Everyone in the world respects loyal ministers and righteous men, but who decides loyal ministers?

Eunuch Wei once talked about loyal ministers and righteous men with the "big secretaries" from the Donglin Party and Huang Zunsu, who served as the editor-in-chief of Huang Ming Daily. At that time, he said to Huang Zunsu: "Loyal ministers and righteous men have been decided by scholars since ancient times. Scholars have designated him as loyal ministers, and even those who are treacherous are loyal. Scholars have designated him as treacherous ministers, and even those who are loyal are also treacherous."

Huang Zunsu believed that Eunuch Wei's words were biased, and that he said that loyal ministers and righteous men were the common people's rule, and that it was not something that scholars could define.

The general idea is that the masses have sharp eyes. How can scholars turn right and wrong into deception and deceive the world for a hundred or a thousand years?

Eunuch Wei sneered: "The people are not the people, so how can they determine loyalty and treacherous? The deeds of loyal ministers and righteous men have always been seen in historical books. What qualifications do the people have to discuss the Spring and Autumn Period? A general scholar determines everything!"

After listening to Huang Zunsu, he thought about it carefully and found that the same was true.

The deeds of loyal ministers and righteous men known to the people are recorded by the historian and the literati.

Who can say that these historians and poets will not reverse right and wrong for some special reasons, and call loyalty a traitor or a traitor a loyal person?

Even if there is a conscientious literati who writes straight and writes, but if there is no "right to speak" mentioned by Eunuch Wei, the records will become unofficial history and are not worthy of trust.

Ma Shiying is such a loyal minister who has been turned upside down.

In the first year of Hongguang, the noble minister of the Southern Capital surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing army entered the city, Huang Boduan, the head of the Ministry of Rites, raised a large banner and wrote to the letter, "Huang Boduan, the head of the Ministry of Rites, the rituals and system of the Ministry of Rites, did not surrender."

The Qing army general Huang Boduan took down, and the fake king Duoduo personally interrogated and asked Huang Dao: "What kind of person do you think of Emperor Hongguang and want to die for him?"

Huang Boduan sang a voice: "My emperor is wise!"

Duoduo was slightly surprised and asked again: "So what if you look at Ma Shiying?"

Huang Boduan laughed: "The cabinet minister Ma Shiying is a loyal minister!"

Duoduo was both angry and ridiculous, and asked again: "Ma Shiying is a treacherous minister, why should he be loyal?"

Huang Bo said with a serious expression: "Ma Shiying will not surrender and will send the Empress Dowager to Zhejiang, of course he is a loyal minister!"

Yan Bi pointed to the noble Zhao Zhilong and others who had already shaved their hair and changed their clothes and said, "These are unfaithful and unfilial people!"

What Huang Boduan said is clear.

Whoever surrenders to the Qing Dynasty will be the treacherous minister;

Whoever resists the Qing Dynasty will be loyal to the ministers.

However, in his father-in-law's previous life, Ma Shiying, who fought against the Qing Dynasty, became a treacherous minister and often played the role of villains in various literary works. Why is this?

The answer is that scholars are loyal and treacherous.

For example, Yang Sichang, the head of the Fujian Department of the Ministry of Revenue in front of him, was not only a loyal minister, but also a rare talent in command in the late Ming Dynasty. His talent was a hundred times stronger than Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Hong Chengchou, but why did he end up with a treacherous minister's evaluation?

Therefore, Eunuch Wei said to Huang Zunsu again: "When a person is loyal or treacherous, you must not only look at the words, but the results."

It depends on the results when you look at the person!

Ma Shiying died for his country, which is loyalty.

Faced with the current situation of internal and external troubles, Yang Sichang deployed the strategy of "four straights and six corners, ten sides to set up a net" to suppress the peasant army. At the same time, he could clearly understand the pressure on the Ming Dynasty and advocated peace with the Qing Dynasty, so that he would first settle the country if he wanted to fight against foreign countries.

