A major drawback of the Ming Dynasty was the chaotic administration of eunuchs, and the rampant eunuch forces were a major feature of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, there are not many eunuchs who left a good reputation in the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He and Feng Bao, the two eunuchs are rare Ming Dynasty eunuchs who have left a good reputation, it is worth mentioning here is Feng Bao, Zhang Juzheng can be the first assistant should be thanks to Feng Bao's help, furthermore, Zhang Juzheng Shoufu can achieve later achievements, to a large extent depends on Feng Bao's main inside, and Zhang Juzheng is outside. With the death of Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao lost power. Wanli's new policy came to an abrupt end.
Feng Bao's loss of power has little to do with Zhang Juzheng's death, the two can only be said to use each other at most, not even allies, and the two can trust each other. The key point is to know that the other party cannot replace him, and his status is "not valued" by the other party. But both made the mistake of not realizing that the emperor had grown up and did not respect the emperor's "personality". Both held on to power, which was unacceptable to the young emperor. Let's talk about Feng Bao, the palace giant who "raised" the Wanli Emperor here.
Jiajing and Wanli, the ancestors and grandchildren, were the two longest-reigning emperors of the Ming Dynasty, and during the period of more than 80 years from the 15th year of Jiajing to the early year of the apocalypse, the eunuchs were not allowed to recruit troops and towns, and the triangular relationship was reduced to bilateral relations, which became a simple "cabinet rule" at that time. From Jiajing's accession to the throne to the middle of the Wanli period, eunuchs were most effectively suppressed, and eunuchs were the most weak. During this period, the most powerful giant of the Ming Dynasty was Feng Bao, who was actually no less powerful than Liu Jin before and Wei Zhongxian later. And the reason why he did not leave a reputation as a gelding was because of his "good eunuch".
Feng Bao (birth and death year unknown), character Yongting, Feng Bao served as a eunuch of the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor as early as the Jiajing period, because Jiajing did not trust the eunuch, so Jiajing dynasty, Feng Bao was very low-key, after Longqing ascended the throne, Feng Bao was appointed as the governor of the East Factory and also in charge of the affairs of the imperial horse supervisor. Becoming the de facto "internal minister", in the sixth year of Longqing, Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng joined forces to expel Gao Gong, the head of the current dynasty, and was able to serve as Si Li Bingbi eunuch and Si Lijian in charge of Yin eunuch, and after taking power, he supported a whip law implemented by Zhang Juzheng, and the two joined forces to revive the Daming regime for a time, known in history as Wanli Zhongxing. In Zhang Juzheng's relationship with Feng Bao, Feng Bao is the dominant one.
Feng Bao is Wanli's "big companion" when he was a child, single-handedly accompanying Wanli to grow up, it should be said that in Wanli's heart, his closest person is not his father Longqing, nor Empress Dowager Li, but this "man", Feng Bao can be said to have watched Wanli grow up, or it can be said that Wanli is the most trusted person, in fact, Feng Bao is even more trusted by Wanli's biological mother Empress Dowager Li. Therefore, after Wanli ascended the throne, Feng Bao's status was rapidly promoted. As an old man in the palace and the emperor's companion, Wanli has a deep emotional foundation for Feng Bao.
Empress Dowager Li is a palace maid (the concubines of the Ming Dynasty are not of high origin), with the meanness of a small woman, calculating, the city, Wanli is greatly influenced by Empress Dowager Li, her son Wanli can become the emperor is a very accidental thing, due to Longqing's lecherous prematurely death, so that Empress Dowager Li pinned all her hopes on Wanli, the requirements for Wanli are extremely strict, because Wanli is not yet an adult, Empress Dowager Li's power is undoubtedly the greatest, because she is the mother of Ming Wanli, in the case that the emperor cannot be pro-government, Empress Dowager Li actually took the place of the emperor in charge of imperial power.
However, Empress Dowager Li herself had no way to directly dictate orders to foreign ministers, and she had to rely on a formal institution already in place in the Ming Dynasty to convey her instructions to the foreign court, and this body was the superintendent of ceremonies. It was Feng Bao who was in charge of the ceremonial supervisor, and Empress Dowager Li formally contacted the cabinet, that is, Zhang Juzheng, through Feng Baolai. That is to say, Empress Dowager Li trusted Feng Bao more than Zhang Juzheng. Therefore, Empress Dowager Li and Feng Baocai decided to use Zhang Juzheng to control the foreign dynasty. It can also be seen from the attitude of Empress Dowager Li after Zhang Juzheng's death that Empress Dowager Li just made Zhang Juzheng a "tool man", and if she really trusts her, if there is a word, Zhang Juzheng will not be so miserable after his death.
The defeat of Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng was due to not realizing that the emperor had grown up, especially Feng Bao, he also reported everything about the adult Wanli to Empress Dowager Li as before, which was obviously unacceptable to the young Wanli, in the eighth year of Wanli's accession to the throne, the eighteen-year-old Wanli Emperor gave a palace maid to that because of the sperm worm, this matter is really not a matter in the palace, the palace maid should be undesirable for this, after all, it is the emperor's first time. But for Feng Bao, this matter was a big thing, after all, the emperor had not yet been married, after all, it was the first time such a thing had happened, and Feng Bao told the Wanli Emperor about this to his mother, Empress Dowager Li.
