In the twenty-seventh year of the Yuan Dynasty, 1376 AD.
According to the Ganzhi chronology, it is the year of Ding Wei.
This was the year before the end of the Yuan dynasty's rule in the Central Plains.
This horseback nation, which once dominated the world, has lost the strength that swept the world in the past.
The empire was overwhelmed by the storm and was soon to be defeated.
Of course, a large part of the fall of the Yuan Dynasty was done by the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty themselves.
From 1308 A.D. to 1333 A.D., in just twenty-five years, the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty were like riding a roller coaster, changing eight in a row.
The rulers fought for the throne, and as a result, many problems such as indecision in internal affairs and foreign affairs led to the exhaustion of domestic people's livelihood, economic depression, the suspension of cultural development, the failure of agricultural grains, the plummeting military strength, and the regression of the level of science and technology by ten years.
The life of the common people was really unbearable, and they rose up one after another, and the vigorous peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty broke out.
And in 1267, that is, the twenty-seventh year of Huizong of the Yuan Dynasty, the Central Plains was already full of warlords, and the Yuan Dynasty was basically cold.
Yuan Huizong Tu Timur).
In this year, Fang Guozhen, the leader of the peasant rebel army in eastern Zhejiang, raised his hands and surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, another leader of the rebel army.
The writer Song Lian wrote an essay on the Northern Expedition to fight against the rebellion, creating momentum in advance for Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang to unify the whole country and eliminate the forces of the Yuan Dynasty.
And it was in this year that in Wenzhou Mansion, Zhejiang Province, a person named Huang Huai was born.
For Huang Huai, it is undoubtedly very lucky to be born at this time node.
Pushing forward for 20 years, the Yuan Dynasty ruled darkly, corruption was rampant, the people were expropriated violently, and the charging items were frequent, and the festival should be collected for joy, the New Year's money should be collected, the tomb should be collected for worship and sacrifice, and the field money should be collected for working in the field.
Anyway, as long as you live under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, no matter what you want to do, you have to pay money to the imperial court.
Earn five cents for two yuan, earn one yuan for five yuan.
Then some readers may say, I am an otaku, if I lived in that era, I would not do anything every day, just lie at home to eat and sleep, and the court will no longer be able to collect money from me, right?
I'm sorry, I don't do anything, the court still has to collect "regular money".
Push forward ten years, the Central Plains is full of war, today Zhang San uprising, tomorrow Li Si rebellion, and then Wang Wu unveiled the pole, the day after the day Zhao six raised the banner against the imperial court.
When the war was in chaos, the Yellow River burst its banks, washed away their homes, and the people were displaced and miserable.
The so-called prosperity is also the suffering of the people, and the death of the people is also suffering, which is probably the truth.
A year after Huang Huai was born, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of this dynasty, unified the whole country, ended the troubled times, and established the Ming Dynasty.
A new era has begun.
As an ordinary person, Huang Huai, under the tide of the new era, obviously has a variety of ways out that are different from the old era.
Huang Huai) The choices are varied, but Huang Huai is a very picky person.
Born in an era of peace, Comrade Huang Huai was very confused in his youth.
Jiangsu and Zhejiang are rich and rich, as a local, doing business is a good way out.
But doing business requires capital, Huang Huai's family can not be regarded as poor, but it is definitely not generous, if you want to do business, you can only do a small business.
Go to the street to sell gloves and socks, walk the streets and alleys to sell popcorn and sweet potatoes, celebrate the New Year's holidays, and set up a shelf in the market to sell some skewers.
What does Huang Huai do?
Of course he wouldn't.
Because Huang Huai has not only eaten and clothed since he was a child, but his family also attaches great importance to children's education.
Four books, five classics, six arts, seven strategies and eight strategies, I have not read any less.
As a young intellectual, if you let him rise and fall in the sea of business, millions of dollars per minute, he may be able to consider it, but he is not happy to let him be a street vendor for the rest of his life.
Facts have proved that don't look down on street vendors, the vendors who walk the streets and alleys are often those who have houses in Beijing, land in Shanghai, and a BBA per person.
