Cao Xueqin’s father is Cao Yong.
Cao Yong’s ancestors are Han nationality. Their original ancestral home is in present-day Liaoning Province. He was a supervisor of students during the Qing Dynasty and the chief of Jiangnan weaving in the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the Qing Dynasty. He was also the eldest son of Cao Yin and a writer of the Qing Dynasty. Cao Xueqin's father.
In the fifty-first year of Kangxi, Cao Yong's father Cao Yin passed away. After Cao Yin's death, Emperor Kangxi ordered Cao Yong to inherit his father's position and take up the post of Jiangnan Weaving. However, the good times did not last long. Two years after Cao Yong took office, in the fifty-third year of Kangxi's reign, Cao Yong died of illness.
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After Cao Yong died of illness, Emperor Kangxi personally arranged for Cao Yin's nephew Cao Fu to be adopted by Cao Yin, and he continued to take charge of Jiangning Weaving. In order to make up for the shortfall caused by Cao Yin during his lifetime, Emperor Kangxi appointed Li Xu to be the weaver in Suzhou and to manage the salt trade between Huaihe and Huaihe for one year.
Cao Yin had a lot of family expenses and official entertainment and gifts, which required a huge amount of money. In particular, he took Emperor Kangxi on five southern tours and spent money on food, drink and entertainment, which caused Cao Yin to suffer a huge financial deficit. .
It was this huge deficit that laid the root of decline and destruction for the Cao family. As early as 1709, Gali, the governor of Liangjiang, secretly reported to Emperor Kangxi that Cao Yin and Li Xu had misappropriated and embezzled more than 3 million taels of silver from salt taxes in Lianghuai and requested impeachment, dismissal, and investigation.
Emperor Kangxi did not approve, but he repeatedly warned Cao Yin and Li Xu in private that they must find ways to make up for the deficit. However, the debts were too much, and Cao Yin was really powerless and could only let the heavy debts weigh on him. On the body.
Cao Yin was exhausted, exhausted, and fell ill from overwork. It had been three years since Cao Yin's death, and someone found out that Cao Yin had misappropriated 373,000 taels of silver from the weaving treasury.
Kangxi ordered the Lianghuai Salt Administration Li Chenchang and Li Xu to pay back the shortfall. Two years later, the shortfall was finally made up. Emperor Kangxi cared so much about the Cao family .
It is because of the deep friendship with Cao Yin and his father. By the time of Cao Xueqin's father, Cao Fu, Emperor Kangxi was already old, and his attitude towards the Cao family had changed a lot.
Baidu Encyclopedia—Cao Yong