In February of the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), Hai Rui wrote the most direct, intense, and painful sonata in history, presenting it to Emperor Ming. This recital is an ancient text. At first, Hai Rui also slightly praised Ming Shizong a few words, and then he unceremoniously criticized: "Your Majesty's wisdom has been mistaken by cleverness, superstitious belief in the art of immortality, more than twenty years of not going to the dynasty, officials are greedy, the people are not happy, floods and droughts are continuous, and thieves are everywhere." Recently, Yan Song resigned, Yan Shifan was sentenced to death, but the country was not at all clear, and the people of the world looked down on His Majesty and despised His Majesty's deeds for a long time. ”
When Ming Shizong saw this, he was furious, and no one had ever dared to scold him like this, so angry that he kneaded the song into a ball and threw it on the ground, and the whole person collapsed on the soft chair, as if he was about to run out of breath. He touched his chest with his hand over and over again, barely calmed down, and said hatefully: "Hurry up and quickly catch this daring Hai Rui, don't let him slip away." ”
"It won't slip." The eunuch beside him comforted Ming Shizong and said, "Long live Grandpa please stop your anger, as far as the slave knows, this Hai Rui, nicknamed 'Sea Madman', he has already bought a coffin before Shangshu, dismissed the domestic servants, and waited for death wholeheartedly." ”
"Hey, there are still people in the world who are not afraid of death?" Ming Shizong did not think so, he stood up in a panic, picked up the kneaded pieces, spread them out, and said, "I would like to see how this sea madman is going to humiliate Yuan." ”
Ming Shizong continued to look at Hai Rui's superiors. "Your Majesty has made too many mistakes, the most important of which is to seek immortality. None of the ancient alchemists are alive today, And His Majesty worships Tao Zhongwen as his teacher, and now that Tao Zhongwen himself is dead, His Majesty still believes it. As for the Immortal Peach Heavenly Medicine, it was all used by the right and left traitors to deceive His Majesty, and His Majesty actually believed it to be true.
"If Your Majesty repents and restores the upper dynasty, he may be able to stay among yao shun yu tang and other holy princes, so that the courtiers will also be humiliated for decades." Today, the ministers liked Ah Lu because of their covetousness, and the ministers were afraid of offending and tied their tongues. Chen Hairui's heart was filled with resentment; therefore, he risked his life and could not fail to fulfill his heart. ”
This is really the sharpest piece. After Ming Shizong read it, he only felt that his eyes were black and his mind was roaring, especially the last sentence: "Jiajing, the family is poor and clean." "Like a sharp knife, impartially straight to the heart." Ming Shizong, who was accustomed to listening to the songs of merit and virtue every day, was completely overwhelmed.
Xu Jie, who was the most considerate and knew how to protect his loyal subjects, attached himself to Ming Shizong's ear and said, "Your Majesty, if you kill Hai Rui now, you will become a "sea madman". "Yes!" Ming Shizong burst out of his burnt teeth, "You can't complete Hai Rui!" At this time, Hai Rui, with a calm heart, sat at home, waiting for arrest.
Ming Shizong was not in good health, and he had always thought that he was not in good health, so this time the whole person collapsed, sometimes awake, sometimes unconscious, for several months in a row, holding Hai Rui's recital in his hand.
Hai Rui's sonata, Hai Rui's death-defying advice, finally touched the heartstrings of Ming Shizong. He said to Xu Jie, "What Hai Rui said in the Song Chapter is all right, and Shuo is really sick for a long time, how can he handle the government and politics?" ”
After a few days, Ming Shizong thought that as an emperor, he had been scolded by a small minister to the point of bloodshed, and this tone was unbearable. He defended himself without hesitation: "If it weren't for the fact that he didn't know how to cherish his body and was plagued by diseases, if he could walk out of the palace, where would he be scolded by this person?" ”
Therefore, after thinking about it for several months, Ming Shizong finally arrested Hai Rui and imprisoned him, and he was tortured and asked Hai Rui to confess: "Who is responsible for it?" The Punishment Department asked about the case, and immediately figured out the emperor's meaning, and asked Hai Rui to be executed. Emperor Ming shizong could not bear to kill Hai Rui, and refused to approve it for a long time.
Hai Rui's good friend He Yishang looked at him coldly, and he intuitively believed that Ming Shizong's conscience found that he did not want to kill Hai Rui, otherwise with Ming Shizong's temper, he would have been dragged and cut down long ago, where it is still left to this day. Therefore, He Yishang, who was the secretary of the household department, made a concerto and asked the emperor to release Hai Rui. Ming Shizong was furious, and he felt that the secret in his heart was seen by He Yishang. The fire in his stomach was having no place to vent, and he just used He Yishang as a punching bag, grabbed it, hit a hundred large boards, and handed it over to the Jinyi guards for trial.
In the winter of the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), the Ming Dynasty died of exhaustion. Before his death, Emperor Ming shizong went to Xu Jie and left a testament: "Forty-five years of the Temple of the Emperor Fengzong, enjoying a long period of time in the country, is not available in the previous dynasties." He was bent on serving the people, but he was too sick and too sick to pursue the art of immortality, so that he was deceived and seduced by adulterers, and all courtiers who were convicted of advice were released and reappointed. This is also to say that Hai Rui and He Yishang were acquitted.
The prison chief got the news, and he thought, he had to hurry up and tie up Harry. Therefore, the best wine and dishes were prepared and respectfully sent to the cell. Hai Rui thought it was the last supper before the execution, and he and He Yishang ate and drank calmly and sang loudly. After getting drunk and full, Harry smiled and said to the prison officer, "Okay, it's time to go to the West Market and ask for a chop." ”
The prison officer announced the good news and said mysteriously: "Congratulations to Lord Hai, the emperor has ascended to heaven, and the lord will soon see the day, and the lowly post is to set up a banquet." ”
The prison officer had thought that Harry must have gone crazy. Unexpectedly, Hai Rui suddenly fell to his knees, facing the north, screaming from the sky, crying and crying, and spit out all the wine and vegetables he had just eaten. It turned out that Hai Rui scolded the Jiajing Emperor the most severely, in fact, he loved the Jiajing Emperor the most. What a deep condemnation of love!
Ming Shizong obviously also realized that behind Hai Rui's uprightness was actually the purest love for the king of the country. Therefore, Hai Rui was the most unscrupulous among the ancient and modern courtiers, and he was not killed by Ming Shizong, which was also a miracle.