After three rounds of prison challenges by Zhao Zhenji, Shi Gonggong and Emperor Jiajing and the formal challenges of the "Cabinet" + "Three Laws Division", Hairui was unscathed and still the "arrogant" appearance of the Jiajing Emperor who hated it to the bone and had no choice. Naturally, the Jiajing Emperor fell ill.
The so-called "prescription of the Tai Hospital, the article of the Hanlin Hospital", the prescription prescribed by the Tai Hospital made the Jiajing Emperor angry:
"Five dollars for Korean ginseng, ten dollars for dang ginseng, five dollars for Bai Zhi, nine dollars for Tangerine Peel... Ten complete supplements? ”
Comrade Zhu Houxi is also the emperor, and if he really wants to be willful and intimidating, I am afraid that he will not be worse than Comrade Hairui! The condition of the Jiajing Emperor, the hospital is not unclear, the tiger and wolf medicine does not dare to use, the ineffective prescription does not dare to prescribe, can only be maintained with some tonics, can not cure the disease but absolutely will not have a problem.
When the illness was not cured, the Jiajing Emperor thought of the "National Treasure of Daming", Li Shizhen, and in a hurry, he actually forgot his taboo and commanded:
"Go find out, and find out Li Shizhen unilaterally."
This was the secret between the Jiajing Emperor and the Little Angel of Huang Jin, and Chen Hong naturally did not know it, so he could only ask in a confused manner:
"May I ask the master, what Li Shizhen?" What unilateral? ”
As soon as Chen Hong's words came out, the Jiajing Emperor realized that he had said the wrong thing, he was a Daoist monk who cultivated the Immortal Enlightenment Dao, how could he summon Li Shizhen to see a doctor with great fanfare, wasn't this a punch in his own face! Therefore, the Jiajing Emperor quickly changed the topic and asked about the handling of his "source of illness", Hai Rui.
"What about sin?"
Chen Hong understood and quickly replied:
"Back to the master." The hundred officials wrote the sonata, but they did not want to speak again. What was even more infuriating was that Wang Yongji, who did not even write the manuscript of Barge Hai Rui, but presented a song that said that the Mining Department in the palace was greedy, and it was clear that he was working against the master. The slave had already captured the king. ”
Whenever YingShangyi was a means of retaining Chen Hong's position and power, and whoever opposed the Jiajing Emperor was against himself, Chen Hong would do everything possible to punish and kill. This was the reason why the Jiajing Emperor reused Chen Hong, and it was also the reason for Chen Hong's downfall.
Emperor Jiajing knew better than anyone how the Qingliu civil officials of the Hanlin Yuan, the Guozijian, and the Duchayuan would think of Hai Rui, otherwise he would have pulled Hai Rui to this "waste" of reading sages and laid an overwhelming siege. Therefore, the Jiajing Emperor did not care about the attitude of the hundred officials, nor did he care, what he really cared about was the opinion of the cabinet.
"Cabinet Xu Jie, what do they mean?"
Chen Hong responded:
The meaning of the cabinet was to extract the words of the hundred officials refuting Hai Rui's recital and hand them over to the Three Laws Division for conviction tomorrow. The slave was a little worried that those people would not condemn Hai Rui for their own reputation and tarnish the holy name of their master. ”
In fact, Chen Hong was not targeting the "Qingliu Party", he just wanted to use the "Hai Rui Shangshu" to purge Lü Fang's remaining forces, and rectifying Huang Jin was this purpose, and the imprisonment of Zhu Qi, Qi Dazhu was also this purpose. But in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to frantically attack Hai Rui, and it is necessary to stop the "Qingliu Party" from trying to save Hai Rui.
Hearing this, the Jiajing Emperor began his own reserved repertoire - "Guess the Word Puzzle".
He wrote the two big characters of "good rain" and "bright moon", handed them to Chen Hong, and commanded:
"Here we're talking about two people. Give it to King Yu and ask him to summon Xu Jie to see them together. ”
This is the usual means of the Jiajing Emperor, everything only depends on a "guess" word, guess correctly, the Sacred Heart is happy, and there is no need to be responsible; guess wrong, do you not discuss! Poor and fearful Daming officials, one by one, were forced to become guessing masters!
Let's look at Chen Hong's response:
"The slave asks the master again, Xu Jie, who do they refer to?"
