"It is wonderful to love the people like a son, but what tourists like to hear more are stories of fierce confrontations such as fighting against treacherous ministers and defeating cowardly kings. Is this true of Li Yihan and Mr. Li?" Jin Huabin asked after listening to a story from Village Chief Li. : "I remember that Li Gong and Yan Song were in the same era."
Village Chief Li got excited and said: "It's true, let me tell you slowly. Different from the chivalrous and soft-hearted face when facing the common people, when facing the powerful and powerful, our ancestor Li Gong was iron-clad and hated evil as much as hatred. When he took office as the magistrate of Anfu County, , a censor named Shen came to Anfu and was very dissatisfied with Li Gong's official reception. He thought it was a neglect of himself and got angry in public. But Li Gong regarded him as calm. What does the censor do? He specializes in finding faults in officials. It's up to the emperor! Shen Yushi tried every means to find fault with Li Zhixian, but he couldn't help but admire him deeply. Facing the Yushi's praise, his ancestor Li Gong was still indifferent and didn't show much happiness. Shen The censor sighed: "Li Zhixian can really be said to be indifferent to favor and humiliation."
Jin Huabin nodded and said: "From this point of view, Shen Yushi is a gentle man, not a traitor. Although the story is wonderful, the debate between pros and cons is not fierce."
Village Chief Li rubbed his hands and said, "What's exciting is later. When my ancestor was serving as the governor of Jiangxi Province, Yan Song, the prime minister at that time, although his family was in Yuanzhou, his property was all in Nanchang. His family took advantage of the power to do whatever they wanted. Our ancestor didn't care about human feelings at all. , were severely punished in accordance with the law. Yan Song was extremely powerful at that time, and was treacherous by nature. He could decide the life or death of others with just one sentence. Many Jiangxi scholar-bureaucrats regarded themselves as godsons, or became brothers with the servants of the Yan family, so they were promoted quickly. .Only Li Gong and another Lin Qianshi were different. They were dignified and reserved, so they were not promoted for five or six years. When they went to Beijing, they naturally had to pay a visit to Yan Song, the chief minister of the imperial court. The other officials all brought generous gifts. Many of them had "hundreds of gold", but only Mr. Li went empty-handed. When they met, Yan Song said to him: "Mr. Li has very high qualifications." This sentence is thought-provoking, "high qualifications" is you Li I have been in this "Qianshi" position for a long time and have never been promoted. Do you know why? Do you want to be promoted? Li Gong said lightly: "There are people with more qualifications than me, Li Yihan." People who cannot be promoted. It doesn’t matter if there are too many! Later, Li Gong was promoted and became the Shandong Councilor. At that time, the trend in Shandong was that the officials had more land, but they did not pay the land tax, while the people in the countryside had less land, but paid more land tax. Because the taxes owed by the officials' families had to be paid by everyone. There was an editor named Liang Shaoru, who was Yan Song's godson. He was the most arrogant and never paid the land tax. After Li Gong came to office, he strictly ordered to pay back the taxes. Liang Shaoru went to find his godfather, Yan Song. He said helplessly: "Is Mr. Li someone who can intercede?" Liang Shaoru knew that the situation was irreversible, so he reluctantly handed over half of the grain. Li Gong refused to give up, and only stopped after collecting all."
