Generally speaking, the emperor of the feudal dynasty holds the power of life and death, and obeying the emperor's will is the obligation of a courtier, if it is not consistent with the emperor, there are only three situations: one is that the minister is tired of dying, one is that the emperor is weak and incompetent, and the other is that the emperor is very holy and will not do anything to the minister who intercedes, which is rare.
And the Wanli Emperor, who had hardly been in the dynasty for 35 years, was obviously not a Ming Emperor, so someone dared to intercede for the Zhang family. There is no risk in interceding, and only then will someone intercede.
Lord Shoufu, The Official's Shangshu, the Rebbe Shangshu, the Punishment Department Shangshu, and the Imperial History Lord have interceded for the Zhang family, a chain reaction, anyway, the law does not blame the public, and Wanli can't do anything with them.
Shoufu Shen Shixing was a strategic official, he did not go directly to the Wanli Emperor to intercede, playing a roundabout tactic, he secretly went to find The specific executive official Qiu Qiu of Zhang Juzheng's house: "Brother, hang on, don't let our emperor fall into disgrace in history. ''
Shangshu Pan Jitao of the Punishment Department said very humanely, and he said to Wanli: "Emperor, you are right to live in the whole house, but his old mother is eighty years old and cannot withstand the toss, there is really something to do, the country is not auspicious! ''
Although Wan Li fainted, he also had a benevolent heart, and even gave Zhang Juzheng's old mother a lenient treatment.
The official Shangshu Yang Wei was a cannon barrel, and he directly said to Wanli: ''Lao Zhang bowed down for you, you did this to make the civil and military officials chill, who would dare to do it for you? ''
Seeing that the emperor was so soft, the six ministers joined hands to write a letter to the emperor and asked the emperor to open up to the old Zhang family.
Zhang Ju was an outstanding politician in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the first assistant of the Wanli period, and the chief designer of the Wanli New Deal.
However, Zhang Juzheng was raided shortly after his death, and he was almost cut out and whipped.
Zhang Ju was Wanli's most loyal migrant worker, so why did the Wanli Emperor kill Zhang Juzheng?
After Zhang Juzheng's death, the apparent reason for being raided was for money, and the real reason was because of hatred.
The founding emperors of each dynasty were strong, domineering, courageous, and bullish, but the further back they went, the worse they became, and the weasel lay down the mouse, and a nest was not as good as a nest. The same is true of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, with an average life expectancy of more than 40 years, each one is a sick seedling, and the successors are not picked up.
Emperor Mingmuzong died at the age of 35, his eldest son and second son also died prematurely, and his third son, Zhu Yijun (the Wanli Emperor), ascended the throne at the age of 10.
In order to train her son to become a qualified successor, Wanli's mother, Empress Li, began to let her son read and read at the age of three, and strictly disciplined her.
Not only that, Empress Li also ordered the palace's celebrant to take charge of the eunuch Feng Bao, who was responsible for monitoring her son. Don't look at Feng Bao who is very popular in the palace, but he is just a slave in front of the empress.
The master guarded against words, and the slaves dared not listen.
Therefore, when Xiao Wanli was a child, every move would be beaten by Feng Bao, a eunuch, for a small report.
For example, if the emperor is lazy, eat snacks, fight, doze off, and fight with the palace women, empress Dowager Li will know, and she will not be able to break a beating and reprimand.
Zhang Ju was the teacher of the Wanli Emperor, and the discipline of the emperor was also very strict, there was nothing wrong with doing so, but the young Wanli did not understand the master's painstaking heart, and was afraid and hated Zhang Juzheng.
Young hearts sow the seeds of hatred, and as we age, hatred takes root in the heart.
Moreover, when Empress Li admonished the little emperor Wanli, she would naturally say that you had failed to live up to the expectations of your teacher Zhang Juzheng in doing so, and how did Teacher Zhang usually teach you?
For such a long time, Empress Li and Zhang Juzheng and the eunuch Feng Bao were like three boulders pressed on the head of the young Wanli, making him breathless.
When Wanli was in power, Feng Bao single-handedly covered the sky, and Zhang Juzheng had to curry favor with Feng Bao in order to show his ambitions, bribe him, and sing praises to him. Wan Li was dissatisfied with these two people's singing and controlling the government, and he was full of complaints.
If the contradiction between Wanli and Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao before was an internal contradiction, then something happened in the palace that turned their contradiction into a contradiction between the enemy and us.
