Thousands of chisels out of the mountains, the fire burns as if idle. The shattered body is not afraid, and it is necessary to leave innocence in the human world. --Ming Yuqian, "Lime Yin"
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It is said that during the feudal period, corrupt officials and corrupt officials appeared one after another, and it was not uncommon in all dynasties and dynasties, and even more, the rulers would connive at corrupt officials and corruption, the most typical of which was Qianlong.
As the old saying goes, since ancient times, good and evil are not opposed, there must be greed, there must be honesty, in the "Fan Jin Zhongju" recorded, feudal officials rule dark and corrupt, in the eyes of many people, to be able to become an official means to get rich.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a clean and honest official, who was called the "first loyal subject" of the Ming Dynasty by posterity, who was just and honest, did not collude with the corrupt officials, and devoted himself to serving the country and the people, but he ended up being unjustly killed, and this Clean official was Yu Qian.
Throughout history, there are countless loyal and good generals, fortunate to meet the Ming Jun, but they can do a lot of things, and their reputation is in history, if they encounter the Emperor of the Dark, the result often makes posterity feel sorry.
It can be seen that the number of the ruling class will be exhausted, the people in power will reuse villains, the patriots will be wrongfully killed, and the dynasty will not perish. Yu Qian was born well, his ancestors were all high officials for three generations, and his grandfather was the head of the Ministry of Works, and when he reached his father's generation, he lived in seclusion. He is less humble and ambitious, studies hard, admires the national hero Wen Tianxiang, and is determined to become a person like Wen Tianxiang when he grows up.
In the nineteenth year of Yongle, Yu Qian successfully passed the entrance examination and embarked on the career path. Yu Qian, who embarked on the road to his career, rehabilitated hundreds of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases for the suffering people, and the people supported him. When Zhu Gaoxu rebelled, Yu Qian scolded him to the point of self-esteem, and Zhu Gaoxu was shocked by Yu Qian's righteousness.
As we all know, the Son of Heaven commits the same crime as the common people, and there is no difference between yu and the people and nobles in being humble and honest, and those who commit crimes will be severely punished. When the eunuch Wang Zhen controlled the cabinet, the hundred officials feared his obscenity and bribed him. During the imperial meeting, all those who wanted to see Wang Zhen were required to "offer" one hundred or one thousand taels of silver.
However, when Yu Qian entered the Beijing opera, he scorned Wang Zhen, did not send anything at all, and said: My sleeves are clean! Yu Qian's actions made Wang Zhen dissatisfied, so Wang Zhen deliberately made it bad, instructed the tongzheng envoy Li Xi to impeach Yu Qian, and eventually, Yu Qian was framed and sentenced to death.
When the people learned of this incident, they were full of grief and indignation, and the people everywhere jointly signed a letter, and Wang Zhen knew that this matter was too big to clean up, so he casually found an excuse for himself, telling the people that he had arrested the wrong person, Yu Qian was released from prison, and although his life was saved, he was demoted.
Soon after, the Mongols raised troops to attack, and the eunuch Wang Zhen instigated the emperor to march in person, for which Yu Qian and others strongly discouraged it, but the emperor did not listen, and was eventually captured at Tumu Fort. So Yu Qian stood up and presided over the overall situation and did his best to defend the Beijing Division.
When Yu Qian assisted Emperor Ming of the Ming Dynasty, he devoted himself to the development of Jiangshan wholeheartedly, and thus touched the interests of many traitors and villains. Yu Qian's personality is very strong, looking down on those cowardly and incompetent nobles, ministers, etc., as long as he encounters those unpleasant things, he will directly scold them and leave no mercy at all, which will lead to more and more people who hate him.
Emperor Mingzong was seriously ill, and Cao Jixiang, Shi Heng, and others wanted to take the opportunity to support Emperor Mingyingzong to restore the throne, so they began to plan the persecution of Qian and others, bent on putting Qian and others in the dead.
After Ming Yingzong learned of the situation, he hesitated, and Xu Yougong immediately said: If Yu Qian does not die, we will be nameless, and restoration will be impossible. In 1497, Yu Qian was finally persecuted by the traitors and beheaded.
The end of Yu Qian, the "first loyal minister" of the Ming Dynasty, was so tragic. According to legend, the executioner who executed Qian at that time was sad and sad after the fact. The people of the world are all righteous for Yu Qian, the executioner is just a small person who is humble and light-hearted, he really does not go to the hand, but he also has to do it, after the struggle of thought afterwards, he thinks that only death can apologize, and soon the executioner will kill himself to apologize.
After Yu Qian's death, the traitorous villain sent troops to raid Yu Qian's house, but after the search, the officers and men present all shed tears, they saw with their own eyes that Yu Qian's house did not have any valuable items, and it was not too much to describe it as "four walls of the family".
In Yu Qian's home, the most precious items were the swords and python robes given to him by the Ming Dynasty Emperor, and the officers and soldiers who raided the house really couldn't bear to raid the house again, so they left.
On the day that Yu Qian was wrongfully killed, Cao Jixiang's subordinates could not bear to see this, and independently bought sacrificial wine and sprinkled it on the place where Qian was executed, Cao Jixiang saw it and shouted loudly, but they ignored it and still did it.
After Yu Qian was executed, no one dared to collect his body, and the governor Chen Kui respected Yu Qian's loyalty and collected his body. In the history books, it is recorded: "The world has been wronged"! Shortly after Yu Qian's death, Ming Yingzong also regretted that a generation of loyal subjects had been persecuted and ended up in such a fate, this dynasty was unpopular, how could it last?
References for this article: "Ming Shi Yu Qian Biography", "Vernacular Ming History", "CNKI Related Literature - Evaluation of Yu Qian in History and Other Related Literature", "Baidu Encyclopedia Related Terms - Ming Shi, Yu Qian, Ming Yingzong, Ming Dynasty Sect, Eunuch Yu Zhen, Cao Jixiang, etc."