Hai Rui has always been a great loyalist of word of mouth, but one of his letters of advice indirectly killed the Jiajing Emperor, and people who were dozens of years old still slept with their mothers, so later some people thought that he had flaws in both loyalty and filial piety, and there was also a saying that "loyalty is like an ant, filial piety is like a beast".
In February 1566, Hai Rui, who was then the head of the Yunnan Department of the Household Department, said goodbye to his family, prepared a coffin, and then gave the rewarding emperor a "Public Security Evacuation", which was this song that left the half-death of the Jiajing Emperor qi and leaving the root of the disease, coupled with the "immortal elixir" that had been taking heavy metals for many years, and he died at the end of the year.
Before dying, Jiajing was still indignant at Hai Rui and said to the people around him: I do have something improper, otherwise how can I make Hai Rui so humiliated? The general content of this letter is to scold the emperor.
At the beginning of the song, he still maintained a certain degree of restraint, said a few good words about the Jiajing Emperor, which were nothing more than praise such as talent and intelligence and the potential to become a holy king, and also affirmed some of the deeds of the Jiajing Emperor at the beginning of the succession, believing that the Jiajing Emperor's beginning was still remarkable.
But then, Harry completely let go of himself and scolded the emperor with a dog blood sprinkler. First of all, it is very ridiculous to say that the emperor is bent on cultivating the Tao and pursuing immortality, because of the cultivation of the Tao and not going to the court for many years is even more the practice of the emperor, it is precisely because of the cultivation of the Tao, which has led to the chaos of the corrupt and chaotic situation of the officials, and only then has the power of Yan Song's father and son fall to the opposition and endanger the world. In addition, cultivation costs money, and the people's anointing of the people in the world is all for you to use to cultivate immortals, and you are not a competent emperor at all.
He asked the emperor bluntly, what was the result of cultivating immortals after cultivating all his life?
He also criticized the emperor's superstitious ideas. Emperor Jiajing had several sons die in succession, and what was even more bizarre was that they all died after he went to see them, which made Emperor Jiajing believe the warlock's statement: the king did not see the king. This means that if he goes to see his son again, either his son will die or he will die. From then on, Jiajing did not see his son at all unless he had to. Hai Rui believed that the Jiajing Emperor was an inhumane practice and was not worthy to be a role model for the world. At the same time, he also suggested that the emperor should not have more time to cultivate immortals than to create people with concubines, so that the royal family could spread its branches and leaves.
The most vicious sentence in the song is a satire on the era name of the Jiajing Emperor, the so-called "Jiajing", which is really clean and clean for the people of the world! ("The Jiajing people say that every family is pure and has no financial use)"
It is said that when this letter was sent to the emperor, Jiajing, who was cultivating immortals, directly jumped up after reading it and said: Arrest him quickly, don't let him run! It can be seen that the emperor was angry at that time. The eunuch next to the emperor already knew Hai Rui's virtue, and also knew how he had gone through the song, and reported to the emperor: This erzhu boy was only played after buying a coffin, and the Jiajing Emperor was sullen for half a day, and it was estimated that he was going to have cerebral hemorrhage! But after all, Hai Rui was telling the truth, and the Jiajing Emperor also knew the stupid things he had done, and in the end he could only deal with the song in the middle (without reacting).
However, despite this, the Jiajing Emperor was quite uncomfortable when he held his breath, and he fell ill in the autumn of that year, and when he summoned the ministers to discuss the aftermath, he said: My body is not in contention, otherwise how could it make Hai Rui so humiliated? The more Jiajing thought about it, the more angry he became, and he didn't want to bear the reputation of killing loyal ministers and officials, so he simply put Hai Rui in prison and punished him. In the end, it was not until after Jiajing's death that Hai Rui was released.
At the beginning of the year, Hai Rui played a scolding of the emperor, and in the autumn the emperor fell seriously ill and died in the winter. Judging from the whole process, it is difficult to say that Jiajing died and Hadi Rui had nothing to do with it, at least it was one of the reasons. Therefore, later some people said that he was "loyal as an ant", which is somewhat reasonable, but we can't help but admire Hai Rui's courage, and we have to admit the depth of his view of the problem, which is a loyal and direct subject.
Let's talk about Hai Rui's "filial piety like a beast".
When Hai Rui was only four years old, his father died, and his mother Xie Shi had a very strong personality, raised Hai Rui alone, and his education was extremely strict, so that the childhood Hai Rui was already very mature, and he could not see the innocence of ordinary children at all. Harry was also extremely filial to his mother, and obeyed his mother's orders without principle when dealing with internal conflicts in the family.
He had three wives, the first wife and the second lady were all divorced by him, because Harry's mother believed that they did not have children and were sinners of the Hai family. Hai Rui's third wife died mysteriously, Hai Rui said that he was ill and died, but some people think that after the outbreak of the mother-in-law conflict, his wife committed suicide. Before that, one of Harry's concubines had also committed suicide, and outsiders speculated that it was for the same reason.
What is even more criticized is that Hai Rui still lives in a room with his mother when he is an adult, which makes people speculate a lot in the dark room, and there is also a saying of "filial piety like a beast".
But for Harry, I still have a lot of respect. In the era when the emperor was bigger than the heavens, he had the courage to sprinkle Jiajing with dog blood, and he was indeed loyal and commendable!