What was it like to be emperor? Why did the ancient struggle for imperial power rise and fall? Because the life of being in power is really too exciting.
Today we tell the strange story of the wayward emperor in ancient times.
01. The Emperor abolished the school
Emperor Wen of Sui was very diligent in his early years and very willful in his later years.
Probably because he was too much advised by the ministers around him and did not like the pedantic energy of the readers, he did something that the students of Guangdong University wanted to do but did not dare to do-
Abolish all schools nationwide and retain only one quota7
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The study of the nation of man
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It should be known that during the kaihuang period, the population of the Sui Dynasty reached more than 7 million households. Only 72 students are recruited, and the pressure to go to school is really not ordinary.
Fortunately, after the Sui Dynasty Emperor succeeded to the throne, the school was restored. Did you suddenly feel that the Sui Emperor was not so bad?
02. Pray for rain and destroy the temple and dig the grave
Ximen Leopard everyone knows, right?
Witches and others, on the pretext of marrying a daughter-in-law to The River, pit the people's money and property, and also threw the bride into the river and drowned.
Simon the Leopard threw these wicked men into the river and treated them in the same way. He also built water conservancy projects to improve irrigation conditions and make the people's lives more and more prosperous. It is also the rhythm that should be known as history.
Ximen Bao was a native of Wei during the Warring States period, but he suffered a senseless disaster during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
In 558, there was a severe drought in Northern Qi.
Emperor Gao Yang
Ran to the Ximen Leopard Shrine to ask for rain, but there was no reaction at all
Gao Yang was angry, direct
The Ximen Leopard Shrine was destroyed, and the tomb of the Ximen Leopard was also dug
If you want to deal with the drought, you should learn from the West Gate Leopard to dig a river canal, and what is the use of destroying the temple and digging a tomb?
03. Whoever steals my nickname will be punished when he is old
In 1781, Qianlong inspected Baoding.
Baoding has a retired minister in his 70s
Yin Jiaquan
He wanted to take the opportunity to make a splash, but he wasn't on the pick-up list.
Old Yin wrote two sonatas with a big stroke of his pen, the content of which was
For his father Yin Huiyi asked for a courtesy and from the Temple of Confucius
Then he sent his son to present it to Qianlong.
Qianlong felt that Yin Huiyi did not have this qualification, and wrote Zhu Criticism: "It is the state's canon, how can it be vainly requested?" This song should have been punished, and nian Ru was the private affair of father and son, so it was spared. If you are restless in your home again, you must not be guilty! ”
The gist is: the nickname is not something that anyone can have, read in your father-son affection, I have not seen your request, you will be more peaceful in the future.
Unexpectedly, Yin Jiaquan continued to play and asked again.
Qianlong was very angry, thinking that this person did not give his face to face, and replied: "Even barking wildly, do not be reckless!" ”
Then, Qianlong
Yin Jiaquan was relieved of his status as a retired official, arrested and imprisoned, and had to raid him in the Beijing Division and his hometown
Family property writings
Yin Jiaquan used to be engaged in children's education, and he called himself a Confucian, and his family had a huge number of books, dozens of boxes, all of which were transported to the capital for inspection.
A large group of officials checked for half a month, and sure enough, they found some inappropriate remarks in Yin Jiaquan's works, and successfully put him on charges of "great disrespect," "false Taoism," and "hypocrite."
One of the most bizarre crimes is the "ancient rare crime", Yin Jiaquan
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In the "Records of the Words and Deeds of Famous Ministers", he calls himself an "ancient and rare old man"
In 1780,
When Qianlong was 70 years old,
He wrote imperial poems
Calling himself "Ancient Rare," was also engraved
A chapter of the "Ancient Rare Heavenly Son"
。 Yin Jiaquan called himself such a self-proclaimed crime, which was a big taboo.
After Yin Jiaquan confessed, Yousi gave the suggestion that Yin Jiaquan be executed, confiscated the family property, destroyed the books, and the family sat together.
Qianlong read the recital and issued an edict of more than a thousand words, first listing Yin Jiaquan's guilt, and then, in order to show his magnanimity, changed Ling Chi to execution, and his family was spared.
Poor Old Master Yin, who had a hard time mixing until he retired, was hanged like this.
Can the emperor really do whatever he wants?
As long as they can live in their hearts, the ancient emperors really wanted to be willful as they wanted, and the power was in hand, without any scruples.
It's almost like: As long as I don't have morality, you can't help me.
However, the price of a willfulness is often the turmoil of the whole society.
In the end, the "emperor" was finally tossed into a historical term.