However, people who know history are filled with indignation. Because this Yang Changjun is really a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty.
Why is a generation of honest officials ridiculed?
Leave ten feet for people's livelihood.
When it comes to Yang Changjun, you have to mention a painting. The title of this painting is "Love Lotus in Zhou Lian Creek", and the author is this Yang Changjun. He also wrote a poem on the painting:
Biliantang Road, where lotus flowers are in full bloom, looks deep.
Many flowers force water, but the boat is small.
Let the incense blow, and the incense will fill the lake.
Finally, it was signed as "Silla's pen, Yang Changlun painted the title".
Another admirer of the lotus totem.
Another inheritor of Zhou Dunyi's incorruptible spirit.
It turns out that this Yang Changjun is an authentic Hunan native and another representative of Hunan's honest and clean official culture.
Yang Changjun, whose real name is Shiquan, alias is Han Jing, alias is Old Man Hutian, and he is from Fengle, prodigy township, Xiangxiang County. Born in Daoguang of Qing Dynasty for six years, he died in Guangxu of Qing Dynasty for twenty-three years. Smart, burly and strong since childhood. At the age of 20, he studied with Luo Zenan, a great scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, and became a county student committee member at the age of 25. After following Luo Zenan against Taiping rebels, he joined Zeng Guofan's Xiang army. In the sixth year of Xianfeng, his father died and went home to mourn for three years.
Xianfeng ten years, left, back to the army. He has served as magistrate Jia Tongzhi, magistrate of Quzhou, governor of Zhejiang Storage and Transportation Road, governor of Zhejiang, governor of Gansu, governor of Ruke, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, governor of water transport, governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, governor of Ministry of War and prince of Taibao. After his death, the Qing government named him the Crown Prince, and set up a special shrine in the place where he worked. He has been an official for more than 50 years, and his career has been bumpy.
Yang Changjun X, his father Yang Ronghu is just a craftsman, making fabrics to help others make a living. Born in a bitter family, Yang Changjun developed a simple lifestyle.
During the Xianfeng period, Yang Changjun entered the imperial examination in Beijing. He borrowed three taels of silver and three salted duck eggs from his neighbor and went on his way. Scrimping and saving along the way, copying documents and doing coolies for others. When I arrived in Beijing, I left a wallet and half a salted duck egg. After the exam, he took the rest of the money and duck eggs home to his mother, saying that they would be used to teach future generations. Such a story has been circulating in his hometown for a long time.
His family motto is "adhering to the tradition of Hongnong, taking honesty as the voice of the White House, taking self-cultivation as the home, ruling the country and leveling the world, studying hard and going forward bravely", which laid the foundation for Yang Changjun's honesty and self-improvement.
Yang Changjun, an official, does not change his quality. Because of his poor family, his father married the four-year-old daughter of his neighbor Chen Weng as a child bride. Chen is half a year younger than him. When they were young, they herded cattle and chopped wood together, which was very enjoyable and affectionate. Yang Changjun studied abroad, and his father often worked outside. As the main labor force in the family, Chen works bareheaded and barefoot in the fields, just like a poor servant. After Yang Changjun became an official, his relatives thought that Chen was not good enough for him. At this time, a wealthy businessman in Gu Mi is willing to marry his only daughter with a generous dowry of ten acres of fertile land and twenty-two thousand pieces of silver. Such generous conditions have moved Yang's parents who have lived below the poverty line for a long time. After consulting with his parents, Yang Changjun resolutely refused, saying, "Chen Nusu is hardworking and filial, but she has no virtue. She is as tolerant as a China person, but she only sees her goodness and knows nothing else. Why did she abandon her famous wife instead of looking for someone she didn't know? People's views on rank and wealth are despised and unworthy. If children want to help the world, they must be honest. How can they be covered by themselves? My family has always been modest, thrifty and hardworking, which is why a rich girl is restless and her children are proud of her. Women are also very cold. My father and daughter are sincere gentlemen. They have a long history. How can those self-righteous people get discouraged and then do something virtuous and immoral to hurt others? The birthright of female husband and wife has long been decided, and it has been a long time. Although they are polite and arrogant, they love each other deeply. What have you learned from reading the book of sages? Endure the dross, let it drink the hate of divorce, and make me ashamed for life! May mother not reply! "
In a word, parents are speechless. Seeing his son's resolute attitude, his parents decisively rejected the kindness of the wealthy businessman.
On one occasion, Yang Changjun returned to his hometown in Hunan. His wife is going to visit her father-in-law on foot, and her mother-in-law is going to hold a banquet. Yang Changjun quickly stopped him: "I haven't eaten sweet potatoes, tofu and vegetables in my hometown for a long time, but these are enough." Say hello to your wife and cook together. All my childhood friends have dinner with me. Seeing him poking sweet potatoes with chopsticks and eating sweet and refreshing food, everyone got up and held hands, calling him "the governor who never forgets potato roots." At that time, Governor Shen Baozhen of Liangjiang came from afar to visit and watch the vegetable garden in the east of the house. At this time, radish and mustard swayed with the wind and grew well. Chang Jun is entertaining distant friends with side dishes at home. Shen Baozhen is not much faster. Immediately, Su Zizhan's poem of picking vegetables was written on the white wall: "Qiu Lai East Garden is full of frost and dew, and Lu Shusheng has mustard greens, and his descendants are full. I am still as full as before, and I don't know why I eat chicken and dolphins. " Laugh at this "potato and vegetable governor".
