Chapter 17: The Mythical Hai Jui
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Hai Rui presented the Emperor Zhu Houxi with the official position of six sesame products to the emperor Zhu Houxi, and he wrote bravely and impassionedly: Jiazhi, Jiaye, Jingzhi, Jingye. The pen is fun and the pavilion www.biquge.info Jiajing Jiajing, the family is clean, and the emperor is so angry that he trembles. And in history, he was a loyal and upright man, honest and loving the people. If it is difficult to meet the master, then his chances of surviving are very slim, but Hai Jui is an exception, although his life was not smooth, but he was able to die well. By reasoning, behind his scrupulous character, there is no lack of wisdom in dealing with things, and today I will discuss my personal opinion of Hai Jui.
Hai Jui lost his father when he was a teenager, and his mother alone took on the responsibility of raising and educating him. However, Xiao Hai Rui's education is extremely strict, and Hai Rui's loyalty, filial piety, and integrity are cultivated, just like Meng's mother's three moves. When he became an adult, his official fortune was not smooth, and he did not become a teacher in Nanping, Fujian until Hai Rui was forty years old, but his character was too upright, and he never tended to be inflammatory, and he offended many people in the officialdom, and the exclusion of his superiors made him almost resign. Fortunately, his friend Zhu Zhenshan dissuaded him, and when he encountered a small setback, he would have to walk away in a negative mood, and if he couldn't withstand the grind, how could he realize his political ideals. Until Hai Rui became the head of the Yunnan Qing Officials Division of the Ministry of Households, at this time the Ming Dynasty was already in decline, Hai Rui wrote bluntly about the first thing in the world, which basically means that the court traitors are in charge, the emperor ignores the government and pampers the traitors, and the entire officialdom is in a miasma, and the Ming Dynasty is like Jiajing Jiajing, and the family is finally clean. The emperor was furious and killed Hai Rui, but later the emperor reflected carefully, killed him to achieve his loyalty and filial piety, and ruined his own Shengming, and learned that Hai Rui had bought a coffin before he went to the book. So he was finally imprisoned until Emperor Sejong died, Mujong ascended the throne, and Hai Jui's original position was restored. For many years, Hai Rui has been an official who loves the people like a son, and he is upright. and repeatedly admonished the emperor, and his official position was also repeatedly degraded, until the Wanli period, Hai Rui became the imperial envoy of Nanjing. During this period, the name of Hai Rui Hai Qingtian has been recited all over the world, and it has won the respect and love of the people, and it has even been worshiped as a god by the common people. For example, he proposed to restore the strict anti-corruption measures of Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu period, even embezzling one or two taels of silver is a capital crime, embezzling more than sixty taels of silver to show the public, and the human skin must be peeled off, and finally filled with hay, but the emperor did not accept it in the end, until Hai Jui died of illness, and the king of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate used Ji to take care of the aftermath, only to see the tents made of cloth and tattered bamboo, some of which were not used by poor literati, enough to show Hai Jui's incorruptibility。
In fact, the emperor put Hai Jui in a high position, but he did not adopt him and did not reuse him. Neither adopting most of his opinions nor dealing with most of his impeachments, the Ming emperor knew that punishing corruption and purging officials would never happen overnight. There was a Bao Qingtian in the Song Dynasty, and I also held out a sea Qingtian in the Ming Dynasty. After we carefully read the historiography, we will find that in fact, the characteristics of the two people's origins and the skills of being officials are very similar, although Hai Rui has an extreme personality and has repeatedly insulted the emperor, but in the increasingly turbulent Ming Dynasty at that time, there was a sea blue sky, which also made the people born in dire straits have a thought. When encountering injustice, go to Qingtian and seek justice for the people. In reality, it may not have played a great role, but it has somewhat alleviated the last bit of hope of the people of the whole country for the imperial court. This is also the same as the good deeds of good people in today's society, and the typical spread of positive energy.