When the Wanli Emperor was 18 years old, he couldn't help but fall in love with a palace girl once, and zhang Juzheng knew about it. The emperor has all the world, the women in the world are the emperor's, and things like the emperor and the palace women are perfectly normal.
However, Feng Bao reported to Zhang Juzheng, who made a big fuss about it, went to the empress dowager, forced Wanli to write a decree on his own sins, and was punished by the empress dowager to kneel for several hours at the Cining Palace.
Where is the education of the emperor, it is clear that it is to deal with hooligans.
Since then, Wanli has hated Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao to the bone, hating that he can't cramp and peel his skin. However, Zhang and Feng's power was too great, and Wan Li dared not speak out in anger, and could only silently wait for the opportunity.
The opportunity for revenge finally came. On June 20, 1582, Zhang Juzheng fell ill and died.
In December of the tenth year of the Wanli Calendar, Li Zhishang of Jiangxi Province impeached Feng Bao for twelve major crimes, sounding his death knell.
Therefore, Emperor Mingshen ordered Feng Bao to be arrested and sent to raid Feng Bao's home.
Who knew that this Feng Bao was not only flying high, but also a big embezzler, and he actually copied out more than a million taels of gold and silver from his home, dozens of cars of various jewels, and the emperor's eyes were straight, Mom, richer than Lao Tzu!
Wan Lixin said that Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao were close friends who were in cahoots with each other, and Zhang Juzheng had controlled the government for so many years and promoted many officials, and his illegal gains were indispensable. So Wanli's liquidation of Zhang Juzheng began.
The first thing Wanli did was to abolish the new laws in Zhang Ju's changing law. He then seized Zhang Juzheng's honor before and after his death, first taking away his Shangzhu Guo and Taishi, and then taking away his title of Wen Zhong. In the end, Zhang Juzheng's son Zhang Jianxiu, who was under the command of Jinyiwei at Jinyiwei, was deposed as a commoner.
As soon as the Imperial Historians saw that the Wanli Emperor had attacked Zhang Juzheng, they said what else was they waiting for, so they quickly pushed the wall down and attacked Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Juzheng's henchmen.
Wan Li did not stop for a second, and sent a team of raiders led by Zhang Cheng, the eunuch of the Si Li Supervisor, and Qiu Qi, the attendant of the Punishment Department, to kill Zhang Fu in a mighty way. They first put a seal on the Zhang family, fearing that the Zhang family would transfer property.
It's true that you put up a seal, and the current law does the same, but you let the people in the compound go out and post it again.
Qiu Qixin, who had raided the house, said that he wanted to seal people inside, and I wanted to take revenge.
It turned out that Qiu Qiu and Zhang Ju were mortal enemies, and Zhang Ju had been squeezing him when he was alive, and he had a vendetta and did not repay the gentleman.
In fact, Qiu Qiu's behavior is not a gentleman, Zhang Juzheng's violation of the law is his own business, you have connected everyone's family, starved to death more than a dozen mouths, and also engaged in torture to extract confessions, Zhang Juzheng's son Zhang Jingxiu was humiliated and hanged himself. Zhang Juzheng's other son, Zhang Maoxiu, was severely tortured and almost died.
However, Zhang Juzheng, who claims to be a clean and honest government, actually turned out to be 10,000 taels of gold and 100,000 taels of silver, so how many years it would take.
Knowing that Zhang Ju was being raided, the courtiers pleaded with Wanli one after another.
Generally speaking, when the emperor wants to give a hard hand to a certain minister, no one dares to intercede unless the minister is mentally handicapped.
So Wanli is the whole of Juzheng, why do so many ministers intercede? Realistically speaking, those ministers were all hand-picked by Zhang Juzheng when he was in power, and it is rumored that Zhang Juzheng's property has been transferred, and if more property is found, these officials will not be able to get rid of it, so everyone will risk their lives to intercede with Wanli.
However, this Wanli Emperor was really interesting, not only did not blame the intercessing officials, but moved his heart of compassion.
The emperor ordered that Zhang Mu be left an empty house in the Zhang family, and forty acres of land was also left to allow Zhang Mu to spend her old age in peace.
Historian Wang Dongxu commented on Zhang Juzheng as follows: He was a genius, born in a complicated and chaotic world, he was desperate to learn, he had the courage to reform, he dared to innovate, he was not afraid of risks, he was not afraid of threats, he was a great reformer, he acted arbitrarily and arbitrarily, he did not treat people well, he lived a luxurious life, he was inconsistent in appearance, and in terms of morality, he was not noble.