Who is the first phase of the ages
The post of prime minister has a history of more than 1,700 years since it was established in the second year of King Wu of Qin (309 AD).
So in the long years of nearly 2,000 years, if I were to choose a prime minister who was brave in reform, had outstanding political achievements, was ruthless, and the most legendary of his methods, then I would be the first to recommend Zhang Juzheng to everyone.
It can be said that Comrade Zhang Juzheng is both a reformer and a politician, with the fearlessness and firmness of a reformer and the persistence and flexibility of a politician; Comrade Zhang Juzheng is not only a handsome man, but also has a loving heart for children.
Some people say that Zhang Juzheng is greedy for money, so look at the "copy sheets" of their family after his death: 110,000 taels of silver and 3,000 taels of gold.
Do you think this money is too much for a cabinet chief and assistant, for such an imperial autocratic system?
Some people also say that Comrade Hai Rui is incorruptible. If I want to see, Harry is the biggest corrupt official, yes, you read that right.
Ordinary people are greedy for gold and silver, and Lord Hai is greedy for his reputation.
In order that his reputation must not be a little polluted, he can abandon people's feelings, he can force his wife and daughter to death, and he can make his colleagues flee from the wind.
Imagine, in that kind of system, to have a spotless reputation, what else can you do except be a weirdo, except for not being an official and not taking responsibility?
What the people need is to live a good life, what the country needs is to change strongly, what can Hairui do? What has he done?
I'm afraid I can only hang up and be a so-called "model" who needs to be learned by everyone, but cannot be learned.
Comrade Zhang Juzheng's erotic affairs
Comrade Zhang Juzheng is a handsome man, and this is recorded in the history books.
Such a handsome, talented, and high position below one person, above ten thousand people, which beautiful woman does not love? Even Empress Dowager Li, who had lost her husband, cast her admiring eyes on our Lord Zhang.
Of course, this is not recorded in the official history, but many well-known historians have said that if this Empress Dowager Li and Lord Zhang did not have a leg, they would never believe it.
There is no history in the right history, wild history, folk history, regardless of your set, they will give you a clear and clear picture.
There has always been such a couplet circulating among the people: Ai self-cultivation, self-study do not repair, white-faced scholar back tiger list. Zhang Juzheng, Juzheng is not right, black-hearted prime minister Crouching Dragon Bed.
Literally speaking, this couplet is the best proof that Comrade Zhang Juzheng and Li Taihao are good. So, what is the divine nature of self-cultivation?
Ye Shi said: In the year that Zhang Juzheng was taking the junior high school entrance examination, there was a classmate named Ai Zixiu, who took the junior scholar exam in the same year as him, and as a result, Xiao Ai's classmate fell off the list.
Later, when Zhang Juzheng met with this old classmate, he made a joke. Master Zhang gave his old classmate an upper link: Ai self-study, self-study did not self-study, white-faced scholar back tiger list.
This Xiao Ai classmate saw it, then the heart is hot, you Zhang Juzheng is admitted, it is beautiful? Not only do you not comfort your old classmates, but you also make fun of others, which is too unkind.
Xiao Ai saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart.
One day, many years later, Xiao Ai, who became a magistrate, entered Beijing and visited Zhang Tongjiao by the way.
After entering, the doorman said that Master Zhang was enjoying the flowers in the back garden. Xiao Ai ran to the back garden.
Just entered the door of the back garden, the shadow was emerging, and I saw a figure flashing behind the rockery and disappeared.
Xiao Ai rubbed her eyes, this is clearly my old classmate, hurriedly ran over to take a look, and saw that there was a hole in the ground, and a stone slab had just been covered.
Coincidentally, this stone slab just pressed the corner of Zhang Juzheng's robe, and Ai Zixiu reacted quickly, drawing his sword and cutting a piece of his robe and running.
Afterwards, Xiao Ai conducted a secret investigation and found that this tunnel led directly to Empress Dowager Li's bedroom.
