After the fall of the Yan Party, Yan Song saw the Jiajing Emperor for the last time, and he handed the Jiajing Emperor a list and said:
"Some people deserve to be punished by heaven, and some people hope that the emperor will protect them!"
On this list, the first person in the list is the former proud protégé, Hu Zongxian, who supported the great cause of the southeast. The play ended until Hu Zongxian retired from illness, in fact, his fate did not stop here, and when Yan Shifan, Luo Longwen and others were raided, Hu Zongxian was also implicated.
In November of the forty-fourth year of the Jiajing Emperor, four months after Hai Rui entered Beijing in the play, when everyone was confiscating Yan Dang's money, Hu Zongxian committed suicide in prison, leaving a line of poetry:
"The sword buries the unjust prison, and the loyal soul surrounds the white clouds."
The death of Hu Zongxian, a famous minister of resistance: the imperial court cannot be without the southeast for a day, but there is no Hu Zongxian in the southeast!
One
Hu Zongxian, whose performance in the play is perfect, he initially served as the governor of Zhejiang and the governor of Zhejiang, and was the largest feudal governor of the two capitals and thirteen provinces.
As the backbone of the Yan Party, he was also deeply valued by the Jiajing Emperor and Yan Song, and even the Qingliu Party on the opposite side had a high evaluation of him, and even the imperial court formed a consensus:
"The imperial court cannot be without the southeast for a day, and the southeast cannot be without Hu Zongxian for a day!"
Let's analyze how Hu Zongxian, a top strategist, was forced to a dead end step by step, and whether he had a way to crack it?
The root cause of everything lies in the financial crisis of the Jiajing Dynasty, and the initiator of the crisis is the Jiajing Emperor, whose profligacy and corruption of the Yan Party have led to the emptiness of the national treasury. The Qing sect stared at the deficit, Yan Shifan once again pulled the head of the Jiajing Emperor, and after balancing several parties, Yan Song put forward the national policy of changing rice to mulberry.
From our current point of view, this policy is definitely a good policy, and as long as it is properly implemented, it can completely alleviate the fiscal crisis.
Hu Zongxian has no authority to formulate policies, but he is the real implementer of national policies. In Zhejiang, where he is located in seven mountains, two rivers and one field, it is impossible to smoothly implement the policy of changing rice to mulberry within one year, and the growth of mulberry trees is not enough in one year.
Why communication is very important, there is a manifestation here, Yan Shifan urged one by one, and Yu Wang sent a Tan Lun to make trouble. As a result, Hu Zongxian proposed to suspend the implementation of the "change of rice to mulberry" song, and in Yan Shifan's view, he was changing the face of the court. The Yan Party did not trust him, and Tan Lun once again tried to win him over, and even the Jiajing Emperor suspected that he was a party fighter.
Two
The attitude of the feudal officials was ambiguous, and the people at the bottom began to make small moves, which led to the subordinates hiding Hu Zongxian and playing a "destroying the embankment and flooding the fields" once.
The Yan Party's side is trying to force the common people to obey, while the Qing faction is clapping its hands and applauding, hoping to use this as a tool to overthrow the Yan Party, and even hope that the more chaos Zhejiang is, the better.
Hu Zongxian said a word at the scene of disaster relief:
"Millions of people, a thousand sins!"
At this time, Hu Zongxian was the most difficult, as the governor of Zhejiang, the first in command, he was bound to be responsible for this man-made disaster. If they could not make a decision on the spot, the Yan Party and the Qing faction within the imperial court would use the people of Zhejiang as a chip and pinch each other. The party is fighting together, the world is in chaos, Zhejiang is suffering from disasters again, the Wokou are eager to move, the southeast is not guaranteed, and the Ming Dynasty is not guaranteed...
So Hu Zongxian tearfully beheaded Ma Ningyuan, the prefect of Hangzhou, as well as the two county orders of Jiande and Chun'an, plus the eunuch Li Xuan, and the four of them became the first cannon fodder under the party struggle.
Hu Zongxian went to Beijing for the first time to report, covered up the truth of "destroying the embankment and flooding the fields", took all the responsibilities himself, and resigned from the post of inspector of Zhejiang, successfully avoiding the first party struggle.
Hu Zongxian left the capital to fight with all his heart, and the Jiajing Emperor had a dialogue with Lü Fang, in fact, when evaluating who Hu Zongxian really was, Lü Fang summed it up with his daughter-in-law:
"There are in-laws above to be filial piety, husbands to take care of in the middle, and so many children to worry about at the bottom." Hard work, two ends are not flattering. ”
This sentence also reveals that Hu Zongxian did not go all out to promote the "change of rice to mulberry" and offend Yan Shifan; he did not let the "destruction of the embankment and flood the field" be exposed to the sky, and also made Yu Wang and others dissatisfied, so he fell into a situation of fighting alone, and he was not flattered at both ends!
Three
Hu Zongxian knew very well that if he wanted to break the situation, the premise was that the people of Zhejiang could keep it, and if the people could not keep it, the southeast would not want Hu Zongxian again.
Hu Zongxian knew that the household department would not lend him grain, but he still did not die and borrowed it hard, and sure enough, Xu Jie and Gao Gong hinted that there was no grain to borrow. Zhang Juzheng was even more excessive, and even said something like this:
"Simply let Zhejiang be in chaos, just like a rotten piece of meat on my Ming Dynasty, this piece of meat is rotten, Yan Dang's abscess, it is time to squeeze."