The story is indeed exciting, but it only defeated one of Yan Song's minions. It should be that Li Yihan had a small official position and was not worthy of Yan Song to regard him as an opponent. I wonder if his integrity remained the same after his official career went smoothly? With this question, Jin Huabin listened quietly to Village Chief Li's words as he continued: "Our ancestor Li Gong Yihan served as an "admonisher" for most of his tenure, and was responsible for admonishing the monarch for his mistakes. The so-called loyal advice that is hard on the ears has a historical record of " There is a saying that "literary admonishment will lead to death", especially in the Ming Dynasty, where the emperor was the most harsh and mean in history. Even if it goes against his will, no matter how old an official is, he may die with a "court staff" in the court. Therefore, many "official officials" choose to remain silent to save their lives. Life. Li Gong pointed out in "Kai Yan Lu Shu" that the "spoken officials" at that time were dumbfounded and kept their mouths shut: "Those who are experts in science will criticize trivial matters to avoid blame, or make general remarks to avoid disaster. As for the country, During the grand ceremony, the Prime Minister concealed the great traitors, and brought about the great diseases to the people, all of which were not dared to be heard, and were only used to slander the Prime Minister." But Li Gong was different. He repeatedly violated Yan Jin's advice and dared to "defy the dragon's scales and tease the tiger's beard. ", fulfilling the ancestral motto of "the position is not in vain, but the salary is not enough". There are still two admonitions in the genealogy, "Admonishment to Nanguan City Hao Shu" and "Kaiyan Road Shu". Between the lines, he asked for orders for the people. The courage and foresight to serve the country and be loyal to the country are vivid on the paper. In the 21st year of Jiajing, Mongolian cavalry broke into the border fortress on a large scale. The court was greatly frightened and decided to build a city wall and dig deep trenches at Nanguan, which stretches 2,000 miles from east to west, south of Juyongguan. .Censor Li Yihan resolutely gave Emperor Jiajing his "Remonstrance to Stop the Nanguan City Trench" and bluntly stated that building a city and digging trenches to defend the enemy was an unfeasible and bad idea. How much manpower and material resources would it take to build a city and dig trenches in an area that stretches more than 2,000 miles from east to west? Today, 200,000 workers were used, "only a trench of ten feet and a wall of seven feet." The financial resources of the people were no longer able to bear the burden, and the people's resentment was boiling. How could it continue for a long time? He was frightened by the enemy. The Emperor Jiajing said that as long as he "selected troops and tempered the front, distributed the main roads outside, built piers and fences, and stationed troops and stored grain for preparation inside", where could the enemy escape when attacked from inside and outside? The court finally accepted this. Li Gong Yihan's suggestion put an end to this decision that cost the people and money and showed weakness to the enemy. "Kaiyan Lushu" severely criticized Emperor Jiajing's refusal to remonstrate and justify his wrongdoing. His words were so sharp and bold that it is rare to read them today. He still felt hearty and contented. He accused Emperor Jiajing of living deep in the Western Fan Dynasty, specializing in building rituals and cultivating Taoism, ignoring the government affairs, and reducing the nine temples to smoldering ashes. The conspiracy started from Xiaoqiang. The prefectures and counties were greedy, cruel and unscrupulous. They closed their ears and listened to the chaos. Instead, they cruelly clamped down on criticism: "Since he came to the throne, those who have repeatedly spoken out against a taboo will immediately capture the cane and move it to fifty, sixty or seventy or eighty sticks. Those who are killed immediately will be extremely humiliated. Those who are lucky enough to be resurrected will be imprisoned in various prisons, or banished to lower officials, or reorganized into civilians, or sent to the border courts." This caused Manchu officials to become speechless and endanger the national security. He ignored them. He pointed out that in the past dynasties, "foolish kings and secret masters indulged in their desires and refused to remonstrate and pretended to be wrong", and the result would be "the path of Jie and Zhou". For this reason, he asked the emperor to correct his mistakes, rehabilitate all the officials who had been wronged, and open the way for them to speak out. , to ensure long-term peace and stability of the country."
Hearing that Village Chief Li had written so many words and memorized every word of his ancestor Li Yihan's "Admonition to Zhi Nanguan City Moat" and "Opening the Road", Jin Huabin couldn't help but be moved and said: "Mr. Lu Xun once wrote an article praising Fang Xiaoru for his integrity and integrity.
His roundabout character is Taizhou-style toughness, and Li Yihan's bold and outspoken attitude of "criticizing the dragon scales in order to obtain pearls" is quite similar to that of straight ministers such as Fang Xiaoru."
"Thank you Mr. Jin for your praise for our ancestors. Our ancestors were much luckier than Fang Xiaoru. In the last year of his life, he was promoted five times in a row: he was promoted to chief secretary of Shaanxi Province to participate in politics, then he was promoted to inspector general, and he was promoted to Youbu of Shandong Province.
The Chief Secretary was promoted to Ying Tianfu Yin, and one month later he was promoted to the left deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Unfortunately, it was not a holiday, so he died of illness in Hangzhou on the way to be appointed as the left deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Emperor Mu Zong of the Ming Dynasty ordered him to be buried.
, and at the initiative of Wu Shilai and others, it was included in the Xiangxian Temple." After that, he bowed to him and said: "I will leave it to you to restore the ancestral hall."