Since the death of the Zhengde Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the ming dynasty's throne has been unresolved, because the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao was playful, absurd, and did not leave children, so at this time, who the emperor chose became the most difficult question for the powerful minister Yang Tinghe.
In the past, Huo Guang, a powerful minister of the Western Han Dynasty, also faced such a choice, and finally he chose Liu He, the Marquis of Haixia, and as a result, Liu He, the Marquis of Haixia, was desolate, not only caring about fun, but also appointing Xiao Xiao and imposing taxes (which was very similar to the Zhengde Emperor), it was obvious that the future of the Han Dynasty could not be handed over to this faint Liu He, so Huo Guang risked the world to depose Liu He and make Liu He emperor, which solved this matter.
At this time, Yang Tinghe did not want to be the next Huo Guang, after all, it was too risky to risk the world's great disobedience, so this heir to the throne must be well chosen and chosen with heart. Choose not only one who is intelligent and benevolent, but also one who is of similar ancestry and younger (easy to manage). This was really a difficult problem, and in the end, it was chosen to be Zhu Houxi, the king of Xingxian.
At that time, although Zhu Houxi was only a teenager, he was already very intelligent, and when he was still in the domain, Zhu Houxi watched his cousin do something wrong, and secretly swore that if he became emperor, he would definitely make a difference. But he didn't expect that the power had really fallen on him.
First, the young emperor is not ordinary
In April of the sixteenth year of Ming Zhengde (1521), Zhu Houxi came to the capital with full of expectations, but he did not expect that the test of governing the world would come so quickly.
According to the rules of the time, the path taken by the emperor when he ascended the throne should be from the Daming Gate, but before Zhu Houxi could reach the Daming Gate, he was stopped by the chancellor. The ministers informed him that the Daming Gate was not his guide, and the route arranged for Zhu Houxi was from Dong'an Gate to the Palace and to the Wenhua Hall for temporary residence.
After all, he had come to be emperor, not to be a son to Zhu Houzhao, and he Zhu Houxi and Zhu Houzhao were obviously of the same generation, so on this issue, Zhu Houxi and the ministers had a long discussion, and it was obvious that Zhu Houxi, who was only fifteen years old, could not play with these old and treacherous ministers. So Zhu Houxi used a killer skill: Lao Tzu did not do it (this trick is similar to Lao Tzu when bargaining now did not buy), and the ministers saw that things were going to be big, so they had to agree to Zhu Houxi's request.
Through this incident, Zhu Houxi understood a truth: he must be tough on himself in order to suppress all the ministers, otherwise he can only be a puppet and be controlled by the ministers.
The young emperor Zhu Houxi took this idea with him and sat on the throne of the Ming Emperor and established the era name jiajing, which was called "jiajing emperor" in history.
Second, the early stage of hard work
The first thing the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi did during his reign was to consolidate power, so he engaged in a vigorous "great ceremony discussion" incident, moved his father who should not have been in the Zongmiao Temple to the Zongmiao Temple, established his orthodox position, and also used this to rectify a bunch of former courtiers (such as Yang Tinghe) who did not obey the management.
The first thing the Jiajing Emperor did in reform was to abolish the maladministration, he cleaned up the illegal occupation of the land occupied by the emperor's relatives, deposed officials who had not yet relied on connections, reformed the imperial examination system, and removed the titles of foreign relatives. At that time, the reform was extensive and achieved remarkable results, and the Jiajing Emperor also won unanimous praise from both the government and the public. The corrupt bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty during the Zhengde period was thus cured. It can be said that the Jiajing Emperor at this time completely fulfilled his youthful dream, and the Ming Empire at this time was thriving under his administration, showing a trend of ZTE.
In addition, the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi also adopted the external policy of "resisting foreign invasion, repairing border walls, resisting Wokou, and An Haijiang", adhering to the ancestral precepts and never compromising with foreign enemies. In addition, the Jiajing Emperor also attached great importance to Nongsang and sympathized with the peasants, he not only reduced taxes and helped the victims of disasters, but also personally went to the southern suburbs of the capital to cultivate the fields to encourage the peasants, and the empress and concubines at that time also participated in this ceremony and achieved a more positive impact.
The Jiajing Emperor was also an emperor who attached great importance to culture, he "revitalized culture and built schools", and had allocated more than thirty funds to build schools and academies, and under his leadership, the society at that time respected the scholars. During the reign of the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi, culture and art also achieved long-term development, such as the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Zhongyi Water Margin" were published in the Jiajing period, and novels such as "The Book of the Sword" were also drafted in the Jiajing period, at this time the Jiajing Emperor was extremely highly evaluated, at that time, both the ministers and the people thought that the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi was the lord of Daming Zhongxing, if Zhu Houxi died young, it can indeed be called the lord of Daming Zhongxing, but there is often no "if", there is "but".
3. The absurd emperor who is obsessed with alchemy
In the early days of the reign of the Jiajing Emperor, the empire was prosperous and prosperous. However, the Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi was tired, and when he entered the capital as emperor, it was not only to govern the country and make the world peaceful, but also to enjoy pleasure, in order to enjoy the resources and power that the prince could not enjoy, so the Jiajing Emperor fell.
First of all, the Jiajing Emperor began to indulge in Taoism, he began to trust the Taoists, many major state events depended on the will of the heavens (later Xu Jie used this feature to kill Yan Song), on the other hand, the Jiajing Emperor began to build a large number of civil engineering, building palaces (for alchemy), which was really a move to hurt the people and money.
After the "Change of the Palace of Nongyin" (the palace maid wanted to strangle him), the frightened Jiajing Emperor was completely isolated from the Shang Dynasty. But how can the non-dynasty control the government? The clever Jiajing Emperor naturally had his own method: to find a spokesperson for the imperial court (that is, the first assistant of the cabinet), and at the beginning, this spokesman was Xia Yan, and although Xia Yan was an old-fashioned person, he still had a very good set of rules in governing the government.
Unfortunately, this spokesman was later replaced by the famous Yan Song Yan, so the government began to slowly become chaotic, which was also the place where the Jiajing Emperor was most criticized.
But in fact, in the later period of the Jiajing Emperor, he just did not go to the dynasty and did not ignore the government, as the most intelligent emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the power of the imperial court at that time was held by the Jiajing Emperor, and others could not get a penny. Overall, Zhu Houxi is a lonely person, and since the death of his parents, he has truly become a lonely person. He is intelligent, willful, and has great power, but he will still be afraid and afraid, because he is not only a ninety-five supreme emperor, he is also an ordinary person.
The great general Nan zheng was bold and bold, and his waist was horizontal and the water goose was flying with a knife.
The wind blows the drums and the mountains and rivers move, and the lightning flag is high in the sun and the moon.
The original species of unicorn in the sky, how can the ants in the cave escape.
On the day of the return of the Emperor Taiping, he and Mr. Taiping undressed their battle robes. --Zhu Houxi
References: History of the Ming Dynasty, Records of emperor Ming Dynasty, Chronicle of the Ming Dynasty