Chapter 183: A Generation of Qing Officials 2

Twilight.

The four of us walked into a temple. Since coming down from Tianzhu Peak, although the five of us deliberately revealed the gold box, we still did not meet a permanent family

Brother, in addition to being in a restaurant all the way, a shopkeeper saw the gold box shining, and became a little greedy, wanting to take the gold box for himself. place

Fortunately, Yin Jun discovered that the shopkeeper's eyes were different in time, and when the shopkeeper attacked, he slashed his chest with a sword on the spot. Then he left

Restaurants.

Inside the temple. Sanskrit sounds are endless.

The five of us strode into the main hall of the temple, which is not large, and the peeling vermilion lacquer and huge stone lions bear witness to the history of this temple

of the splendor and the present years. In front of the Buddha in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, some young monks and two old monks led the recitation of sutras.

Our group of five did not disturb them, and sat down cross-legged on the side, the two old monks were all right, and the young monks were just a few

He gave us a strange look and continued to recite their scriptures. For a while in the main hall, the smoke was wafting around, and the Sanskrit sound was ringing. Zhang Yao sighed

Qi, carefully placed the gold box on the ground, and the shining golden light immediately illuminated the entire hall. The two leading monks remained motionless and set aside

At a loss. Several young monks suddenly glanced at the golden box, and their eyes were full of some kind of strangeness. Zhang Yao and Yin Jun turned their faces and glanced at me,

His eyes showed joy.

The sunset shone softly into the main hall, and the evening class of the monks in the hall was finally completed, and the young monks moved under the guidance of the two old monks

came over, a Buddha horn, and then one of them said: "Several donors ......"

I opened my eyes and glanced at the old monk, and was just about to answer, when suddenly, I heard Yin Jun shouting: "Be careful!" "Suddenly, there are two cold lights

Shooting out from his sleeve, the old monk sneered and said: "Bold anti-thief, even the Chenglu plate of the current saint dares to steal!" "I was in the air

up, the hand dragon chanted the sword, "Zheng Zheng" twice, and the two willow flying knives were nailed to the ground, and they sank into the handle. The young monk behind the old monk

Quickly retreated, shouting: "Anti-thief, don't run...... Don't run...... Hurry up ......". Another old monk shouted, "Hurry up, fence up......

Fence it off...... All of them were fenced off, and one of them was let go? ”

Yin Jun stood up, looked at the surging monk, crossed his left hand, copied the gold box in his hand, and then looked up to the sky and snorted hahaha, saying, "It's up to you."

Can a few dead bald asses trap us? It's just wishful thinking! As soon as the words fell, a voice suddenly sounded from outside the hall, "Add these enough."

Inadequate! When the sound fell, I saw a person walking in from outside the hall, who was wearing a second-grade official robe, with a very great figure, and a sense of righteousness between his eyebrows.

I saw him walk in front of the monks, and an old monk shouted in a low voice: "Lord Hai...... This...... ...... group of anti-thieves? The man waved his hand, double

Two chilling rays of light shot out of his eyes, swept over our faces one by one, and it took a long time before he said sharply: "Say, where is the Chenglu plate placed?" ”

Yin Jun snorted coldly and said, "Who do you think you are?" Let me say I'll just say it, even if Hai Ruihai comes, I still have to think about taking the test

Consider! ”

Suddenly, I saw the angry look in the eyes of the group of monks behind the man. I saw that the man sneered, and suddenly shouted: "This official is Hai Rui (Note

①)! Ordered to catch the thief who stole the treasure! ”

[Hai Rui (1515-1587), Hui nationality, a famous politician and Qing official in the Ming Dynasty. Hai Rui word Ruxian, Guokai, self-named Gangfeng, when teaching is called Hai Bi Frame, later generations call it "Hai Qingtian", and the Song Dynasty Bao Zheng is equally famous.

The ancestor moved from Jinjiang Bianbian in Fujian Province (carried in Guangxi magazine) to Qiongshan Haicuo in Hainan. He studied poetry and scriptures since childhood, and was erudite and talented, and was raised in the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing (1550). He was first appointed as a teacher in Nanping, Fujian, and later promoted to Chun'an, Zhejiang and Xingguozhi County, Jiangxi.

