In the Kangxi Dynasty, the discovery and reuse of honest officials became a basic direction for Kangxi to employ people, and it also played a very good role.
He constantly established the image of a typical incorruptible official, widely publicized it, and always paid attention to discovering and promoting honest officials to more important positions.
In the use of honest officials, Kangxi had a systematic approach. He first believed that if the officials were clean and honest, they would have their own good methods in handling official affairs, and they would be supported and loved by the people, and even if the state's taxation money and grain were not completed for the time being, the people would try their best to think about their parents and officials and not default on the state.
From this point of view, it seems how important it is to be honest and honest for the sake of an official. Precisely because of this realization, it is only natural to vigorously promote and use honest officials.
In the process of discovering and using clean officials, it was also necessary to actively support them, and Kangxi remained unswerving in this regard throughout his life.
Inspector Yu Chenlong was a native of Yongning, Shanxi, and was forty-five years old when Kangxi was in Luochengzhi County, Guangxi.
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From the sixth year of The Kangxi Dynasty to the thirteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, he was promoted to Zhizhou of Hezhou, Sichuan. Huguang Huangzhou Prefecture Tongzhi, Wuchang Prefect and Huangzhou Prefecture Prefect. The court's continuous promotion and reuse of him made him feel more and more responsible, and he did not step up the scavenging of the people's fat and people's ointment with the rise of his official position, but paid more attention to his own self-cultivation, was more honest in performing official duties, and was diligent in government affairs.
It is precisely because of this that Kangxi is also more concerned about supporting him.
When Yu Chenglong was the prefect of Huangzhou, Wu Sangui's rebels attacked Huangzhou with a power of 100,000. At that time, the large troops of the Qing court reinforcements were all marching to Hunan, and Huangzhou was in danger, so some people advocated retreating to Macheng.
However, Yu Chenglong believed that Huangzhou was the throat of the seven counties and could not be easily abandoned, so he gathered thousands of township soldiers to fight hard, adopted the method of suppressing and using both, disintegrated the enemy army, and it took only twenty-four days and no public grain to pacify Huangzhou.
The reason why Yu Chenlong has such a great appeal has a lot to do with his daily honesty as an official. He was later promoted to the post of Jiangfang Daoist( Jiangfang Daoist), Fujian Envoy, and Envoy to Fujian Province. By the time Kangxi was promoted to inspector of direct subordination in the nineteenth year, he was already sixty-four years old. He distinguished between right and wrong, supported those who were honest and honest, and often impeached those officials who were insatiable.
After Kangxi learned of Yu Chenlong's deeds, he personally summoned him at the Maoqin Hall on February 5, 2020, and commended him: It is really rare that you are the first incorruptible in the world today. He was also encouraged to remain consistent and to maintain a clean reputation, and in order to reward him for his honesty, Kangxi rewarded him with platinum, good horses, and imperial poems.
Some of The rationalization suggestions made by Yu Chenlong to Kangxi, such as tax reduction and relief, were all agreed by the emperor. By the end of the year, Yu Was promoted to governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi provinces.
Yu Chenglong knew that the reason why the emperor valued himself was because he did not lose his official duties of being diligent and honest, and he was very grateful to the emperor for his kindness, and he was even more diligent in his administration after taking office as governor.
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Yu Chenglong often handled government affairs without sleeping or eating, sometimes working until dawn, examining in detail some cases reflected in the Governor's Palace, and usually strictly requiring subordinates to be honest, not allowing subordinate officials to arbitrarily apportion to the peasants, increasing the peasants' burdens.
After unremitting governance and restraint, the incorruptible nature of its subordinate officials has been maintained, and those who have been corrupt and corrupt have also been greatly reduced. In order to truly understand the people's feelings, Yu Chenlong once went to the countryside for private visits, visited the real living conditions in the countryside, encountered theft cases and suspicious prison cases, and checked the clues and traces until the water came out, and the people were very impressed.
Officials in Jiangnan all knew that Yu Chenlong loved to make private visits to investigate people's feelings, and whenever they met people with white hair and great looks, they all told each other that this was Yu Chenlong coming, and they were particularly careful.
Not long after, the atmosphere in Jiangnan, especially in the homes of the rich, changed drastically, and the families of the scholars and masters also changed their past style of loving pomp and circumstance, and did not even use music for such a festive thing as marriage, but Yu Chenlong's honest and honest and impartial law enforcement actions would inevitably offend those traitors and evil people, so that they went to the central authorities to slander and frame them, so that the officials once agreed to let Yu Chenlong dismiss him.
In order to protect the loyal people, Kangxi knew about it and issued a special edict to let him stay in office.
In the 23rd year of the Kangxi Dynasty, when Yu Chenlong died of illness, the relevant departments inspected his relics, only a robe and basic cooking utensils. When Kangxi learned of this, he was overwhelmed with emotion, so he conducted a poll confirming that he was "the first honest official in the world", gave him the title of Prince Taibao, gave him the nickname "Qingduan", sheltered one of his sons, Guozijian, and also gave him the imperial book "Gao xing Qing Pu" ancestral hall and Yang Lian.
