In the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing (1549), Hai Rui participated in the township examination, and won the promotion, he was thirty-five years old this year, but after that, he did not take the Jinshi examination three times, and at the age of forty-six, Hai Rui completely gave up the imperial examination, and went to Nanping, Fujian Province as a teacher as a lifter.
If there is no accident, Hai Rui's officialdom career will come to an end, after all, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, although the people have meritorious fame, their status is far inferior to that of Jinshi, non-top three, not into Hanlin, and they may not be mixed with a county in their lives, and the county is the ceiling of people.
Hai Jui
But Hai Rui created a miracle, he served as a prefect of Chun'an County for only four years, and entered the capital to serve as the head of the Yunnan Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs for less than two years.
I have to say that Hai Jui is really a talented person who is an official, so how can Hai Jui be so prosperous? In fact, it is very simple, that is, super personal ability and moral behavior like a perfect person.
Although Hai Rui does not befriend his superiors, nor bribe his superiors, or even give his superiors a good look, he knows that being an official is for the people, not for the boss, so as long as he does his duty, there is no need to get involved with his superiors, everyone is colleagues, not family members.
Although he was only an inaccessible teacher and could only be in charge of education, Hai Jui relied on his outstanding talents to make local education look new.
As soon as he served as a teacher, Hai Rui formulated a strict assessment system for the local students, which cleaned up the loose style of study of the students, revitalized the style of study of Nanping, and also made Nanping achieve far more results than in the previous examinations, and let Hai Rui get a good evaluation in the subsequent evaluation, and was promoted to the magistrate of Chun'an County.
The magistrate is a parent official, and when he arrives here, Hai Rui can finally display his talent.
Hairui Image
First of all, the most important land issue for the people, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, land annexation became more and more serious, in order to avoid taxes, many people chose to donate, this donation is more, there are more problems, such as tax reduction, such as landlord bullies forcibly seize and so on.
As soon as Hai Jui came, he re-measured the land, set taxes, and even in order to ensure that it could be carried out smoothly, Hai Jui also formulated a very strict assessment system, and demanded himself with strict moral standards, so that the officials below had nothing to say and could only act according to the assessment formulated by Hai Jui.
As for redressing grievances for the people and handling cases fairly, Hai Rui has also made remarkable achievements.
For the local people, Hai Rui is a rare parent official, but for the local officials and local tyrants and gentry, he is like a monkey suppressed by the Buddha, unable to move.
I wanted to find Hai Rui's black spots, but Hai Rui was like a perfect person, and he couldn't find even a trace of black spots up and down.
Because Hai Rui completely follows the supreme morality of Confucianism in morality and life, he lives a poor life every day, and he also has various constraints on his family, and even takes a meager fortune to help the poor people, so that others can't pick out his black spots, and Hai Rui is completely invincible.
Hai Rui is not corrupt, and he is not breaking the law and discipline, even if the imperial history comes, there is no way, there is no way, such a clean, honest and capable official, the local tyrants and inferior gentry in Chun'an County can't beat it, can't they hide, after a few discussions, they plan to pay together, up and down, and send Hai Rui away.
Spending money to get your parents promoted is also the first time in the world.
Stills from "Daming 1566".
At the beginning, the imperial court planned to appoint Hai Rui as the general judge of Jiaxing Mansion, which was an official of the five grades, but when the local tyrants and inferior gentry in Jiaxing heard it, it was not good to come to such a powerful official, and some people began to contribute money and efforts, up and down, as long as they were not officials in Jiaxing Mansion, they could go anywhere.
In December of the forty-first year of Jiajing (1562), Hai Rui was transferred to serve as the magistrate of Xingguo County.
Previously, Hai Rui's reputation was in Zhejiang, and Jiangxi people had never heard of Hai Rui's name, so naturally they did not realize Hai Rui's iron-faced selflessness.
As soon as he arrived in Xingguo County, Hai Rui came to a "Eight Discussions on Rejuvenation", intending to solve the long-standing shortcomings of Xingguo County from eight aspects, which naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the local tyrants and inferior gentry.
They planned to use their usual means to resist, but they didn't expect to be easily resolved by Hai Rui, and now the local tyrants and inferior gentry were dumbfounded, and they asked who Hai Rui was, why he was so powerful, and after such an inquiry, they knew that Hai Rui had done the same thing in Chun'an.
Now they are completely convinced, resist and resist, and don't move, just learn from the Chun'an people to send this great god away.
In this way, after serving as the magistrate of Xingguo County for less than two years, Hai Rui was promoted again, this time to the capital.
Hai Jui is indeed a capable official
In October of the 43rd year of Jiajing (1564), Hai Rui was promoted to the head of the Yunnan Department of the Household Department of Zhengliupin, completing the gorgeous transformation from a local petty official to a Beijing official.
At this point, Hai Rui can finally use his fists and feet, and he can finally needle the disadvantages of the times.
Of course, Hai Rui is not brainless, after all, during the Jiajing period, due to the dispute over the Great Rites, the relationship between the ministers and Jiajing was extremely tense, and for the officials who advised and criticized themselves, Jiajing was a direct court staff, where can these scholars withstand the court staff, many people were killed by the staff on the spot, even if they did not die, they lost a layer of skin.
It would be good if he could shed a layer of skin so that Jiajing could listen to it or change it, but after the court cane, Jiajing went his own way, and the official lost his life in vain, but there was no splash at all.
Emperor Jiajing
For Hai Rui, if you want to come, you will have a big one, and you will have to be earth-shattering.
From the beginning of his tenure as a teacher, Hai Rui had a habit of carefully reading and analyzing every report issued by the imperial court.