Cornered, Hu Zongxian went to Jiangsu alone to borrow grain from his former friend and Ying Tianguan Zhao Zhenji. Zhao Zhenji was also honest and clearly told Hu Zongxian that not to mention a hundred ships, even two hundred ships jiangsu could also get it, but the situation did not allow it, and the people at both ends did not let it.
"Zhejiang does not die, this matter can not be finished, the death of ten thousand people is a number, the death of 100,000 people, a million people is also a number!"
If it really reached that step, Yan Song would not leave Hu Zongxian, Yu Wang would not want Hu Zongxian, and Emperor Jiajing would also have to cut Down Hu Zongxian. In desperation, Hu Zongxian borrowed military food from Zhao Zhenji through the temporary transfer power at the time of the war.
The situation has rotted to the root, the Yan Party and the Qing school have taken the people of Zhejiang as a chip and sat idly by, only Hu Zongxian is still struggling to hold on, both for the sake of the people and for his own reputation.
He once said to Tan Lun:
"My hometown has erected three arches for me, I am more than fifty years old, and if I live to seventy, I will survive for more than ten years, and I will not let my old family tear down my archway!"
Four
Obviously knowing that yan dang will fall, then in the face of the olive branch stretched out by Yu Wang's side several times, why didn't Hu Zongxian pick up?
In his words to Li Shizhen:
"Anyone can go to the cabinet elder, but I Hu Zongxian can't overthrow the cabinet elder."
In fact, he didn't know what to do, he fell Yan Song, The Yu King's side would not accept him, the Jiajing Emperor would not keep him, under normal circumstances, as a villain, there is no good ending:
"I can not be a famous courtier, but I can't be a villain!"
Without Hai Rui, this crisis may really be able to escape, and it is unknown when the next opportunity to fall into strictness will appear. However, the situation gradually moved to the worst situation, and at the same time that Hu Zongxian was suppressing the Wu Dynasty, the Zhejiang corruption case broke out, and the Jiajing Emperor recruited a secret letter into Beijing.
At this time, the Jiajing Emperor was also very difficult, and it was a big taboo for Zhejiang to temporarily change the commander, but the Yan Dang had also reached the time when it was time to fall, and he did not hesitate to use the high-ranking official Houlu to bribe Hu Zongxian, hoping that he could cut off the Yan Dang, but unfortunately failed.
"Yan Song has been in power for twenty years, whether he is greedy or not, whether others are greedy under his brand, or whether he himself has corrupt behavior, the emperor knows him better than Wei Chen."
Although there were ten thousand hesitations, Hu Zongxian still took the account book to see Yan Song, but Yan Song's performance made Hu Zongxian moved. Once again strengthening the belief in safeguarding his mentor, the crisis was also successfully resolved, and Hu Zongxian left the Jiajing Emperor with the impression of "public loyalty to the country".
But the building will fall, and no brick is innocent, including Hu Zongxian, who cannot support it at all!
Five
Under the impetus of Hai Rui and Zhao Zhenji, the Zhejiang corruption case still went to the most unfavorable situation for the Yan Party, where Zhao Zhenji was still making Hui Shang pit Hu Zongxian, and Yan Song personally sent a letter to him, asking him to stop fighting with Wu Kou and recuperate...
Standing at the three forks in his life, Hu Zongxian's image of his mentor was instantly destroyed for so many years, and he thought of dying in order to maintain the image of his famous courtiers:
"Wearing a cannon arrow, it is intended to be martyred, in the name of full loyalty!"
However, he was saved by Qi Dazhu and others, and at the last moment, Hu Zongxian chose the great national righteousness, burned Yan Shifan's letters, and ordered the Taizhou victory against the Wukou, and at the same time withdrew, hoping to save his own life.
Hu Zongxian met with Hai Rui twice, once in the military camp and once at Hai Rui's home, and the first time he read a poem by Gao Cen to Hai Rui:
"I am a fisherman and a yo-yo all my life. In the grass of the wild song of Chake, it is better to be a bureaucrat under the wind and dust. Only to say that Xiaoyi has nothing to do, and everything in the public door has a dynasty. The greeting officer was heartbroken, and the flogging of Li Shu was sad! ”
The last time was at Harry's house, and he told Hai rui a truth:
"No one can push down the people the emperor wants to use, and no one can protect the people the emperor doesn't use."
Indeed, Hu Zongxian, who had returned from illness, was later recruited back by the Jiajing Emperor, and from the day of the fall of the Yan Party, Hu Zongxian had already anticipated this day.
In fact, from the moment he participated in the party struggle, he was already doomed to the end, in fact, who is not like this?
Xia Yan, Yan Song, Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng... Generation after generation of first assistants, generation after generation were killed, and the party henchmen did one after another, saying that it was good to cool off under the big tree, but when the tree fell, it was the people who were cool below who were smashed to death, and no one could avoid it.
A generation of famous courtiers, with means, strategies, for the people, for the sake of the community, and finally died in prison, just as the so-called imperial court can not have no southeast for a day, but the southeast can not have Hu Zongxian!
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