In the ancient Chinese bureaucracy, the prime minister and the chancellor are very different, the prime minister is basically the prime minister, and the prime minister is not necessarily the prime minister, the prime minister is the specific official name, and the prime minister is the "head of the hundred officials", in the Tang Dynasty this official position was named Tongping Zhangshi, in the Ming Dynasty this official position was called the cabinet university scholar, although the official position is different, but in fact, it is the prime minister in the de facto sense.
The most famous traitor of the Ming Dynasty was naturally Yan Song, and the most famous sage was Zhang Juzheng, who ruled for ten years, which made the Ming Dynasty appear Zhongxing, which can be said to be a great achievement. In addition to Zhang Juzheng, the more famous sages are Yang Pu in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, but because there were many talented ministers in the early Ming Dynasty, Yang Pu was relatively less famous.
Born in the fifth year of Hongwu (1372), Yang Pu was brilliant from an early age, and at the age of 28, he passed the jinshi examination and began to enter the dynasty as an official, and later served as the crown prince to wash horses, becoming a confidant of the crown prince Zhu Gaozi. It is said that this was originally a very good errand, because once the prince ascended the throne and became the emperor, then the prince's confidant immediately became the emperor's confidant, and instantly became a powerful courtier of the imperial court, but Yang Pu, the prince's confidant, deserved some bad luck.
Because the Han king Zhu Gaoxu also wanted to be emperor, he took pains to attack the crown prince Zhu Gaoxu, and in the twelfth year of Yongle (1414), he seized a small handle of Zhu Gaoxu in front of emperor Zhu Di, and kept saying bad things about the prince, which successfully aroused Zhu Di's anger, believing that the officials around the prince did not educate the prince well, so they all beat them into prison, and Yang Pu, who was the prince's confidant, was even imprisoned.
Many people may not have heard much about the name of zhao prison, but that doesn't matter much, as long as you know that it is the place where JinyiWei specially imprisons serious criminals, you can roughly know what life is like there. After Yang Pu entered the Zhao Prison, he faced the danger of food being cut off several times, and he did not know whether Zhu Di wanted to depose the crown prince or not, he could die at any time.
What would you do if you had lost your freedom, lived in a low, damp and cramped house, often could not eat, and could die at any moment? I believe that most people's answers are self-abandonment, but Yang Pu is different, he has been in prison for ten years, during which he has studied the subset of scripture history, and his knowledge has become more and more profound, and he was released after the crown prince Zhu Gaozi became emperor.
The prince's confidant finally became the emperor's confidant, after many hardships, Yang Pu's career became smooth sailing, he was promoted to prince Shaobao in the third year of orthodoxy (1438), Wuyingdian University, officially became the prime minister of the Ming court, and Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong co-presided, all three of them have the name of meritocracy, extremely clear, known as "Three Yangs".
In the tenth year of orthodoxy (1445), Yang Pu's son Yang Dan set out from his hometown to visit his 74-year-old father in the capital. After Yang Dan arrived in the capital, Yang Pu asked him how the local officials he saw along the way were, and which one he felt was the worst local official, and Yang Dan replied that it was Fan Li of Tiantai County, because other local officials were very generous to themselves, but Fan Li was very sloppy with his hospitality.
Yang Pu smiled slightly and did not say anything, but recommended Fan Li to the emperor the next day, so Fan Li was promoted from the Tiantai County Order of Zhengqipin to the sixth rank in a row and became the de'an prefect of Zhengsipin. Fan Li governed the local area impartially and well-judged, with the promotion of etiquette and religion as the first, and the second was to discipline the people with punishment, so after a year of office, the territory was already under great rule, and the people spontaneously petitioned for it, and the name of merit was far and wide.
The reason why Fan Li was able to develop rapidly in his career was inseparable from Yang Pu's insight, but unfortunately, a year after Fan Li became famous, that is, in the eleventh year of orthodoxy (1446), the 75-year-old Yang Pu died in his home, and the emperor quit the dynasty for one day, with the nickname "Wending".