The Ming Dynasty was a powerful dynasty in China's history that achieved great unification after the Han and Tang dynasties, and pursued the "four noes" policy of no peace, no indemnity, no land cession, and no tribute. From the founding of zhu Yuanzhang in 1368 AD, until 1644 AD, Chongzhen zi han coal mountain, guozuo 276 years.
In the past 276 years, the Ming Dynasty has experienced a total of 16 emperors, but these 16 emperors of the Zhu family have been ridiculed by later generations as "generations are strange", some are alive and fat, some love crickets, some are addicted to carpentry, and some are captured by the "Daming God of War" imperial conscription.
Among these strange emperors, of course, there are also mistakes that most feudal emperors will make - seeking eternal life. The Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi was obsessed with Xiu Xian and asked, even for more than twenty years, he did not go to the court, reusing the traitor Yan Song's father and son, and all kinds of behavior made many people think that he was a faint prince.
It seems nonsense, but it is actually in hand
In a historical TELEVISION drama that tells the story of Jiajing and Hairui, Yang Jinshui, the eunuch in charge of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, together with Zheng Bichang and He Maocai, a member of the Yan Party in Zhejiang, together with the silk giant Shen Yishi, bought the land of the disaster victims in the name of "changing rice into mulberry" and wantonly amassed wealth.
In fact, changing rice to mulberry is just another political arena between the Yan Party and the Qing faction. Moreover, Zheng Bichang and several other people were already pregnant with ghost fetuses, and under the pressure of Hai Rui, who was just and righteous, the original form was exposed, and finally Shen Yishi set himself on fire, and Yang Jinshui was directly crazy.
Is Yang Jinshui really crazy or pretending to be stupid? Not only did the audience want to know, Jiajing wanted to know even more. Jiajing, who had a deep heart, first asked the Jinyi guard who was responsible for escorting Yang Jinshui, and the result was that the Jinyi guard's words "something unclean" made Jiajing's eyes light up.
It is not difficult to judge from Jinyiwei's words that everyone believes that Yang Jinshui has "unclean things" attached to his body. Jiajing cultivated and firmly believed in ghosts and gods, Yang Jinshui was crazy but he was partial to the ghost gods, crazy so targeted, was it really crazy?
When Yang Jinshui was brought to Jiajing, Jiajing asked him a sentence that was out of reach, "Have you seen the tablet?" Yang Jinshui opened his mouth and replied, "Heaven! "Heaven" was the supreme law in feudal society, and the emperor was the son of heaven who was divinely empowered by the monarchy.
Seeing the situation, Jiajing further asked Yang Jinshui who he saw, and Yang Jinshui said the self-appointed Dao numbers of Jiajing, such as Feiyuan Zhenjun and Wanshou Emperor Jun, and told Jiajing very cryptically and clearly that he was not crazy, so why did he pretend to be crazy?
Yang Jinshui claimed to be Shen Yishi's cry for injustice and claimed to have been victimized by Yang Jinshui, and wasn't Shen Yishi an important part of the Zhejiang ink corruption case? Obviously, the reason why Yang Jinshui pretended to be crazy was first, to protect himself, and second, to borrow the mouth of the dead to report the inside story of the corruption case to Jiajing.
Jia Jing followed Yang Jinshui's words and asked, "How did Yang Jinshui harm you?" Yang Jinshui was the chief eunuch of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, and what did he and the Weaving Bureau do to force an official and businessman who was rich and invincible to choose to self-immolate?
Yang Jinshui's answer naturally made Jiajing extremely angry, the Weaving Bureau has woven a large amount of silk over the years, and the amount is so huge that many people can't even wear it by the emperor, so the profit from these extra silks naturally goes into the pockets of others.
Who "wore these silks?" Jiajing asked Yang Jinshui to act as a tainted witness to confess all the officials involved in the case in exchange for his innocence. Yang Jinshui also confessed to the Yan Party involved in this matter, except for Hu Zongxian and Lü Fang, who Jiajing focused on.
Hu Zongxian was the governor and governor of Zhejiang at that time, and Lü Fang was the supreme commander of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, not only Yang Jinshui's direct superior, but also Yang Jinshui's righteous father. What Yang Jinshui and others did, can these two people pick it clean?
In this regard, Yang Jinshui showed that Hu Zongxian was not a member of the Weaving Bureau, and this matter had nothing to do with him. When it was Lü Fang's turn, his answer was more subtle, "Who is Lü Fang?" The intention is nothing more than to clear up the relationship for Lü Fang, but the intention of favoritism should not be too obvious.
