"Since Jia and Long, my county has been as grand as Xu's."
The Xu family mentioned by The Qing Dynasty Ye Mengzhu refers to the Xu Jie family in Huating County, Songjiang Province, which is to be introduced here. Xu Jie, a famous minister who served as the first assistant to the cabinet in the last years of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, was born in a family of generations of cultivators in Xiaosheng Town, Huating County, Songjiang Province, Nanzhi Province. According to Xu Jie's "Xu Clan Genealogy", Xu Jie's high ancestor Xu Decheng, great-grandfather Xu Xian, and grandfather Xu Li worked as farmers for three generations, and his grandfather Xu Li had no choice but to join the Huang family in the county town of Zhihuating in Songjiang Province due to the poverty of his family, and became the "inverted door son-in-law" of the Huang family, which was the beginning of the Xu Jie family's residence in Songjiang Province.
Former residence of Xu Jie, the first assistant of Daming
Xu Jie's grandfather Xu Xiansheng had four sons: Xu Di, Xu Di, Xu Mian and Xu Xu.
The Xu Jie family only began to develop gradually when it was his father's generation, Xu Jie's father was Xu Li's eldest son Xu Yi, who was a Confucian in his early years, and did not succeed in reading as an official, and served as a county magistrate in Xuanping County, Zhejiang Province, and Ningdu County, Jiangxi, and the county was Zhi County, which belonged to a lower-level official, and had a political voice, and after his death, he was a xianci temple.
Among Xu Jie's fathers, the most influential of them was his uncle Xu Xu (徐旒), Xu Xu (徐旒), Gu Yang (号谷阳), Zhengde (1510) Gengwu Keju (庚午科举人人), hu Yue (胡岳), Yushan (郁山), Li Ru (李儒), etc. in the same year, and Hu Yue Zhongzhengde (1514) Jia Shuke Jinshi , who served as an envoy to Fujian , an envoy to The Government , and an official to Jiangxi. After Xu Jie's citizenship, when he was demoted to Fujian and served as a deputy envoy in Jiangxi, he was a subordinate of Hu Yue and rewarded Xu Jie.
Xu Yi had four sons: the eldest son Xu Long, the second son Xu Jie, the third son Xu Chen, and the fourth son Xu Zhi, of which the second son Xu Jie and the fourth son Xu Zhi were the most valuable. Because Xu Jie and Xu Zhiguan to Gongqing, especially Xu Jie, during the Jiajing period, once became a scholar of Wuyingdian University, becoming the first assistant minister of the cabinet "under one person, above ten thousand people", the official to the best, so the Xu family also became a famous Jiake family in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
Xu Jie (1502-1583), Xu Decheng Xuansun, Xu Lisun, Xu Yizi, Zi Sheng, No. Cun Zhai, also known as Shaohu, alias Huating, Mr. Shaohu, "Born Fu one year old, fell into the well, out of three days and Su." At the age of five, he went from his father's way to the heavens, fell into the high mountains, and hung his clothes on the trees and did not die. People are different. In the second year of Jiajing (1523), He Weike, the third rank of the first class in Xu Jiekao, was taught the editor of the Hanlin Academy and married. Xu Jie is "sexually sensitive, has the right to be slight, and the yin is heavy and does not leak." Reading for ancient Chinese words, from Wang Shouren men to travel, there are sound scholars and doctors. Later, because of offending Zhang Fujing, the minister of power, he was the governor of Yanping Province, the former official Huangzhou Fu Tongzhi, the Zhejiang Envoy Si Youshi, the Deputy Envoy of Jiangxi According to Cha Division, the Shi Ma of the Si Jing Bureau and the Attendant of the Hanlin Academy. Ding Mu returned home worriedly. Serve removal, promote the state son to supervise the sacrifice of wine, the right waiter of the Jinli Department, and the change of the official department waiter.
