Historically, the reigning emperors have basically been rational and opportunistic, working for state affairs from morning to night, approving the folds to see the ministers, and spending every day considering national construction and expanding the territory. In the Ming Dynasty, there was such an emperor who did not go to the early dynasty for 28 years, did not see ministers, and did not pay attention to state affairs. The chancellor didn't even know what he looked like, and he reigned for a particularly long time, a total of 48 years. He was the third son of Zhu Zaikun, who was made crown prince of the Eastern Palace in 1568, and when Emperor Mingmuzong died in 1572, he succeeded to the throne as Wanli, when he was only 10 years old.
It can be said that he was still a child at that time, so how to manage a country at such a young age? Fortunately, his father left a dedicated loyal cabinet chief assistant - Zhang Juzheng, who implemented a lot of reform plans, and the society at that time, whether it was economic or life, had greatly improved, and even created the "Wanli ZTE". Later, the loyal minister died, probably because there was no one to spur and assist, and the emperor began to be bored with the government. In the fourteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, he began to indulge in drinking, his health became worse and worse, on the first day of the first lunar month of the 17th year of the Wanli Calendar, he did nothing, and in the 31st year of the Wanli Calendar, he felt that the Upper Dynasty was very troublesome, even the Upper Dynasty did not go, and the country could basically be said to be unmanaged and stopped running. All the ways of dealing with the government were conveyed down in the form of edicts, and in the end even the folds were not approved.
In 1586, Lu Hongchun, the head of the ceremonial department, played: Zhu Yijun "drank and played music day and night". In the same year, because of the struggle for the crown prince, it also evolved into a protracted "dispute over the foundation of the country", and the matter of establishing a prince was fought with the cabinet for more than ten years. But this emperor did not care, in the last thirty years of his reign, he did not even come out of the palace gate, everything was not managed, the ministers did not see, and did not say anything, so that many ministers did not even know what he looked like. The important ministers of the state are anxious about the unmanaged management of the country, and there is nothing they can do but do it.
Although he did not go to the court, he did not experience the rebellion of eunuchs, nor did anyone else interfere in politics, let alone make trouble with traitors, and there were people inside and outside the court who controlled him. He dealt with all major matters, such as the Japanese attack on Korea, the Jurchen invasion, and the attack. Therefore, although he ignored the general state politics, he still paid attention to important national affairs and was under his control.
Therefore, although some of the government is abandoned, many times it is said that he is a mingjun. Specifically, during his reign, he presided over the "Three Expeditions of the Wanli Calendar" and carried out three large-scale military activities in the northwest and southwest frontiers and Korea. They were the Battle of Ningxia in which Li Rusong pacified the Mongol rebellion, the Battle of Li Rusong, the Battle of Korea in which Magui resisted the invasion of the Japanese Toyotomi Hideyoshi regime, and the Battle of Banju in which Li Hualong pacified yang Yinglong, the head of the Miao Territory, who rebelled. All of these military campaigns were won in great victory, and these three victories consolidated the country's territory and maintained the dominance of the dynasties in East Asia.
On July 21, 48 of the Wanli calendar, he died at the age of fifty-eight, and the temple name was Shenzong, and the title Fan Tianhe Dao Zhe Su Dun Jian Guang Article Wu An Ren Zhi Xiao Xian Emperor was buried in Dingling. After his death, his eldest son Zhu Changluo ascended to the throne, and only 24 years after his death, the dynasty collapsed. Perhaps because he succeeded to the throne too early and did not enjoy the joy of childhood, he was sluggish during his reign, which really had a great relationship with the subsequent destruction of the country, which may directly lead to the defeat of the country. It can only be said that when he first reigned, he was really diligent and sincere, and it can be said that he was a Ming Jun, and if he could persist at that time, he might achieve a brilliant dynasty.
Text: The wind is soft and the river is water
Literature from Ming Shi Vol. 20, Honji No. 20, Ming Shilu, Divine Scrolls