Introduction: In 1711 AD, that is, the fifty years of the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, there was a famous case of literary prison - the "Nanshan Collection" case, the reason for the outbreak of this case was because the Hanlin scholar Dai Mingshi's work "Nanshan Collection" was "full of wild language" and full of dissatisfaction with the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, and as a result, he was impeached and exposed by the Zuo Du Yushi Zhao Shenqiao Shangzhang, and the result was that Dai Mingshi was executed, and another literati named Fang Xiaobiao was also implicated.
Fang Xiaobiao was a great talent, he had reached adulthood at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and later the Establishment of the Qing Dynasty, he betrayed the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, was appointed by the Shunzhi Emperor as a bachelor of attendants, and later made mistakes and was exiled to the army. During the Kangxi Dynasty, the San Francisco Rebellion broke out, and Fang Xiaobiao turned to Wu Sangui and became a bachelor under Wu Sangui, which became a stain on his life. After the San Francisco Rebellion was put down, Fang Xiaobiao once again defected to the Qing Dynasty and was thus spared the death penalty.
Fang Xiaobiao this person is very contradictory, he was originally a remnant of the Ming Dynasty, but he turned to the Qing Dynasty, and then turned to Wu Sangui, he despised the rule of the Qing Dynasty in his heart, and coveted the glory and wealth given by the Qing Dynasty, so he was regarded by the Qing Dynasty as capricious, a villain, and did not get reused until his death. Before his death, Fang Xiaobiao wrote a book called "Dian Qian Jiwen", which recorded his experiences and stories under Wu Sangui in Yunnan, which also had many disrespectful words for the Qing Dynasty, which was a rebellious anti-book at that time.
Dai Mingshi quoted a lot of the contents of Fang Xiaobiao's book "Dian Qian Jiwen" in the "Nanshan Collection", so when Dai Mingshi was killed, Fang Xiaobiao naturally could not escape this obstacle. At that time, Fang Xiaobiao had died, and the Qing court still "exhumed and destroyed his body", and Fang Xiaobiao's relatives and children were also exiled to the army to set an example. Among them, Fang Xiaobiao's son Fang Dengyi and grandson Dao Ji were all assigned to Heilongjiang. Fang Xiaobiao's great-grandson, Fang Guancheng, was fortunate enough to escape exile because he was still young at the time, but instead fell into a Buddhist temple in Nanjing.
According to historical records, the Fang family was originally a famous and prestigious family in Tongcheng, Anhui Province, an official eunuch family, but after this disaster, it became in decline, fortunately, although Fang Guancheng suffered a huge family change and sent people under the fence in the temple, he was not discouraged at all, and every year in addition to diligent study, he ran thousands of miles to Heilongjiang to visit his grandfather and father, which can be said to be a great filial piety. Later, Fang Guancheng's grandfather and father died of illness, it was already the Yongzheng period, the Fang family's case was over, fang Guancheng came to the capital to make a living in order to change his tragic situation.
Fang Guancheng is just a weak scholar, with no power to tie chickens, and he will not have other means of livelihood, in order to make a living, he will set up stalls on the street to measure words for a living, and the money he earns can barely make a living. Once Fang Guancheng was helping people measure words on the street, he met a fortune teller, and the two were also considered to be peers. The fortune teller stared at Fang Guancheng for a long time and said, "Friend, I see that you have a full face, you are a rich and noble person, and you will become a high official in the future." Fang Guancheng laughed as soon as he heard it: "I am a poor student who measures words, and besides, I did not come to see you, so why do you make fun of me?" The fortune teller said, "Believe it or not, you will know later." ”
Fang Guancheng's self-esteem is very strong, he feels that the fortune teller is laughing at himself, so he no longer does the business of measuring words, but finds a new job, helping a butcher who runs a butcher shop keeps accounts. Once in the New Year, the butcher asked Fang Guancheng to write the Spring League, and Fang Guancheng's calligraphy was very good, so he helped write the Spring League and posted it on the door of the butcher's house. Coincidentally, at this time, Wang Fupeng of Pingjun County happened to be passing by, he saw Fang Guancheng's writing of the dragon flying phoenix dance, vigorous and powerful, and saw Fang Guancheng's talent, polite and polite, so he summoned Fang Guancheng into the palace as a staff member, responsible for helping him deal with the official documents.
Later, Yongzheng died, Qianlong succeeded to the throne, once Qianlong went to the home of Wang Fupeng of Ping County, found Fang Guancheng's calligraphy, greatly appreciated, let Fang Guancheng enter the palace as a cabinet secretary, Fang Guancheng thus flew Huang Tengda, successively served as a military aircraft Zhang Jing, an official Langzhong, a zhejiang inspector, less than ten years became the acting governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and finally for twenty years as the viceroy of direct subordination (from Yipin), became the Qianlong Dynasty's feudal governor, the imperial court's important minister. Fang Guancheng did a very high job in the official position, but one thing was very unpleasant, he did not have a son when he was fifty years old, so he was very anxious.
At that time, he was already the inspector of Zhejiang, and Jiangnan had many beautiful women since ancient times, so he spent a lot of money and bought a beautiful woman in Nanjing as a concubine, planning to set up a queen for the Fang family. Fang Guancheng's men sent the beautiful woman to Fang Guancheng's mansion in Hangzhou, and Fang Guancheng was very satisfied with the beautiful woman and planned to choose a zodiac concubine. However, later Fang Guancheng found a book of poems in the room of the beautiful woman, the poetry collection was made by Fang Guancheng's classmates when he was young, Fang Guancheng asked the beautiful woman, only to learn that the beautiful woman was the granddaughter of Fang Guancheng's classmate, and she took her grandfather's poetry collection to commemorate the occasion.
After Fang Guancheng learned that his concubine was the granddaughter of his classmate, he immediately dismissed the idea of taking a concubine, and he said to the people: "My youth and this Junlian Poetry Society, Andena's granddaughter? "After saying that, he sent someone to send the beautiful woman back home, and then gave the beautiful woman a sum of silver as a dowry, so that the beautiful woman could marry someone else." Eleven years later, Fang Guancheng and his wife Lady Wu finally had a son, this son was Fang Weidian, and later became the governor of direct subordination, both father and son were directly subordinate to the viceroy, which was also unique in the Qing Dynasty.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty