The Kangxi Dynasty produced many Qing officials, including Yu Chenglong, who was known as the world's first honest official, Tang Bin, who was known as the green vegetable and tofu soup, and Zhang Boxing, and so on. These people were all feudal officials, and among the middle and low-level officials of the provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties, there were also many Qing officials.
If you have read the "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview", you may also think of another Great Qing official- Shi Shilun. The reason why Shi Shilun is to be taken out separately is mainly because he is different from the above characters, because Shi Shilun is a typical second-generation official, and his father is Shi Lang, the Marquis of Jinghai. In the era of feudal autocracy, it is indeed very rare for a second generation of officials to be so clean.
Shi Shilun was the second son of Shi Lang and was born in the sixteenth year of Shunzhi. When Kangxi pacified Taiwan, Admiral Shi Lang was the main general of the front, and Shi Shilun caught up with this great opportunity and had the honor of participating in the Battle of Pacifying Taiwan. This also laid the foundation for him to enter his career in the future.
Shi Lang was born in the army, not a scholarly family, none of his eight sons had ever obtained meritorious titles, and basically all of them were born into the army. There is an allusion in the historical records called "do not mention his name", which says that after the recovery of Taiwan, Shi Lang entered the capital to see his majesty, kangxi intended to take care of his sons, let him mention a few names for the imperial court to appoint.
Shi Lang listed all seven of his sons' names, except for Shi Shilun's name. This is not Shi Lang's eccentricity, but he believes that Shi Shilun does not need the extra care of the imperial court at all, and his talents can be completely achieved through his own efforts. Facts have proved that Zhizi is like a father, and Shi Shilun really lived up to the expectations of the public and became a famous Qing official in the late Kangxi Dynasty.
The Draft History of the Qing Dynasty records that Shi Shilun looked ugly:
"Cao Xian Shi Gong, strange and ugly, the person name is 'lack of incomplete'. Chushi County Yin Gurudwara Shangguan, Shangguan or covered his mouth and smiled, justice said: 'Gong is ugly in his appearance? Human-faced beastly heart, hateful ear. If so-and-so, then the beast face the human heart, what harm! ’”
Therefore, the folk gave Shi Shilun a nickname called "Lack of Incompleteness", and later Kangxi humorously called him "Incomplete".
As for whether Shi Shilun looks ugly, it is impossible to verify, but his political achievements are well documented. Shi Shilun entered the army with yin, qing dynasty officials were known for the right way and different ways, and yin sheng was also included in the example of the right way, so Shi Shi lun was not much different from those officials who were born in the first section.
Shi Shilun's entry into the army was relatively high, and in the twenty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, he was awarded the Title of Zhizhou (from Wupin), which was higher than the rank of the average Jinshi zhixian . Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, is an administrative region close to the canal, and many government affairs will involve water transportation. During his tenure in Taizhou, Shi Shilun was very successful in governing the localities and assisted local officials such as Huai'an in dredging up the water transport.
In the 32nd year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Shi Shilun was promoted to the prefect of Jiangning by the official Baoju. After he took office, he immediately abolished the old rules, severely punished corrupt officials, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. At this time, his father Shi Lang died of illness, and according to the etiquette system, he had to leave his post for three years and return home to worry about filial piety. On the day of his departure, tens of thousands of people fell in ambush and refused to let him go. Naturally, he could not allow it, so the people each donated a piece of money to themselves, and built a pavilion in front of the palace gate to show their nostalgia, named "Yiwen Pavilion".
At the end of Shi Shilun's three-year period of filial piety, Kangxi promoted him to an official and granted him the Huai Xu Dao of Jiangnan. In the forty years of the Kangxi Dynasty, Hunan was vacant according to the vacancy of envoys, and the officials and imperial court ministers suggested that Shi Shilun be appointed. According to the envoy, he is a zhengsanpin chief officer, who is mainly responsible for the criminal name of a province.
However, the Kangxi Emperor seemed to know Shi Shilun very well, saying that Shi Shilun was a paranoid person, and it was not appropriate for him to bear the name of punishment. Because he has a characteristic: whenever the people and the gentry fight a lawsuit, he is biased toward the people; whenever the gentry and officials fight a lawsuit, he is partial to the gentry. This is very similar to the Ming Dynasty official Hai Rui.
Therefore, Kangxi simply promoted Shi Shilun to another official position and made him an envoy to Hunan Province. This post is indeed more in line with Shi Shilun, because in handling money, grain and taxes, Shi Shilun has always been selfless and selfless, and he has never left a deficit in office.
In the late Kangxi Dynasty, Shi Shilun was mainly an official in Anhui and Jiangsu, and served as an envoy in Anhui and a political envoy in Jiangsu. As an envoy in charge of civil affairs, Shi Shilun made outstanding achievements in the two provinces and localities, and rehabilitated many unjust prisons. The key is that he is a clean and honest official, never takes a single cent, and is deeply loved by the local people.
When he was in Office in Anhui, the local people compared Shi Shilun with Bao Zheng, a famous Qing official in Anhui, but colleagues believed that Shi Shilun was not as upright and difficult to get along with like Bao Zheng, but could exercise his power and adapt to changes, use it flexibly, and coexist peacefully with his superiors and subordinates without violating the general principles. This also shows that Shi Shilun not only has the people in mind, but also has a very good set of rules in terms of being an official. In fact, only by doing these two things will the people really benefit, and if you only care about the people and ignore the unspoken rules of the officialdom like Hai Rui, it will not last long.
In the fifty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the imperial court granted Shi Shilun the post of Inspector of Yunnan, and after thirty years of fighting in the official field, Shi Shilun finally survived to the position of a feudal official. However, before he could take office, Kangxi ordered him to be the governor of Caoyun.
Managing grain and dredging canals were Shi Shilun's specialties, and making him the governor of Caoyun was also a good use of the Kangxi Emperor. However, the Governor of Caoyun and the Governor of Yunnan were not the same after all, and they were not feudal officials. Unfortunately, Shi Shilun never became the highest governor of a province in his lifetime. Perhaps this is also one of the reasons why his fame is not as good as Jackie Chan and Tang Bin.
In the sixty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Shi Shilun died of illness, and because he was not a scholar and had not served as a local governor, he could not be given a title according to the regulations of the imperial court. However, Kangxi remembered his outstanding achievements in life and concluded that he had built a coffin, calling Shi Shilun "the first Qing official in Jiangnan".