Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Conspiracy

Yuan Chonghuan is a person who has troubled me for a long time. The right and wrong surrounding this man, be it a traitor or a hero, has been quarreling for hundreds of years and shows no sign of stopping. But I have always wondered about Yuan Chonghuan.Because as far as history is concerned, the classification of historical figures is roughly divided into three levels: The first level: Key figures, those who have had a turning point in the development of history, belong to this category. Typical representative: Zhang Juzheng.Without this person, there would be no Zhang Juzheng's reforms, Comrade Wanli's young mind might thrive, and the Ming Dynasty might come to an early end.Another example is Qin Hui, who is also a key figure. If he does not kill Yue Fei and does not negotiate peace with the Jin Dynasty, it is hard to say what will happen afterwards.All in all, someone who can change the course of history.

The second level: important figures, who have had a major impact on history, belong to this category. Typical representative: Qi Jiguang.Without Qi Jiguang, the Japanese pirates along the southeast coast would be hard to appease.But the difference between this level of people and first-level people is that even without Qi Jiguang, the Japanese pirates will subside, it is nothing more than a matter of time.In other words, this kind of people can't change the road, they can only run all the way on the road. The third level: tasteless characters, as long as they are famous in history books and do not belong to the above two types of characters, they all belong to this category.

Typical representative: Too many, so I won’t talk about it. This kind of people are basically useful, but it seems that there is no problem if they don’t use them. Yuan Chonghuan is the second level. The end of Ming Dynasty was a particularly chaotic era.Zhu's company has reached the edge of the cliff and is about to fall. There are still people kicking down (such as Huang Taiji and others), and some people are pulling up (such as Chongzhen and Yang Sichang).There are many characters on stage, but most of them are second- and third-level characters. After tossing and tossing, they still died.

There are also first-level characters, only one. Only this person has the ability to change fate - as I said, it is Sun Chengzong. The builders of the Guanning line of defense, Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou, Zhao Liaojiao, and the promoters of Mangui, cleaned up the mess, recovered the four cities in Guanning, and drove away Huang Taiji's defenders. From beginning to end, from beginning to end, he was busy. In fact, the gap between Yuan Chonghuan, a second-level figure, and Sun Chengzong, a first-level figure, is not that big. He has firm determination, tenacious will, and excellent fighting ability, and there is only one thing missing-strategic vision.

He didn't know why he couldn't kill the general soldier casually, why he couldn't let Huang Taiji in to fight, and why he became a victim of party struggle. Therefore, he can only be a second-level character for the rest of his life. Well, now comes the most critical moment: Why would a secondary character cause such a big controversy?Either a national hero or a traitor. Traitors certainly are not.Most of the so-called material identifying Yuan Chonghuan as a traitor came from the memorials of the speech officials at the time. Either his family lived in the suburbs and was burned by Huang Taiji;This group of people has a very good way of producing materials. They write whatever is black and white. Occasionally, a few copies are circulated outside, and they are still regarded as treasures today.

In fact, if you want to see this black material, you can find me.What I can't find outside, I basically have it here. There are all kinds of political issues, economic issues, and life style issues. The compiled complete works of Yuan Chonghuan's black materials are more than enough. As for the national hero, it seems to be a bit of a mystery. After all, he has too much personality and has done some unscrupulous things. In terms of level, he is not as good as Mr. Sun. It is a bit reluctant. So I have been thinking about this question all the time, and I have never stopped, because I vaguely feel that behind the so-called dispute between national heroes and traitors, there are hidden secrets that no one knows.

