Li Wei
Li Wei
Li Wei (February 2, 1688 to December 3, 1738) was born in Tongshan, Jiangnan (now Lizhai, Dashahe Town, Fengxian County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province) and was a famous official in the Qing Dynasty.
In the 56th year of Kangxi (1717), Li Wei donated money to wailang, then became an official in the imperial court. He went through the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. He was deeply appreciated by Emperor Yongzheng. He served as a doctor of Hubu, yanyidao of Yunnan, buzhengshi, governor of Zhejiang, Minister of war, acting Minister of criminal department, governor of Zhili and so on. He was incorruptible and fearless of power. No matter what position he held, he could observe the suffering of the people and was deeply loved by the people. In 1738, Emperor Qianlong died of illness. According to the governor's regulations, Emperor Qianlong ordered him to be given a sacrifice and burial. He was named Minda.
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Life of the characters
Early experience
On the first day of the first month of the 27th year of Kangxi (February 2, 1688), Li Wei was born into a wealthy family in Fengxian County, Jiangsu Province. In the 56th year of Kangxi (1717), Li Wei donated money to yuan wailang, and later joined the imperial court as yuan wailang of the Ministry of war. In the 58th year of Kangxi (1719), Li Wei was appointed as a doctor in the household department.
rapidly go up in the world
After Yongzheng emperor ascended the throne, he immediately appointed Li Wei as Zhili post preacher, but before he arrived, he was appointed Yunnan Salt post preacher. In the second year of Yongzheng (1724), Li Wei was promoted to the post of minister in charge of Finance and taxation of the whole province, but he was still in charge of salt affairs.
In 1725, Li Wei was promoted to governor of Zhejiang Province. In the fourth year of Yongzheng (1726), Li Wei also served as the salt Minister of Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces. He sorted out the salt administration and investigated the illegal salt trafficking. In 1727, Li Weisheng was appointed governor of Zhejiang Province.
Li Wei had no prominent family background. However, it is undeniable that from the 56th year of Kangxi (1717) to the fifth year of Yongzheng (1727), Li Wei had been in various important positions from a member of Wupin to a senior official of the imperial court. His promotion was not slow.
Search for illegal salt
A survey of Li Wei's working experience shows that he has been in charge of or concurrently in charge of one party's Salt Administration for a long time. As early as the first year of Yongzheng's accession to the throne, Li Wei was appointed as Yunnan Salt post road. A year later, he was promoted to the post of minister, but he was still in charge of salt affairs. Two years later, Li Wei, who had already served as governor of Zhejiang Province, was ordered to take up the important post of salt administration envoy of Zhejiang Province and Zhejiang Province. This shows that Li Wei is very good at managing salt administration and investigating illegal salt.
In Qing Dynasty, there were more than ten salt areas, among which Zhejiang salt area was one. Zhejiang salt was sold in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces. However, in the Qing Dynasty, the system was rigid. Where the salt area of Zhejiang Province was close to the salt area of Huaihe River and Huaihe River, it was impossible to buy cheap salt from Huaihe River and Huaihe River nearby. Instead, it was necessary to eat high priced salt from Zhejiang Province. As a result, smuggling was prevalent in the area and the transportation and sales of official salt were not smooth. Li Wei strengthened the anti smuggling team and focused on cracking down on the salt lords with strong organizations. Shen Shi is a famous salt owl. He has hundreds of subordinates and several large ships. He often defeats officers and soldiers and is very arrogant in smuggling. Li Wei appointed Han Jingqi to fight with Shen and finally captured him.
In the fourth year of Yongzheng period (1726), facing the situation of illegal salt flooding, Li Wei proposed to set up officers and soldiers in Chang'an town of Haining County, a "moderate channel" for illegal salt peddlers in Zhejiang Province, and ordered Chang Zhendao, general Jingkou, deputy general of military standard and other officials to supervise the general's land and water inspection, so as to strictly prevent Lianghuai illegal salt from invading the marketing area of Zhejiang salt from Zhenjiang government, so as to ensure the market of Zhejiang salt. At the same time, we must resolutely crack down on the rampant activities of salt Lords.
At the same time, Li Wei promptly and effectively dispersed to the imperial court. He believed that in order to control the rampant problem of illegal salt in Zhejiang, it is necessary to take Chang'an Town in Haining as the center, spread out, deploy certain troops and strengthen inspection. At the same time, the imperial court was invited to order the deputy general, the city guard general and other officers to arrange land and water forces around the four prefectures of Su, song, Chang and Zhen in Jiangnan to arrest the smugglers at any time.
Construction of seawall
During his tenure in Zhejiang, Li Wei also focused on the seawall affairs in Zhejiang. Seawall is an important facility for coastal residents in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to resist the invasion of sea tide. Seawall projects are mainly concentrated in Songjiang of Jiangsu Province and Jiaxing, Hangzhou and Shaoxing of Zhejiang Province, especially Haining pond at Qiantang Estuary. Li Wei attached great importance to the construction of seawalls, and almost every year he had to renovate them.
In July 1728, the emperor was dissatisfied with fan Shiyi, governor of the south of the Yangtze River, for his handling of the project of changing soil and stone in Songjiang seawall. He ordered Li Wei to go to the construction site for investigation, and adopted Li Wei's plan of repair, which was inspected and managed by Li Wei and the governor of the south of the Yangtze River. The seawall project is financed by the government, but the amount allocated is not enough and must be approved before it is started. Li Wei raised funds by himself in many aspects in Zhejiang Province. "In addition to the positive items that should be used, every year he tried to save extra surpluses in salt industry and so on to offset them one after another.".
