Hemingway once said:
"As long as you don't care about gains and losses, there is nothing in life that you can't think of overcoming."
No one is an island, life is alive, and everyone plays a complex role in complex social relationships. Society is a magnificent house, and people are bricks and tiles that build houses. Complementing each other, supporting each other, people have never stopped improving their own steps on the road of growth.
People in real life are always taught: don't do things with the kindness of a woman. What is the so-called "no woman's benevolence"? When the crowd wondered,
Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, gave people inspiration for "asking for directions and chopping trees"
Follow Zhang Juzheng's footsteps, understand his way to chop trees, learn a few tricks with the ancients, and learn how to treat villains.
Travel through the dust and trace back to the source
The Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin once made a clear exposition of the benevolence of women. During the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony,
Xiang Yu, who became famous as a teenager, has a good impression in people's hearts
。 He is polite and gentle, and can empathize with the pain of others.
Once Xiang Yu saw someone suffering from injuries and felt pity, he secretly wept. The grass-roots people have a high evaluation of Xiang Yu, but Xiang Yu's men are quite critical of him. Xiang Yu's generals rarely received rewards when they fought for him, and whenever they were added to the ranks, Xiang Yu was always reluctant to give away what originally belonged to him.
Historians comment that Xiang Yu's practice is the benevolence of a woman, he is indeed full of compassion and benevolence, but he always stays in the trivial matters of life, and when it comes to major national affairs, Xiang Yu's vision is very short-sighted. It is precisely for this reason that in the later stages of the Chu-Han war,
Xiang Yu completely lost the hearts of the people, and eventually became cornered, and Wu jiang killed himself.
Everyone goes through a different life, and every choice is destined. Also a prominent figure in history, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, had a completely different life.
When Zhang Juzheng is mentioned, people are always amazed by him.
Before Zhang Juzheng took office, the Ming Dynasty was worried about internal and external troubles, and the original qi number had been exhausted. However, Zhang Juzheng single-handedly reversed Qiankun and even brought the ming dynasty's national strength to a new level.
Zhang Juzheng has a polite temperament and is a typical knowledgeable person, but he has hills in his chest, decisive shots, and never hesitates. Compared with Xiang Yu, Zhang Juzheng has no woman's benevolence, on the contrary,
Zhang Ju was in the process of asking for directions and cutting trees, and achieved his life goals.
In the chest of the hill, ask for directions to cut the tree
The road of life is not smooth, the road ahead is full of thorns,
Only those who have the heart can reach the other side of success. After becoming the first assistant to the cabinet, Zhang Ju was facing a huge problem: solving the problem of the emptiness of the Ming Dynasty's national treasury.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty was very poor due to war, corruption and other reasons, and even the officials could not pay on time. The intention of the emperor and the empress dowager to entrust Zhang Juzheng with the task of enriching the national treasury was very obvious.
If Zhang Juzheng is not completed, the position of cabinet chief assistant will not be related to him.
As a fellow official in the court, Zhang Juzheng naturally knew the official secrets of other officials.
The Ming Dynasty official Yin Zhengmao once took an extra 200,000 taels of military expenses in the process of suppressing bandits.
Yin Zhengmao was a close confidant of Zhang Juzheng and naturally obeyed him.
However, when Zhang Juzheng asked Yin Zhengmao for 200,000 taels of silver, he was told that the money had been spent as a military expense. Just when Zhang Juzheng was at a loss, Yin Zhengmao's other words made him rekindle his hopes:
Yin Zhengmao still had 200,000 taels of silver in his hand.
Yin Zhengmao found evidence of corruption in the course of tracking down another Ming official, Li Yan.
In order to save himself, Li Yan bribed Yin Zhengmao with 200,000 taels of silver.
At first, Yin Zhengmao had his own idea, he could hand over the 200,000 taels of silver that Li Yan gave him to the imperial court, so that the treasury was no longer empty, and Zhang Juzheng had an explanation to the emperor and the empress; at the same time, Yin Zhengmao would get a reputation of justice and honesty and stick to his heart, and such a good name could help him gain a foothold in the imperial court.
Yin Zhengmao thought that his little abacus had played a wonderful game, but he was recognized by Zhang Juzheng at a glance. If Yin Zhengmao handed over the 200,000 taels of silver to the state, the emperor and the empress dowager would definitely look at him differently, so that Yin Zhengmao's morale would rise sharply, and he might even break away from Zhang Juzheng's control.
From his own right hand to his opponent, Zhang Ju absolutely did not allow such an event to happen.
Zhang Juzheng ordered Yin Zhengmao that the 200,000 taels of silver must be handed over to the state, but not on the charge of embezzlement by Zhang Yan, but in the name of the extra military funds allocated. Zhang Juzheng's words were beyond doubt, and Yin Zhengmao could only obey. In this way, Zhang Juzheng invisibly consolidated his own power and reduced a competitor.
The momentum is high, and the killing is decisive
The world is complex, but everyone finds a better version of themselves as they grow up. The local economic development of the Ming Dynasty was not sluggish,
As a result, people could not pay enough taxes and had to replace them with special pepper and sumu.
Zhang Ju was giving pepper and sumu money to officials at all levels, so a large number of pepper and sumu appeared on the market. Prices are always fluctuating up and down in changes in supply and demand, as the quantities of pepper and sumac spike and their prices continue to fall. This made the officials of the Ming Dynasty very dissatisfied.
The price of pepper and hematoxylum has shrunk severely, and they have suffered huge economic losses.
For most corrupt officials, such a short economic gap is not stressful
For officials in small positions, however, the economic woes are fatal enough. Tong Liben, an official of the Ministry of Rites, was one of them, he was timid and afraid of things, and he did not dare to commit corruption, and the Sumu and Pepper incidents put him in crisis.
Tong Liben's superior, Wang Xilie, was a supporter of Zhang Juzheng's rival camp, and in order to attack Zhang Juzheng, Wang Xilie used Tong Liben. At that time, Ming officials were trembling during the Jingcha incident, and Wang Xilie intimidated Tong Liben, who would soon be investigated.
Tong Liben was originally timid and afraid of things, and he was even more frightened when he heard Wang Xilie's words.
He hanged himself.
Wang Xilie seized the opportunity to impeach Zhang Juzheng for carrying out harsh government and taking people's lives. In order to win the power of public opinion, Wang Xilie held a funeral for Tong Liben, he personally read the sacrifice text, and when he made a generous statement, a little Spark appeared,
Under the blowing of the wind, Mars gradually became a burning trend.
The people who attended the funeral were really surprised, and the crowd fled in a hurry, while Wang Xilie was pushed down by the people in the chaos, and he died because he was trampled.
As for why the originally peaceful funeral suddenly appeared on Mars, this is almost a tacit secret. Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, has always been like this, trying his best to recruit officials who support him, and as for those political enemies, Zhang Juzheng is by no means soft.
Life is a self-cultivation, and people can have compassion, but they cannot let it develop into the benevolence of women.
Zhang Juzheng's process of asking for directions and cutting trees gave people profound enlightenment, and he made decisive moves and never backed down in the face of evil forces, which is the basis for people's establishment.