In Chinese history, many outstanding politicians and reformers have been born, such as Shang Yang, Wang Anshi, Zhang Juzheng and others, but they all ended up with the word "miserable".
Zhang Juzheng was the chief assistant of the cabinet during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and he held the power of government. Not only that, he is also the teacher of the emperor, and often tells the little emperor his life. Above the officialdom, in the palace, he is noble and extraordinary. During Zhang Juzheng's tenure, he analyzed the current disadvantages and carried out drastic reforms to make politics present a clear and bright scene.
At this time, the treasury is full, and it is really the rule of the world. With one person, he restored the country's decline in the late Ming Dynasty, and even continued the Ming Dynasty for decades. But there is no perfect person in the world. Even after Zhang Juzheng died for the country, he once served as an official for his sons and walked through the back door.
Zhang Juzheng was called a child prodigy when he was a child, and he had the gift of reading at a young age. When he was participating in the provincial examination, Huguang Governor Gu Lin went to see him in person and had high hopes for him. He once said to others that "this son will be a talent."
also untied the belt symbolizing his own grade and gave it to Zhang Juzheng, saying that he would go further than himself in the future.
Providing for a scholar has not been an easy task since ancient times. In the ancient times when living conditions were poor, it was even more difficult for many to obtain fame and fame. However, Zhang Juzheng ancestor once fought with Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and was given a hereditary petty official.
So the family supported Zhang Juzheng to study. Furthermore, Zhang Juzheng has shown unparalleled talents since he was a child, and there is no reason not to let him study.
Pu Songling took the exam until he was more than 70 years old, and only became a small official of one year old, but Zhang Juzheng became a reserve for high officials at the age of twenty-three. The origin of Shu Jishi is very important. As a reserve official of the Imperial Academy, Shu Jishi caters to the rule of "non-jinshis do not enter the Imperial Academy, and non-hanlin officials do not enter the cabinet".
Therefore, those who were admitted to the Jinshi and became the custards may be members of the cabinet in the future, and in the eyes of people, they are delicious.
When Zhang Juzheng entered the court, he caught up with Yan Song in power, and the government was dim. This is a social ill, and it is also an opportunity for Zhang Juzheng. Xu Jie, who defeated Yan Song, caught Zhang Juzheng with a glance, believing that Zhang Juzheng was determined and talented. After Xu Jie was promoted to the first assistant, he carefully cultivated Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng was promoted to attend a bachelor's degree and was in charge of the Imperial Academy.
After the death of Jiajing, Emperor Longqing ascended the throne. Xu Jie was still the first assistant of the court, while Zhang Juzheng continued to rise up and became the assistant minister of the staff and the scholar of Dongge. He entered the cabinet and participated in the affairs of the court. Decision-making.
"History of Ming Dynasty·Volume 213·Zhang Juzheng Biography": Sejong collapsed, the edict of order grass, led to complicity. The right servant of the Ministry of Relocation and the Bachelor of Hanlin Academy. For more than a month, he joined with Chen Yiqin, the former lecturer of Yudi, and Ju Zheng was the assistant secretary of the staff and Dongge.
Zhang Juzheng needs to be talented, capable, and handsome. He was also regarded as his successor by the head of the court. This life is not a bad one. And all of this was made step by step by his own true ability. Who could have imagined that Zhang Juzheng, a strong man who later reformed for the people of the world, would become an official road for his son, and he has no lower limit.
Zhang Juzheng, together with the chief eunuch Feng Bao, the chief eunuch, the emperor’s birth mother, formed a powerful political alliance. Although it cannot be seen on the surface, in the dark, all three of them are connected. Breathing.
So there are people inside and outside to support, Zhang Juzheng himself sat in the position of the top of the hundred officials-Shoufu, began a vigorous reform.
Zhang Juzheng had a passion when he was young. He saw the low-level people exploited by officials in his hometown, and he also saw the dignitaries who frequently drink and have fun in the mansion. He looked at this different class relationship, and he felt from the bottom of his heart that he has the responsibility to change this cannibalistic society!
