Chairman Mao, the great leader of our country, once commented on Zhu Yuanzhang, saying that zhu Yuanzhang, as the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was born as a peasant and could become a major event. Zhu Yuanzhang's son, Zhu Di, pushed the Ming Dynasty to its peak, but in addition to these two, Chairman Mao also praised an emperor of the Ming Dynasty:
Ming Yingzong was slightly better, and the rest was done with bad things
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This emperor was the sixth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen, but Zhu Qizhen was once an emperor who was defeated and captured, and he also listened to rumors, reused the traitorous courtiers, and killed Zhongliang by mistake. What shining points did Zhu Qizhen, who had a bad deed, have on his body, and why did he get Chairman Mao's admiration?
When he was young, he became an emperor and reused traitors
Zhu Qizhen was born in 1427, he was the eldest son of Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, and according to the system of concubines, Zhu Qizhen was the crown prince of the dynasty. After Zhu Qizhen became crown prince, he enjoyed the best treatment in the palace, but Emperor Xuanzong died suddenly when Zhu Qizhen was nine years old.
The death of Emperor Xuanzong of Ming meant that Zhu Qizhen would become emperor from crown prince. However, Zhu Qizhen was still young and did not have the ability to hold power, so he could only let the empress dowager Zhang Shi listen to the government first and slowly cultivate Zhu Qizhen.
Empress Dowager Zhang originally did not want Zhu Qizhen to become emperor, but wanted Zhu Zhanji's younger brother to ascend the throne first. Because he was also the son of the Zhang clan, but in ancient times, it was the son who inherited the father's business, and it was reasonable to say that Zhu Zhanji's younger brother could not hold the power, because this meant that Zhu Zhanji basically could not become an emperor in the future.
Under the opposition of Zhu Zhanji's confidante, Zhang Agreed to make Zhu Qizhen emperor. However, empress dowager Zhang Shi was a wise woman, and after she took power, she did not nepotism, promoting her relatives in this line, but still reusing the previous ministers.
In particular, Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, and Yang Pu were reused, and they were known as the Three Yangs. These three can be said to be the iron triangle lineup, which has made achievements in the country's economy, border garrison, military development and other aspects.
In addition to reusing the ministers, the empress dowager attacked the eunuch Wang Zhen with all her might in the palace. Because Wang Zhen was a person who could only play tricks, and he was also the person who colded Zhu QiZhen the most in the back, but Zhu Qizhen was still young at this time.
Zhang Shi usually had little time to accompany Zhu Qizhen when dealing with major state affairs, which gave Wang Zhen an opportunity to take advantage of it. When Zhang Shi was not around Zhu Qizhen, Wang Zhen came to him and accompanied Zhu Qizhen to find some fun to play, and after a long time, Zhu Qizhen trusted him.
Misbehaving rumors, soldiers were defeated and captured
When Zhu Qizhen was thirteen years old, the chancellor Yang Rong died of illness. Three years later, Empress Dowager Zhang also died. Zhu Qizhen officially came to the front of the stage, and Zhu Qizhen, who was in power, reused Wang Zhen for the first time, but at this time Wang Zhen did not have real power.
Then in the next three years, two other ministers surnamed Yang also died one after another, and without the shackles of these ministers, Wang Zhen began to have an opportunity to take advantage of them. As the most trusted person in Zhu Qi Town, a eunuch actually had the power to intervene in the affairs of the imperial program.
In the second year after Sanyang's death, problems arose at the border, and the local channel of the Wash was a challenge to the Ming Dynasty, invading the Ming border areas with troops. The chancellor suggested that Zhu Qizhen be allowed to mobilize a part of his troops from the country to aid the border, so that he could repel the Wa Thorn army.
However, Wang Zhen suggested that Zhu Qizhen should gather a large army, not only to defeat the wattle thorn, but also to penetrate into the inside of the tile thorn, and to beat the tile thorn to be afraid of subduing, so as to show the strength of Daming, but also to kill chickens and scare monkeys, so that other countries do not dare to invade Daming.
Zhu Qizhen felt that Wang Zhen's words were reasonable, so he decided to gather an army of 200,000 people, and he also wanted to drive the imperial conquest. As a result, Zhu Qizhen lost the battle and was captured by the Wa Thorn army.
This incident has caused panic in the hearts of the people in china. In order to stabilize the situation, the ministers first elected Zhu Qizhen's younger brother Zhu Qiyu as emperor.
A year later, the town of Zhuqi was redeemed by the Ming Dynasty. However, after returning to China, he did not become emperor, but was put under house arrest by his brother. Zhu Qizhen changed from one cage to another, and stayed in this cage for eight years.
Eight years later, Zhu Qiyu suddenly fell ill and died, and Zhu Qizhen's confidant minister saw the opportunity and rushed into the harem to rescue Zhu Qizhen. In this way, Zhu Qizhen became emperor again, unfortunately, he was seduced by Cao Jixiang and others, and wrongfully killed the famous minister Yu Qian, which was also another stain on his imperial career.
Zhu Qizhen was sober after being confused
Zhu Qizhen has experienced great ups and downs, and it can be said that the whole person has changed his face. After becoming emperor again, he began to work hard to be a good emperor. The first thing he did was to talk about the basic livelihood of the people.
Zhu Qizhen has made some adjustments to taxation, and all walks of life are no longer paying the same tax. For some businessmen who are not developing well or who are generally profitable, they will collect less tax, and for some rich local chambers of commerce, another set of policies will be implemented.
Because the local wealthy merchants basically monopolize the market, Zhu Qizhen proposed either to cooperate with the government or to collect taxes.
In order to protect their own interests, the rich merchants basically chose to rely on the imperial court, but this also brought a new problem, that is, the collusion between officials and businessmen.
However, Zhu Qizhen had long thought of a countermeasure, and the finances of each place would be supervised by special personnel, and a special department was also set up in the imperial court to look at the financial situation of each place.
Zhu Qizhen added a few more procedures, although he said that it was troublesome to do things, but this first put an end to the protection of officials and officials, and then put an end to official and business fornication. When the country's economic conditions became better and better, Zhuqi Town began to take care of the vulnerable groups.
Zhu Qizhen issued a policy on the elderly, that is, by the age of sixty, there is no need to pay taxes to the state. And every five years, the state will also give pension subsidies, such as sixty-five years old will give a part of the rations, eighty years old people will give some allowances and so on.
Under the policy of Zhuqi Town, the country presented a thriving scene.
After guotai and min'an, Zhuqi town began to develop troops, because the people loved Zhuqi town very much, so many young people rushed to join the army as soldiers.
Moreover, Zhu Qizhen has also adjusted the welfare of the army and changed the promotion system of the army, so that people are willing to become soldiers and can be assured to be soldiers. It can be said that Zhu Qizhen has made great ups and downs, had an epiphany about life, and made great contributions to the country and the people.
Looking back, Zhu Qizhen's army was defeated and the matter of the wattle thorn. In fact, Zhu Qizhen is not wrong, in the face of the invasion of other countries, Zhu Qizhen did not choose to swallow his anger, or to calm things down, and wanted to use his fists to tell these enemies that Daming was not a good bully.
Therefore, Zhu Qizhen can still be regarded as a bloody person, but the fault lies in the lack of ability to discern people. He misused Wang Zhen and listened to the rumors of the traitors, which led to his defeat and capture, and he was humiliated.
However, during the later reign, Zhu Qizhen kept the country in order, which can be regarded as a counterpoint to his merits, and even his later contributions can be compared to Zhu Yuanzhang's style.