Since ancient times, There have been many famous courtiers, famous ministers, and celebrities in Ji'an, Jiangxi, and the literary style has almost reached the point where it has been popular for six hundred years in the Song and Ming dynasties. Ouyang Xiu, one of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Wen Tianxiang, who "left Dan's heart to take care of Khan Qing", and compiled the interpretation of the "Yongle Canon", these few people need not say.
Today,i'm talking about a talented and famous minister from Ji'an, a talented man who became a late bloomer, who was still working as a small tailor in the village before he was thirty years old, and if it weren't for the fight with his father-in-law and two snobbish brothers-in-law who despised him, he wouldn't have become a mighty emperor, but he was almost thrown into the river by the emperor in anger and drowned, and eventually a generation of famous ministers who would eventually flow into the future generations!
This person's name is Xiao Zhang, the character Guocai, the number Qiushan, Ming Xian Zong Chenghua was born in three years, Jiangxi Ji'an Province Yongxin County Wen village people, from childhood mischievous, do not love to read, grow up can only be a tailor in the village, and later married the third daughter of a rich family in the neighboring village as a wife, but the eldest son-in-law of this rich family is the neighboring Anfu County Shuxiang official eunuch Wang Xiucai, the second son-in-law is a neighboring township Gongsheng, are all worthy of meritorious fame, there are people with heads and faces in the township, only this third son-in-law is a small tailor, so he was despised by his father-in-law's family and the township.
Every New Year's Festival, the father-in-law greeted the eldest son-in-law and the second aunt from the main entrance, and only let Xiao Zhang enter through the narrow and low back door. When he was twenty-seven years old, once at his father-in-law's house, he was despised and ridiculed by his father-in-law and two brothers-in-law, and his father-in-law even said to him: "You are almost thirty years old, if you want to enter the house from the main gate like your two brothers-in-law, it will be like they are one of them, let people carry you in eight sedans, if you are used to walking through the back door, I will tear down the back door and expand it to the size of the main entrance, so that you can carry the sedan in!" ”
Xiao Zhang was humiliated by this, he really couldn't bear it, and after he went home, he threw the iron ruler and scissors of the tailor into the pond, and said to the sky: "I am almost thirty years old, I am afraid that there will be no more appearance, if God gives me another chance to make a name for myself, unless the iron ruler and scissors both surface!" "Unexpectedly, the iron ruler and scissors did not sink to the bottom of the water, but were hung by the branches that fell into the water, and actually surfaced."
Xiao Zhang, on the other hand, believed that this was the result of Providence, so he was ashamed and courageous, angry and strong, with fifty times more work than ordinary people, diligent in studying poetry, and finally at the age of forty-eight, he entered the Beijing Science Examination Hall to take the middle and high school entrance examinations, and was appointed by the emperor as the commander of Putian County, Fujian.
When Yijin was returning to his hometown, his old man and the two Gongsheng and Xiucai brothers-in-law were so frightened that they quickly greeted him fifty miles away from the village entrance, and implored him to come to the house to eat a cup of happy wine, Xiao Zhang sneered and agreed, when the old man invited him to enter the house from the main gate, Xiao Zhang insisted on entering the house from the back door, and the old man had to be embarrassed to summon the two favored sons-in-law, fulfill their original promise to tear down the back door on the spot, change it to be as wide as the main gate, and then solemnly welcome the third aunt inside.
Soon after, Xiao Zhang was appointed as the Governor of Sihui County, Guangdong, which is now Zhaoqing, Guangdong. In the fifteenth year of Emperor Zhengde of MingwuZong, Xiao Zhang was promoted to the head of the Punishment Department, at this time, the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao, at the instigation of the eunuchs of Dongchang, abandoned the government and played everywhere, and the hundred officials of the DPRK and China carried out a fierce "offense" in front of the emperor, which made the Zhengde Emperor furious and dragged all 146 officials to the palace gate for cruel court staff, and eleven people were killed on the spot.
It turned out that in the Ming Dynasty, offending the emperor would be punished by the emperor with a court staff, that is, the Jinyi guard was ordered to drag the official to the noon gate, and the eunuch in the palace was tortured with a staff under the supervision of the eunuch, and the hundred officials watched from the side, and the Jinyi guard would determine the life and death of the tortured official according to the eunuch's standing posture, if the eunuch was the outer eight-character standing method, it was to open one side and leave a living mouth, the Jinyi guard would not be too cruel, if the eunuch was the inner eight-character standing method, it was beaten to death, so that the tortured person would undoubtedly die.
