In Chinese history, when it comes to good officials, it is naturally an example of being loved by the people, because the qing officials do practical things for the sake of the people. For example, we are familiar with Lord Bao Qingtianbao, and his deeds have been made into various movies and TV series. But in the Ming Dynasty, there was a Qing official, although he always worked for the people,
However, he was dismissed by Zhu Yuanzhang and driven home
。 Go home and go home,
He was so cheap that he didn't even have to pay for the way home,
As a result, I sold my daughter directly for the toll,
Zhu Yuanzhang knew about it and made him a eunuch
。 How did this strange thing happen?
Zhu Yuanzhang developed the official institution, and Zeng Bing happened to seize the opportunity
In order to rule their own world, ancient emperors usually set up various official positions to be responsible for various tasks, and official posts are used to prevent corruption. Historical Ming emperors usually paid great attention to the setting up of officials, because the quality of officials can directly affect the construction of the country. And this kind of official power is particularly large,
The upper can intimidate the emperor, and the lower can catch the traitors.
Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to have directly counterattacked from the grassroots to become an emperor, he has experienced hard days, so he is very distressed about the poverty of the people. It should be known that most of the poverty comes from bureaucratic corruption, so Zhu Yuanzhang hates corruption very much. Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he established a very perfect system of official speech, specifically to catch all kinds of corrupt officials.
The rank of the official is not large, but the power is very large
Anyway, you don't have to do anything to blindly turn around, and you can just talk to the emperor about what is corrupt.
The qing official who sold his daughter for road fees is a speech official,
His name is Zeng Bingzheng
。 Zeng Bingzheng was originally from Nanchang, Jiangxi, and he was originally just a reader of poetry and books, but because of the war, he never had the opportunity to come forward. Later, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he recruited talents, and Zeng Bingzheng went with the idea of trying it.
As a result, he was interviewed by the interviewer and did Haizhou Xuezheng.
Haizhou is now Lianyungang, Jiangsu, and Xuezheng is only a small nine-pin sesame official.
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly noticed that the sky had changed one day, and he was a little nervous in his heart. Because the ancients attached great importance to celestial phenomena, there was such a saying at that time: "If there is a natural disaster, there will be a change in the sky, and if the sky finds a change, there will be turmoil." Soon after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, there was a sign of great evil in the sky, so Zhu Yuanzhang was very panicked, but he couldn't figure out which situation this kind of heavenly change was.
So I arranged a debate tournament to hear what the world said.
Zeng Bingzheng heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was going to engage in a debate tournament, so he participated curiously. Zeng Bingzheng was playing very well on the stage, spitting out lotus flowers, and the debate was also based on evidence, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that this Zeng Bingzheng was also a talent, and there was a lack of this kind of talent who dared to say and could say it, so he arranged for Zeng Bingzheng to be a speech official.
Holding the law is not afraid to fight bravely and powerfully, and integrity is not a clean and honest body
Because of the particularity of the official, Zeng Bingzheng was also very excited, feeling that his talent could be used to benefit the people, but only the official position had no rights and could not do it. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang gave Zeng Bingzheng the right to accuse officials at all levels, and even Zhu Yuanzhang's own mistakes could be blamed by Zeng Bingzheng.
Listening carefully to this right is indeed very great, then Zhu Yuanzhang is not afraid of saying that officials bend the law for personal gain, and he himself has also caused corruption? In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang himself also has a small calculation, at first glance he uses Zeng Bingzheng to value talent, in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang knows that he is a nerd as soon as he sees Zeng Bingzheng.
This kind of person is not easy to control without too many flowers and intestines, and it is easy to offend others.
For example, if you offend others and cut off the way for others to embezzle, other officials will certainly not make you feel better, and if you are corrupt, you will definitely report it, so the officials of the speech and the officials of the imperial court have become a relationship of mutual restraint.
As soon as Zeng Bingzheng put on his official uniform and came to the post, the spirit came up, and he ran around because of his work, traversing the country to inquire about all kinds of things that were not right or bad, and then sorted it out and reported it to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zeng Bingzheng was also born bitterly, so he was always willing to listen to the voices of the people.
