Yan Jingming is a very honest official and lives frugally. Although Yan Jingming has been an official in North Korea for many years, his lifestyle has always been very frugal. The clothes he wears are very simple and ordinary clothes, and some even have patches. As an official, few people can be so frugal, and he rarely changes these clothes. Wearing such clothes, few people can know that he is a court official. Some clothes were knitted by his wife, and others laughed at him for it, but he didn't think so. He even showed off to his colleagues: "My wife played with her own hands."
At that time, the Qing government accumulated weaknesses and accumulated disadvantages. When Yan Jingming served as the Minister of the Ministry of Housing, the management of the Ministry of Housing was very irregular and accumulated many disadvantages. Yan Jingming personally walked into the silver warehouse, satin warehouse and pigment warehouse managed by this department, counted items and cleaned up the accumulated disadvantages of this department. Because Yan Jingming wants to know the long-standing abuses, which will inevitably hurt the interests of many officials, Yan Jingming is anathema to both inside and outside the government. Yan Jingming made many enemies, but other officials could do nothing about him.
When Yan Jingming was the governor of Shandong, Yan Jingming invited Zheng Xue to his home for dinner. After Zheng Xue arrived, Yan Jingming asked someone to serve food. In the middle of the table was a dish of baked wheat cake, with vegetables, white salt brown rice and a pot of Tianshui chrysanthemum tea as side dishes, but none of them were meat. But Yan Jingming ate with relish, while studying politics was hard to swallow. Finally, he managed to eat half a bowl of rice.
Yan Jingming's incorruptibility is admirable, and he still sticks to his nature in poverty.