In ancient times, such a strange thing happened, there was a county order to strictly enforce the law, inventory the population, it turned out that several landlords had secretly hidden tens of thousands of tax-evading peasants, of which the landlord with the largest private population should be sentenced to death according to the law. This county order arrested the landlord, and before he could kill him, the minister gave the order first, and even removed the county order from his post and investigated it, and the landlord who broke the law was safe and sound. It turned out that the local landlord had actually jointly written a letter to the prime minister to help the captured landlord say good things. In this way, the prime minister issued a dismissal order.
After receiving the order, the county order thought that it was right to strictly enforce the law, and he was very unwilling, so he pleaded with his superiors to let him stay in office for three months, and then leave his post after the case was clarified. The boss also felt that the county order had been wronged, so he helped the county order to say a good word, and as a result, the boss was also dismissed and investigated.
What kind of official was this minister, who was so faint? You don't have to say that this person is a famous courtier, he is wang dao, the founding father of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Today, let's talk about the story of Wang Dao.
Wang Was born in the Northern Magnate Clan lang evil Wang clan. Wang Dao's brother Wang Yan (王延) was in power in the Western Jin Dynasty. Members of the Wang family held many key positions in the Western Jin dynasty court. By the time Emperor Wu of Jin died of illness, Emperor Wu of the Western Jin Dynasty, Wang Dao had just turned fourteen. He was young, but quite talented and ambitious. This person had a keen sense of politics, and realized very early that after the idiot prince Sima Zheng ascended the throne, the world would be in chaos, so he instigated his friend and royal family member Sima Rui to stay away from the capital city and go elsewhere to find opportunities.
More than ten years later, the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" ended, and Sima Yue took power and became the final victor. Sima Rui made meritorious contributions in the process of Sima Yue's coup d'état, and after careful planning by Wang Dao, Sima Rui finally left the town of Jianye (later renamed Jiankang) and stayed away from the chaotic land in the north. When he first arrived in Jiangnan, Sima Rui had neither meritorious fame nor prominent lineage, nor did he have an army body, so he was despised by the Jiangnan gate valves, and the situation was dangerous. Thanks to director Wang's arrangement, Sima Rui performed a play of fox fake tiger Wei, Sima Rui established a firm foothold in Jiangnan. In 316, Chang'an was attacked by the former Zhao Xiongnu army, and Sima Yi, the last emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, was captured and killed the following year. Sima Rui, therefore, with the support of Wang Dao and the Hao clans in the north and south, proclaimed himself emperor in Jiankang, as emperor of Jin Yuan.
Wang Dao not only played a decisive role in the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the early days of the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Dao also played a key role in stabilizing his rule and appeasing the hearts of the large people. In particular, it is worth saying that Wang Dao advocates the purpose of governing with "no small observation, but a grand plan", which means that the purpose of governing the country is to be pure, and the implementation of the law can be relaxed, and it can be ignored, and those who break the law, as long as they are not serious, can let it go. It is precisely because of his governing policy that the incident at the beginning of the article appeared. Yuyao County ordered ShanXiao to execute Haoqiang Yuxi, who had violated the law, but as a result, the other Haoqiang went to Wang Daoyi and said that Yu Xi was immediately released, but Shanxi, who presided over justice, was dismissed from his post, and He Chong, the superior who helped Shanxiao, was also dismissed.
It is in this situation that no one dares to take care of the strong, and it becomes more and more rampant. Once, the rice in jiankang's official warehouse was stolen from a million hu, and the thieves were all generals of powerful origins, and the authorities did not dare to investigate thoroughly, but beat the official in charge of guarding the warehouse to death. Shortly after the incident, Wang Dao dispatched eight departments to inspect the counties and counties in Yangzhou, and after returning to Beijing, they all came to see Wang Dao and reported the gains and losses of the county chiefs, but Gu He did not say a word. Wang Dao asked, "What did you hear?" Gu He replied, "Ming Gong assists the government, and would rather let the net leak and swallow the boat, so why listen to the rumors and harshly observe those small things." Gu He's implication was: It is useless to say more, and Wang Dao is also laissez-faire anyway. Because he considered and grasped the essence of Wang Dao's governing policy, he was greatly praised.
From the perspective of modern people, Wang Dao's way of governing is strange and absurd, but this is indeed in line with the social environment at that time. Because Jiangnan at that time was a door valve society, the door valves had their own set of logic, and conflicted with the law, want to change the political environment of the door valve is not an overnight thing, the door valves are all supporting the army and self-respect, if the forced reversal of the social atmosphere, will only make the newly born Eastern Jin Dynasty court lose its foothold, or even collapse. During Wang Dao's reign, he won the general favor of the family clan, and the rule of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was gradually consolidated in Jiangnan. Later, Yu Liang came to power, changed the lax government of the past, implemented the rule of law, cracked down on the powerful, weakened local forces, and strengthened the centralization of power, which caused serious dissatisfaction among the upper echelons of society, and the internal contradictions in ruling the country were re-intensified.