he was impeached by Qing Debao of the Taichang Temple for not performing the ritual according to the regulations. In the summer of the fifty-third year of Qianlong (1788), Liu Yong was impeached by Yushi Zhu Delin during the period when Liu Yong was concurrently serving as the Governor of Li Guozi, and Liu Yong was punished. In April of the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong (1789), the masters who went to the study did not go to the study for a long time, and Liu Yong, as the chief master, did not correct it and was demoted to the position of waiter. In the fifty-eighth year of Qianlong (1793), Liu Yong served as the chief examiner of the examination that year, but arranged for improper reading of the papers, resulting in many illegal and unqualified papers.
In the first year of Jiaqing (1796), the emperor made Shangshu Donghuan a scholar of the Hubu Department, but Liu Yong, who was more senior, was excluded. The emperor asked Liu Yong if the newly elected prefect Dai Shiyi was competent, and Liu Yong said yes, but in fact Dai Shiyi was very inferior and incompetent.
In April of the second year of Jiaqing (1797), Liu Yong was awarded the title of Scholar of Tirenge University, but was still accused by the emperor of always refusing to do things sincerely and working lazily. He also said that it was because there was no one else, so he promoted Liu Yong. In May, Liu Yong was ordered to accompany Shang Shu Qinggui to Shandong to handle the case and inspect the situation at the mouth of the Yellow River, and Liu Yong wrote a letter requesting that a dam be built at the mouth of the breach and diverted downstream, and the imperial court adopted the opinion.
In March of the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799), Liu Yong was crowned prince Shaobao and was ordered to handle the case of Wenhuadian University scholar and Yan Zhi's party for personal gain and unauthorized bribery. Liu Yong once again showed his undaunted side of power, and found out 20 crimes such as wanton expropriation, looting of people's fat, embezzlement and self-enrichment, and reported them to the imperial court. Jiaqing then executed Hezhen. At the end of the fourth year of Jiaqing (1800), Liu Yong shangshu stated caozheng, deeply aware of the loopholes in caoyun, and the feelings of worrying about the country and the people overflowed into words, and the Jiaqing Emperor looked at it and deeply believed it. In the sixth year of Jiaqing (1801), Liu Yong served as the president of the guild hall. In the seventh year of Jiaqing (1802), the emperor rode the Rehe River and ordered Liu Yong to stay in Beijing to preside over the imperial government. At this time, Liu Yong was more than eighty years old, but he was as light and healthy as ever, his eyes were bright, and the cold light was intimidating.
On December 25, 1805 (January 1805) of the ninth year of Jiaqing, Liu Yong died at the age of 85 at his home in Donkey City, Beijing. On the day of his death, he also went to the South Study on duty, held a banquet in the evening to entertain guests, and died that night. According to the "Miscellaneous Records of The Pavilion", when Liu Yong died, "the nose was drooped by more than an inch", which implied that he was good at liberation in the Buddhist language, which can be said to be the end of his life and the completion of merit. After his death, he was given the title of Prince Taibao, with the title of Wenqing, entered the Ancestral Hall of The Virtuous Liang, and was buried.