Hard life can often train your son, which is a rare thing, but if your son who has suffered a lot can keep his true colors and be prosperous after his official career, it will be more difficult than "jumping out of hard life".
Xiao Shenyang, a famous minister in the Qianlong period, was resourceful and a son of a noble family. He succeeded in breaking through the customs and leaping onto the Longmen, a carp, but in the end he failed to escape from the strange circle of human nature and died a natural death. The reason is that little Shenyang has made two mistakes that poor children are prone to make: one is to turn self-esteem into pride, and the other is to turn enterprise into greed.
Why do you say that? We continue to look down.
1, Young Shenyang: an inspirational figure reborn from suffering. We are all escaping from the hardships in life. However, when people face inevitable sufferings, they often become very powerful. It is impossible to tell whether pain is an enemy or a friend here. Little Shenyang once became an "inspirational figure" forged by suffering.
In fact, little Shenyang was born better than ordinary people, but in the following days, it was not as good as ordinary people.
He was born in Changbao, vice governor of Fujian. Unfortunately, when Xiao Shenyang was a baby, his mother died in childbirth after giving birth to his younger brother. At that time, Xiao Shenyang was only 3 years old. It never rains but it pours. When Xiao Shenyang was 9 years old, his father died. From then on, what kind of life did the lonely little boy live in that "big house" without the protection of his parents? You can make up for it according to the costume drama on the screen.
Fortunately, the luck of Xiao Shenyang and his brother is not too bad. They did not live on the streets after their parents died, and were sheltered by an old family member and a concubine of their late father. Although it won't starve to death in the streets, it will naturally be more bitter along the way.
Small Shenyang has only been in this world for nine years, and it has experienced the sufferings that many people need decades to digest. Perhaps because of this, he studied hard, hoping to change his fate through the imperial examination.
Although he is proficient in many languages and has some experience in the four books and five classics, the road to the imperial examination has failed. Fortunately, he later inherited the identity of a third-class captain as a liberal arts student and got the opportunity to make a name for himself in front of Ganlong.
In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong, 23-year-old Shenyang was finally used by Qianlong, and he joined his honor guard because of his outstanding talent and flexible mind. From then on, he rose all the way, from a small attendant to an assistant minister, and finally his power was big enough to limit the personal freedom of Qianlong and Jiaqing. These are all later stories.
No matter what the consequences are, looking back on the road to prosperity in small Shenyang, I have to say that young small Shenyang is indeed an inspirational figure reborn in suffering.
2. Inspirational figures fall from the altar: the pride and greed of little Shenyang. However, the imperial court is far more complicated than the "small courtyard" where Xiao Shenyang grew up as a child. No matter how clever little Shenyang is, once he crosses the boundary between "pride" and "greed", he still can't avoid eating his own fruit and dying naturally.
First of all, give an example of greed in small Shenyang. Forty-five years after Qianlong, Xiao Shenyang was ordered to go to Yunnan to investigate the corruption case of Li Shiyao, a college student and governor of Yunnan and Guizhou. The case has no clue, but Xiao Shenyang, who is good at reading and listening, thinks that Li Shiyao is an impenetrable wall, but their housekeeper is a person who can't stand the pain of flesh and blood. As a result, Shenyang seized Li Shiyao's housekeeper, tortured him to extract a confession, and finally got the evidence of Li Shiyao's corruption.
Then, Xiao Shenyang followed suit, bringing out a large number of officials behind Li Shiyao, and Xiao Shenyang successfully closed the case, thus gaining the trust and further reuse of Gan Long.
However, although Xiao Shenyang is an investigator, he is also a bit inside job. By investigating Li Shiyao, he embezzled a lot of property from Li Shiyao. At the same time, a large number of officials rushed to curry favor with him, give him gifts and make friends with him. Over time, Xiao Shenyang began to form a small group for personal gain, which is the embodiment of his "greed".
Little Shenyang's "pride" gradually emerged after he came to power.
As we said earlier, it is not easy for Xiao Shenyang to come all the way, because he works hard and is alert. At the age of twenty, he was used grandly, and since then, he has risen to the top, which naturally makes others in officialdom jealous.
Here, in the early days of the prosperity of small Shenyang, officials often showed their hostility in front of small Shenyang. After taking up important positions in small Shenyang, they issued documents to impeach him. After the power was firmly established, Xiao Shenyang began his revenge.
After Xiao Shenyang became the CEO of Sikuquanshu Library, he began to make a big fuss about the words, deliberately over-interpreted the articles of officials who had been his enemies, put on a hat of "many meanings" and conveniently accused him of treason. Therefore, small Shenyang is going further and further on the road of "blackening".
Behind this "revenge" is actually more of the "pride" of Xiao Shenyang. He hates those who hurt themselves because of jealousy, pride and disobedience, but in the end, he always becomes like those slanderous words, and he is sighing.
Since the "blackening" of Shenyang, he has always been on the road of greed and pride. With the favor of Qianlong and his power in the DPRK, he even restricted the freedom of Qianlong and Jiaqing to some extent in his later years.
At the same time, he made a big taboo as a courtier. When Qianlong went to court in his later years, Xiao Shenyang and Jiaqing were next to the monarch, because only Xiao Shenyang understood the meaning of Qianlong, and Xiao Shenyang was equivalent to an envoy. Judging from the current situation, it is not Jiaqing who is really in power in North Korea, but Xiao Shenyang, which also doomed the tragic ending of Xiao Shenyang in the future.
Sure enough, after the death of Qianlong, Jiaqing acted quite quickly, not only copying the home of Xiao Shenyang, but also listing the top 20 crimes of Xiao Shenyang. Small Shenyang was originally a "big corrupt criminal", and it was not difficult for Jiaqing to find a reason to deal with him. Jiaqing's waiting is just an opportunity. There's no Qianlong. It's time. Here, shortly after the death of Qianlong, Xiao Shenyang committed suicide in prison.
3. Thinking: Throughout his life, man's biggest opponent is actually his own small Shenyang. His life is full of ups and downs. He lost his mother and father in childhood, and his life was very difficult. However, he did not bow to his fate. He used his cleverness to break out of the sky and even became the closest person to the highest power.
He won everyone at the best time, but lost to himself in the end.
He was first defeated by his own greed. Perhaps the lack of youth makes him more obsessed with wealth than the average person. He became a corrupt official in the name of investigating corrupt officials. He is as clever as he is. How can he ignore the possibility that the corrupt officials currently under investigation will end up in the future? Greed blinded his eyes!
Then, with wealth and power, his "pride" began to work again. He was selfish, formed a political party and rejected dissidents. Even for Jiaqing, he can put on a high profile that is almost "overhead", which is really irrational.
For thousands of years, there have always been some laws in the development and change of human nature, such as what people lack most and what they care about most.
Little Shenyang's difficult childhood and adolescence may have left a deep imprint on his heart. He is infatuated with money because of lack. Because he lost his parents and got no respect, he retaliated against all those who didn't respect him and impeached him. He even formed a clique and enjoyed the hypocritical "respect" above the court.
Finally, he was swallowed up by "pride" and "greed", and his "dream" was broken by Jiaqing.
After waking up from a dream, I wonder if Xiao Shenyang will feel that he may have met many opponents in his life, but the real enemy is not the people he won, but the "self" who let him suffer the consequences, just as Taoist Laozi said: "The winner is strong, and the loser is strong." The courage of a fool lies in his short-term victory, and the real strong man is his long-term victory.
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