Zhang Fengyi, the minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty: To avoid the guilt of defeat, he committed suicide by taking laxatives.

In the officialdom of the late Ming Dynasty, the party struggle was fierce, people were overstaffed, and there were very few people who could really do things in a down-to-earth way, and there was a decadent atmosphere everywhere. Such jokes as those mentioned above happened from time to time. Compared with the above-mentioned "upper and lower secrets", improper employment in officialdom is the more critical factor for the decline of officialdom in the late Ming Dynasty.

in the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), a new leader-Zhang Fengyi, the minister of war of Daming, was ushered in. Zhang Fengyi, a native of Daizhou, Shanxi Province, often makes jokes because she is mediocre and smart.

One day, Zhang Fengyi met Sun Jin, the minister in the imperial court. Seeing his sad face, she went forward to ask him enthusiastically. It turned out that Sun Jin was a native of Tongcheng, South Zhili (now Tongcheng, Anhui). He heard that the peasant army running out of Shaanxi had started activities in Henan and northern Anhui, and he was very worried that his hometown would also be "patronized" by the peasant army, so he pulled a long face and was unhappy.

when Zhang Fengyi learned about the situation, she expressed great sympathy for Sun Jin and wanted to comfort him, but after thinking for a long time, she couldn't think of anything suitable to comfort Sun Jin. Finally, after thinking hard for a long time, Zhang Fengyi finally came up with a word of comfort, but what he didn't expect was that when his words came out, he made himself a laughing stock.

Zhang Fengyi said to Sun Jin, "Sun Gong, you are from the south. What are you worried about? The thieves are all from the northwest. They can't get used to the rice in the south, and the horses they ride don't eat the grass in the south of the Yangtze River! " Zhang Fengyi wanted to use the theory of "acclimatization" to comfort Sun Jin, but as a result, he made a common-sense mistake, and all his colleagues laughed badly when they heard about it.

But Zhang Fengyi's naivety is far more than that. In the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), the Qing soldiers crossed the Great Wall again and invaded the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Fengyi, the minister of the Ministry of War, was improperly deployed, and the Ming army was defeated repeatedly, and many important passes and towns fell. Emperor Chongzhen was very angry when he heard about it. As a last resort, Zhang Fengyi, a minister of the Ministry of War, had to crustily skin of head and request to go out to supervise the soldiers and get the approval of Emperor Chongzhen.

However, although Zhang Fengyi volunteered, he didn't know anything about marching and fighting. When he got to the place, he did nothing and couldn't do anything. As a result, the Qing soldiers broke through dozens of cities, countless people and property were killed and taken away, and the Ming Dynasty suffered heavy losses.

Although Zhang Fengyi can't fight, his political mind is ok. He feels that he has made such a big mistake and will definitely die after returning to the DPRK. When the time comes, he will be criticized in the western market, and accusations will inevitably roll in behind him. In order to avoid ruin, Zhang Fengyi began to eat rhubarb every day when he was still in command of the battle, making himself diarrhea, thus committing suicide, and finally died very much after the Qing army just retired.

Zhang Fengyi's wishful thinking is like this. If he can die while he is away as an inspector, he will at least be "killed in the line of duty", as the saying goes, "a handsome man will cover up all the ugliness". When the court investigates the responsibility, it will certainly not be difficult for him as a dead man, and it will not only save his family, but also leave a good name for himself in future generations. Zhang Fengyi thinks it is "great luck" to die like this.

At that time, Liang Tingdong, a former minister of the Ministry of War and then governor of Jiliao, had the same idea as Zhang Fengyi, and did the same thing. He committed suicide by eating rhubarb every day. Two successive ministers of the Ministry of War are all of this kind, and it is strange that the Ming Dynasty is unbeaten.

What Zhang Fengyi never expected was that he calculated everything, but he missed his own boss behind the scenes-records of Wen Tiren.

after the retreat of the Qing army, the court began to investigate the responsibility. Because of Wen Tiren's intervention, the punishments finally gave Zhang Fengyi a handling opinion that turned out to be "no guilt"! In other words, Zhang Fengyi, who was smart and committed suicide by eating rhubarb, lost her life in vain. It is precisely because of this that people at that time laughed at Zhang Fengyi's "unfortunate death" after hearing about his deeds!