In fact, Chen Hong's question was to express a meaning, that is, I did not know the composition of the Yuwang faction, of course, I did not know who the emperor meant by "Xu Jie and others", let alone approached yuwang like Lü Fang.
However, as far as Chen Hong's position is concerned, he wants to play tricks in front of the Jiajing Emperor, and he is indeed a bit powerless. According to the Jiajing Emperor, "Touch your shelled egg face, are you worthy?"
The Jiajing Emperor had a gloomy face and replied:
"If Lu Fang were here, this sentence would not have been asked!"
If Lü Fang was there, he wouldn't have played tricks in front of Jiajing; if Lü Fang had been there, he wouldn't have taken himself seriously, and he always felt that Jiajing would be wary of himself; more importantly, if Lü Fang was there, he would know how to make Jiajing carry as little back as possible.
Jiajing doesn't want to make it clear, you have to ask clearly, this is not called ignorance, this is called death!
After another desperate plea, Chen Hong quickly left the tiger and came to the Yu King's Mansion. Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng, this face and heart discord, and in turn were completely overthrown by the latter in the order of ranking, which was the "Qingliu Trio" that the Jiajing Emperor said, "Xu Jie and others".
After saluting King Yu and greeting Chen Hong, King Yu spoke:
"There is a will."
Xu Jie and the others were just about to kneel when Chen Hong's attitude came:
"You don't have to kneel. There was no explicit purpose, but the emperor wrote a few words to the prince and asked Xu Gelao to consult with several masters. Let's take a look. ”
Since it has been clearly turned to Yu Wang, Chen Hong's attitude toward Xu Jie and others must be changed, even if there is no explicit purpose, the oral edict must also kneel, Chen Hong's sentence "There is no need to kneel" is to Xu Jie and others, but also to Yu Wang: We are all our own people, within the scope of authority, I will help if I can help, I will do what I can do, I will be exempt from it.
Then, Chen Hong took out those words—"good rain" and "bright moon"—and Yu Wang explained:
"The emperor said, these four words refer to two people."
Chen Hongzai, Xu Jie and others naturally had some concerns, after all, there had been so many festivals before. King Yu saw the concern and exhorted:
"The masters don't have to worry. Chen Gonggong has the difficulties of Chen Gonggong, and some things are also unavoidable. He has the emperor in his heart, and naturally he also has me. Say what he has in front of him. ”
Boldly let go and say, there are no outsiders here, Chen Hong's little demon has already surrendered to my command. Why, I'm not a cow?
The three of them were a little surprised, but when they saw Yu Wang's determined eyes, they also believed it. However, perhaps even Yu Wang did not expect that a plan to take advantage of the opportunity to frame Chen Hong was quickly formed in the minds of the three people, and the "Qingliu Party" was very fierce infighting, but when they were unanimously outward, they were still so terrible.
Well, let's get into the main topic, and enter the compulsory course of the Officials of the Jiajing Dynasty--guessing word puzzles.
As the highest-ranking big man, Xu Jie spoke first:
"I have a few words I would like to ask Gonggong Chen first. When did the emperor write these four words, and what did he say when he wrote them? ”
Chen Hong replied:
The two doctors prescribed a unilateral prescription, and the emperor was not satisfied and blew them away. Then he asked how the Metropolitan Court had discussed Hai Rui's crime. ”
Xu Jie and Chen Hong's questions and answers told us two things:
1, the royal close attendant, the leading secretary and other confidants of the superior, must not be offended, must be united to win, because this is the most convenient way to deeply understand the meaning, can let you take fewer detours, quickly achieve position promotion.
2, the Jiajing Emperor gave the "anagram" or the leader's unspoken order, is not untraceable, whether you can guess the bottom of the puzzle, depends on whether you use your heart, will grasp the key point.
Speaking of "guessing the word puzzle", it is naturally inseparable from the "Zhang Prodigy", with the background of the "word puzzle" asked by Xu Jie, Uncle Ju Zheng directly gave the riddle:
"These four words of the emperor are li shizhen and hai rui."
