Among the first assistants of the Ming Dynasty cabinet, there were not many people from the Ming Dynasty, such as Hu Guang, Cao Nai, Peng Shi and others, but the only one who was "three yuan and the first" was Shang Ren. However, as the experience of the farce between Zhu Qiyu and Zhu Qizhen, the aura of "three yuan and the first" did not bring him too much convenience, and throughout his life, although it would not be described as "fateful", it was definitely a bumpy road.
▲ Historical portrait of Shangrui
ShangRui (商辂), Hongzai (弘載), was a native of Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province, born in the twelfth year of Yongle; in the tenth year of Xuande, he participated in the township examination and ranked first; after ten years of dormancy, he participated in the imperial examination for ten years, and won the first place in the examination and the temple examination in one fell swoop, except for Huang Guan, who was disqualified by Zhu Di, he was the only reader in the Ming Dynasty who achieved such achievements.
Subsequently, Shang Ren was given the title of Hanlin Academy cultivator and officially entered the career path. What is even more amazing is that according to the "Ming Shi Liechuan 64th", ShangRui was personally selected by Zhu Qizhen as the exhibition official because of his "magnificent beauty", which shows that ancient times were also an era of looking at faces.
▲ Zhu Qizhen film and television stills
Although Shangrui had the aura of "three yuan and the first", the imperial court also had the eunuch Wang Zhen, who was authoritarian and arbitrary, so although Shangrui stood out from the same batch of readers by virtue of his talent and appearance, he was only superior to the group of people who entered the army at the same time. Four years later, the "Tumu fort change" broke out, Zhu Qizhen was captured, and more than 50 ministers, including the first assistant of the cabinet, Cao Nai, were killed, and the Ming Dynasty ushered in the biggest turmoil since the founding of the country.
At this time of turmoil, Zhu Qiyu was proclaimed emperor, and the original cabinet also needed to be supplemented, so under the recommendation of Chen Xun, Gao Gu and others, ShangRui was able to enter the cabinet and officially entered the power core of the Ming Dynasty. It took more than four years from joining the cabinet to entering the cabinet, which is not slow, but compared to Peng Shi, who entered the cabinet in the second year of his entry, it is not fast, or that sentence, it is only outstanding than the group of people who entered the cabinet at the same time.
▲ Eunuch Wang Zhen film and television stills
After entering the cabinet, ShangRui behaved decently, and the history books did not leave too many of his amazing records, thinking about it, even if the first assistant Chen Xunshang was covered by Yu Qian's light, Shangrui could only be a mixed seniority.
Of course, he also had his presence in the main things, such as going to Juyongguan to greet Zhu Qi Town, advising on the liquidation of the land occupied by the powerful, requesting centralized resettlement of displaced people, participating in the compilation of the "Huanyu Tongzhi", etc., but these tasks were not led by Shangrui, and naturally they were not his auxiliary political achievements. However, during this period, Shangrui's path of progress did not stop, and Yu Jingtai was promoted to the rank of Left Attendant of the Military Department and a scholar of Zuo Chunfang University in three years, and then concurrently held the position of Tai Changqing four years later.
▲ Merchant manga
In the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet had an unwritten rule, who entered the cabinet first is the boss, so if you want to promote the first assistant of the cabinet, you can only wait for the person in front to leave the cabinet, this departure can be a natural departure, or the impeachment of the person behind, in short, the front does not go, the back can only wait. If ShangRui wanted to go further, he would have to go through this link, in fact, Jingtai had been slowly advancing on this track eight years ago.
However, the orthodox eight-year "door-grabbing change" interrupted this growth process. Although Shangrui had drawn up a request to restore Zhu Jianshen as crown prince, he had not yet submitted it to the emperor, and the "change of seizing the door" had already occurred. After Zhu Qizhen was restored to the throne, at the instigation of Xu Youzhen, Cao Jixiang, and others, a purge was launched against the old ministers during the Jingtai period, and Yu Qian, Chen Xun, And Shangrui were among them, and Shangrui was reduced to a commoner, and the shangrui was relegated to a commoner, and it was never used again.
▲ Shang Ren and Yu Qian's arrest scene cartoon
In the third year of Chenghua, Emperor Mingxianzong Zhu Jianshen reactivated Shangrui and gradually promoted him to Bingbu Shangshu, Wenyuange University Scholar, Bureaucrat Shangshu, and Prince Shaobao, during which Shangrui had been impeached by Dong Min, Yushi Hushen, and Lin Cheng, and resigned in anger, but Zhu Jianshen refused Shangrui's resignation on the grounds of severely punishing the impeachers, but Shangrui turned around and said good things for them, which was a satisfactory solution to the matter.
After that, ShangRui had many advices on supporting Zhu Youfan as crown prince, burying Zhu Youfan's biological mother, restoring Zhu Qiyu's title, and rectifying the border guards, which was recognized by Zhu Jianshen, and for this reason he also specially ordered to commend and encourage him, during which he was also successfully crowned as the first assistant of the cabinet.
▲ Zhu Mishen film and television stills
Shangrui gradually became an extremely popular subject, and the eunuch Wang Zhi took advantage of the situation of Wan Guifei and also rose rapidly. In the face of Wang Zhi's authoritarian behavior, ShangRui led hundreds of officials to state to Zhu Jianshen the eleven articles of Wang Zhi's various crimes, and Shangrui was even more blunt."
Self-direct use, scholars are uneasy about their duties, merchants are uneasy about the way, ordinary people are uneasy about their karma, if they do not go urgently, the safety of the world is unknown
This sentence successfully angered Zhu Jianshen, who directly asked back"
With an inner vertical, he is in danger of the world
The two men went to a rupture. ShangRui was indignant and asked to resign, and Zhu Mishen ordered him to send him back by stagecoach.
Ten years later, Shang Died at home at the age of 73. Zhu Jianshen posthumously gave him the honorific title of "Wen Yi" (文毅) for the day he had quit the dynasty, and posthumously presented him with the honorific title of "Wen Yi".
▲ Sculpture in the Shangrui Memorial Hall
Conclusion: ShangRui entered the army with the aura of "three yuan and the first", but he happened to encounter the era of the first eunuch dictatorship, and the "change of tumu fort" and "change of seizing the door" experienced after that were the sequelae of the eunuch dictatorship; after nearly twenty years of struggle in the cabinet, he met Wang Zhi, another eunuch, and finally ended his official career, starting with eunuchs and finally eunuchs, which can also be regarded as another cycle.
Historical source: Ming Shi Liechuan 64
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