The place of spring and pressure
Li Weiting is also good at "hunting for illegal salt" from the perspective of local investigation. In 1728, Li Wei found out that the bandits were rampant in the south of the Yangtze River. One of the important reasons was that the local officials sheltered the bandits to a certain extent. They often took the stand in for them and made them escape. In the same year, the imperial court ordered Li Wei to take charge of the theft cases in the seven prefectures and five prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River on the ground that there were many robbers in the south of the Yangtze River, and local officials such as fan Shiyi, who was then the governor of the South of the Yangtze River, were not the talent of the original robbers.
During this period, Zhang Yunru and others "bewitched the people with Charms" in Jiangning, and some people, such as Gan Fengchi, who practiced martial arts and taught the art of war, and whose duty was to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, joined in. In the seventh year of Yongzheng (1728), Li Wei found out the existence of this organization and pursued it. Later, Li Wei called fan Shiyi and Ma Shihua as the watchman to cover up the suspects, so the focus of the investigation turned to Liangjiang officials. In 1729, the case was concluded by Li Wei and others. Ma Shihua and others were dismissed, fan Shiyi was dismissed, and Zhang Yunru was executed. However, Gan Fengchi and Zhou kunlai were not sentenced at the same time. They were both released. This is the so-called "Jiangnan case". Hu Zhongliang, a researcher, pointed out that when the case happened, the emotions of the adherents of the former Ming Dynasty in Jiangnan had declined, and the characters in the case, such as Zhang Yunru, were just making up stories to promote themselves; while Li Wei's handling of the case constituted "a blow to the complex of the adherents of the former Ming Dynasty in Jiangnan", and at the same time, it also severely damaged the influence of the rivers and lakes who had been operating in Jiangnan for a long time.
Character ending
In 1729, Li Wei was appointed Minister of the Ministry of war. After entering the throne, he was killed by his mother and ordered to return to the throne. Soon after, he added the prince Shaofu.
In May 1732, he was appointed as the acting Minister of the Ministry of punishment. Soon after, Li Wei became governor of Zhili, and ordered him to be under governor and controlled. In 1733, Li Weishu impeached Erqi, the commander of the infantry army, to engage in illegal activities and disturb the people. It was confirmed that the emperor took Erqi as the younger brother of ertai, a famous Minister of the Qing Dynasty, and pardoned him. Therefore, Emperor Yongzheng rewarded Li Wei.
In the first year of Qianlong (1736), he was also in charge of the general river of Zhili. Li Wei asked Zhuzhou County to take charge of Yingtian. He had jurisdiction over Tongyong, Bayi, Tianjin, Qinghe and Daming, and led the manager. In the second year of Qianlong's reign (1737), Shu FA, a guard of the prince's house, went to the state to protect cook from the people of Anzhou. On the order to cure cook crime, Jiawei law enforcement justice, give four regiment dragon supplement service. In the third year of Qianlong (1738), Zhu Zao was impeached to be greedy. Zhu Zao's younger brother Zhu Heng coerced local officials and intervened in relief. Shangshu neqin and sun Jiagan were ordered to seize Zhu zaoguan and punish Zhu Heng according to the law.
Li Wei's illness broke out, and Emperor Qianlong sent imperial doctors to the government for treatment. On October 22 (December 3, 1738) in the third year of Emperor Qianlong, Li Wei died of illness. At the age of 51, Emperor Qianlong ordered him to be given a memorial burial according to the governor's regulations, with the posthumous title of Minda.
Historical records
History of the Qing Dynasty: biography of Li Wei
Real records of emperor Shizong of Qing Dynasty
Records of Gaozong in Qing Dynasty
Xiaocangshan house collection
Biography of Zhili governor
Anecdotes and allusions
Fearless of the powerful
When Li Wei was a minor official, he showed a kind of uprightness not afraid of the powerful. When he was a doctor in the Department of accounts, he was in charge of bank affairs. There is a certain Prince's subordinate who will charge ten taels extra for every thousand taels of silver collected. Li Wei didn't listen to his repeated remonstrations, so he set up a cabinet in the corridor, which said "a certain king wins money" and "this is a certain Prince's" surplus ", indicating that it was illegal income, which made the prince very embarrassed and had to stop overcharging. Yongzheng also appreciated this point of Li Wei and put it into great use after he ascended the throne.
In 1733, Li Wei impeached the younger brother of ertai, the great scholar of Baohe hall, the then chief cabinet officer, and the commander of Bujun, Erqi, who engaged in private activities and harassed the people. After investigation, Li Wei won the Yongzheng emperor's commendation. In the second year of Qianlong (1737), Li Wei memorialed that it was true that cook, the bodyguard of Chengqin palace, competed with the people of Anzhou for land. Emperor Qianlong praised Li Wei for enforcing the law impartially, and Li Wei was rewarded with Si Tuan Long's supplementary service. In the third year of Qianlong (1738), Li Wei impeached Zhu Zao, the governor of the river, for his corrupt deeds. His younger brother Zhu Juan coerced local officials and intervened in the disaster relief. After being verified by the Minister of the Ministry of officials and sun Jiagan, the Minister of the Ministry of punishment, Zhu Zao and Zhu Juan were finally brought to justice.
Respect literati
Because Li Wei's official was donated, he didn't come from the imperial examination, so he didn't know a few big characters. When the master and others drafted official documents and memorials, they had to read them to him. If there was something wrong with them, he orally revised them, and they often got to the heart of the problem. Everyone admired them, and Li Wei's extraordinary tact can be seen from this. Li Wei likes to listen to people's storytelling when he is on business. He is often criticized when he meets Zhongxian
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