Zhang Juzheng's reforms are very famous in Chinese history, but unlike other reforms, Zhang Juzheng's reforms are completely fighting alone.
Other reforms in history had the support of the emperor, which was the legitimacy of the source of power, but Zhang Juzheng did not, and at that time, the emperor was still young, and Zhang Juzheng could only unite with the eunuch Feng Bao to issue orders through abnormal channels.
What is even more serious is that Zhang Juzheng does not have the identity of the head of a formal hundred officials, which is really embarrassing, after the Ming Dynasty abolished the prime minister, the cabinet became the center of power, and the status of the first assistant was equivalent to that of the prime minister.
But this is only equivalent to a big gap with the actual prime minister, especially the first assistant of the cabinet is not the head of the hundred officials who are justified, because there is a particularly interesting phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty, that is, if the first assistant is, it will definitely be scolded.
The first assistant of the cabinet is an air plate, sandwiched in the middle, the emperor's anger, the lower hundred officials' anger, is a very difficult high-risk profession, Zhang Juzheng is in this position, can only through his own private team, to promote their own reform policy.
Zhang Ju is a person with ideals, and after he reached this position, he thought about how to make the Ming Dynasty better, so he actually implemented a series of reforms.
What is reform, reform is to change the old pattern of interests, so it is bound to offend most people, which is why reform must have the strong support of the emperor.
Zhang Juzheng's reform has two special offenses, one is to re-measure the land, although the land will not run, but he will hide, and those who have the ability to hide the land are generally relatives of the emperor and the state, and the big landlords and big bureaucrats.
When the Ming Dynasty arrived at Zhang Juzheng's era, land annexation and concealment were very serious, and the land and harvest reported were actually not as much as in Zhu Yuanzhang's era, which can be imagined how much of a loss it was to the Ming Dynasty.
The re-survey of the land itself has offended many people, but this is not the most serious, the most serious is another measure of Zhang Juzheng, which allowed Zhang Juzheng to offend all the officials of Daming.
This is the examination method, the so-called examination law is mainly aimed at the laziness of officials at all levels of the imperial court, Zhang Juzheng formulated a performance appraisal system, strictly manage the rewards and punishments of officials, mobilize the enthusiasm of officials, so that the imperial court can operate efficiently.
It is conceivable that Zhang Juzheng's measure can be said to have offended the bureaucrats all over the world, and everyone's hatred for Zhang Juzheng is itchy.
Finally, at the time of Zhang Juzheng, the Wanli Emperor liquidated Zhang Juzheng, stripped Zhang Juzheng of all honors, and also raided Zhang Juzheng's home, and Zhang Juzheng's son also committed suicide.
The vigorous reform of Zhang Juzheng also failed with the complete defeat of the Zhang family, and no one in the imperial court said good things about Zhang Juzheng, and the root cause is because what Zhang Juzheng did touched the interest of most people, and also offended all his colleagues.
Zhang Juzheng is very difficult, it is completely a person fighting, with his own strength to push the lid of Daming's coffin outward, but unfortunately, after Zhang Juzheng's death, people died and the coffin lid of the Ming Dynasty was covered again.
Zhang Juzheng has always been a positive evaluation, he is certainly not a perfect saint, because the reform must have the act of appointing cronies, and Zhang Juzheng himself is also very luxurious, which has become the reason for many people to attack him.
The most famous is Zhang Juzheng's big petite, actually need 32 ran to lift, is really luxurious, is simply a mobile small house, back to the hometown completely scenery.
Zhang Juzheng's failure was not his personal era, but also the failure of the imperial court, the failure of Daming, and since then Daming has embarked on the principle of accelerating his demise, so that all previous efforts have been in vain.