Indeed, because Harry lived a clean life, when he was governor of Nanzhili, he promulgated a series of "measures", which were very trivial and meticulous. For example, when the Governor stays in the local area, the food standards provided by local officials must not exceed the official documents of San Qian and China, and they must all use cheap paper. Harry is strict with himself. He usually lives frugally and grows his own vegetables. It is said that when Harry died, his family's assets were less than 20 Liang.
But even if it is as clean as Harry, it is understandable to buy two Jin of pork for my mother's birthday. However, according to research, Harry is indeed a Hui, so buying pork is nonsense. In my opinion, "Buy Pork" is completely fabricated by someone to express their cynicism about Harry.
However, all this is only the beginning.
For example, unofficial history's "Just Look at the Editor" has a cloud. Harry's family is poor. One day, when he saw his five-year-old daughter eating a cake, Harry asked her who gave it to her, and she said it was a footman. Harry was furious. "Can a woman tolerate being seduced?" If you are not my daughter, you can starve to death. So Harry's daughter really didn't eat or drink and eventually starved to death.
In fact, the truth of the matter is very low. Harry practiced "Confucius and Mencius" all his life, and he had extremely high moral requirements for himself. How can he do such an unnatural thing? It was nothing more than a malicious attack. The so-called "clear water means no fish". Harry's "Qing" was simply unable to move in the "dirty sea" of the Ming Dynasty at that time!
Harry lost his father when he was three years old, and his mother brought him up. He was deeply influenced by Confucianism since he was a child. The ideas of "distinguishing between righteousness and interests" and "caring for the people" are firmly rooted in Harry's mind. When he grew up, he even vowed, "I want to learn to be a saint, but the whole world is indifferent", that is, he always reminded himself that I want to be a saint!
This belief makes Harry a little paranoid, even a little "one track-minded". When he holds real power, he will vigorously promote "benevolent government", and the so-called "benevolent government" is to protect the interests of the lowest people to the greatest extent.
At that time, the civil tax labor was very heavy, and usury became a common practice. Many farmers have to mortgage land loans, but the lenders actually focus on farmers' one acre and three points. Farmers are really bitter, and finally they can't get loans and lose their land. How can they settle down?
At this time, Harry felt a "sense of justice" in his heart. He yearned for the great world of "every family has rice and every family has flowers" in the deepest part of his heart. How to solve it? Then we can only operate on the landlord.
This operation is for Xu Jie, a big landlord with hundreds of thousands of acres of land. And Xu Jie's position is not small. It was once the record of more than 10,000 people under one person. Not only that, Xu Jie was Harry's rescuer.
Let's first find out how straight Harry really is. He is honest and dares to fight against powerful people. At that time, Emperor Jiajing was not in charge of state affairs and was addicted to alchemy. Harry thought about it and wrote the famous "Frankly speaking, the world is sparse", which angered Emperor Jiajing. The most exciting sentence is that "the man who covers the world is not worthy of your majesty for a long time", that is to say, the officials and people in the world have long thought that you are incorrect.
Emperor Jiajing saw that playing Shu was naturally a fire, and even wanted to kill Harry. At that time, Harry made up his mind to die and even bought a coffin in advance. Jiajing learned about this, but it was not easy to attack. Plus when Xu Jie spoke for Harry, Harry was saved from death.
In the face of the savior, Harry can't repay evil for kindness. However, in the face of the principles he has always believed in, he had to enforce the law impartially. In the end, Xu Jie had to accept Harry's threats and take back many fields. At the same time, Harry offended the big landlords headed by Xu Jie, and even the civil service groups of the whole Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty is different from the Song Dynasty. Officials in the Song Dynasty were extremely well paid and could rule the world with the emperor. However, in the Ming Dynasty, the world belonged to the Zhu family, and the salaries of officials were extremely low, relying entirely on salaries. Many officials just make a living.
Then, a disguised social form appears, and it becomes a "hidden rule" to take more benefits when collecting taxes. From records to landlords and gentry, even farmers with a slight surplus can't collect more money for themselves.
Moreover, the emperor didn't know that the state machine was running and he didn't give money to officials, so as long as officials collected money privately, the emperor turned a blind eye.
Therefore, the appearance of Harry undoubtedly broke everyone's financial path, and Harry's impeachment followed. Harry faces 15 years of idleness at home.
It was not until 1585 that Harry was reused, but this reinstatement also marked the end of his life ideal.
Speaking of reinstatement, I have to mention Zhang, who has always "disliked" Harry. A long time ago, someone suggested to reuse Harry, but Zhang tried to stop him. Although he also appreciates Harry's incorruptibility, in Zhang's view, his outspoken character will only become an obstacle to reform. No one knows the economic system at that time better than Zhang. He has seen through the outcome that Harry will face if he goes it alone.
It turned out that Zhang kindly prevented Harry from being reinstated, which kept some of Harry's fantasies to some extent.
So it was not until Zhang died that it became a new record. He wrote a letter to Harry, "Gong Zu has been lying in the mountains for a long time, while Sheng Chao is a temple". What does this sentence mean?
Literally, it's a pity to keep you waiting in the mountains. The writing is beautiful, but it can't stand scrutiny, and it's not thirsty at all.