"One grain, my name, one millimeter, the ointment of the people." One point is wide, and the people receive more than one point; take one article, and I am not worth a penny. This famous quote comes from Zhang Boxing's "Forbidden To Feed". The "publication" form of this article is also very special, when he was the inspector of Fujian, in order to refuse to give gifts, he specially wrote this article, and posted it on the door of the courtyard of the residence and the inspector of the yamen. The Hanzi who stood tall in the sky was praised by Kangxi as "the first Clean Official in the World". Zhang Boxing was honest and upright, but he also had a bad fate, and the legend was that in the midst of a bumpy career, he was personally recommended by Tianzi Kangxi himself.
Honest and upright officials are the favorite of the common people, but there are also people who hate, that is, they block the financial road of corrupt officials and corrupt officials. Zhang Boxing was upright in nature, never snuggled his superiors, and deeply resented the corrupt atmosphere, saying: "I am an official, and I swear not to take a penny from the people!" He was as vicious as a vendetta, never associated with corrupt officials, and dared to resist the arrogance of his superiors. During his term of office, he also tried his best to eliminate local ills and rectify the administration of officials. Because of this, he was hated by the gang of the Governor of Liangjiang, Gari. He also staged the famous case of mutual participation of the governors, and finally after several deliberations in Kangxi, it was decided to remove The official position of Ka Li, and Zhang Boxing remained in office to overthrow the governor. However, the trial of the case is complicated, and the scene of the development of the incident is very intense.
At that time, because the fraud case and the supervision and supervision case were entangled, it was difficult to solve it for a while, so the governors, fu, divisions, provinces, governments, counties and other officials involved in the case in jiangsu were stranded in Yangzhou. A dramatic scene occurred during the Yangzhou trial, Ga Li and Zhang Boxing quarreled in the hall and did not give in to each other, when the two walked out of the gate still arguing endlessly, they suddenly fought, "Ga is majestic, Zhang Is also big, Ka cannot win, and is kicked by Zhang Gong to roll around", and the tangtang feudal officials are like the disciples of the city.
One day in February of the 50th year of the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, thousands of people in Yangzhou City came to the front of the guild hall to send off an official who had returned to Beijing for examination, and the crying shook the whole city, and the official who was sent off was Zhang Boxing, who was then the inspector of Jiangsu, and because he was involved in a case involving a scientific field, he wanted to return to Beijing for examination. The people knew that Zhang Boxing was honest and not greedy, and never accepted any gifts, so they gave fruits and vegetables to each other. Zhang Boxing still politely refused, and the people cried: "Gong is in office, stop drinking a cup of water in Jiangnan; now he will go, but the people have a little heart!" Later, after repeated investigations, the truth was finally revealed, and Zhang Boxing was innocent.
The appreciation of Tianzi was what happened when the Kangxi Emperor arrived in Jiangsu on his southern tour. A year before the Kangxi Emperor's southern tour, Zhang Boxing was appointed as an envoy to Jiangsu, a subordinate of the inspector. According to the old official practice at that time, the new official was required to give gifts to the inspector, the governor and other superiors to show respect, and at the same time requested future care and promotion. But Zhang Boxing said: "As an official, I swear not to take a single penny from the people, and I can do this!" "So he refused to give gifts and did not play by the rules, offending the governor and the inspector and being ostracized by them. Before the Kangxi Emperor made his southern tour, he ordered the governor and the governor to recommend virtuous officials.
In the first month of the 46th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor got the list of recommendations in Jiangsu, and he did not see Zhang Boxing, who was already famous in the government and the opposition, so he reprimanded the governor and the inspector: "I heard that Zhang Boxing is a clean and honest official, and he is a rare material for the country's pillars, but you do not recommend it!" After saying that, he turned to Zhang Boxing again and said, "Shuo knows you very well, they don't recommend you, they recommend you." In the future, if you want to be a good official and make some political achievements, the people of the world will know that you are a wise king, a good and wise person; if you are corrupt and pervert the law, the people of the world will laugh and do not know good and evil. ”
Zhang Boxing did not live up to the emperor's trust in him, and with his lifelong and honest official career, he practiced his firm belief, returned the emperor's kindness of knowledge, and left posterity with his reputation of "the first clean official in the world". After the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, he also respected Zhang Boxing, calling him a "famous courtier of ceremonial music", and many major state events followed his advice. In the first year of Yongzheng, Zhang Boxing was promoted to the position of Libu Shangshu, and two years later, a generation of Qing officials Zhang Boxing died of illness at the age of 73. The Yongzheng Emperor gave him the nickname "Qing Ke", which means official Qingzheng and Qinqin. (Text/Cai Si) (The picture originates from the Internet, if there is infringement, please inform and delete)