Therefore, it is inappropriate to say that "Wang Mang usurped the throne". According to this standard, it seems that Emperor Wendi, Tang Gaozu, Li Yuan, Song Taizu and Zhao Kuangyin of the Sui Dynasty should also be regarded as "usurpers", but the last three became "founding monarchs", and it seems that praise is greater than contempt.
What we are talking about today is not the ancestors of Tang Zong and Song Dynasty, or even Wang Mang, but how the first corrupt official (or traitor) in Ming and Qing Dynasties was tempered. But our discussion is not to scold them for how hateful they are, let alone to wash them white, because black is black after all, and no matter how you wash them, you can't wash them white. The harm they did to society at that time can be said to be irreparable. Today, however, we should look at the system, environment and atmosphere that have created corrupt officials and traitors from a different angle, taking history as a mirror and the people as a mirror? Stop gossiping. If you talk too much, you will find something for yourself.
According to the principle of fairness, readers who like the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty have a balance in their hearts. Let's dig out the top corrupt officials in these two dynasties and dissect them.
The most famous villains in the Ming Dynasty were Liu Jin, Yan Song and Wei Zhongxian, but Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian were only "dead eunuchs" and could only call themselves "handmaiden", not even ministers (many ministers in the Qing Dynasty wanted to call themselves domestic slaves, which were not qualified), so they had to try their best to make Yan Song, an old thief, stand out.
Of course, the worst civil servant in the Ming Dynasty was Yan Song, because in history, this fellow did everything except bad things: fawning on others, conspiring against others, selling officials and titles, abusing power for personal gain, being insatiable, being arrogant and extravagant. Almost all the words used to describe corrupt officials and traitors are not excessive, and these adjectives are supported by ironclad facts. The most abominable thing about Yan Song is that during the "Gengxu Rebellion", that is, when Dahan, a Tatar, plundered the suburbs of the capital for eight days, he even ordered that no one soldier was allowed to participate in the war: "That's just a group of hungry thieves. They are full, grab enough and leave. " The result was that "two million people and animals were plundered by the county newspaper".
The reason why Yan Song ordered not to resist is actually: "If you fight in the frontier, you can hide defeat, and if you fight in the suburbs of Beijing, you can't hide defeat, so you can only retreat and let them grab it!" This kind of words even dare not say scum among scum, but Yan Song said it as a cabinet record, and he said it with confidence. "Treacherous court official" is not enough to describe his sin.
Yan Song has no ability to govern the country and pacify foreign invasion, but he is a top two. He was robbed, and the list of stolen goods copied out can actually form a book called Tianshui Iceberg Record. After 20 years in power, his life was better than Jiajing's (Jiajing also ate the "elixir" made of arsenic and mercury), but the people were really "clean" by him.
Many people say that Daming died in Jiajing, and Jiajing's biggest mistake was to reuse or even worship Yan Song. But after careful analysis, the responsibility lies with Jiajing, because Yan Song has been cultivated from a "loyal minister and dutiful son" to a "big rape and big evil"-in the final analysis, it is still a problem of system, with good and bad. Jiajing, who is extremely selfish, attaches great importance to Yan Song and is extremely selfish. He is also the fish looking for fish and shrimp and turtles looking for turtles.
It is said that Yan Song is also a loyal minister and dutiful son: when his mother died, Yan Song was really heartbroken-almost cried to death. After being rescued, he packed his things and went home to mourn his mother. That year, Yan Song was twenty-seven years old. He has just been admitted to the fifth place in China (the second place in Dimethyl) and entered imperial academy as Jishi Shu. This is really the horseshoe disease of young talents. But he lived in seclusion for ten years because he had to accompany his dead mother. Moreover, during these ten years, the imperial court called him out of the mountain many times, but he refused to go out of the mountain: there was a traitor in the imperial court (Qian Ning Jiang Bin in Ming Wuzong).
How did such a "loyal minister and dutiful son" become a real villain? The root cause is still in Jiajing and the imperial court atmosphere. As we all know, even during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor of Thunder, who fought corruption, there were no officials and no greed: in the 19th year of Hongwu (1386), 364 new officials took office. One year later, six of them were beheaded because of the huge amount of corruption, and the remaining 358 were dismissed-one failed to land, and all of them became corrupt criminals.
During the Jiajing period, officials discovered another thing besides corruption: fighting-ministers fighting with Emperor Jiajing (gift), ministers fighting with each other (Zhang Cong fighting with Yang Tinghe, Xia Yan fighting with Zhang Cong), and the court tore it up every day, regardless of the lives of ordinary people, only concerned about the size of the power cake.
In the end, Jiajing became the winner, took the power cake for himself, turned the ministers into marionettes, and then wanted to move his father's memorial tablet into the ancestral temple, even thinking about the title of Ming Zongrui. This was really inappropriate at that time, so Yan Song opposed it. As a result, his family wanted to take away his official hat, and maybe even his head with it.
So Yan Song covered his hat and rolled on the ground: "Emperor Ming Sheng, I will do whatever you say!" That day was the turning point of Yan Song's life and humanity: the world belonged to the Zhujiajian family, and everything was decided by the emperor alone. Loyalty and filial piety are bullshit, you bastard. I'm even worse than you.
So Jiajing and Yan Song became "close comrades-in-arms", one carrying a string and the other performing at the front desk. Gu Yingtai, who wrote Chronicle of the Ming Dynasty, summed up this pair of bastards: "Song has a son who kills people and a king who is good at killing people? Kill Zeng,,,, Shen? Kill the king? Frog? Thick and dizzy? Drip bath? /span>。
I have written more words unconsciously recently, but I don't know what readers have gained from it. Let's talk about peace in short words. .
Everyone knows. What else? Is the first corrupt official in the Qing dynasty, it is said that the seized property is as much as 920 million silver, and "and? Jiaqing fell down and ate enough, but Jiaqing didn't eat enough. In short, people didn't taste any soup: then what? The house was given to Prince Qingxiyong, the 17th brother of Jiaqing? , money "as usual" into the office, that is, into the treasury of Jiaqing.
And then what? Is it anti-corruption, the corruption case of Governor Yungui, and the case of King Gansu? Looking at prison food and relief cases, all with? Single-handedly investigated, but with what? Finally, he also became a big corrupt official-because he wanted to satisfy Qianlong's greater greed. To build perfect martial arts, you have to go to Jiangnan six times. That money is spent faster than running water. What else? He also changed from an anti-corruption director who tried his best to solve corruption cases to a big corrupt official who tried his best to make money-he was greedy for himself, he was greedy for greed, and he hollowed out the property of the Qing Dynasty.
Qing Dynasty died in Qianlong, was it peaceful? It's the grave digger who helped Qianlong dig a hole to bury the Qing Dynasty. It's impossible for Qianlong, who has always been shrewd, not to know about it. He turned a blind eye to poaching, first of all, because he had to spend money and someone had to "earn" for him. Besides, Gan Long might think: My old fourteen? Yan is more honest and won't make money. I want to combine? This fat duck is fattened up so that my son can kill it slowly?
The readers here must understand that the reason why I wrote these two ministers of Ming and Qing Dynasties who were honest first, loyal first and treacherous later was not to whitewash them, but to talk about a phenomenon: under the feudal autocratic system, it is unreliable to expect a wise monarch and an honest official, because in that family's vat, white sand is black in Nie, which is caused by system, atmosphere and human nature.