Zhang Juzheng was brilliant from an early age, was appreciated by many people, and he accumulated certain knowledge and experience, laying the foundation for his later officialship and promulgation of relevant policy reforms. It is said that before Zhang Juzheng was born, his great-grandfather dreamed of a full moon falling into the water tank, illuminating the surrounding area brightly, lining a white turtle in the water tank, Zhang Juzheng's grandfather thought that the white turtle in this dream was Zhang Juzheng, and then after Zhang Juzheng was born, he gave him a nickname "Bai Gui". In this story, we can also feel the extraordinary nature of this person.
Former residence of Zhang Juzheng
As a courtier, Zhang Juzheng cared for the people and devoted himself to the welfare of the peasants, and in his career, he promulgated policies on land reform and taxation, the most famous of which was the "one whip law" reform, and, after practice, this policy was well implemented, the grain production increased, the people were rich, the taxes were paid on time and in quantity, the treasury was abundant, and the whole country was safe and secure. Economic prosperity, the people enjoy a comfortable life, so that there is less war and turmoil, which is also the benefit of reform. All this is inseparable from Zhang Juzheng, the driving force behind these reform policies, and if he did not advocate such policies, there would be no such scene.
In the context of that era of heavy agriculture and suppression of commerce, Zhang Juzheng did not persuade the emperor to suppress the development of commerce like other ministers, he was different from other people's vision, blindly degrading the status of commerce and merchants, on the contrary, he considered long-term interests, so he did not make up his mind about commerce, and when he reformed agriculture, he did not mention that merchants should raise taxes and fees.
Zhang Juzheng TV series
Zhang Juzheng was most criticized by posterity for advising the Wanli Emperor to be frugal, but his daily life was extravagant. It is said that the palanquin where Zhang Ju is sitting needs more than thirty people to lift up together, the area can reach forty or fifty square meters, where is the ancient palanquin, it can be said that it is an ancient version of the luxury caravan, the configuration is also quite high, tea table, chair, etc. Are complete, using the best materials to lining his identity.
"Work in the country, clumsy in the body" is the judgment made by Hai Rui, who was an official in the same dynasty as Zhang Juzheng at that time and was known as "Qingtian". Hai Rui is known as "Qingtian", just and righteous, jealous and evil like a vendetta, this kind of person should be good at plotting, not good at plotting, but Hai Rui finally got a good death, won the name of his life and death, and was admired by people for hundreds of years; And Zhang Juzheng went from a commoner to a commoner and finally to Zaifu, gathering the power of the world in one, and being able to do so, shows that Zhang Juzheng is extremely good at strategizing, but Zhang Juzheng's final fate is very tragic. After his death, all his deeds were denied by the Divine Sect, and his son either committed suicide or was assigned, and even the mansion of his hometown was surrounded by local officials and people, and finally more than a dozen family members were trapped alive and starved to death inside.
In history, all reformers, most of them did not have a good ending in the end, Shang Martin was split by the car, Chao was cut off by the waist, and the reason why Zhang Juzheng ended up in such a situation was also because of the implementation of reform, just as he wrote to himself: Willing to serve the dust with a deep heart, and not to seek benefits from himself.
Zhang Juzheng in the outer circle and the inner side, after ascending to the position of Zaifu, was known as the "Huo Guang" of the Ming Dynasty, which shows that his power at that time was so great that when he was an official, he could not do anything at all, and it was enough to retire from the whole body, and he could even be a faint Zaifu who did nothing, but Zhang Juzheng chose to carry out reforms by means of thunderbolts, the people of Inner Security, and the external peace and barbarism, which made the Ming Dynasty have a ZTE atmosphere for a while.
With Zhang Juzheng's position and ability, it is easy to seek a posthumous name before and after death, and to live his family after death, not that he is clumsy in plotting, but that between the two he chose to seek the country and achieve the real "in his position, to do things".