Whether it is the military command capabilities in actual deployment or the peace talks against the Qing Dynasty, it is all about the real disadvantages and effective, and can truly solve the major problems of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

In the end, he died on the front line. This is a loyal minister, a very loyal minister who is clearly a perfect person!

In the eyes of Eunuch Wei, loyal ministers were divided into different levels. The lowest-level loyal ministers only thanked the king when they were about to die; the medium-level loyal ministers knew how to repair the matter when they were about to come; the best-level loyal ministers were trying their best to turn the tide.

Ma Shiying was a middle-class loyal minister, and Yang Sichang was a top-class loyal minister.

In terms of ability, Ma Shiying is the talent of a high-ranking city official; Yang Sichang, saying that he is the chief of staff and the minister of national defense, is just right to belittle him, and the Prime Minister and the Deputy General of the Army and the Commander-in-Chief of the Three Armies.

To be honest, Eunuch Wei was really happy from the bottom of his heart that Mao Shilong could bring these two people to the west.

He knew that Mao Shilong had contacted Yang Sichang, but he didn't know that Ma Shiying would "surface".

The chief minister of the Hongguang Dynasty should have participated in the examination with Ruan Dacheng next year, thus forging a deep friendship and finally gained the reputation of a treacherous minister.

But it's good that Ma Shiying's willingness to come to the West shows that he recognizes the spirit of reform advocated by Eunuch Wei, so that his father-in-law will not hint that Ruan Dacheng will win him over next year.

"Duke Wei, there are still many unknowns in the students regarding breeding, industry and business development, and restoration and strengthening the country. I also feel that there are many inappropriate things in the inner world, but I don't know if Duke Wei can explain his confusion for his students?" Although Ma Shiying was just a scholar-in-law, he was obviously brave.

"It's not called resolving confusion, it's called discussing together."

Eunuch Wei told everyone to sit down, and smiled and discussed the specific content and feasibility of breeding and starting a business with everyone.

The discussion was very fierce, and there were even some disputes on some key issues, such as strengthening state-owned industrial and mining and qing Ding.

At first, everyone was worried that their dispute would make Eunuch Wei unhappy, but found that Eunuch Wei was not dissatisfied, but instead took out a small notebook from his arms to record everyone's speeches one by one. From time to time, he nodded and praised, encouraging everyone to give opinions and supplements to the possibility of breeding and industry based on what they saw and heard, which made the atmosphere in the house even more open.

While Cheng Zhengji and Yang Sichang were discussing the issue of abolishing checkpoints in various places, Ruan Dacheng suddenly handed a thick stack of manuscripts that he had been holding in his hand to Eunuch Wei.

Eunuch Wei took it and saw that it was a stack of legendary manuscripts, titled "The Heroes of the Pairing Japanese".

"Students want to publish this book in the "Huangming Daily", but they are afraid that the students' books will not be described properly in the book, so they want to ask their father-in-law to read it in their spare time so that they can pass the review." Ruan Dacheng whispered.

Eunuch Wei said "Oh" and thought that Ruan Dacheng was the most famous legendary family in the late Ming Dynasty.

After a moment of pause, I was shocked again: What's the matter? Passed the review?

This system

Eunuch Wei curled his lips. Needless to say, it must be Huang Zunsu. But, well, it seems to be quite in his interests.

My father-in-law valued freedom of speech, but he would never allow those with ulterior motives to discredit him.

"If you say a thousand words, no matter how good Duke Wei's actions are, someone will always implement them. But we are all small officials, so how can we continue to implement this great measure of Duke Wei? Alas!"

"Yes, if you want to do things, you must be an official. If you want to do big things, you must be a great official. Given our current situation, it is difficult to do small things and big things, it is difficult." Sun Bixian agreed.

"It may not be. Our family has been talking about negative thoughts. If a problem occurs, we have to find a way to solve it. Sighing and sighing is not the solution."
Chapter completed!