Then, there is Zhang Juzheng's blunt explanation that can be called "hard together":
"'Good rain knows the season, when spring is happening.'" The word 'good rain' refers to Li Shizhen. Because these two sentences contain both Li Shizhen's shichun characters, Li Shizhen is a Hubei Puchun person, and also contains the spring characters of Puchun. Spring is 'good rain'. The dragon body violated peace, and the emperor wanted to summon Li Shizhen to ask for a pulse, but he did not want to summon him explicitly, and Du Shi's next two sentences, 'Sneak into the night with the wind, and the moisturizer is silent', which implies this meaning. This was to tell Wang Ye to immediately summon Li Shizhen into Beijing. ”
Since he only guessed the names of the two people, the background that Chen Hong had just given was enough to expose the mystery, of course, this blunt explanation was probably deliberately said to Chen Hong, after all, Chen Hong needed to return to the palace to restore his will, and this explanation did succeed in becoming Chen Hong's crime.
If this is really Zhang Juzheng's speculative evidence, then I can only say that Zhang Juzheng is far less than Xu Jie, and the so-called "divine power" of high intelligence is far less than Xu Jie's mastery, integration and analysis of multi-faceted information with experience. Therefore, in the workplace life, don't challenge the old employees who are more experienced than you because you are smart, and those leaders who climb to the management position after a long time of groping and fighting, experience is the must kill, wisdom is only a supporting role.
Of course, Zhang Juzheng's analysis can still arouse enough admiration for Chen Hong's role of almost equal to Xiao Bai. After listening to the analysis, Chen Hong sincerely sighed:
"Well solved! Master Zhang also remembered this slave. Wang Ye, the emperor did mention Li Shizhen's name when he was in the Jingshe. Since the emperor wanted to summon Li Shizhen to ask for a pulse, but did not want the outside world to know, the slaves immediately asked the people of zhenfusi to do it privately, and six hundred miles rushed to take Li Shizhen into Beijing. ”
As long as the names of the two people given are reasonable, how to explain it is correct! It's like the stone spots in some scenic spots, the billboard says that this stone is like Buddha, you will desperately move closer to the image of Buddha, and it really becomes Buddha.
It is always easier to infer the analytical process with conclusions than to reverse!
Zhang Juzheng continued:
"Since 'good rain' refers to Li Shizhen, 'Mingyue' refers to Hai Rui." The bright moon born on the sea is the image of auspicious Rui, and there is a Rui character in it. But how could the emperor use these two words to say Hai Rui at this time? Somewhat puzzling. ”
Notice that Zhang Juzheng began to dig a trap, and this trap was the Jiajing Emperor's attitude towards Hai Rui.
What does the Jiajing Emperor mean by giving the anagram of "good rain" and "bright moon"?
Summoning Li Shizhen to Beijing for medical treatment is one thing, but more importantly, I want to see if Xu Jie and others are with themselves in the matter of Hai Rui.
"Good rain knows the season", in addition to Li Shizhen's name, the focus is on "knowing the season"; "the sea rises bright moon", in addition to Hai Rui's name, the focus is on "rising bright moon". These two sets of words translate to: Daming has produced a Hai Rui who has no father in his heart, and your cabinet is best to "know the seasons" and "know the times".
So, how should the "cabinet" "know the seasons" and "know the current affairs"? Let's move on!
High Arch Answer:
"The Moon of The Great Ming! The emperor should have praised Hai Rui, does it imply that we are talking about sin? ”
Killing Hai Rui, the Jiajing Emperor became the "King of Qi"; not killing Hai Rui was equivalent to acknowledging that "Public Security" was the truth; then, how should the Jiajing Emperor have both? When Chen Hong returned to the palace to restore his will, the Jiajing Emperor once had such a reprimand - "Why don't you simply say that good people let you do it, and the evil people let you do it", that is, The Jiajing Emperor wanted the "cabinet" to be this "evil person" and a "good person" himself.
This is the "season-aware" performance that the "cabinet" should have!
Therefore, Gao Gong's analysis was wrong, and it was very wrong, of course, this is also likely to be his deliberate statement in front of Chen Hong.
Let's look at Xu Jie's analysis:
?“ As I understand it, the word 'bright moon' has two other meanings. The first layer is 'Daming No Day'! Ming Ming also, the moon character behind it is missing a Japanese word. The Emperor is blaming us, the courtiers, for not having him as a father. Today, Hai Rui was not called to the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, and the emperor already had this meaning. ”
In a word, the Jiajing Emperor thought that the cabinet and the hundred officials of the imperial court were not on his side, and he was obviously dissatisfied!
