Practice and Characteristics of Yan Jingming's Financing

Abstract

Yan Jingming, born in Chaoyi, Shaanxi, was a famous official for his respectable and moral loftiness as an Imperial Secretary in the Board of Revenue and Population, and as a Grand Secretary in the late Qing Dynasty. He is especially famous for financing. The practice and characteristics of Yan Jingming's financing are: being rectitude and advocating simplicity, trouncing grafters, promoting honest and upright officials to very important posts; handling affairs openly, auditing diligently, trying to make both ends meet by being economical.

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