Kangxi attached importance to the role of typical examples and rewarded honest officials, the purpose of course was to follow his example and ask hundreds of officials to follow suit.
In April of the 27th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Fu Lata, a man with a yellow banner and a servant of the bureaucracy, was appointed governor of Liangjiang, and he was a Manchu. When he took office, Kangxi told him: After you take office, you must deny yourself and serve the public, and be honest and honest. The previous governors of Liangjiang are not as good as Jackie Chan, and you can be like him.
In accordance with the instructions of the emperor, He eliminated maladministration and severely rectified corruption, and received strong support from Kangxi.
Liu Hanfang of Ganxian Zhixian county privately expropriated more than 100,000 pieces of silver rice, and there were some corrupt and illegal acts, and his immediate superiors Gannan Bu envoys and envoys not only did not impeach him, but also sheltered him, so Fu Lata asked the emperor to take them
They are also removed. In addition, he also asked for the reduction of the Jiangning housing tax and the local wastes in Huai and Yang, opened warehouses to help the poor, and expanded the number of examinations, all of which were approved by the emperor. Furatta served six years as governor of Liangjiang and died in renshou.
Kangxi spoke highly of him, saying: Since Yu Chenlong, the governor of Jiangxi, there has been only one person since Yu Chenlong. He was gentle in character but did not follow the tide, did not fear power, did not live up to the appointment of the imperial court, loved the military and the people, and was worth learning from everyone.
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In addition, he also made an exception to send people to Jiangning to pay tribute to Fu Lata, gave the title of Prince Taibao, and the title of Qingduan was also given the post of Knight Lieutenant, and his son could inherit it.
Forty-four years later, when Kangxi made his fifth southern tour, when he passed through Yuhuatai, he gave a plaque of "Two Rivers Of Love" and ordered people to hang it in the ancestral hall of Fulata.
The power of example is infinite, and under the influence and inspiration of Jackie Chan and Fu Lata, a large number of honest officials have emerged, and Ge gude, who is directly subordinate to inspectors of Manchuria with blue flags, Fan Chengxun, the governor of Liangjiang, Han Jun, who has set yellow flags, Zhang Boxing, governor of Jiangsu, and Wang Xiao, governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, are among the representatives.
Of course, the official style lies in guiding, rectifying and supporting. Kangxi did not sit idly by and wait for officials to be honest, he took a positive attitude to cultivate honest and honest officials. Among the honest officials he discovered and trained were Zhang Pengfei, Peng Peng, Guo Xiao, and Chen Xuan.
When Yu Chenglong, the governor of Jiangxi in Jiangnan, died, Kangxi took the opportunity of the shang dynasty to pay tribute to the officials, when he asked the Jiuqing people and others: Who are the clean and honest officials of the Qing Dynasty like Yu Chenlong? Ministers of the court you say one, I mention one, and finally list seven people. Among them was Zhang Pengfei, who was sometimes the prefect of Yanzhou in Shandong.
According to the clues provided by the ministers, Kangxi took the opportunity of the southern tour to pass through Yanzhou in the autumn of that year, secretly intended to inspect, and found that Zhang Pengfei was indeed "very good at officialdom". Since then, Zhang Pengfei has been continuously promoted, and he has been transferred to the posts of Inspector of Zhejiang, Bingbu Shilang, Zuo Du Yushi, Governor of Liangjiang, Governor of Hedao, and Shibu Shangshu.
Peng Peng was a native of Gutian County, Fujian Province, and when he was serving as the Governor of Sanhe County, he was very familiar with kangxi's talents because he traveled back and forth to visit the Mausoleum, so he reused him, and his official position was gradually promoted to the inspector of Guangxi, and after being transferred to Guangdong, he died in office. Kangxi considered Peng Peng to be a rare incorruptible official, saying that he was a person who really did things, refraining from self-denial and serving official duties, and was diligent in government affairs.
Another honest and honest Qing official was Guo Xiu, who was born in Jimo, Shandong. When he was serving in Wujiangzhi County, Jiangsu Province, Kangxi passed through Wujiang in the south, and he heard from afar how we had a Guo Qingtian in Wujiang. After the return of the dynasty, Kangxi summoned Guo Xuan in particular and promoted him to the position of imperial historian who specialized in correcting officials and detecting adultery and evil.
Later, Guo Xuan went to the university to impeach the university scholars Mingzhu, Yu Guozhu and others, and the sound was shocking, and he was promoted by the emperor to the position of Zuo Du Yushi, and soon served as the governor of the lake.
Although Kangxi was too politically loose in his later years, he still paid attention to the discovery and cultivation of honest officials. At this time, he discovered the outstanding Qing official Chen Yao.
Chen Yao is a native of Haikang, Guangdong, and when Kangxi was forty-eight years old, he served as a Sichuan Tixue Dao, and put an end to all things that invited guests and gifts to go through the back door during his term of office. When he was serving as Taisha Dao, he used all the 30,000 taels of silver he deserved for public affairs. Later, he was promoted by the imperial court to the position of inspector of partial play.
