The Jiajing Emperor was a very immortal person, who had been obsessed with Taoist practice all his life, shutting himself in his room all day and cultivating immortal enlightenment. The affairs of the country are left to the old guys in the cabinet to deal with, and he sits firmly on the Diaoyutai. His inaction seems to be clever, but in fact it buries a lot of hidden dangers.
As a result, the Yan family was so powerful that it did a lot of evil things that lost its conscience, among which the policy of "changing and giving charity and solving the dilemma by itself" was a plan carefully planned by Yan Song's father and son to mislead the country and the people.
Originally, this plan was a reform pushed out by the Jiajing Emperor in order to enrich the national treasury. However, I did not expect to become a tool for the Yan father and son to amass wealth. The implementation of this policy seems to benefit the country and the people, but it has been resisted from the bottom to the top. If the plan is implemented, the people will not be able to live, so there are many peasant revolts.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty was not completely decayed, and a group of literati such as Gao Hanwen saw through the insidiousness of Yan Song's father and son. However, Zheng Bichang and He Maocai conspired to frame Gao Hanwen, and not only that, but also took advantage of the resistance of the common people to trap Hai Rui in the quagmire and put him a "Tongwu" hat.
At that time, Hai Rui was just a small Zhixian, and in the face of the framing of his superiors, although he was righteous and awe-inspiring, he was also deeply weak. Gao Hanwen hid in the form of a feigned illness in the face of a trap. There was no way, He Maocai could only aim the butcher knife in his hand at Hai Rui, who was in a relatively low position, and wanted to force him to submit through power, and signed the document of "selling fields at a low price".
How should Hairui resolve it? What he was carrying was the crime of "tongwu" and could lose his head at any time. Hai Rui was no ordinary person, and when He Maocai wanted to put him in prison, he took out the magic weapon of the Great Law of Fame on the spot. The Daimyo Law clearly stipulates that the inspector has no right to detain him directly.
He Maocai, who was angry with Hai Rui, jumped up and down, and there was no way to take Hai Rui. In the end, He Maocai thought of an even more shameless conspiracy, and even asked him to go back and cut down Qi Dazhu of the "Tongwu" in front of him. Because they calculated that Hai Rui could not do this, but if Hai Rui did not do this, he would be convicted of "passing the whistle".
Zheng Bichang and He Maocai's move was fierce and poisonous, and ordinary people certainly could not cope with it, but Hai Rui was a hard and smelly justice official, and he was not afraid of death, how could he be afraid of the threat of these two corrupt officials. He asked Zheng Bichang on the spot, "Do those officers and soldiers you sent listen to me or do I listen to them?"
Zheng Bichang is also an old fritter, and if he replies to those officers and soldiers who listen to Hai Rui, his own plan will fail, so he replied to Hai Rui that if the reform plan is smoothly implemented, these officers and soldiers will listen to you.
Hai Rui's hardness was once again reflected at this time, and he told Zheng Bichang that he could not execute Qi Dazhu at will without judicial interrogation, and if he did not even try to kill people directly according to your intention, it was tantamount to killing innocents indiscriminately.
Zheng Bichang did not want to put on the hat of killing innocents, so he could only promise Hai Rui to let him go through the interrogation process. With such a reply from Zheng Bichang, Hai Rui has a space to operate. This seems to be a delaying tactic, but in fact, the initiative is firmly in their own hands, rather than being at the mercy of others.
Whether Hai Rui kills Qi Dazhu or not is the worst ending. However, he could only think and do it at the same time, and while carrying out Zheng Bichang's orders, he bought time and space for himself. After returning home, he sat on the top of the lobby with righteousness and awe, and very formally put on the official uniform of Zhixian County.
In this way, he did nothing in the lobby, sitting and spending time, watching as the deadline that Zheng Bichang gave him was getting closer and closer. It wasn't until the last moment that he asked the county clerk to bring the case file and said he wanted to start the interrogation. But this is a completely unjust case, and there is no file at all.
Xian Cheng was dumbfounded on the spot and told Hai Rui that there was no file at all. In this way, Hai Rui grasped the handle, there was no way to convict without the file, and he naturally had a reason not to kill Qi Dazhu. And this reason is so seamless that no one can refute it.
In this way, the two thousand households sent by Zheng Bichang immediately panicked, and they forced Hai Rui to execute Qi Dazhu immediately. But Hai Rui's violent temper at this time immediately broke out, and the table shook the sky, asking the two thousand households, if you killed the wrong person, will you atone for the crime or me.
When the two Qianhu said that killing Qi Dazhu was ordered by their superiors, Hai Rui immediately asked them if they had any orders from their superiors. The two thousand households who asked at once were dumbfounded.
Hai Rui's trick is worth learning, no matter at any time in the face of other people's embarrassment, we must see the leader's signature or other clear instructions to do it. Otherwise, once there is a problem, the only one who will eventually carry the black pot can only be himself, and the leader who gave him verbal instructions in the first place cannot excuse himself.
With his seamless logic, Hai Rui successfully survived the three o'clock in the afternoon, allowing Qi Dazhu to temporarily save his life. He won the struggle against Zheng Bichang and He Maocai, successfully defended the justice in his heart, and did not fall behind any handle.