Although it has been conveyed layer by layer, it has long been seriously flooded, but the information that should be there is still there, Hai Rui relied on his super analytical ability to analyze the recent developments of the imperial court and the struggle within the imperial court from the complicated newspapers, and then think about how to use this as a starting point.
It's just that at that time, Hai Rui people were light-hearted, and the music could not be passed on.
After arriving in the capital, Hai Rui also continued to study Di Bao, in addition, he also studied the Ming official system and Confucian etiquette thoroughly, and if he grasped these, he could make himself invincible.
Hai Jui has a habit of criticizing others, that is, he likes to use the "Book of Rites", and every time he criticizes, he must use the "Book of Rites" as a weapon for himself to criticize others.
After careful preparation, Hai Rui was ready to go to the book.
On February 1, the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), Hai Rui first bought a coffin from a coffin shop, and then went to "Public Security" that shocked the Ming officialdom.
"Public Security" that shocked the Ming officialdom
Why do you say that it shocked the Ming officialdom? Because "Public Security Sparse" clearly criticized Jiajing, in fact, it scolded all the Ming officials.
Since the Song Dynasty, Confucianism began to deliberately create an image for the people at the bottom, that is, the emperor is good, the bad are a bunch of ministers, and the bad life of the people is the reason for the traitorous ministers, as long as the traitorous ministers are eliminated, the world will be peaceful.
For example, the slogan in "Water Margin" is "only against corrupt officials, not against the emperor".
The advantage of this is that the problem is blamed on the individual, and there is no suspicion that it is the problem of the feudal monarchy, and Confucianism is deeply bound to the imperial system, relying on the three outlines and five constants to maintain the imperial system on the surface, but why not protect the interests of these scholars?
In this way, in the eyes of the people, the emperor is sacred, and the mistakes are all bewitched by a group of traitorous ministers, but a letter of "Public Security and Sparseness" let the people of the world know that the root cause of the world's troubles is actually the emperor, which suddenly shattered the dream woven by Confucianism.
Although Jiajing was furious and wanted to execute Hai Rui, it was the Gonggong who wanted Hai Rui to die the most.
explicitly criticized Jiajing for "Public Security Sparse", and actually scolded all the Ming officials.
After all, there are some things that everyone knows what is going on, but they can't say it, although everyone knows that Jiajing is mediocre, but they can't shout nonsense, and in the three outlines and five constants, Jun is the first, can Jun's father be criticized at will?
The son does not speak of the father, and now the son actually scolds the father, isn't this a slap in the face of the Confucian ethical system?
But Hai Jui can't be killed, after all, Hai Jui is right, and Hai Jui has studied the Confucian classics thoroughly, and every word is carefully considered, and a discerning person is criticizing people at a glance, but he just can't find fault with it, it is completely within the existing officialdom rules and etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, and the red line that should not be stepped on is not a single one.
Killing Hai Rui confirms that what Hai Rui said is indeed right, not only can he not be killed, but his life must be saved!
But Jiajing doesn't want to be the king, so he just doesn't want to kill you, put you in prison, and then let the courtiers buckle his hat, and the first thing to buckle is disrespect.
After all, if Jiajing is really the king of Zhou, then aren't the princes of Gonggon a nine-tailed fox? Even if they are not a nine-tailed fox, they can't escape the hat of a traitorous minister, and everyone doesn't want to carry this pot, and they can't leave their dirty names in the history books.
Therefore, "Public Security Shu" scolded not only Jiajing, but also pointed to the officials around Jiajing and scolded them together, scolding them as traitors.
So even if the officials hate Hai Rui to death, they have to protect Hai Rui desperately, even if Jiajing can't control his emotions, they have to stop him, such as Xu Jie, Huang Guangsheng, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and others, who are dragging their lives to prevent Jiajing from killing Hai Rui.
Hai Rui played pure yang conspiracy, and also made himself a role model, and after his death, no matter how unhappy these ministers were with him, they should encourage him to learn from him.
To be honest, the Ming officialdom really didn't like Hai Rui who was alive, but for some reasons, they released him again, such as the struggle between Xu Jie and Gao Gong in the early days of Longqing.
In order to bring down Xu Jie, Gao Gong let Hai Rui serve as the official position of the Governor of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Inspectorate of the Fourth Grade, the Governor of Grain Reserves, the Governor of Military Affairs, and the Governor of Yingtian Shifu, that is, let Hai Rui, an upright person, go to investigate the fields occupied by the Xu family, stink Xu Jie, and kill Xu Jie's half life alive.
And after the Xu family was finished, Gao Gong immediately dismissed Hai Rui's official, after all, he really didn't like Hai Rui, the Ming officialdom needed Hai Rui, but what was needed was the dead Hai Rui, not the living.
Hai Jui became a model for Ming officialdom, of course, after his death
Gao Gong didn't like Hai Rui, Zhang Juzheng didn't like it either, in the ten years he was in charge of the cabinet, Zhang Juzheng completely let Hai Rui sit on the cold bench for ten years, and was not promoted until Zhang Juzheng died, and finally served as the right capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate of Zheng Erpin.
From the prefect to the magistrate, from the magistrate to the head of the household department, to the head of the military department and the general administration department, Hai Rui has spanned education, money and food, criminal names, laws and even the military department, across many departments, but each one is extremely good, and every time he can accurately grasp the key points, the means are ruthless, leaving no room for error, and the means are quite high.
It's just that he joined the government too late, and he became an official at the age of 46, otherwise his achievements would never be this point.
Looking at it this way, Hai Rui is really the ceiling of the ministers, this kind of grassroots background, not relying on background, not relying on bad habits of officialdom, not relying on ushering in, all relying on their own ability to get to the top, there are only two in the Ming and Qing dynasties for hundreds of years, one is Hai Rui, and the other is Zuo Zongtang.