Liu Tongxun's father, Liu Tongxun, was a Kangxi Dynasty jinshi who served as the governor of Qiangzhou when Liu Tongxun was a child, and later transferred to Sichuan Buzhengshi, and his grandfather Liu Bixian was also a jinshi. Born in Shuxiangmendi, he received a good education since childhood, and under the influence of his father, he also aspired to be a clean and honest official. Throughout his life, he was also a wizard who was an official, and throughout his life he was upright and incorruptible; he disdained to make friends with villains.
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In the third year of Yongzheng, he was admitted to the jinshi. After he was admitted to the Jinshi, because of his integrity, undaunted authority, and daring to speak, in 1739 he was appointed as the Left Capital Imperial History, a position equivalent to the current Minister of Supervision, at that time, he was responsible for supervising the words and deeds of officials. In 1746, he was sent to control the flood, was appointed as the governor of Caoyun, when he was the governor of Caoyun, he used the correct method of water control, so that the river water did not rise, solved the survival problems of the local people, did not displace the people, and benefited the people. Not only that, when he was serving as the governor of Caoyun, he found out that Gao Bin, the governor of the river, and Zhang Shizai, the assistant inspector of river affairs, had embezzled and accepted bribes, and he truthfully told the imperial court, so that the two received severe punishment. In 1761, when he was temporarily acting as the governor of the river, in Henan Xiangfu and Yangqiao and other places because of the river raging, after the water receded, it was necessary to build the embankment, but the officials under him used various reasons to resign, so that the project of repairing the embankment did not progress, he conducted a private visit, found that the officials were corrupt, and seized the hay on various grounds, so he advised the emperor that these corrupt officials were severely punished, and the project of repairing the embankment was completed within a month.
In 1752, he served as a military aircraft officer and became the emperor's right and left arm. In 1756, the emperor ordered the compilation of the Atlas of the Western Regions, which was compiled by Liu Tongxun, Fu Heng and others. In the process of writing the book, he personally led a team to the field survey, and did everything himself. It took 5 years for them to write the book. In the future, the "Atlas of the Western Regions" became the blueprint for China's map of Xinjiang.
In Liu Tongxun's life, he ruled water for many years, for the benefit of the people, and was a capable minister of water management, not only that, he also served as an official position such as Shangshu of the Punishment Department, Shangshu of the Ministry of Works, Shangshu of the Bureaucracy, Scholar of Dongge University and President of the Four Libraries, Dean of Hanlin Academy, chief master of Shang Shufang and so on. The status of these official positions all had a certain degree of influence, and Liu Tongxun held several positions at that time, which was enough to show his ability. Not only that, Liu Tongxun was an upright person, did not collude with corrupt officials, and dared to point out those corrupt officials at that time, which was a great test at that time, because pointing out corrupt officials may threaten his own position, but Liu Tongxun did not, and he pointed out to the emperor what these corrupt officials did.
Liu Tongxun died with 1773, at that time, he was rushing to the Shang dynasty, in the middle of the road, the disease attacked, the emperor immediately sent a doctor to diagnose and treat, but because the diagnosis and treatment was ineffective, died on the spot, the Qianlong Emperor heard about it, sighed: "The Emperor lost a humerus minister." "What does it mean to be a minister of humerus? It meant that Qianlong had lost a very close and effective minister. Subsequently, the emperor posthumously awarded Liu Tongxun the title of Taifu (太傅) and his courtesy name Wenzheng (文正). In the second year of his death, Liu Tongxun was buried with the ancestral grave of his hometown, and on his way back to his hometown, officials within twenty miles along the way went to his coffin to pay homage.
After his death, the Qianlong Emperor and Xiao Yishan and others spoke highly of him, and in the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty" and the "Chronicle of Chinese Celebrities", they also made corresponding evaluations of Liu Tongxun's behavior during his lifetime, which can be seen from the side of Liu Tongxun's influence on that time.
At present, the name Liu Tongxun appears in the world granary, the Great Qing Official, and other TV dramas, although it is different from the historical Liu Tongxun, but his personality and "work ability" are worth learning from future generations.