Qing Dynasty: Zheng Xie Xingshu Lu Zhen "Memories of Jiangnan. Qingming" axis Zheng Xie (1693-1765), courtesy name Kerou, was a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu. Born in poverty, he studied from Lu Zhen, a village sage. In the first year of Qianlong (1736), he entered the army. In the seventh and eleventh years of Qianlong, he served as Fan County and Wei County Zhixian in Shandong. When he was in Wei County, he was in a year of drought, and despite the obstruction of others, he opened a warehouse to borrow grain, asked the people to write IOUs, and saved more than 10,000 people. [Original text ] |