The thorn heads in the official arena are cadres who are not afraid of heaven and always love to find trouble for their leaders.
Hai Rui belongs to the thorn head of the officialdom.
However, he was played by Xu Jie, a veteran official, and applauded.
Xu Jie is thick on the outside and treacherous on the inside, and he is very skillful. Because he was the mastermind of Yan Song, his reputation in the official arena was not low, and he became more and more confused. This person has been in power for 7 years and has practiced the strategy of "two whatevers": anything that can buy the hearts and minds of officials must be done to overcome even the greatest difficulties; and anything that touches the vested interests of officials cannot be done under any circumstances.
For a thorny head like Hai Rui, Xu Jie has his own routine.
This is the premise that you can't offend Hai Rui; it's the purpose to use Hai Rui; you can't offend a large number of officials because of Hai Rui, this is the bottom line; but if Hai Rui moves his Xu Jie's cheese, it will be rude.
It is said that Hai Rui was promoted from Xingguozhi County to the head of the household department, and when he first arrived, he scolded the Jiajing Emperor, and the emperor wanted the punishment department to try him and sentence him to death. However, the Punishment Department could not find the corresponding crime, and it was not easy to sentence the death penalty. He reported to the emperor that he could only be convicted by analogy with "the son scolding the father." Prime Minister Xu Jie took the opportunity to say: "Emperor, you can't be the one of Shanghai Rui. Hai Rui dared to speak out, that is, a direct subject; who killed a straight subject, was a tyrant. The emperor is a heroic name, why should he fall into the name of a tyrant because of a Hai Rui? With that said, the emperor did not dare to kill Hai Rui.
A few months later, the Jiajing Emperor died, and although the new emperor was thirty years old, he did not like to take care of things, and the prime minister Xu Jie was in charge. Xu Jie attached great importance to Hai Rui's promotion, and although he was busy with the new emperor's succession, he did not forget to instruct the officials to quickly promote Hai Rui.
Before Hai Ruiguan could return to work, he received an appointment to be promoted to Shang Baocheng (尚宝丞); when he first came to work at Shangbaosi, he was promoted to Dali Temple. In just five months, Hai Rui, who came out of prison, was promoted to three levels in a row, the same level as the prefect.
Xu Jie won the reputation of daring to use the straight subjects, and also won the trust and gratitude of Hai Rui.
Xu Jie promoted Hai Rui in this way, and he had his own heart.
At this time, there was a strong figure in the cabinet, Gao Gong, the teacher of the Longqing Emperor, who was bent on creating a new situation and intensifying the contradiction with Xu Jie. The high-arched protégé took up ben to impeach Xu Jie, and someone went to encourage Hai Rui to stand up and speak. Hai Rui was afraid of the case and participated in the high arch book. He also didn't know what was wrong with the high arch, so he simply scolded, saying that the high arch was a "mouse", and if he wanted to eat Xu Jie's "parrot", he should quickly clean up the high arch rat!
Hai Rui is already the embodiment of justice, and when he says this, the high arch has become a clown in public opinion, and it is difficult to gain a foothold, so he has to slip away in gray and roll up.
Hai Rui contributed to Xu Jie, and xu Jie of course wanted to continue to promote him, and promoted him twice in five months
Zheng Sipin has joined the ranks of senior leading cadres.
Harry is from a human background. In the official field of the Ming Dynasty, people were mixed well, and when they were the prefects of a remote place, they were covered in green smoke on the ancestral graves; but Hai Rui broke this rule and rose from the qipin county order to six levels in a row to the ranks of senior leading cadres, which took less than a year.
However, this promotion, Hai Rui left the capital and was promoted to Nanjing.
Ming Cheng's ancestors moved the capital to Beijing, and in order to show respect for Zhu Yuanzhang, Nanjing was designated as the capital of The Stay, and a set of central government agencies was retained. Needless to say, this set of institutions is almost a decoration. Letting Hai Rui take up his post here, although it is a promotion, it has the meaning of exclusion.