Before Xu Jie could explain the meaning of the second layer, Chen Hong's little demon answered:
Elder Xu Ge, does your old second layer mean that you want to say that 'Mingyue' means 'execution after autumn'?
Note that this is the reason why Chen Hong was severely reprimanded by the Jiajing Emperor, who completely misinterpreted the meaning of the Jiajing Emperor.
Let's look at the explanation that almost killed Chen Hong:
"When the three judicial divisions are convicted tomorrow, they must be sentenced to death after Hai Rachel."
Chen Hong's suggestion was not to give the Jiajing Emperor the opportunity to "be a good person", but to really want to kill Hai Rui, one of Chen Hong's big mistakes.
"The Ming Dynasty is now the emperor's world, and in the future it will be the emperor's world." The reason why the emperor asked the slave to show this to the prince and show it to the masters was to see if the prince and the masters had the same heart as the emperor. Hai Rui insulted the emperor so much, the attitude of the hundred officials was ambiguous, especially the king Yong ji, even the rebuttal of Hai Rui's song was unwilling to write, the emperor listened to it at that time and had a clear will, Wang Yong Ji wanted to discuss the crime with Hai Rui. At this time, if the prince and the masters could not be indignant at the emperor's father, it would really be a great day. Everyone can say not to kill Hai Rui, but Wang Ye must kill Hai Rui. And the king will also be sentenced heavily. ”
In addition to the big mistake of really killing Hai Rui, this passage also exposed Two other big mistakes of Chen Hong:
1. Thinking that at the beginning, Lü Fang privately invited Yan Song and Xu Jie's lessons for the sake of Emperor Jiajing, chen Hong obviously did not pay attention to it. This persuasion is equivalent to a signal directly moving closer to King Yu, and it is also equivalent to directly challenging the bottom line of emperor Jiajing's imperial power. Chen Hong's use lies in "fierceness", in controlling hundreds of officials and balancing the flow. Once this persuasion was heard by the Jiajing Emperor, chen Hong's fate could be imagined.
Lü Fang, who had been serving for 40 years before the imperial court, and who was still bent on entertaining Yan Song and Xu Jie for the sake of emperor Jiajing's consideration, was still treated like that; Chen Hong, a tool man who was doomed to death from the beginning, even wanted to learn from Lü Fang's appearance to find a way back for himself, although he was not wronged!
2. The reason why Chen Hong repeatedly insisted on killing Hai Rui and sentencing Wang Yongji heavily was to take the opportunity to eliminate the remaining forces of Huang Jin, Zhu Qi, and other Lü Fang, which was even more taboo for the Jiajing Emperor. The territory of the Jiajing Emperor allowed Chen Hong to establish his prestige and establish his position. The Jiajing Emperor had a saying that was very well put in place, "Lü Fang always understood in his heart that no matter how many people called him The Old Ancestor, he would always be a slave."
Now, Chen Hong wants to be the master, and the end can be imagined.
The words were clear, Xu Jie and others finally couldn't listen to it, and such a simple logic also wanted to persuade these big guys who had cultivated into refinements to say that they were polite if they didn't measure up to their own strength, and it might be more appropriate not to know whether they were dead or alive.
Xu Jie said to King Yu:
"Chen Gonggong said it very well! Wang Ye, let's quickly let Duke Chen return to the palace to restore his will. ”
Wang Ye, do you still trust such a cargo? Your confidants have given you advice, and they have not hurried to order him to return to the palace to see what attitude Jiajing will give you!
Then, Xu Jie didn't even give Yu Wang a chance to reply, and turned directly to Chen Hong:
"The dragon's body violated the peace, and it was urgent to summon Li Shizhen, and Duke Chen hurried back to the palace to restore his will."
The most representative "killing" - Chen Gonggong, you are really capable, hurry back to the palace to receive the reward!
In fact, Xu Jie was thinking in his heart: If Jiajing doesn't execute you immediately, it can be regarded as "Public Security Neglect" working!
Chen Hong still looked at Yu Wang, waiting for his meaning.
This small detail of Chen Hong is very in place, which is equivalent to telling Yu Wang: Xu Jie is what, I am only Wang Ye's slave; it is also equivalent to telling Xu Jie: I am only a slave of Yu Wang, what are you. In this way, Chen Hong's real purpose of drawing closer to Yu Wang could only continue to hold power and position.