So, the opportunity for revenge came. Xiao Ai's classmate had a flash of inspiration, and the next link that had not come out for 20 years also came out: "Zhang Juzheng, Juzheng is not right, black-hearted Prime Minister Crouching Dragon Bed."
This is the story of the famous "Black Heart Prime Minister Crouching Dragon Bed".
If the credibility of the above story is not too high, then the following thing is true.
It is said that once, it coincided with the thirtieth birthday of Empress Dowager Li.
On this day, the Hanlin Courtyard was clear and the wind was smooth.
I saw a few rare white swallows flying from the blue sky. Comrade Zhang Juzheng saw in his eyes, and the waves in his heart had been gently touched by Bai Yan's wings, so he wrote a poem "Bai Yan Poem" with a pen and dedicated it to Empress Dowager Li, and a few sentences of it were written as follows:
"Bai Yanfei, two pairs of jade shine... Sometimes the red medicine steps forward, bringing a clear fragrance and embroidery."
Two white swallows, in pairs, flew past the flowers in front of my steps, bringing the floral fragrance of my yard to your embroidered drapery (boudoir).
Although we can't say that this poem is warm, we can all see that this is obviously a love poem. The poem contains rich emotions like the waves of the river, but it is very subtle.
People say that beautiful women match heroes, so how can there be less beautiful women around the high-ranking and handsome Zhang Daren?
If we want to investigate the source of these beauties, we have to talk about Comrade Qi Jiguang.
Everyone knows that Comrade Qi Jiguang is a national hero of the anti-Yan resistance. However, Qi Jiguang was pulled up by Master Zhang, and you may not be very familiar with it.
Yes, where there are people, there are quacks. Fighting and killing on the rivers and lakes is not a game, not if you master the rules of the game, you can kill all sides alone.
No matter how capable people are, they must also discover your Bó Lè. Comrade Zhang Juzheng is the one who discovered Qi Jiguang, a thousand-mile horse.
With the strong support of Comrade Zhang Juzheng, Qi Jiguang was able to implement his good anti-Yan strategy without any consideration.
In order to repay Master Zhang, Comrade Qi Jiguang also took great painstaking efforts.
In order to send the gifts, Comrade Qi arranged for someone to carry the palanquin containing the beauty into the prime minister's mansion, and he and Lord Zhang also had a particularly interesting conversation.
The conversation first revolved around Master Zhang's work.
Comrade Qi said, my lord, you are getting busier and busier at work, but you should pay attention to your body.
Master Zhang said that he was older, his body was not as good as before, and he was so energetic.
At this time, Comrade Qi said, adults, you have to pay attention to health maintenance, I heard that among the 64 trigrams of the I Ching, the most auspicious is the taigua, and the trigram of the taigua is dry at the bottom and kun on the top, that is, the woman is on the top, and the man is on the bottom, which is a great opposition.
From another point of view, the great rebellion is the great shun, the way of life, that is, the Taoist way of health, the way of taking yin and replenishing yang.
If controlled, Yin and Yang can exert the greatest nourishing effect on a person's body. That is, women are the best tonic for men.
After listening to this paragraph, everyone, you can say that Comrade Qi's paper is wonderfully written.
With the above foreshadowing, it is time for the two beauties to appear. I saw two petite babies, deep eyes and blue eyes, slender eyelashes, towering nose bridge, and even more bumpy figures.
Lord Zhang could see at a glance that these two were Persian beauties and twins. I was very satisfied on the spot and smiled happily.
Comrade Zhang Juzheng's political achievements
There are methods for reform, some of which are easy and then difficult, and some of which gnaw hard bones first. Some revolutionize the old and the new, and some revolutionize the old.
Some have not yet done it, so they first shouted out the reform slogan, and first became bold; There are also those who only do it, do not say.
You may ask, aren't these practices different above?
Yes, it's really different.
