Written by | Zhao Libo
Introduction: After Li Mengyang met Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youfan's brother-in-law again, he actually counted his crimes on the street, and the more he talked, the more angry he became, attracting countless viewers, and when everyone was watching the rise, he saw Li Mengyang pick up a whip and knock out the two front teeth of Ming Xiaozong's brother-in-law.
First, the letter reprimanded the emperor's brother-in-law, and soon after he was released from prison and broke off two of his front teeth.
During the reign of Daming Hongzhi, Li Mengyang ushered in his unrestrained life stage, and in the eyes of many people, he was Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty, an important figure in the literary world, saving the literary style of an era and even leading the social atmosphere.
Portrait of Li Mengyang
"Li Mengyang's revival of the style of the ugly fistula, the ambition of retrospect, since the Tang Dynasty and then there is no teacher." "Li Mengyang's Epitaph" even the "History of Ming" gave him high praise: "Mengyang cai thinks of the eagle, and Zhuo Ran pretends to be retro." It was the first of the "Seven Talents" who were famous in the world at that time.
The article is well written, in addition to his personality is so spicy, people say that he is "humble" and "dignified".
However, this temperament also eventually cost him dearly.
Originally, his career path was quite smooth, after zhongjinshi, he became the head of the household department, and gradually promoted to the position of Hubu Langzhong, entering the high-level bureaucratic echelon of Daming.
As his position continued to rise, he saw the different heights and problems of the empire, and these grievances were ruthlessly exposed by him with more than five thousand words. The overall meaning is that the Ming Empire had two kinds of diseases and three major harms, the spearhead was aimed at the foreign relatives of the imperial family, saying that the emperor's brother-in-law Shou Ning waited for Zhang Heling to "arrogantly commit crimes", and listed his crimes one by one, what "recruited rogues, reckless thieves, white land, unauthorized demolition of people's houses, and forcibly abducted people's children..." Almost all the bullying acts involved were committed by the empress's brother, after receiving this letter, without waiting for Emperor Xiaozong to express his position, the empress and her brother Zhang Heling fried the pot, thinking that Li Mengyang meant Sang Scolding Huai. In fact, not only for Zhang Heling but for the empress, it belongs to the "slanderous mother queen".
Mei Koshu Images
Historical experience shows that compared with everything hurricanes, typhoons, and fierce winds, the lethality of the pillow wind seems to be greater, and Empress Zhang began the regular pattern of women who cried, cried, made trouble, and hanged themselves, and Ming Xiaozong had no choice but to arrest Li Mengyang.
However, Emperor Mingxiaozong was indeed not the lord of the fainting, and he thought that Li Mengyang did not dare to open his mouth, so for the sake of prudence, the emperor received several cabinet scholars to exchange views.
Liu Jian, then the head of the cabinet, prostrated his head in response to the emperor's inquiry and expressed his opinion: "Li Mengyang is indeed crazy, but he should not be punished excessively." Xie Qian, the second assistant of the cabinet, also slipped around the circle: "Although Mengyang is crazy, he has no other heart, and he really wants to be loyal to His Majesty."
After hearing this, Emperor Mingxiaozong Felt Very Reasonable: Mr. Xie said yes.
He immediately ordered Li Mengyang to be punished for three months and "reinstated."
Zhang Heling was very dissatisfied with Li Mengyang's handling of this and continued to make a big fuss about the word "Zhang Shi", hoping to continue to severely punish him. Emperor Xiaozong was annoyed and reprimanded him, saying, "Is your family name Zhang under the heavens?"
At the critical moment, the emperor's statement finally allowed Li Mengyang to escape from death.
After this incident, Emperor Ming xiaozong and Liu Daxia, the shangshu of the military department, also talked about this matter. The gist was that Li Mengyang's speech was indeed arrogant, and he had to arrest him first, and then ask how to deal with it, and someone suggested that he hand it over to Jinyi Wei to beat him up and let him go. However, I thought that if I did this, Li Mengyang would definitely be beaten to death, so that my brother-in-law would be happy, and I would be charged with killing a direct subject, and I would finally reinstate him as an official, and I would not let the Legal Department give him any more opinions on how to deal with him.
After listening to the emperor's narration, Liu Daxia also quickly knelt down and praised: "Your Majesty has done this, and Yao Shunzhiren has also done this."
Soon, in order to comfort Empress Zhang and his brother-in-law Zhang Heling, Emperor Xiaozong specially arranged a meal to seek peace between the two places, and finally Zhang Heling listened to the emperor's advice and began to gradually converge.
