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What was the Guangningmen incident during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty? How to treat the Guangningmen incident?

1607, the magistrate of Taixing County, Jiangsu Province was demoted due to poor examination results. At that time, when he went to Guangningmen, he met the relevant personnel who were collecting taxes. At that time, when they saw the magistrate coming, they extorted money. But it turned out that there was no money on the feeder line, so these tax inspectors punched and kicked him, and the sheriff died unfortunately. At that time, it had a great influence on the whole Ming Dynasty. After the magistrate was killed by these people, someone wrote to the monarch. At that time, the monarch was very angry after learning about this incident and executed the main participants. All the officials involved but not the main participants were expelled. In the whole history of China, the monarch with the greatest anti-corruption efforts should be Zhu Yuanzhang. However, after the mid-Ming Dynasty, with the increasingly corrupt mechanism of the whole country, the system formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang did not play its due role. Cheating in scientific research often happened at that time. It is said that these civil and military officials have to be assessed every year, but in fact, these officials can pass the exam as long as they bribe the examiner. Moreover, these examiners also borrowed their power to openly accept bribes, from which we can imagine how corrupt the whole Ming Dynasty was at that time. Moreover, most officials at that time did not rely on real skills. Some officials got their current positions by buying their own officials. These people have no talent themselves, so they can't contribute to the country. In other words, buying officials became a very common phenomenon at that time, which made the ruling order of the whole Ming Dynasty chaotic. At that time, these officials in the Ming Dynasty chose to exert constant pressure on these ordinary people in order to win more salaries for themselves. These poor people in the Ming Dynasty, however, paid more and more taxes and bore a very heavy tax burden. Life is not as easy as the rulers of the Ming Dynasty thought at first.