However, Yang Changjun reached out to his clothes, and his life was very comfortable.
After the development, we don't forget the roots, which tests not only Yang Changjun's kind character, but also his tall personality.
Yang Changjun's "not forgetting his roots" is also reflected in his concern for the poor.
He has always had a special feeling for the poor. There is a west river near his home. Villagers have to rely on a Yongji Bridge built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to go out. It's in disrepair. When it rains in spring and summer, the bridge deck is slippery, so many people fall into the river. In the first year of Xianfeng, he went to Xiangxiang County to take the exam. Because it had just rained, he accidentally fell into the river. Fortunately, he saved himself by swimming.
After returning home, he told his father that he must build a bridge after he became famous, and don't let the villagers suffer such dangers.
1882 As an official, he never forgot the bridge in his hometown. He funded the transportation of a large number of long stones from Sichuan and supervised the construction of the Tai Po Bridge. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xikou Reservoir was built on the bridge in order not to be flooded. As long as it is a dry season, the bridge can still be used. According to local people, Yang Changjun built four bridges in his hometown, three of which are still in use today.
In September of the same year, Yang Changjun officially became the governor of Zhejiang. At this time, Zhejiang suffered from war and was in a depression. Chang Jun first visited the people anonymously to understand the key to farmers' acute illness and fishermen's difficulties. In addition to continuing to implement the original convenience measures, he also paid for work in autumn, recruited idle people to flow into the mountain ponds of the new canal, and strictly implemented the reward and punishment system of persuading attendance and punishing laziness. In the spring, county officials trained the backbone, formulated measures to persuade farmers to punish laziness, and banned casinos, cigarette houses, prostitution places and private prostitutes. During this period, he also mobilized his subordinate officials to plant willows around the West Lake and on both sides of the Bai Causeway of Waihu Lake, and wrote a poem: "Thirty thousand weeping willows are planted by hand, and the West Lake is covered with new green in spring. If he crosses Shuangdi Road in the new year, he will follow Bai Su in Tangyin. "
Seeing that the Huaihe River in Shandong Province is full of refugees, Yang Changjun took out his Dai Lu, built slums, adopted more than 48,000 victims, and personally came to the disaster area to observe the people's feelings.
Besides, Yang Changjun dares to fight the wicked rationally. In the past, there was an evil official in Zhejiang government, known as "Guo Tiger", who colluded with local officials and gentry, colluded with Beijing officials and castrated temples, and took all the lawsuits, so that the fish side dominated the party. Yang Changjun's former governors were all controlled by him. Yang Changjun had discovered many misdeeds of Guo Laohu when he was an envoy. Less than a month after he became governor, he deliberately appointed "Guo Laohu" to investigate major cases, and took this opportunity to seize the handle of his bribery and cheating, conduct a comprehensive investigation on him, and investigate all his previous crimes. In the end, "Guo Tiger" was sentenced to death, the bureaucrats involved were sealed up together, and a number of new bureaucrats were appointed, and Guan Ji was one of them. At that time, there was a popular folk song: "When an honest official takes office, the tiger will be trapped."
Lei, who helped military affairs in Jiangnan and later served as an official in Guanglu Temple, wrote a couplet: "All talents are in a hurry, and they are on track." Ming Jiude, Dazheng Jigang. "Ji Gang is a true portrayal of Yang Changjun's politics for the people.
Yang Changjun served as the governor of Zhejiang Province for seven years. On April 28th, the 4th year of Guangxu, Zuo spoke highly of his own history in his memorial to Emperor Guangxu: "Yang Changjun brought the Yuhang case to the official office, and there is no doubt that he is different from me; However, if you look at the people of Zhejiang and think about it, it shows that they have not lost to the people of Zhejiang. "
In the third year of Guangxu, he retired as governor of Zhejiang and returned to China. Yang Yangui, the eldest son of the magistrate in Wuchang at that time, heard the news and set off for home overnight before his father. When Yang Yan returned home, he found that his family was luxurious and could not abide by Yang Changjun's strict training of "clothing is the first duty of a family". Let the anxious seamstress make big cloth hats, shoes and socks for the whole family and distribute them to brothers, nephews, men and women scattered all over the country. And strictly ordered "not to wear ruler, silk and brocade to provoke father's anger." Yang Yan took the lead in dismissing too many servants, allowing only two footmen and one maid per household. The way the family greeted Yang Changjun's return reflected the strictness of example and family education.
After returning from Hangzhou, he used his salary to build ten brick houses and a simple family house in his hometown and bought 30 acres of land. Later, Yang Changjun became an official again, and became the governor of Shaanxi but Gansu and the governor of Gansu. His youngest son wrote to him, saying that there was a family named Jiang in the village who recently sold their land at half the usual price, hoping to buy another 40 mu of land at home. Yang Changjun wrote back: "There are forty acres of land, Shan Ye soil and water, and no longer worry about food and clothing; Compared with the old people, there are too many. What else is there? But very tired. "
Loudi Museum also has the first couple.