Until one day, I found the answer to this secret: conspiracy. That day, I was chatting with several historians, and occasionally someone mentioned that according to some historical materials and textual research, in fact, Emperor Hongguang (Zhu Yousong, the emperor of the Nanjing regime in the Southern Ming Dynasty) was quite similar to Chongzhen, and he was also quite diligent in politics. He worked hard to no avail. . Comrade Hongguang has always been a negative teaching material for the emperor in the history books. He is good at eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, so I was very surprised and asked:

"If that's the case, why has he always been a negative image for so many years?" answer: "Because he was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty." All untied. Chongzhen was very diligent, Chongzhen was not a king who subjugated the country, Hongguang was stupid, Hongguang deserved to be unlucky, we all think so for hundreds of years. But we keep thinking that way only because someone tells us so. The reason people tell us this is because they want us to think so. At that moment, the mystery in my mind was finally solved, and all the seemingly irrelevant clues were connected into a thread.

Chongzhen should not die, because he was destroyed by Li Zicheng, so Li Zicheng's classification in the history of the Ming Dynasty compiled by the Qing Dynasty is a bandit. And I vaguely remember that when the Qing army entered the customs, their slogan was not to establish the Qing Dynasty, but to avenge Chongzhen, so Chongzhen should be just. The reason why Hongguang deserves to die is because he was exterminated by the Qing army, and the objects exterminated by the Qing Dynasty must be evil, so Hongguang should be evil. Behind Dazzling Hundred Blossoms' historical comments, there are still only two words - interest.

Anyone who can win the support of the people of Ming Dynasty must be used, but anyone who is wiped out by the Great Ming is an enemy.Only for the same purpose - to safeguard the interests of the Qing Dynasty and stabilize the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Mastering this key will solve all the mysteries of the Yuan Chonghuan incident. In fact, the reason why Yuan Chonghuan has been on the cusp for hundreds of years is only because of an accident. When the Qing army entered the customs, they played the slogan of revenge for Emperor Chongzhen, so the Qing Dynasty expressed extreme sympathy for the murder of the emperor, and expressed extreme contempt for the evil Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others (specific performance, see See the Ming history of the bandits).

Therefore, for Emperor Chongzhen, the Qing Dynasty had a very high evaluation. Later, Shunzhi went to Chongzhen's tomb and cried. During the period, life was stable, and something was wrong. Because after all, Chongzhen was also the last chairman of Daming Company. When he talked about how good Chongzhen was and how he died aggrievedly, in the end, a paradox would arise: Since Chongzhen was so good, why did he still accept the rule of the Qing Dynasty? So it is necessary to engage in scandals and other things to make people bad. But it’s not okay to directly pour sewage. After all, I boasted and cried, and even my brothers recognized it. To solve this matter, you must not swing a sledgehammer to strike hard, you can only stab someone in the back with a soft knife. The best soft knife is Yuan Chonghuan. The ins and outs of the conspiracy are roughly as above, if you don't understand, the answer is as follows: To slander Chongzhen, there is no need to abuse or slander, just praise one person—Yuan Chonghuan. Because Yuan Chonghuan was killed by Chongzhen, so as long as you praise Yuan Chonghuan desperately and call him a great man through the ages, and such a great man was killed by Chongzhen, the so-called self-destruction of the Great Wall can easily compare Chongzhen with Song Gaozong ( Killing Yue Fei) and his like are classified into the same category. Of course, the work of appeasing the people of Ming Dynasty still needs to be done, so those who should praise Chongzhen still have to praise, but the content of the praise needs to be changed, and we must focus on publicizing that he is diligent, serious, and persistent, as for being shrewd and capable. , can be ignored.All in all, it is necessary to express the character's impatience, impulsiveness, and the image of what he wants to do but fails to do. To establish this image, you must borrow Yuan Chonghuan. Afterwards, things became logical. Yuan Chonghuan was established as a hero, without shortcomings, and invincible. As long as he is there, there will be a great Ming Dynasty. The climax, the great hero Yuan Chonghuan—— Was killed by Chongzhen. How stupid, how suicidal, how hopeless. In this way, in Yuan Chonghuan's sigh, the image of Chongzhen appeared: A very thoughtful, capable, but brainless, luckless, impatient emperor