In April of the twelfth year of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Mingshenzong ordered the ceremonial superintendent, the Punishment Department, the Jinyi Guards, and local officials to confiscate the family property of the late Zhang Juzheng, the head of the cabinet. The case-handling officials did not dare to be idle, and the soldiers divided into two roads, one way to Zhang Juzheng's hometown of Jiangling, and the other way directly into Zhang Juzheng's mansion in Beijing. In the process of raiding the family, the Zhang family was persecuted, and Zhang Juzheng's eldest son, Zhang Jingxiu, even committed suicide! After Zhang Juzheng died, why was he liquidated by the Wanli Emperor?
Born in Jiajing for four years, Zhang Juzheng was brilliant since childhood and was a well-known prodigy in the local area. In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, Zhang Juzheng, who was only 22 years old, was admitted to the cabinet as a scholar of Dongge University in the first year of Longqing. In June of the sixth year of Longqing, the first assistant of the cabinet, Gao Gong, was squeezed out and forced to resign, and zhang Juzheng began to become the first assistant of the cabinet. During Zhang Juzheng's reign, he carried out a drastic reform.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty was facing many crises, and the Mongols and Jurchens in the north and northeast continued to invade the interior, triggering a border crisis, and peasant uprisings continued to break out in the country, resulting in an empty treasury and a decaying situation in which the Ming Dynasty was constantly worried about internal and external troubles. It was in this context that Zhang Juzheng launched this reform. Zhang Juzheng was in charge for more than ten years, implementing a whipping law, rectifying the administration of officials, and strengthening border defense, thus achieving the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army.
After Zhang Juzheng's reform, "In the past ten years, the sea has been purged, with Li Chengliang and Qi Jiguang, entrusted to the north, thousands of miles of land, desolate police uniforms, southern barbarians who have been in the thick of the world, the second dispatch will be flattened; strive to raise a rich country, Taicang Su kezhi for ten years, and the accumulation of gold in the temple, to more than four million." Cheng Junde, Or Near luck, Yan Kaocheng, nuclear name, Qing postal transmission, nuclear land acres, a temporary performance bingran. It can be said that Zhang Ju is the first hero of Wanli ZTE, but why was he raided?
In March of the sixth leap year of Longqing, Emperor Mingmuzong fell ill and died, and the throne was inherited by the 10-year-old crown prince Zhu Yijun, that is, Ming Shenzong. After expelling Gao Gong from the imperial court, Zhang Juzheng, with the support of Empress Li, the biological mother of the Wanli Emperor, and the eunuch Feng Bao, the eunuch of the Ceremony Supervisor, took charge of the imperial government as the head of the cabinet. In addition, Zhang Juzheng was also the teacher of the Wanli Emperor, and for a long time, Zhang Juzheng was "a master of authority, almost more than the lord of the earthquake".
For those ministers who opposed the reform, Zhang Juzheng was unceremonious and severely suppressed, and other cabinet assistant ministers only promised Zhang Juzheng, for fear of setting himself on fire. Even the Wanli Emperor was in awe of Zhang Juzheng! Once, during a lecture in Japan, the lecturer was explaining the Analects, and there was a sentence in it that read "Sebo Ruye", and the Wanli Emperor pronounced "Bo" as "back". Unexpectedly, Zhang Ju was screaming next to him: "As a Bo character!" ”
Zhang Juzheng's tone was not at all like that of a courtier, it was almost the same as Lao Tzu's reprimand of his son, and the Wanli Emperor was frightened and "shocked" on the spot, and the lecturer also looked at each other and looked at each other. Because Zhang Juzheng was "bound and restrained and could not be stretched" against the MingShen Sect, resulting in the Ming Shen Sect "although he was in the age of the age, his heart was already silently jealous", and the relationship between the monarch and the subject had long developed towards malignancy. The Ming Shen Sect was afraid and hated Zhang Juzheng, and only after Zhang Juzheng died, he was going to have a seizure.
In June of the tenth year of the Wanli Calendar, zhang Juzheng, the first assistant, fell ill and died. In September, Emperor Mingshen began to liquidate Zhang Juzheng, and all of Zhang Juzheng's sons were dismissed, and soon Zhang Juzheng's official positions and titles were all posthumously seized. In the twelfth year of the Wanli Calendar, the second concubine of the Liaozhuang King reported that Zhang Juzheng had "plotted to trap the prince and seize the ancestral bedchamber", and the Wanli Emperor ordered the raid on his home, saying that Zhang Juzheng was "in a dictatorship and chaotic government, recklessly and undefeated, disloyal to the country, and should have dissected the coffin and killed the corpse", and all his sons were exiled.
References: 1. "The End of the Chronicle of the Ming Dynasty"; 2. "History of ming"; 3. "Records of the Ming Dynasty"; 4. "Gushan Pen Crane"