Question/ The great hero you don't know about in the Wanli New Deal - the eunuch Feng Bao
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The Ming Dynasty can be said to be the most serious dynasty in Chinese history in which eunuchs interfered in politics, and eunuchs such as Wang Zhen, Wei Zhongxian, and Liu Jin rebelled against the court, mutilating Zhongliang, and being disgraced by the world.
But not all eunuchs are traitors, and there was a virtuous eunuch in the history of the Ming Dynasty--that is, the great eunuch Feng Bao.
Everyone knows that the Wanli New Deal can be smoothly implemented, and he has made a lot of contributions.
1. Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng
Feng Bao can be said to be the closest person to the Wanli Emperor, as early as the Wanli Emperor's childhood, Feng Bao accompanied the Wanli Emperor. Teach the Wanli Emperor to walk, talk, and play. Wan Li also liked Feng Bao very much, calling him "big partner", which means "partner friend". Both the empress dowager and the emperor trusted him.
Later, Wanli's father died, the young Wanli Emperor ascended the throne, and Feng Bao naturally rose to the top and became the red man of the Wanli Emperor, and was further reused and promoted to the palm seal eunuch, reaching the highest peak of his life.
At the beginning of the Wanli Calendar, due to the emperor's young age, Feng Bao often taught the Wanli Emperor to study more and do practical things. Later, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, managed the government. Eunuchs and ministers have been at odds since ancient times, and it is even more normal for the two sides to compete for power. But this Feng Bao is different, he has been educated since he was a child, has a good cultural literacy, and knows the general situation for others. Therefore, in the early Wanli period, he formed a political alliance with Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet.
Later, when Zhang Juzheng implemented the Wanli New Deal and implemented the "One Whip Law", Feng Bao, as the eunuch of the Interior Minister, gave great support, so that Zhang Juzheng's policy could be smoothly implemented, and the Ming Dynasty once had a revival situation. Zhang Juzheng was able to successfully rank first assistant, and in addition to the support of the empress, Feng Bao also contributed a lot.
2. Forge a vendetta
Feng Bao, as the personal eunuch of the Wanli Emperor, was also responsible for supervising the words and deeds of the Wanli Emperor. Once, the Wanli Emperor drank wine and made trouble, Feng Bao told the empress dowager about this matter, the empress dowager was very angry when she learned of it, and almost wanted to depose the Wanli Emperor, although it was not abolished in the end, but let the Wanli Emperor kneel outside the Cining Palace for six hours, and issued a "sin self-edict".
This incident made the Wanli Emperor develop hatred for Feng Bao beside him. However, due to the fact that the empress dowager was overseeing the state at this time, and Zhang Juzheng was in charge, the Wanli Emperor did not do anything to Feng Bao. But the seeds of hatred were deeply planted.
3. The eunuch's last road
In the tenth year of the Wanli Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the first generation, died, and Feng Bao lost his most important political partner, and the empress dowager at this time also returned the power of the country to the Wanli Emperor.
On december of the tenth month of the Wanli Dynasty (the eighth day of the first month), Li Zhishang of Jiangxi Province impeached Feng Bao for twelve major crimes. Since Feng Bao had no one to rely on at this time, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee began to impeach Feng Bao one-sidedly.
In the end, Wanli decreed: "Feng Bao deceived the king and the kingdom, the crime was deep, and he should have been killed." He served for a long time, so he was demoted to the imperial court from a wide range and sent to a new house in Nanjing to live idle. ”
Feng Baofa was sent to Nanjing, and many years later, he died of illness in Nanjing. In the later period, when raiding Feng Bao's home, countless gold and silver were copied out.
Fourth, why did the Wanli Emperor liquidate Feng Bao
The Wanli Emperor attacked Feng Bao, on the one hand, because of his resentment for many years, but more importantly, to strengthen the imperial power. In the early years of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao, and Empress Li formed a famous iron triangle alliance. Although the existence of this alliance ensured the effective implementation of the Wanli New Deal, it also overshadowed imperial power.
In the early years of Wanli, nature did not matter. But as the Wanli Emperor grew older, he was more hungry for power in his hands. After Zhang Juzheng's death, the Wanli Emperor began to liquidate Zhang Juzheng, with the purpose of regaining the authority of the emperor, and Feng Bao, as Zhang Juzheng's political partner, naturally could not avoid it.
5. Summary
Feng Bao was an outstanding politician and a first-class hero of the Wanli New Deal, and during his tenure, he was loyal to the Wanli Emperor and always urged the emperor to learn. As an old fox who was in the official field, he would not know that the emperor could not be offended, but in order to make the Wanli Emperor a Ming Jun, he finally reported the mistakes of the Wanli Emperor to Empress Li, and as a result, he was hated by the emperor.
Although Feng Bao was also greedy for money, he did not cause trouble in the court, and compared with Wei Zhongxian and the like, he was already very good.