What is destiny? The real fate is the sigh that the Hero of the Western Chu Overlord died in the wujiang river at the end of the road. The unjust fate was a series of painful interrogations left on the banks of the Weiluo River after Qu Yuan's single-minded desire to serve the country and was repeatedly ostracized. The heavy fate is the tragic symphony that Beethoven struck under his fingertips when he was deaf in both ears. The fate of strength is the brilliant poem that Paul wrote after he lost his sight.
Life is alive, and fate is different. Some people do nothing; some people make great achievements; some people harm sentient beings; some people have a momentary desire for profit, so that they can seize the opportunity given by fate to atone for their sins, and they can make up for their mistakes and seek peace in the first life. For a generation of famous ministers, Acton, from a minister of power to the opposition, to a prisoner of the ranks with no status to speak of, and then back to the peak of power, as long as an opportunity is seized, it is to survive, missed, or destroyed.
In the seventh year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng, as the emperor of a generation of ancient times, is facing a severe challenge. At this time, the Qing Dynasty can be described as internal and external troubles, and the Dzungar Department, which has been eyeing the territory of the Great Qing Dynasty, has repeatedly harassed the border of the Great Qing, making the surrounding residents and soldiers miserable. On the one hand, in order to ensure the safety of the people and the integrity of the territory, on the other hand, in order to spread the prestige of the Great Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng sent a large army to attack Dzungar.
The terrain of Dzungar is difficult and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. In order to better handle military affairs in the northwest, Yongzheng set up a well-known military aircraft department. Although all the military aircraft ministers in the Military Aircraft Department are among the dragons and phoenixes, at this time, the Military Aircraft Department has just been operated, and the system is still very young, although there are already people in various positions who perform their duties, but they still cannot play a very complete role. While cultivating military aircraft, the Yongzheng Emperor also had to face the military affairs of the northwest and the complicated chores of the DPRK and China, which was very headache.
Blessings are incomparable, and misfortunes are not alone. At a time when the DPRK and The Central Committee were in a state of turmoil, the governor of Jiangnan said that an exceptionally large flood had occurred in the Jiangnan area, which seriously endangered the lives of the people, and many peasant households had not said anything because of this flood, and also caused the families of the people in the Jiangnan area to be destroyed. As the main grain producing area in the country, the Jiangnan area is not only related to the people's livelihood and people's interest, but also directly involves the grain and grass preparation in the army.
If the rescue cannot be rescued in time, then even the war in the northwest will be implicated, so the two are equally important, and neither can be delayed. The northwest war has its own military aircraft department to deal with it, so who should be appointed to fight floods in Jiangnan? The Yongzheng Emperor was in trouble. At that time, the Yongzheng Emperor did not have many confidants: the thirteenth brother Yin Xiang, the chancellor Li Wei, Zhang Tingyu, Jiang Tingxi and four others.
Jiang Tingxi and Zhang Tingyu were ministers who sat in the center, so naturally they could not be easily dispatched, and Li Wei was during the period of filial piety because of the loss of his mother, and Yin Xiang was even sick for a long time, with more than enough heart and insufficient strength. Therefore, at this critical moment, it was impossible to find a candidate who could take office. The Yongzheng Emperor frowned bitterly at this matter, and could not swallow for several consecutive days.
As Yongzheng's right and left arm, Zhang Tingyu gave an opinion. He said to the Yongzheng Emperor, "The people available are now on death row. Yongzheng thought about it for a moment, and then he knew what Zhang Tingyu was referring to—the former governor of Liangguang, Actun.
So who is Acton who can regain the opportunity to be appointed as a death row prisoner and be ordered to go to Jiangnan to rescue himself in times of danger?
At that time, in the imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty, because the content of the examination was a complex nature of eight strands of text, the Han people were generally able to achieve better results than the Manchus. This also caused the situation that most of the people in the DPRK at that time were Han civilian officials and Manchu military attachés. But Aktun was an exception, a scholar who had been born in the forty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty and a rare Manchu civilian official. At that time, the Kangxi Emperor used Actun very much, and Acton's ability was also very outstanding, so it did not take long for him to achieve the position of governor of Liangguang.
However, after taking up a high position, Acton was blinded by fame and fortune. At that time, the Thai emissary came to visit, and Acton brazenly asked the Thai emissary for money and bribes. As an envoy of a dynasty, Acton undoubtedly lost the demeanor of a great power and slapped Yongzheng hard.
In order to punish the bribery trend and set an example, Yongzheng ordered that Acton be put on death row. Originally, Actun was already disheartened in prison, thinking that this life would come to an end, but he did not expect that at this time Yongzheng was in urgent need of employment, under the recommendation of Zhang Tingyu, he could actually see the light of day again in his lifetime, so he immediately took office and was bound to complete the Yongzheng dispatch.
In fact, Actun was also very clear in his heart that although he had temporarily escaped from prison, his life continued to be in Yongzheng's hands. In the past, he was in a high position and offended many ministers of the DPRK and the CPC; at this time, if he did not succeed in controlling the water, not only would he be punished for the great crime of ineffective rescue, but the officials who had offended him in the past would also fall into the well, and when the time came, the new accounts and old accounts would be calculated together, and not only would he not be able to save his own life, but he would be afraid that he would implicate his relatives and friends at home, and it would not be impossible to be copied all over the door.
How difficult it is to go this way, if it is not successful, it will become a benevolent. When Acton arrived in the Jiangnan area, he immediately began to work on water treatment. He first held a number of ineffective local officials accountable, thoroughly rectified the corrupt officials in the Jiangnan area, and punished those who looted the people's fat and the people's ointment and embezzled disaster relief materials. In this way, no official dared to worry about the silver of the white flowers, and the initial life of the people was guaranteed.
Immediately afterwards, Acton built canals on a large scale, diverting rivers in the most dangerous areas to share the flood water. Under his administration, the flood in Jiangnan was finally solved, and Acton not only saved his life, but also won the reward of Yongzheng. After curing the flood in Jiangnan, he immediately went to the battlefield of Dzungar, made countless meritorious deeds, regained the reuse of Yongzheng, and returned to the peak of power.
After experiencing the ups and downs of his life, Acton was well versed in the way of being an official, and since then he has not dared to embezzle easily. Previously, because of his desire for profit, he almost lost his life and the black gauze hat, but fortunately, fate did not put him to death after all. With his outstanding ability, he regained the opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
After walking in prison, he never dared to have two hearts, and from then on he concentrated on the government of the dynasty, became Yongzheng's confidant minister, and also raised his son Ah Gui into a generation of famous generals. And this strange story has also become the talk of posterity - from the prisoner of the order to the powerful minister, under the order of the defeated army, ordered in the midst of danger, which shows the ups and downs of Acton's fate.
Text/Li Qingyu