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When he went to the post without talking about any pomp and circumstance, riding a horse alone and carrying a simple baggage to report, the inspector of the yamen did not recognize the newly appointed inspector and mistakenly thought that he was a rural wild old man from somewhere! After Chen Yao took office, he carried out drastic reforms, cut unnecessary expenses and consumption of government departments, and impeached and dismissed a number of unscrupulous servants and corrupt officials who harmed the people.
He lived a hard and simple life, and he hated the people and corruption. When he visited the emperor in November 1954, Kangxi pointed at Chen Yao in front of the officials and said to the others, "This ascetic old monk also." ”
In December of the same year, Chen Was transferred to Fujian as an inspector. Kangxi commented on Chen Yao to the courtiers, saying: "Yesterday, I summoned Chen Yao, listened to his words, and observed his deeds.
He was born into a peasant family along the coast, and he was not a family or protégé, but those who knew him did not praise him for his honesty, and if he did not work down-to-earth and did not have honest and honest practical actions, he would not have reached his current position in any case.
However, with his own talents and the spirit of strict self-discipline, he took on the heavy responsibility entrusted by the state, and it was indeed a sign of auspicious prosperity that the country had such a minister!
He should be commended for his integrity and integrity. These words expressed the true feelings of Kangxi, a complex emotion of a towering emperor who loved and admired his subordinates.
As we said before, for the sake of the standardization and high quality of the ranks of officials, Kangxi paid more attention to his origins, and he was able to evaluate Chen Yao in this way and repeatedly use it, which shows that on the one hand, he has devoted a lot of effort to cultivating honest officials, and on the other hand, it also shows that Chen Yao's actions are indeed deeply moving.
In October 1957, Chen Yao died of illness, and Kangxi praised him greatly: "I have seen many honest and honest officials, but it is really rare for someone like Chen Ying to be like chen! He also said: How can such an outstanding person among the clean officials be persuaded by the people of the world if they are not commended and publicized?
Therefore, he was ordered to posthumously be given the title of Libu Shangshu, and to be compensated according to the style of Shangshu, and to shade one of Chen Yao's sons to enter the Guozi Prison to study, and to give Chen Yao the same title as Yu Chenlong and Fu Lata, which was also Qingduan. The nickname "Qingduan" has become a very high honor for the death of a Qing official.
While actively cultivating Qing officials, Kangxi also took their usual performance to heart, always paid attention to their development trends, and once he found that the objects he cultivated had bad tendencies, he would criticize and correct them so that his efforts would not be wasted.
In fact, this is constantly alerting the honest officials and exercising their noble and constant qualities in order to achieve the purpose of not degenerating and not losing control.
Kangxi once asked Yu Chenlong to recommend a lian official, and interestingly, one of them had the same surname as him, and in order to distinguish him, he was known as a Han army yellow flag bearer who was smaller than Jackie Chan, and was recommended to serve as Tongzhou Zhizhou.
From then on, Kangxi began to consciously promote and cultivate less than Jackie Chan. From the twentieth year of the Kangxi Dynasty to February of the twenty-fifth year, in just five years, Less than Jackie Chan was promoted from Zhizhou, Prefect, and Envoy to Inspector.
Less than Jackie Chan also did not live up to the emperor's love, clean self-love, never asked to go through the back door, can be said to be a competent clean official.
Because of his outstanding political achievements, in the twenty-sixth year, Kangxi specially issued a holy decree to reward him, crown prince Shaobao, and also gave kurama and silver two, both materially and spiritually rewarded. Less than Jackie Chan was later promoted to Zuo Du Yushi, and took over this position after the death of Jin Fu, the governor of Hedao.
In order to make the eight flags disciples correct their attitude toward the officials, Kangxi took the smaller Than Jackie Chan tree as an example for them to learn. The emperor also personally summoned The father, who was less than Jackie Chan, Yu Deshui, who had previously served as a counselor, gave Him qiu a reward for his godson, and ordered him to continue to encourage his son to persevere and be diligent in serving the people.
At the same time, it is required that the Eight Banners Metropolitan Government, Shilang and other ministers of the DPRK and The Central Government, if their sons have local officials, must often write letters to instruct and encourage them, and emulate the people who are less than Jackie Chan. However, after less than Jackie Chan became a star in people's minds, he couldn't help but be a little fluttery.
He may have been proud of the emperor's special grace, or for some other reason, when recommending officials, he was no longer meritocratic, but nepotistic, so that although some of the officials recommended were also quite incorruptible, some were not very good.
In addition, as we have talked about, when it began to participate in river management, the problem was that less than Jackie Chan had a negative impact on the river work to a certain extent.
When Kangxi discovered these shortcomings that were smaller than Jackie Chan, he immediately gave serious criticism and education, but fortunately, less than Jackie Chan could indeed reform himself, and after taking over the post of governor of the river, he worked diligently in accordance with the river management plan previously established by Jin Fu, and to some extent made up for his previous mistakes.