We all know Wang Anshi, and his transformation failed. Where is the defeat, I think, an important aspect is that Prime Minister Wang is too idealistic.
Before the reform was implemented, Prime Minister Wang shouted out the slogan and made his attitude clear: the sky is not enough to fear, the words of the people are not enough, and the ancestors are not enough to law. In the environment at that time, this was a bit of a big contrarian.
Moreover, Prime Minister Wang's change of law, starting with the most difficult fiscal reform, was also opposed by most people.
Comrade Zhang Juzheng is much smarter. He doesn't have so many slogans, he doesn't make superficial statements.
Whether it succeeds or fails, I will do it first, or even just do it. He also doesn't have as many reform aspects and so many hard measures.
To put it bluntly, Comrade Zhang Juzheng's reform actually focused on two aspects:
First, it is necessary to implement the examination method and increase the intensity of evaluation of officials. At the beginning of the year, you should formulate work goals, and after they are formulated, report them to the Ministry of Officials for examination in a unified manner, and then you must seriously advance them day by day according to the goals.
There is a small test in half a year, and a big exam at the end of the year. At the end of the year, non-special circumstances, such as natural disasters, man-made disasters or something, in addition to the above two aspects, you say, you did not complete the task? Sorry, you can roll up and leave.
The real implementation of this law has effectively improved the efficiency of officials and elders at all levels, and some officials and masters who only eat food and do not work have been eliminated from the bureaucratic ranks.
Second, implement a whipping law. The original land area figures can only be used as a reference. All over the country, the area of farmland is remeasured, and you pay as much tax as you have as much farmland, and only one tax is collected.
Farming taxes, conscription taxes, poll taxes, etc., are all incorporated into agricultural taxes.
The implementation of a whipping law greatly increased the income of the national treasury, so that the treasury of the Daming Empire began to become rich, and with money, increasing troops and fighting disasters were no longer a problem.
It can be said that Comrade Zhang Juzheng, completely relying on his determination and courage to turn back and die after death, repaired the engine of the Daming Dynasty, which was about to lie down, and extended its operating life by at least another 50 years.
What I sincerely admire is Comrade Zhang Juzheng's patriotism and love for the people who do not hesitate to do his best.
With the wisdom of Comrade Zhang Juzheng, after his death, someone counterattacked him, dug up his coffin, whipped his body, his home was raided, and his eldest son was forced to hang himself.
Let's listen to a conversation he had with the official Shangshu Wang Guoguang before he implemented the "Kiyota".
Wang Guoguang said: By implementing the "Qingtian" policy, you are the enemy of all the gentry in the world, have you thought about the consequences?
Zhang Juzheng replied: For the sake of the imperial court and the livelihood of the world, I, Zhang Juzheng, have long been prepared to destroy my family and martyrdom. Only in this way can one or two things be accomplished.
Yes, in the eyes of ordinary people, you Zhang Juzheng, as the emperor's teacher, has power. Sit in your seat, drink tea, patrol down from time to time, drink some wine, mingle with officials at all levels, and let them say that you are good, isn't this fragrant?
At the same time, as long as the hand is extended a little longer, the money after the next eight generations will be out. After your death, officials at all levels will miss you very much and say that you are good, but what will turn out? You have to do this, not to make yourself suffer.
Comrade Zhang Juzheng is not only loyal to the emperor and the imperial power, but infinitely loyal to the great cause of this empire and the interests of the people, raising it to a position much higher than his own and his own interests, and charging forward without hesitation.
Comrade Zhang Juzheng's actions
No one is perfect, this is a truth.
Comrade Zhang Juzheng is also the same, as mentioned earlier, such as lecherous, and the following mentioned, good face and so on.
But I have always believed that none of this is enough in relation to his power. As the prime minister, as long as you really do things for the world, you eat, spend, and enjoy, then what is it.
At this point, I especially despise the emperor Daoguang.
