Many people have watched the TV series "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan" and are fascinated by Ji Xiaolan's witty and humorous character image, but the historical record of Ji Xiaolan seems to be a little different from his image in the TV series, and it is very different.
In 1724, Ji Xiaolan was born in Cuizhuang, XianXian County, Hejian Province (present-day Cangxian County, Hebei). His birth was accompanied by all kinds of magical theories: grandfather Ji Tianshen dreamed of a flash of fire into the building. Subsequently, Ji Xiaolan was born, and some people said that Ji Xiaolan was the reincarnation of the fire spirit.
Since the Five Dynasties period, Xianxian has had the custom of expelling fire spirits, and it is said that fire spirits are women and appear naked in the light of fire. The day before Ji Xiaolan was born, the local fire essence was found again, people knocked on the bronze to drive away, the fire essence flashed into the Ji family, at this time Ji Xiaolan was born, the earlobes had piercing marks, the feet were white and pointed, like a foot wrapped, like a fire essence.
In addition to the reincarnation of the fire spirit, the birth of Ji Xiaolan, there is also the legend of the reincarnation of the python spirit and the monkey spirit: there is a big python near the Ji family, and after Ji Xiaolan was born, the python disappeared; Ji Xiaolan liked to eat hazelnut pear dates since he was a child, and he couldn't stop eating them, and his temperament was happy, and he couldn't sit still for a while without anything.
This kind of appendix also linked to the name of Ji Xiaolan, whose name was "Ji Yun", the word "Xiaolan", "Yun" means daylight, and its name is related to the light monster.
In the wild history legend, when Ji Xiaolan was two or three years old, several clay dolls dressed in colorful clothes and wearing gold judder played with him and affectionately called him brother. When he was four or five years old, Ji Xiaolan's eyes were like torches, and there was no obstacle to seeing things in a dark place, until Ji Xiaolan was seven or eight years old, and his eyesight slowly became like ordinary people. Ji Xiaolan asked a question before entering the military at the age of 31, and measured a "ink" character: the "black" department was split to be the fourth place in the second class, and the following four points were the feet of the word "庶", and the soldier was the head of the word "Ji", indicating that he would enter the Hanlin Academy as a Shu Ji shi, and later it was true.
Ji Xiaolan is a true temperamental person, easy to be happy and irritable, likes hearsay, tells his bizarre experiences everywhere, and even repeatedly takes off his shoes and socks to the curious, showing his pointy feet like a foot wrap. Ji Xiaolan's daily life is also very different from ordinary people: do not eat rice noodles, diet is mainly meat, a meal of two or three pounds; although Ji Xiaolan likes to eat meat, but never eat duck meat, always feel that duck meat is dirty, difficult to swallow, once accidentally eaten by mistake, immediately vomit and smoke, Ji Xiaolan uses a very large smoke pot, known as "Ji Da Cauldron".
When Ji Xiaolan was studying politics in Fujian in his unguided year, on the treetops of Tang Bai in the test courtyard, two red-clad people appeared at night, bowed to him, and gradually disappeared--these many wonders are not anecdotal rumors, but Ji Xiaolan's own words, which can be found in the "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" written by him.
Not only ji Xiaolan himself said this, but some of Ji Xiaolan's relatives and friends also have similar bizarre experiences, if you put together the various bizarre encounters of Ji Xiaolan and his family and friends in the "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang", you can probably compile a record of the adventures of the Qing people.
Readers must be wondering what Ji Xiaolan, who has various legendary experiences, really looks like. According to the description of the Qing Dynasty, he was "sleepy" and "short-sighted", that is, not only ugly in appearance, but also short-sighted, and did not seem to be tall. However, Ji Xiaolan was quick-witted and liked to taunt, and his classmates who studied together when he was a child, as well as officials of the same dynasty when he grew up, were not less teased by him.
What led to a major turning point in Ji Xiaolan's life was the Lu Jianzeng case.
Lu Jian was also a generation of able ministers in the Qing Dynasty, and the famous Yangzhou Eight Monsters and Mr. Wu Jingzi, who wrote the history of Ru Linwai, were once favored by him.
Lu Jianzeng was known in the Qing Dynasty for being good at controlling water, and was famous in the Yongzheng Dynasty.
In the third year of Yongzheng (1725), Lu Jian was appointed as the zhi county of Hongya County, Sichuan.