Hai Jui was a famous Qing official in the history of the country. The implementation of clean and equal taxation, and the repeated redress of unjust, false and wrongful cases, and the crackdown on corrupt officials and corrupt officials, have won the support of the people. In the forty-first year of Jiajing (1562), Hai Rui served as the magistrate of Zhuji; Jiajing served as the director of the Yunnan Department of the Ministry of Household for 45 years. He once wrote a book criticizing Sejong's superstition of witchcraft, his luxurious life, and his disregard for the government. In the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), Hai Rui, the head of the household department, bought a coffin, said goodbye to his wife, and scattered child servants, and wrote a letter to persuade Sejong not to believe in the deception of Tao Zhong and these monks, and to rectify the government, so he angered Sejong and ordered him to be imprisoned and sentenced to death. Persecuted and imprisoned. The first assistant Xu Jieli saved Hai Rui, and Huang Guangsheng compared Hai Rui's book to his son scolding his father to reduce his responsibility, and took the opportunity to keep Hai Rui in prison to protect Hai Rui. (See page 3681 of the Dictionary of National History) It was not until the death of King Sejong in December of the same year and the accession to the throne that he asked for the release of Hai Jui from prison. Sejong was released after his death. Hai Rui Longqing went to Jinjiang in Fujian Province to visit Huang Guangsheng in Panhu Huang Guangsheng Shangshu Mansion in order to show the grace of the camp, which can be proved by the "Panhu Hai Rui Xiema Temple" and the "Dictionary of National History" page 3681. In the third year of Longqing (1569), he was promoted to the right of the imperial history, as always, punished corrupt officials, cracked down on the strong, dredged rivers, built water conservancy projects, and implemented a whip law, forcing corrupt officials to return to the people, so he had the reputation of "sea blue sky", and was deeply loved by the people. Later, he was excluded and resigned from his post and lived idle for 16 years. In the thirteenth year of Wanli (1585), he was re-employed, successively served as the right servant of the Nanjing Ministry and the right capital of Nanjing, and advocated the severe punishment of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, prohibiting private bribery. He later died of illness in Nanjing.

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overview

Hai Jui lifts people. When he went to Beijing, he bowed down under the palace and presented "Ping Li Ce", and opened up a road to set up a county seat.

[1] Used to stabilize the countryside, well-informed people praised Hai Jui's idea. Acting Nanping County Teaching, the imperial history to the school palace, the subordinate officials are on the ground to report their names, Hai Rui alone long salute, said: "Go to the yamen where the imperial history is located to perform subordinate etiquette, this school is a place for teachers to educate students, should not bend down to salute." "Moved to Anzhi County, wore cloth robes, ate coarse grains and brown rice, and let the old servants grow vegetables for self-sufficiency. One day, Hai Rui's mother had a birthday, Hai Rui went to the street to buy two catties of meat, and the butcher sighed, "I didn't expect my generation to be able to do the business of Shanghai adults." Hu Zongxian's son passed by Chun'an County and asked for a meeting gift, but Hai Rui was not angry with the postman and hung the postman upside down. Hai Rui said: "In the past, Governor Hu inspected the inspection department and ordered the places he passed by not to be too extravagant. Now that this person is richly dressed, he must not be Hu Gong's son. "When I opened the bag, there were thousands of taels of gold, and I sent someone to report to Hu Zongxian on horseback, but Hu Zongxian was not punished for this. Du Yu Shi Yan Maoqing inspected and passed through Chun'an County, the wine and rice were served very simply, and Hai Rui loudly declared that the county was too small to accommodate many carriages and horses. Yan Maoqing was very angry, but he had already heard of Hai Rui's name, so he had to restrain his prestige and leave, but he instructed Yuan Chun, the imperial historian of the salt patrol, to govern Hai Rui and Huo Hefang, the magistrate of Cixi. Huo Hefang is the son of Shangshu Huo Tao, and he is also a frank and upright person who does not flatter Yan Maoqing. At that time, Hai Rui had been promoted to the general judge of Jiaxing, and because of this matter, he was demoted to the judge of Xingguo Prefecture. After a long time, Lu Guangzu advocated the election of officials and promoted Hai Rui to be the head of the household department.

When Hai Jui was dying, others asked him what his last words were, and Hai Jui said that he owed the household 5 yuan firewood money. After his death, the emperor called him Tadasuke, and when the funeral was held, the people of the whole city rushed to the funeral.

