Text/Canghai Mingyuesheng
Life does not believe in fate, and the workplace does not believe in tears.
The company is a place where workers exchange their own value for remuneration, labor and management cooperate to get what they need, and people go to tea and cool but it is the norm.
The boss is not the parent of the worker, will not tolerate your words and deeds, and will not accept your endless demands.
In this regard, every worker must maintain a clear understanding.
Unfortunately, more than two hundred years ago, a single worker failed to realize the risks, and thus paid a terrible price.
01
In the forty-sixth year of Qianlong (1781 AD), the Qianlong Emperor was just seventy years old and had reached the age of ancient rarity.
In April of that year, the Qianlong Emperor toured Mount Wutai and passed through Baoding, Hebei Province, on his way back to Beijing, to take a rest in the local area, which made Yin Jiaquan, who was idle at home, overjoyed.
Yin Jiaquan is not an ordinary person, he was originally from Boye County, born in a person, successively served as a secretary and Taoist official in Shandong, Gansu and other provinces, and later promoted to Dali Temple Secretary, the official residence zheng sanpin, ranked ninth secretary.
During his tenure as secretary of the Dali Temple, Yin Jiaquan also did a remarkable thing, he ordered the children of the Qi people to read the Confucian introductory textbook "Primary School" like the children of the Han people, and compiled it into a "Primary School Encyclopedia".
Since then, Yin Jiaquan has regarded himself as a famous Confucian of the dynasty, and in addition, he is still relatively honest and upright as an official, so he can enjoy his old age in peace, and when Qianlong arrives in Bao, Yin Jiaquan has retired from Beijing less than three months ago.
That is to say, a few months ago, the two were still Yushui Junchen, according to Yin Jiaquan's conjecture, the emperor came to my hometown, he would definitely summon himself to reminisce, this scene is going to be recorded in the local county chronicle, this ancient glory is very exciting to think.
A series of pick-up lists were read down, and even the local squires in the village who had never seen the world were among them, except for Yin Jiaquan's name.
It's not a big deal, but it's too insulting!
Yin Jiaquan could not sit still, he suspected that the emperor might be too busy and forgot about him, an old minister who had worked hard and made a lot of achievements, so he decided to write a recital and let his son take it to Baoding Mansion and present it to the Qianlong Emperor.
As for what is written in the fold, it does not matter, mainly to brush a wave of existence and remind the emperor of himself.
Of course, it would be even better if you could add a little aura to the person by the way.
When Qianlong opened the fold, he immediately changed his face: "It's crazy to the extreme!" ”
Yin Jiaquan has been an official in Beijing for many years, and he is well aware of Qianlong's disposition, and in his opinion, the emperor has always promoted filial piety, and if I give my late father Yin Huiyi a courtesy name, won't it just seem that I am filial piety?
So he asked the emperor to give his father a nickname in the recital, if he could do so, it would be a great honor for the family, and the Yin family would be grateful for the emperor's grace for generations...
So is Yin Huiyi eligible to be posthumously given a nickname?
02
Turning over his resume, we found that Yin Huiyi was too qualified.
He was a scholar of the yongzheng second year, a famous theologian of the dynasty, who was knowledgeable and famous in the government and the public, and also used his savings to buy a field in his hometown to help the disaster victims, and a proper scholar-type philanthropist.
After Qianlong ascended the throne, he also gave poems to praise his virtuous filial piety, so what is wrong with such a reputation and resume, and it is inappropriate to get a nickname?
Perhaps, the old and dim-witted Yin Jiaquan remembered the complicated Confucian classics, but could not remember four words - "The power of heaven is unpredictable."
The Qianlong Emperor summoned Yin Jiaquan's son to teach a lesson: "It is the state's canon, how can we ask for it in vain?" This song should have been handed over to the ministry to punish the crime, and Nian Ru was asked by his father for private purposes and spared him. If you are restless at home again, you will not be guilty! ”
Yin Jiaquan's son listened, prostrated his head in fright, and hurried home to return the emperor's words to his father unchanged.
Yin Jiaquan smiled slightly, "You still don't understand the emperor..."
Since the number of people can't be asked, let's retreat to ask for the second time! Yin Jiaquan made another recital and begged the emperor to arrange a spiritual seat for his father at the Temple of Literature.
Yin Jiaquan thought to himself: "With my father's reputation and my father's and son's seniority, this bit of face, the emperor should not not give it, right?" ”
It turns out that he overestimated his place in the emperor's heart, but underestimated the complexity of human nature.
Qianlong was vain all his life, how could he let the people of the world glimpse the concessions of imperial power at the request of an old minister?
