Main deeds:
1. In order to show "incorruptibility", the senior official of Tang Zhi County even flogged his father, a Muslim teacher who paid him 50 Jin of beef.
2. Killing cattle was forbidden by the imperial court, but Tang Feng flogged the father of a Hui teacher who was engaged in beef business to death without asking why, which aroused public indignation and shocked the market. The event that triggered the strike of Hui Gong.
3. Tang Feng demands that the victimized Hui people "rape the government and bear the responsibility according to law". Such a "clean" magistrate of a county actually found 8,200 pieces of silver in one year. Officials corrupt and pervert the law. Under the stereotyped imperial examination, local tyrants and evil gentry also run amok.
Creative background:
Wu, the author of The Scholars, was born in a noble family. Great-grandfather and grandfather are two generations of "versatile officials" (Biography of Mr. Wenmu by Cheng Jinfang). There are six scholars, one of whom won the second place and the other explored flowers. And his father, Wu, was a tribute during the Kangxi period. Wu Yu 1722 (Kangxi 61) was admitted as a scholar, and his father died in the same year. Because he is not good at managing his livelihood, he lives like a prodigal son. 1729 (the seventh year of Yongzheng), when he took the imperial examination, he was dismissed as a "great writer" and was insulted.
Later, he left his hometown angrily and made a living by selling articles and helping friends. 1736 (the first year of Qianlong), Wu participated in the pre-test of Bo Ci. Zhao, the governor of Anhui Province, officially recommended him to attend the imperial examination in Beijing, but he "insisted on learning from illness" (Gu Yunzhi Wu Chuan) and never took the imperial examination again. In his later years, he was often hungry and cold. This personal experience made him feel particularly deeply about the advantages and disadvantages of stereotyped writing and imperial examination.