李卫 / Li Wei

李卫 / Li Wei is the Qing official who searches the 吕留良 household in 11.雍正王朝之大义觉迷：史景迁笔下的千古奇案. The episode presents his operation as theatrical and investigative: he posed as an admirer buying books, entered the family book space, and then seized people, diaries, manuscripts, and printed material.

Li Wei’s role shifts the 曾静 case from a letter and interrogation into a broader 清代文字狱 / Qing Literary Inquisition. The direct link between the Lu family and Zeng Jing was thin, but the search made books, students, descendants, and Zhejiang literary networks usable evidence for 雍正’s political interpretation of the case.

Connections

• 吕留良 - household and writings searched.
• 曾静 and 张熙 - case actors whose reading made the search politically important.
• 雍正 - ruler to whom the case was escalated.
• 清代文字狱 / Qing Literary Inquisition and Imperial Public Rebuttal / 皇帝公开辩驳 - concepts connected to Li Wei’s work in the episode.