Xu Jie (1503-1583)
When Xu Jie was only forty-three years old when he was serving as a servant of the bureaucracy, he was a corporal of the Lixian, "a vigilante in the hall", and his reputation was long, "The story, the official's senior staff at the gate office, receiving the official, could not say a few words to show his coldness." Order: 'Joel, how can you do your best?' 'It is a painful knot, and the rhetoric is downward, and it will sit deeply and sit deeply, consult the key points of the border, the officials to rule the people, the wrong and the pitiful words, in order to glimpse his people. Those who see it are also happy, willing to do it, and there is a gentleman's voice. Shang Shu Xiong Huan Ya heavy steps, entrusted to the heart, and the steps are also doing their best. Phase and the Festival of Honesty, Reward retirement, Vibration and Stagnation, Inhibition, and Suddenly Return to the Virtuous. Soon, he was promoted to the head of the Hanlin Academy, and paid homage to the official Libu Shangshu.
The first assistant of the cabinet is Xu Jie
At that time, Emperor Mingshizong Favored Prime Minister Yan Song. Yan Song was the first assistant of the cabinet, bullying power and persecuting his colleagues, and had already put Xia Yan, the first assistant scholar, to death, because Xia Yan had recommended Xu Jie, so he was quite suspicious of Xu Jie, and repeatedly rumored to the Jiajing Emperor that he wanted to pour Xu Jie.
Cabinet Chief Assistant Yan Song (1480-1567)
Xu Jie was unable to compete with it, so he played a game of power, on the one hand, he wrote "Qingzi" to cater to the Jiajing Emperor and gain the trust of the Jiajing Emperor, on the other hand, he constantly courted Yan Song, and even did not hesitate to give his granddaughter (the second daughter of the eldest son Xu Fan) to Yan Song's grandson (Yan Shifan's youngest son), and finally won Yan Song's favor, making him "calm and unquestionable." "In the twenty-fifth year of Jiajing (1546), he worshiped the Young Prince Fu Taishi Libu Shangshu and a scholar of Wuyingdian University. In the forty-first year of Jiajing (1562), Xu Jie instructed Yushi Zou to impeach Yan Song, and Yan Song was ordered to be a soldier, and Yan Shi was ordered to be on the side. Soon, Yan Shifan was executed, Yan Song was deposed as a citizen, and Xu Jie replaced Yan Song as the first assistant to the cabinet. When Yan Shifan was arrested, Xu Jie's granddaughter was old, and one morning, Xu Jie's eldest son, Xu Bian, got up early to greet Ann, saw Xu Jie", was angry, detected his intentions, and repaid his daughter. Hua Ting was stunned, and did not go to the city every day. Although Xu Jie overthrew the adulterous minister Yan Song, he also paid the price of his granddaughter's life, which was quite slandered by the people of the times. Just as the so-called people who want to achieve great things can endure things that ordinary people can't tolerate, this is what Xu Jie did.
As the first assistant to the cabinet, Xu Jieyi changed Yan Song's behavior, which was peaceful and lenient, "the emperor may have a commission, do not pretend to sleep at night, and the text that should be made has not exceeded the period of time." The emperor is increasingly in love with the order. Those who take advantage of public opinion will do it in vain. In the middle of Jiajing, the north and south used troops. The minister of the border town, Xiao Feidi, pointed out that he was arrested and imprisoned, and the cabinet minister stole the color weifu. After becoming a country, Ti Riding was reduced, the prison was gradually reduced, and the person in charge was able to achieve fame. Therefore, the commentators suddenly pushed the order to the name phase. In July of the second year of Longqing (1568), Xu Jie was impeached by Zhang Qi, and died at home in the eleventh year of the Wanli Calendar (1583). The order of the dynasty has a phase degree, preserving the good class. The government of Jia and Long, many rescues. There are snakes in between, and there is no loss of big knots. ”
Xu Jie is the author of 7 volumes of the Shaohu Anthology, 26 volumes of the Shijingtang Collection, 50 volumes of the Collection of the Continuation of the World Scriptures, 50 volumes of the Complete Collection of the Shijingtang, 4 volumes of the Yuemiao Collection, xueze, and mengxun; the 24 volumes of the Sermon and the 40 volumes of the Chengtian Dazhi have been handed down. Son Three: Xu Bian, Xu Kun, Xu Ying. Xu Kun (徐璠), courtesy name Lu Qing (鲁卿), was the yin official to Taichang Siqing (太常寺卿); Xu Kun (徐琨) and Xu Ying (徐琨) were all shangbao siqing (尚宝司卿). Sun Nineteen: Xu Yuanchun, Xu Yuanpu, Xu Yuanyang, Xu Yuanyuan, Xu Yuanxi, Xu Yuanhui, Xu Yuanzhao, Xu Yuanhui, Xu Yuanri, Xu Yuanhui, Xu Yuanyao, Xu Yuanxuan, Xu Yuanxuan, Xu Yuancai, Xu Yuanzhi, Xu Yuanpu, Xu Yuanshu, Xu Yuanzhong, Xu Yuansheng, Xu Zhaotai.