who was suffocated to death. Finally, type the subject line: With such an emperor, how could Ming survive? knock off. In this way, Yuan Chonghuan became the opposite of the Ming Dynasty. Because he was praised too much, anyone who opposed him (especially Chongzhen) became a villain. To affirm Yuan Chonghuan is to deny Chongzhen and the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty got such a good shield and naturally used it. Therefore, after hundreds of years, there are many people who have trouble with Yuan Dushi. Nowadays. After all, it's a set. For hundreds of years, Chongzhen and Yuan Chonghuan, as well as countless other people, have been caught in this trap, being tossed and turned over and over again, with disputes and quarrels, but they don't know it. So, it should be poked. Of course, all this is just my opinion, and I cannot guarantee that it is all true, but it is definitely not a fallacy. In fact, whether it is the disputes in the previous life or the conspiracy of the future generations, it is meaningless to Yuan Chonghuan himself.He tried his best, made military exploits and became a hero, but died on the charge of a traitor. Many people have asked me whether I like or hate Yuan Chonghuan. For me, this is a meaningless question, because I firmly believe that the judgment and evaluation of history, all flaws and glory, will show their faces in front of eternity, without pretense and cover-up. So I try my best to describe a real Yuan Chonghuan: not a genius, not a top student, but very lucky, cultivated, strong-willed, but also impatient, helping each other, but difficult to tolerate, an extremely simple, but And extremely complicated people. In this world, as long as there are people, they are complicated, and those who are not complicated are not human. Yuan Chonghuan is very complicated. He is extremely wise but also extremely stupid. He was once right and also once wrong.In fact, it is not his fault that he is controversial, because he is like this. When he is simple, we think he is complicated. When he is complicated, we think he is simple. In fact, whether he is a traitor or a hero, he has never changed. What has changed is ourselves. After hundreds of years of smoke and clouds, the Yuan Chonghuan I saw was not that complicated. He was just an ordinary person. In that era of turmoil, he held his own ideals and persisted to the end. Even if this ideal can never be realized, even if it is doomed to a tragic ending, even at the last moment of life, never give up. Sometimes, I think of this person, his legendary life, his glory, and his regret. Sometimes I see him standing before me and say to me: All my life, I never gave up. For Yuan Chonghuan, everything is over, but for Chongzhen, life must continue. Tomorrow is another new day. Of course, it may not be better. He personally eliminated the largest and most evil eunuch in history, but was surprised to find that another, more powerful enemy had already stood in front of him. This is an invisible enemy. Not long after Chongzhen came to power, he discovered a strange thing: he is the emperor, and everyone recognizes him as the emperor, but he always fails to do what he has been told, and his work efficiency is extremely low. Because since taking the throne, all the ministers have been doing the same thing - quarreling. You sue me today, and I will sue you tomorrow. At first, Chongzhen thought it was a counterattack by some eunuchs, but it took a long time to realize that it was a pure, unorganized, and undisciplined quarrel. Overnight, the imperial court changed, no one was doing business, it was noisy and extremely complicated.Back then, although the court struggle was cruel, it was divided into the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, and the leaders were big names like Wei Zhongxian and Yang Lian. Now it is different. The standard of party struggle is extremely low. As long as it is an individual, even a chief of the six ministries , dared to form gangs and scold whoever was arrested, which made Chongzhen puzzled: Who made this gang of turtles? Just himself. The source of all this chaos comes from a wrong decision made by Comrade Chongzhen a year ago. After solving Wei Zhongxian, Chongzhen believed that eliminating evil must be exhausted, corrections must be excessive, and people must be thorough, so they began to draw a list and punish the party. Anyone who has anything to do with Wei Zhongxian, who flatters, and who has stood in the team, will all be sacked. Damn. This is an extremely dishonest move.When you come to the court, you are nothing more than fooling around. Whoever is in the court can mess with whoever, say a few good words, bow your head softly, that is, fool around.For a hero like Yang Lian, we are all unable to reach him, and we yearn for him. At least we support him spiritually. But Comrade Chongzhen insisted on doing everything he could to destroy the jobs of wage earners, so there was nothing he could