Li Zhifang

Li Zhifang

Li Zhifang (1622-1694), named Yeyuan, was born in Wuding, Shandong Province. In the 15th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1642), Ju Ren was a Jinshi in the 4th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1647). In 1665, Li Zhifang inspected the salt administration of Zhejiang Province. He told the emperor about the corruption in the officialdom. He asked the emperor to inspect the salt seriously and pay attention to the punishment of officials' salaries. Soon, Li Zhifang was promoted to the official minister.

In June of the 12th year of Kangxi (1673), Li Zhifang left Beijing as a minister of the Ministry of war and went to Hangzhou as "governor of Zhejiang military affairs" to pacify the anti Qing forces. In 1673, Li Zhifang led his troops to pacify Geng Jingzhong. In 1677, Li Zhifang led the army to attack ziwukou, conquering Baxian and rat hole, and the enemy barracks were basically leveled. In 1683, Emperor Kangxi visited the south, and Li Zhifang went to meet him. He was recalled to Beijing immediately. He paid homage to the Bachelor of Wenhua hall and the Minister of the Ministry of official affairs, and "went to the cabinet to deal with affairs" and was honored as the "cabinet elder".

In 1688, he left home. In 1694, he died at home. He was 72 years old. Emperor Kangxi granted him Wenxiang. In 1733, Wuding Prefecture ordered Li Zhifang to be worshipped in Xianliang temple.

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Life of the characters

A new official career

In 1642, Wu Sangui led Qing soldiers to attack Li Zicheng. The Qing soldiers plundered and burned in Huimin city. Li Zhifang's family fled from an alley in the north of the city. Li Zhifang's parents were killed by the Qing army outside the north gate of Huimin city and buried in the north of the city and in the east of Jiazhuang. In the same year, 21-year-old Li Zhifang won the examination. In the fourth year of Shunzhi (1647), when he was appointed as the official of Jinhua Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, he was promoted to the head of the Ministry of punishment. After many promotions, Li Zhifang was promoted to the position of doctor. When Li Zhifang was the censor of Guangxi Dao, he wrote to abolish the unreasonable provisions on grain and currency, and forbid the officials of prefectures and counties to make bluff and waste money to hold farewell ceremonies. In the 16th year of Shunzhi (1659), Emperor Shunzhi thought that Li Zhifang could often put forward unique political opinions and grasp the degree of relaxation in the implementation of law. Therefore, Emperor Shunzhi appointed Li Zhifang to participate in the compilation of Huidian. in 1660, Li Zhifang took the post of Shanxi provincial governor. In the following year, Kangxi succeeded to the throne, abolished the post and recalled to Beijing. in October of the first year of Kangxi (1662), Li Zhifang asked for leave to return to his hometown in Shandong Province to bury his dead wife Hu. In the second year of Kangxi (1664), the imperial court again granted Li Zhifang the imperial censor of huguangdao. In 1667, Li Zhifang inspected the salt administration of Zhejiang Province, and soon became the principal of Henan road. In the past, the bachelor was on duty in the cabinet, and all departments played memorials, and the votes were drawn up on the same day. Since aobai was the assistant administrator, the bachelor could not deal with the official affairs in time, and the memorial could only be looked up in detail the next day. So please restore the old system and get rid of the disadvantages. " Li Zhifang wrote again: during the reign of emperor Shunzhi, rewards and punishments were clear, and governors did not dare to be unscrupulous. Eighteen years later, the governor led a lot of people to get carried away with their fate. Blackmail subordinate officials and endanger the people. The people of the whole country and I are all the people of the emperor. Besides, you love the people like children. How can you tolerate the instigation and manipulation of such people? I accept the strict punishment of the law with those who are guilty of the same crime, but others don't. That is to say, I don't dare to censor the governor, and I don't dare to censor the secretary. Greedy people can get benefits, but they have no means to control greed. Why not do evil and indulge themselves? Now that the emperor is personally in charge of the administration, please rule in person to remove the derelict governor and clean up the official administration. " So the emperor ordered to inform the ministries to carry out, and soon investigated and dealt with the corruption of several provincial governors. Because of his contribution, Li Zhifang was promoted to the fourth rank and became the censor of the left Deputy capital. Li Zhifang played the emperor again. He asked the emperor to inspect the salt seriously and pay attention to the salary of officials. Soon, Li Zhifang was promoted to minister of the Ministry of officials.

