In the feudal era, the emperor was inviolable, even the emperor's name had to be avoided, and if a word unfortunately became "royal secret", it had to be crippled without a pen, either missing an arm or a missing leg, becoming an incomplete word. People accidentally write the words that should avoid "royal secrecy", even if they break the law, they will have to eat a lawsuit and be sentenced to imprisonment. As for scolding the emperor, that was something that was rarely heard of. The one who really scolded the emperor and scolded him very painfully was Hai Rui. Hai Rui scolded the Jiajing Emperor's most powerful words: "Now the people are entrusted with much more conscription than usual, and this is the case everywhere. You have spent a lot of money on religious superstitions, and you are getting more and more every day, making the people poor, and these ten years have been extremely troublesome. The people of the world will use the era name You changed to Jiajing, take these two words and say, 'Jiajing' is pure, the family is poor and clean, and there is no money to use. Such a direct scolding of the emperor is not only something that Jiajing has not heard of as an emperor for decades, but it is also difficult to find from the ancient books of various dynasties and generations. But every word stabbed him, and Jiajing was angry and annoyed, and he was very angry.
It turned out that Jiajing had been emperor for a long time, was too lazy to take care of things, did not go to the court, lived in Xiyuan, worshiped gods all day long and did fasting (religious ceremonies), and shangqingzi. Qingzi is a letter written to the gods of heaven, to write very exquisitely, the prime minister Yan Song and Xu Jie are favored because they can write Qingzi. Politics was so corrupt that some of the courtiers who raised their opinions were either killed or dismissed, imprisoned, or charged with the army, frightening no one to speak. Hai Rui's security in February of the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566) was a question to the emperor in response to the problems of the time, demanding reform. He said in Shuzhong:
"How are you better than Emperor Wen of Han?" You did some good things a few years ago. Over the years, I have only preached monasticism and built a lot of civil engineering. For more than twenty years, he did not go to the dprk and indiscriminately assigned official positions to people. You don't meet your two sons, and people think you're inferior to your father and son. Slander and kill your subordinates with suspicion, and people think that you are inferior to the monarch. If you don't return to the palace in xiyuan, people think that you are thinner than a couple. The world's officials will be greedy and weak, and there will be peasant revolts everywhere. This situation, which you have in the early years of your reign, is not so serious. Although Yan Song has resigned now, there is no reform, and it is not yet a Qingming world. I see that you are far inferior to Emperor Wen of Han. ”
Jiajing compares himself to Yao, and the number Yao Zhai. Hai Rui said that he was not even as good as Emperor Wen of Han, how could he not be angry. Hai Rui then said, "People in the world have been dissatisfied with you for a long time, and everyone inside and outside the government knows everyone." You are obsessed with cultivating, you just want to live forever, and your heart is confused. Too harsh, your temperament is biased. You're self-righteous, you refuse to criticize, you're making too many mistakes. You are bent on becoming immortal and immortal. Do you see which of Yao, Shun, Yu, Tang, King Wen, and King Wu has survived to the present? Your teacher Tao Zhongwen taught you the method of immortality, and he is already dead. He can't live forever, so how can you ask for eternal life? You said that god gave you peach and pills, then it is even more strange, how did the peach and medicine come from? Was it given to you by Heaven? You must know that there is no benefit to cultivating the tao, and you should immediately wake up and study the national economy and people's livelihood in the upper dynasty, correct the mistakes of decades, and seek some welfare for the people. The problem from the past is that the monarch's way is not right, the subject's position is unknown, this is the first major event in the world, this matter is not said, what else to say!"
Jia Jing saw it, was furious, threw the music book on the ground, and told the left and right to arrest Hai Rui immediately and not let him run. The eunuch Huang Jin said next to him: "I heard that this man knew that he could not live, and he had bid farewell to his wife on the verge of death, and the trustees were preparing for the aftermath, and the servants in the family were frightened and ran out, and he would not escape." This person is upright in nature, has a great reputation, lives in a clean and honest official, and does not take a drop in the official's family, is a good official!" When Jiajing heard that Hai Rui was not afraid of death, he was stunned, and picked up the sonata again, and while reading it, he sighed and could not make up his mind. After some days, I lost my temper and slapped the table and scolded people. One day, when he was angry and beat the palace maid, the palace maid cried privately and said, "The emperor was scolded by Hai Rui, but he took us out of anger." Jiajing also sent someone to make a private visit, and someone consulted with Hai Rui to come up with an idea. The people of the same official were afraid of being tired, and when they saw Hai Rui, they hid aside, and Hai Rui did not care, waiting at home for jail.
Jia Jing sometimes said to himself, "This man is really comparable to a man, but I am not yet the King of Gong." "His name is Hai Rui is an animal, and he does not verbally or on the documents approving Hai Rui's case. Having been ill for a long time, he was angry, and he consulted with Xu Jie, the prime minister, to pass the throne to the crown prince, saying: "Hai Rui's words are all right, but I have been sick for a long time, how can I go to the court to do things?" He also said, "They are all bad for themselves, they don't care for themselves, and they have caused this disease." If you can go up to the court to do things, how can you be scolded by this person? "Ordered the arrest of Harry and his imprisonment to track down the mastermind." The Punishment Department sentenced Hai Rui to death, and Jiajing did not approve it. After two months, Jiajing died, and the new emperor took the throne, so he let Hai Rui come out, still returning to his original post and serving as the head of the household department.
Harry cursed the emperor, sympathizing with him and supporting him everywhere, and his reputation grew. In the fourteenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1586), Hai Rui was falsely accused of being falsely accused by the emperor, and the young jinshi Gu Yuncheng, Peng Zungu, and Zhu Shouxian defended him and pleaded for salvation, writing an article that said: "Since we were a teenager, we have heard of Hai Rui's reputation, and we think that it is a great man of our time, who will always be admired by people, which no one can catch up with." "This is what the young people said about him at that time.