I believe that many people have seen a popular drama called "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan" a few years ago, the play mainly interprets the story between Qianlong, He Yan and Ji Xiaolan, the most important thing to see is the open struggle between He Yan and Ji Xiaolan, the extreme pull of the two talents often appears some unexpected interesting things, Ji Xiaolan as the sworn enemy of He yan, but gave him a lot of problems, and even let him out of the ugly in front of Qianlong, it seems that such an upright official actually has a lot of unknown past behind him, For example, it is said that Ji Xiaolan once wrote a couplet for the nunnery, but he wrote: One straight; two open doors, the nuns look at it and scold them angrily, but Ji Xiaolan turned around and said that he had not finished writing it, so what kind of story is this?
Erudite and talented Ji Xiaolan
For Ji Xiaolan's understanding, everyone may get more information from film and television dramas, giving people the impression that they are also some clever and eccentric, often come up with some ghost ideas, how to say it is a little improper, but from some details we can also see that Ji Xiaolan is definitely a knowledgeable official, indeed, Ji Xiaolan is a polymath, and his knowledge is far more than what he plays in film and television dramas.
In the eighth year of Yongzheng, Ji Xiaolan participated in the boy exam, and his excellent results were called prodigies, since then, Ji Xiaolan began to concentrate on learning knowledge, and when he was in the twelfth year of Qianlong, he participated in the township exam and achieved the first place, and since then he has also begun to enter the career path and enter the DPRK as an official.
However, in the very beginning, Ji Xiaolan was not valued by the Qianlong Emperor, after all, few of the military officials of the imperial Chinese were mediocre, so Ji Xiaolan naturally did not have such prominence and attention, fortunately, there were noble people to help later, this person was Liu Yong's father Liu Tongxun, through his recommendation Ji Xiaolan This figure was known to Qianlong, I heard that he had excellent knowledge, although not to say that he was high in badou, but he was also a student who read poetry, so Qianlong ordered him to compile the largest encyclopedia at that time. That is, the "Four Libraries Complete Book" that has been handed down to this day.
Later, because of its incomparable talents, he became the chief compiler of the book, and with the efforts of many civilian officials, it took 13 years to completely compile the book, and Ji Xiaolan became famous in one fell swoop, for such a rare talent, Qianlong naturally wanted to reuse it, plus he usually liked to recite poems, so in the process of traveling, especially in the process of lower Jiangnan, he took Ji Xiaolan with him, and he could discuss some poetry and songs with him when he was idle. It is also for this reason that there is a story of the later confrontation with Wakan.
Two rivals
In the play, Ji Xiaolan and He Yan are a pair of sworn enemies, he Yan is corrupt and bribed in his daily life, only for profit, often doing some disgraceful things behind his back, for his own interests but harming the interests of the people, this practice makes Ji Xiaolan despise, and even more disgusted with such a person as He Yan, so he opposes him everywhere, and even sometimes exposes his crimes, the purpose is to let the Qianlong Emperor demote him to an official, so that he does not have great power in his hands, and naturally he does not have the ability to bend the law for personal gain.
But in fact, the Qianlong Emperor knew all the things that He Yan did behind his back, and the reason why he was not punished was because he was absolutely comparable to Ji Xiaolan's talent and learning, and he was very good at handling major affairs in the DPRK or balancing the interests of all parties, which was incomparable to Ji Xiaolan, and it was naturally convenient for him to maintain political rule, and he could also indirectly crack down on some other corrupt officials, which is why He Yan, who was often corrupt, could always stand above the court.
And according to the real history, Ji Xiaolan did not fight against He yan, and the real nemesis of He Yan was actually Liu Yong, and Compared with Ji Xiaolan, both the official position and status were far inferior to He Yan, because Ji Xiaolan was the highest position in the Rebbe Shangshu, and He Yan was the chief leading minister, and it was obvious that Ji Xiaolan was not only below him, but also had to obey the arrangement and dispatch.
I believe that at that time, Ji Xiaolan should not have the guts, nor would he be so stupid, really go against He yan, the only one who can pose a threat to him is Liu Yong at that time, but unfortunately he did not laugh to the end, after all, he still took a step first, in addition, Ji Xiaolan did not have a sense of justice as we think, he was a good official with integrity and integrity, but he had many shortcomings, such as he once showed his character when he proposed to the nunnery.
A very "charming" couplet
It is said that at that time, Qianlong went to Taishan to cruise, and as the head of the Five Peaks of Taishan, there were many temples on this mountain, and it happened that when Qianlong's life came here, there was a nunnery that was built not long ago, and the nuns here knew that Ji Xiaolan was very talented, so they dared to ask him to come to the temple to propose a couplet, so that it could not only decorate the façade, but also attract a lot of lost owners to visit.
Receiving such a request, Ji Xiaolan naturally agreed without hesitation, after all, for him to write a couplet is simply a piece of cake, only to see Ji Xiaolan up and down, in the blink of an eye to write a couplet, but after everyone saw this couplet, there was no joy, because this couplet was "straight through; two open doors", it is obvious that this is a very insulting couplet, I believe everyone understands.
For such humiliation, the nuns in the temple at that time could not bear it, and they angrily scolded Ji Xiaolan for being a student, and they did not know any shame, that is, they were a disciple, but before the nuns finished scolding, Ji Xiaolan said that he had not finished writing, only to see that he added three words to the two couplets, and the upper link added three words to the West Heavenly Road, and the lower link was added with a thousand doors, which were connected to "one straight to the West Heavenly Road, two open thousand doors", the meaning expressed is that he hopes that the nunnery can be incense and more people come to pray for blessings.
Seeing this, the nun also calmed the anger in her heart, and instead praised him for his excellent knowledge, and I have to say that Ji Xiaolan's "flirting" is really inappropriate, after all, it is a pure place of Buddhism, how can he make such a joke? Through this couplet, we can also see that Ji Xiaolan is also an improper person on weekdays, and the first thing that is affirmed is his lustful characteristics, but in fact, it is indeed so, because Ji Xiaolan took many concubines in his life, and there are as many as seven who have names and surnames recorded in the register, and it can't help but make people guess that Ji Xiaolan may also be an official who spends days and days drinking.
epilogue
For Ji Xiaolan, it is undeniable that his knowledge and ability, in the construction of the Qing Dynasty also has outstanding contributions, the compilation of the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" on the people of later generations is extremely far-reaching, in the overall evaluation, can also be regarded as a Qing official, but he also has his own shortcomings, is not a good official, more importantly, he did not have too much intersection with Hezhen, so when everyone looks at many historical figures, we must pay attention to distinguishing the facts. Do not rely solely on the interpretation of film and television dramas to evaluate the good or bad of characters.
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