In 1368, Zhu Zhongba was proclaimed emperor in Yingtianfu and given the title of Daming, becoming the only grass-headed Tianzi in ancient Chinese history. People say that the peasants are thick and honest, and this point cannot be seen at all in Zhu Yuanzhang, that the art of emperorhood and the art of taming people are played with by others, and even highly educated college students can only bow to the inferiority.
Strange history of the Ming Dynasty
Since Zhu Laoba established Daming, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have not been "normal", and in today's terms, they are a bunch of "strange things". Not only do you love strange things, but sitting in the country is also strange. Zhu Laoba sent the nickname "Butcher", single-handedly killed 150,000 people, from Zhu Biao's accidental "premature death", in fact, it was decided that the Ming Emperor's throne was "unclear and unclear" for a lifetime.
After Zhu Yuanzhang slaughtered more than half of the heroes, he forcibly passed the throne to his grandson from generation to generation, verifying the eternal truth - "the next generation of relatives", and then the little uncle disobeyed and snatched the throne back, Zhu Yunjiao shouted "Don't hurt my uncle", this realm is like Song Xianggong. After that, there was the Second Emperor Zhu Qizhen of Tianshun, who said that the Ming Dynasty throne was really easy to grab. Then there are Jiajing and Wanli, a "Xiu Xian duo" who are addicted to alchemy, whose ancestors and grandchildren have not "met" for half a century, and there is a toddler Emperor of the Apocalypse in Handan, and finally there is a "last emperor" who "does it himself" and no one believes it, and finally hangs himself on the coal mountain.
Regarding the death method of the Ming Emperor, there are unknown whereabouts, there are overworked that cause the recurrence of old diseases, some are scared to death, some are poisoned by taking Dan medicine, some are fat, some are killed by taking medicine, some are almost strangled, some are depressed, and some are hanged on crooked neck trees. In addition to Zhu Yuanzhang and a few normal people, there were 16 emperors in the 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, but few of them died, and only a few survived to the age of forty. "Brother to brother" was fully verified in the Ming Dynasty and had to be lamented.
For the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, we are not easy to say whether he is a emperor or a Ming jun, but we can only say that some of the merits are greater than the excesses, some are greater than the merits, and some of the merits are mixed. For example, Zhu Houxi, an alchemist who idolized "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty," rectified the administration of officials in the early stages, observed the people's feelings, reduced military service, restored and developed national strength, and was even once called "Jiajing Zhongxing" by some historians. However, it turns out that the word "ZTE" is used badly and is not worth anything at all. As long as the national strength is slightly improved, it seems that it can be called ZTE, such as Zhu Houxi's grandson Zhu Yijun.
In the early days of the reign of Emperor Mingshen Zhu Yijun, he successfully created the "Wanli Zhongxing" through the Wanli New Deal. It can be seen how important it is to have a good old woman, which the "Lafayette" of the Qing Dynasty cannot be compared at all. Empress Li was wise and sophisticated, and successfully resolved the "suspicion of the lord and the country", participated in the government and did not chaos in the government, and the people found the cadre Zhang Juzheng. With the help of an old lady on the inside and a sage such as Zhang Juzheng on the outside, he was stunned to cultivate a "Dark Jun" into a "Ming Jun" by tightening the reins.
However, after Zhang Juzheng's death, the battered Empress Li alone was unable to control Zhu Yijun, who revealed her "heroic nature". From then on, this "wild horse" began to run wildly. After liquidating the "Zhang Dang", Wan Li finally breathed a long sigh of relief. So he found an excuse to be intimidated by the group of courtiers, and made up his mind to retake the "grandfather road". Concentrate on refining Dan, do not ask about political affairs, even so, renjia is the longest reigning emperor of the Ming Dynasty, 3 years more than his grandfather to practice Dan.
Pie in the sky
The emperor of Jiajing was purely a pie that fell from the sky and fell right on the head of this teenage teenager.
Jiajing was the grandson of Emperor Mingxianzong Zhu Jianshen, whose father was Yuán (朱祐杬), the prince of Xian, who was the fourth son of Emperor Chenghua Zhu Jianshen. At this time, the emperor's successor was Zhu Jianshen's third son, that is, The Ming Emperor Zhu Youxian (chēng), but unfortunately Zhu Youfan was not close to a woman, had only one wife in his life, ascended the throne at the age of eighteen, and was only thirty-six years old when he died, the most virtuous "good man" in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, who reversed the decline of daming and was a lord of Zhongxing.
Zhu Youfan had two sons and a daughter, but except for the eldest son Zhu Houzhao, the other two died very early. So the throne was handed over to Zhu Houzhao, who did not do the right thing, and Zhu Houzhao squandered the family property left by Lao Tzu's hard work (like the general surnamed Zhang), and then hung up in the year of establishment, not even a son, so according to the principle of "brother to brother and brother" in the "Emperor Ming Ancestral Training", he began to screen the emperor. As a result, Zhu Houzhao's brother Zhu Houwei has also hung up.
