Qiu Xiaoqiu did not hand over Zhang Juzheng's letter directly to his cousin Qin Tai, but handed the letter to his cousin-in-law Zhan Xiaoxiao. Zhan Xiaoxiao also understood what Qiu Xiaoqiu meant, and Qiu Xiaoqiu was worried that the content of the letter would stimulate Qin Tai. Qin Tai's mental condition is not very good now, and there must be no more accidents. Therefore, the letter must be passed by Zhan Xiaoxiao, and Zhan Xiaoxiao decides whether to show it to Qin Tai or not. If there is really a problem, wait for Qin Tai to recover his spirit in a few days.

Zhan Xiaoxiao opened the letter and found that it was not Zhang Juzheng's letter, but a letter that Zhang Juzheng forwarded to Qin Tai. The person who wrote the letter was a man named Gangfeng, Zhang Juzheng did not express his position, nor did he have any side notes. Zhan Xiaoxiao couldn't remember who this person named Gangfeng was, so he had to continue to look down. The more he looked down, Zhan Xiaoxiao gradually understood, and also remembered who this person named Gangfeng was.

Gangfeng is a person's word. This person is the same person as Qin Tai, and he is also a "troublemaker". At least to outsiders, these two people are not only the same kind of people, but one has a worse temper than the other. Qin Tai once said that he and this person named Gangfeng are not in the officialdom, even if they usually make friends, if they don't have a little stomach and heart, they can't get along. The superiors who are people like them in officialdom have the most headaches, colleagues dare not approach them, and subordinates are even more miserable. As long as they exist in the officialdom for a day, their subordinates will have no oil and water, and the treatment and oil and water of their colleagues will be much less, and their superiors will help them "wipe their butts" all the time. And they all have a bad habit of threatening their bosses or higher-level people at every turn.

The reason why the two of them are connected is because they both did something that no one dared to do for thousands of years. It was directly scolded by the biggest boss emperor, and he offended him without leaving any emotion. And neither of them died, both of them belonged to the kind of special life.

You should think about who this Gangfeng is, right? He is the famous Hai Rui of the Ming Dynasty. A current official who historically dared to write directly and criticize the current emperor head-on. It is also for this reason that almost everyone knows this Hai Rui, and it has been famous in history since then.

Hai Jui is too upright, and he only has the people and the court in his heart. He saw the biggest problem between the imperial court and the common people, so he started with the emperor to find a way to solve this problem. He felt that the imperial power at that time was not too strong, but too weak. The main reason why the common people did not live well was that the emperor could not control the overall situation. The local tyrants and the various factions in the DPRK and China joined forces to almost empty the power in the hands of the emperor. As long as the emperor takes back the initiative, as long as the emperor is willing to improve the situation, the life of the common people will be better. For the emperor to regain power and regain the respect of the common people, he needed to make significant changes. The first is to eliminate the traitors around him who are bewitching and confusing the public. The second is to recover the military power and management power scattered in the hands of ministers and local tycoons. The third is to distinguish between the family and the country, and take the lead in returning the property belonging to the national court to the court. The other members of the royal family were ordered not to appropriate the resources of the imperial court. Fourth, dissolve the Jinyiwei and other unscrupulous eagle dog organizations. Improve the relationship between the imperial court and the common people. Listen more to the voices of the people, and let the yamen sincerely do things for the people. Fifth, review and correct your own inaction. It is best to issue an "edict of guilt" so that the people of the world can understand the emperor's intentions.

I have to admit that Hai Rui's starting point is good, and it is for the sake of the emperor at that time, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi. But Hai Rui wrote too directly, and what he asked Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi to do was too hurtful. Not to mention any emperor, even an ordinary person cannot apologize easily. Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi is a person who pays the most attention to face, and he will never do what Hai Rui wants. Besides, Hai Rui's performance was too direct, which made Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi feel that this Hai Rui was deliberately humiliating himself. Therefore, Emperor Jiajing Zhu Houxi became angry and directly ordered Hai Rui to be arrested and imprisoned.

Although Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi endured the anger in his heart afterwards, he watched Hai Rui's recital over and over again. Gradually, it changed from anger to contemplation, and from contemplation to contemplation, and finally a person was in a daze. But Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi understood that he could no longer do this kind of thing, not only in terms of age but also in terms of energy. Therefore, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi neither killed Hai Rui, nor did he reuse Hai Rui. He wants to leave Hai Jui to his heirs, and his son will decide Hai Jui's future. If his son wanted to take back power, he would reuse this Hai Jui. If this son didn't have the guts to deal with the enemy, it would be useless for this Hai Rui to stay.

After ascending the throne, Emperor Longqing followed Zhang Juzheng's advice and summoned Hai Rui. Hai Rui told Emperor Longqing his opinions one by one, and there was another one by his side at that time, Zhang Juzheng. At that time, Zhang Juzheng was a friend of Qin Tai, Hai Rui's starting point was good, but he was too intense to do things, and it was impossible to achieve great things or live peacefully with his colleagues. His temper is very compatible with Qin Tai, and the two of them may have a common language.

