After Wei Zhongxian was killed by Chongzhen, why did the Ming Dynasty collapse? Wang Cheng'en's words are very pertinent
"If we take history as a mirror, we can know what is going on." Emperor Taizong's words not only provided a learning idea for future generations of rulers, but also left a basis for evaluating predecessors. Temporary success can depend on the success or failure of the cause, success in a lifetime depends on the length of life, and historical success depends on the ability and goodwill of the ruler.
Just like the Qin eunuch Zhao Gao, who stole the regime and pointed out that the deer was a horse, who dared to disobey it? However, he was finally assassinated by the Prince of Qin and moved to the three tribes; and the history of Zhao Gao's evaluation was also very poor, believing that Zhao Gao was an important cause of Qin's demise like Qin Fa and the Six Kingdoms.
Also in the last years of the dynasty, also the eunuchs in power, Wei Zhongxian's evaluation in later generations was somewhat different. It can almost be said that once Wei Zhongxian died, the speed of the ming dynasty's demise was greatly accelerated, and Wang Cheng'en said a very pertinent sentence.
Wei Zhongxian
Wei Zhongxian was born in the city of rogues, has a certain skill, legend has it that his arrow technique is very accurate, and his left and right hands can hold the bow. Wei Zhongxian's family was poor, but he was good at gambling, and later forced himself into the palace for gambling debts and changed his name to Li Jinzhong. After entering the palace, he was extremely flattering, and was valued by the grand eunuch Wang En, and became a eunuch who accompanied the emperor's eldest grandson.
It was also at this time that Wei Zhongxian met a woman named Ke Yinyue, who was the nursing mother of the later Emperor of the Apocalypse. Wei Zhongxian tried his best to become a "food pair" with her, that is, a husband and wife. For a long time afterwards, this "Lady Fengsheng" gave Wei Zhongxian a great help.
The first year of Taichang is a very ordinary year in Chinese history, but it is an important turning point in the history of the Ming Dynasty and Wei Zhongxian's life.
In this year, the Taichang Emperor, who had been on the throne for less than a year, died, and the afterglow of the Shenzong era continued, and the Eastern Forest ministers slowly approached the center of the empire with their expectations for the new emperor. Wei Zhongxian, who was in the harem, was also firmly staring at the person on the dragon chair, which was the hope of his life.
To tell the truth, the Emperor of the Apocalypse had a good sense of the Donglin Party at first. The Donglin Party has a good reputation, and in the case of moving the palace, they helped him to take power, and he was still willing to believe that the Donglin Party was in the same heart as himself.
But slowly, the Emperor of the Apocalypse found out that something was wrong. A large part of the power of the imperial court was in their hands, and under their reputation for honesty, there was also a lot of corruption, but it was difficult for them to deal with them. These important ministers of the Donglin Party were not all practical, and Xiong Tingbi of Liaodong was impeached just at odds with them, and later the people they pushed up lost the city and lost land.
Compared with the military, economic problems are the big problems of the Donglin Party. They didn't want the court to collect taxes from the big landlords and big merchants, just pour some more oil on those poor people.
Rise
The Emperor of the Apocalypse felt that his power was draining, and he had no way to learn from his ancestors' "Imperial Mind Technique". Wei Zhongxian was chosen, and he became the candidate of the Emperor of the Apocalypse to fight with the Donglin Party, and the "Nine Thousand Years" has since entered the stage of Chinese history.
To be honest, the Emperor of the Apocalypse was well aware of the consequences of giving too much power to the eunuchs, after all, the eunuchs did too much in the late Tang Dynasty, but the real problem was in front, and his courtiers were too powerful.
Wei Zhongxian did not disappoint the Emperor of The Apocalypse, and this great eunuch who was born in the city actually crushed the Donglin Party to death. Not only that, the financial problems that the Emperor of the Apocalypse had been quite troubled for a long time were also well solved, and the national treasury became full. Thus, the Emperor of the Apocalypse could safely do his carpentry work.
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty is very interesting, the strong emperor can live well, and the weak emperor is short-lived. Needless to say, Taizu and Emperor Taizong played the entire imperial court in the palm of their hands.
The Jiajing Emperor was almost the wisest emperor in China, and although he had always cultivated, he had always held great power. Although Wanli was not as smart as his grandfather, he also learned three points of fire from his grandfather and could also control the imperial court. The Emperor of the Apocalypse was not very strong, so he did not become emperor for a few years and left.
After the death of Emperor Tianqi, Wei Zhongxian was very afraid, because Tianqi had no sons, and could only raise King Xin to the throne, but King Xin was directly educated by the princes and never knew how the emperor would change, so his method of governance has always been the orthodox Confucian method of governing the country.
Ke Chongzhen's ministers were not orthodox Confucian believers, they were just a mixture of landlords and merchants who used Confucian pretexts, who paid attention to interests, and their own interests, and as for the country, it depended on the conscience of the people. This matter was something that Chongzhen wanted to understand in front of the old crooked neck tree, this is the minister of the subjugated country!
remorse
In front of the old crooked neck tree, Wang Cheng'en said a word, "Zhongxian is here, why is this?" This is actually a, if Wei Zhongxian is there, they may not be standing in front of the old crooked neck tree, even if there is a strong Jinyi guard commander, it is not necessarily this fate.
As soon as the Chongzhen Emperor ascended to the throne, he directly killed Wei Zhongxian, and then abandoned the Jinyi Wei, he looked at the appearance of the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty and believed that he could rectify the imperial court, but reality gave him a slap.
In the whole Ming Dynasty, there were no incompetent emperors, only stupid emperors, and the most stupid ones were Jianwen and Chongzhen, who truly believed in the Confucian concept of governing the country, but those who gave them this set did not believe, and in the end they could only be wishful thinking.
Life extension
So why was Wei Zhongxian able to continue the life of the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent? First of all, a little "ass decides the head", Wei Zhongxian is from the city well, he is very clear in the Ming Dynasty who has money and who does not have money, poor haha have three pounds of money on them? It would be nice to have three pounds of mud. Who has money? Landlord lords and big businessmen, as for the official lords? They are landlords and big businessmen.
Wei Zhongxian's way to make money was to stab them. As a result, Wei Zhongxian's reputation among the imperial officials was ruined, after all, blocking people's financial paths was like killing their parents.
The second point is to be kind to the military generals. Since the Song Dynasty, the status of warriors has been very low, but once a war occurs, warriors are required to go to the battlefield. The students looked down on the warriors, but Wei Zhongxian had always treated the warriors very well.
Among the officials in the world who built a shrine for Wei Zhongxian, the military generals in the north have always been very active, after all, Wei eunuchs really give money, don't give it all. As for those civil servants, it is good not to give you two mouthfuls of spit. It was under Wei Zhongxian's efforts to throw money, the situation outside Guanwai during the Apocalypse years was actually good, and even developed for the better for a while, much better than later. #历史 #