do.Everyone is going to hell. Back then you said I was a eunuch, and you gotta clean me up. It’s okay. I’ll come up in two years. Especially the Donglin Party, they are really not good people, whoever is caught and killed, those who are disobedient, and those who have opinions, will be labeled as eunuchs, and they will not be able to do anything. For example, in the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), after Wei Zhongxian was eliminated, Chongzhen planned to rebuild the cabinet. After picking more than a dozen candidates, the officials began to scold him. They all offend people and go crazy. In the face of difficult problems, Chongzhen showed the true qualities of a genius statesman. After a few days behind closed doors, he came up with an unprecedented trick in Chinese political history.As long as you use this trick, no matter who you choose, everyone will be convinced, and there will be no complaints-Mei Bu. In December of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), under the personal auspices of Chongzhen, the Meibu Grand Ceremony was held. As far as the pronunciation is concerned, Meibu and Mopu are very similar. In fact, the effect is similar, because the so-called Meibu, in today's terms, is a lottery. The specific method is to write the candidate's name on a note, put it into a gold bottle, shake it, and then use a clip to clip it. The cabinet bachelors are roughly equivalent to cabinet members. The first ministers are the prime ministers, and the other bachelors are the deputy prime ministers. They are drawn by lottery from the highest leaders of the Ming Empire except the emperor. Someone once told me that ranking seniority based on seniority is a good policy. I don't believe it. Now I think that drawing lots is also a good policy. You'd better believe it. If it is drawn by lot, no one has anything to say, and it is necessary to prevent going backstage, suing black, making connections, etc., at any rate, if you catch it, you can be convinced. It is indeed a treasure of traditional Chinese thick black and thin clay. Comrade Chongzhen's first cabinet was thus arrested, a total of nine people, except for the three who had been in office before, the last six were all arrested, including Comrade Qian Longxi who was later dragged into the water by Yuan Chonghuan, who was also arrested this time. This is one of the largest cabinets in the history of the Ming Dynasty. I don't want to say who it is, because within a year, everyone except Qian Longxi was dismissed. The reasons for leaving get out of class are as follows: being scolded, pushed away, driven away, and leaving by oneself. It's not that I don't want to do it, it's that the environment is too harsh. The ministers of the Ming Dynasty are not fuel-efficient, and they all run at full speed. Whoever is in power will scold him to death.Especially for speech officers, people give them the nickname "rags": clean for others, and dirty for themselves, which is appropriate. But in the final analysis, these grandsons are still uneducated, and the cabinet ministers are relatively soft, and they speak well, but they don’t listen. As soon as the first cabinet was established, they swarmed up, swearing and cursing, and immediately stood up to five. Now the emperor won't do it anymore. It's a pleasure for you to drive people away. Who will I find to work? So in November of the first year of Chongzhen (1628), Chongzhen decided to arrest a few more. The Ministry of Officials immediately made a list of candidates and prepared to draw lots. On this list, there are eleven people. It is said that drawing lots is out of the question, and whether they can enter the cabinet depends on luck, but this time, almost everyone believes that there is one person who will definitely be able to enter the cabinet. This person's name is Qian Qianyi. After eighty chapters, the fierce people are basically dead, and the ones with a little name are Jiang Wei, Liu Chan and other miscellaneous fish.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was okay, and there were a lot of celebrities, especially the generals who fought in battles, such as Yuan Chonghuan, Huang Taiji, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng, all of them were well-known. Civil servants were much worse. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, especially during the reign of Chongzhen, there were countless civil servants in more than ten years, and the cabinet ministers alone changed fifty, all of whom were meat buns beating dogs.Even those who study history probably don't know it, and the only exception is Qian Qianyi. Qian Qianyi, courtesy name Shouzhi, a native of Changshu, Suzhou, a Jinshi in the 36th year of Wanli, a celebrity, a super celebrity. The reason why Qian Qianyi is famous is that he has a more famous wife——Liu Rushi. The right and wrong of this person will be discussed later, at least at that time, he was very famous. Because he is not only well-read and talented, but also the leader of the Donglin Party.The eunuch party fell, and Dong Lin came to power, as it should be. From top to bottom in the imperial court, it is basically the Dong Lin party. Now that the leaders want to join the cabinet, they just want to get something. So even Qian Qianyi thought that drawing lots was just a matter of procedure, and joining the cabinet was just a matter of time. After taking a shower and changing clothes, he was ready to change units and go to work. But in this world, the more things seem to be fine, the more accidents are likely to happen. Generally speaking, when Qian Qianyi entered the cabinet, he had no opponents, but he did not enter the cabinet in the end because he met an extraordinary opponent. During the more than ten years of Chongzhen's rule, a total of fifty cabinet ministers were used. Since the emperor was difficult to serve and his subordinates were difficult to manage, most of them only worked for a few months before being honorably laid off. There are only two people who can continue and carry the revolution to the end. These two people are Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren. Although the two brothers' reputations in history are almost the same (biography of treacherous ministers), but in terms of professional ability and IQ, they are really unparalleled. Unfortunately, Qian Qianyi's opponents are these two. The reason why Qian Qianyi was paid was not because they were also on the candidate list of the Ministry of Officials. In fact, they didn't even enter the audition, and they were rejected in the first round of cadre inspection. Didn't make it to the audition, why did you want to cheat the finalists? Because it's too outrageous. During the audition, Qian Qianyi's position was the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, while Zhou Yanru was the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, and Wen Tiren was the minister of the Ministry of Rites. In the same department, the deputy minister joined the cabinet, and the minister did not even make it to the finals. It is unreasonable. So two people who have no reason for this hope to seek justice. In the history books of later generations, for some purpose, Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru were classified as treacherous officials, that is, bad people.But after careful analysis, you will find that, at least at the time, these two villains were both vulnerable groups. In the imperial court at that time, the Donglin Party was extremely powerful, and most of the cabinet and the six ministries were Donglin faction, so Qian Qianyi was basically a ruthless character that no one dared to mess with. But Minister Wen and Vice Minister Zhou thought it was too unfair to let Vice Minister Qian go up like this, and they had to make a fuss. So, they decided to sort out Qian Qianyi's black materials. After unremitting efforts, they found a loophole, a loophole seven years ago. Seven years ago (the first year of Apocalypse). As the chief examiner of the Zhejiang Provincial Examination, Qian Qianyi came to Zhejiang to invigilate the examination. The examination, selection, and ranking were successfully completed. A few days later, he returned to Beijing, and a few days later, the Ministry of Rites impeached Qian Qianyi for cheating. Critics of exam-oriented education once said that today's college entrance examination is the ancient imperial examination for Jinshi, which is a heinous crime. I think this sentence is inappropriate, because objectively speaking, those who were listed in the college entrance examination, in the Ming Dynasty, at most they were scholars. After the Ming Dynasty exam, if there is no accident, you can basically be an official, and at least at the division level (except Juren), after the college entrance examination, graduate from university, if there is no accident, and if you are lucky, you can basically have a job. In the Ming Dynasty, the Jinshi Examination was held every three years, and each time the number of admissions was about 150 people. Now the college entrance examination is held twice a year, and each time the number of admissions is... So generally speaking, the Jinshi examination in the Ming Dynasty is roughly equivalent to today's college entrance examination + civil servant examination + senior civil servant selection. As long as you pass the exam, you have a degree, a job, and even a grade. Such a good thing, you will naturally be crushed. If you are afraid of being crushed, you have to study, and if you fail to read, you have to cheat. In view of the great importance of the imperial examination, the Ming Dynasty stipulated that anyone who cheated and found out would lose his head.But because the prospect of cheating is so good, cheaters emerge in endlessly, and cheating tricks are also introduced.From low to high, it can be roughly divided into four types. The most basic way of cheating is entrainment. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty stipulated that when entering the examination room, each person can only bring pen and ink. In order to adapt to the needs of the new situation, the students used their brains, such as hollowing out the brushes and stuffing the cheat sheets inside, or hiding them in the inkstones, or even better, asking someone to spot the place outside the examination room and tie the answers on the paper. Stones are thrown into it, and it is said that some people shoot arrows into it.Facing the new situation, the imperial court stipulated that only hollow pen holders should be used for writing brushes, the inkstone should not be too thick, and people should be sent to patrol the examination room, etc. This is the basic technique, and the more advanced method is the second method: the gunman takes the test. The students of the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the fact that photography technology had not yet been invented, so they went around looking for someone to take the test.Of course, the imperial court was not a vegetarian. On the admission ticket, a description of physical characteristics was added, such as white face, no beard, tall and so on. The above two technologies are all commonly used technologies, and are easy to use, and are loved by the masses of the people, so they have been passed down to the present and have been carried forward.In today's universities, there are many people who inherit the legacy of their predecessors. But those who are really rich and have a way use the third method-buying test questions. The most important thing in the exam is the exam questions. As long as you know the exam questions, you don't have to worry about failing the exam, so the examiners who write the questions are the key targets. But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty stipulated that if an insider sells a problem, he will basically be laid off first and then deal with it.The risk is too high, ranging from imprisonment to severe decapitation. In addition, in order to prevent cheating, the Ming Dynasty also stipulated that all those who know the examination questions must live in the examination room, and no matter what, they are not allowed to go out. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, the business of selling test questions was not easy to do. Although you can't buy exam questions, there is no unparalleled road. The powerful students still have a last resort. Once this trick is used, they will definitely be on the list - buy an examiner. However, these examiners are not the examiners who set the questions, but the examiners who change the questions. Yes, it doesn't matter whether you know the topic or not, even if you hand in a blank paper, as long as you can fix the person who changed the topic, you can get the title on the gold list. But the problem is, it's easy to give money, but with so many papers, how do you get the numbers right? The most primitive method is to recognize the name. After all, it is different from the college entrance examination. There are only so many people who take the exam, and they will be admitted when they see the name. The height of the devil is one foot, and the height of the road is one foot. From then on, the test papers began to be sealed and graded anonymously. But the students who cheated would not be reconciled to failure. Some made marks, and some deliberately enlarged the font in the test paper, just to say a word to the examiner who corrected the test paper: I am the one who gave the money! These tricks are quite effective, and they are difficult to stop. Many people were sent in. Facing the new situation, the imperial court waited and did not rely on it. After careful study, they came up with an excellent countermeasure. The specific method is that after all the test papers are collected, the names are sealed, and they are not handed over directly to the examiner, but to a special person. This person is not an official. After he received the test paper, he only did one thing - copy it. All the examination papers were re-copied by him, and then sent to the examiner for correction, under the supervision of the whole process. This trick is really ruthless, because all the test papers are in the same handwriting and format, the examiner has no way of judging, and it will not affect the test results, it can be said to be foolproof. To sum up, the struggle between cheating and anti-cheating is long-term, arduous, and endless. For the sake of the future, although the students fought and failed repeatedly, they fought repeatedly. In the Ming Dynasty, the struggle reached its climax. The climax happened in Zhejiang in the first year of Tianqi. In this imperial examination, the invigilation procedure is very strict, and a unified copying system has been implemented, so it is said that there will be no problems. But something went wrong. Because someone cracked the Uniform Scribe System. Although the handwriting