It turned out that as soon as gao gong left, there were no more people in the imperial court who threatened Xu Jie's position. Xu Jie didn't need Hai Rui to charge for him; on the contrary, he was worried that Hai Rui had turned the muzzle of the gun to him. The new emperor has been in office for a year, the country has not a new atmosphere, but has been severely damaged by the Tatars in the north, Xu Jie is helpless, everyone has a great opinion of him, saying that if the high arch is there, the situation will not be so bad; on the other hand, Xu Jie himself is not clean, and his brother has continuously written to the big men in the imperial court to expose his many ugly things. Hai Rui continued to stay in the capital, and Xu Jie was stabbed in the back, so he promoted Hai Rui, who was born as a senior official, and sent him to Nanjing.
Couldn't Hai Rui feel that Xu Jie was deliberately trying to exclude him? Isn't Xu Jie afraid of provoking Hai Rui and setting himself on fire?
This is Xu Jie's old way.
Hai Rui is very filial, but his widowed mother and daughter are still in their hometown in Hainan. Xu Jie should have talked to Hai Rui, and learned that Hai Rui was worried that his old mother would not be satisfied with the water and soil in Beijing, so he pushed the boat along the water and said that he might as well go to Nanjing for a reunion. When Hai Rui went to Nanjing to take up the document, Xu Jie secretly sent someone to Hainan Island to pick up Hai Rui's old mother, wife and daughter and a large son to Nanjing. The boat is luxurious, the food and drink on the road are good, and it is very thoughtful. Harry also sent someone to pick him up, and he happened to meet him on the way there. The old lady had never enjoyed such a good treatment, and when she went to Nanjing to see Hai Rui, she read about it every day. First, the position was promoted to a high position that officials from all over the world could not think of; second, Xu Jie considered it so thoughtfully that his old mother could not forget it, and Hai Rui was moved to tears, where would he still attack Xu Jie?
Soon after the Hai Rui family settled down in Nanjing, Xu Jie went into the wilderness. Hai Rui was shocked to hear this news, and wanted to personally go to Yangzhou to greet him, but his wife and concubine died one after another, and Hai Rui could not get away and sent a special envoy to the Yangzhou dock to greet him. He wrote a letter to Xu Jie, sincerely, and incidentally took a piece of silver, saying that it was the old mother's travel expenses.
Xu Jie left, and the enthusiasm of the family reunion also passed, and Hai Rui was uneasy about his position, saying that he was idle and panicked and wanted to resign. The court leaders hurriedly arranged for him to be the inspector of Jiangnan.
As soon as Hai Rui arrived in Jiangnan, the street where the Patrol Yamen was located was blocked, and they were all told xu steps. Hai Rui saw that there were so many petitioners, and after reading the petition letter, he was angry! First salute and then soldiers, go to talk to Xu Jie. As soon as they met, Xu Jie said, I support your work and take the lead in retiring 30,000 acres of land. Harry was surprised and moved. The suing man blocked the door of the inspector Yamen all day long, and Hai Rui Fang knew that Xu Jie's family had hundreds of thousands of acres of land, and his three sons were running rampant in the township, doing no evil, and the people were extremely indignant. So he wrote a letter to Xu Jie, hoping that he would withdraw half of the land and restrain his family at the same time.
Xu Jie saw that Hai Rui did not forgive, simply came hard, he carried a letter to Hai Rui, saying that I am like this, you love it! On the one hand, he wrote a letter to Zhang Juzheng and other people in the imperial court, asking them to stop Hai Rui's "nonsense".
For a time, in Harry's office, letters from the capital continued, and the lobbyists who came to advise him were endless.
"I did this to love Elder Xu, otherwise his grave would have to be dug up after his death." Harry replied.
"I don't plan to bury my hometown after I die, and I don't want to worry about my posthumous affairs." Xu Jie said without giving in.
By the way, after Xu Jie died, he did not dare to be buried in his hometown, but buried in Changxing County, Zhejiang.
Hai Rui was energized: "I still don't believe in this evil!" He ordered Xu Jie's three sons to be detained and ordered Xu Jie to continue to retire.
Xu Jie saw that Hai Rui was like this, and he was busy sending people to carry heavy gifts to the capital for activities. Under the control of his proud disciple Zhang Juzheng, the officials impeached Hai Rui, who could only endure the humiliation and dirt, left Suzhou, and returned to his hometown in Hainan to relax.
Time flies, and it took thirteen years to come back until Xu Jie's proud disciple Zhang Juzheng died. At this time, Hai Rui was already an ancient and rare old man with a broken candle.
I have described this in detail in the long historical novel "Prime Minister Daming", which interested parties can take a look.