Hai Rui, the word Gang Feng (indeed quite strong), originally from Hainan Island, don't look at the current Hainan Island is a well-known tourist attraction in the country, at that time it was a place where birds do not, Hai Rui lost his father at an early age, and was raised by his mother since he was a child. Born in a remote place, with a weak family and a poor family, Hai Rui had only one way to get ahead, and that was to study. Hai Rui is not a child prodigy, the qualifications are not very high, more than 40 years old to win a lift (high school graduate), according to the system of the imperial court, the lifter can be an official, but can not be a big official, in order to be promoted must be a jinshi (university graduate). Hai Rui originally wanted to continue the examination, but his age was not waiting for anyone, so he accepted the appointment of the imperial court and became the teaching director of Nanping County in Fujian Province .2016 (the director of the county education bureau).
During his teaching in Nanping, Hai Rui did his utmost to greatly improve the quality of education in Nanping County, and Nanping also became a strong county in Fujian Province during the Ming Dynasty. Later, he was transferred to Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province, that is, in Chun'an Hairui was swept into the stage of history. It is said that a sesame official like Hai Rui grabbed a large handful, and he was specialized by what. Because he is incorruptible, he is not greedy, he only takes the dead salary and does not generate income. People are 3 years county order, that guy directly from poor peasants to rich people, Hai Rui when 3 years of county order, but also to grow their own vegetables to eat, the quality of life does not rise but declines. Perhaps your excellency has doubts, even if he is not greedy, the quality of life will not be low, after all, he is the head of a county, how to fall into the original state of "male cultivator and female weaver".
This is to blame Comrade Zhu Zhongba (Zhu Yuanzhang), the first boss of the Ming Empire, who was notoriously critical of his employees, and he stipulated that the salary of the prime minister was 200 taels of silver (200,000 yuan) a year, which decreased sequentially, and the county ordered that this level was only 65 taels of silver (65,000 yuan). See, people study hard, and in the end they don't earn as much as cleaners, so can they not be greedy? Therefore, in Daming's officialdom, corruption is a normal phenomenon, and not being greedy is the other, or it is singing a high note.
Hai Rui is this alternative, of course, he is not singing a high note, he is leading by example, only taking the normal salary of 65 silver, the other points are not taken, so that the meat can not be eaten several times a year. This is bitter for his gang of servants, you Hai Lords have set an example, what should we do, then strike, did not think, Hai Rui alone put the work of the whole county together, in the morning to try cases, in the afternoon to give lectures, at night also patrolled, Chun'an County as usual. The strike had no effect, and the gang could only honestly return to work when they saw it, hoping that Hai Rui would be transferred away as soon as possible. Although these people were very unlucky, the people of Chun'an were lucky and put on a big old man in the blue sky.
At this time, Yan Song's party, in order to make up for the deficit in the national treasury, prepared to carry out the "rice to mulberry" plan on a pilot basis in Zhejiang, in order to increase income. The two counties of Chun'an and Jiande were selected as pilots, and the state's policy was originally a good thing, but from the imperial court to the inspector Yamen to the prefect Yamen and finally to the county, the big and small officials in the middle had to scrape the oil and water and make a good policy stink. However, the deficit of the national treasury still existed, and Yan Song and his gang began to forcibly carry it out, opening the xin'an river levee and flooding the two counties of Chun'an and Jiande. For the sake of the livelihood of the people in the county, Hai Rui took the lead in resisting the "change rice to mulberry" plan, which directly offended Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, which simply did not want to live. Sure enough, Hai Rui was reorganized, until Yan Song fell, he was transferred to the Household Department as the head of the Yunnan Division (Liupin Guan), and it was estimated that he could smash 7 or 8 in Beijing City.
Hai Rui did something in Beijing that broke the sky, that is, to scold the emperor, the whole text was rich in pictures, rich in information, and informative arguments, and the Jiajing Emperor was scolded from the inside out. As a result, Jiajing hung up in the following year (I don't know if he was angry), and the newly appointed Longyu Emperor not only did not deal with Hai Rui, but also promoted him to be the inspector of imperial history. Hai Rui's scolding is a famous scolding, the officials of the whole country have fallen into blood, and wherever Hai Rui goes, there will be an official earthquake. Until the age of 72, Hai Rui died peacefully at home, but unfortunately, the family did not even have the cost of burial, and the burial fee was still collected by his colleagues.
Hai Rui died, the "conscience" of the Ming Empire was gone, and in less than 60 years, a group of hungry people who had had enough of the corrupt officials and officials of the Empire under the leadership of Li Zicheng captured the city of Beijing, and the last boss of the Ming Empire ended his life with a white silk on the coal mountain, and at the same time ended the 276-year Ming Empire.