The Fourth Book of Qing History, Kangxi Qi bureau| Kangxi really has a special instrument on Chen Tingjing? （02）

Author: Xiang Jingzhi

Publisher: Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore

This is the tragedy of the feudal autocracy era, and it is also the sadness that the state legal system cannot restrain the emperor's mind!

He suggested that the governors should be carefully selected, that the public love the people be diligent and honest, that the localities should be strictly allowed to make public the accounts of disaster relief money and grain, and that corruption and corruption of the people be prevented.

The Kangxi Emperor ordered the revision of the "Three Dynasties Hadith", "Political Training", "Strategy for Pacifying the Three Rebellions", "Great Qing Unification Chronicle", and "Ming History", with Chen Tingjing as the chief official, and soon transferred him to the Ministry of Works Shangshu, and the following year he successively served as the Hubu Shangshu and the Official Shangshu.

Chen Tingjing served as the chief official of several ministries, and even after the expiration of his two-year period of worry, he still followed this pace roughly, circling from yipin, and did not add a dignified title like other officials favored by Kangxi.

In April of the 42nd year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor promoted him to become a scholar of Wenyuange University and a shangshu in charge of the official department, participated in the military and state aircraft maintenance, and became the "Great Qing Xiangguo". This year, Chen Tingjing was already sixty-five years old.

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Compared with many officials who had many intersections with Chen Tingjing, others were younger: Suo Etu was promoted to a scholar of the National History Academy at the age of thirty-three and a fellow of the Bohol Temple University the following year; Mingzhu was awarded the title of Wuyingdian University Scholar at the age of forty-one; Zhang Yushu was forty-eight years old and a scholar of the Wenhuadian University and Hubu Shangshu.

Even Li Guangdi's promotion to the rank of Scholar of Wenyuange University was two years younger than Chen Tingjing's, but Li Guangdi's journey from Yipin (who served as an official shangshu in the early 38th year of the Kangxi Dynasty) to Zheng Yipin took only six years. Moreover, Li Guangdi's name really entered the eyes of Kangxi's concern in the fourteenth year of Kangxi. He was considered loyal by the Kangxi Emperor for sending news that Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingnan, had rebelled, and ordered the army to be recorded as the leading minister. At this time, Chen Tingjing was already a cabinet scholar and served as a lecturer at the feast. Li Guangdi only received such an official position in July of the nineteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, but soon rose to prominence, five years before Chen Tingjing became the official Shangshu.

Chen Tingjingjiu served in the center, from one product to one product, half a grid away, but he spent nineteen years.

Nineteen years in one step. Either the performance of the rule itself is mediocre, or the emperor uses it without weight. As one of the Kangxi Emperor's seemingly most trusted and important ministers, Chen Tingjing was not ashamed for a while, but he kept changing posts for a long time without seeing another promotion, and even as soon as a problem occurred, he was immediately abandoned without being lenient as appropriate.

In December of the 26th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Chen Zizhi of Shanxi Province impeached Zhang Feng, the inspector of Huguang, "who has not been in office for a long time, has many goods, and where local salt introductions, money bureaus, and boat ports are not searched, and even the hankou city signboards are also distributed according to the number." Those who are protected on that day will have bribes and bad intentions, please discuss the crime together with the ministry" ("Qing History Manuscript Chen Zizhi Biography"). The Kangxi Emperor ordered Yu Chenglong, Governor Ma Qi of Shanxi, and Deputy Governor Yushi Kaiyinbu to go to check and found that he had lost more than 300,000 taels of treasury silver and embezzled more than 90,000 taels of silver during his tenure as envoy in Fujian, and also involved Xu Qianxue accepting bribes. Xu Qianxue bribed Kangxi and said: Zhang Feng used silver, and there were silver givers, Chen Tingjingye! The cashier, Gao Shiqi, had nothing to do with Xu Qianxue.

Zhang Yushu, the head of the bingbu, seized the opportunity to impeach Chen Tingjing, who was related to Zhang Wang. The Kangxi Emperor knew that Chen Tingjing had been wronged, but he ignored it.

Chen Tingjing defended himself: The minister has no other talents, but he is diligent and dedicated day and night, often reflects, does not favor relatives for personal gain, does not insult friends, and fears that he will bear the grace of the Holy Lord, and saves the micro-minister subsection from being suspected and slandered. Zhang Feng is my relative, but I am very clear with him. If I were a little selfish and protective of him, he would be grateful to me and would not report me.

Chen Tingjing showed his heart and wanted to prove his innocence, but did not produce evidence, but said: "Since being slandered, he has been depressed, forgetful, and out of order, although the emperor does not condemn it, and the subject's heart is really difficult to be at ease." And the subject's father was eighty-one, leaning on lu suspense, begging for mercy in the sacred heart, and returning home with permission" ("Qing Shi Liechuan Chen Tingjing Biography"), pleading for forgiveness.

This passage conveys two messages: first, Chen Tingjing resigned, saying that he was depressed and mentally affected, and could not be a director; second, he wanted to go home to support his father, which was just in line with the filial piety advocated by Kangxi.

The Kangxi Emperor praised Chen Tingjing for his earnest words, but still made a punishment, that is, to dismiss the official Shangshu, although the punishment was formally allowed to return to his hometown, but arranged for him to continue to repair the book.

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