Concubines were a relatively common phenomenon among the ancient Chinese nobility, and almost all scholars and masters after the Han Dynasty had one wife and multiple concubines. In the Ming Dynasty, an official destroyed the foundation of nearly three hundred years because of a concubine. What the hell is going on here? Let's move on.
Map of the Territory of Daming
During the Ming Dynasty's apocalypse, Mao Yujian became a jinshi and was awarded the title of Zhi County of Wanxian County, Sichuan, and later entered the capital as the Imperial History of Yunnan Province. Mao Yujian was still a relatively backbone as an official, and when he was serving as a royal historian, he impeached Yang Weiyuan and Ruan Dacheng, thus offending Wei Zhongxian and being sent back to his hometown and never hired. After the fall of Wei Zhongxian, Zhu Youjian succeeded to the throne and eliminated the castration party of Wei Zhongxian's faction, while Mao Yujian recalled the capital because he had impeached Wei Zhongxian's confidants as loyal subjects.
Mao Yujian was a man who was very afraid of the inside, that is, afraid of his wife, who often reprimanded him in front of everyone, and sometimes even made trouble in the place where he worked, making him very faceless. So he came up with the idea of sending his wife back to his hometown in Hubei, first, to be quiet, and second, to have fun.
Mao Yujian, on the grounds that he had been away from home for a long time and the elders in the family would definitely miss him, coaxed and deceived his wife to send back to his hometown in Hubei to visit his relatives. Not long after his wife left, Mao Yujian was very lonely in Beijing, so he had the idea of taking a concubine. He thought to himself as an inspector of imperial history, although the official position is not high, but he also has the power to inspect hundreds of officials and inspect counties and counties, and his status is extremely respectable, is it not too much to take a concubine? What's more, the wife has already returned to her hometown, and the Emperor of Heaven is far away, who can know. Moreover, even if you know it later, you have already finished it, and you will be scolded for two days at most.
Shortly after Mao Yujian took a concubine, one day he was warming up with his own concubine in the bed, when his wife suddenly killed him, punched and kicked the concubine, and made Mao Yujian kneel outside the door for a whole night. Mao Yujian was very depressed, Hubei was 18,000 miles away from the capital, even if he rushed day and night, he could not come back so quickly! Besides, how did the wife know that she was taking a concubine?
Later, under the side knock of Mao Yujian, his wife told him the answer, and it turned out that soon after he took a concubine, the servants of the family secretly told his wife. And the reason why he was able to return to the capital so quickly was because the post station built in the Ming Dynasty, "Six Hundred Mile Hurry" yan can not be fast!
The station system was first pioneered in the Yin Shang period, and later after successive generations of continuous improvement, a set of efficient transportation organizations was formed. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Emperor, established a strict post system on the basis of the Yuan Dynasty post. According to the Minghui Dian (明会典), "Since the Jingshida has set up a post in the four directions, the Beijing Division will meet the pavilion, and the water horse station and the transportation station will be known outside, so as to facilitate the exchange of business personnel." His wife then took advantage of Mao Yujian's position in the official arena and privately used the post station to quickly rush back to the capital and quickly kill back from his hometown in Hubei.
Because the station caused Mao Yujian, who had failed to take a concubine, to be angry, he wrote to the Chongzhen Emperor and asked for the abolition of the station, but the Chongzhen Emperor ignored it and put the fold aside. Mao Yujian waited for many days to see no results, so he took his good friend Liu Mao to write to Chongzhen together. Liu Mao said in the compromise that only two-tenths of the current caravanserai are used for the transmission of official documents, and in most cases they are used by some officials to transmit private letters, but the post stations have been abolished, so that the military expenses saved can be used in many places.
Just at this time, the rise of Later Jin, in the northeast constantly invaded the ming border, the imperial court and Hou Jin's successive years of conquest led to a deficit in the national treasury, financial constraints, coupled with epidemics and famines in many provinces, so Chongzhen adopted this suggestion, the post station was abolished, and the money saved was used for military and disaster relief.
Chongzhen Emperor
A pawn in Yinchuan, Ningxia, after working for a year, was laid off and unemployed because of this incident, and he was Li Zicheng. When Li Zicheng was very young, he went to the temple to become a monk because of his family's poverty, but he liked to dance with guns and sticks since he was a child, and his body was very strong, and after his father died, he had no one to rely on, so he went to the station to become a pawn. Because of this incident, Li Zicheng lost his job, had no money to eat, and in addition to the disaster and famine all over the country, Li Zicheng, who had no choice but to rebel, rebelled.
Lee Zi-cheng
Although the Chongzhen Emperor's abolition of the post station eased the tension in military expenditure, it caused hundreds of thousands of pawns to lose their livelihoods, and their lives were forced, so they naturally joined the rebel army, and the disappearance of the post also made it impossible for the country's official documents and military information to be reported to the central government in time, which further accelerated the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Mao Yujian and Liu Mao died because of the dismissal of the station, and later returned home from their posts.
Because of the concubine who supervised Yushi, which led to Li Zicheng's uprising, this cannot but make people sigh!