Peninsula reporter Zhang Wenyan
After that, the official fortunes of the official honesty were of course prosperous.
Guan Lian was appreciated and relied upon by Yang Ding and Chen Yu of the Hubu Shangshu, and after being promoted to the rank of Yuanwailang, he was responsible for the survey of all the chapter manuscripts of the Thirteenth Division of the Hubu Department.
Integrity is the spirit of indifference in the face of temptation and fearlessness in the face of danger. In the seventeenth year of Chenghua (1481), Chen Yu recommended Guan Lian, whom he had always admired, as a plenipotentiary representative of the household department, to go to The Southern Jingzhou and Fuping areas to investigate and deal with the case of huangzhuang's embezzlement of millions of acres of people's land. At that time, "the people's land was a million hectares, the boundary was bordered by the Eastern Palace, the near servants wanted to occupy it, and the grain was ten times that of the public, and the people were very resentful." This should be a big deal. On the eve of Guan Lian's departure from Beijing, the eunuch in charge of the palace suddenly sent someone to secretly tell him: "If Tian Ru returns to me, the 'lecturer' can also get it!" The lecturer was a lecturer official position in the Ming Dynasty, but not an ordinary teacher, but a prince's lecturer, generally an official with excellent learning, and the allure of the official position was that once the prince took the throne, it was very likely to be reused, and it was logical to be promoted and rich.
However, Guan Lian was not moved, and he resolutely said, "I will not change the lives of ten thousand people to an official!" Therefore, he formed an investigation team with the internal servants, JinyiWei, and Yushi, and went to the scene to investigate and secretly visit, collect evidence, and return Tian's judgment to the people. This is not to mention, Guan Lian also went to the imperial court, believing that the rent collection of the imperial palace was too high, and the land per mu should not be higher than 3 liters, "to Su Xiaomin". This could have frightened the people around them, including Yushi, who was obviously curtailing the interests of the royal family, and if they were not good, they would be killed, so they hurriedly advised the officials to close their hands and stop at the right time. The official did not listen, and solemnly announced: I do things alone and do things alone, and I bear the consequences. As a result, the emperor also realized the problem of the imperial palace invading the people, which also affected the stability of society, even if it was "killing chickens to show the monkeys", the imperial court weighed it up again and again and approved the proposal of guanlian.
Handle major cases fairly, and the official integrity has been promoted again!
Soon after, Guan Lian was promoted to Hubu Langzhong and was sent to Jidong as a representative of the Hubu to supervise grain and pay. Guan Lian had been serving as Jidong for a long time, was impartial and law-abiding, had outstanding merits, and was deeply respected by the military commanders and the "eunuchs of the supervising army" sent by the emperor. In May of the twentieth year of Chenghua (1484), when he was about to return to Beijing at the end of his term of office, he died suddenly of illness in Jidong at the age of 41. Shame on the government and the opposition. Zhang Sheng, a scholar of Hanlin, composed "The Form of Conduct" for him, and Liu Jue, the prime minister, composed "Tomb Table" for him. Zhang Sheng, a scholar of Hanlin, wrote an "Epitaph" for him, with a sigh of "repairing the soaring sky, folding in the middle way; the long sword leans on the air, and it is missing after trying".
If it is said that the official honesty in the official field is "rigid but not impatient" and "has always been in friendship with people", then the official honesty in the literary and artistic circles is also remarkable. Guan Lian was able to ascend to the throne at a young age, which shows that his talent is extraordinary, and what is even more valuable is that he worked tirelessly throughout his life and did not quit his poetry, and the collections compiled were "Yun Yong Collection", "Yingzhou Collection", and "Jidong Collection", and his poems of the Eight Views of Yongpingdu were mostly included in the "Pingdu Zhou Zhi". He also wrote two articles, "Records of the Restoration of (Pingdu) Zhou Chengchi" and "Records of the Reconstruction of the Monument of the Yunxi Bridge in Jiaozhou", both of which were included in the "Shandong Tongzhi" compiled during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Guan Lian was also a famous calligrapher, "The Biography of pei wen zhai shu family called him 'the book of the second king' and 'did not quit Linchi in his illness'" (Li Shuzuo's "Guan Lian").
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