Hai Rui has been an official for 33 years, and half of his time is in a state of dismissal, and the strange thing is that every time he is dismissed, he will be promoted once when he recovers, and the officials are getting bigger and bigger, but they are all high-level idle positions.

In fact, he has become a political ornament, a model of incorruptibility, and has been offered by the imperial court. Only he can be as loyal as an ant, filial piety as a beast, and in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, he really can't find a second person.

Hai Jui was indeed an incorruptible feudal official, in order to safeguard the fundamental interests of the ruling class, he regarded death as if he were home, scolded the emperor on the ground, and in order to honor his widowed mother, he did not hesitate to divorce his wife and abuse his daughter, ignoring the criticism of the people at that time, this is the real Hai Jui in history.

Hai Rui, a native of Qiongshan, Guangdong, was born in a dilapidated bureaucratic family, lost his father at the age of four, and lived with his widowed mother. In the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing, Hai Rui went to the township to take the test and wrote the article "Zhili Ce" and won the promotion, which was the first fame he gained in Shilin.

Ten years later, Hai Rui was promoted from the priest of Nanping County, Fujian Province to the commander of Chun'an County, Zhejiang, which was a turning point in his career. During his term of office, he formulated regulations for the rejuvenation of the revolution, rectified social order, built water conservancy, and did many things beneficial to the people's livelihood in the development of production. But what the people are most praised for is that he dared to fight the powerful and break the wrongs.

At that time, Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang, was the henchman of Yan Song, who extorted money everywhere when he went out on patrol, and did all kinds of evil. Once he passed by Chun'an County, the post station entertained Congjian, Hu Yanei actually hung up and beat the post officer, and smashed the post house. When Hai Rui heard the news, he immediately ordered him to be taken down and beaten severely, and all the silver taels extorted from the fishing profits were confiscated. Then he skillfully repaired a book, and escorted it to Hu Zongxian for punishment along with the prisoners.

The letter reads: This Diao Min dared to pretend to be the son of the Governor, and acted recklessly, which clearly violated the official motto of the Governor Hu on simplicity and compassion for the people's livelihood, ruined the official and family style of the Governor, and did not give him the anger of severely punishing the civilians. After reading the paperwork, Hu Zongxian glanced at Hu Gongzi, who was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and shook his head again and again, he couldn't cry or laugh, he was indeed angry.

Yan Maoqing, a big bureaucrat, went out from Zhongtai to inspect eight provinces as Yan Song's guest secretary, and he traveled from Hangzhou to Qiyun via Chun'an, and many state and county officials welcomed him for hundreds of miles, lest they be inconsiderate, and first sent a document to Chun'an, ordering the local good people to wait. Hai Jui, as a small county commander of a poor county, seemed to be difficult to deal with in the face of the fact that this dignitary was about to cross the border. After some thought, he decided that it was better to refuse him from Jian's pick-up, and he would offend him anyway.

After exposing his tricks of ostentation, waste, and labor, he resolutely advised Lord Yan to think deeply: "Chun'an is not enough to welcome your lordship, I am just a poor country here, please change your route to another place." Yan Maoqing was unhappy when he saw Xin, and flicked his sleeves and ordered the official sedan chair to detour.

It really takes a little courage and courage for a seven-pin county magistrate to dare to fight against the illegal acts of the hottest magnates, and to point directly at his faults.

Hai Rui was later transferred to Xingguo County as the magistrate, the former military secretary Zhang Ao retired in Nanchang to retire in Nanchang, and his nephews Zhang Kui and Zhang Bao went to Xingguo County in the name of buying timber. Some people denounced it, Hai Rui sent someone to take it down and hand it over to Yousi to punish the crime, and the two Diao people were cunning in every way, coupled with the protection of the officials, and they were acquitted.

Hai Rui was very angry at Yousi's practice of shielding the wicked, ordered a detailed investigation, reported the various crimes committed by the two to the state government, and attached a letter revealing that Zhang Ao Zhigui wrote letters and lobbied everywhere to exonerate his son and nephew. Because of Hai Jui's uprightness, he acted in accordance with the law, and was beaten and punished, and finally made the second offender fall under the law, and the people applauded.

Another of Hai Jui's acclaimed achievements in Chun'an is to clear up the backlog of cases and redress unjust prisoners. Chun'an is under the jurisdiction of Yanzhou Prefecture, because he has decided many unjust cases, and he has a reputation for the blue sky in the counties under the jurisdiction of the Prefecture, so the counties of Yanzhou Prefecture have encountered difficult cases and are also transferred to Chun'an County for handling.

More than a dozen murder cases, or false cases, or wrong cases, or cases of grafting flowers and trees are all very bizarre and complicated, but Hai Jui tried the case seriously, and the case related to human life never dared to be careless.

Hai Rui went to Beijing twice during his tenure in Chun'an, wearing old clothes and eating vegetarian food along the way, and the travel expenses were only 48 taels of silver, and everything else was cut off. He lived in no luxury, he took nothing but his salary, and he did not have any extra corn in his pocket, and he had gold and silver in his pocket. When he served as the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu in Nanjing, due to his advanced age and frailty, he was sick and prolonged his medical treatment, and when he entered the viewing room, all the imperial curtains were white cloth, and Xiao Ran was not as good as a cold student.

He had an old pair of shoes that had been repaired several times and still wore them on his feet. On his mother's birthday, he only bought two catties of meat for his mother's birthday, and Governor Hu Zongxian was greatly surprised when he heard it, and spread it as news, which showed his incorruptible nature. In the first year of Longqing, Hai Ruiguan went to Nanjing to pass the administration of the right government, and later was promoted to the governor, with jurisdiction over Suzhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and other ten prefectures.

