Chapter 29 Section 13 Comeback at the age of 72

There were fewer and fewer people coming to Hai Rui's shabby house, and he often closed the door all day, relying on a volume of books to pass the day.Other than that, he couldn't find any joy.He doesn't have a son, so he can't enjoy the family happiness of the teacher.He has no hobbies, nor is he interested in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. "Landscape and all addictions, nothing to like." The beautiful scenery of Hainan does not seem to exist to him.Day after day, Hai Rui was really getting old. Wrinkles covered his thin face, and his beard was translucently white.

Disappointment and resentment gradually filled his chest. It seemed that his life could only go on like this.The dream I once had, now seems a little ridiculous.Why did a lifetime of struggle, hard work, and sacrifice of life to practice the teachings of a sage end up like this?Hai Rui sometimes thought of this question, but he could never figure it out. It should be that I haven't worked hard enough!Then, the only way is to continue to study the rationality deeply.However, with old age and frailty and declining intelligence, it seems that the hope of achieving a positive result in this life is getting smaller and smaller.Hai Rui, who entered his later years, gradually sank into a thick gray.

In a blink of an eye, fifteen years have passed.In the twelfth year of Wanli (AD 1584), Zhang Juzheng passed away.Zhang Juzheng, who was always right on stage, is now wrong everywhere.On the tenth day of the first lunar month in the thirteenth year of Wanli (AD 1585), the pro-government Emperor Wanli decreed that Hai Rui, the censor of the capital, should be the censor of the capital of Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate.In March, he was promoted to the right servant of the Ministry of officials in Nanjing. This year, Hai Rui was already seventy-two years old.Confucius did not exceed the rules in his 70s. Did his loyal student Hai Rui also become wise because of his life's setbacks and more than ten years of reflection?Is it as expected by the imperial court to be "calm and humble, upright and economical with neutrality, rigid and elegant with ritual and music. To expand the degree of expansion and shortage, don't be partial to opinions", and "the establishment of the future must be better than today "Woolen cloth?

People are looking forward to Hai Rui's appearance again. As soon as the edict was issued, Hai Rui immediately packed his clothes and prepared to leave.Some people advised him to put on airs: the imperial court has wronged him for so many years, how could he get up immediately?At least one or two excuses.Hai Rui didn't take it seriously: "The master has the knowledge of Teda, and the ministers must be rewarded with Teda. It's a mere false attack, and you can take it!" Then he set off.An old man, with aspirations for thousands of miles.After waiting for sixteen years, Hai Rui finally had another political spring.

It was Hai Rui's usual style. "From Qiongtai to Xiangang, all the servants walked on foot. There was a little boy who only had his wife with him, not a horse. From Wuyang to Shangxin, he only took a small boat, and passed in silence. Many ignorant people." However, after all, the seventy-two-year-old Hai Rui lacked the self-confidence he had sixteen years ago. In Hai Rui's heart, there is not only the joy of "managing poems and books", but also the eagerness of "crossing Wu Gorge from Baxia", and the shadow left by the political situation.He said in a letter to his friends: "Human feelings and the state of the world, if you see it for a while, how can you keep it for the next day? Huan of the Han and Wei Dynasties said that there are thousands of court ladies, can it be damaged? Tens of thousands of horses, can it be reduced?"

It seems that there is less clarity and more vicissitudes. Having said that, it turned out that these were just his angry words for a while. Once he started to act, Hai Rui's style was still uncontrollable. Immediately after Hai Rui took office, he received accusations from the common people about extortion and forced apportionment by the soldiers and horses of the five cities.The so-called Wucheng Bingma Division refers to the security team in Nanjing City, which naturally becomes a high-incidence area for corruption.Hai Rui was determined to take this place into surgery.He issued a notice saying:

"Officials of the Wucheng Bingmasi are as greedy as wolves and as fierce as tigers. They blackmail the blood of the people and use it to cater to the superiors and corrupt themselves. If people in the streets and alleys are harassed by the Wucheng Bingmasi, they can come to me boldly. Come to sue, I will decide for you! As ordinary people, you should not be stubborn people who do not listen to the law, nor do you be weak people who listen to beatings and killings but do not speak up. If there is a grievance, when will it end? " As soon as the notice was issued, the court understood that Hai Rui was still the same Hai Rui and hadn't changed at all. "Hai Qingtian" is still as tough as steel before, not only did the years not add a bit of flexibility to his character, but on the contrary, he became stronger and stronger with age.

Hai Rui still didn't understand the rules of profit in the officialdom. He didn't know that mobilizing the five cities' soldiers and horses was tantamount to mobilizing the Nanjing Ministry of War and mobilizing the entire Nanjing bureaucracy.Although the Wucheng Bingma Division is only a sixth-rank yamen, it is an important department that can reach the sky.He thought that with the prestige of a deputy ministerial minister, he could solve the problem with a single order, which was really naive. Not only that, but not long after, Hai Rui wrote to the emperor again, expressing his great dissatisfaction with the court officials, and suggested that the Ming Taizu's torture of corrupt officials be stripped of their skins and grasses should be resumed, thinking that otherwise, the atmosphere in the officialdom would not improve.

As a matter of course, the chair of the right servant of Hai Rui's official department was not warmed up, and a transfer order was issued, and he was promoted to the right capital censor of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate. Another bright rise and a real fall.It turns out that "Nanjing is a place of support, and the official title is hidden. Although Youdu is the chief censor, he is said to be alone, but he has no shortcomings among the censors. He respects each other and has nothing to do with his officials and civil affairs. Slightly Looking forward to the years, and moving to the north. That is to say, people in Beijing have never known who the right capital censor is."

After Chengzu moved his capital to Beijing, in order to show respect for Taizu, he set up a series of official positions in Nanjing, but most of them had no posts.Youdu Yushi is a dispensable job.Although the name is high, in fact, it can't control anything.Soon after summoning Hai Rui, the young Emperor Wanli regretted that he was young and inexperienced and made a mistake.Now he finally understood why Zhang Juzheng couldn't afford to use Hai Rui.