If the road of doing business does not work, then we can still farm.
But unfortunately, although the Huang family has land, but it is not drought and flood to ensure harvest, when the south of the Yangtze River flooded, the embankment was destroyed, and the situation was really not suitable for farming.
More importantly, Huang Huai himself had little interest in agriculture, and he had a more lofty ideal in his heart, that is, to study and serve the country.
It is said that the poor family will not come out**, but Huang Huai made up his mind that he would be the first ** among the Jiangnan scholars.
As soon as he mentioned being an official, Huang Huai's momentum came.
In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, in 1395 AD, Huang Huai was recommended by the township and officially became a student of Nanjing Guozijian.
Nanjing was the capital of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and Guozijian was the highest cultural institution of the entire dynasty at that time.
Tsinghua in the Central Plains and Peking University in the Ming Dynasty, as long as they enter the Guozijian, they will inevitably be the key training objects of the country.
Huang Huai, who was in Guozijian, was not like other students who were high-spirited all day long and spent their time in vain.
For most people, entering the Guozijian is equivalent to taking the iron rice bowl of the imperial court, as long as they mix casually, at least they can be a county master.
But Huang Huai is determined, he believes that since he is an official, he can't just mix around, and being a county prince certainly has oil and water to fish, but the emperor is far away, if he is assigned to a remote mountainous area, his career in his life will be completely hopeless.
Learn, as long as you don't die, you will learn from the dead, use my pen to work hard, and exchange me for a bright future!
In the twenty-ninth year of Hongwu, Huang Huai Zhongying Tianfu raised people, and the following year, he ranked fifth in the second class of Jinshi.
In ancient times, the scientific examination was divided into three first, and usually, the top students in the class would take the first class, because there were only three first-class students, the first champion, the second leader, and the third Tanhua.
The number of the second and third class is relatively extensive, the author flipped through the history books, flipped through the pages, and did not verify the specific number of people, many history books, only two words are written: several.
several, this range is wide.
It could be a hundred, it could be two hundred, it could be five hundred.
Anyway, the second and third grades seem to be mediocre in this exam, and they can only be reduced to scumbags who accompany them.
But we should note that although there is no specific number of people in the second and third grades, Huang Huai's second rank has a specific ranking.
His ranking is the fifth place in the second class.
In this way, according to the ranking, Huang Huai's results were eighth in the country that year.
This score cannot be considered good, nor can it be considered bad.
However, the official position granted to Huang Huai by the imperial court made Huang Huai himself not very satisfied.
After the big exam, he was awarded the position of Zhongshu Sheren by the imperial court, and his grade was only seven grades, and he was still from.
What do the scholars do?
is similar to the current Internet gunmen, who don't have to do anything else every day, and specialize in helping the emperor with edicts, making edicts, and helping the emperor deal with some office documents if he has nothing to do.
Yes, the emperor's royal documents.
Since it is used by the emperor, in this way, it should be the red man in front of the emperor and the big man in the court.
However, we should note that the emperor's edict is not available every day, and the emperor's edict is not available every month.
An emperor like Wanli in the Ming Dynasty who doesn't go to work all year round may not be able to issue a few edicts throughout the year.
Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun).
There are not many edicts, and most of the people in the middle school can only be idle, and they go to work every day with two eyes, and then stare until the end of work.
If there are fewer edicts, there will be less work, and if there is less work, there will be fewer opportunities to contact the emperor.
But the entire group of Zhongshu people is very large.
Like the number of students admitted to the second and third grades, the number of students in the middle school is also indefinite.
Maybe a hundred, maybe two hundred, maybe five hundred.
No matter how many people there are, it's enough to drown Huang Huai in it anyway.
There was originally little work, but there were so many people participating in the work, and the emperor issued an edict, and hundreds of people grabbed their heads and bled out, when will it be their turn?
Even if it's your turn, what can you do?
There are so many scholars in the palace, can the emperor remember himself?
Obviously, neither Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang nor Emperor Hui Zhu Yunwen remembered Comrade Huang Huai, and the person who really changed Huang Huai's life was Chengzu Zhu Di.
