The story of Yu Chenglong, an upright official: Emperor Kangxi made an exception and wrote an inscription after his death.

Yu Chenglong was born in Yongning County, Shaanxi Province in the Qing Dynasty, and was born in Beiyue and Yushan. Born in the forty-five years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, he died in the twenty-third year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty at the age of sixty-seven. In the 12th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, Yu Chenglong was appointed as an assistant envoy, and in the 18th year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, he became an official. He has served as a magistrate, county magistrate, Taoist priest, provincial judge, political envoy, governor and governor, minister of war and university student. In more than 20 years, he has achieved excellent results in his career three times. With his outstanding achievements and clean and hard life, he won the love of the people and the praise of Emperor Kangxi, and became the best honest official in the world. Yu Chenglong was a little ambitious. He lived a farming life since childhood and received a relatively formal Confucian education. In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, 44-year-old Yu Chenglong abandoned his wife and other children despite the obstruction of relatives and friends. With the ambition of never having enough food and clothing, he vowed not to be unreasonable in his conscience, accepted the appointment of the Qing court and became a county magistrate in Luocheng, a remote frontier wasteland in Guangxi. Rosingli was ruled by the Qing Dynasty for less than two years. Because of the unstable situation, two consuls survived. When Yu Chenglong arrived in Luocheng, there were many weeds. There are only six residents and a few huts in the city, and the county government has only three shabby huts. He had to live in Guandi Temple. In trouble, the five servants who came with him soon died or ran away. He made a director to help the poor with strong determination and took the first step in his career. The first thing to do is to stabilize society and resume production. Therefore, Yu Chenglong adopted the method of dealing with troubled times and implementing heavy codes. First of all, it builds treasures in all cities and rural areas, severely punishes criminals who are caught and vigorously prohibits thieves. After the first peace in China, he trained with the villagers and was willing to bear the consequences of not being neighbors and not forgiving each other. With the determination to die for the people and not for boils, he is going to crack down on thieves in Xixiang, Liucheng, which is often harassed. Under the powerful momentum, the first leader of Qukui Mansion in Xixiang knelt down for peace, and only returned the robbed men and women. Then, we engage in joint defense throughout the county. Since then, neighboring thieves have never dared to invade their territory again. While eliminating domestic troubles and foreign invasion, Yu Chenglong pays great attention to recruiting refugees to resume production. He often goes deep into the fields to inspect farming, rewarding diligence and persuading laziness. Lead people to build houses, schools and fences in their spare time. For the farmers who moved into their new houses, they also wrote couplets for their relatives to show their encouragement. After winning the hearts of the people, he solved the problems of the vast majority of people with the struggle strategy of combining rigidity with softness, and made these unruly local tyrants obey the law. In the past three years, Luocheng has been in chaos, and the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment. Yu Chenglong and Guangxi spoke highly of their outstanding special envoy ancestors, while Luocheng was rated as a model of provincial governance. In the spring of the third year of Kangxi, Jin Guangzu was promoted to the governor and asked Yu Chenglong about politics. In this regard, Yu Chenglong has twice expounded his views on all aspects of local governance in Guangxi. The main contents are as follows: 1. Clarify local bureaucracy; Second, stealing and careful punishment; Third, the implementation of master Cui Ke; Fourth, reduce the burden on the people, dilute salt, eliminate disasters and remove impurities; Fifth, improve ethnic relations and so on. These suggestions are put forward to meet the needs of the ruler, but they are also in line with the interests of the people to a great extent, showing his courage to speak out and not be afraid of risks. In the sixth year of Kangxi, Yu Chenglong was recommended as the only outstanding talent in Guangxi by Lu Guangzu, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and was promoted to Hezhou, Sichuan. When he left L.A., he didn't even have an R.

