Historical merits, let posterity comment, we look at historical figures, can not simply judge him as good or bad, but to analyze from all aspects, for example, the Sui Dynasty Emperor in the past many people thought that he was a tyrant, in fact, he opened the internal examination, chiseled canals, cut mongolia abroad, three conquests of Goguryeo, which laid the foundation for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Hongzhang, although he embezzled military funds, enriched himself, but made his own contribution to the modernization of China.
The 8th emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen, may not know much about him, in fact, the ming Dynasty's notorious West Factory was set up by Zhu Jianshen, and the "History of Ming" commented that Zhu Jianshen "Gu appointed Wang Zhi, the West Factory was arbitrary, stole the authority, and viciously tricked the soldiers." Fu Ming was deceived by the emperor's judgment, and after a long time, he realized that the disaster of the women's temple was terrible. ”
Even the historian Bai Shouyi said: "Zhu Jianshen was not a good emperor who worked hard to govern and make a difference. "But is that really the case?
Zhu Jianshen's childhood can be described as very bumpy. In the 14th year of orthodoxy (1499), Zhu Jianshen, who was not yet two years old, was made crown prince by his father Ming Yingzong, this year, Emperor Ming Yingzong defied opposition, insisted on pro-conquest, and as a result, he was defeated and captured, in order to prevent the state from having no chief, Yu Qian and other ministers consulted with the empress dowager, and decided to support the emperor's younger brother Zhu Qiyu to come to power, which is also the Ming Dynasty Emperor, after the failure of the attack on Beijing, the Ming Emperor deposed the crown prince Zhu Jianshen and replaced his son Zhu Jianji as the crown prince, did not expect that Zhu Jianji would die two years later, so the position of crown prince was vacant for a long time. Zhu Jianshen always lived in fear. All this changed with the change of the chancellor launching the door seizure and the ascension of Emperor Ming Yingzong to the throne, and Zhu Jianshen once again sat in the position of crown prince, and succeeded to the throne after the death of Emperor Ming Yingzong in 1464.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty, because of many wars, had long been crumbling, there were disaster victims everywhere, Thieves were prevalent in Huguang and other places in Sichuan, there were Mongol tribes looking at the tigers outside, after Zhu Jianshen took the throne, he immediately ordered the governors of all places to lead heavy troops to clear the payment, break the bandits, and resettle the victims, in September 1467, Jianzhou Jurchen repeatedly violated the border, Zhu Jianshen gathered 50,000 troops of the imperial court, let Zhao Fu take command, the soldiers attacked Jurchen in three ways, and let the Korean troops help, under the attack of the two sides, Jianzhou Jurchen was seriously injured and almost exterminated. Since then, it has not been able to attack the Central Plains for decades.
And he deserves the most praise, is to help the minister Yu Qian to rehabilitate, Yu Qian is the minister who advocated the ming emperor to come to power, he is also the enemy of the father and son of ming yingzong, ming yingzong knows this point to kill the humble pain, but Zhu Jian, who understands the great righteousness, knows in his heart that Yu Qian is only for the sake of this country, although this may threaten his orthodox status, he still issued an edict for Yu Qian's rehabilitation, which is very courageous.
It can be said that it is zhu jianshen's series of operations that pulled the Ming Dynasty from the situation of peril, suppressed strong enemies externally, nurtured disaster victims internally, and let the Ming Dynasty last for another 160 years, Zhu Jianshen can be said to be the most underrated emperor of the Ming Dynasty, if it were not for him, the Ming Dynasty would probably fall into warlord division like the Tang Dynasty, or as the Song Dynasty was invaded by nomads, Zhu Jianshen also had many places worth criticizing in the late period, eunuch dictatorship, nepotism, but this still can not hide his shining point.