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Zheng Huan was extremely talented from an early age, at the age of 19, at the age of 29, he entered the Hanlin Academy as a Shu Jishi, and was valued by the literary leaders at that time, such as Huang Daozhou and Wen Zhenmeng.
It is reasonable to say that if you can have such a status at a young age, the future is unlimited.
But Zheng Yan, like his father, is a righteous person who is jealous and hateful.
At that time, the Emperor of the Apocalypse's grandmother Keshi and the eunuch Wei Zhongxian had hooked up, showing signs of interference in the government, and several upright ministers had been forced to resign and return home.
In this regard, Wen Zhenmeng's political vision is sophisticated, and he has already seen it.
But to tell the truth, this should not be his management, at this time Wen Zhenmeng was still just a Hanlin editor.
It shouldn't be a matter for a little Shu Ji Shi Zheng Ton.
However, the readers after the Sui and Tang dynasties always had a feeling of helping the world at the same time, and the intellectuals of the Ming Dynasty never cared about life and death to criticize the situation.
Zheng Yan is no exception.
In the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), Zheng Huan cooperated with Wen Zhenmeng to criticize the castration party, and as a result, he was expelled from the imperial court and returned to his hometown to wait.
At this time, it was not long before Zheng Huan became a Shu Jishi, and the road that had just been paved with flowers suddenly became thorny.
But Zheng Huan became famous because of this.
However, the good reputation did not bring him any benefits, on the contrary, he became a thorn in Wei Zhongxian's eyes, regarding him as a hardcore Donglin party member, and later in Wei Zhongxian's blacklist "Point General Record", Zheng Huan was listed as Tiangang Xing, nicknamed "White-faced Lang Jun"--unfortunately not the Zheng Tianshou of Shui po Liangshan.
Stay at home, play with flowers, fish and drink tea, brag, and write articles.
Zheng Yan had an accident again.
Wei Zhongxian
02
In the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other six gentlemen of Donglin were killed, and Zheng Yan could not help but write "Huang Zhi Ge" and "Biography of the Six Gentlemen", denouncing wei Zhongxian's atrocities of the castration party, and the article was quickly forwarded and swiped.
Wei Zhongxian and others hated it so much that their teeth itched.
In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Yang Lian's son asked Zheng Huan to write a preface for yang Lian when sorting out Yang Lian's remaining manuscripts, and finally caused great trouble and was stripped of his post for the people.
In order to avoid being castrated by the party, Zheng Yan had no choice but to wander the world and travel as far away as Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places.
Not long after, the Chongzhen Emperor came to power, and the first thing he did was to eliminate the castration party.
Zheng Huan received the edict and was revived.
But fate always inadvertently tricks people.
Before Zheng Juan took office, his father Zheng Zhen died and kept filial piety for three years.
At the end of the period of filial piety, the old mother died again, and the law continued to be observed.
I don't know if this is heaven reminding Zheng Juan in the dark: Just stay at home honestly, don't go anywhere.
His wife Zhou Shi also strongly opposed him entering Beijing: after fourteen years of idleness at home, Wen Zhenmeng, who took you to play at the beginning, has already entered the cabinet to worship him, and now you go to start from scratch? Why? Why serve the country? Is it bad to have this life at home?
Perhaps it was the dream of serving the country and the people in the bones of the literati that had not been lost, but Zheng Huan finally decided to enter the DPRK, despite the high mountains and rivers and the ravines.
In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), the ambitious Zheng Huan arrived in the capital and prepared to bow to the Chongzhen Emperor who was the Holy Lord Dragon Fly.
It was just that he didn't know that from the moment he stepped on the imperial capital with one foot, his other foot had already stepped into the ghost gate.
【Junlai mistaken】
This is the first sentence that Wen Zhenmeng gave to Zheng Zhenmeng after he entered Beijing: You should not come back!
Years of political career have turned the hot-blooded big brother into a mature politician.
The kind reminders and warnings from big brother, Zheng Yan did not take it seriously: after more than ten years of silence, and now that the emperor has wisely summoned me to come back, how can I hide in a remote countryside without contributing to the emperor?
03
Re-entry.
Definitely have to meet the leader first.
The prime minister at the time was Wen Tiren.
Zheng Yan was passionate, and the spit star splashed Wen Tiren's face.