He often reported the suffering and grievances of the people, so Zeng Bingzheng was loved by the people,
People give nicknames Zeng Qingtian.
When other officials saw that Zeng Bingzheng had nothing to do, he would come to fool around, and it was not easy for him to embezzle, so he wanted to coax Zeng Bingzheng to go into the water together and earn money together, so you should not come to report me. But no matter how much money corrupt officials give,
Instead of agreeing, Zeng Bingzheng reported these officials who tried to bribe him.
This hand has completely offended many officials, and they are secretly resentful in their hearts, which is a deliberate intention to cut off the road to wealth. Therefore, he always couldn't go over with Zeng Bingzheng, and Zeng Bingzheng didn't care, he said it, and even exposed the mistakes of other high-ranking officials in court, accusing him of not doing anything in his position, which made many people itch on Zeng Bingzheng's teeth.
He did not understand the smoothness and was dismissed from office, and the official was poor and sold his daughter home
Zhu Yuanzhang's use of Zeng Bingzheng as a speech official was a very correct choice, and Zeng Bingzheng also did a lot of good things for the benefit of the country and the people. But Zeng Bingzheng was too upright, and the man was as upright as his name,
Sometimes Zhu Yuanzhang did something wrong, and Zeng Bingzheng would point it out bluntly.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang still listened to it at first, he was not happy to be scolded a lot.
Because Zeng Bingzheng offended many officials, they always said bad things about Zeng Bingzheng around the emperor, and the emperor listened to it too much and was annoyed, so Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed Zeng Bingzheng from his post and let him go home and play by himself.
In fact, Zeng Bingzheng's approach is very correct, but he is too ignorant of flexibility and smoothness. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang gave him great power, the principle of accompanying the king as a companion of the tiger should also be understood, and the emperor should not scold him if he did something wrong. Coupled with the fact that the officialdom is all collusion between officials and officials, and where can zeng Bingzheng be tolerated when everyone is offended, where can Zeng Bingzheng be tolerated, and there is no shortage of hundreds of officials around Zhu Yuanzhang, so Zeng Bingzheng's dismissal is also a matter of certainty.
When Zeng Bingzheng learned that Zhu Yuanzhang had deposed his official, he was naturally a little indignant in his heart, but there was no way, who made him the emperor. When Zeng Bingzheng was preparing to return to his hometown, he found that
I didn't even have the money to go back to my hometown
。 Zeng Bingzheng was too incorruptible, and he didn't have any excess property, so he took it to the relief of the people. It doesn't matter if there is no travel fee, at least it can be borrowed, but Zeng Bingzheng found that others were unwilling to lend him, who let him offend everyone to death.
Cornered, he actually made a very strange choice,
He actually sold his four-year-old daughter,
Used for tolls.
Provoking the wrath of the emperor and punishing him with palace punishment, a generation of Qing officials fell to this point
Who would believe that a Ming Dynasty official could not even get the cost of the trip home, and had to sell his daughter when he returned home? Zhu Yuanzhang did not believe it, as an emperor, he naturally knew that Zeng Bingzheng was 200 taels of silver a year, and this salary was now nearly 200,000 yuan a year.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Zeng Bingzheng might have wanted to sell misery in front of him, or to demonstrate to himself in this way.
Of course, some people think that Zeng Bingzheng may have the idea of preferring sons to daughters, so he does not want to take his daughter home.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Zeng Bingzheng was unusable for whatever reason, and it was too humiliating for the imperial court. So he sent someone to arrest Zeng Bingzheng. He said to Zeng Bingzheng:
'Since you can't be kind to your children, don't have children in the future.' ''
Therefore, he ordered Zeng Bingzheng to be sentenced to palace punishment.
Although Zeng Bingzheng was poor all his life and worked for the people, he fell to such a fate, and the ending was also lamentable. Tiger poison does not eat children, Zeng Bingzheng sold his daughter this practice is indeed difficult to accept, I hope that he will not be so dead in the next life, more humane.