Reclaiming wasteland was the basic national policy in the early Qing Dynasty, but Yu Chenglong prohibited the original owners from admitting their labor before 15, which was clearly stipulated by the Qing court. In addition, he solved specific problems properly. In less than two years, the population of Hezhou has soared and the fields have been reclaimed. Because of his outstanding achievements in recruiting people to reclaim wasteland, in the eighth year of Kangxi, Yu Chenglong was promoted to be a Tongzhi of Huguang Huangzhou Prefecture. Yu Chenglong to Huangzhou Prefecture, four years in the well-known, four years in the magistrate. Here are two things about him. The first is to prevent theft and save litigation. Theft became a major social problem in the early Qing Dynasty. In Qiting Town, Huangzhou District, thieves even robbed roads and killed people during the day, which seriously affected the local stability and the normal life of residents. Yu Chenglong appointed him as the county magistrate, responsible for the anti-theft work of the pavilion. In order to learn about theft and every major theft, he always visits in person. He disguised himself as a heavenly blessing, a tourist or a beggar, and went to villages and fields to investigate his suspicions, so he knew all the local deception. He also specially put a cloth bag in his clothes, which contained a list of thieves. He played the thief himself, stealing all the traces of the children and putting them in the bag. When dealing with criminals, he advocated cautious punishment, focused on education, and adopted the method of combining leniency with severity and treating thieves with thieves, which achieved outstanding results. Yu Chenglong is also famous for his formulaic characters in ci Litigation and Prison Break. He is selfless, sensitive and careful, and is good at finding the crux of the problem from some details that ordinary people ignore. He solved major unsolved cases in many places, rehabilitated misjudged cases, and was called the sky by the people. There are also folk songs wronged by ghosts. In unofficial history, notes and folk literature and art in Qing Dynasty, many stories about Li's crime-solving thief were reflected and even deified. For example, Pu Songling, a writer in Qing Dynasty, told two stories about him at Zhongcheng Liaozhai Festival. His criminal law thought had a great influence in Qing Dynasty. Because of his outstanding achievements in Huangzhou government, Yu Chenglong was highly valued by Zhang Chaozhen, Governor of Huguang, and was reused again. Second, twice pacified and staged a comeback. Yu Chenglong was transferred to preside over Wuchang government affairs, and will serve as Wuchang magistrate. Just then, the San Francisco uprising broke out. Wu Sangui's fierce offensive made Guizhou and Hunan invincible. At the same time, Wu Sangui sent several Hubei ministers to send official letters back to China to rebel and create riots. In May of the 13th year of Kangxi, the fake Zagreb was found in Macheng County, and the magistrate arrested him for being a thief. Everyone feels unsafe. Liu is from this county. His son accepted the fake gift from the lieutenant and took the opportunity to contact the shanzhai in Dongshan area to start a riot. As Yu Chenglong is very influential in the local area, he was asked to clean up the situation. Taking zhaofu as the policy, we found out the ins and outs, issued a notice to help the people, and let most people go home from the people. The situation soon eased. Later, he risked his life to enter Liu, which was the first attack, and persuaded Liu and 300 gunmen. /kloc-within 0/0 days, a storm subsided smoothly. In August, Yu Chenglong was transferred to Huangzhou, and the second riot followed. At that time, the spies who sneaked into Huangzhou took advantage of the emptiness of the state capital to contact the local gentry and launched a dispute. The momentum and scope of the mountain-tide confrontation war have greatly exceeded the previous work. Facing the sinister situation, Yu Chenglong clearly realized the importance of Huangzhou. He pushed aside the crowd, made a strategic camera that would never give up Huangzhou, and organized Xiang Yong to actively suppress it. Thousands of people in towns and villages were mobilized to fight fiercely with the dominant mob in the loess depression of Dongshan. Under his command, especially when he took the lead, he ignored his own life and death.

When Yu Chenglong worked in Fujian, he did a good deed and was praised by people. At that time, in order to deal with Zheng's existence in Taiwan Province province, the Qing court implemented the policy of sea ban. The local rulers, regardless of the successive years of military disasters, made the people miserable, and often set up prisons on the charge of opening a sea ban, killing many coastal fishermen. When Yu Chenglong consulted the case files, he found that dozens or hundreds of people were sentenced to death in each case, even affecting women. So he insisted on retrial and told those who dissuaded him that he was afraid of offending Qing and that his life would be too heavy. I swear I can't do it too salty! Under his efforts and leadership, 1000 people were released from the massacre, and those who could not return to poverty got the travel expenses. In the summer of the 18th year of Kangxi, Yu Chenglong was promoted as the special envoy of the provincial government because of his outstanding performance during his third term as a provincial judge. Wu Guangzuo, the governor of Fujian, once recommended Yu Chenglong to the imperial court, calling it the first in Fujian. Since then, Yu Chenglong has been appreciated and recruited by the Qing court. In the spring of the 19th