Lǐ Wèi 李衛 (1688–1738), zì Yòujiè 又玠, native of Tóngshān 銅山 in Xúzhōu prefecture (modern northern Jiāngsū). One of the three “Yōngzhèng favoured ministers” alongside Tián Wénjìng 田文鏡 and Ě’ěrtài 鄂爾泰, Lǐ entered office through juānnà (purchase, 1717) rather than examination — an unusual career path for a man who would rise to Governor-General. He served as Yúnnán yánfǎ dào 鹽法道, Yúnnán bùzhèngshǐ, Zhèjiāng governor (Yōngzhèng 5–7), LiǎngZhè salt commissioner concurrent with the Zhèjiāng governorship, Governor-General of LiǎngZhè (Yōngzhèng 7), and finally Governor-General of Zhílì (Yōngzhèng 10/8 = 1732 — Qiánlóng 3 = 1738). His tenure in Zhèjiāng was central to the suppression of salt smuggling and the prosecution of the Zēng Jìng 曾靜 case; in Zhílì he completed and presented the Jīfǔ tōngzhì (KR2k0041) in 1735. Posthumous title 敏達 Mǐndá. Qīng shǐ gǎo j. 294 has his biography; he is the central figure of one of the more prominent late-Qīng popular fictionalisations (Lǐ Wèi dāng guān). CBDB lifedates verified against Qīngdài rénwù shēngzú niánbiǎo (#7746).