In the Qing Dynasty, there were many people with miserable endings, displaced or mixed in the seven grades, and the road was bumpy
In the era of the imperial examination, entering the academic world did not mean that the career was full of uncertainties. Take, for example, the 114 champions of the Qing Dynasty: while no one was killed, many were demoted, reprimanded, or dismissed by the imperial court for making mistakes. Some of these scholars did not end well.
The most unfortunate is Li Pan, a native of Tongshan, Jiangsu. In the thirty-sixth year of the Kangxi reign (1697), he served in the Hanlin Academy for two years and was appointed as the Yin of Shuntianfu, but was sentenced to exile for being on the border** and has not been heard from since. He was only 30 years old at the time.
The second is Long Ruyan, who was originally from Tongcheng, Anhui Province, in the twenty-fourth year of Jiaqing (1814), at the age of 19, he won the first place, and was valued by the Jiaqing Emperor, and his peers thought that his career would soar to the sky. However, his husband and wife were at odds and interfered with official business, and Emperor Jiaqing punished him"Dismissed from office and not allowed to reappoint"of punishment. The scholar suddenly became an ordinary person. After Jiaqing's death, although he was rewarded with the post of cabinet secretary by Emperor Daoguang, he was never appointed again and was suppressed for life.
followed by Weng Tongyi and Xu Yuanwen. As a master who had a close relationship with the Tongzhi and Guangxu dynasties, Weng Tongyi was famous. He was a Chang acquaintance of Jiangsu, the champion of Xianfeng in the sixth year (1856), and the official to the first grade. He insulted the Empress Dowager Cixi in the Wuxu Reform, so he was arrested"Demotion will never be used", the local ** was also ordered to strictly control him. Weng Tongyi was abused in his later years and died of depression. However, he was rehabilitated a few years after his death and was posthumously promoted to the rank of knight.
Xu Yuanwen was once a favorite minister of Emperor Kangxi, an official to the Ministry of Etiquette, and a scholar of Wenhuadian University. After returning to his hometown, the other party still squinted at it, and if he had to kill, he hurried to kill, but he also died of grief and anger at the age of 58. After death, he did not even get a knighthood.
Mongolian scientists Chongqi, Qiren and Han people pass the exam, and only scientists pass the exam. In the end he committed suicide, and the reason given by people was"He witnessed the troubled times, and he was powerless to return to heaven, so he repaid the country with death", but there are actually more important reasons. In the fourth year of Tongzhi (1865), Tongzhi's eleven-year-old daughter was elected empress, and he was an official in the capital for a time and was promoted to minister of the interior.
But Cixi did not like Chongqi's daughter, Arut. After the death of Emperor Tongzhi, Cixi blamed her daughter-in-law and ordered her to go on a diet. Just two months later, the Empress Dowager Cixi was tortured to death, officially known as a hunger strike. Chongqi also participated in subversive activities and was constantly ostracized, for which he could only swallow his anger. After the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, Cixi and Guangxu fled to Xi'an, but Chongqi remained in Beijing as a minister to clean up the mess. Chongqi was neither trusted nor controlled, so he could only apologize for his sins with death, and his family also buried him.
Then there are Wang Shidan of Baoying in Jiangsu and Shi Suzhen from Wu County, both of whom did not have good results. Wang Shidan was already 59 years old when he took the exam, and because of his deafness, the emperor did not like him, and retired after a few years as a reviser in the Hanlin Academy. In the 70s of the last century, he was falsely accused and sentenced to several years in prison.
Shi Zang, the champion of the 55th year of Qianlong (1790), and the 10th year of Jiaqing (1805) served as the secretary of the Criminal Department of Shandong Shangshu, and was later convicted of the crime and dismissed from his post for punishment. Emperor Jiaqing thought that he had no reputation, but he also worked hard, and rewarded him for his editing title, at this time he was already in his fifties, so he retired with the title of editor, and the reason for his retirement was a foot disease. He was a sixth-grade clerk when he was admitted to the preparatory department, and after he retired, he became a seventh-grade clerk, which was miserable enough.
In addition, Bi Yuan and Yu Minzhong also did not do well. However, they enjoyed glory and wealth during their lifetimes, one was a governor, and the other was a military secretary. They were punished severely, especially after death.
Bi Yuan, a native of Zhenyang, Jiangsu, was raised in the 25th year of Qianlong (1760), and served as a local official for a long time. He died in the second year of Jiaqing (1797) and was posthumously presented to the crown prince. But two years later, he was convicted of failing to suppress a peasant uprising and misusing military spending. He was stripped of his hereditary position, his family property was confiscated, and the decline of his family can be imagined.
Yu Minzhong was a native of Jintan, Jiangsu, and was promoted in the second year of Qianlong (1737). In his later years, Yu Minzhong acted arbitrarily and violated laws and disciplines, and was reprimanded by Emperor Qianlong many times, but was not publicly punished. After Yu Minzhong's death, Emperor Qianlong held a grand funeral for him and buried him in the Xianliang Temple, but a few years later, he was ** due to the mistakes of his later years and retired again. A few years later, he was again punished for his sins and again stripped of his secular office.