Li Fu (李绂), also spelled Julai, was a native of Rongshan Town, Linchuan, Jiangxi, a famous politician, theorist and poet of the Qing Dynasty.
Li Fu himself was very highly learned, and was a jinshi in the forty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, an official to the governor of Guangxi, directly subordinate to the governor, etc., and was praised by Liang Qichao as "the last person of the Lu Wang faction".
Not only was Li Fu very knowledgeable, but he was also one of the few clean officials at that time when corruption was rampant.
But such a Qing official was almost killed by Yongzheng, why is this?
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In the fifth year of Yongzheng, Li Fu was falsely accused of sheltering the private party and impeached, and 21 crimes were discussed, and he was dismissed from his post and handed over to the Ministry of Punishment for interrogation.
Later, the Ministry of Punishment raided his family property and found that the interior was simple, there were no other long objects, and even the wife's jewelry was copper products, not at all like the family members of the eunuchs.
Yongzheng believed in his incorruptibility and pardoned him.
After Li Fu was released from prison, he began to concentrate on writing books and closed the door to guests, for a total of eight years.
This is a rough experience, and then let's talk about the reason why Yongzheng wants to kill Li Fu.
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Yong was an enterprising emperor who began to conceive and implement his new policies after he ascended the throne.
The implementation of the New Deal was bound to be resisted by those with vested interests, and it was the gentry who resisted Yongzheng.
In order to smoothly implement the new policy, Yongzheng reused Tian Wenjing and let Tian Wenjing be the actual executor. This also means that Tian Wenjing is Yongzheng's agent.
Li Fu was a scholar who became the leader of these gentry, so there was a mutual participation between Li Fu and Tian Wenjing in the fourth year of Yongzheng.
First, Li Fu rebuked Tian Wenjing for wantonly trampling on the dignity of the readers, and then Tian Wenjing told Yongzheng that Li Fu and the impeached Huang Zhenguo were the same list of jinshi, and Li Fu took revenge for Huang Zhenguo's personal gain, and so on. Later, some people said that Tian Wenjing had formed a party for personal gain, had negative holy graces, was corrupt and lawless, and so on.
Tian Wenjing was Yongzheng's confidante, and Yongzheng relied on him to implement his own new policies, of course, he was deliberately inclined to Tian Wenjing.
Li Fu's move was said to be a personal grudge with Tian Wenjing at a small level, but to a large extent, it was to hinder Yongzheng from implementing the new policy, and naturally Li Fu was going to be imprisoned.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, Li Fu is suspected of forming a party</h1>
In the dispute between Li Fu and Tian Wenjing, there is another person who also played a great role in promoting, that is, Zhejiang Dao Inspector Yushi Xie Jishi.
Li Fu entered the palace to see the Yongzheng Emperor, saying that Huang Zhenguo, Wang Chen, and Shao Yanlun had all been wronged by Tian Wenjing, and that Zhang Qiu of Zhixian had behaved very badly as an official, so Tian Wenjing did not impeach him.
For this reason, Yongzheng charged Zhang Qiu with theft.
Not long after, Xie Jishi appeared, impeaching Tian Wenjing, saying that Tian Wenjing had ten major crimes, and his words involved Huang Zhenguo, Shao Yanlun, and Wang Chen, who were impeached by Tian Wenjing, as well as the matter of shielding Zhang Qiu's guilt.
This incident made Yongzheng perceive a little unusual, and there were too many things that Li Fu and Xie Jishi said coincided. Therefore, Yongzheng believed that Li Fu and Xie Jishi were suspected of forming a party.
It should be known that the Ming Dynasty once had the Donglin Party, which destroyed the country and the family, so that Yongzheng had to pay attention to these readers. As a result, some people were stripped of their official positions and killed some people, and Li Fu was also severely reprimanded by Yongzheng.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
As the leader of the gentry, If Li Fu hadn't played too much, Yongzheng wouldn't have killed him. Yongzheng's purpose in doing so was to tell these gentry that the New Deal would be unswervingly implemented.
At the same time, he was also telling these people not to learn from the Donglin Party of the Ming Dynasty, to discuss the government and politics at every turn, and to impeach the ministers.
Therefore, Yongzheng sent Li Fu to prison, not really to kill him, but to give him a warning, but also a warning to the gentry. After this incident, Li Fu finally understood Yongzheng's intentions and concentrated on writing books for eight years!