During the Ming Dynasty, there were many good officials among the imperial court officials, such as the Sanyang Auxiliary Officials, who helped to manage the Ming Dynasty's government in an orderly manner. Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant, was also very devoted to Daming's cause, but there was another official in the Ming Dynasty, who was just and righteous, and had reached the level of selflessly serving the country for the cause of Daming
Liu Daxia
。 Although the name of this official is not so loud, he is a first-class and good official in the history of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Daxia has been reading a lot of books since he was a child, and during the Tianshun period, Liu Daxia won the title of the first place in the township examination with his own knowledge.
After another five years of hard work, Liu Daxia finally passed the jinshi examination. Although Liu Daxia was a civilian official, he had a strong interest in the art of war from an early age. Liu Daxia was originally selected by the imperial court to remain in the Hanlin Academy, but Liu Daxia chose to serve as a soldier. Liu Daxia had read the ancient and modern art of war, so he was familiar with the work of the military department, and soon Liu Daxia became hands-on with his own work, and he performed very well. Suddenly, Liu Daxia was promoted to Fang Silangzhong and became the right and left hand of Yu Zijun, the shangshu of the military department. At that time, the Military Department collected military maps from all over the country, and the Military Department also marked the location of the Daming army garrison on the map so that in the event of a war, troops could be dispatched.
Wang Zhi was very happy, he heard that Li Hao had been defeated by Laos, and he wanted to take this opportunity to attack Li Hao, so he proposed to the emperor to retrieve a map of the Annam area. The Annam region of the Ming Dynasty has always been in a turbulent situation, and if li hao can be taken down, it is indeed very beneficial to the situation. However, Liu Daxia, who was in charge of the documents, had always refused to hand over the map of Annam, and later Liu Daxia told the bingbu Shangshu that if the war in the Annam area began, then the whole country of Daming would once again fall into war, and Yu Zijun finally woke up under Liu Daxia's reminder, so he also refused to hand over the map.
The brother of the harem eunuch Ah Jiu served as a guard in the capital, but was punished by Liu Daxia for making a mistake, so the eunuch Ah Jiu always held a grudge against Liu Daxia. He repeatedly impeached Liu Daxia to Emperor Xianzong, so the emperor asked the eagle dogs of the East Factory to interrogate Liu Daxia, but the Jinyi guards of the East Factory failed to deduce the crime from Liu Daxia's mouth, and in the end Liu Daxia was beaten twenty times only for exceeding his authority. The struggle between Liu Daxia and the eunuchs began, and Liu Daxia was later reappointed as the Guangdong Cloth Administration, and Liu Daxia led troops to eliminate mountain bandits during his tenure in Guangdong Province.
In the sixth year of Hongzhi, the Yellow River broke through, and at the recommendation of the official Shangshu, Liu Daxia was reappointed as the right deputy capital Yushi, and went to the area of The Pass to deal with the flood. After the flood season, Liu Daxia also ordered people to build a breach to check the surrounding dams to prevent floods from happening again. Later, Liu Daxia was promoted to the post of Shangshu of the Bingbu, although this position was Liu Daxia's dream, but in his old age, he felt that he was already weak, so he resigned many times, but in the end he accepted this position. Once, in a small battle in Datong, Emperor Xiaozong, at the instigation of eunuchs, planned to lead troops on a campaign, but was persuaded by cabinet officials, and later Emperor Xiaozong summoned Liu Daxia and asked him what he thought of the matter. Liu Daxia analyzed to Emperor Xiaozong the differences in the situation between the current dynasty and the Zhu Di period, military strength and foreign enemies, so Emperor Xiaozong dismissed the idea of leading troops on the expedition.
In fact, in the history of the wilderness, it is also recorded that Liu Daxia burned the maps, documents and other materials recorded by Zheng He when he went to the West, and Liu Daxia burned these materials only because he hated eunuchs for disturbing the government, so he implicated this resentment to Zheng He, who was also a eunuch. Liu Daxia's late speeches at the imperial court were not accepted by the emperor, so he was discouraged and prepared to return to his hometown.