There is no love for no reason, and there is no hatred for no reason. ------------------
The year 1402 was the most important year of Zhu Di's life, because in this year, he successfully snatched the throne of Daming from his nephew.
This year was also a very important year for Chen Ying, an official who was not very familiar to everyone, because he went from a criminal official who was degraded to Guangxi for accepting bribes, directly entered the center and became a sanpin officer, and the person who promoted him was Zhu Di, who had just come to power.
So how could this "corrupt official" be entrusted with a heavy responsibility by Zhu Di?
According to the "History of Ming", Chen Ying was a native of Chuzhou, Anhui, and Zhu Di was a half-fellow countryman, and in the early years, he was able to enter the official field with the status of Gongsheng, but for those of him who did not go through the examination and entered the army, if in normal years, the ceiling of his future career would be very low.
Fortunately, when he entered the army at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Zhongba had just established Daming and was waiting for revival, so he also caught up with the wind and became one of the important chief officials of Shandong Province (according to the envoy), and later after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, he went to Beiping under the arrangement of Emperor Jianwen, the official position did not change much, but the responsibility was much greater, because Beiping at that time was the territory of Zhu Di, the King of Yan.
Zhu Di's idea of the throne has not been a day or two (for Zhu Di when he has the idea of rebellion, you can go to see "There are 3 places that have a greater influence on Zhu Di, 1 of which may be the source of his rebellion"), so Zhu Di can pull as much as possible to the officials in his land, and those who cannot pull can be driven away.
Chen Ying belonged to the former, and it was precisely because he received Zhu Di's money that he was reported and was demoted to Guangxi by Emperor Jianwen. Judging from the fact that Zhu Di could remember him as soon as he came to power, in addition to accepting Gifts from Zhu Di in Beiping, he should also show Zhu Di his ability.
As we all know, Zhu Di's throne came very wrongly, and the Jianwen Emperor who was ousted by him has never been found, so although Zhu Di became emperor, his heart has not been very solid, so his "supporters" of Emperor Jianwen, as well as the ministers who once opposed him, and the generals who held military power, have always had a lot of "ideas".
After Chen Ying was recalled by Zhu Di, the first position he was granted was the left deputy capital of the Duchayuan, although there was a vice character in front of his position, but according to the "History of Ming", although he was a "deputy post" at that time, he was doing the "right post" (the affairs of the bureau).
So what is this position for?
According to the History of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial history of the Metropolitan Court could be impeached:
The minister is treacherous, the villain is the party, or the one who is in charge of the government is a power and a fortune,
Among the hundred officials, they are obscene, greedy, and corrupt of official discipline;
Academically incorrect, the statement of the book becomes chaotic into a constitution, etc.;
To put it nicely, this role is a supervisor of discipline, and to put it more vulgarly, he is a small report to the emperor. In general, upright officials are suitable for the former, and those who have the heart to greet them are suitable for the latter.
So how is Chen Ying doing in this position?
According to records, as soon as Chen Ying joined the post, she said to Zhu Di, you are too benevolent, many officials can still handle it more fiercely, Zhu Di's answer is that the decision I have made so far is already very severe, how can it be more severe, can not follow your work ideas.
If you only look at this paragraph individually, it seems that Chen Ying is a "master of things", and Zhu Di is a very generous person, but when history writes the true appearance of a person, it will often make some fine-tuning according to the influence of the parties, so when we read the history books, we must not "take the meaning out of context", but must be combined with the context and related events to "correct".
If Chen Ying is just a "thing jing", then Zhu Di should criticize him, he should close it in time, after all, the reason why "shi jing" likes to toss things, the core of which is to show loyalty to the boss and brush the sense of existence. But after Chen Ying criticized him by Zhu Di, did he give up?
Not really! At that time, he constantly "made trouble" in a purposeful way, and involved a lot of officials, so that the loyalists were extinct (all the loyalists were left behind), because his methods were too fierce, so that his colleagues felt that they could not accept it emotionally (YuShi was crying), although Chen Ying also felt that he had done a little too much (Ying Yi was miserable), but he still insisted that these things had to be done (if I did not treat this generation as a rebel, then I would be nameless).
So Chen Ying was so tossed, first came up to severely criticize Chen Ying's Zhu Di, and then did not come forward to stop it, and then "corrected the chaos"? The "History of Ming" does not explicitly say, but records two things, one is that Chen Ying impeached Zhu Lian, and finally was "punished according to the crime", you may wish to guess who made this final decision.
The second thing is that after some "tossing", Chen Ying was not only not removed from his post by Zhu Di, the "lenient" emperor, but promoted to a full post in the year chen Ying joined the company. You might as well guess whether Zhu Di didn't know what Chen Ying was doing, or something else?
People who write history may be afraid that everyone will guess the answer correctly, so in the history books, there is a record of such a sentence: After Chen Ying was promoted, he became more and more happy in attacking the minister (yi yi fa is able). This sentence can be understood together with a problem.
When Zhu Di claimed to be emperor, he hurriedly summoned Chen Ying back from Guangxi to be the left deputy capital of Yushi, so why didn't he let Chen Ying take up his official post at the beginning?
Maybe the answer is that Zhu Di knows that the people who do this position will do the dirty work with a bad reputation, Chen Ying, are you willing to do it, do it well, I want to examine it first, if you lack the initiative of the work, or do not have a good ability to resist pressure, then I still have to change people.
After answering this question, we can clearly understand that Chen Ying is actually a knife in Zhu Di's hand, what he did was actually Zhu Di's "can only understand the ineffable", he understood Zhu Di's ideas, and dared to do it, so Zhu Di would promote him, that is, because Zhu Di had an idea, so there was Chen Ying, and if Chen Ying was "not on the Tao", then there would be Zhao Ying, Qian Ying, Sun Ying...
Even if you don't like history, you may have heard the story of Cao Cao killing the cook, when there was a shortage of grain in the army, Cao Cao instructed the cook to cut the rations of the soldiers, and when the soldiers could not bear it, he killed the cook again... There are many such things in China's ancient history, such as Li Yifu in the Wu Zetian Dynasty, Shang Martingale in the further past, and so on.
When the superiors thought they were useful, they put them up and put them in front of them, and when they were not used, they killed them to vent their anger and sacrifice the flag, Chen Ying was no exception, and after Zhu Di completed the transformation of the imperial court, he dealt with Chen Ying, the "traitorous courtier"... Or Mao Instructor summed it up well.