Portrait of Xu Jie
Xu Jie was the chief minister of the cabinet during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. ?Where is his tomb after his death?
The ending of Xu Jie
Xu Jie was an important figure in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. He entered officialdom from the imperial examination, originally wanting to be a promising man He was a good official, but because he offended the big shots in the court at that time, he was sent to a remote place to work as an official. This arrangement was to ruin his future. Just when everyone thought Xu Jie's career in officialdom was over, he stepped out step by step with his own abilities.
Xu Jie was a man of wit and kept making breakthroughs in the officialdom, eventually becoming the chief minister of the cabinet. He brought the greedy Yan Song to justice, completely eliminated Yan Song's party members, and gave the entire Ming Dynasty a new look. He also reformed the political system at that time and eliminated long-standing abuses. He was an important contributor to the Ming Dynasty. But it didn't end well for him.
Xu Jie paid great attention to the reform of the imperial court after he became the first minister, but after he retired and retired, he seemed to be a different person. He became very domineering in the countryside. He began to annex land. He owned a large amount of land, and the people nearby became his tenants. However, these local officials did not dare to control it or did not want to control it.
However, Xu Jie’s family and servants began to worry about the situation in the countryside, and bullying of men and women also appeared. Xu Jie not only ignored them, but also protected these people and colluded with the government to suppress them. There were complaints in the good village, and the people who wanted to manage him were transferred away by him in collusion with the government.
As a person who has served as a chief minister, these may not be anything, but as a famous official and a person who pays great attention to honor and integrity, Xu Jie should never do this. Xu Jie did not benefit from doing this, because his later years were polluted, and Xu Jie eventually died of illness in his hometown at the age of 81.
Xu Jie's Tomb
In order to defeat Yan Song, the treacherous prime minister, Xu Jie paid a huge price, even at the cost of his own granddaughter.
But Xu Jie's old age was not good, because in his later years he did not maintain his reputation and began to do things that were rampant in the countryside. He also colluded with officials and punished his own official Hai Rui, who was dismissed from office. He eventually died of illness in his hometown at the age of eighty-one.
However, people have always been concerned about Xu Jie’s tomb. There are very few records in historical documents, and only fragments can be found in other documents. It seems to be in today's Heping Town, but the specific location is not shown in the history.
Now it is said that the tomb of Xu Jie was discovered in Heping Town, at the foot of the east mountain of Heping Town. The tomb of Xu Jie is now found behind a peach forest. With a high mountain at its back, it is a tomb facing the west and overlooking the plain. From the perspective of Feng Shui, this tomb is quite good. At the same time, a pair of relatively complete stone structures were found beside the tomb, which may have been used by stone beasts to suppress the tomb.
When people discovered it, Xu Jie’s skeleton was in the tomb, not buried underground, because the entire tomb had been visited by tomb robbers, and only broken tablets and broken tablets were left on the ground. The coffin was nowhere to be found. The tomb is a single cave, which is relatively simple and can only accommodate one coffin. This is consistent with historical records.
The tombstone of Xu Jie’s tomb has disappeared, and we have no way of confirming that this is Xu Jie’s tomb. We can only infer from historical records that this is Xu Jie’s tomb, but we cannot be completely sure yet. We need to wait for historical experts identification.