Therefore, Zhang Juzheng issued a whiplash law and cleared the land. The corvee and taxes were collected together, and all were converted into silver. In this way, the places that the local officials can deduct are greatly reduced, and the taxes that the local authorities conceal and fail to pay are all collected one by one.
AlthoughAlthough it seriously violated the interests of the landlord class, it has benefited the people, and it has also improved the efficiency of the government's tax collection and ruled the world. On the matter of reform, Zhang Juzheng was upright, even if the teacher Xu Jie annexed the land in his hometown, Zhang Juzheng did not show any mercy.
However, people have selfishness, and Zhang Juzheng is no exception.
When his eldest son was about to take an examination as an official, Zhang Juzheng couldn't sit still. Angrily ordered to stop the "Guan Election", this willful behavior, so that the group of officials lost the opportunity to become officials.
The eldest son is not up to date, and the other sons are not much better. During the scientific examination, Zhang Juzheng deliberately wanted his son to be admitted to Jinshi, so he appointed his subordinate Zhang Siwei as the chief examiner. Relying on the trust and connivance of the queen dowager and the emperor, a few people with real talents were selected to accompany the test. When he learned that Tang Xianzu was very famous, he used the power of the prime minister to coerce and lure.
Who feeds Tang Xianzu, who is not afraid of power, cleans himself and is unmoved. In the end, Tang Xianzu's name fell to Sunshan, and during the period when Zhang Juzheng was the first assistant, Tang Xianzu fell forever.
I have to say that Zhang Juzheng favors children in this way, is spoiling, will drown the children, and corrupt his character.
Zhang Juzheng always diligently educates in front of Emperor Wanli, specially compiling books for the emperor, and he will take care of whatever the emperor does. There may not be any disgust at first, but always treating the little emperor harshly is not a way to gain favorability, and even aroused disgust from Emperor Wanli.
It didn't take long for Zhang Juzheng to be impeached. The officials all tried to figure out the holy will. Knowing that the emperor was going to deal with him, they pretended to flatter him and ignored him.
His eldest son Zhang Jingxiu, faced with the pressing pressure, and the emperor’s quiet push, leaving behind a cry of grief and indignation, he committed suicide. This shocked Shen Shixing, the first assistant at the time, who was also a student of Zhang Juzheng. He immediately played the emperor's mention of this, but because of his face, the emperor had to play.
Zhang Juzheng took great pains to be an official for his son, but his son was never that piece of material, and he did not continue his father's wisdom.
Zhang Juzheng ruled the country for ten years. He took over power and became the opposite of Shenzong. Although he was responsible for state affairs, in Shenzong's heart, it was a manifestation of committing crimes and being ignorant.
Wanli ten years ago, Zhang Juzheng died of illness, and Pan Sheng, the official book of the Ministry of Rites recommended during his lifetime, was impeached and was removed before he could take office. The impeachment of Pan Sheng also marked Zhang Juzheng's fall from grace. The Minister of Korea and Central China set his sights on the late Zhang Juzheng, including some "black box operations" that he had done as an official for his son before he was alive.
So Ming Shenzong ordered the ransacking of the house, and cut off his palace ranks, forcibly seized the seal book and the four generations of envoys given during his lifetime, showed the world with a crime, and was almost opened and whip the body. The family was dragged to death, and was exiled.
Zhang Juzheng is a clear conscience in his life, he has lived up to his outstanding talents and has not given up his ideals. But after all, no one is perfect. Zhang Juzheng may be an official, but he cannot. He failed to deal with the relationship with the emperor, and was eventually ransacked, the eldest son committed suicide, and the second son became the army.
The world is unpredictable, but at this time, we still have to do it boldly. Although Zhang Juzheng opened the back door for his son, his son was no better than Lao Tzu after all, and he did nothing. This also reminds us to distinguish between public and private, and we must not violate our original intention of being an official for the small profit of our family.
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