When talking about Qi Jiguang, a national hero in history, Zhang Dexin, a researcher of modern history at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that Qi Jiguang's good friend Wang Shizhen recorded that Qi Jiguang "always bought a daughter of Ji Jin to live in high position."

In order to win the favor of his boss Zhang Juzheng, Qi Jiguang once spent a lot of money to buy beautiful women from the "Qian Jin Ji" as gifts.

Shen Defu's "Wanli Yehuobian" said that in order to please Zhang Juzheng, Qi Jiguang sent a lot of fur seal kidneys produced in his hometown Penglai to Zhang Juzheng.

Although Qi Jiguang's family has been officials for generations, they are not rich.

As a first-class military general, his annual salary is only more than one hundred taels of silver. How can he have the financial resources to buy "Qianjin Ji" from time to time? Although there is no historical data to prove how he gets the money, he will pay tribute to his superiors, and his subordinates will not fail to pay tribute to him. According to the

Just take it.

When Qi Jiguang came to Yiwu to recruit troops, he happened to meet Qi Mengman, a Qi from Yiwu, surnamed Qi Mengman in Qi's house in Ximen. He talked about the clan friendship and said that it had been thirteen generations since Qi Jiguang's ancestor moved from Yiwu to Dingyuan, Anhui.

When leaving, Qi Jiguang presented Qi Mengman with five bronze items, a cloud gong, a jade cup, and a hundred taels of gold, and ordered him to build a Qi clan temple.

At that time, Qi Jiguang was still a general, and his annual salary was definitely less than one hundred taels of silver, but he sponsored the construction of Qi Temple and spent one hundred taels of silver.

When Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou were fighting in Cengang, Zhoushan, Yu was framed by Yan Song and Zhao Wenhua, who said that he "failed to pursue the enemy effectively and allowed the invaders to run south" and wanted to be jailed and executed.

Qi Jiguang raised three thousand taels of silver to save Yu Dayou's life.

How were these three thousand taels of silver raised? There are too many such examples.

That was the way it was at that time. It was easy to do things if you had money, but it was difficult to move forward without money.

Qi Jiguang wanted to realize his ideal of "I don't want to be granted the title of Marquis, but I hope the sea will be peaceful". He could not rely solely on his own literary and military talents.

Yu Dayou was more upright than Qi Jiguang, but he was dismissed from office many times and even imprisoned. This is an example.

In order to establish a good relationship with his immediate superiors and civilian officials among his colleagues and maintain his military power, he had to sacrifice his own character, compromise and cater to Zhang Juzheng and other greedy senior officials.

Qi Jiguang is a man who pays great attention to strategy. If he can't keep his position, how can he eliminate the Japanese pirates and ensure the safety of the country? If Qi Jiguang doesn't do this, will it work? To control the current situation and have both sides, you must pay attention to strategy and operate according to the rules of the game at that time.

, this is Qi Jiguang's excellence.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Minister Zhang Juzheng once went home for a funeral. In order to make the journey comfortable for the Prime Minister, the prefect Qian Pu had early ordered someone to make a luxurious sedan specifically for Zhang Juzheng: there were several doors in front of the sedan, and elegant bedrooms behind the door.

For resting; there are also small pavilions on both sides, with a boy in each, who is responsible for fanning and burning incense.

In this way, thirty-two bearers carried Zhang Juzheng all the way south.

Because I heard that Zhang Juzheng liked delicious food, wherever he went, local officials would cater to him and serve hundreds of delicacies to the dining table.

Qian Pu is from Wuxi and is good at cooking Wu cuisine.

When Zhang Juzheng ate the delicacies cooked for him by the prefect Qian Pu, he was very satisfied and praised the prefect Qian Pu: "I walked all the way here to have a full meal.