In order to flaunt his thrift, a dragon robe can be worn for eight years.
Eight years still can't be worn, what to do, just pick a hole with scissors, I just want to let the ministers see how good I can live.
In fact, he was really wrong, not only could he not save money by wearing old dragon robes, but he had spent a lot of silver.
Because the eunuch broke the dragon robe, he had to find the world's number one tailor to repair it, using the best silk thread and the best fabric. You say, don't you get down to business?
Pulling away, let's get back to business.
The big palanquin that Zhang Juzheng was traveling on was taken when he went to Hubei to mourn after his father's death, and needed 32 palanquins to carry it.
The palanquin contains a bedroom, a living room and a toilet. There are two waiters waiting inside.
Among the guards in the entourage, there was a bird hammer hand uniformly arranged by Comrade Qi Jiguang, which was used to clear the road and pose music in front of the palanquin.
The bird hammer was still a fashionable weapon in the day. Zhang Juzheng's palanquin, as you can imagine, one has an inside and outside suite, the second has attendants, and the third has a kitchen toilet, which is estimated to be larger than the current 17-seat Coaster, so it must be carried by 32 palanquins, which is probably not only in China, but also one of the best in the world.
You know, in ancient times, there were uniform regulations on which level of officials, what clothing they wore, what patterns on their clothing, hats, what palanquins they sat on, etc.
The palanquin carried by 32 people can only be used when the emperor travels. Moreover, it is not possible to use so many people in peacetime, and it can only be used when the emperor holds a celestial ceremony, the wedding of the emperor and the empress.
Comrade Zhang Juzheng's palanquin obviously exceeded the standard.
In the journey from Beijing to Jiangling, Hubei, more than a thousand miles, "five steps and one well, to clear the road dust, ten steps and one lu, to prepare the tea stove".
In order to make this giant palanquin unimpeded, some roads should be widened and some bridges should be strengthened, which can be described as laborers moving the masses and disturbing the officials and people.
I have read the historical novel "Zhang Juzheng" written by Mr. Xiong Shaozheng, and I understand that the reason why Comrade Zhang Juzheng did this should be a little gambling.
In ancient times, when an official died his parents, he had to resign and return to his hometown for three years.
But at that time, the reform had just been implemented, there were too many government affairs to deal with, the emperor was small, and from the perspective of the interests of the overall situation, from the heart, Zhang Ju did not want to use three years.
However, I am embarrassed to say it directly. Empress Dowager Li supported him in this matter, and of course the little emperor also supported him.
However, the monarchs resolutely opposed, believing that not returning to the hometown was a great disobedience and unfilial piety, and you Zhang Juzheng must go back and observe filial piety for three years.
While supporting and opposing, the forces on both sides confronted.
What made Zhang Juzheng feel disappointed was that the three students he was most optimistic about and supported also wrote one after another, saying that you Zhang Juzheng left quickly, and also insulted and ridiculed him, so angry that Zhang Shoufu knelt down for the students and almost committed suicide.
Empress Dowager Li and the emperor were angry, and the consequences were serious. The serious consequence is to rip off their pants and beat them dozens of large boards for those who oppose.
According to statistics, at that time, more than a dozen people were killed and disabled.
The final result was that Zhang Juzheng was given three months of leave, returned to his hometown, and after three months, he had to return.
Zhang Juzheng's heart was bitter and aggrieved.
But no matter how bitter and aggrieved it is, it can't be so over-standard.
I was thinking, if only there were electric cars at that time, I wouldn't have to exceed the standard so much.
For example, there is a GAC Toyota fifth-generation intelligent electric hybrid Leiling car, which is much more low-key and convenient.
With a sense of surprise ahead of the times, this car brings passengers a more electrified and intelligent preferred experience.
Comrade Zhang Juzheng may not be a good person in the traditional sense as people say, but he is definitely a good prime minister, definitely a good chief assistant who has been the first in the ages!