Jia Jing naturally didn't believe it, but these things were no longer important, he just wanted to know what Yang Jinshui planned to do next, so he asked him, "After saying a lot of people, why don't you say Yang Jinshui?" ", this is a fatal enough problem.
Yang Jinshui was a shield in front of Hai Rui, and behind him was the holy names of Lü Fang and the Jiajing Emperor. Therefore, Yang Jinshui could not die but could only go crazy, using himself to block Hai Rui, who had always broken the casserole and asked the end.
"He killed me, I took him away." This is Yang Jinshui's answer in Shen Yishi's tone, and it is also a promise to Jiajing, and Yang Jinshui can only pretend to be crazy for the rest of his life, and from then on he keeps his mouth shut for Jiajing.
A conversation between Jiajing and Yang Jinshui seems absurd without being nagged by the gods, in fact, the answers Jiajing wanted were all obtained, Zhu Houxi in the film and television drama is a very intelligent and deeply city government person, then the real Jiajing in history is really faint?
Heaven descended on the throne, but was hindered by heavy subjects
In March 1521, the 29-year-old Zhengde Emperor died suddenly in the leopard house, the Zhengde Emperor was an only child and had no heirs, and Empress Zhang and the first assistant of the cabinet, Yang Tinghe, could only choose a successor from the clan kings after consultation.
The chosen man was none other than Zhengde's cousin, Zhu Houxi, who was only 14 years old when he inherited the title, and Zhu Houxi's path to the throne began with a power struggle, led by Yang Tinghe, the head of the cabinet of the dynasty who was leaning towards the opposition.
After Zhu Houxi ascended the throne, he intended to posthumously crown his late biological father as emperor, but Yang Tinghe and Libu Shangshu Mao Cheng advocated that Jiajing should honor Zhengde's father, Ming Xiaozong, as his father, and Xingxian Wang and Xingxian Princess as emperor's uncle and imperial aunt.
The meaning of Yang Tinghe and Mao Cheng is that Jiajing was originally the king of the clan who entered the capital to succeed to the throne, and in order to facilitate the establishment of his name, he was asked to abandon his biological parents, which was undoubtedly a serious provocation for the Jiajing Emperor, but what really made him angry was the last sentence.
At the end of the recital, Mao Cheng went so far as to directly say that if anyone dared to oppose it, he would be a traitor and an evil one, and he should be beheaded. As a Rebbe Shangshu, Mao Cheng's words were simply extremely difficult, but JiaJing knew very well that behind Mao Cheng stood Yang Tinghe.
Yang Tinghe served as the first assistant of the cabinet since 1512 AD, and it had been more than ten years since the time of Jiajing, after three dynasties, there were many protégés, and they responded in the court, and the courtiers would rather offend the young Jiajing than yang Tinghe.
On the third day of July 1521, Zhang Xuan, a new scholar who was serving in the Ministry of Rites, supported Jiajing, so Jiajing showed Zhang Xuan's article to Yang Tinghe, but Yang Tinghe dismissively rebuked, What is Zhang Xuan? Where is the turn of the court to interject?
In December of the same year, Yang Tinghe instructed the officials to send Zhang Xuan to be the head of the Nanjing Punishment Department, keeping him away from the imperial court and away from Jiajing. However, after experiencing Zhang Xuan, the intelligent Jiajing began to understand the importance of borrowing strength to fight.
Support the forces and force away the elders of the Three Dynasties
From 1522 to 1524, the dispute between Jiajing and Yang Tinghe lasted for three years. Jiajing never spared, and while cultivating Zhang Xuan and Gui Cao to resist Yang Tinghe, he personally gave instructions to Yang Tinghe, and Yang Tinghe repeatedly returned Jiajing's instructions.
Over time, more and more voices appeared in the DPRK and China, believing that his arrogance was no longer what a human subject should have, nor did he respect Jiajing, and officials began to impeach Yang Tinghe.
In 1524, Yang Tinghe requested zhishi to be approved by Jiajing. However, Yang Dang did not give up, and even collectively went to the palace to kneel down to put pressure on Jiajing, who expected Jiajing to be unrelenting, degrading or condemning a group of non-subjects to officials and establishing the majesty of the Son of Heaven.
In the three-year struggle, Jiajing and Yang Tinghe fought not over a mere title, but a struggle for power. If he had compromised initially, he would undoubtedly have become a puppet of Empress Zhang and Yang Tinghe.
After experiencing this incident, Jiajing deeply understood that if he could not firmly grasp the imperial power in his hands, if he could not grasp the courtiers, then he would be constrained by the courtiers everywhere. Therefore, although he had not been in the dynasty for twenty years, Jiajing still knew everything about the world.