雍正二年の罷考事件と田文鏡

Abstract

In the second year of Emperor Yung-cheng (1724), the scholars of Feng-ch'iu Hsien (封丘縣) concerted in action to boycott government examination as a demonstration against T'ien Wen-ching, the financial commissioner of the Province of Ho-nan (河南). In fact, he was a reformer who intended to shift economic and financial burdens from the shoulders of the peasantry to those of the gentry. When he tried to use resources of the local gentry for the construction of embankment along the Yellow River, the local scholars rose in protest against his policy, resulting in examination boycott, because they were largely sons of landlords and represented the interest of the local gentry class.