I turned to Yu Wang, just to continue to be my "Si Li Supervisor and Seal Eunuch", but not to become a small follower of Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and others! Only the Yu King can command me, and the rest of the people are not worthy!
Yu Wang sat there sheepishly:
"Then go and repeat the will."
Yu Wang, did you hear that Xu Jie and others had framed Chen Hong for "killing"?
There is no performance in the play, and there is such a sentence in the original novel that can directly prove:
"It's a pity for a loyal subject. Another king was picked up. ”
Alas, the Jiajing Emperor also had few sons, and the only King Jing who could pose a threat to King Yu also died in the first month of the 44th year of Jiajing, otherwise, with the "innocent and lovely" appearance of King Yu, I am afraid that he would not be eligible to inherit the throne. Now, I finally understand that the Jiajing Emperor arranged three first assistants for Yu Wang, and when Yu Wang asked the successors of the three first assistants, why did the Jiajing Emperor laugh and collapse?
The Jiajing Emperor was not killed by Hai Rui's anger, but by Yu Wang's anger!
Chen Hong left, and Zhang Juzheng and the others stopped hiding, intending to wake up the naïve Ming Crown Prince.
Zhang Juzheng spoke:
"In fact, the emperor's four words all contain the meaning of not killing Hai Rui!"
My naïve wang ye, the prince with the steppe on his head, the Jiajing Emperor did not want to kill Hai Rui at all, Chen Hong's suggestion, our false intentions echoed, you are serious?
Zhang Prodigy began to give a real explanation:
"Wang Ye, please think that Hai Rui's serious illness was diagnosed by Li Shizhen, and before Hai Rui went to the desert, his family was sent away by Li Shizhen." At this time, the emperor not only did not have any intention of blaming Li Shizhen, but also wanted to invite him to diagnose the pulse, which was aiwu and Wu zhiyi. The word 'good rain' refers to Li Shizhen, and naturally also contains a sea character. Xu Ge explained well, the moon word has no day, the emperor is afraid that the prince and the group of ministers do not have a father in their hearts, and now the prince and the group of ministers know that Hai Rui should be killed, which is that the moon word has a japanese word. ”
In a word: At this time, Hai Rui is convicted, killing is not killing, not killing is killing!
This "word puzzle" of the Jiajing Emperor has two meanings:
First of all, the Jiajing Emperor didn't want to kill Hai Rui, he just wanted to find a reason why he didn't want to admit the "Security Evacuation" and could let himself go down the steps. Having the "cabinet" convict Hai Rui and the Jiajing Emperor pardon him again is "grace from above" to achieve this goal. Returning to the "anagram" again, this is the "current affairs" response that the Jiajing Emperor wanted the "cabinet" to give.
Moreover, the Jiajing Emperor had clearly stated his dissatisfaction with the Cabinet and the Hundred Officials that "there was no father in their hearts", and if the "Cabinet" insisted on side with Hai Rui, Hai Rui would die; but if the "Cabinet" followed the jiajing Emperor's wishes, everyone would be happy.
So, the question is, Zhang Juzheng's explanation and Chen Hong's suggestion are almost the same, both advocate "executing Hai Rui", why is Chen Hong wrong?
Don't forget, Chen Hong immediately returned to the palace to reply to his will, he replied in person, and he told the Jiajing Emperor in a serious way: The cabinet and the Yu King unanimously demanded the execution of Hai Rui, waiting for the order of the Jiajing Emperor. However, the suggestion of Zhang Juzheng and others to "execute Hai Rui" was presented in the criminal situation, and the Jiajing Emperor did not need to give an order, only needed to hit a fork!
The difference between them is whether the Jiajing Emperor "becomes a good man" or "an evil person"!
As soon as Zhang Juzheng said this, Xu Jie immediately answered:
"Smarter than Taiyue."
The high arch followed:
"Then we will simply convict Harry here and sentence him to death for insulting his father." Killing or not killing the son is just a word from the father. ”
A rare tacit understanding, but also the last tacit understanding!
The evil man, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and the Three Fa Si Dang, the Jiajing Emperor only needed to lightly hit a fork, he was a good man!
However, the Jiajing Emperor did not give this fork in the end, but chose another way, came a final stubbornness, we will watch next time!
(This article is only based on the specific interpretation of the plot and human analysis of "Daming Dynasty 1566", and is not based on historical facts, personal views, welcome to put forward criticism!) ）
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