There was no way, everyone began to push up impatiently, coincidentally, Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youxi's two older brothers also had no heirs, so they found their younger brother Zhu Youxi, and more coincidentally, Zhu Youxi's eldest son Zhu Houxi was also hanging, so Empress Zhang and Yang Tinghe found Zhu Youxi's second son Zhu Houxi, shouting that the boy is you, you can make us easy to find. Zhu Houxi (cōng), later Jiajing, personally believes that the probability of Jiajing winning the lottery is greater than this probability.
Jiajing was only 14 years old at that time, but he had extraordinary courage and boldness, and he saw through the "conspiracy" of Empress Zhang and Yang Tinghe at a glance, because in Chinese history, all those who were enthroned as emperors basically became "children's emperors", who were at the mercy of others and had no real power. Even some promising emperors often chose to "accumulate thick and thin hair". There are very few people like Jiajing who have not overturned the car, just take Cao Xian (máo) in the Three Kingdoms period, who was directly killed by Sima Zhao on the carriage, and this scene is said in the old version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
When Jiajing arrived outside the city, he suddenly stopped going in, because Zhang Yang and his men asked Jiajing to enter the palace as the "crown prince", in fact, they recognized Empress Zhang as Jiajing's mother in disguise. Jia Jing immediately said: My brother asked me to inherit the throne, not to be a son. There was no way for the two sides to stalemate, and in the end, Zhang Yang and the two compromised.
Just after succeeding to the throne, Jiajing "discussed" with the Qunchen about the title of his own parents. In a large number of objections, the three-year-long "Great Ceremony" dispute, Jiajing once again laughed to the end, so his father became the emperor, and his mother became the empress. Ten years later, his father had a temple number again, and the tablet was raised to the Taimiao Temple, ranking above Zhu Houzhao of the Ming WuZong, and the tomb of the king was also turned into an imperial tomb. Because of this incident, the emperor and the courtiers did not want to see each other, and also laid the groundwork for Jiajing not to go to the court afterwards.
Zhu Houxi also refused the era name "Shaozhi" given by his ministers because of Jiajing's principle of "inheriting the unification and not succeeding the heirs", and still won the victory. These are things that his grandson Wanli could not do. One is tired of meetings, and the other is gambling not to meet. There is an essential difference.
Firmly control the power
Finally, let me tell you about the questions that many people have in mind. It is that the grandchildren and grandchildren do not meet, why the power is not sidelined.
First of all, Zhu Yuanzhang's abolition of the prime minister helped a lot. Since the Hu Weiyong case, the thousand-year-old chancellor system has been abolished, and the imperial power has been strengthened as never before. Moreover, Zhu Laoba's deeds also shocked the courtiers of later generations, after all, they were the masters of the past and the future. In addition, the cabinet set up by Zhu Di is also of great help in handling state affairs, unlike the prime minister, the first assistant of the cabinet is far from the actual power of the prime minister, just like Yan Song, Wei Zhongxian and others, who are not the emperor's words, and then obediently return to their "hometown".
Secondly, during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, Jinyiwei was established, and Zhu Di and later set up two factories in the east and west, and Jinyiwei were collectively called "factory guards". The power of these three "departments" is almost second only to that of the emperor, obeying the imperial power, responsible for monitoring the courtiers and local officials, no matter which official makes a small movement, the emperor will know immediately, and the factory guards have "special power", some things can be cut first and then played, so that the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu is terrified, which to a great extent restricts the actions of the courtiers. This is why after the establishment of the West Factory, there was a lot of opposition, and finally the emperor had to revoke it.
In the end, Jiajing and Wanli were both very intelligent and quite skilled in taming people, especially Jiajing. In addition to the founding "two" emperors of the entire Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that no one can match it, and it is not difficult to see from our introduction above. Jiajing has cultivated multiple forces, and the use of multiple forces to restrain each other can play a good role in balancing and balancing, and he only needs to reap the benefits of the fisherman.
In fact, a large part of the reason for asking this question is that the concept is confused. Equating the emperor's absence from the court is equivalent to not handling government affairs. In fact, it is just a change of means and place for handling political affairs. Going to the DPRK is like holding a meeting, sometimes meeting in the morning to exchange views, and not going to the DPRK can also be summoned separately, just like some business leaders like to open a small stove. Jiajing was only transferring the place where the affairs of the imperial government were handled from the imperial hall to the West Garden, and xiu xian did not delay in approving the reading.
Before, many people asked me what was the reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty. Some people say that they died in party strife, some people say that they died in Donglin, some people say that they died in Zhu Yuanzhang's abolition of the chancellor, some people say that they died in Wanli's slack government, and some people say that they died in Chongzhen and will not use people.
I would say that there is some truth to all of these statements. A thousand readers has a thousand Hamlets. The rise and fall of a dynasty is often not determined by one cause, but by all the negative factors superimposed on top of each other, and quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.