For Wei Zhongxian, a figure who must know a little bit of history, he was a powerful eunuch in the Ming Dynasty during the apocalypse, and people called him 9,900 years old, only 100 years younger than Wanzai Ye, which was enough to see his status below one person and above ten thousand people.
Usually, we will feel that Wei Zhongxian is an extremely inferior and hypocritical person, although he has small loyalty and small faith, he is actually a big traitor and a big evil person.
From beginning to end, there are too many negative labels attached to him, but in fact, it is impossible for people to be pure black and white, and a bad villain, if you study it carefully, will more or less find some shining points on his body.
These flash points mainly focus on the following aspects:
First, the use of the Bingbu Shangshu Zhao Nanxing, Sun Chengzong and other upright and capable ministers, and these people are all Donglin Party members, and they do not deal with themselves very well, which is enough to see that when Wei Zhongxian was in power, he did not completely exclude dissidents, and for some ministers with sufficient ability, even if they stood in the face of their own opposition, they were also reused.
It was not until after the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse that he reused his nemesis Cui Chengxiu and had his henchmen replace Yuan Keli, who was opposed to him.
Second, on the political front, Wei Zhongxian reactivated the long-abandoned Zhang Juzheng New Law, which allowed the Ming Dynasty's finances to function properly. Only when the finances were normal could there be enough military expenditure to support the huge military expenditure in the two major battlefields of eastern Liaoning and southwestern China.
Third, in some small aspects, Wei Zhongxian also did a remarkable job, such as when he was in charge of internal affairs, he cut some of the offerings in the inner court; during the disaster in the two Zhejiang provinces, Wei Zhongxian exempted the franchisees who delivered goods to the royal family and paid filial piety fees to the inner treasury.
In summary, wei Zhongxian's existence is indeed some desirable, but it is too exaggerated to rely on such a little flash point to put "Wei Zhongxian does not die, the Daming Dynasty" does not die, such a high-level honor is put on him, as if the entire Daming Dynasty is only supported by him at the age of nine thousand.
Wei Zhongxian is still a complete traitor, and perhaps in some ways, he can reflect his small loyalty and small goodness, but the essence of his great treachery and great evil is still unchangeable.
In fact, the reason why posterity has such exaggerated remarks as "Wei Zhongxian does not die, Daming does not perish" is that after Wei Zhongxian's death, the Daming Dynasty quickly perished at the hands of the Chongzhen Emperor; second, because the Donglin Party members who were opposed to Wei Zhongxian, after taking control of the government, did not perform worse than Wei Zhongxian's castration party.
People are afraid of comparison, just take the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the performance of the Donglin party members is really not as good as Wei Zhongxian's castration party.
In modern popular language, Wei Zhongxian is a scum, but the Donglin Party is the scum of the scum, and when the two are compared, it seems that Wei Zhongxian is like a savior, and then supports the Ming Dynasty!