Speaking of Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I don't know what everyone's impression of him is? Probably many people know that he did not go to the dprk for 30 years, and later proved that he was indeed incapacitated, coupled with the impatience of those ministers, he did such an amazing thing as not going to the dynasty for 30 years. Because of this incident, the evaluation of Wanli has been controversial. In fact, not only that, the three major cases at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the dispute over the foundation of the country are also inseparable from him.
For a long time after Wanli came to power, the struggle with the chancellor has been revolving around the matter of li chu, which is the dispute over the foundation of the country. The second son of "Guoben" represents the prince, and in ancient times there has always been a saying that "the prince is the foundation of the country". On the surface, it is that Wanli prefers Zhu Changxun, the third son of the emperor, rather than the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo, so he wants to establish Zhu Changxun. The ministers, based on the ancestral ritual law of "establishing a concubine and establishing a long head", did not back down one step at a time, that is, they wanted to establish Zhu Changluo, and the two sides fought over this issue for 15 years. Seeing this, everyone may have a question in their hearts, who does the emperor really want to appoint as the crown prince, but also with the consent of the minister? The answer, of course, is no. For an emperor who really holds real power, who to make the crown prince is only a matter of his words. Statements like the difference between concubines and the order of the elderly and the young do not work. At best, it will only bring a little trouble to the emperor, but he has the blessing of supreme imperial power, what can he do?
If Wanli really wanted to establish The Emperor's third son, Zhu Changxun, he could have made Zhu Changxun's birth mother, Concubine Zheng Guifei, empress, empress dowager, empress dowager, an empress dowager, an empress dowager, so that she would not do it. All kinds of indications show that Wan Li pretended to be Zhu Changxun on the surface, but behind his back, he had other plans. What he intended was to use the matter of Li Chu to divide the civilian-official clique, and this was the real purpose of the dispute over the foundation of the country. At that time, the internal struggle of the civilian official clique had become white-hot, the miasma of smoke above the court, and the Wanli means were a little worse, so the civilian clique had no problem fighting against him. In this regard, Wanli was far worse than his grandfather, the Jiajing Emperor. The Jiajing Emperor was practicing Dan Xiuxian while dealing with political affairs, and still played with Yan Song and other old fritters in the official field.
However, he underestimated these civilian officials, who had already learned the lesson of the "Great Ceremony Incident", and none of them would be the head bird. It is the ancestral ritual law of "establishing a concubine and standing up for a long time", and the confrontation with the imperial power is bright and upright. Oh no, to be precise, it was against Wanli's intention to destroy the ancestral ritual law. In the "Great Ceremony Discussion Incident", the civilian-official clique split into two factions, one faction was the "Guardian Etiquette Faction" headed by yang Tinghe, the first assistant, and the other was the "Ceremonial Faction" headed by Zhang Xuan. The two sides debated endlessly about whether the Jiajing Emperor should change his father, but in fact it was a struggle between the new emperor faction and the old faction, and finally the new emperor faction won a big victory, and the Jiajing Emperor successfully controlled the power.
Wan Li also wanted to emulate his grandfather and cultivate a group of civilian officials who were truly loyal to him. Unfortunately, Ruyi's abacus still lost, and the Donglin Party members were more cunning and treacherous than one, and under the circumstances of the unknown situation, they all acted in groups, and made Wanli suffer with the strength of collective and righteousness. The result of the dispute over the foundation of the country was that Wanli recognized zhu Changluo as crown prince, and in the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli calendar, he was appointed as the crown prince, and he failed to cultivate a group of civilian officials who were truly loyal to him.
However, later Wanli's grandson Emperor Tianqi emperor Zhu Youxiao fulfilled his wish, and Zhu Youxiao reused Wei Zhongxian to use the eunuch clique against the clique of civil officials. At the same time, it also gave Wei Zhongxian great power, allowing him to call the wind and rain, and there were many faceless and skinless civilian officials gathered under the door. Only in this way, the officialdom at the end of the Ming Dynasty can basically finish the egg, a group of people who are only interested in ignoring the great righteousness of the country, can they govern this country well? When Li Zicheng and the Manchu Qing Eight Banner Soldiers invaded the city of Beijing, they naturally would not come forward. Since they can fight for the old Zhu family, it is natural to change the master, and they will not have a psychological burden anyway.