The eighth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jianshen, was given the era name Chenghua. Emperor Mingxianzong ascended the throne at the age of eighteen and reigned for a total of twenty-three years. Speaking of Ming Xianzong, the most familiar thing is Ming Xianzong's "Oedipus Complex", that is, the love affair between Ming Xianzong and Wan Zhen'er, who is seventeen years older than himself. In most film and television dramas, those involved in the Ming Xianzong period are often "corrupt in the imperial program, and eunuchs are in charge", and the eastern and western factories and the Jinyi guards are flying and doing many evils.
The impression given to us by Ming Xianzong is also a weak and faint image, giving people the feeling that Ming Xianzong is not a zhongxing lord, but it is still necessary to evaluate an emperor and objectively look at the merits he did during his reign.
Take over the mess and calm down the internal troubles:
When Emperor MingXianzong took over Jiangshan from the former emperor Ming Yingzong, it was not very peaceful, and the land annexation problem accumulated by the Ming Dynasty at that time, as well as successive natural and man-made disasters, led to prominent social contradictions and ethnic contradictions. In the first two years of Emperor Mingxianzong's reign, there were successive uprisings throughout the country. For example, the Yao Uprising in Liangguang, the Miao Uprising in Hunan, Sichuan, and the uprising of displaced people in Jingxiang area. As the saying goes, natural disasters will inevitably be accompanied by man-made disasters, and the people's uprising is really helpless, if the people's life is very good, why fight to the death to revolt.
At that time, the outside world was also unstable, the Mongol Tatars were stationed in the Hetao area, and the surrounding areas were constantly invaded; even the weak Jianzhou Jurchens began to breed trouble. It was precisely the situation of the Ming Dynasty at a time of internal and external troubles that was placed in front of a young emperor who was less than twenty years old. However, Emperor Mingxianzong commanded Ruoding, while relieving the disaster, while suppressing the rebellion, employing people without doubt, and every time he was able to pass smoothly. While suppressing the rebellion by force, we tried to ease and resolve the contradictions between the various parties, set up Yunyang Province, and completely solved the problem of the displaced people in Jingxiang for more than a hundred years.
Re-armed, tough external:
Ming Xianzong was a rare emperor in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and in the face of the provocation of the Mongols and Jurchens, Ming Xianzong did not flinch. It also took the initiative to defeat the Mongols, such as the Battle of Hongyanchi in the ninth year of Chenghua, where the Ming army took the initiative to attack mongolia and destroy the Tatars' old lair in the Gasland department and force it to withdraw from the Hetao area. Because of Emperor Mingxianzong's toughness toward Mongolia, the Mongolian tribes were always jealous of the Ming Dynasty and did not dare to act rashly.
In the face of the Jurchens of Jianzhou, Emperor Mingxianzong directly came to a great sweep, known in history as "Chenghua Ploughing Court", which can be said to have almost eliminated the Jurchens of Jianzhou. Incidentally, he also beheaded The Fifth Ancestor Dongshan of Nurhaci, only because the later Qing Dynasty "History of Ming" erased these things. In fact, throughout the Ming Xianzong period, the Ming court reorganized its armaments, actively resisted the enemy, and rebuilt the nine sides, and there were more than a dozen officials and generals before and after, who were enfeoffed because of their military achievements, which was rare among the Ming emperors in the late Ming Xianzong period.
Ren Xian can use energy, magnanimity and benevolence:
After Emperor Mingxianzong ascended the throne, Emperor Mingxian restored his official position to Yu Qian, and gave him a sacrifice text, which was unanimously praised by the ministers of the dynasty. In terms of ruling and employing people, Emperor Mingxian appointed li xian, a sage minister. At the beginning, natural disasters were frequent, and Emperor Mingxianzong waived taxes and provided disaster relief in a timely manner, so that the society gradually stabilized and the economy gradually recovered.
Three major maladministrations of Emperor Mingxianzong:
First, the power of the East and West Factories and the Jinyiwei Secret Service Agency was strengthened, which seriously interfered with the normal operation of the government. Because Ming Xianzong was superstitious about fangshu and Buddhism, he appointed many so-called guoshi masters, such as the adulterous and evil Li Zi Province, the demon monk Jixiao, and so on. These people were swept away when Emperor Mingxiaozong ascended the throne.
Second, the opening of the imperial palace and the people's land struggle accelerated the annexation of land and also accelerated the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Third, the creation of the chuanfeng official, the chuanfeng official refers to the official appointed by the emperor himself without going through the selection and assessment of the official department, which actually undermines the law of the land.
Although there are many deficiencies in the Ming Xian Sect, in general, it is still more meritorious than excessive.