Preface
The meaning of the phrase "small forbearance is chaos and big scheme" is to be more patient in small things, otherwise it will be bad for big things, and this sentence also shows that behind success is the need for strong endurance as support.
Some people rely on this kind of strong endurance to "endure what ordinary people can't bear" to achieve a great cause, including Yue Wang Goujian lying down and tasting courage, a moment of patience turned into the driving force of perseverance, and finally he became a generation of kings.
There is also Han Xin, one of the famous generals of the "Three Heroes of the Early Han Dynasty", who was humiliated by his crotch, but because he had lofty ambitions, he did not give up his persistence after being humiliated, and later was reused by Liu Bang, was named King of Qi, defeated Xiang Yu, and became a generation of famous generals.
And the protagonist we are going to talk about today also knows how to forbear, he is Xu Jie, who was in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Jie's forbearance got rid of the traitor Yan Song, but he eventually became the same person as Yan Song, why is this?
1. Don't die in a catastrophe
In the record of "History of the Ming Dynasty", there are six traitorous ministers, Yan Song is one of them, Yan Song was also a very talented person in his early years, after entering the official career, especially after Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, he was highly used, so he got the opportunity to be promoted.
After all, at the age of sixty-three, he became the head of the cabinet, and at that time his power and status could be said to be at the head of the hundred officials, almost achieving the position of "below one person, above ten thousand".
Don't look at Yan Song in the early years is a very talented person, but in Vanity Fair, there are a few who can maintain their original intentions, in the more than 20 years that he has been reused by Emperor Jiajing, first eradicated dissidents, and then won over powerful ministers to consolidate his own power.
This made some ministers in the court quite dissatisfied with Yan Song, and wanted to impeach Yan Song many times, including Xia Yan, who once served as the first assistant to the cabinet, who had long been unhappy with Yan Song, so he wanted to pull Yan Song down from his high position.
I never thought that Xia Yan couldn't shake Yan Song's position at all, but was framed by Yan Song and executed by the emperor, which shows how powerful Yan Song was at that time, or how clever Yan Song's methods were, so how did such a clever person get into the hands of Xu Jie?
Speaking of which, Xu Jie's early years were also an aspiring young man, but later in the court, he experienced the ups and downs of life, and only then did he understand how to protect himself, so why did Xu Jie's change like this?
Xu Jie's person is still very interesting, some strange things have happened since he was a child, when Xu Jie was just one year old, he fell into a dry well.
Fortunately, Xu Jie's life was great, and he only woke up on the third day after being rescued, and then when he was five years old, he followed his father through Kuocang Mountain, and accidentally fell from the mountain, but fortunately, his clothes hung on the tree, so he was spared.
Therefore, Xu Jie's deeds make people sound very surprised, on the one hand, they sigh that Xu Jie's life is big, and on the other hand, they sigh that Xu Jie's life has been so young that he has experienced so many disasters, but fortunately, he has survived the catastrophe.
Xu Jie, who has been a little "unlucky" since he was a child, has a kind of luck of "if you don't die in a big disaster, you will have a blessing in the future". Later, Xu Jie explored flowers in the second year of Jiajing and was awarded the position of editor of the Hanlin Academy.
Second, the wisdom of Yan Song
Since then, Xu Jie, who has just entered the official career, is still praised by everyone, because he talks and behaves elegantly, is very smart, strategic, and does not know whether people are right or wrong, and spreads some gossip.
Later, Xu Jie returned to his hometown to marry a wife, and when his father died, he could only go back to serve the mourning period first, and only after the mourning period was completed, he resumed his original official position.
From the process of communication between Xu Jie, Wang Shouren and others, it can be seen that Xu Jie's character is very good, and his reputation among scholars and doctors is also excellent.
When he was in the Hanlin Academy, Zhang Fujing, a senior scholar in the cabinet, was in great power, and even Emperor Jiajing had to listen to Zhang Fujing's advice, just like Emperor Jiajing wanted to cancel Confucius's title and lower the standard of worshipping Confucius.
At that time, Emperor Jiajing asked his ministers to discuss this matter, and the other ministers did not dare to say much because they were afraid of Zhang Fujing, but Xu Jie, who had just entered the officialdom, only knew how to obey Emperor Jiajing's orders, and had the momentum of "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers".
So Xu Jie put forward an opinion to insist on opposing it, and Zhang Fujing saw that someone dared to do something against him, so he was angry, so he angrily reprimanded Xu Jie.