Emperor Longqing wanted to reuse Hai Rui, but he was worried that Hai Rui was not qualified enough, so he waited for an opportunity while honing Hai Rui. Two years ago, Hai Jui once again wrote a letter, asking Emperor Longqing to take back part of his power as soon as possible, otherwise the situation would get out of control in the future when the local forces became bigger. At that time, Zhang Juzheng also agreed with Hai Rui's opinion, but did not agree with the whole country to do it all at once. Emperor Longqing and Zhang Juzheng discussed and decided to let Hai Rui go to Jiangnan as a pilot to see what the effect was. Hai Rui served as the secretary of the Ministry of Southern Beijing, and his main task was to help Emperor Longqing explore the way and seize the power in the hands of local tyrants.

A year and a half ago, Hai Jui was ordered to set off, but Hai Jui did not issue an order at the first time. Instead, he followed the advice of Qin Tai and others, found a breakthrough within the local forces, and used the contradictions between the two sides to find out the weaknesses. Hai Rui's preliminary work has been done well, and it has almost produced certain results. But just when Hai Jui was about to achieve a certain success, the problem arose. Hai Jui himself is too upright to allow his subordinates to have the slightest problem of conduct. This led to the subordinates complaining about Hai Rui, the official, and the other party took advantage of the loophole. The opponent's counterattack was fast and fierce, and it was also fatal for Hai Rui.

In just a few days, all the advantages of Hai Rui were gone, not to mention, Hai Rui became a hated figure of the Jiangnan generation of officials. Hai Rui doesn't want to say that he is handling a case, but he just wants to go out and understand the people's feelings. Just when Hai Jui was trying to find a way to get out, the local gentlemen and officials in Jiangnan jointly wrote to Emperor Longqing, citing Hai Jui's crime of undermining local law and order in Jiangnan. Thousands of people jointly sued the imperial court, and some people in the imperial court were not optimistic about Hai Rui in the first place, and this combined blow was fatal to Hai Rui. Even if Emperor Longqing wanted to protect Hairui, it was impossible, and Zhang Juzheng was powerless.

Emperor Longqing had no choice but to publicly reprimand Hai Rui on the one hand, and remind Hai Rui to pay attention to ways and means. But Hai Rui, who had a temper with a bullish temper, forgot Qin Tai's reminder and forgot to be patient, and Hai Rui thought that as long as he withstood the first round of attacks, it would be equivalent to deterring the other party. But they don't know that this is a matter related to the actual interests of the other party, and the other party will never give up easily. Not only will the attacks not stop, but will become more and more acute, and the blows to Hai Jui will become more and more serious.

On the eve of Qin Tai's departure, because of the death of Emperor Longqing, the last round of decisive battle between Hai Rui and the other party ended. Hai Rui lost the support of Emperor Longqing and was completely defeated by his opponent. Gao Gong, the first assistant of the cabinet, with the acquiescence of the two new queen mothers, made a decision on Hai Rui. Hai Jui was dismissed again, and Hai Jui was not allowed to enter Beijing to defend himself, which was tantamount to abandoning Hai Jui. After Hai Jui was dismissed, everyone laughed at Hai Jui unscrupulously in front of him.

Hai Rui gradually woke up from his original disappointment and anger, and summed up the lessons of his failure. Hai Rui also learned from these two dismissals that this officialdom is not something that people like him can change. Whether it is Hai Rui or Qin Tai, they are not suitable to survive in this officialdom. Hai Rui did the last thing for the imperial court, writing down everything he saw in Jiangnan and his own opinions. As for whether anyone pays attention and whether anyone is willing to do it, it is not up to him to decide. Sure enough, this masterpiece of Hai Rui's painstaking work was shelved intentionally or unintentionally, and it was discovered many years later. Many years later, the moth-eaten letter was burned as waste paper.

Hai Rui wrote a letter to Qin Tai as a friend, not only wanting to tell Qin Tai his determination to leave officialdom completely, but also hoping that Qin Tai would not be attached to officialdom. Hai Rui reminded Qin Tai that people with a temper like theirs were not suitable for officialdom and for dealing with officials. Hai Rui decided to go back to his hometown to farm, and also persuaded Qin Tai to go back to his hometown to do business or study. They can't change the world, let alone this officialdom.

Hai Rui thought that Qin Tai was still in the capital, so he sent the letter to the capital. Fortunately, the recipient wrote Qin Tai, and everyone knew that Qin Tai had a good relationship with Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao. They handed the letter to Feng Bao, who didn't know the relationship between Hai Rui and Qin Tai, so he opened it and read it directly. Feng Bao felt that this was all their scholar's business, and it was better to leave it to Zhang Juzheng, who was also a scholar, to deal with it. Zhang Juzheng was not going to pay attention to this matter of Hai Rui, but Hai Rui's words moved Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng also understood in his heart that Qin Tai was a person who was not suitable to stay in officialdom. If Hai Rui can convince Qin Tai, and Qin Tai takes the initiative to leave the officialdom, it will be a good thing for Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng finally decided to forward the letter to Qin Tai. In order to show his neutral position, Zhang Juzheng did not say a word in the letter, only wrote an outer package.