He summoned Yin Jiaquan to be a bitter scolding: "Yin Jiaquan, you are arrogant to ask for your father's words, and it is already lenient to avoid your sins, and now you do not know the height of heaven and the thickness of the earth, and it is really unscrupulous and mad to ask for your father from the Temple of Ancestral Literature, everyone is like you, and the country is not chaotic?" ”
After scolding, he felt that it was not enough, and then he ordered: "Take Yin Jiaquan to the Punishment Department for interrogation, and punish him severely!" ”
Thinking about it, Yin Huiyi and Yin Jiaquan's father and son are both well-known Confucian courtiers, and there is no economic problem for the officials to be clean and honest, if the officials of the Punishment Department cannot find out the charges, wouldn't it seem that the emperor's temperament is small?
I am the son of heaven, saying that if you are guilty, you are guilty, and if you are not guilty, you must make up a crime!
Therefore, Qianlong also ordered the university scholar Yinglian to copy Yin Jiaquan's writings on the family property in the Beijing division and his hometown, and to find chapters and excerpts to verify them one by one.
"If the investigation and handling are untrue and there are hidden omissions, do not be discovered, and the original supervisor will be punished and punished."
In short, Er waited to turn this case into an irrefutable iron case!
03
With such a strict order, who dares to slacken off?
In Yin Jiaquan's family property in the capital, Yinglian searched his family collection of 311 sets of books, 1539 loose books, a cabinet of unbinded books, 65 albums of Fa Ti albums, 58 volumes of broken character paintings, 113 envelopes of letters, and 1200 book boards.
Yuan Shoudong, the viceroy of Zhili, found 1 ancestral hall of Yin Jiaquan's father, Yin Huiyi, in Baoding, in addition to the sacrificial vessels, there were as many as 84 acres of ancestral fields, and there was also 1 acre of Yixue field.
On behalf of his father-in-law, Yin Jiaquan gave a total of 52 ancestral halls, and in addition, 46 boxes of books were found and sent to Beijing for inspection.
With so much evidence, isn't it a matter of holding a handle on it when a few rebellious remarks are found?
Half a month later, an investigation report on Yin Jiaquan's rebellion came out, listing a total of 131 factual descriptions, such as:
First: Yin Jiaquan referred to his father Yin Huiyi and Zhang Boxing as the "Four Sons of Kongmen", which was really arrogant. How can Yin Huiyi's merit be compared with Yan Hui and Zeng Shan?
Second: Yin Jiaquan called the death of his parents "Xue", your family is not a royal nobleman, what qualifications do you have to use this word?
Third: In the "Records of the Words and Deeds of Famous Ministers" compiled by Yin Jiaquan, there is the view that "the rule of chaos in the world is the prime minister", where does this put Kangqian's prosperity?
Could it be that Emperor Shengzu and the Heavenly Son of the Dynasty are all decorations?
In such a frame, Yin Jiaquan was already sweating profusely and no longer made any excuses: "I deserve to die for my sins, I am confused, I don't know shame..."
Of all the charges, the most eye-catching one was even more indisputable to him.
In the "Records of the Words and Deeds of Famous Ministers", Yin Jiaquan claimed to be an ancient rare old man, and Qianlong wrote a royal poem on the day of his seventieth birthday last year to call himself an "ancient rare old man" (the birthday of the ancients was counted according to the imaginary age), and there was also an engraving of "ancient rare old man".
You Yin Jiaquan ate the bear heart leopard bile, a retired official dared to call the Son of Heaven together?
This crime is pure nonsense, when Yin Jiaquan wrote the "Records of the Words and Deeds of Famous Ministers", the Qianlong Emperor had not yet written a royal poem, and it was obvious that Yin Jiaquan, the "rare old man", was in front!
But at this time, Yin Jiaquan seemed to want to understand and did not dare to make any more senseless struggles.
In the end, after interrogation, the officials of the Punishment Department gave Yin Jiaquan a "rare crime" and sentenced Yin Jiaquan to death, cut off all the doors, and confiscate the family property!" ”
After the report was submitted, it was time for the emperor to make the final ruling.
04
At the fatal juncture, the Qianlong Emperor did not kill everything, and he ordered Yin Jiaquan to be sentenced to hanging, and the rest were not prosecuted, so as to show the emperor's grace.
Yin Jiaquan's family survived, and he himself was left with a corpse, and after Yin Jiaquan ambushed the law, the provincial governors sealed all the collected Yin Jiaquan's writings, letters, and inscriptions to Beijing for centralized destruction.
He himself was regarded by the Qianlong Emperor as a "mad dog" who "barked wildly", becoming a negative example of officials large and small.
Persecuted by the prison of words, everyone was in danger during the Qianlong period, culture stagnated and ideological imprisonment, and when Watt on the other side of the ocean had developed a steam engine, the corrupt Confucians of the Great Qing Dynasty still fabricated charges against their colleagues in the pile of old paper.
Such a great Qing, can yan not die?