If Wan Li, like his grandfather Jiajing, fought for the "Great Rites" against him, more than a hundred people opposed him, or like his uncle Zhengde, he took more than a hundred officials who obstructed his southern tour with sticks

If Wan Li, like his grandfather Jiajing, fought against him for the "Great Rites", more than a hundred people opposed him, or like his uncle Zhengde, more than a hundred officials who obstructed his southern tour were punished with sticks. Well, things may save a lot of trouble. However, Wanli had neither the authority of its ancestors nor the courage of its ancestors, and even if it occasionally complained about the sanctions imposed on its subjects, it would not help.

In the dilemma of the "dispute over the foundation of the country", Wan Li once again showed weakness in character, so he adopted the method of "procrastination", and since the two sides had different opinions, they postponed the matter of the appointment of the crown prince. The reason for this was that the empress was still young, and maybe she would have a boy, and it would not be too late to make a prince. But in fact, since Wanli and Zheng Guifei fell in love, there was no longer a male and female pleasure with the empress, where did this son come from? Obviously, the emperor was using this not very clever method to prevaricate the courtiers.

On the one hand, Wanli racked his brains to cope with the constant rebuttal and inquiry of the courtiers, and on the other hand, he cruelly abused Wang Gongfei's mother and son. Wanli himself began to read and practice writing at the age of five, but the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo, grew up to fourteen years old and had not yet assigned him a teacher, almost making the future emperor illiterate. And Princess Wang Gongfei herself was also beaten into the cold palace, and no one cared about it.

In the blink of an eye, Chang Luo had reached the age of nineteen, and Wanli neither married nor made a prince. The ministers finally discovered a secret, it turned out that the empress dowager was often ill, and it was obvious that Wanli planned to succeed Empress Wang once she died of illness, and Princess Zheng Guifei would succeed her; Chang Xun would naturally become the crown prince. After the lecturer Huang Hui guessed this secret, he immediately reported it to Wang Dequan and said: This is a major state affair, and unexpected things will happen at any time. If Wan Li and Zheng Guifei fulfilled their wishes and wrote them in the annals of history, posterity would laugh at the lack of loyal subjects in the dynasty. After Wang De finished listening, he asked Huang Hui to write a draft of the sonata, which he revised and transcribed and sent to the emperor. As a result, Wang Dequan was removed from the list after being 100 people in the court staff. Shang Shu Li Dai and others tried their best to save them, and they were reprimanded.

After beating Wang De, Wan Li said indignantly to the group of ministers, "Are the ministers the eldest son of the emperor?" For desjects? If he is the eldest son of the Emperor, he shall be careful not to disturb him; if he wishes to be virtuous, he will be one year late. These contradictory and uncanny words surprised the courtiers. They felt as if Wanli was really expecting something.

Just when Wan Li and the ministers were arguing and stalemating over the issue of establishing a crown prince, a "ghost" that had disappeared from people's minds suddenly appeared at this critical moment. This is Wanli's birth mother, Empress Dowager Cisheng.

Ci Sheng, who was in a state of rage, although she was recuperating in the deep palace and did not ask about the government, she always paid attention to the development and change of this situation. On this issue, she once again sided with Princess Wang Gongfei and the courtiers, feeling that it was time for her to intervene personally. When Wan Shi went to her deep palace to ask for peace, the old lady asked solemnly, "Why did you delay making Chang Luo the crown prince?" ”

It may be because Empress Dowager Cisheng is still powerful, or it may be that Wan Li was not prepared in advance and was too panicked, and blurted out a key wrong word: "Pidu Renzi also." ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the palace called the palace women "Duren", and Wan Li actually forgot that her mother was also from the "Duren" origin. When Empress Dowager Cisheng angrily pointed at him and said, "Eryidu Son of Man," Wan Li suddenly woke up and was so frightened that she "did not dare to rise to the ground."

Wanli's mistakes intensified Empress Dowager Cisheng's resolve. In desperation, the Wanli Emperor had to appoint Chang luo as the "Crown Prince" in October 1601.

When Princess Zheng Guifei heard the news that Wanli wanted to make Chang Luo the crown prince, although she felt that the general trend had gone, she still had to make a final attempt. As early as a few years ago, in order to please Concubine Zheng, the Wanli Emperor had made a wish to make Zhu Changxun crown prince in the future. Princess Zheng Guifei showed her cleverness and asked the emperor to write down the handwriting, which was preciously packed in a brocade box and placed on the beam in her palace, thinking that it would be a credential for the future. Now that the time had come, she couldn't help but show this trump card to defeat her enemies. However, when Zheng Guifei opened the box full of hope, she couldn't help but be surprised: a piece of paper handbook made the yiyu (silverfish) bite to pieces, and the word "Chang Xun" also entered the belly of the yiyu! The superstitious emperor sighed, "This is Providence." Finally, despite Zheng Guifei's tearful eyes, Zhu Changluo was named "Prince" and Chang Xun was made "Prince of Fu", and the fief was Luoyang.

At this point, after fifteen years of quarrels, countless ministers were reprimanded and beaten with rods, and the Wanli Emperor was physically and mentally haggard, Zheng Guifei was depressed, and the "dispute over the foundation of the country" in which the entire empire was not at peace came to an end.

Around the important matter of "dispute over the foundation of the country," the courtiers of the imperial court gradually formed two opposing factions: a faction headed by Shoufu Shen Shixing, a scholar Wang Xijue, Shen Zheng, Fang Congzhe, and others had a warm attitude and "violated it"; while a faction headed by Gu Xiancheng, Gao Panlong, Qian Yiben, and others took the "Donglin Academy" as its base and advocated resolutely following the rules of "having a concubine and standing without a concubine" and supporting Chang Luo as the crown prince, thus forming the "Donglin Party" that was famous for a while at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Because Shen had always been a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang, during his tenure as the first assistant after Shen Shixing, he gathered Zhejiang officials to oppose the Donglin Party, so he was called the "Zhejiang Party". In addition, there are various factions such as the "Qi Party" and the "Chu Party", which have united against the Donglin Party.

In the midst of their struggle with each other, the parties all took advantage of the opportunity of Jingcha to exclude dissidents. However, whichever side wins will not do any good to solve the accumulated shortcomings of social corruption in the late Ming Dynasty. And these partisan battles can only make the Empire State Building fall more quickly.