But Xu Jie was not reconciled, so he argued with Zhang Fujing on the basis of reason, which made Zhang Fujing even more angry, and began to say unreasonably: "You dare to go against my will." ”
Xu Jie is not afraid of this powerful Zhang Fujing: "I was attached to you before I disobeyed you, and I never attached to you, where did I say that I was disobedient?"
Xu Jie, in the end, was young and vigorous, because of this matter, he put himself in, and was demoted, served as the prisoner of Yanping, and later during his tenure, he also made a lot of achievements.
At that time, in the process of trying some unjust prisons, Xu Jie released more than 300 victims from prison, founded the Township Social Society, destroyed obscene shrines, and arrested many thieves who harmed the countryside, about 100 people.
With this achievement, he was promoted to the Tongzhi of Huangzhou Mansion, and later returned to the capital with his own ability, and was even reused by Emperor Jiajing because he was good at writing green words.
This threatened Yan Song, who held great power at the time, after all, at the beginning, Xu Jie still disdained to be with Yan Song and others, and Yan Song was even more afraid that Xu Jie would replace him after being reused by Emperor Jiajing.
But this also put Xu Jie in a very dangerous situation, and he has not yet established himself in the city of Kyoto, for fear of accidentally repeating the mistakes of the past and being relegated to a remote area.
3. Gaze into the abyss
After all, he has been an official in the court for many years, and he knows very well the pros and cons of himself in Vanity Fair, and Yan Song will go to Emperor Jiajing to slander Xu Jie, a person who poses a great threat to himself.
In order to protect his life, Xu Jie chose to compromise and marry his granddaughter to Yan Song's grandson, and carried out a political marriage, ostensibly showing favor to Yan Song.
Despite this, Yan Song did not let go of Xu Jie, especially Yan Song's son Yan Shifan did not take Xu Jie's eyes seriously, and even made many rude actions towards Xu Jie, and Xu Jie also chose to swallow his anger.
But as Xu Jie gradually gained the trust of Emperor Jiajing, and then had the title of prince and prince in his body, his status also rose, second only to Yan Song.
Later, because of a fire in the Yongshou Palace where Emperor Jiajing lived, he temporarily lived in the Yuxi Palace, but because the place here is relatively small, Emperor Jiajing wanted to rebuild a new palace.
However, Yan Song suggested that Emperor Jiajing live in Da Nei, and Xu Jie put forward an opinion that satisfied Emperor Jiajing, so he used the materials left over from the destruction to build a new palace, so that Xu Jie was sealed and valued.
From this Xu Jie, the gap between Yan Song and Yan Song was opened, Yan Song was also snubbed by Emperor Jiajing, and later because Zou Yinglong denounced Yan Song's father and son, the emperor ordered the arrest of Yan Shifan, and Yan Song retired early, and Xu Jie replaced Yan Song as the first assistant.
After Yan Song retired, Xu Jie also went to condolence Yan Song, on the surface, Xu Jie didn't care about his past suspicions, but in fact, Xu Jie just didn't want to fall into revenge, after all, there was no Yan family at the beginning, and there was no status he has now.
Don't look at Emperor Jiajing's ruthlessness towards the Yan family, but in fact, he also has a trace of attachment to Yan Song in his heart, although Yan Song has lost power, and the forces around him are still operating in secret, not to mention that the emperor is capricious and once wanted to reactivate Yan Song, Xu Jie also saw this, so he tried his best to dissuade Yan Song, did not let Yan Song return to the court, and brought down the Yan family.
After Xu Jie gained power, he also became the next Yan Song, and after Mu Zong succeeded to the throne, Xu Jie was dissatisfied with Mu Zong's behavior and dissuaded him many times, which made Mu Zong disgusted, so Xu Jie took this opportunity to retire.
But in the matter, Zhang Qi impeached him because of some personal grievances, because when Xu Jie retired, although he himself did not take bribes, he connived at his disciples to run rampant in the countryside and owned as much as 240,000 acres of land.
In addition, his disciples and domestic slaves also committed crimes, and the papers accusing him were piled up into a mountain, so the government began to handle the case in the Ice Palace, so Xu Jie had to bribe Dai Fengxiang with 30,000 taels of gold to settle the matter.
Therefore, when someone called Xu Jie a traitor, Xu Jie's actions undoubtedly became the second "Yan Song".
epilogue
How can a person who has always been in Vanity Fair always keep his original intention, even if he overthrew Yan Song, who once looked down on him, he didn't expect that he would become a person he once hated.