Wei was born in a peasant family. After becoming an official in North Korea, he was more concerned about the sufferings of the people. In Shunzhi 16, when he was the chief constitutional doctor of Taibao Prince, he went to the southern suburbs of Beijing one day and saw hundreds of people named Li gathered together to cry, so he asked in detail why. Originally, the land and houses of the mill factory in the southern suburbs were occupied by staking and moved to other places within a time limit, resulting in thousands of families having nowhere to live. He comforted everyone and quickly told the emperor about this situation. The paper says that the suburbs of Beijing are the foundation of the country, and CoCo Lee is the power to protect the country. If they occupy their land and houses and make it impossible for them to survive, they will surely gather people to make trouble, and there will be a rare peace in the capital and the country will not survive. When the emperor saw it, he ordered the land in the suburbs of Beijing to be avoided.
Shunzhi 18 wrote to the emperor to save the criminal law, reduce taxes, repair the country, and be compassionate to the people. It is said in the book that at the beginning of the world, people were in dire straits. Moaning is like a bird flying for the first time. Don't pluck its feathers; Don't shake its roots when you first plant it. The emperor attached great importance to this proposal, aiming at exempting the agricultural tax by 5 million taels. He played a considerable role in easing the contradiction between Manchu and Han. In Kangxi 10, the emperor summoned the princes and ministers in Yingtai, Nanhai, and said that the official department suggested that all officials in Zhili should try their best to choose Manchu. Emperor Kangxi asked Wei Yi Jie what he thought of this proposal. He replied: "If all counties in Zhili want to learn Chinese, it is better to choose people who are proficient in Chinese as officials." The emperor nodded repeatedly, and the discussion ended. A storm that intensified ethnic contradictions subsided. In Kangxi 17, Baixiang, Longping and Ningjin suffered floods. At that time, Wei had resigned from the DPRK and returned to his hometown to live in seclusion. In order to save the people, he joined local officials to report the disaster to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in detail, so as to exempt all poor donations and three-tenths of agricultural taxes in the three counties.
Wei is an honest official. He retired bravely in the torrent, resigned before he was old, and amused himself by writing books in his later years. He has written thousands of books, including Xi Lu Xian, Lin Kun's Essays, Collection of Appreciation of Ancient Chinese, Notes on Yinfu Classic, Biebi of Zhu Lin, etc., which are collectively called Collection of Collected Works.
In the twenty-fifth year of Kangxi, that is, on New Year's Day 1686, he wrote a couplet on the door, saying, "The Prime Minister Aconitum returned to the forest in the sixteenth year, and the white-haired scholar celebrated his youth in the seventy-first year, preferring to forget the war." In April this year, Wei died at home due to dental disease at the age of 7 1 year. Emperor Kangxi, 18 years old, sent officials to bury two generations in the Silver Imperial Sacrifice, Wen Yi, posthumous title.