During the Qing Dynasty period, a first-rank official had no one to speak for him in the court, and the emperor favored him very much, so his big tree attracted the wind and made his mortal enemy seize a little mistake and sent him into the court.
This first-rank official vowed to the execution ground that he would not die, but unexpectedly, the heads fell to the ground. The official's name was Bai Jue, and he was an important official of the court during the reign of Emperor Daoguang and Xianfeng .
So, how did the first-rank official Bai Wei reach this point? Today we will talk about his story.
Who is Bai Xiao?
Bai Xiao was a figure from the Daoguang period. Although his family was poor when he was a child, the cultural atmosphere was pretty good. His parents saved money and sent him to a private school to study. At that time, although Bai Wei was the youngest, he was the one who worked hardest and made the fastest progress.
He had already arrived at the private school before dawn every day. When others came to class, Bai Wei had already memorized an article. With such a hard work, ten years of hard study have ushered in his day to make him stand out.
In the sixth year of Daoguang, Bai Wei passed the Jinshi and was awarded the Shujishi. He became a role model for all scholars. Even the emperor of the dynasty, Daoguang valued him very much. In the following years, Bai Wei served as Minister of Works, Minister of Justice, Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, etc.
He was born in Zhenglan Banner, Mongolia, and because of his identity, he made great contributions to the ore mining of various Mongolian tribes. After the outbreak of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, Bai Wei ended this problem perfectly due to the serious fiscal deficit of the Qing government.
Overall, he is talented and has very strong execution ability. One year, Daoguang promoted him five times in a row, and everyone in the court envied him. As the saying goes, "The big tree attracts the wind", coupled with Bai Wei's temperament and arrogance, it laid the groundwork for his later tragic ending.
The national trend began to decline in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. The treasury was empty and even the salaries of officials could not be paid, so the corruption of officials became increasingly serious. As a channel for the rise of lower-class people, it was naturally polluted.
In order to let children enter the officialdom, some wealthy families will spend some money to establish relationships in advance, which was particularly serious during Emperor Daoguang's reign. Daoguang died and Xianfeng succeeded to the throne. As an ambitious emperor, Xianfeng was committed to changing this corruption situation.
From a certain perspective, compared with other officials, Bai Wei is considered a clean official. Although he usually "takes money", he is basically very few. However, because he offended someone he shouldn't have offended in the court, he eventually died.
If you want to understand the whole story, you need to start with two imperial examination fraud cases in the Qing Dynasty, that is, the Shuntian Provincial Examination fraud case, and another is the age fraud case. The two have nothing to do with each other, but they are linked together because of Bai Wei.
Shuntian Township Examination fraud case
During the Xianfeng period, many imperial examinations were conducted. Once, Bai Wei was the chief examiner of the provincial examination in Shuntian Prefecture . Under the background of official corruption, many children of high-ranking officials hoped to pass the imperial examination step by step, but they were usually ignorant and thought that they would not be able to cram the exam temporarily, and bribed the examiner to change the examination papers to seek fame and fame.
But it is not easy for Bai Wei to bribe him because he is relatively honest, so he had to find another way to bribe Bai Wei's family, Jin Xiang, and an examiner, Ura An.
Luo Hongyi and Pu An agreed in advance that the former would mark the test paper first, and the latter would recommend the test paper when marking the paper.
However, Bai Wei found that this test paper was not qualified, so he withdrew the paper, which means that Luo Hongsi had failed the exam, and Jin Xiang played a huge role at this time. He secretly exchanged Luo Hongsi's test paper with the candidates on the list, allowing Luo Hongyi to successfully pass the imperial examination.
Originally, this matter was completed here, and Luo Hongyi achieved his goal, but as time went by, the "Shuntian Provincial Examination Fraud Case" of was originally thundered, and the fuse was that it was ordinary age.
Pingling fraud case is also called the "People's Case". The actors are the people who sang songs for people in the feudal period. In the Qing Dynasty, they were the lowest-status people. They had low cultural level and were unable to take the imperial examination.
However, this man named Ping-ling not only participated in the imperial examination that year, but also passed the imperial examination in the end, which seems to be a big joke in , the Qing . This incident spread quickly and was reported to Emperor Xianfeng by the ministers, so Xianfeng was naturally very angry.
The imperial examination was to select talents, but the ministers actually gave them privately for their own selfish desires, and they simply did not take the future of the Qing Dynasty seriously. So, Xianfeng handed over the matter to Sushun to deal with it, because Sushun pushed Bai Ju into the abyss.
Originally, Sushun was just a poor age case, but during the investigation, he accidentally discovered Luo Hongyi's incident. Against this background, Sushun urgently interrogated him himself. He was shocked if he didn't know if he didn't know. His literary talent was not only unclear but also full of loopholes, which aroused the suspicion of the ministers investigating the case.