Portrait of a Ming Dynasty official
However, soon after such an episode occurred, after Li Mengyang was reinstated by the officials, the road was narrow, and the narrow road met Zhang Heling. Li Mengyang forgot about the last time, always felt that he had always occupied the moral high ground, still righteously reprimanded Zhang Heling, the more he talked, the more angry he became, attracting countless viewers, and when everyone was watching, he saw Li Mengyang pick up the whip and knock out the two front teeth of Ming Xiaozong's brother-in-law.
This time Zhang Heling put up with it, because he had already understood the true meaning the last time he had eaten with the emperor. Suddenly, Li Mengyang's reputation began to rise, and the number of people who praised him also began to increase.
Second, the eunuchs of the Zhengde Emperor once again made Li Mengyang suffer a lot.
In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, when Ming Xiaozong was critically ill in the heroic years, at this moment, he was most worried that the only son, zhu Houzhao, the heir of the empire, would definitely "indulge in defeat" in the future. In the end, he could only entrust himself to the three cabinet scholars: "The Eastern Palace is smart, but he is young and happy, and every time he (we) invite him to come out, read some books, and assist him to be a good person."
Zhizi Moruo's father, but the absurdity of his son Zhu Houzhao's becoming the Zhengde Emperor was more serious than that of Ming Xiaozong before his death, and its absurdity was second to none among the entire Ming emperors.
Zhengde Emperor
Therefore, next, this Zhu Houzhao gathered a eunuch known as the "Eight Tigers" around him, and all day long, the young prodigal emperor was crazy to the point of no return, and the entire government of the dynasty instantly became a miasma.
When Tobe Shoshu Han wen talked about the government and politics, he cried incessantly, and he couldn't help it. At this time, Li Mengyang, who was one of the Hubu Lang, finally could not sit still, so with the support of Han Wen, Li Mengyang became the first shot to fire the eight eunuchs around the Zhengde Emperor. The title of the article was "Impeachment of Eunuchs", and the little emperor was shocked after reading it, and even began to cry, and finally discussed and hoped to place the "Eight Tigers" in Nanjing.
The eight eunuchs were not willing to tie their hands, they elected the eunuch Liu Jin to take power in the inner court, and the ministers were completely in the dark about the instantaneous coup. The next morning, in accordance with the pre-agreed deployment, they petitioned the emperor outside the palace gate to severely punish the "Eight Tigers". Wan Wan did not expect that the holy will received was a new appointment for Liu Jin, Ma Yongcheng, Gu Dayong, Zhang Yong and others. Liu Jian, a member of the Cabinet university, knew that the situation was irretrievable and submitted his resignation to the emperor. Liu Jin used the power of the eunuchs to draft holy decrees on behalf of the emperor and ordered Liu Jian and Xie Qian to zhishi.
Eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty
Liu Jin then began to challenge the university scholars, and Li Mengyang naturally bore the brunt of it. Therefore, he ordered the arrest of Li Mengyang and wanted to execute him before he was released after many dredging, and Li Mengyang became famous for a while.
Soon Li Mengyang made a comeback and served as the governor of Jiangxi, during which he carried out many rectifications of local education work and was quite effective, and local teachers and students praised him: "Li Has not had this person in Jiangxi for more than a hundred years. However, he was also quite dissatisfied with the local officialdom at that time, and summed up that they bowed when they saw their superiors, and when they talked less, they were regarded as old towns, and they all resented the people who were upright, so when they encountered official duties, they were all rhetorical and shirked responsibility, and such people were mixed up, and eventually he was squeezed out of the Jiangxi officialdom to "stay idle with the crown".
This period of official space seems to have stimulated him a lot, and his behavior seems to be quite grotesque, but he seems to have offended too many people, and after Wang Yangming put down the rebellion of Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, his political enemies seized that Li Mengyang had written "Records of Yangchun Academy" to Zhu Chenhao during his tenure in Jiangxi, so as to bring him closer to the rebel side, so he was once again tightened with Jinyiwei, and Yang Tinghe, the head of the cabinet, and Shangshu Hubu rescued him in many ways, and finally ended up with a punishment of cutting his status, and could never become an official again.
The Rebellion of the King of Ning
This Li Mengyang, who had knocked down two front teeth of the empress's younger brother Zhang Heling and exposed eight eunuchs, was eventually raised because of the article, and fell because of the article, which is really a little similar to what happened to Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty, and ended his life in poverty at the age of fifty-eight.
From The perspective of Li Mengyang, you can't completely think that what he does is right, this kind of "direct subject" often attaches too much importance to reputation and ignores the feelings of the other party, so the hatred that continues to accumulate is increasing, and it is overturned as soon as it has the opportunity.
Soon after Li Mengyang, Daming produced another Hai Rui, and although these officials did blow a different atmosphere into that period of history at the expense of their own tragedies.