The long-awaited "Fourteen Years of Chenghua" finally ushered in a hit. Judging from the plot just broadcast, this drama is positioned as a detective and light comedy, which makes many viewers feel refreshed. However, the Douban score so far is only 5.3 points. Surprisingly, many viewers have been fanned by the supporting role Wang Zhiquan, which makes people laugh and cry. In fact, Wang Zhi is a real generation of eunuchs.
What kind of person is the real Wang Zhi in history?
First talk about the life of Wang Zhi and his person. The "Sin Wei Lu · Wang Zhi Zhuan" records that Wang Zhi was "banned" and liberated the capital in the Datengxia Rui nationality uprising in Guangxi in the first year of Chenghua. In the twelfth year of Chenghua, the demon Li Zilong used talisman to confuse the inner palace eunuch Wei She. Sneak into the Long Live Mountain to live your work, and try not to choose. When the incident occurred, Xianzong was strongly disturbed that he could not always know about foreign affairs. So he ordered Wang Zhi, who was a concubine Wangui, to lead one or two school lieutenants to "secretly go out for reconnaissance" and set up the west factory outside the east factory in the first month of the following year, under the supervision of Wang Zhi.
West Factory specializes in investigating dissidents in North and South Beijing and suppressing secret private associations. Although the West Factory was newly established, because the West Factory was established by Xianzong himself, it was naturally more valued than the East Factory, so it came from behind. "The leader puts forward the Beidong Factory, and it is far from Weishang"
Wang Zhi After the admiral Xichang, he became the red human rights around Xianzong.
, as an internal prison who controls the secret service, the persecution of officials is naturally indispensable:
arrested Nanjing Town Supervisor Tan Liming, Criminal Ministry Langzhong Wuqing, Zuo Tongzheng Fangxian, Taiyuan Hospital sentenced Jiang Zongwu, Zhejiang Governor Liu Fuxia In the West Factory Prison, the philosophers of the Revolutionary Ministry, Zhang Tinggang and Huang Benwei, the pedestrians Zhang Tinggang and Yushi Huang Benweimin, confiscated the house of Jianningwei’s commander Yang Ye, and Zhulian Zhongshu Dong Yu, and Yang Shiwei, the chief of the Ministry of War, died unjustly. Instructed party members to give Shi Zhongli Xiangtang, Yu Shi Ma Guan, frame Xiang Zhong, and misfortune even his son Jing, eunuch Huang Ci, Xing Ning Bo Li Zhen, Zhang Wu Bo Yang Xin. All court officials who participated in the dismissal of Xichang, such as Shangshu Dongfang, Xue Yuan, Shi Lang Xizhao, Cheng Wanli, and dozens of others, were also forced to dismiss them one by one. Zuo Du Yushi Li Bin and Nanjing Military Department Shangshu Sun Yuan were also expelled due to their disobedience to Wang Zhi. This struggle between courtiers and Quan Huan, which focused on the issue of the rise and fall of the West Factory, finally ended with Wang Zhi's great victory.
can be said that it is precisely because of Wang Zhi's favor of Xianzong that he was able to run wild. As a qualified official,
proves his ability is the best way to ensure a stable position. So Wang Zhi loves to patrol and consolidate himself. In the 14th year of Chenghua, Wang Zhi, governor of Liaodong, took his private party and lashed at will. On all sides along the way, all historians are greeted with military uniforms and provide accounts for hundreds of miles away. In the eastern part of Liaoning, the governor, Chen Yue, "the suburbs welcome Pufu, and the kitchen is more prosperous" and bribed them. Wang Zhi insisted on betraying the law privately, constructing Yingtian governor Mu Feng, who was at odds with Chen Yue, and Jiang Chaozong, a bachelor of attendance, were imprisoned. In the fifteenth year of Chenghua, Chen Yue, a member of the party, said that the inspections should be carried out by Datong and Xuanfu, in an attempt to consolidate their own merits. Because of the merits; the army sent troops to the eastern frontier of Liaoning to be burnt and killed, which incited all the ministries to retaliate; the war ministers Ma Wensheng, Yushi Qiangzhen, and Wang Chongquan, who did not follow their own intentions, were condemned by Ma Wensheng, etc. In the case of the stick, Li Jun, Yu Shi Wang Hai and other five-one divination were in Que.
However, Wang Zhi is a special person, because among the many notorious Quan eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, his Bian Gong is second to none. In the 16th year of Chenghua, Tatar sent troops to harass Jingluwei. Wang Zhi and Wang Yue selected 20,000 elite soldiers for a long-distance attack. They succeeded in a surprise attack in Weining Haizi. In the seventeenth year of Chenghua, the Jiang Zhijian Army fought three times against the Yisi Main tribe who entered the Kou Datong and Xuan Mansion, and achieved victory in Heishiya. In February of the eighteenth year of Chenghua, he was appointed to the main towns of Datong and Xuanfu, and the special town of Datong, and had the responsibility of supervising the 12th regiment camp of the capital.
