Chen Pengnian

[1] He began his official career five years later as a magistrate in Xian, Zhejiang, before occupying the same post in Shanyang, Jiangsu.

During this time, his superior, Ašan, governor-general of Jiangsu, falsely accused Chen of bribery and establishing lecture halls in former brothels.

[1] Chen was sentenced to death but given an imperial pardon by the Kangxi Emperor, who put him on a commission to edit the Sichao shi (四朝詩), an anthology of Song, Jin, Yuan, and Ming poetry.

He later participated in an official survey of the Grand Canal before he was appointed director-general of Yellow River Conservancy in Henan in 1721.

[1] During his lifetime, Chen authored collections of prose works as well as treatises on public administration and river conservancy.