is the same and the test papers are the same, this method still has loopholes and cheating is still possible. The specific method of cheating is that candidates predetermine a password with the examiner in advance, such as a Tang poem or a few characters, and deliberately write it at the beginning or end of the test paper, so that even if the format and handwriting are changed, the author of the test paper can still be identified. In this exam, a person named Qian Qianqiu bought the password. The password is seven characters—one day you will rise to the top.According to the agreement, as long as he writes these seven characters at the end of each paragraph, he will be able to rise to the top and be named on the gold list. Things went very smoothly, the exam was over, and Qian Qianqiu was accepted. This Comrade Qian was also quite disciplined. After being admitted, he obediently gave the money, and the matter should be settled. But an accident happened. Because this kind of thing cannot be done by one person, it must be committed by a gang. Since it is a gang, the spoils must be divided. If the spoils are divided, there may be unevenness. Comrade Qian Qianqiu’s situation is as above, because the group of people who sold the password to him did not distribute the spoils evenly, some comrades with a bad attitude sued everyone, so the matter was brought to light and stabbed to Beijing. But speaking of this matter, it seems that it has little to do with Qian Qianyi. Although he is an examiner, there is no direct evidence to prove that he is the person who sells the password, and at most he bears the leadership responsibility. Unfortunately, at that time, he had an enemy. The name of this enemy is Han Jing, and the funny thing is, the reason why he and Qian Qianyi became enemies is because of cheating. Ten years ago, Juren Qian Qianyi set off from his hometown to Beijing to take part in the general examination, and Han Jing was his classmate in the same subject. In the exam room, they didn't know each other, but at the end of the exam, they knew each other, in a very interesting way. Unlike others, Qian Qianyi was ready to be number one before the test results came out, because he cheated. But his way of cheating is neither entrainment, nor buying examiners, or even buying passwords, but the highest technique in cheating - buying the court. Buying exam questions and examiners is too childish. Since you have to buy anyway, it's better to bribe the imperial court directly so that the person who organizes the exam can set a champion for himself, and he will be in place directly to save trouble. So before that, he had already bought a few eunuchs in the palace who could talk through his acquaintances, found the chief examiner, and after the exam, he specially found out his papers and gave it to the number one scholar. Of course, doing this kind of thing costs a lot.It is said that Comrade Qian spent 20,000 taels of silver, roughly 12 million in today's RMB. If you can afford this price, you still have to cheat, which shows the sincerity of cheating. For 20,000 silver, it is enough to buy an official. Qian Qianyi paid this price in order to be the number one scholar, but he never expected that there would be someone more sincere than him. Before the exam, Han Jing was also very confident, because he also paid the money, and he was guaranteed to win the first prize. But after the paper was handed in, he got a shocking news——his paper was eliminated. It is normal to be eliminated. If you really have a level, you don't need to pay for it. But the problem is, how can people collect money and not do things when they find money and give it out? Han Jing had connections in the imperial court, so he asked someone to investigate overnight, only to find out that his luck was bad.However, the person who corrected his paper had no money collected, and he became angry after reading the paper. He thought that such a nonsense person, how could he still take the exam, so he was sentenced to fail. It doesn't matter if you fail the list, just get it back and change it to be on the list. After all, student Han Jing had good eyesight, so he found other examiners to help him find the papers and correct them again. But I searched and searched, but couldn't find it.It was only later that I found out that because the examiner hated his papers so much, he threw them into the waste paper pile. After searching through the garbage for a long time, he finally got the papers back. According to common sense, the matter has come to this point, and it is almost the same to change to a Jinshi on the list, but Han Jing's affection for the ranking is too deep, so he insists on changing his paper to the first place. But the rankings have been determined, and the rankings are all paid for (such as Qian Qianyi), if you want to be ranked first, what should others do? At the critical moment, Han Jing resorted to a unique trick - adding money. Qian Qianyi went to the