A few degrees of coolness and a few degrees of coolness, chaotic mountains and low and oblique sun. I'm like a parrot in the treasure?, Hyuga Peak Crying Emperor. ——Qing. Bai Ye's "Chronicle of Duty"
In the nearly three hundred years of the history of the Qing Dynasty, when the imperial court officials were escorted to the gate of the vegetable market, it was extremely rare for them to be beheaded on the street. In particular, this Imperial Court Official of Yipin was also a scholar of Wenyuange University, and he was not only an official who was clean and upright, but also had the best talent.
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What is even more interesting is that after being ordered by the emperor to "cut down the decision", this Great Qing Yipin officer can still look as usual, and before the execution, he did not forget to let his son sort out the baggage, and said that he would not die.
This high-ranking court official was Bai Ye during the Xianfeng period. It is said that there is no joke, and the decision on the pilgrimage is even more impossible to change. So, why was Lord Bai Bai beheaded? And when faced with the Holy Decree of "Decisive Decision", why was he so confident?
Two dynasties of heavy subjects, deeply weighted by the Holy Instrument?
Originally known as Song Yao, Bai Da was a Mongolian Blue Banner man, of the Barut clan. In 1826, that is, in the early years of Daoguang, he passed the jinshi examination with his outstanding talents, and from then on he entered the court and began his career. The smooth passage of this Bo Daren is somewhat frightening. I can't count the number of official positions I have held in my entirety.
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At that time, it was already the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the qi of the Great Qing dynasty was about to run out, and at that time, the situation was turbulent and the officials were corrupt. The high officials in the court were only concerned with coveting pleasure, and who had the heart to pay attention to the affairs of the family and the country.
In such a political environment, which has been corroded by this decadent atmosphere for a long time, our Bai people can still stick to themselves. He was not polluted by those colleagues who were not self-motivated, but only cared about conspiring with each other and forming parties for personal gain, and maintained his integrity as an official, and even the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty" called him "plain and upright."
It was because Lord Bai was a clear stream in the imperial court at that time that it attracted the Daoguang Emperor who was in power at that time. The Daoguang Emperor liked Lord Bai very much and was quite important. Therefore, Lord Bai set a record of five consecutive promotions in a year. It was also for this reason that it was hated by some people with ulterior motives in the imperial court.
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Our Lord Bai was not only the favorite of the Daoguang Emperor, but also deeply loved by the Xianfeng Emperor. During the Xianfeng period, Lord Bai became the governor of Rehe. When he was in office, he discovered many shortcomings and contradictions in the Rehe region, and an upright official like him could not tolerate sand in the eyes, so he did not let these problems go unchecked.
Patrick carefully analyzed each drawback and managed it, and dealt with the mineral problem in Mongolia more properly.
Since then, Lord Bai has become more and more valued by the emperor. Even during the Xianfeng period, the career path was still smooth. Later, it also solved many problems of all sizes for the Great Qing Dynasty.
The journey is smooth and unimpeded; the two dynasties are heavy subjects, and they are deeply valued by the holy instrument. Lord Bai can be described as a living winner in life!
Cheating, Lord Bai is trapped?
In 1858, Lord Bai was promoted again and became a university scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion. However, this promotion is not the beginning of a good thing.
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In this year, Pakuto, who became a scholar of Bunwyonkaku University, was required to preside over the Shuntian Township Examination. The township examination is the smallest imperial examination, and it is not as strict as other imperial examinations. There were nearly a thousand candidates for this exam, and three-tenths of the candidates were admitted in the end, that is, three hundred candidates would stand out.
In fact, the process of this township test is still very smooth, until the time of the release of the list in September, nothing happened. However, while other colleagues were celebrating for Lord Bai, the candidates who took the exam made a fuss.
And this uproar, a big case surfaced.
The thing is, when the candidates unveiled the list with a nervous mood, they actually found that the ordinary age who lived in the muddled life on weekdays actually won the list, or the seventh place in high school!
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If the average age is a normal candidate, it may be good luck and extraordinary play, which is understandable. However, this ordinary age is just a play, and he still sings on stage every day, which can be high school, so don't these students who read until late at night learn to go to the pig's nest?
Therefore, more than half a month after the list was released, a copy of the recital was handed to the Xianfeng Emperor. The compromise pointed out the strangeness of this Shuntianxiang test, and it really didn't make sense to admit a drama as a lifter, and the two examination papers of this drama were still different and should be carefully examined.
Xian Feng already hated the fraud of the imperial examination very much, and when he saw the twist, he immediately sent someone to strictly investigate the case. Two princes and two court ministers were specially appointed to review the case.
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Don't check and don't know, a check is frightened, more than fifty who don't understand academics have won the list! Immediately, the chief examiner, Lord Bai, was dismissed.
Full of confidence, but not against the wall to push everyone?
The emperor was furious, and the speed at which the officials handled the case was leveraged. Moreover, the main official of this case investigation was the famous iron hat Wang Zaiyuan, who won the trust of the Xianfeng Emperor.
After the establishment of the case investigation team, the Iron Hat Wang Zaiyuan immediately took action and thoroughly investigated all the examination papers of the Shuntianxiang examination.
The result of the thorough investigation also made the Xianfeng Emperor furious, and the fifty of the three hundred admitted candidates were written in a mess. The volume of the average age of the play is even more outrageous, an article is only eight hundred words, and the light typos are almost half.
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In fact, our Lord Bai, in this case of cheating in the imperial examination, is only a crime of dereliction of duty. Because of this fraud, he basically did not know it, and he only received sixteen taels of silver in a vacuum. The main culprits had embezzled hundreds of taels of silver.
Because of the small matter of sixteen taels of silver, it was obviously impossible to kill a member of the emperor who was deeply trusted by the emperor. Lord Bai himself knows this.
But some people want to put Lord Bai to death. Therefore, the case was retried in the first instance, and finally the place about Lord Bai was found. Because it was difficult for Lord Bai to refuse the request of his relatives, a man named Luo Hongxuan was admitted by him illegally.
At this point, there is a reason for the death penalty of Lord Bai. After Lord Bai was ordered to "cut off the decision", he still did not care.
Because he felt that he would not die at all, and the emperor could not kill him. He thought that if he was exiled for a few years at most, he should look at the scenery. That's why I let my son go home and prepare the baggage.
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In fact, the Xianfeng Emperor did not want to kill him, but the officials were not happy. One after another, some of the powerful ministers such as Zaiyuan and so on, fueled the waves, repeatedly requested. The Xianfeng Emperor had no choice but to sentence Bai Ye to death.
epilogue:
Because of too many people offended, the two dynasties' favorite ministers, Bai Yao, were still beheaded. He knew his own value, knew that the Xianfeng Emperor would not kill him, but his cleverness was mistaken by cleverness. His final result can only be said to be self-inflicted, because there are too many people who have offended.
It is because he has a very high self-esteem, because he is proud and complacent, and he has not left himself a way out, nor has he made the slightest preparation. Moreover, because he has offended so many people, he will go from sin to death to death! Being humble and being kind to people is the truth we need to learn, do you think so?
bibliography:
"Qing Shi Lu"
Lecture Notes on the History of the Qing Dynasty
Draft History of the Qing Dynasty
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