Chapter 14
Edited by Shi Jingwen leads writing and promotes the younger generation to be respected.
He and Wei have the friendship of Bole and Maxima.
What is the Changling in Qing Dynasty, followed by Wei Yuan. This is no joke.
The relationship between Wei Yuan and He Changling looks like a shogunate, but in fact they are old friends who depend on each other and respect each other. It is also the relationship between Maxima and Bole.
Wei Yuan, a native of Longhui, Hunan Province, and He Changling, a native of Changsha, Hunan Province, are fellow villagers in Hunan Province and have endless friendship with each other. In addition, Wei Yuan, who has similar ideas and the same views, is just a magistrate, and he Changling, a magistrate, can get to know him and be a teacher and friend.
Wei Yuan, born in 1794, He Changling, nine years older than him, is Wei Yuan's senior in Yuelu Academy. They first met in 18 14. At this time, Wei Yuan, who just turned 20, went to Beijing with his father, mainly to study for the exam, while He Changling had been a scholar and editor in Beijing as early as six years ago. Despite the disparity in fame and fortune, we are in the prime of life and have frequent contacts, and our relationship is getting closer and closer because we don't read books every day or anything. In this close contact, He Changling felt Wei Yuan's outstanding talent more and more truly.
He Changling was very successful in officialdom. After a period of editing, he was sent to the local officials and later rose to the top. Wei Yuan, on the other hand, has been wandering for a long time.
On the one hand, Wei Yuan's talent is not satisfied, on the other hand, He Changling is not available.
In order to help support fellow villagers and seek support for their own governance, as early as 18 19, when He Changling was studying politics in Shanxi, he invited his favorite "Maxima" Wei Yuan to the school account.
From then on, Wei Yuan became a "official and civilian" figure (performing the duty of participating in and discussing state affairs), and became attached to politics for the first time, which laid a political foundation for him to become an outstanding thinker.
In the fifth year of Daoguang (1825), He Changling was appointed as Jiangning's deployment envoy (equivalent to the "executive deputy governor" in charge of finance and personnel), and Wei Yuan was invited as a staff officer again.
During this time, Wei Yuan helped He Changling to do two important things:
First, He Changling's private library was used to edit royal classics for him.
Then, for the sake of the problem of grain transportation that he was very concerned about, he made a detailed and thorough reform plan.
At this time, Tao Shu was also transferred from Anhui to Jiangsu Governor (as He's direct leader). In the first half of that year, after Wei Yuan concentrated on editing some Imperial Classics, he accepted the invitation of Tao Shu and He Changling in the second half of that year and participated in the formulation of the shipping plan.
The following spring, Wei Yuan went to Beijing to take the exam, fell out of favor in Sun Shan again, and returned to Suzhou to continue editing the Imperial Classics, which was completed at the end of the year. The Imperial Classics was not edited in one go.
This book has collected more than 300 articles on political system, economic reform and water conservancy construction since the early Qing Dynasty. He compiled a 3 million-word masterpiece, signed by He Changling and Wei Yuan, but it was mainly Wei Yuan's wisdom and achievements. Editing this book adheres to the "four principles", that is, words must prove things, words must prove today, words must be based on the law, and words must take advantage. This book created a great public opinion about reform, so when it came out, it stirred up a thousand waves like a stone, sweeping away the ethos that intellectuals didn't care about the world at that time and buried themselves in old papers.
Scholars at that time, after reading this book, felt an eye-opener: I didn't expect that there was so much knowledge in the world. It turns out that the national economy and people's livelihood are all learned. In the following decades, the book became popular in China, and the style of articles included in the book almost became the popular style of academic papers at that time, which influenced a generation of students and formed a pragmatic style of study.
Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, who is famous for his ability to read books and run industries, praised this book as "the most fully prepared in economy, anecdotes, negotiations and politicians".
A scholar once wrote a poem praising He Changling and Wei Yuan for co-editing The Imperial Classics. The poem says: Long life, good at taking its essence, diligent in searching ancient books, what is Mo Shen? A volume opens the eyes of the world, only to know that knowledge is born for the people.
Seeking the reform of grain and salt transportation and marketing with Tao Shu * * *
During the Jiaqing period, the canal dried up, the river transport was blocked, and the court was in a food shortage, so it asked the government to be an official; The reformists advocated changing water transportation from river transportation to sea transportation; Conservatives banned the existing system on the grounds that it could not be changed.
Wei Yuan is an active advocate of shipping. He believes that sea transportation is better than river transportation, which is beneficial to the country and the people and the benefits of officials and businessmen. After he entered the shogunate of He Changling, he vigorously promoted these ideas and supported and promoted the water transport reform in charge of Tao Shu and He Changling.
During the period of He Changling's shogunate, he replaced He Changling in drafting "Fu Wei Government's Inquiry about Maritime Transport" and "Preface of Maritime Transport", stating the benefits of maritime transport, vigorously advocating maritime transport of grain, and helping He Changling to formulate specific maritime transport plans. According to this plan, Taohe successfully transported food by sea.
1April, 827, He Changling was promoted to Shandong Buzheng. Before going to Shandong, Wei Yuan was invited to go with him. At this time, Wei Yuan was preparing for the third exam. Considering that his father Gong Banglu was an official in Jiangsu and was too old to travel, he submitted his resignation to He Changling. Resignation is resignation. At this time, Wei Yuan made a special trip to visit Bao, a counselor who lived in seclusion in Wumen, Nanjing. Why did he discuss the policy of governing Lu for a long time? At the farewell banquet of He Changling, Wei Yuan put forward all the strategies to govern Lu to the incoming He Changling. Visible, true feelings, chivalrous courage!
He Changling also cherishes Wei Yuan. Before he left, he strongly recommended Wei Yuan to his boss, Tao Shu.
Wei Yuan and Tao Shu are family friends. Under the recommendation of He Changling, Wei Yuan entered the shogunate of Tao Shu more smoothly.
At this point, Tao Shu has been promoted to the governor of Liangjiang. Wei Yuan plays a greater role beside Tao Shu. He helped Tao Shu to carry out a major reform-salt policy reform. In recent years, Huaibei private salt has disappeared, and the national tax revenue has increased greatly. Tao Shu made great contributions to the court. In this medal of meritorious service, there are half of Tao Shu and half of Wei Yuan.
Whether Wei Yuan is around or not, they always feel the same way. For example, on the issue of smoking ban, they are all supporters of "no sending" Lin Zexu.
According to historical records, Guizhou 1835 or so planted opium and opened a tobacco museum. 1839, imperial envoy Lin Zexu went to Guangdong to ban smoking, and Guizhou Governor He Changling also banned opium in Guizhou.
At this time, Wei Yuan's apartment in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, Xieyuan, wrote poems and declared war on opium, echoing Lin Zexu and He Changling at a distance, and morally supporting the ban.
1845, Wei Yuan, who was over 500 years old, finally won the Jinshi and became an official.
This year, he was appointed by the court as the magistrate of Dongtai in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Because of his heavy responsibilities, Wei Yuan couldn't travel around, so he revised the Three Commandments for the third time after work. At this time, He Changling has just been promoted to Governor Yungui, and it is difficult for them to get together.
At the beginning of April the following year, Wei Yuan took his younger brother back to Hunan to worship his ancestors and asked him to bring back the newly published Wu Sheng Ji 10, and asked He Changling's younger brother He Xiling to convey it to He Changling, with a congratulatory letter attached. He Changling was mentioned in the letter as "Daqing, the hometown of Southwest China".
Visible, Wei Yuan's gratitude and admiration for Bole and the times.