After the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, the new monarch of the Ming Dynasty ascended the throne, and this new monarch did a big thing as soon as he came to power, and this big thing was to "eradicate the castration party". Some say that the Chongzhen Emperor eradicated the castration party of Wei Zhongxian and his ilk because of the speed of the moment, because he was also threatened by his henchmen, or because he threatened the succession of Zhu Youjian, the Prince of Xin. But the truth is not so superficial and simple. Because the Chongzhen Emperor just did one thing he should do after he ascended the throne.
There are always people who feel that Wei Zhongxian's death is a loss of the Ming Dynasty and the reason for hastening the fall of the Ming Dynasty. But the wheel of history tells me that in this world, a regime, a monarch, a leader, no matter who has left, which minister has left, can continue to operate, so the demise of the Ming Dynasty is not accelerated because of its death, but because of many multifaceted reasons.
The reason why the Emperor of the Apocalypse would tell Chongzhen that Wei Qing could be reused was because the Emperor of the Apocalypse was well aware of the use of eunuchs to oppose the Power Techniques of the Donglin Party, but at that time, the young man was vigorous, and Chongzhen, who lived in the palace and did not know the power of the deep palace and did not know the art of balance, was very confused about his brother's words, because in his opinion Wei Zhongxian would not be able to kill.
First of all, we need to know that a series of measures such as increasing the merchant tax are not what Wei Zhongxian issued and created, but the result of Zhang Taiyue's reform during the Wanli period, and the reason why Wei Eunuch will continue to use it is to follow the ancestral system, the second is to increase the finances of the palace and reduce the deficit, and the third is to crack down on the interests of the "Donglin Party" people.
And the execution of these things, everyone still thinks that the Emperor of the Apocalypse does not know? The Emperor of the Apocalypse was not emperor, and he also knew very well the way of the Jiajing Emperor and the Wanli Emperor that Wei Zhongxian was just a machine and a means for him to fight against the Donglin Party, because the Emperor of the Apocalypse, as the fulcrum of balance, could not always stand up to the Donglin Party members head-on, so he intelligently relied on Wei Eunuch to expound his own meaning.
People in the Ming Dynasty always say that it is death and Jiajing, but Zhang Taiyue's reform during the Wanli years, the history books clearly record that it has the role of reviving the dead, and there are still people who take this to say things, and people who see it thoroughly will understand that the demise of the Ming Dynasty was not a death of Jiajing and Wanli, but a party struggle.
When talking about Zhu You's stubble of killing Wei Zhongxian, we have to mention a concept, Wei Zhongxian is just a domestic slave, and whether he kills him or not, his role is not that of him, but an organization, a group———— "eunuch group". Wanli Emperor liquidated Taiyue, the Ming Dynasty did not shake, because Wanli still respected his policy, what was overthrown was only this person, Chongzhen's mistake was not to kill this eunuch, not to liquidate Wei Zhongxian, but not to continue to attack the Donglin Party according to his ideas, but also to despise the role of the eunuch party, after the attack on Wei eunuch did not choose and cultivate in time to continue to balance the strength of those civilian official groups, so it led to the imbalance between the imperial power and the "tug-of-war" of the civil officials in the later period.
During the 17-year reign of the Chongzhen Emperor, if after killing Wei Zhongxian, he cultivated substitutes in time, played the role of Dongchang and Jinyiwei to continue to contain these Donglin parties, became less suspicious and trusting when employing people, and then slowly improved the status of military generals to further turn the situation of the imperial court into pluralism, and perhaps such measures would play a better role.