Hai Jui's loyalty to the monarch has a premise, that is, the emperor must truly fulfill his duties as a king, not greedy for pleasure, and must devote all his body and mind to governing the country and caring for the people.

To be fair, Emperor Jiajing is indeed a very outstanding emperor in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, even if he is dedicated to cultivation, he is still very effective in the governance of the country, greatly promoting cultural governance, improving ceremonial clothing, especially making Jinyiwei become a Qingshui Yamen with nothing to do, the East Factory and the West Factory are completely banned, and the eunuchs no longer interfere in the government affairs, even the palm print eunuchs and the Bingbi eunuchs of the ceremonial eunuchs basically have no power, everything is done personally, the same as Zhu Yuanzhang. A very remarkable generation of Mingjun.

He reused Yan Song not blindly confused, but to use Yan Song's hand to break the situation of the courtiers forming a party for personal gain, and to break the legacy of Yang Tinghe when he was in power, but later he went too far and didn't brake the car.

Hai Rui believed that Emperor Jiajing should not be obsessed with cultivation, but should dedicate himself to the country like Emperor Taizu and devote all his energy to governing the country, if so, Emperor Jiajing's achievements will be as great as Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. This is also the painstaking work of a generation of loyal ministers, which is commendable.

Hai Rui scolded Emperor Jiajing very ruthlessly, in essence, full of expectations and loyalty to the king, and this is the concept of loyalty to the king in his heart, otherwise he is a gentleman, a shameless person, and deserves death.

Emperor Jiajing is a smart and exquisite person, and he read Hai Rui's true psychology from the book of ten thousand words, so he repeatedly praised Hai Rui as a loyal minister and true loyalty, but he still couldn't stand Hai Rui's almost vicious tone, and still wanted to kill him, but he felt that he couldn't kill the hero, so he hesitated and hesitated, and finally he was angry to death, and he couldn't kill Hai Rui.

The eunuch Bingbi said that Emperor Longqing could not tolerate Hai Rui, if Hai Rui stayed in the court for a long time, he would also scold Emperor Longqing, at least the king was lustful and immoral, at that time, I don't know what tricks Hai Rui would scold, it may be more vicious.

Hai Jui's love for the people is also a real love for the people like a son, not fake, he really loves the poor people as his own people, when he is the county magistrate, as long as it is a lawsuit between the rich and the poor, the result is not to think, the rich will definitely lose the lawsuit.

If according to the words of the Metropolitan Procuratorate or the officials of the Criminal Department, it is not right, everyone should be equal before the Ming Three-Foot Law, and the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people.

But Hai Jui thinks that this is all bullshit, the poor and the rich are inherently unequal before the law, if a poor person and the rich fight a lawsuit, then it must be that the poor man is forced to the point of no way out and desperate fight, so the lawsuit does not need to be tried, the rich are guilty and must lose the lawsuit.

This is also in line with the facts at that time, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the emphasis on the imperial examination has been deformed, a person can run rampant in the township, fish and meat villagers, no one can be cured, not to mention those Jinshi and retired officials, where do the Jinshi come from, most of them are from the rich. How many poor people can afford to read? How many people can lift people in the middle and upper? After winning the show, they hurried to become a tutor to make money to support their families.

So in the county governed by Hai Rui, the rich people did not dare to run rampant, and there were many people who wanted to squeeze Hai Rui away or tried to frame him, but they couldn't get it, Hai Rui's words and deeds really couldn't find a little fault, but anyone who knew him, even if it was someone who hated him, had to praise him, this is a saint, really a saint.

To his boss, Hai Rui never gave any face. His boss didn't even dare to come to Hai Jui's county, not only did he not receive official reception, but he couldn't extort money at will, let alone eat white food. Who can bring their own dry food to inspect Shimikawa County.

When Hu Zongxian was the governor of Jiangnan, the flames were raging, and the army passed through Hai Rui's county, collecting people to plough cattle to transport grain and grass for the army, but Hai Rui tied a hemp rope around his waist and pulled an ox cart by himself.

Hu Zongxian's subordinates saw a county commander pulling an ox cart to come, and they didn't know what was going on, Hai Rui told them that it was the busy farming season, and the people and the ploughing cattle were sowing seeds in the field, and if they delayed, it would affect the harvest and the national tax revenue, and he was the only idler in the county, so he came.

When Hu Zongxian heard the report, he was so frightened that he sweated, and hurriedly ordered the army to put away all the flags, quietly bypass this county, and go to other places to show off his might. He really convinced Hai Rui's stubbornness.

Once Hu Zongxian's son came to Jiangnan in the name of his father, in the name of the provincial relatives, wantonly amassed wealth, and the officials in the prefectures and counties he passed through gave a lot of gold and silver, but unfortunately this son did not know the prestige of Lord Hai Rui, and came to Hai Rui's county, and reached out to ask for money in the post house, and he was extremely domineering.

When Hai Rui heard about it, he arrested this Gongzi brother and all the powerful slaves and evil servants he brought, and couldn't help but say that he was beaten with a board whip, saying that this Gongzi brother was pretending to deliberately ruin Hu Junmen's reputation.

This son-in-law wants to cry without tears, and he really can't prove that Hu Zongxian is really his father, even if he opens a letter of proof, he has to go back to the capital, right, but he has been kidnapped by Hai Rui, and he can't go anywhere.