The minister took out Luo Hongyi's paper and found that there were more than 300 typos in this juren. This was unreasonable, so he naturally had to interrogate the officials of this exam one by one.
In this way, Luo Hongyi bribed Li Heling, the head of the Ministry of War, to establish a relationship for him and tied up with the Jin Xiang and Pu An line. This matter was revealed, and the relevant personnel were finally punished.
Revenge private revenge pushes Bai Wei to the court
Imperial Examination fraud cases are big and small. After all, such things are very common in the Qing Dynasty, and the people who accept bribes were Jin Xiang, Pu An and others, and they are the actual actors.
But because Jin Xiang is Bai Wei's family, and Bai Wei is the chief examiner, he has not fulfilled his responsibilities.
Bai Wei’s crime can be said to be a crime of dereliction of duty, but the crime does not cause death. Just punish and educate. Since that's the case, why did Bai Wei still beheaded? It was because the person who handled the case was Su Shun.
During the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, Sushun was one of the powerful ministers of the dynasty. Bai Wei was stubborn, upright and unconscious. Such a personality naturally blocked the development path of many people in the court. If you want to talk about how much hatred Sushun and Bai Wei have, there is actually no. It is just that the two have different political positions and are incompatible.
As the saying goes, "Stealing people's way of wealth is like killing parents." After Sushun handed over the evidence collected by the matter to Xianfeng, he put pressure on the emperor to make a judgment on the matter as soon as possible. Xianfeng did not intend to kill Bai Qie. After all, Bai Qie made great contributions as a veteran of the two dynasties and made great contributions to the court.
However, after Xianfeng released this decision, it was strongly opposed by the Sushun Party. Sushun used the importance of the imperial examination to refute Emperor Xianfeng, saying that Bai Feng tried to disrupt the court and despise the Qing Dynasty's laws, and asked the emperor to execute Bai Feng for " beheading and decisive ".
Bai Yi is not very popular in the court, and the ministers are afraid of Sushun's power, so no one stands up to speak for Bai Yi. Xianfeng could not hold on to his decision even though it seemed that the situation was in the event. In order to appease the ministers in the court and give the real winner an explanation, he had to kill Bai Jue and execute him.
It is worth mentioning that after being sentenced to the "dead" decision, Bai Wei believes that he will not die. There is a reason why he can think so. First of all, although he is the chief examiner, he is not the mastermind when changing the test papers.
However, after the incident was exposed, Jin Xiang committed suicide due to the fear of implicating his family, and his affairs came to an end, and Bai Wei did not help the evil. Secondly, since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there have been very few cases of beheading first-rank officials, especially important officials and first-rank officials in the court.
So even if Bai Wei was taken to the execution ground, he didn't have any concerns. He thought that the emperor would definitely keep people under the knife and save his life. It is reported that before his execution, Bai Wei asked his family to pack his luggage for him, thinking about going to Hangzhou for inspection after he was released from prison.
Unfortunately, his wish was just wishful thinking. After being taken to the court, Su Shun pretended to greet him, and then read the imperial edict to kill Bai Wei. Maybe he didn't know why he was beheaded until his death...
As the saying goes, "The big tree attracts wind". A person's ability will be afraid of the people around him, and may even lead to death. When you are a person, you must avoid being arrogant and being arrogant. Don’t make too many enemies. You must learn to be humble and courteous, so that you can go further and further on the road to success.
Bai Wei is a very distinctive example. Although he was not the mastermind of the imperial examination fraud case and was also considered a good official with integrity and integrity, he died in the power struggle in the court because he offended villains in his usual manner.
As the saying goes, "What kind of cause and what kind of result are you sow", Sushun's ending is not good either. He has been in the vortex of power and was eventually dismissed from office and even lost his life in Xinyou Coup .
After Sushun's death, a minister was rejected by Cixi . After all, bai wei was not without fault, and it was indeed unreasonable to show his sacrificing him. Bai Wei's death played a role in killing the chicken to warn the monkey. Since he was beheaded for the imperial examination fraud case, there has been no large-scale fraud incident in the Qing Dynasty since ten years.
Through the above introduction, it is not difficult to find that Bai Wei's death is the result of the struggle between parties. Even if there is no such fraud case in the imperial examination, Sushun and others will come up with other ways to deal with Bai Wei.
Bai Wei was an official for many years and no one spoke for him in the court. This was the result of his lack of dealing with interpersonal relationships and the root cause of his death.
Before his death, Bai Wei still swore that the emperor would not kill him. It was his confidence in his own way of being an official, which also showed that he had indeed made a lot of contributions to the Qing Dynasty. But the greater the credit, the greater the power, the more enemies he has. Bai Wei’s incompetence in his character caused his own death.
So no matter in any field, while maintaining the original intention and sticking to oneself, it is very necessary to grasp the relationship with others and win over people's hearts and hide their edge. What do you think about this?
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