Imprisonment

At that time, Ming Shizong had been in power for a long time, and he did not go to the imperial court to deal with government affairs, but lived in Xiyuan, and devoted himself to setting up a palace to seek blessings. Governors, governors, and other border officials vied to present the emperor with auspicious signs, and the ceremonial officials always congratulated them. Since the ministers of the imperial court were offended by Yang Shi and Yang Jue, no one dared to say anything about current affairs. Hai Rui was very dissatisfied with this, and in February of the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, he went to the court alone and counted all the mistakes made by Emperor Jiajing. Before that, he had bought a coffin in a coffin shop and entrusted his family to a friend.

When Emperor Jiajing read Hai Jui's book, he was so angry that he threw it on the ground and said to his left and right, "Arrest him quickly, Hai Jui."

Don't let him run away. The eunuch Huang Jin said beside him: "This person has always had a stupid name. I heard that when he went to school, he knew that he should be offended, so he bought a coffin, said goodbye to his wife, and waited for punishment at the court, and the slaves were scattered and did not stay, and they would not run away. The emperor was silent. After a while, I read Hai Rui's book again, and read it many times a day, and I sighed for it, so I had to leave it in the palace for several months. He once said: "This person can be compared to Bigan, but I am not the king of Shang. When the emperor was sick and depressed, he summoned the cabinet minister Xu Jie to discuss the matter of giving the emperor the throne to the emperor, and said: "What Hai Rui said is right. I have been sick for a long time now, how can I come to the court to listen to the government. He also said, "I am indeed not self-conscious, and I am now sickly." If I can discuss politics in the side hall, how can I suffer from this man's reproach and insult? So he arrested Hai Rui and put him in prison to pursue the mastermind. After the prison words were sent, they remained in the palace and were not released. There was a secretary named He Yishang in the household department, who figured out that the emperor had no intention of killing Hai Rui, and wrote to Chen Chen to release Hai Rui. The emperor was furious, and ordered the brocade guard to punish a hundred, put him in prison, and interrogated him day and night. Two months later, Emperor Jiajing died, Ming Muzong succeeded him, and Hai Rui and He Yishang were both released from prison.

Out

Emperor Jiajing died and has not yet mourned. When the director heard about this situation, he thought that Hai Jui would not only be released but also be appointed, so he cooked wine and food to entertain Hai Jui. Hai Rui himself suspected that he should be escorted to Xishi to be beheaded, eating and drinking as he pleased, regardless of anything else. Therefore, the principal whispered in his ear: "The emperor is dead, and the gentleman is now about to be released from prison to be reused." Hai Jui said, "Really? Then he cried out in grief, and immediately vomited the food he was eating, and when he vomited. The jailer who was eating with him next to him couldn't figure out what was going on, so he quickly hid next to him in fright. After that, he was released from prison, reinstated as an officer, and soon reassigned to the military department. He was promoted to Shang Baocheng and transferred to Dali Temple.

Marginalized

In the early years of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng presided over the state affairs, because of Hai Jui's excessive integrity, although he admired Hai Jui, Hai Jui was stern and upright, and foreign officials recommended him many times, but he was not appointed in the end. Once Zhang Juzheng's son took the imperial examination in Hai Rui's hometown, Hai Rui immediately sent a letter to the examiner after hearing about it, warning him not to cheat, and sure enough, Zhang Juzheng'er did not pass the examination, Zhang Juzheng was very angry, and ordered the inspection of Hai Rui according to the imperial history. Yushi went to the mountain to inspect, Hai Rui killed chickens to entertain the millet minister, the house was deserted and shabby, and Yushi sighed and left. went back to report to Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Juzheng also sighed for a while, and the original desire to punish Hai Rui was gone. In the winter of the twelfth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng had died, and the officials planned to be used as Zuo Tongzheng, and the emperor had always valued Hai Rui's name and gave him his previous position. In the first month of the next year, he was called as the imperial history of Nanjing's right Jindu, and changed to the right servant of Nanjing's Ministry of Officials on the road, and Hai Rui was seventy-two years old at the time. The book said that he was old and dying, and he was willing to follow the meaning of the corpses of the ancients, and roughly said: "Your Majesty has made great efforts to govern the country, and the reason why the rule of peace and education has not been achieved is that the punishment for corrupt officials is too light. The ministers could not say the reason, but instead used the argument that they were polite, and everyone said nothing. What is the sin of the common people? Therefore, citing the provisions of the criminal law of Taizu on skinning people and putting them on grass to make skin bags, and the law of the 30th year of Hongwu bending the law to 80 times and sentencing him to death by hanging, he said that corruption should now be punished in this way. Other plans for current affairs, and the words are extremely practical. Only to persuade the emperor to use tyrannical criminal law, which was considered wrong by the review at the time. Yu Shi Mei Juan impeached Hai Rui. Although the emperor thought that Hai Jui's remarks were at fault, he knew Hai Jui's loyalty, so he dismissed Mei Juan Yulu for this reason.

