In the feudal official system, there were extremely serious differences in position between the upper and lower levels. Just as the so-called "officials at the first level crush people to death", officials with low official positions do not dare to rebel against higher-level officials in the slightest, and in order to win the favor of their superiors, they are even more able to do their utmost to be flattered.
As long as you can get the appreciation of your superiors, promotion and wealth are just around the corner. On the contrary, once you anger your superiors, you will never have a day to come out, and your career will naturally be completely ruined. Therefore, in the feudal period, the ability of officials was still secondary, and it was the top priority to do a good job at the superior.
However, not everyone has a super high emotional intelligence, and many people have put themselves in a very dangerous situation while pleasing their superiors. After Nian Qianyao was killed by Yongzheng, an official was implicated and even made Yongzheng angry to the point of vomiting blood. This person is Wang Zengqi.
Political speculation
During the Kangxi Dynasty, when the most promising officials were mentioned, no one could produce the right of The Year Emperor Yao. This feudal official with a yellow flag in the Han army came from a family of officials and eunuchs. Good family style and intelligent qualifications made this official eunuch's son one of the most powerful officials at that time before he was thirty years old.
The most valuable thing is that Nian Qianyao's rapid promotion did not mix any private feelings, and was completely appreciated by the Kangxi Emperor because of his outstanding ability. Because of this, Nian Tangyao began to become gradually arrogant.
Despite this, at this time, Nian Qianyao did not do anything too out of the ordinary, and Nian Qianyao, who had a high IQ and emotional intelligence, also handled political issues with ease. After Yongzheng seized the throne, Nian Qianyao decisively relieved the fourteen brothers of their military powers, eliminating the emperor's troubles.
For Nian Qianyao's surrender, the Yongzheng Emperor was naturally overjoyed. So in the Yongzheng Dynasty, Nian Qianyao was still a hot red man in front of the emperor.
As the emperor became more and more important to himself, coupled with Nian Qianyao's many years of operation in the imperial court and his outstanding military achievements, Nian Qianyao became invincible, and even the emperor often showed an arrogant posture. Even to some extent, Nian Qianyao's real power was even much greater than that of the Yongzheng Emperor.
Such a situation made the Yongzheng Emperor intolerable. Therefore, after listing the ninety-two major sins of Nian Qianyao, Nian Qianyao was ordered by the emperor to commit suicide in prison.
After Nian Qianyao's death, his family was naturally implicated. While raiding his home, Fu Cha, the inspector in charge of the matter, found a book called "Essays on the Western Expedition" and written by Wang Zengqi. The so-called Western Expedition was the period when Nian Qianyao fought in the northwest.
So Fucha casually flipped through a few pages to see what the young general had seen and heard during the battle in the northwest. Unexpectedly, after looking through it, Fu Cha took a breath of cool air and immediately delivered the book to the Yongzheng Emperor.
Breathe to vomit blood
When the Yongzheng Emperor saw this booklet, the booklet had already been opened, and a poem on it was displayed in front of the Yongzheng Emperor: "The emperor wields no value, and dedicates the poem Du Zhao to give Aya notes." Thousands of poems are written from the beginning, and the clouds are light and the wind is light near noon. ”
At the beginning of the poem, it is mentioned that the words written by the emperor are not valuable, and the emperor mentioned here is not the Yongzheng Emperor, but his father, the Kangxi Emperor. The poem is a naked satire of the late Kangxi Emperor.
As early as the Kangxi Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor once made a tour of the south, and when he arrived in Wuxi, a group of students knelt by the side of the road to present poems to the Kangxi Emperor, which made the Kangxi Emperor very happy. Seeing that there were so many young talents in the jiangshan he managed, the Kangxi Emperor encouraged them with a poem as a gift.
The poem inscribed by the Kangxi Emperor at that time was Cheng Hao's "Spring Day Occasionally Formed": "The clouds are light and the wind is light, and the flowers follow the willows through the qianchuan." When people do not know yu xinle, they will be called teenagers who steal idle. This poem is very suitable for the situation at that time, and the Kangxi Emperor has come to hand with his hand, which can be described as just right.
However, in wang Zengqi's eyes, this move of the Kangxi Emperor became a manifestation of lack of culture. Not only did he belittle the Kangxi Emperor's worthless words from the first sentence of the poem, but he also ridiculed the Kangxi Emperor's inscription for the passage in the "Thousand Family Poems" that children only read, which was too childish.
As a foreign ruler, the Qing Dynasty always attached great importance to the question of whether the Han people were truly submissive. While suppressing the Han rebellion, the Manchus were also working hard to learn the cultural knowledge of the Han people, in order to eliminate the estrangement between them and thus gain the recognition of the Han people.
However, even so, the Manchus were still very worried that the Han people were "at odds with their faces and hearts", superficially submissive, and secretly rebellious. Therefore, every word and deed of the Han people, the ruling class must repeatedly deliberate on the meaning behind it to speculate whether there is a suspicion of inciting rebellion.
Because of this, the Manchu Qing Dynasty set off several "literal prisons" caused by excessive interpretation. One of the most typical is "Qingfeng can't read, why turn the book around", such an interesting verse, in the eyes of the rulers, has become a reactionary remark satirizing himself as a barbarian who does not understand the ink.
And Wang Zengqi's naked irony, there is no need to interpret it at all to see his ridicule and contempt for the Kangxi Emperor. Such bold behavior is no different from rebellion. What's more, the Kangxi Emperor was still alive at that time, and such remarks were typical of deceitful crimes.
Seeing Wang Zengqi insult his father so much, Yongzheng was so angry that his eyes were black and he spat out blood. Thinking about Nian Qianyao's later deeds, the contempt he and Wang Zengqi had for the imperial court during the Western Expedition can be imagined, and the two must have often taken pleasure in ridiculing the imperial court behind their backs.
And Wang Zengqi's remarks are nothing more than to curry favor with Nian Qianyao, so as to win the favor of Nian Qianyao, so as to achieve the purpose of promoting officials and getting rich. Wang Zengqi's official position during this period did improve, which made Yongzheng even more disgusted.
Thinking of the face of this vile villain when he ridiculed the former emperor to win an official position, the Yongzheng Emperor hated him even more. As a result, the Yongzheng Emperor, who was furious, showed his head to the public, and Wang Zengqi's head was hung high above the city tower, and no one was allowed to collect his body.
Perhaps until this time, Wang Zengqi had enough time to think about it on the city tower, he originally just wanted to please the leader, why did he end up like this.
epilogue
Since ancient times, people in the official field have used their skills to look after the family in order to be able to move in peace. Among them, there are outstanding people with outstanding abilities, and there are also clever people with exquisite faces. As long as they can achieve their goals, whether they are buried in hard work or pretending to be crazy and stupid, they are happy to do it.
However, in the process of currying favor with the leader, it is inevitable that you will create unnecessary enemies for yourself. Wang Zengqi's experience is the best example. In order to curry favor with Nian Qianyao, he did not hesitate to use Kangxi as a satirical object to win Nian Qianyao's favor for him.
However, under such behavior, he became an enemy of the Yongzheng Emperor, and eventually ended up with a different head. From this point of view, the promotion obtained by relying on real talent and practical learning is real, and opportunism can only be a bamboo basket to hit the water in the end.