Bluntly speaking, the current situation is "there is a king and no subjects".
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In fact, there was a lot of conversation, but Wen Tiren also remembered these four words, like a steel needle poking into Wen Tiren's lung tube.
Shousuke was angry, and the consequences were very serious: What do you call this? Oh, the ministers are not good, then my first assistant is naturally unqualified? Well, yes, it can't work, just you and Wen Zhenmeng, you can do it later, I have long wanted to retire and go home to hold my grandson!
Wen Tiren just brushed his sleeves away.
Originally, Wen Tiren was jealous of Zheng Zhen and Wen Zhenmeng's impeachment of Wei Zhongxian together, and in his heart he already regarded him as Wen Zhenmeng's party.
Wen Tiren was about to attack Zheng Huan.
But at that time, Zheng Yu only worked for three months before returning to his hometown and stayed in the countryside for fourteen years, with no good materials to use.
Rest assured, Wen Shoufu's subordinate Ma Zai rummaged through the boxes and cabinets and dug the ground three feet to turn Zheng Yu's family history upside down, and finally found the ironclad evidence of cleaning him up--the mother of the staff; the adulterous sister.
Is this still human?
Is this still an intellectual who has read poetry books?
This is simply inferior to the beast.
In the end, Mr. Wen Tiren sent Zheng Huan to prison with a paper impeachment.
He entered Beijing on October 13 and was imprisoned on November 12, just one month before and after.
04
In prison, Zheng Yan was tortured, and what pepper water tiger stool tasted over and over again, but Zheng Yan refused to admit guilt.
How to admit the crime of making something out of nothing?
In this way, Zheng Yan used the prison as a guest house to live.
In July of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, a very unexpected thing brought up Zheng Yu, who had almost been forgotten and was still drinking porridge in prison, once again.
Because zheng's good friend Huang Daozhou had a fierce argument with his political enemy Yang Sichang.
There is nothing wrong with expressing one's own opinions, but a seasoned politician will catch a small braid on a slip of the tongue that you inadvertently make and bite it not to let go, Yang Sichang is such a person.
Huang Daozhou admired Zheng Eon, saying that his article was not as good as Zheng E's, and it was this sentence that was caught by Yang Sichang.
Isn't Zheng Yan's crime impossible to implement? Well, is it okay to suppress political opponents?
Chongzhen, who was not very interested in Zodiac Zhou, had always wanted to drive him away, but he was suffering from no excuses, and now it was better: Are you worse than a criminal who has committed a terrible crime? Kill that Zheng Juan first and then collect you!
In this way, Zheng Yan's life came to an end.
On August 26, 1639, the Chongzhen Emperor ordered Ling Chi to be executed.
Zheng Died at the age of forty-six.
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In the winter of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty had collapsed, and Zodiac Zhou was appointed by the Southern Ming Court to visit Zheng Yu's cemetery through Biling and write an epitaph for Zheng Yu:
[It was the person who killed Yu who wanted to kill Yu Yang first to complete his case, but because of the eight months of his death, Yu wanted to solve it, but he did not want to do it quickly.] Yu Weiyang's loyalty and filial piety suffered from the misfortune, and the scribes were heard of evil, since ancient times, but not so much. 】
Zodiac Zhou knew very well that the person who killed Zheng Huan actually wanted to kill him. Who wanted to kill him? On the surface, it is Yang Sichang, but in fact it is Chongzhen.
During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, two major Ling Chi were tortured, one was Yuan Chonghuan and the other was Zheng Yan.
Yuan Chonghuan suffered from the 3453 knife, but fortunately, someone later rehabilitated him;
Zheng Yan was stabbed 3600 times, which is basically not recorded in the Ming history, but he is mentioned in the biography of Wen Tiren Zodiac Zhou Wenzhenmeng and others.
The process of Zheng Yan's torture can still be felt through words today, which makes people's backs chill.
[As I saw on the way home, those who bought raw meat to get boils and medicine materials for boils were all over Chang'an City.] Twenty years ago, the article was temperamental, the merit was prominent, and it played with the effect of ginseng ganpi.
Whoops, a scholar who was famous all over the world, after a morning of careful cutting by the executioner, after being stabbed 3600 times, became a strand of medicinal primers, which is more than Mr. Lu Xun's "human blood steamed buns"!
And this is just a small dish of the party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty.