On February 1, 1566, the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), Hai Rui, the chief of the Yunnan Department of the Hubu Department, made a stone-shattering performance called "Public Security Neglect". In this recital, Hai Rui openly pointed the spearhead at the Jiajing Emperor, saying that he was superstitious about the witch way and the construction of civil engineering, which caused the corruption of the officials and the destruction of the people, and also used the phrase "Jiajing, the family is clean" to satirize the current situation of the Ming Dynasty.
It is not enough to describe Hai Rui with courage, from ancient times to the present, it is really rare for a subject to be able to play such a loose role, accusing the current emperor of all kinds of non-beings, or even breaking his mouth.
If we carefully read Hai Rui's "Public Security Neglect", it is not difficult to find that in fact, this Song Shu is not a scolding of the emperor, and none of the contents of it are not facts, but some words are overdone. If you really talk about scolding the emperor, the ministers and literati of the Tang Dynasty are more "rampant" than Hai Rui, and they are a bit market-like and vulgar.
Wei Zheng was a representative figure of the Tang Dynasty's courtiers, and he scolded Tang Taizong enough, saying: "Over the years, it has been intended to indulge in extravagance," which is to scold the emperor for extravagance and corruption; "to indulge in labor," which is to scold the emperor for laboring the people and hurting the wealth; and "to be willing to swim," which is to scold the emperor for his unruly style. Wei Zheng's scolding of the emperor is also famous in history, so I will not say much here. Let's take a look at another, lesser-known emperor, Tang Muzong, who was once scolded by yan officials for spewing dog blood.
When Tang Muzong first ascended the throne, he liked to play more, and the ministers endured and endured, and finally a person named Zheng Qin, a counselor, couldn't help it, and scolded him on a loose song: "Your Majesty Xinji, when you are fully committed to politics, then, you are playing every day, and the feast is endless." He said that Muzong was addicted to his wife and concubines, which made some urgent military situations happen, and he did not know where to find the emperor.
However, the more ugly thing is still to come, he said that Muzong summoned some prostitutes outside the palace into the palace and made Ouchi a miasma. Mu Zong's temper was still good, and you didn't care about the things at work, but the emperor's private affairs were also on the line, which could not be tolerated, and he immediately said to people: "What kind of person is so bold?" Hurry up and get caught and clean up. But when he heard that it was a Yan official, he was like a deflated leather ball, he didn't make a sound, and he had to praise: "Zhi Chen's loss, Zhongye." He also made it clear that everyone can speak freely if they have had it in the future.
Whether it was Hai Rui, Wei Zheng or Zheng Qin, people scolded the emperor, they all came according to the formal procedures and were allowed by the state system. Therefore, as emperors, they cannot retaliate against them, otherwise they will fall into the name of a tyrant or tyrant.
However, the people of the Tang Dynasty were naughty, and they scolded the emperor and often used some oil poems that could not be put on the table. For example, Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei, it was not a matter of breaking the heavens that the emperor favored a concubine, but he almost put the Tang Dynasty into it because he did not grasp the heat. As a result, people scolded, and those who wrote poems, rehearsed plays, and told books came to the scene.
The famous poet Li Shangyin wrote a poem "Lishan Has a Feeling", which reads: "Li Xiu Fei Spring is full of warm incense, and Kowloon cares for the jade lotus room." PingMing every fortunate immortal hall, not from the Jin Yu only Shou King. This is to scold Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei for bathing in Lishan Mountain, and also saying that he robbed his daughter-in-law. This is a bit excessive, after all, it is the emperor's privacy, how much always to leave some dignity for the emperor, right?
Bai Juyi was even more ruthless, he described this matter in a subtle way, as if he had seen it with his own eyes, what "the waiter lifted up the delicate and weak, the beginning was the time of the new Cheng enze", a lot of ugly verses. All in all, it is not accustomed to Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei fooling around, making the country a country and ruining life. Perhaps Tang Xuanzong felt ashamed in his heart, and in the face of such a scolding from Li Shangyin and Bai Juyi, he did not take any measures.
Empress Wu Zetian is said to be a female streamer, and her ability to bear it is always a little worse, right? If she thinks so, she is wrong, she generally ignores people who call her "improper style", and some people openly accuse her of raising "wild men" in the palace, and she also laughs.
Everyone saw that Wu Zetian was so oily and salty, and another famous private Luo Bin Wang wanted to challenge the new difficulty, he said a lot of ugly words, and nothing else, on this sentence, no woman could eat and consume: "The beginning is jealous, the moth eyebrows refuse to let people; the sleeves are covered, and the fox charm can confuse the lord." "King Luo Bin is a man of letters, scolding people without dirty words, if you use the words of ordinary people to understand, this sentence is to scold Wu Zetian for not keeping the way of women, it is simply a fox spirit."
Just like this scolding method, Wu Zetian still digested it normally, and she also scolded the prime minister: If you don't use such a talent, are you blind? Look, this is the demeanor of the Tang Dynasty, the demeanor of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. If this kind of thing had been placed in the Qianlong Meeting of the Qing Dynasty, how many people in the family would have been corrected, and even the ancestors would have been frustrated and raised to ashes. It seems that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is the most insulted in all the dynasties.
In fact, when the emperor's scolding is really a good thing for the country and the people. In successive dynasties, if the emperor was scolded or accused by the ministers and did not take revenge, then the politics of this period must be clear, and such an emperor will probably have a good reputation in the history of the Qingshu.