Hai Rui, a Great Qing official of the Ming Dynasty, had a fierce and loyal personality, and was not afraid of the heavens, daring to scold the emperor Lao Tzu!
During the Jiajing Emperor's period, Hai Rui's position was only a waiter in the Liupin Household Department, but he was just an ordinary clerk in the Ministry of Finance, but Hai Rui's family was in the world, and he was in a low position but petitioned for the people, and he scolded the Jiajing Emperor for a call, and when he returned, he knew that the death penalty would be difficult to escape, so he bought a coffin at home and waited for death!
Although the Jiajing Emperor acted obediently and had a strange personality, he did not directly kill Hai Rui, and he did not know how to deal with him, so he had to be imprisoned in a cell!
At the end of 1566, Hai Rui, who had been in prison for ten months, was released, because the Jiajing Emperor died, and his son Yu Wang ascended the throne as the Longqing Emperor, Hai Rui learned that the Jiajing Emperor was dead, and he cried bitterly, after all, in the heart of this nerd, the father of the king, he has always treated the Jiajing Emperor as a king and a father!
Although the Longqing Emperor was greedy and lustful all his life, he still respected talents and hired them out of the ordinary, and appointed him the official position as Ying Tianguan Lining, from Erpin to four consecutive ranks from the original Six Pin Household Attendants!
Ying Tian is Nanjing, Nanjing has been the capital of the Ming Dynasty since Zhu Di, nanjing is still the capital of the Ming Dynasty after moving the capital to Beijing, and it has retained a set of shadow court teams that have always existed, and Ying Tianfu is the most prosperous place in the economy, and more importantly, the birthplace of the Ming Dynasty Qingliu "Donglin Party"!
From the idle post of a minister to the heavy power of Ying Tian's inspectorate, Hai Rui even more exalted the fierce and fierce style of acting for the country and the people and for the people in his heart, and was determined to clean up the evil trend of official corruption and land annexation in Ying Tian!
Hai Rui demanded a re-measurement of land and a crackdown on land annexation by the big bureaucracy, and the cabinet head lined the high arch to approve his request!
Since during the Ming Dynasty, the private land of the big bureaucrats did not have to pay taxes, so there were very many free peasants with a small amount of land who took the initiative to attach themselves to the accounts of the big bureaucrats in the form of donations to achieve the purpose of evading taxes, so the private land area of many bureaucrats far exceeded the land area of the court to his family, so Hai Rui was well aware of the drawbacks, and it was imperative to re-measure the land for the country and the people!
However, in the process of investigating and measuring tian mu, Hai Rui had one of the biggest obstacles, that is, the retired former cabinet capital Xu Jie, after the overthrow of the Yan Song family, Xu Jie was appointed as the cabinet capital, and the current cabinet capital Gao Gong was still Xu Jie's subordinate at that time, and Xu Jie was also the leader of the Qingliu party people in the dynasty!
Xu Jie's family had 120,000 mu of private land, a huge amount, but the court rewarded his family's private land only 20,000 mu, and the extra 100,000 mu was either taken by chance, or it was someone else's private land that evaded taxes and was attached to his name!
Many people always boast of the pure knots and nobility of the Qingliu people of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the means of these Qingliu bureaucrats to collect wealth are also very clever, and even more so!
Xu Jie was also Hai Rui's mentor, and when hai Rui was promoted to the six pin household attendant with the Pure An County Order of The Seven Pins, it was Xu Jie who arranged the work, and Hai Rui saw that Xu Jie was also called a benefactor!
For Hai Rui's work as a student, Xu Jie still generously expressed his willingness to cooperate with his work, and offered to return one-tenth of the 12,000 mu of land to the peasants, but Hai Rui was a dead brain, looking at the face of the teacher, he also insisted on Xu Jie to retire half of the 60,000 mu of land, Xu Jie and him could not talk, so they simply ignored him, after all, the family was also the head of the Yipin Cabinet of the Dynasty, what can you do?
Hai Rui saw that Xu Jie ignored him, the work could not be carried out, he had to use a little trick that did not fit in, he organized a group of beggars, fleeing poor people, etc., to form a team to ask for land, every day in front of Xu Jie's house to make trouble and demonstrate, nothing happened, these people will throw human and animal excrement into Xu Jie's yard, so that Xu Jie's whole family can't stand it, and they can't live a day of peace!
In the end, Xu Jie, in desperation, wrote a letter to the current cabinet capital Gao Gong to intercede and participated in Hai Rui's excessive behavior, and finally Gao Gong participated in Hai Rui's book, and the Longqing Emperor only wanted to be stable and did not want to make things too big, so he had to take advantage of hai Rui's recall from Ying Tianfu and arrange to be the head of the household department, but the official position was still treated according to Erpin, and Hai Rui's rank was the same level as his superior Hubu Shangshu!
Hai Rui is the role model of the Qing officials in history, for the country and the people, loyal to the king and love the people, is undoubtedly impeccable, but because the personality is too straight, the work does not know how to detour, and finally full of ambition is also nothing!