The emperor repeatedly summoned Hai Rui, but the ministers who presided over state affairs secretly prevented him, so he appointed him as the imperial history of Nanjing's right capital. The divisions have always been reluctant and lazy, and Hai Rui has personally corrected the shortcomings. Some imperial histories occasionally display drama and music, and Hai Rui will be punished with a cane according to the regulations of Ming Taizu. All the officials were terrified and uneasy, and they were afraid of suffering. Fang Huan was afraid that he would be corrected and sued first, but Zhong Yuchun instigated him again, and Fang Huan wrote again to slander Hai Rui. Hai Jui also wrote many times to ask for retirement, but the emperor issued an edict to comfort him and not allow it. In the fifteenth year of Wanli, he died in office.

A life of integrity

The inspector of Yanping Prefecture went to Nanping County to inspect the work, and Hai Rui and two other instructors went to meet him. In the officialdom at that time, the subordinates greeted the superiors, and they generally had to bow down. Therefore, the two instructors who accompanied him knelt down to greet each other, but Hai Rui stood and only hugged his fists, and the posture of the three of them was like a pen holder. The inspector was furious and reprimanded Hai Jui for not knowing etiquette. Hai Rui said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, I am a scholar and a teacher, and I can't bow down to you." Although the inspector was furious, he couldn't do anything about Hai Rui. As a result, Hai Rui fell into the nickname of "Dr. Pen Stand". A few years later, Hai Rui was awarded the magistrate of Chun'an County, Yanzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province because of his excellent assessment results. Chun'an County's economy is relatively backward, and it is located in the north-south traffic artery, and the reception and entertainment are as many as cattle hairs, and the people are unbearable. After Hai Jui took office, he received him in strict accordance with the standards, and was unceremonious to the officials who wanted to eat and take cards. In the days when Yan Song was in power, not to mention the Yan family's father, even their comrades, there was no one who did not rely on the official position and acted as a blessing. From the ministers of the court to the local officials, everyone gave them a few points.

pass away

Hai Jui didn't have children. At the time of his death, the king of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate took care of Hai Rui, only to see the tents made of cloth and tattered bamboo utensils, some of which were not used by poor people, so he couldn't help crying and pooled money for Hai Rui's funeral. When the news of Hai Jui's death broke, the people of Nanjing went on strike. When Hai Jui's corpse was transported back to his hometown by boat, people wearing filial piety clothes stood on both sides of the river, and the people who paid tribute and wept for hundreds of miles. The imperial court posthumously presented Mrs. Hai Rui with the nickname Zhongsuke (Rui Wu. At the time of his death, the king of the imperial history of the capital used to draw into the eyes, Ge Wei was overwhelmed, and there were those who were unbearable by the cold scholars. Because of the crying, the entropy is collected. Petty people go on strike. Lost on the river, the white-clothed senders are sandwiched by the shore, and the drunken and crying people are endless. Give the wife Bao, Tadasuke. —History of the Ming Dynasty, Vol. 22).

Historical evaluation

Hai Jui has been honest and honest all his life, upright, honest and upright, and has won the respect and love of the people. also offended many people in officialdom. When he was a minister in Nanjing, he was praised by the people, and even used his portrait as a door god. It is said that when they heard of his death, the local people were deeply saddened by the loss of a loved one. When his coffin was transported back to his hometown from the Nanjing waterway, the banks of the Yangtze River were full of people seeing him off. Many people even made his portrait at home. Legends and stories about him are more widely spread among the people. Later, it was processed and sorted out by people and inkers, and compiled into the famous long public cases "Hai Gong Da Hong Pao" and "Hai Gong Xiao Hong Pao", or compiled into the drama "Hai Jui", "Hai Jui's Dismissal", "Hai Jui's Shangshu" and so on. Hai Rui, like Bao Zheng of the Song Dynasty, is a model of Qing officials and a symbol of justice in the history of the country. Li Zhen, a famous thinker in the Ming Dynasty, commented on Hai Rui: "Mr. is like a green grass for ten thousand years, he can be proud of frost and snow but cannot be a pillar", which is three points into the bones.

Hai Jui is borrowed here, just for the needs of story development]