eunuch and offered 20,000 taels, and he asked the chief eunuch to increase the price by 40,000 taels, fight with me, and kill you! 40,000 taels, roughly 24 million RMB, at this price, to buy a number one scholar, speechless. What was even more speechless was Qian Qianyi, who spent so much money that it was all in the water. Fortunately, the eunuch was quite honest in his work. Although he didn't have the number one prize, he was given to Tanhua (the third place). Spending so much money to buy a champion is not enough to eat.You know, the number one scholar can not only become an official, but also go down in history.Since ancient times, the number one scholar has been the highest honor, and according to the regulations, each person who is admitted to the imperial examination is engraved on a stone tablet and placed in the Imperial College for future generations to look up to (it is still there). A name that goes down in history is worth it. But Comrade Qian Qianyi is not worth it. Although he is also a prostitute, he spent so much money and only bought a defective product. Han Jing was lucky, but also unlucky. Although he added money and bought the No. 1 scholar, he didn't know the consequences of offending Qian Qianyi. Because although classmate Qian didn't have enough money and the relationship wasn't strong enough, he was very good at messing around.Not long after entering the court, he made a few friends, namely Sun Chengzong, Ye Xianggao, Yang Lian, and Zuo Guangdou. To sum it up in one sentence, he voted for the Donglin Party. In the last years of Wanli, the Donglin Party was very energetic, and Qian Qianyi was not a very generous person, so within a few years when the Jingchao was organized, Comrade Han Jing was dismissed because of poor performance. Comrade Han Jing, who was burdened with blood and deep hatred, finally waited for the present opportunity. He publicized that Qian Qianyi should be held accountable. But after all, after all, it was only the responsibility of the leadership. After the review by the court, Qian Qianqiu was exempted from the title of Juren, exiled into the army, and the examiners (including Qian Qianyi) fined him three months' salary. Seven years later. What Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren faced was not an old and trivial case, but a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In many history books, this is a tear-jerking passage. The powerful and shameless Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru formed a vicious alliance and harmed the innocent and weak Qian Qianyi. I think this statement, if reversed, is more in line with the facts. First of all, Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru are both shameless, which is hard to say; Qian Qianyi is innocent, certainly not. The reason why Wen Tiren wants to pay Qianqian is a matter of mentality. He was a student of Shen Yiguan, the chief assistant of the cabinet. When Qian Qianyi first joined the group, he was an old man. It's really frustrating. Zhou Yanru was different, he really suffered a loss, and what he suffered was Qian Qianyi's loss. In fact, Zhou Yanru should have been the number one candidate when he was elected to the cabinet, because he was the number one scholar and was trusted by the emperor, but Qian Qianyi felt that this person was too threatening, and he was afraid that he would not be able to do him, so he did it. Send people to find Wang Yongguang, Minister of the Ministry of officials, and do the work, squeezing Zhou Yanru. Secondly, in the imperial court at that time, the most powerful one should be Qian Qianyi.He is the leader of the Donglin Party, and everyone responds to it. From top to bottom, they are all his people. Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru are basically fighting alone. The real situation at the time was roughly the same. The situation is grim, but the comrades are very brave. In the face of the common enemy, Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru wiped away their tears and decided to risk their lives with Qian Qianyi. Zhou Yanru asked Wen Tiren what he planned to do. Wen Tiren said that Qian Qianyi should be impeached directly. Zhou Yanru asked, and then? Wen Tiren said, there is no more. Zhou Yanru was very angry, because he thought that Wen Tiren was making fun of him, so how could a memorandum kill Qian Qianyi? Wen Tiren didn't answer. Zhou Yanru told Wen Tiren to find a few people to ventilate first, do some work, and make preparations before the war, and don't rush to the school. The next day, Wen Tiren went to sleep. As far as the writing is concerned, this memorial is very general, the main content is to impeach Qian Qianyi's envoy for cheating.I didn't play any tricks like writing blood books, bathing and changing clothes, I didn't do any work, I didn't find someone, I just handed it over and it was over. Then he told Zhou Yanru that he would surely win. Zhou Yanru thought that Wen Tiren was crazy.