In the fourth year of Jianwen, 1402 AD.
The eldest brother of the society, Zhu Di, has driven away his little nephew Zhu Yunwen and ascended the throne as emperor in Nanjing.
The emperor ascended the throne on the front foot, and summoned two people on the back foot.
One of these two people is Huang Huai, and the other is called Xie Jin.
At that time, the two comrades were both talented but depressed civil officials in the Ming Dynasty, and now, they have been selected by the emperor and are about to be given a glorious and sacred mission.
When Comrade Huang Huai saw Zhu Di, he fell to his knees and was very frightened.
Before that, he had been in the Ming court for more than ten years, but he had never even seen Taizu and Emperor Hui in person.
When he ranked fifth on the gold list, he was still a high-spirited teenager who wanted to guide the country, but now he has white silk and sideburns, he is already a middle-aged and elderly man who has been up and down in officialdom for many years and has experienced vicissitudes.
Zhu Di got straight to the point and only asked Huang Huai one question, that is:
What do you think of the "Battle of the Martyrdom"?
This is a very dangerous subject.
If you say that the Battle of Jingjing was a rebellion, according to the temper of our Comrade Zhu Di, it is very likely that we will directly call two Jinyi guards and drag you out.
But if you say that the Battle of Jingyan is in accordance with the will of heaven, and Comrade Zhu Di is YYDS, the emperor will not be very happy either, because Zhu Di has always been the most disgusted with flattery, and there is no truth in his mouth.
Yes, the emperor is so difficult to serve.
In this way, no matter how Huang Huai answers, I am afraid that the end will not be very good.
So our Comrade Huang Huai simply didn't say anything, no matter what the emperor asked, Huang Huai just kowtowed on the ground.
The emperor was very satisfied, although after some conversation, the emperor did not figure out what kind of person Huang Huai was, but at least his mouth was very solid.
Don't say what you shouldn't say, don't say what you don't know.
The emperor needed such people.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di).
Huang Huai finally walked out of the palace in a sweat and unharmed, and the next person to go in and talk to the emperor was none other than his future colleague, Xie Jin.
At that time, their fates were very similar, they were all favored by the emperor who fought all the way from the north to Nanjing, and were entrusted with important tasks, but their fates changed subtly from this moment.
Soon after, Huang Huai, Xie Jin, Yang Shiqi, Hu Guang, Jin Youzi, Yang Rong, and Hu Yan entered the Ming cabinet and became the first generation of cabinet members in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
And the person who led them was this Huang Huai, who was not good-looking and had an ordinary life.
In a sense, Huang Huai is the first cabinet chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, which has lasted for 276 years.
The seven sons set the world, governed the country and the country.
Comrade Xie Jin, who had a similar fate to him, later presided over the compilation of the world-famous "Yongle Grand Canon", while Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi shined in the Renxuan Dynasty and became the ministers of the humerus.
In contrast, Comrade Huang Huai's life was too dull.
His teenage years were unremarkable and there was nothing to say.
His youth was uneventful, and there was nothing to talk about.
His career is like that of most poor scholars, diligent and hard-working, and speechless.
His officialdom career is even more turbulent, if he was not selected by Emperor Yongle, he may only be a scholar from the seventh grade for the rest of his life.
And the ending of his life is as plain and boring as ever.
Ming Dynasty) He served in the Ming Dynasty five dynasties, Taizu, Emperor Hui, Chengzu, Renzong, and Xuanzong, and died in 1449 at the age of eighty-three.
Except for the title of the first first chief, this benevolent brother really has nothing to say.
Yes, people chase history, look at emperors and generals, look at the heroes of the world, look at anecdotes, and look at talented and beautiful people.
They are the protagonists of history, but they are not the whole of history.
In fact, with a long history of more than 5,000 years, there are more ordinary people like Huang Huai.
They are unremarkable, but they are just as much a part of history.
There will be people who will remember their names, and there will also be people who will remember their deeds of the **10,000 Fans Incentive Program. Because not everyone is disgusted with the ordinary.
Yes, everyone wants to prove that they are not ordinary, but this just proves the ordinariness of this era.