Speaking of the Zhengde Emperor, this era name may not be very famous, but the mention of "Leopard Room" is a term that is more familiar to history lovers, and its owner is the Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao. The only person who could put beauty and wild beasts together was probably the Zhengde Emperor, and the leopard room was his favorite place to play, where he did all the absurd things, and seeing that no matter what, he could not get close to Ming jun and Renjun.
Under the favor of the Zhengde Emperor, eunuchs rose again, and the eunuchs led by Liu Jin instigated the Zhengde Emperor to indulge in indulgence, while holding the power of the government as a blessing, and the Zhengde Emperor himself finally died of pneumonia caused by playing in the water, and died at the age of 31. The death of the Zhengde Emperor is considered to be the end of a generation of emperors, as everyone knows, if Zhengde does not die, the Ming Dynasty will not perish, why do you say so? In fact, looking at his three major strategic layouts, he is the emperor of the ages.
The overall layout is intended to check and balance
The first strategic layout: The Zhengde Emperor was a seemingly absurd but very serious emperor, he was outwardly indulgent in eating, drinking and having fun, and even the upper dynasty was not on time, and his casual temperament made the ministers of gu orders feel a deep sense of powerlessness. The reason why the ministers of gu orders had a sense of powerlessness was that Zhengde did not have any major faults, and no major events or serious things fell behind, but they did not "go to work" well in ordinary times, at most, an emperor who did not pay attention to the tune but was very capable.
The Zhengde Emperor did not obey the old ministers in this way, avoiding the situation that the emperor was constrained by the courtiers, "I don't listen to good words and bad words, and it is impossible to fiddle with my daily behavior", and the Zhengde Emperor used this absurd behavior to seize the right to speak. At the same time, the Zhengde Emperor favored the eunuch Liu Jin and others, and its purpose was also to balance the civil officials in the dynasty, and it should be known that the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty was very fierce, occupying an important position in the court, and if eunuchs were not used to balance them, the Ming court would become the world of the party.
The Zhengde Emperor obviously disguised himself as a pig and ate a tiger, and used superficial absurdity to achieve the purpose of mastering everything in the court, and when those old ministers either returned to their hometowns or were killed by eunuchs, the grand eunuch Liu Jin was also unloaded and killed by donkeys to make an example. Judging from this layout, the emperor of Zhengde was very far-sighted in his operation, using the delicate relationship between the civil officials and the eunuchs in the court to rub sparks, watching them compete with each other and his own fishermen to gain.
The royal driver personally marched, yingzhou victory
Second strategic layout: Although the Ming Dynasty had the feat of Emperor Zhu Di's "Heavenly Son Guarding the Gate of the Country", the foreign enemies in the north have not stopped harassing, and even the emperor Ming Yingzong Zhu Qi Town has been captured by the Mongols, which shows that the security risks in the north have always existed, and the imperial court can only guard against prisoners, but there is no substantive progress, and when the Zhengde Emperor here he adopts the strategic policy of attacking and defending to reverse the passive situation.
When the little prince of Mongolia knocked on the pass, the Zhengde Emperor proposed the imperial conquest at the age of 26 years old, which frightened a number of civilian officials and ministers, seventy years ago, the "change of Tumu Fort" was still vividly remembered, they did not want Zhengde to repeat the same mistakes, but their emperor was determined to do it, so the Zhengde Emperor took the name of "Great General Zhu Shou" to drive the imperial conquest, and not a single civilian official around him was brought, which shows the depth of his prejudice against the civil officials.
Don't look at the Zhengde Emperor a day is nothing serious, that is just a superficial phenomenon, for those civilian officials to see, to the battlefield Zhengde Emperor not only with the soldiers to eat and live, but also showed extraordinary military talent, after his command and arrangement, the Ming army finally won the battle with the Mongols, so that the Mongols did not dare to invade for a long time, known in history as the "Yingzhou Victory". This victory was the highlight of the Zhengde Emperor, but it was also from this time that he aroused the jealousy of the civil officials and began to "calculate".