At the beginning of his tenure, he thought that Yingtian was a rich land of fish and rice, but later found that the heavy grain gap in Jiangnan was not only the highest in the country, but also unprecedented, and the people were so poor that there was no risk of rice cooking. In addition, during this period, there were floods in the south of the Yangtze River, frequent rains in summer and autumn, the fields were flooded, the price of grain and rice rose, the peasants lacked food and clothing, and the people lived in dire straits.

Hai Rui realized the seriousness of the flood, proposed that the Wusong River is a water, the national economy needs, the people's livelihood depends, and the repair of the move should not be delayed for a day.

After the start of the water control project, the hungry people gathered, the strength of the people who got food doubled, the progress of the project was very fast, according to the plan, the 14,000 zhang river channel from Shanghai Nanpakou to Jiading Huangdu, and dredged the Baimao River in Changshu, turning the water damage into benefit. These two projects cost more than 68,000 taels of silver, so that Wu Songjiang could borrow the power of the hungry people and get through, and the people borrowed silver and rice to help the poor people, killing two birds with one stone. It not only solves the problem of food and clothing for more than 100,000 disaster victims, but also provides feasible experience for the development of agricultural production in the region and the victory over the famine in the future.

In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, Hai Rui, who served as the head of the household department in Beijing, talked about the gains and losses of the government, but in fact focused on the immorality and desolation of Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, that is, he bluntly said that the first thing in the world was sparse. He accused the emperor of advocating Taoism, intimacy with the harem, building a large number of buildings, and working the people and losing money, and the country was already at the point where the officials were greedy and weak, and the people were not able to make a living. There are a few sentences that go straight to the emperor's lungs: "When Jiajing is the emperor, every family has no resources to use." ”

This sentence is circulated among the people, and everyone knows it, but no one dares to point it out in the court. Hai Rui is an alternative in the officialdom, he dares to let the emperor know the public grievances and public opinion in person, and the crisis that only appeared when the emperor was wrong in the country.

When he was young, he studied the "Book of Han" diligently and admired the iron backbone and upright character of the Han Dynasty. After entering the office, he encountered trouble and learned from the law, and wanted to be the minister of the Ming Dynasty. When Ji Di saw the hot Han Wu Emperor's favored ministers Tian Wei and Zhang Tang, the general court officials knelt down and bowed to ask for peace, but he did not give a big salute, only gave a bow, which shows his integrity.

When he admonished Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he only recognized the reason for death, and did not care about anything else, and often acted in the style of cutting first and then playing. For example, in the year of the catastrophe, he opened an official warehouse to help the hungry, but he dared to use his head as collateral. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to kill Chang'an County Commander with a small mistake, and Ji Di stood up and said, "You should kill me first!"

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to send Ji Dian as a magistrate many times, but he insisted on resigning for one reason, the official position he gave was too humble to do big things, so Emperor Wu had no choice but to give him a big official. The reason why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not kill Ji Di was that in addition to what he said, he was selfless and profitable, and he was not greedy.

Emperor Jiajing was furious when he received Hai Rui's recital, slapped the dragon case loudly, and scolded repeatedly: "Animal, I'm angry to death!"

Jiajing hurriedly ordered left and right: "Go and arrest him, let him escape!"

The eunuch on duty, Huang Jin, admired Hai Rui's uprightness, but he didn't dare to defend him in person, and slowly returned to the emperor and said: "Lord Hai has already bought a coffin before he went to the court, and he has said goodbye to his wife and children. ”

Hearing this, Zhu Houxi Long Yan Qin Khan, read the song again, and said with a sigh: "This beast wants to be a better player, and I am guilty of killing loyal ministers, but I am not the king of Shang." ”

Jiajing later gasped again, still wanted to kill Hai Rui, fortunately, the famous minister Xu Jie saw the emperor's ambivalence, and said: "Your Majesty wants to kill Hai Rui easily, won't it fulfill his wish to do Bigan?"

No matter where Hai Rui is an official, the word loyalty and filial piety is hung on the middle hall to show his mind. In the early days, people thought that he was putting on a show and selling Guanzi, but later found out that this prince was playing the real character, and those who opposed him said that Haigong's loyalty was incomparable, and his filial piety was simple, to the point where there was no difference between good and bad.

After Hai Rui scolded Emperor Jiajing that year, he decided that he had to die, but until the winter of the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, the emperor fell ill and died. The jailer prepared wine in the cell for him to drink, and told him, "This is not a soul-breaking wine, but congratulations on your coming out." ”

After Hai Rui asked, he learned that the emperor was driving the crane in the west, which should have been a great news in his heart, but he immediately became sad, vomited all the wine and rice he had just eaten, and said: "During the period of national mourning, your subordinates drink alcohol, damn it! Damn it!" and then beat his chest and cried incessantly.

The next day, he also put on a sackcloth mourning robe and shouted and wailed, making his fellow prisoners confused, and the scene was like a mourning exam. It can be seen that the complex human side of the process of historical unfolding, although he dared to scold the emperor, he was still loyal to Zhu Ming's country, and he was still loyal in his bones.

Imagine that if Emperor Jiajing hadn't died before him, it would be a matter of time before he became a ghost, at this time he was not glad that he had a chance to live, but he regretted that the emperor had died early, and his foolish and loyal mentality was incomprehensible to ordinary people.