However, due to the long-term sidelines, the forces in North Korea have been weakened day by day, and his ass is not clean. Some side generals reported to Xianzong about his provocations and asked for credit, and made friends with Wang Yue and Chen Jianyong. The cabinet minister Wan'an and Zhu Yushi, on the grounds that Xichang had to disturb the officials and the people, and that Wang Zhihas banned the town, and asked Xianzong to stop Xichang. He was quickly approved, and Wang Zhi, who had lost the favor of Xianzong, began to walk. Downhill. Later, after experiencing Dongchang Shangming's report, the governor of Datong impeached Wang Zhi and the general soldier Xu Ning, leading to defeat. Xianzong slowly took Wang Zhi's military power and transferred him back to the capital. The courtiers who smelled the scent attacked decisively, impeached several times, demoted again and again, and eventually became idlers and did not know what to do.
In fact, when we evaluate people, we should not look at them from a black and white perspective. Historically, historians’ evaluations of Wang Zhi have mostly focused on his arrogance, the party’s common disagreements, the organization of China and foreign countries, the repeated provocation of prisons, and the provocation.Solid criticism. These are of course not groundless, but rather based on facts. Our evaluation of a person should start from many aspects. It is quite inappropriate to blindly belittle the eunuch group or flatly to express the rebellion against the civilian group. Compare Wang Zhi with Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, and Wei Zhongxian. It should be said that there is no doubt that in these areas, they are notorious and undisputed.
However, from the perspective of the extent of the scourge, Wang Zhi is obviously not Liu, Wang, Wei and his ilk, and the problem of arbitrarily accepting bribes and collecting corruption is not prominent. According to historical records, Wang Zhi had been in power for six years from the 13th to 18th years of Chenghua, but in fact, Wang Zhi had been holding the border for a long time after setting up the West Factory for a year, and the power in the court in the next five years was not as good as before. Although there is a saying that "you only know that there are eunuchs Wang, but you don't know that there are eunuchs," Wang Zhi, apart from fighting with courtiers and dismissing dozens of officials, does not mean that his actions can be regarded as transfer of power to
and Wang Zhi and his people are obviously Unlike Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, who are rascals, Wang Zhi framed many courtiers, but he did not tolerate dissent like Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian. When Wang Zhi patrolled the border, all the officials along the way looked at the dust, and the governor of Henan Qin Hong and the admiral Xuezheng Chen Xuan dared to resist the ceremony. At first, Wang Zhi was very surprised by this and sternly questioned, but not only did not retaliate afterwards, he also deliberately called Xiang Qinhong a person in front of Xianzong, especially when he learned that Qin Hong had impeached him, Wang Zhi also ignored it. Chen Xuan did not receive any retaliation, but was promoted to the inspectorate soon after. Coincidentally, Qin Hong was unreasonably ransacked by Liu Jin during his five years in Zhengde, and Wang Zhihao became a celebrity. For example, Yang Jizong, who is a clean official, praised him in front of Xianzong, and personally expressed his condolences when Yang died. Before Yang Jizong was still alive, Wang Zhi paid a visit admiringly, but Yang did not enter the room, Wang Zhi helplessly, and returned in anguish. .
Actually, Wang Zhi didn't have much political energy from beginning to end. Compared with Wang Zhen's smashing the iron plate of imposing eunuchs to politics by the Mingtai group, Yingzong turned one eye and closed the other and didn't know where he went.
There have been many textual researches about Wang Zhi and Wan Guifei conspiring to persecute the concubines in the harem. Most of the records are chasing after the wind. These are not detailed.
What is interesting is that Wang Zhi once put forward an important suggestion on the construction of the imperial examination system. “In the 14th year of Chenghua, he was invited by the eunuch Wang Zhi to set up a township and examine the liberal arts regulations." At the beginning of the year, Wang Zhizuo asked to expand Shiju to the township and guild examinations, so that Shiju gradually developed into a system that treats the general scribes examinations, which is conducive to the overall selection of martial arts talents. This shows his enthusiasm for military affairs.
The facts about Wang Zhi’s thirteen to eighteen years from Chenghua’s thirteen years to eighteen years of domineering, framing vendettas, repeated prosperous prisons, and the people of tea poison are conclusive. Generally speaking, its role in Chenghua was negative, but when we evaluate it, it should be understood in the context of the increasingly decadent feudal rule and the declining historical trend of the mid-Ming Dynasty. What's more, one should not simply define a historical figure as a good person or a bad person.
