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Today we are talking for you about the heavy ministers of the early Qing Dynasty, the Xianghe people of Langfang, Hebei, and Yuan Maogong.
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the efforts of the rulers at that time made the comprehensive national strength rise day by day. Governing the world is naturally inseparable from the assistance of outstanding talents, for example, Yuan Maogong, a native of Xianghe, Hebei, who held many important positions during the Shunzhi and Kangxi dynasties.
Deng Chao's version of the Shunzhi Emperor
This Lord Yuan is a well-known family. The ancestors of the Yuan family moved from Zhejiang to Xianghe in the early Ming Dynasty, and Yuan Maogong's father, Yuan Banghua, was a zhi county in this generation. Banghua's eldest son, Yuan Maode, served as a general envoy, and the second son was Yuan Maogong.
Yuan Maogong was a third-year Jinshi of Shunzhi (1646 AD), the first batch of Jinshi in the Qing Dynasty, when Yuan Maogong was 35 years old, and was considered a relatively late politician. After that, he successively served as the Head of the Ceremonial Branch, followed by the Criminal Division, the Taichang Temple Shaoqing, the General Envoy of the General Administration Department, the Punishment Department Shilang, the Official's Attendant, the Guanglu Temple's Shaoqing, the Metropolitan Vice-Governor Yushi, and the Hubu Right Shilang, and other positions, and his administrative achievements became more and more outstanding.
The Kangxi Emperor in his youth
In 1660, Yuan Maogong, who was nearly fifty years old, was appointed inspector of Yunnan. At that time, Yunnan was located on the border and had just settled down, and Yuan Maogong faced no small challenge after taking office.
He served in Yunnan for 9 years, selfless and fearless, boldly eliminating local maladministration, developing agriculture, reducing military service, and paying great attention to coordinating the relations between the ethnic groups in Yunnan. In addition, Yuan Maogong also actively promoted civil rule, encouraging the children of Toastmasters and the children of scholars to study in schools. Later generations of officials serving in Yunnan adopted Yuan Maogong's policies, and during the Qing Dynasty, Yunnan had a total of 808 jinshi and 9906 people. It can be said that Yuan Maogong's pioneering policies laid a good foundation for later generations of Sven.
In the sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1667), the imperial court decided to implement the army tun tian system in Yunnan to reduce the expenses of the imperial court, but the effect was not good. Yuan Maogong boldly changed his policy and promoted the military and civilian methods. He leased the land that belonged to the army to the peasants for farming. Farmers only need to hand over a certain amount of grain, and other harvests can be left for their own use. In this way, the hardships of the peasants were reduced and the supply of the army was guaranteed.
Yunnan was an official, and naturally could not escape the entrapment of wu Sangui, the general of the town guard. In this regard, Yuan Maogong was as calm as water and was not humble, and he was never tempted by the other party.
In 1669, Yuan Maogong was transferred to shandong. At that time, Shandong had just suffered a flood caused by the mouth of the Yellow River, and the people in the province were mourning and suffering. After his arrival, Lord Yuan actually understood all kinds of maladministration in his province while providing disaster relief. He wrote a ten-point analysis and reported it to the Central Committee. The Kangxi Emperor adopted most of the opinions after being spared.
The archway in front of the Governor's Mansion in Shandong
By the following year, social order in Shandong Province was stable and agricultural production had recovered.
In 1671, Fan Chengmo (son of the famous minister Fan Wencheng), who was equally famous as Yuan Maogong, stepped down from his post as inspector of Zhejiang. The Kangxi Emperor wanted Yuan Maogong to enter Zhejiang as an acting administrator. Upon hearing the news, the Shandong Shimin begged the imperial court to leave Lord Yuan behind, and the imperial court finally approved the request.
At that time, Yuan Maogong, who was nearly 60 years old, became ill with overwork, and the Kangxi Emperor specifically allowed him to "lie down and rule Shandong".
Yuan Maogong, who was seriously ill, insisted on working with illness, and before his death, he dictated his omission. In the final recital, Yuan Maogong did not make any personal demands, but asked the emperor to continue to give leniency to the people of Shandong after the disaster. In the song, one of the sentences, "The subject is to fill the gully, and there is no hatred in death" is particularly touching. The Kangxi Emperor was deeply moved when he saw it, and played them one by one.
In September 1671, at the age of 60, Yuan Maogong died unexpectedly as the governor of Shandong. The people of Shandong wept bitterly, and hundreds of people escorted his coffin back to his hometown in Xianghe.
After Yuan Maogong's death, he was buried in the tomb of Yuan Jiazu, the grand prince of Xianghe County, with a stone stele in front of the tomb engraved with the "Tomb Inscription of Yuan Qingxian" written by Li Xia, a scholar of the Bohol Temple, and Zhu Zhibi Shudan, a soldier of the Bingbu Shangshu.
Unselfish, specializing in benefiting others, Yuan Maogong practiced this sentence with more than 20 years of eunuch career. He has made remarkable achievements in ruling the country and has earnestly reduced the burden of the people for the people, and won the sincerity of the people in Yunnan and Shandong. Yuan Maogong also became a model and model for later generations of officials. This Fellow of Hebei is also worthy of commemoration and learning from future generations.
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