Xidian was a minister who made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty. Besides Zhang, other people we are familiar with are E Ertai, Fu Heng, Fu Ankang, A Gui and a * * * 12 person. In addition, my younger brother and Lin also enjoyed it, but because of this, they moved out of the ancestral temple during Jiaqing years.
Zhang was made a third-class scholar, but before that, there was no precedent for a civil servant to be made a marquis in the Qing Dynasty, because he could only be knighted by military service.
Zhang's father, Zhang Ying, was a college student in Wenhua Hall and a minister of rites during the reign of Kangxi. Because of his father, Zhang was highly valued by Kangxi after he became an official. At the age of forty-three, he entered the South School, and later served as the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Official Affairs.
After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he paid special attention to Zhang. Almost all the imperial edicts and edicts were written by Zhang, who successively served as the minister of rites, the minister of household affairs, the minister of official affairs and the university student of Baohe Hall.
In the seventh year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng established a military department, and many rules and regulations of the military department were formulated by Zhang. Together with Taiziyi and Jiang Tingxi, he became the military affairs minister of the Ministry of War.
In the 13th year of Yongzheng, Zhang, Zhuang Yunlu and E Ertai became ministers in charge of life, and Yongzheng made Zhang deserve the ancestral temple. In addition, the editor-in-chief of Ming History is also Zhang.
When Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he was 26 years old. The three ministers left by Yongzheng for Qianlong always felt uncomfortable for Qianlong. Therefore, when Zhuang Yunlu was in Qianlong for four years, he was abandoned because of the influence of his eldest son, Prince Hong, and was suspended from his double salary and relieved of his position as commander in chief.
And E Ertai died in Qianlong ten years. After twenty years of Qianlong, he withdrew from the Hall of Virtue because of his nephew Chang E.
As for Zhang, when Qianlong ascended the throne, he was sixty-five years old. Ganlong still respected Zhang a few years ago. After all, he was the minister of life left by Yongzheng, but with the growth of Zhang's age, he became more and more stubborn and excited, so there was a gap between the old minister and the new emperor.
Zhang and E Ertai are ministers in charge of life, and the contradiction between them is getting deeper and deeper. Zhang often satirizes and satirizes E Ertai regardless of occasion. After E Ertai's death, he was succeeded by his ex-wife, but Qianlong made his qualifications and prestige far less than Zhang's former ex-wife cabinet.
Generally speaking, all the reactions to Zhang are the result of the contradiction between the old ceremony and the new emperor. Although he was once exempted from Zhang's qualification and title, after Zhang's death (at the age of 84), he was allowed to enjoy the ancestral temple according to Yongzheng's testamentary edict, and his title was restored.