After a beating, this son-in-law had no choice but to admit that he was impersonating, otherwise he would really be beaten to death, no matter how powerful his father was, he didn't bring him back to life.

After Hai Rui confessed, he asked the officials to press this son-in-law brother and the slaves who were beaten so that his father and mother didn't know him to send him to Hu Zongxian's barracks, and also wrote a letter, saying that he had heard that Hu Junmen had a good way of governing the army and his family, and that there would never be a son who was abducted and deceived everywhere, and this person must be a scoundrel and villain, because it was related to Hu Junmen's reputation, and he was sent to Hu Junmen to deal with it personally.

When Hu Zongxian saw his son who was beaten so much that he couldn't recognize him, he also wanted to cry without tears, and he didn't even dare to let out a fart, so he quietly asked his son to be sent back to the capital overnight, and the money extorted along the way was naturally confiscated and handed over by Hai Rui.

Hu Zongxian was extremely authoritarian at that time, and the governor, political envoy, and chief military officer all had to kneel and speak in front of him, but Hai Rui did not dare to provoke half a point.

One day, Hu Zongxian opened the military gate and convened a meeting of the feudal officials and chief military officers, but he just sighed and said: "Today is the birthday of Haixian Ling's mother, and Haixian Ling bought two catties of pork." With that, he stepped back.

In a few days, this explosive news spread all over Jiangnan: Haixian ordered the old mother to celebrate her birthday and bought two catties of pork.

At that time, the year was still good, that is, the average family had to eat pork several times a month, and pork was not expensive at that time, and only the extremely poor families in the mountainous areas could not eat a meal of meat all year round.

But no matter where the county order is, it is not a problem to eat meat every day, not to mention the county order, it is the head of the third class of officials, and those who catch fast also eat meat every day.

However, Haixian ordered to buy two catties of pork and became a sensational news across the country, which shows how frugal Hai Rui's life is.

He only lived on five taels of silver a month, the grain was rationed by the imperial court, the vegetables he ate were grown in the fields of the county government, and only salt and cloth were bought.

Five taels of silver can also live a good life in ordinary people, but after all, the county official has to spend money on many places, so he can't afford to eat meat, he neither eats or invites, every day the family is a clear water cabbage to live, this hard work is the ordinary people can not bear it.

That's why Hu Zongxian sighed, and specially summoned his subordinates to announce the news, which was admiration from the bottom of his heart, which means that you see, I, Hu Zongxian, don't fight with him because of this.

The civil officials' views on Hai Jui are also the same contradictions, as long as Hai Jui mentions this name, they will have the idea of looking up to the mountains and yearning for it, just like looking at a peak and a sea, but whoever is Hai Jui will not do it, even if the official is not for promotion and wealth, he can't make himself like this, this is not a normal person's life, but an ascetic.

Hai Jui is a real saint in Chinese history, he is not a saint like Confucius, he did not write books and lectures, nor did he pass down the religious system, he is more disciplined in his private life, and there is no embarrassment like Confucius's "son sees Nanzi".

He is more like a sage than Confucius, it was much more difficult to eat meat in the Spring and Autumn Period than in the Ming Dynasty, but Confucius still had meat to eat every day, and he paid attention to "not getting tired of eating, not getting tired of fine", not only to eat well, but also to eat fine.

Confucius is not short of meat to eat, at least there are 3,000 pieces of bacon if he receives 3,000 disciples, each piece of bacon has a weight of ten catties and eight catties, there is no bacon, I'm sorry, Confucius does not accept disciples as disciples, not to mention that there are many noble children under Confucius.

Of course, this is not to say that Sage Kong is bad, on the contrary, Sage Kong is closer to people and makes people feel closer and kinder.

Hai Jui is the one who strictly implements the saint's code into practical life, and he is also the only saint of this kind.

During the Jiajing period, some people also attacked Hai Rui, saying that he was a hypocrisy and a pseudo-saint. Yang Shen, the first genius of the Ming Dynasty, was the first to write a book to denounce this person for "not knowing that there is shame in the world", this sentence was the most ruthless scolding at that time, originally from Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty.

Yang Shen claimed that since he was literate, he knew that Haigangfeng was a great man in the world, and his admiration was overflowing on the paper.

But Yang Shen couldn't do Hai Rui, when he was exiled to Yunnan, he still had more than 100 slaves with him, and he interacted with all the feudal officials every day, and he still lived a princely life.

This is Hai Jui, everyone admires and sees him as Taishan Beidou, but no one can do Hai Jui, unless it is a truly devout ascetic in Buddhism.

So when Hai Rui was in prison, Xu Jie, who had no friendship with him, tried his best to help, tried his best to delay Emperor Jiajing's death sentence, and finally saved Hai Rui's life.

Hai Rui went to Jiangnan to inspect the land and cultivate the fields, and found Xu Jie's head, and he did not give half a cent because he was his savior, but more strictly inspected to the end, and reported to the imperial court, Xu Jie was not surprised, if Hai Rui did not do this, he was sorry for his original rescue, he was originally because Hai Rui was a saint to help, thinking that the Holy Dynasty should not kill such a saint.

What does this mean? It shows that heroes are sympathetic, even if the concept is not completely consistent.