Not long after Xiao Zhang entered Beijing, he saw this cruel criminal law, but this did not make him feel a little fearful, but on the contrary, he strengthened his determination to dare to advise the emperor to be kind, since ancient times, "military generals die in battle, civilian officials die" is the highest glory that embodies a person's integrity. Therefore, Xiao Zhang soon wrote to the Zhengde Emperor for advice, hoping that the emperor would no longer indulge in wine and fun, no longer spoil eunuchs, desert political affairs, indulge eunuchs to do evil, and allow the imperial court to corrupt.
After the Zhengde Emperor finished reading the song, Long Yan was furious, and he did not expect that having just killed eleven upright ministers, it could not play a role in deterring the hundred officials, and even a small official of the Punishment Department who had not been in Beijing for a long time dared to immediately write a lesson to be the son of heaven. Thinking of this, the Zhengde Emperor immediately ordered Jin yiwei to directly throw Xiao Zhang into the Jinshui River outside the palace wall and drown.
The courtiers felt that doing so would greatly damage the heavenly son's virtue, so they hurriedly advised the Zhengde Emperor, and then opened up the eunuchs in the palace to let them say good things for Xiao Zhang, and finally made the Zhengde Emperor retract the holy will, but only to put Xiao Lin in heavenly prison.
Soon after, the Zhengde Emperor drowned playing in Jiangnan, and after being rescued ashore, he fell seriously ill and died. The Zhengde Emperor had no heirs, and his cousin succeeded to the throne, the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, in accordance with the ancient etiquette, the Hundred Officials requested the Jiajing Emperor to posthumously recognize Emperor Xiaozong Hongzhi as the emperor, that is, the father of the ceremony, and posthumously honored his biological father, King Xingxian, as the emperor's uncle.
After the Jiajing Emperor listened, he was very angry, according to his meaning, he refused to recognize the uncle as his father, and it turned out that these courtiers also proposed that as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Renzong had no son and took his brother King Pu's son Zhao Shu into the palace and raised him as a crown prince, and later Zhao Shu became the emperor, that is, Song Yingzong, at that time, the courtiers also proposed that Song Yingzong honor Song Renzong as the emperor, and his father Pu Wang was posthumously named as the emperor, which caused Song Yingzong and the courtiers to quarrel, and finally Emperor Yingzong did not recognize Renzong as his father. However, he did not give his own father a higher standard of posthumous titles, and both the monarch and the courtiers were thus eliminated, and later Song Yingzong died of depression for four years in the reign of Song Yingzong.
The Jiajing Emperor was angry at the thought of this, and the hundred officials also compared him with Song Yingzong, and he said that Song Yingzong grew up in the palace and had a family relationship with Song Renzong, and he had hardly seen Emperor Xiaozong of Ming, and he still came to the capital to enter the throne because Emperor Xiaozong's son Wuzong died without heirs, which is equivalent to himself not for Emperor Xiaozong's heirs, but for Daming to inherit orthodoxy, so there is no need to recognize Emperor Xiaozong and change his father. However, the hundred officials blindly used the ancient system to suppress him, and they had to make him more miserable than Song Yingzong before they were willing to give up.
Therefore, the Jiajing Emperor Tianwei was furious and sent one hundred and thirty-four courtiers to the court staff, Jiajing was released from prison in the first year, and Xiao Zhang, who was reinstated as an official, was also among the court staff, and as many as sixteen officials were killed at that time. In the end, the Jiajing Emperor forcibly posthumously named his late biological father, King Xingxian, as "Emperor Ruizong Xian", and built an emperor-sized mausoleum for him, and also took his living birth mother into the Capital Division and honored him as the empress dowager, while Ming Xiaozong only called Emperor Bokao.
This powerful practice of completely subverting hundreds of officials actually allowed the entire government and the public to see the rigid and violent disposition of the new emperor and the weak Song Yingzong. When Xiao Zhang was tortured, Jin Yiwei knew that he was a loyal and upright minister of the two dynasties, so he did not give a cruel hand, and the Jiajing Emperor also cared that he was a good and upright minister, and it was not like some officials who only wanted to sell his reputation and reputation, so he sent him to Nanjing to be the chief of the punishment department. Xiao Zhang was also called "Xiao Tiehan" by the emperor and down to the hundred officials of the court.
In the eleventh year of Jiajing, the sixty-five-year-old Xiao Zhang was transferred to the prefect of Qujing, Yunnan, and soon after he resigned his official post and returned to his hometown, he returned to Qiushan in Yongxin County, where he was later known as "Mr. Qiushan". The story of Mr. Akiyama's late success has always been regarded as an inspirational classic for young people in Ji'an, Jiangxi.
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