Send troops to rehabilitate

In the 12th year of Kangxi (1673), Li Zhifang served as the Minister of the Ministry of war and the governor of Zhejiang military affairs. Soon, Wu Sangui rebelled in Yunnan. In 1674, Li Zhifang asked to restore the original number of model soldiers and urge them to practice guns. As soon as the memorial was presented, Geng Jingzhong rebelled in Fujian. Geng Jingzhong sent his generals Zeng Yangxing, Bai Xianzhong and Ma jiuyu to covet Zhejiang, which shocked Zhejiang. Li Zhifang dispatched all his generals to defend Xianxia pass, and sent Li Rong, the commander in chief, to lead his deputy to fight. At that time, the imperial court ordered general Pingnan and Dutong laita to lead his division into Zhejiang. In May, Li Zhifang, together with Rita, led 1000 full soldiers, 2000 green flag soldiers and 500 brave soldiers to Quzhou. Everyone thinks Huicheng is a strategic place and should not give up easily. Li Zhifang said, "No. Quzhou is in the upper reaches. Without Quzhou, there would be no Zhejiang. Today, I will not look back on Guarding Quzhou. " Bai Xianzhong captured Kaihua, shouchang and Chunan from Changshan, and Zeng Yangxing invaded Yiwu, Pujiang, Dongyang and Tangxi from Chuzhou, blocking the transportation of military pay. Zuhongxun, the chief of Wenzhou Town, rebelled, summoned the bandits to capture Pingyang and Huangyan, and mobilized tens of thousands of superior troops to attack Quzhou. in July of the same year, Li Zhifang and laita paraded at shuitingmen. After the parade, they led the General Li Rong and Deputy Du tonghutu to the enemy base and stationed in kengxi. The two armies fought fiercely in the kengxi area. Li Zhifang personally supervised the battle with a knife and urged him to evade slightly. Li Zhifang said, "I'm the commander of the three armed forces. I'm afraid that if I retreat, I will be taken by the enemy. Today's victory and defeat determine my life and death! " Cheng Long retreats before the battle, and Li Zhifang is executed according to the military law and strict in military discipline. The men crossed the moat and pulled out the fence and defeated them. Li Zhifang also sent Chen Shikai to recover Yiwu, Tangxi, shouchang, Chun'an, Changshan, Jinhua Shiliang, dagouyuan, Dongyang, etc. The imperial court praised Li Zhifang for his good dispatch. In October, the enemy general sang Ming and more than 50000 people from Changshan threatened xigouxi of Quzhou. Relying on the mountain situation, Chen Shikai united with the South Road to encircle and suppress the bandits' nest. Li Zhifang and Lai TA Yi prepared to make a surprise attack. They sent Ting Mei and Shen lingchan Bu to ambush in the gully at night. They attacked and broke the enemy's camp respectively, and the rebels fled in a hurry. In the 14th year of Kangxi (1675), Wang jieshupo, one of the Kangxi relatives, once recuperated in Jinhua and came to Chuzhou again. Beizi frata also recovered from Huangyan and besieged Wenzhou. Only nine jade occupied Jiangshan, Changshan, Kaihua and more than a dozen important places to confront Li Zhifang. In May, taking advantage of the flooding of the river, Li Zhifang led his troops from Nantang to attack the rebels and killed more than 700 people. The imperial court knew that there was a change in central Fujian, and ordered Prince Kang to withdraw the siege of Wenzhou and take Fujian. However, Li Zhifang proposed to go straight to Xianxia pass, saying: "the road to progress is not in Wenzhou or Chuzhou, but in Quzhou. Although Ma jiuyu's insistence on the west side of the river is difficult to break down immediately, the rivers and mountains to the South and Changshan to the west can be attacked from the path. Once our troops attack and let them be attacked head to tail, the barracks in Hexi will not be able to be preserved independently. " Prince Kang followed Li Zhifang's advice. So he sent troops to daxitan to recover the land. Ma jiuyu fled and wanted to capture Xianxia pass by another way. The generals received a secret letter from Li Zhifang and attacked them urgently. Ma jiuyu's generals Jin Yinghu and others surrendered when they were in trouble.

Exterminate the enemy

In 1676, Prince Kang was ordered to enter Fujian Province. Before he left, Li Zhifang said, "as long as the prince restrained his subordinates from plundering property and women, he could enter Fujian Province without blood." Before long, Geng Jingzhong surrendered, and the enemies of Wenzhou and Chuzhou broke up. Geng Jingzhong's subordinates Ma Peng and Wang Wensheng also occupied Yushan, Qianshan, Yiyang and Dexing. Li Zhifang asked for suppression. At that time, Wu Sangui's army occupied Ji'an and Yuanzhou, but Jiangxi's army could not move eastward, so he sent troops alone to recover Yushan and Wensheng fled; he marched from baishaguan to Dexing and captured Ma Peng; Guo Shoujin was sent to recover Qianshan, Xing'an, Yiyang, Guixi and other counties. The imperial court praised Li Zhifang for his meritorious service in suppressing thieves in neighboring provinces and granted him the title of minister of the Ministry of war. In 1677, Li Zhifang sent general Jiang maoxun and others to defeat the bandits and make them surrender. First, Wen Sheng and others voluntarily surrendered. Li Zhifang ordered Jiang maoxun to guard the pass and rode to the enemy's nest with more than a dozen people to express sympathy. The enemy general Lin erzhan surrendered. Zheng Jinkou was close to the coast, and Li Zhifang sent troops to defend him. He defeated the enemy in Miaoling lake, and defeated the rest of the enemy in Wenzhou. Jin general, Zhan Tianshu, and Yi Shikai surrendered. In 1678, Li Zhifang led the army to attack ziwukou, conquering Baxian and rat hole, and the enemy barracks were basically leveled. In 1679, Li Zhifang ordered Mou Dayin, commander-in-chief of Dinghai, to clear up the sea transportation, and Tong Yao and others. All the boats and equipment robbed by the bandits were returned. In 1679, the emperor issued a decree to discuss the military merits of Syria to the front-line officers and soldiers in Zhejiang Province. According to the law, Li Zhifang should discuss the military merits of Syria with reference to the military position. According to the Qing Dynasty's compassionate regulations, the rank of military merit is calculated according to the number of meritorious service records and the rank of meritorious service. Li Zhifang made military contributions through civilian work. According to the regulations on discussion and narration, "if civilian military contributions should be increased by one grade, they should be increased by one grade", and if they are increased by twenty-nine grades, they should be increased by twenty-nine grades. In December of the same year, Li Zhifang ordered Mou Dayin, commander-in-chief of Dinghai, to lead his troops to patrol the sea. When he saw the island and the thatched cottage in Mucheng, he found out that it had been burned and destroyed. In 1680, Prince Kang's army was about to set out. The prince was still worried and asked, "is this deployment really complete?" Li Zhifang replied

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