Passionate about diplomacy, the age of navigation
The third strategic layout: The Zhengde Emperor is very interested in foreign affairs, and attaches great importance to the emissaries sent by the surrounding small countries, especially from those expeditions and emissaries from the West, Nanyang and other countries, the Zhengde Emperor personally receives, for fear of neglecting international friends, he is not deliberately trying to please others, but in the heart of communication, from foreign emissaries to obtain the knowledge of others and apply it to his own country.
Later, the Zhengde Emperor put forward a proposal to go to the West, which was opposed by the ministers, and in the eyes of the ministers, going to the West was a matter of labor and wealth, which was not conducive to jiangshan Sheji, and the Zhengde Emperor did not agree with this. When the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di was in power, he sent Zheng He to the West seven times, if he really worked hard and hurt the people, where did the "Yongle prosperous world" come from? Obviously, going to the West is a profitable thing, not a loss-making transaction at all.
But this matter has never taken shape, because the Zhengde Emperor fell into the water at the age of 31 and died of pneumonia, and the matter was not resolved. If zhengde's strategy is implemented, it will open a new navigation era of the Ming Dynasty, rather than the great navigation era in the hands of Western countries, which will make the Ming Dynasty appear another prosperous period, and at the same time change the economic structure of the Ming Dynasty society, lift the sea ban, open the trade ports, and gradually form a perfect transition to capitalism.
Trace the source, the culprit
It is a pity that the Zhengde Emperor died early, if he did not die early, with his ability to play a pig and eat a tiger, he could completely become an emperor for thousands of years, at least the three strategic layouts when he was alive were very exquisite "platooning and deployment", seemingly innocuous, in fact, every piece was very beneficial to the Daming Jiangshan. Therefore, while feeling sorry for the death of the Zhengde Emperor, there will also be questions, why did Xiao Yong, who was good at war and strong, die of falling into the water at the age of 31?
Tracing back to the time of Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he killed all the heroes in order to keep the Ming Dynasty always maintain the Zhu surname, and at the same time, in order to prevent the courtiers, he also set up a supervision institution such as Jinyiwei, so that a sense of mutual distrust was formed between the courtiers and the emperor, so the ministers gradually formed groups and teams to form gangs one by one, and party strife arose.
Don't underestimate the power of the party struggle, thinking that it is just a pawn in the hands of the emperor, in fact, the opposite is true, the emperor has become a pawn of the party. When the emperor listens to them, there will be gang rivalries, and when the emperors do not listen to their fiddling, they will unite to "change" an emperor.
Such a statement is not alarmist, the Red Pill Case, the Palace Removal Case, the Strike Case, etc. that occurred during the Ming Dynasty are the best proof, if this is the result of the great party struggle in the later period, then going back to the "Door Seizure Incident" is completely an unnecessary event manipulated in the hands of the ministers, which shows how sophisticated the means of the imperial court party are.
Therefore, the early death of the Zhengde Emperor and the untimely death of some emperors before and after cannot be ruled out as the result of the party struggle, and the culprit is Zhu Yuanzhang himself, if he does not make a Jinyi guard to form an opposition with the courtiers from the beginning, the emperors behind him will be much better.
brief summary
The Zhengde Emperor is a seemingly absurd but in fact very righteous emperor, it can even be said that he is an emperor through the ages, his three major strategic layouts are strategizing, killing and deciding, and far-sighted, if he does not die early, the Ming Dynasty will not perish so early, nothing more than the Zhengde Emperor became an emperor who was difficult to manipulate in the eyes of civilian officials and let him die young.
In the eyes of most people, the Zhengde Emperor was a playful and absurd emperor, and it should be known that the historical data was in the hands of the civilian officials, and the Zhengde Emperor touched the interests of the civilian officials everywhere, and it was strange that he could be written well. Looking back at the history of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that no emperor has been praised and praised through the ages, and the reasons for this please taste it.
Reference: History of the Ming Dynasty
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