Xu Zhi (徐陟), Xu Jiedi (徐階弟), Zi Ming (字子明), Wanghu (号望湖), also known as Dazhai (達斋), also known as Jue'an (覺庵), In the twenty-sixth year of Dengjiajing (1547), Ding Weike Jinshi (丁未科進士), a tired official to the Punishment Department, "When the matter is just decided, there is no lesser sculptor, and the return of the disease, and the private servants are the martyrs of the various meritorious deeds and women during the rebellion, and the shrine is built to worship." "卒, Ancestral Hall.
Xu Zhi (1513-1570)
Xu Zhi has four sons: Xu Qiu, Xu Lin, Xu Yan, and Xu Yue. Xu Lin (徐林), courtesy name Yongqing (雍卿), was the second uncle Xu Chen (徐陈) childless, and his great uncle Xu Jieyin (徐階音官) went to the prefect of Chuxiong Province, Yunnan. Xu Yan (徐炎), courtesy name Yanwen (彦文), was known as his father Yin Shi (崫士) to taibu (太仆寺丞), and was known as an official. Xu Lin, when she was at home, "tried to build a righteous village, and donated one hundred and eighty acres of land to the government school, and one hundred and fifty acres to the county school, in order to anoint the fire." And (Xu) Yanzi (Xu) Erxuan also donated 100 acres of land to Qingpu School. Xu Zhi's great-grandson Xu Xucheng (Chongzhen's twelfth year of raising people) and Xu Jicheng (ZhuSheng, both of whom are Xu Erxuanzi), were both members of several societies.
Xu Yuanchun (徐元春), Xu Jiesun (徐階孙), the eldest son of Xu Bian (徐璠), was a member of the Imperial Household Bureau in the second year of the Wanli Dynasty (1574) and a senior official to the secretary of the Taichang Temple.
Xu Fuyuan, Great-grandson of Xu Zhi, Zi Dark Duke, late name Fuzhai, Chongzhen fifteen years (1642) Noon Keju people, after the death of the Ming Dynasty, fled overseas, returned from overseas during the Kangxi period, did not arrive home and died.
Xu Shitai, the grandson of Xu Jie 10th, was a member of the Xin Youke Jinshi in the sixth year of Jiaqing (1801) and the head of the Ministry of Works.
The Xu Jie family flourished in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but gradually declined after entering the Qing Dynasty, so the Qing dynasty Ye Mengzhu commented: "Since Jia and Long, wu county has been as prosperous as the Xu family. Xu Shiwen Zhentaishi ranked, Dazhai Si KouZhi, brother Gongqing, Jia Ke Renzi, successively appeared yong. Chongzhen Chu, Wen Zhen's great-grandson Yu Ning Ben Gao, attacked Yulin with grace, the governor of the official capital, and the Prince of Jin, and posthumously praised the four generations. Eight one product, the same county Hamby. After the Yi Dynasty, the world yin was both revolutionary, and the name of the branch was unknown. Filial piety is far away, and the world is abolished. In the Kangxi Dynasty, he began to die from Eastern Yue because of the Chaozhou Shou Song Shangmu Guicheng, who had a detailed explanation of the title, and did not arrive home. Since then, there has been no apparent person. ”