The controversy about Hai Jui began in the Ming Dynasty, and even now, it is constantly controversial, so whenever Hai Jui is mentioned, it is an extremely sensitive topic, and if you are not careful, you may be biased. Today, let's talk about Hai Rui, who is "loyal as an ant" in the officialdom, and Hai Rui, who is "filial like a beast". Hai Rui, who was "loyal as an ant" in the officialdom in ancient China, from the Sui and Tang dynasties onwards, paid more and more attention to the academic examination resume, especially in the Song and Ming dynasties, it was basically difficult for those who did not pass the Jinshi examination to "live in the temple". When Hai Jui was 40 years old, he had already failed three consecutive examinations and was awarded a county-level academic and political position, probably responsible for managing the imperial examinations of a county, and the grade was quite low. As a person who only entered politics at the age of forty, Hai Rui's start is relatively late, looking at the history of the late Ming Dynasty, there are really a lot of talents in the juvenile middle school, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Sichang These celebrities are all in their twenties, and it is quite difficult for Hai Rui to become famous. However, the reality is that Hai Rui's reputation is far greater than that of these people, especially in the word-of-mouth of the people, Hai Rui is put on the screen every few years to make people shocked. 
Hai Rui can become famous, it really has something to do with him as a small academic and political official in charge of the imperial examination, in the second year of Hai Rui's tenure as a teacher, a leader came to inspect the work, according to the habit at that time, ** should kneel to the leader, but Hai Rui didn't, just made a long bow, Hai Rui did not kneel, and the other two** knelt. put out a lineup of pen holders, and the leader was very embarrassed. The Ming Dynasty was an era that paid more attention to etiquette, when the Ming Dynasty was founded, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty in order to reflect the respect for teachers, stipulated that in the school, teachers do not have to kneel when they see the leader, but when Hai Rui became an official, the etiquette had already collapsed, who cares about the broken rules when you opened the country. The leader who came to inspect was very angry, thinking that this was a sign of Hai Rui's disrespect for the leader, so he brushed his sleeves away, but Hai Rui became famous because of this. In addition, Hai Rui worked very hard in business, so when Hai Rui was forty-five years old, he was unusually promoted to the county magistrate, but what is more interesting is that Hai Rui was often dismissed because of direct advice, and after being dismissed and reinstated, the official became bigger and bigger. In the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, Hai Rui, whose official position was only six grades, went directly to Emperor Jiajing, saying that the Ming Dynasty under Jiajing was "the best officials, and the people were not happy". The reason is that you are confused, judgmental, and biased, and you are both a faint monarch and a tyrant, and you hope that the emperor can "repent". 
During the Ming Dynasty, direct advice was a measure that could make civil officials quickly popular officialdom, and sometimes, the more fierce the emperor, the easier it was to get the affirmation of literati doctors, although Hai Rui offended Jiajing, fortunately, Jiajing died only ten months later, and Hai Rui, who was imprisoned, was released under the joint protection of the minister, and soon did the ** of the three products. The successful Hai Jui did not stop there, and during his reign, he punished corruption as always, and was famous for being a clean official, but at this time, the emperor thought that Hai Jui was a tool that could help him fight other civil officials, and he protected it more, and the civil officials and doctors who were touched on the interests went to the opposite side of Hai Jui. Regarding the ** of Hai Rui, it was really layer after layer, so Hai Rui in his later years was not willing, after all, there were too many people who had offended. Therefore, many people in the Ming Dynasty scolded Hai Rui as "loyal as an ant" and "filial piety like a beast", of course, if it touched the interests of some people, he would not encounter so many enemies, in fact, Hai Rui is flaunting himself as a saint, and with the same almost strict standards to examine others, under his set of standards, almost most of the literati doctors are not qualified. Therefore, Hai Rui's standard of life is close to **, the common people regard him as the master of the blue sky, when he is a saint, but those scholars and doctors treat him as a monster. 
The reason for Hai Jui's paranoid style is the influence of his mother on the one hand, and the influence of traditional Confucian culture on the other hand, and the two do not contradict each other, but are related. Hai Rui's father is not talented, but Hai Rui's mother Xie is definitely up to the standard of a widow, and the young widow makes Xie also have a certain psychological **, so he has extremely strict requirements for Hai Rui, not only urging him to study, but also extremely strict with Hai Rui's life style. When Hai Rui was in his thirties and forties, he still lived in a room with Xie, which shows his dependence on his mother. There seems to be some potential for mom in my heart. Because of this, Hai Rui obeyed the arrangement of his mother Xie in the marriage event, and in ancient times, the primary task was to inherit the lineage, but Hai Rui's wife did not give birth to a son for him, so Hai Rui continued to marry a wife, divorce his wife, marry a wife again, and then take concubines, and married nine women before and after, in order to give birth to a son. In officialdom, people can say that you are **, but in life, you are still like a beast. Legend has it that Hai Rui's five-year-old daughter was regarded as shameless by Hai Rui because she ate a piece of bread from the manmaid, and was finally starved to death by Hai Rui. Hai Rui wants to be a saint, but he is not, the way of Confucius and Mencius cannot cultivate a saint, only monsters!
There is controversy about the evaluation of saints, not to mention those who want to be saints and have not yet done itAt that time, Hai Jui was deeply influenced by the ideas of the great Confucian king Yangming at that time. Recently, I read Yang Nianqun's "Which Dynasty is the Most Depressing to Live In", which talked about Wang Yangming being stripped of his pants and spanked on the fart board, you said that in the era when saints were stripped of their pants and spanked on the fart board, there will naturally be no good comments about "monsters" like Hai Rui.