Wang Chongguang

Wang Chongguang

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Wang Chongguang (1502-1558), a native of Huantai new town, Shandong Province, was born in the name of Luochuan. In the 20th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1541), he was a Jinshi. He successively served as the head of the Ministry of work, the member of the household department, wailang, Yunzhong Jinshi and Shanggu counsellor. Later, he was appointed as the chief minister of Guizhou Province. He was ordered to purchase Guizhou timber to build the three halls. He died of malarial disease due to chronic labor. Jiajing personally wrote a plaque of "loyalty, diligence and compassion", built a temple for worship, and gave it to Shaoqing of Taipusi, Prince Taibao and Minister of the Ministry of war.

Life of the characters

Poor students are eager to read

Wang Chongguang was poor when he was a child. He was often short of clothes and food, but he even forgot to eat and sleep when he was studying. He often said, "I don't read when I'm hungry. When I read, I forget all my tiredness."

Once, his father Wang Lin said to him privately, "you are so tired of reading. You'd better live on your own to avoid such hardship." After hearing this, Wang Chongguang cried bitterly and said, "if I give up reading, I will have no life." And wrote a large number of Jinshi's name on the book case to show his ambition to read. Wang Lin was very surprised and said, "those who are interested in my family are my children." In the 20th year of Jiajing period (1541), he passed the imperial examination and became the first person of Wang family in Xincheng. In order to encourage future generations to study hard, Wang Chongguang, who stepped into his official career, set up the first written family motto of the Wang family: "all those who exist must be moral, and all those who do must be moral; all those who are friends must be readers, and all those who speak must be words of reading."

Clean and honest, refuse bribes

Wang Chongguang was promoted from the head of the Ministry of work to the head of Huguang Department of the Ministry of household, responsible for the management of trade tax in Jiujiang area. Jiujiang has been a place of waterway transportation since ancient times, where merchants gather, trade is developed, and commerce is prosperous. In the eyes of outsiders, the management of Jiujiang tax is a "fat poor". After Wang Chongguang took office, he severely cracked down on speculators and illegal people. When they sent gifts to visit one after another, he refused and threw them into the river in public. He said firmly, "this time, what you throw is a gift. Next time, even people and things will be thrown into the river!" The common people clapped their hands and cheered one after another. The crafty merchants could only abide by the law and discipline, and did not dare to overstep it. The trade order in Jiujiang area has been rectified, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the national interests have been safeguarded. In one year, hundreds of stones of grain have been saved for the country.

Seeking profits for the people and fearing the powerful

In 1553, Wang Chongguang was promoted to Shanggu counsellor. After he took office, after a lot of on-the-spot investigation, he found that the shortcomings of the current policy restricted the political and economic development of Shanggu, so he formulated 12 policies for Shanggu, that is, 12 policies for the development of Shanggu area.

These 12 policies are in line with the development of local people's livelihood and the stability of border defense. However, the new policy destroys the original pattern of interest distribution, which is bound to offend the vested interests and may affect their official career. In the choice of the interests of the common people and personal future, Wang Chongguang chose to seek benefits for the common people. He pointed out the shortcomings of the current policy and implemented a new deal in Shanggu. Not surprisingly, his twelve policies were strongly opposed by the vested interests represented by Yan Song. He was transferred from the prosperous and rich capital to Guizhou, where the conditions were backward and the environment was harsh. He served as the chief minister's left counsellor. Although he was demoted, Wang Chongguang didn't lose heart and enthusiasm. He was still loyal to his duty.

Mu Zhongqin, governor of pingman

In the 36th year of Jiajing (1557), the Imperial Palace was on fire, burning down the three main halls of Fengtian, Huagai and Jinshen (today's Taihe hall, Zhonghe hall and Baohe Hall). In order to rebuild the burned palace, the imperial court ordered Wang Chongguang to gather wood in Guizhou, when the local ethnic minorities rebelled.

In the face of danger, Wang Chongguang was ordered to lead the army to put an end to the rebellion. After analyzing the situation between the enemy and ourselves, he sent a large army to occupy the dangerous pass as a stronghold, surrounded the rebel groups and adopted the strategy of encircling without fighting. When the rebels were short of supplies and unstable, Wang Chongguang rode into the enemy camp alone and read out the imperial edict. In the end, the rebels were appeased and vowed to surrender for generations. Wang Chongguang did not waste any money to fight for food, did not break an inch of iron, and pacified the rebellion in a peaceful way, which was highly praised by the imperial court. Emperor Jiajing sent Wu Shan, the Minister of rites, to Guizhou to express his sympathy and inscribe a plaque of "serving the country faithfully". After the rebellion, Wang Chongguang continued to supervise the wood mining.

In August of 1558, Wang Chongguang died of illness due to long-term haze and miasma in the mountains. Emperor Jiajing thought that "the success of pingman was for loyal monarch; the death of Du Mu was for diligence", so he wrote "loyalty, diligence and compassion" to express his regret for his early death, and built a temple for him in Yongning, Guizhou Province.

Chinese PinYin : Wang Zhong Guang