Chapter 11: Blessings and Misfortunes

Just when the Ming Dynasty gradually entered the point of decline, the development of the Ming Dynasty also showed a rare regression.

And such a regression has always affected the overall development of the Ming Dynasty, since the death of Zhang Juzheng, the teacher of the Wanli Emperor, the Ming Dynasty has lost the opportunity for real development.

At this moment, if the Ming Dynasty had not lost Zhang Juzheng, the first auxiliary minister, then the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty would have been able to continue for two hundred years.

However, history is so true that it cannot be tampered with artificially, and in fact, there is absolutely no possibility that this word appears in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

So at this moment, Da Ming can really be said to have lost a good appearance, and gradually became a sad situation of an old man in his twilight years.

With the death of Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant minister of Wanli ten years, Hai Rui, a famous Qing official of the Ming Dynasty, was also famous throughout the Ming Dynasty because of his incorruptible governance.

And Hai Rui was upright and never bent the law for personal gain, so he dared to play and scold Emperor Jiajing at that time.

Because of this, because of the incident of scolding Emperor Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing issued an edict to enter prison, and almost died in the disaster of Huangquan in prison.

Later, after the death of Emperor Jiajing, the first thing that Emperor Longqing had to do to succeed to the throne was to fully release Hai Rui, an honest official who dared to defy the condemnation of the world.

After that, within the first year of Longqing, Hai Rui was promoted to the third rank, which was actually a compensation for Hai Rui, an official, who was imprisoned.

And at this moment, Hai Rui is not only an incorruptible official, but also a figure needed in the era of the Ming Dynasty.

In the third year of Longqing, Hai Rui was promoted to the governor of Tianfu and other places and the imperial history of the capital, which can also be said that Hai Rui was the first governor of the Ming Dynasty.

And when Hai Rui was promoted to the governor of Tianfu, there were several very surprising phenomena in the land under Hai Rui's jurisdiction.

First of all, those officials who usually act as prestige and oppress the people, as soon as they heard that it was Hai Rui, a Qing official, who was going to be promoted to the governor of Tianfu.

He immediately took his family and all the property he had looted, and immediately moved his family to live elsewhere.

He didn't even have time to submit his resignation to the Ming Dynasty and left immediately, after all, these corrupt officials couldn't afford to provoke Hai Rui, a Qing official.

The second is the inferior gentry under Hai Rui's jurisdiction, who immediately changed their doors and behaved in a low-key manner when they heard that Hai Rui was coming.

Again, it was a kind of weaving, and the eunuch also heard the news that Hai Rui was coming, so he immediately reduced the scale of his trip, and no longer dared to be as arrogant as usual.

Finally, there is Hai Jui, who is in charge of the local ruffians, and when he hears that Hai Jui is going to come as a local official.

was also immediately frightened into a cold sweat, after all, Hai Rui is an honest official who even the emperor is not afraid of.

So these ruffians and hooligans also reined in after Hai Jui's arrival, because Hai Jui's eyes definitely couldn't hold sand.

The first problem Hai Jui encountered after taking office was the issue of land annexation, in which the rich continued to encroach on the land while the poor people kept losing it.

Just after these rich people got the right to annex the land, the owners of the land books were still the miserable and miserable people.

Therefore, if the Ming Dynasty wants to continue to collect taxes every year, it must continue to collect taxes from those poor people.

This has also created a sad picture of the loss of property tax, and has led to the phenomenon of poor people fleeing their farmland.

Therefore, after Hai Rui took office as the governor of Yingtianfu and other places, he had to face the heavy responsibilities given by the Ming Dynasty, and Hai Rui was also overwhelmed for a while.

Therefore, after Hai Jui took office, he began to make a complaint at the yamen, that is, to let those poor peasants who had been exploited and exploited come to the yamen to complain.

At the same time, all the complaints like snowflakes flew into the yamen where Hai Rui was located, and there were simply too many poor people who came to sue Hai Rui, and Hai Rui was facing a situation that would be difficult to end.

And most of the complaints are directed at Hai Rui's benefactor Xu Jie, because Xu Jie, who retired from the old cabinet, also became an official because of his own children.

Therefore, Xu Jie's family has a certain amount of land in the south of the Yangtze River, and Hai Rui forced Xu Jie to withdraw 10,000 acres of land through the retreat of the land, which was also regarded as the retirement pavilion old Xu Jie's face at that time gave Hai Rui enough face.

However, Hai Rui began to rectify all the rich people included in Xu Jie, and began to investigate all the rich people and returned to the land, which did not leave Xu Jie's feelings.

This also brought an unfavorable situation to Hai Rui and was impeached by Shuhua, and Dai Fengxiang also played the Ming Dynasty at this time to say that Hai Rui fish meat those rich people.

Just after offending his benefactor Xu Jie, Hai Rui's officialdom career can be described as walking on thin ice, and it didn't take long for Hai Rui, who was difficult to get along in officialdom, to be removed from his post as governor of Ying Tianfu and other places.

Later, the Ming Dynasty left Hai Rui with a very idle official position, but Hai Rui was very temperamental and resigned and returned to his hometown in Hainan.

As the driving force behind the scenes, Xu Jie represents the wealthy class in the entire Jiangnan region, and after offending the rich people in the entire Jiangnan region, Hai Rui has no longer get the support of the Ming Dynasty.

In the fifteenth year of Wanli, Hai Rui also died in Yingtianfu, leaving the Ming Dynasty that he loved so loyally.

As soon as Hai Rui left the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the people in the south of the Yangtze River paid tribute to Hai Rui and even worshiped Hai Rui's tablet at home.

In the next five years, the death of Zhang Juzheng, Xu Jie, and Hai Rui, three important figures, can be said to have brought a fatal blow to the Ming Dynasty, which was still in Zhongxing.

Zhang Juzheng's death can be said to be the loss of a capable minister in the Ming Dynasty, and the death of Xu Jie announced that the Ming Dynasty has lost a capable person who can solve problems.

In the end, Hai Rui's death shows that at this moment, the Ming Dynasty has completely lost a model of moral model.

After that, many people missed Hai Jui all the time, but few people went to be an official all their lives like Hai Jui.

Just when the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty were intertwined with blessings and misfortunes, there was really a good news worth celebrating in the northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty.

With the arrival of this good news, the whole country of North Korea, a small neighboring country, is enthusiastically celebrating.

So under the edict of His Royal Highness Seonjo, the lord of North Korea, the whole country of North Korea is celebrating the good news at this moment.

Because the good news at this moment is a great event that deserves celebration since the founding of Korea, His Royal Highness Seonjo of Joseon decided to consult with the ministers of the East and West at this moment.

An envoy was sent to the Ming Dynasty of the great state to give thanks, so in this context, a special delegation set off from the Korean capital.

He went to the then Ming Dynasty to meet His Majesty the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the arrival of the special Korean mission also brought the new year's Korean New Year's tribute.

Just after the arrival of the new Korean New Year's tribute, it will bring great news to the Ming Dynasty.

In that era of fortune and misfortune, the Ming Dynasty will usher in a period of choice.

During this period, His Majesty the Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty can make the right choice depends on the content of the good news of the Korean New Year's tribute.