Wang Jie (1725- 1805), a great man from Hancheng, Shaanxi. Wang Jie lost his father at the age of eight, and his family was poor. Smart and studious since childhood, when he was young, he worked as an aide to Chen Hongmou, the governor of Jiangsu Province, and was highly valued by Chen. Finally, I took the first place in Shaanxi Examination (Xie Yuan) to go to Beijing to try the college entrance examination, and submitted the Examination of Emperor Qianlong Entering the Palace with the third place in flower exploration. At that time, it happened that Qianlong wanted to select talents in the north. Seeing that Wang Jie's handwriting was neat and delicate, he ranked first and became the first scholar in the founding of the Qing Dynasty. According to legend, after Wang Jie won the top prize, the Shandong bachelor was unconvinced and thought the selection was unfair, so he went out to take the joint entrance examination in Wang Jie. The first part is: "Confucius is a saint, Meng Zixian, and the article has been in Qilu since ancient times." Wang Jie immediately replied: "Wen Wangzhao, Wu Wangmu, now Taoism is in the Western Qin Dynasty." Juzi's attitude changed from this and he respected him very much, which reflected that Wang Jie's literary talent was really outstanding. After winning the top prize, Wang Jie was on duty in the South Study at first, and then he was promoted several times, reaching the rank of bachelor of cabinet. In the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong (1774), he served as assistant minister of punishments, then transferred to the history department and promoted to the right capital suggestion. In the fifty-first year of Qianlong (1786), he served as a military affairs minister and master of the study, and the following year he served as a university student in Dongge.
Personal deeds
Wang Jie's personality is honest and frank. When he was the head teacher in the upper study, he lectured severely and stood on his knees. Once, when Qianlong saw the prince, he was punished and knelt down. He immediately stood up and said, "Teach the son of heaven, but don't teach the son of heaven, it's a monarch and a minister!" When Wang Jie saw this, he said, "Teach Yao Shun, but don't teach Yao Shun! Although it is unknown in history, it shows the reputation of Wang Jie's integrity and honesty.
Wang Jie has held an important position in North Korea for more than ten years, being honest and outspoken. He was a rare honest man in the ruling group at that time, especially in the struggle against the traitor and greedy minister Xiao Shenyang, who often fought with Xiao Shenyang in Korea. After Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, he announced the 20 major crimes of Little Shenyang. Wang Jie participated in the trial of Xiao Shenyang case and found out all kinds of crimes of corruption and bribery in Xiao Shenyang. The annual tax revenue of the Qing government is more than 70 million taels, while the property of small Shenyang is more than 800 million taels, which is equivalent to the total tax revenue of the court for more than ten years. In this case, Emperor Jiaqing ordered Xiao Shenyang to commit suicide and confiscated his property. At that time, it was said: "Small Shenyang fell, and Jiaqing was full." It can be seen that Wang Jie played an important role in the struggle against Shenyang.
Before and after Emperor Jiaqing, land annexation and exploitation in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan and Chu were very serious, and people's lives were not very hard. The An Baili Uprising broke out in Henan, Shaanxi and Sichuan, and the Qing army sent troops to encirclement and suppression for a long time. Wang Jie was relieved of his official duties due to illness, but he paid close attention to the An Baili Uprising, and immediately wrote to Emperor Jiaqing, advocating a policy of appeasement and preferential treatment for the uprising masses, believing that the root of the uprising was the darkness of local history and the rebellion of officials. Some people advocate that Xiang Yong and the rebels should be reorganized into formal troops by recruiting soldiers.
Wang Jie lived in Qianlong and Jiaqing years. In his youth, when Neo-Confucianism declined and Pu Xue rose, he was born in Guanzhong and admired the practical learning style of Zhang Zai, the founder of Guan Xue. In the twenty-seventh year of Qianlong (1762), that is, the second year of Wang Jie's top scholar, Zhangzi Temple was perfected again, and his hometown wrote a letter asking him to write a couplet. Wang Jie happily wrote two couplets: the first one: Taoism shakes Guanzhong, and the origin of sixteen characters. The second link: three generations can look forward to the long-cherished wish of the mine field, and the second moment is like uncovering beans, which can release merits. "In order to show that he is willing to inherit Zhang Qian's way of governing the country, his theory of apricot gardening is his masterpiece. Wang Jie is not recorded in Continued and Biography of Guan Xuezong, so this chapter will introduce it.
In the fifth year of Jiaqing (1800), 76-year-old Wang Jie asked to be dismissed because of old age and infirmity. Emperor Jiaqing ordered him to stay and chartered him to enter the DPRK on crutches. Three years later, he resigned and returned to his hometown. Before leaving, he also wrote a special letter, demanding to solve the problem of political corruption, and proposed to plug the country's financial loopholes through official rectification. On the day when Wang Jie resigned and left Beijing, Emperor Jiaqing gave him a walking stick and two poems of Qianlong as a token of his respect. There is a line in the poem, "The Tao stands upright in a temple, and the wind returns to Hancheng." Spoke highly of his life.
In the 9th year of Jiaqing (1804), on the eightieth birthday, the governor came to offer his condolences with imperial poems, inscriptions and treasures. He went to Beijing to thank him and died in Beijing soon. His main works are Xing Yuan Yi and Bao Haruka.