year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi appointed Jane Yu Chenglong as the governor of Zhili. The following spring, he called Yu Chenglong to the Forbidden City, praised him face to face as the first upright official at this time, made poems and chapters, and gave him a silver horse to enhance his incorruptibility. Less than two years later, he became the governor of Liangjiang. As an official, Yu Chenglong always puts the rectification of official management at the top of his work. He pointed out: the security of a country depends on people's gains and losses, and the way to choose people depends on the heart of choosing people and knowing their shun. It protects the American government, which is the root of wisdom. Husbands can't help but get the happiness they are given, while bureaucrats will be accused of illegal giving. When he was in Huangzhou, the cloth bag in his clothes was convenient to prevent thieves. Please remove the servant after being promoted to governor. He said with a smile, this bag used to hold thieves, but now it is used to hold corrupt officials. Don't go! As a new official in Zhili, he launched a campaign to investigate corrupt officials and ordered all families to report corrupt officials and corrupt officials. , and let them take the appropriate seal to participate. In view of bribing, entertaining guests and giving gifts, he made inferences about officials who paid bribes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. He went to Jiangnan, did as the Romans do, and made a small visit to the people. Faced with the situation that officials, diseases and people in various counties have accumulated disadvantages, especially in Jiangnan, he can't help but sigh, alas! Official corruption is like turning the tide. How long is it? The Agreement on Promoting Benefits and Eliminating Disadvantages was soon promulgated, which listed disasters, poverty, bribery, officials and flags, and ordered the Institute to correct accumulated disadvantages from now on. At the same time, according to his own experience, he formulated six precepts of introspection for local officials, including diligent pension, cautious criminal law, non-bribery, private study, strict collection and frugality. Generally speaking, he is insatiable and tolerant of others. People say that wherever he goes, officials turn pale when they look at the wind. Emperor Kangxi also called it combining leniency with severity, which was difficult for people to learn. Yu Chenglong opposes the seniority of honest and promising talents. He opposed the rigid appointment system of the Qing court, thinking that it was not conducive to the construction of official management, which led him to have no time to ask officials and had no intention to rectify his position. Unfortunately, his sweet words are often trapped hundreds of miles away. To this end, he recommended talents many times. For example, Zhili Tongzhou magistrate, Jiangsu political envoy Ding and so on. They are all honest officials with outstanding achievements. Because of his recommendation, they were highly valued by Emperor Kangxi. Yu Chenglong is also very concerned about scientific research and education. In the culturally developed south of the Yangtze River, bureaucrats and powerful people pay bribes to study politics and cheat in scientific research is prevalent. Poor scholars are often defeated by Li.

His Qing. Sadness was well known at that time. According to the report, as soon as the news that he became the governor of the two rivers came out, the price of Nanjing cloth suddenly rose, and Jinling Lianhua Town changed cloth. In other words, no one dares to use music when they get married. Scholars stay away from him and destroy Ya Dan. Even those who are too scared to leave home are treacherous and cunning, each with his own wife, birds and animals. You can only see cold dishes and soup in the back room, so your clothes and boots are torn and there is nothing outside. Jackie Chan and Xiahou died, and men and women in Nanjing went on strike in tears. Tens of thousands of people hold incense every day. Down to Lai Yong's peddler, Semu and monk Fan also knelt down and wept bitterly, showing that the middle and lower classes were very sad about his death. Emperor Kangxi made an exception and wrote an inscription in person, which was a praise for his integrity in his life. Yu Chenglong is good at calligraphy and poetry. His works and manuscripts were compiled into 7 volumes by his master Sun in Yushan, and were compiled into appendices 1 and 8 volumes in Qing Dynasty. In addition, during his tenure in Zhili and Liangjiang, Yu Chenglong also compiled 46 volumes of Ji Fu Zhi and 54 volumes of Jiangnan Zhi, which contributed to the collation and preservation of local political, economic and cultural materials. Yu Chenglong's name is Jia Zhen, and the Han army hangs a yellow flag. In the seventh year of Qing Dynasty, Kangxi was appointed as the magistrate of Laoting County, Luanzhou County, Tongzhou County, Tongzhou County, Tongzhou County and Zhili County. Twenty-nine years, left the empire, the Han army Huang Qi viceroy. He served as river chief for 30 years and died in 39 years. In thirty-seven years, the waters south of Baoding merged with muddy water, which was unbearable and sometimes flooded. The governor's visit starts from Laojuntang and Liangxiang in Laohekou, passes through Beishilipu, Gu 'an and Zhujiazhuang in the southeast of Yongqing, and then reaches Wolong River, leaving Liujiakou Triangle Lake in Bazhou and entering Xiguhai. * * * Dredged 72.5 kilometers of rivers and built more than 90 kilometers of north-south dikes. Emperor Kangxi named Yongding River. From then on, the muddy water was diverted to the northeast without migration, which lasted for 40 years.