In the thirteenth year of Yongzheng (1735), Lu Jian was transferred to Yingzhou (颍州, in present-day Fuyang, Anhui), and the Yongzheng Emperor himself could be said to have been very fond of Lu Jian, but unfortunately Yongzheng reigned for less than 14 years (1722-1735).
In the Qianlong period, at the beginning, Lu was actually still good, in the first year of Qianlong (1736), Lu Jian was appointed as the envoy of two quasi-salt transports (Zhiyang Prefecture), qianlong nine years (1744), Lu Jian was made directly subordinate to Luanzhou Zhizhou, in 1745 he was promoted to the prefect of Yongping Province, Qianlong twenty-seven years (1762), 73-year-old Lu Jianzeng retired, told the old man to return to his hometown, Qianlong thirty years, when Qianlong went down to Jiangnan, he once came to Lu's house and wrote a plaque for it " Deshui Qiying ", which shows that the old man was very cattle at that time.
Unfortunately, no one has a thousand days to be good, and there is no hundred days of red, and after 6 years of retirement, someone complained to Qianlong, saying that the successive two Huaiyan governments were corrupt, causing a deficit in the national treasury, and Qianlong secretly ordered strict investigation.
Ji Xiaolan was once exiled for personal gain for his family affection. In 1768, because Ji Xiaolan secretly sent Qianlong to prepare a strict investigation into the affairs of the two Huaiyan governments, he revealed it to his relative Lu Jianzeng (Ji Xiaolan's eldest daughter married Lu Mengwen, the eldest grandson of Lu Jianzeng). However, when raiding the Lu family, it was found that there was nothing of value in his home, and the Qianlong Emperor was very angry, believing that someone had sent a message, so that the Lu family transferred the property.
Subsequently, the person who found out the ventilation was Ji Xiaolan. Later, Lu Jian was arrested and hanged, and he died of illness in prison that year.
Ji Xiaolan, on the other hand, was dismissed from his post for bending the law for personal gain. Ji Xiaolan's experience can not find any traces in the history books, but the folk version is vivid and interesting: Ji Xiaolan was worried about both in-laws and trouble, so he sealed salt and tea leaves with blank envelopes and ordered people to send them to the Lu family overnight. Lu Jianzeng was initially puzzled, but after pondering it repeatedly, he realized the secret: the salt case was sealed (tea), so he immediately transferred the assets.
Ji Xiaolan's life has indeed undergone a major change as a result of this case. He was demoted to Urumqi for about two and a half years. In 1770, when Ji Xiaolan was 47 years old, he was ordered by the Qianlong Emperor to return the favor and traveled a long way back to Beijing in June of the following year to re-enter Hanlin.
Today, in Jianhu Lake, Urumqi People's Park, Xinjiang, there is a place called Yuewei Caotang. The plaque hanging next to it reads that this was once the residence of Ji Xiaolan during his exile. Ji Xiaolan, who was broadcast on TV, actually came to Urumqi as a criminal.
From this, we can conclude that Ji Xiaolan was not favored in the Qianlong Dynasty and was once abandoned. During the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, although he thought that Ji Xiaolan had good learning and admired his talents, he definitely did not reach the point of favoring or reusing Ji Xiaolan.
By the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the situation had changed—the Qianlong Emperor wanted to unify the world's ideology and culture, so he strengthened cultural cleanup, and Ji Xiaolan shouldered the heavy responsibility of history and became the chief compiler of the "Outline of the General Catalogue of the Four Libraries" (often referred to as the "Four Libraries Complete Book"). The Siku Quanshu became the greatest glory of Ji Xiaolan's life.
In his later years, Ji Xiaolan was always a literary attendant in the eyes of the Qianlong Emperor, and he was like a haiyou.
To digress, although Ji Xiaolan was not favored during the Qianlong Emperor, his son Emperor Jiaqing was still good to Ji Xiaolan. In the first year of Jiaqing (1796), Ji Xiaolan was able to take charge of the military department and served as the head of the military department Shangshu (minister of national defense), the core position of this department was unquestionable in all the dynasties, in the second year of Jiaqing, in 1797, Ji Xiaolan was also appointed as the official Shangshu (director of the Central Organization Department), assisting in the university and the prince Shaobao.
You must know that the official department is at the head of the six ministries, and this position was once also the official of Hezhen, and it was also the source of Hezhen's family's prosperity.
In the eighth year of Jiaqing (1803), June 15 was Ji Yun's eightieth birthday, and the Jiaqing Emperor specially sent someone to celebrate Ji Xiaolan's birthday. After Ji Xiaolan's death, Jiaqing also wrote an inscription to show mourning.