Zuo Guangdou, Zi Zhi Zhi, Fuqiu, Han, Ming Tong Cheng. Zuo Guangdou was one of the most important members of the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty and held the position of cabinet minister. In order to save the Ming Dynasty, he made many contributions and participated in Yang Lian's impeachment of Wei Zhongxian. After that, he was framed by Wei Zhongxian and died in prison. He was rehabilitated during the Reign of The Southern Ming Dynasty and was posthumously awarded the title of Crown Prince Taibao (太保) with the courtesy name "Zhongyi". Let's take a closer look at Zuo Guangdou's life story.
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Biography of Zuo Guangdou. Born in 1575, Zuo Guangdou loved to read since he was a child, and although he was not talented, he worked very hard. His hometown was very prosperous at that time, Zuo Guangdou was affected, in addition to being very proficient in literature and history, he also specialized in studying the sayings of the world and caring about national affairs, so he had great ambitions from his youth, hoping to save the country and save the people.
When Zuo Guangdou was thirty-two years old, he passed the jinshi examination, and the imperial court granted him the official position of Zhongshu Sheren, and soon after he was promoted to imperial history, and he began his career path. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, politics was quite corrupt, and there were many counterfeits of official seals, and the first thing Zuo Guangdou did when he came to power was to destroy the basis for this forgery.
In addition to his concern for politics, he is also very concerned about the country's economy. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, agriculture was in a state of decline, and he paid great attention to the construction of water conservancy. Zuo Guangdou, who was born in a water town since childhood, immediately pointed out the shortcomings of northern agriculture, believing that the backwardness of northern agriculture was due to the construction of non-major water conservancy. Therefore, he ordered people to build embankments to introduce rice from the south to the north, which greatly promoted agricultural production in the north.
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Wen Yanwen Zuo Guangdou mainly wrote the story between Zuo Guangdou and his student Shi Kefa, from the first time Shi Kefa and Zuo Guangdou met Zuo Guangdou and died tragically in prison Chinese. From Zuo Guangdou's strategy, we can see the depth of Zuo Guangdou's feelings for students, and at the same time, it also shows Zuo Guangdou's good character of being upright and upright. Let's take a look at the general content recorded in zuo guang dou shi strategy.
Shi Kefa, a Daxing native, was very poor when he was young, living in a poor alley to serve his parents. At that time, Zuo Guangdou was holding the position of inspector, and Shi Kefa met Zuo Guangdou because he was going to take the examination for the child student. After Zuo Guangdou saw Shi Kefa, he thought he was a strange person and said to him, "You are not an ordinary person, and your future reputation will definitely be above mine." So he was recruited to study in his mansion and often donated materials to Skofa for his parents.
One night Zuo Guangdou returned in the evening, wind and rain, entered Shi Kefa's room, and saw him lying asleep on the table, with two book boys standing beside him. Zuo Guangdou took off his coat and covered him without waking him up. From this, we can see Zuo Guangdou's compassion for Shi Kefa.
By the time Zuo Guangdou was arrested and imprisoned, Kefa had already been lifted. Kefa then put on a green coat, carried a lunch box, and pretended to bribe the jailer for the domestic slave to enter the prison. Seeing that Guangdou's body had cracked, he hugged his headache and cried, and fed Guangdou food. Guang dou said to Kefa, "You have to love yourself, there are big things happening in the world, and I still count on you as a pillar of the country." Since the scourge of myself, my students have been hostile every day. I'm dead, and then it's you, and that's like letting me die again. Kefa cried and knelt down, untied his belt and tied it to Guangdou's waist, and left.
What kind of person Zuo Guangdou is
What kind of person is Zuo Guangdou? Zuo Guangdou was a good minister during the Ming Dynasty, and he made a lot of efforts to save the Ming Dynasty, and finally took his own life. Zuo Guangdou had great ambitions when he was young and wanted to do something for the country and the people. Let's take a closer look at what kind of person Zuo Guangdou is.
When Emperor Mingxi first succeeded to the throne, Zuo Guangdou was a very famous minister, Zuo Guangdou was upright and cheerful, and very clean, which made many ministers feel admiration in the imperial court, and was also highly valued by the emperor. Zuo Guangdou had the wisdom of people, and he also cultivated and promoted Shi Kefa, who was born poor, and Shi Kefa was a heroic figure in the late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lian, a member of the Donglin Party, wanted to be loyal to the imperial court and solve problems for the country, but who would have thought that Ming Xizong was a fainting emperor and did not pay any attention to Zuo Guangdou. Emperor Mingxi shielded the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, causing Wei Zhongxian to act as a misdeed in the imperial court, and also put Wei Zhongxian in charge of the East Factory. Wei Zhongxian relied on the power in his hands to sell officials and accept bribes, and did all kinds of bad things. In addition, some bureaucrats also turned to Wei Zhongxian, causing their power to grow, which was historically called the "castration party".
Yang Lian really couldn't bear to see their behavior, so he wrote a letter to expose Wei Zhongxian's guilt. Yang Lian's move was strongly supported by Zuo Guangdou.
Unexpectedly, this letter fell into the hands of Wei Zhongxian, who colluded with the eunuch party to attack Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou and others, arrested them in prison, and tortured them to force confessions. No matter how they tortured, Zuo Guangdou and the others did not give in, even if they were tortured all over the body, they still did not compromise. After a few days, he finally died in prison.