Feng Bao's meaning was probably to mention to the emperor by Empress Dowager Li, pay more attention to the fact that although Feng Bao was not a "man". But the truth is still clear, which means that the emperor knows that his youth has just begun, and this matter is not in a hurry. But Feng Bao apparently underestimated Empress Dowager Li's attitude. For this son, she valued it very much, and she wanted to build her son into a worldly Ming Emperor, the second emperor Taizu, especially his father's lifelong reputation dog and horse, otherwise they would not have left them orphans and widows. Therefore, it is especially sensitive on the issue of female color. Hearing about this, Empress Dowager Li couldn't contain her full anger and suddenly became furious, and immediately asked people to go to Zhang Juzheng, the head of the dynasty, and asked him to draft a self-blame imperial code for Wanli.
Not only that, she asked people to call the Wanli Emperor to her, made him kneel in front of her, scolded him fiercely in front of Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, and when she was angry, she said to the aggrieved Wanli Emperor: "Do I have to let you be the emperor?" This obviously made Wanli embarrassed, so that Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao both saw their most unbearable side, men all live a face, not to mention that Wanli is still a young emperor.
The Wanli Emperor at first thought that his mother was just scaring and scaring himself, and he didn't take it seriously, he has been a righteous emperor for eight years, and he can't abolish himself because of his palace maid, based on this understanding, the Wanli Emperor did not take his mother's words seriously, should eat, drink, and sleep, there is no delay at all.
But soon, Empress Dowager Li told the Wanli Emperor with practical actions, she never joked, she was playing for real, and Empress Dowager Li asked Feng Bao to explain the "Legend of Huo Guang" to Wanli, and Huo Guang followed the example of Yin Shang Yi Yin and abolished the Son of Heaven, which means to abolish the Wanli Emperor and re-establish King Lu as emperor. At this time, the Wanli Emperor knew that the old mother was playing with the real thing. At this time, although he was an adult, he still did not have a pro-government, and in front of his mother and Zhang Juzheng, he was just an empty shelf with an empty reputation as an emperor but no power. It is not impossible for the Empress Dowager and Shoufu to depose him.
Understanding this, the Wanli Emperor found his mother for the first time, knelt on the ground and cried vigorously, crying for a whole day, and said that he would be obedient in the future and put an end to all bad habits. To be a good emperor, Empress Dowager Li saw that her son recognized his sincere attitude, so she forgave the eighteen-year-old Wanli, but asked Wanli to give his guilt and send it to the cabinet to Zhang Juzheng to see, and told the world that the Wanli Emperor could completely learn a lesson from it. In fact, Empress Dowager Li was really scaring Wanli and giving Zhang Juzhengtian a big boldness, and he did not dare to learn Huo Guang, but this was the first major crisis in the life of the Wanli Emperor, and in an atmosphere of humiliation, it was successfully passed.
But this humiliation lingered in the heart of the Wanli Emperor, and the hatred did not become weaker and weaker with the passage of time, on the contrary, the hatred was like a gushing river, fueled by time, it became monstrous. But now he can only endure. But the longer he endures today, the more ruthless he will retaliate every day, naturally he can't do anything to his own mother, but he will spread all his anger at Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao. And the eight-year relationship between Feng Bao and Wanli came to a complete end at this moment.
Feng Bao knew nothing about all this, and he did not realize that it was a wrong thing. Zhang Juzheng also did not realize the crisis of the matter, in the eyes of the two, this was a good deed, so that the emperor learned from the bad hobbies and walked the road of the Ming Jun from then on. Besides, everything is led by the Queen Mother, and it has nothing to do with the two. This can only be said that Feng Bao was too naïve to realize how important an emperor's face was.
On June 20, the tenth year of Wanli, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Shangzhuguo, Zheng Yipin Taishi and Taifu, Zhang Juzheng, a scholar of Zhongjidian University, died of illness at the age of fifty-eight, Tan Wenzhong. The departure of this person was like a mountain accumulated overhead, completely disappearing in front of the Wanli Emperor. The seed of hatred that had accumulated in the depths of his heart swelled rapidly. Wanli began his revenge, Zhang Juzheng died in June, and in December the Wanli Emperor copied Zhang Juzheng's home.
For Feng Bao, the Wanli Emperor hated it even more, at this time he also knew that this eunuch who had been playing with himself since he was a child, studying with himself, as an emperor, he never did not contain Feng Bao's name, but called his companion affectionately, was actually a "spy" lurking beside him, his every move, but whenever there was any wind, he would tell his mother at the first time, if it wasn't for him to sue his mother, how could he almost be abolished.
At this time, Wanli got married and began to be pro-government, and Empress Dowager Li retired to the harem to enjoy Qingfu. As for the matter of Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, Empress Dowager Li would not care, and Feng Baozhu, who lost Zhang Juzheng, was already at the end of the crossbow, and it was difficult to make a sound alone. And Feng Bao, who has always been smart, could not see the situation clearly at the first time. He still considers himself an "internal minister" and dictates to the cabinet. In this case, Feng Bao's behavior is undoubtedly seeking his own death. Wanli was thinking about how to take down Feng Bao.
At this time, the original chamberlains Zhang Whale and Zhang Cheng gave Wanli the safest plan, and let Feng Bao dismiss him as quickly as possible, so that he "idle" lived in Nanjing. Wanli accepted this advice, and immediately issued a decree: "Feng Bao deceived the kingdom, the crime is deep, and he should have been killed." The service was long, so he surrendered from leniency and sent a new house in Nanjing to live idle. He also ordered Liu Shouyou, the governor of Jinyi, to lead troops to confiscate Feng Bao's family property, copy more than one million taels of gold and silver, and treasure countless exotic treasures. Among them is the famous painting "Qingming Shanghe Tu" At this point, Feng Bao was completely deposed. Then he lived in Nanjing, powerless, and majestic. Soon "Tan died in Nanliudu, in contrast, better than Zhang Juzheng."
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