[2] Wang obtained the position of zhuangyuan (the jinshi who ranked first) in the imperial examination and was selected a xiuzhuan (修撰) of the Hanlin Academy in 1761.

Since 1786 he was made the chief tutor of the Palace School (上書房總師傅) for imperial princes, including the later Jiaqing Emperor.

He had made an exceptional contribution in Pacification of Taiwan and Gorkha, thus his portrait was painted twice in the Hall of Military Merits, known as Ziguangge (紫光閣).

Seo Yu-mun (서유문; 徐有聞), a Korean diplomat who had joined the Dongzhi Festival mission (동지사; 冬至使) to Qing China as a Seojanggwan (서장관, 書狀官, the third of the mission) in 1798,[4] reported that "Heshen has been in power for decades.

Wang Jie, Liu Yong, Dong Gao, Zhu Gui (朱珪), Ji Yun, Tiebao (鐵保), Yubao (玉保) and others are exceptions.