In recent years, historical dramas have been very popular in China, so what is historical drama? Historical dramas are actually some film and television dramas with history as the theme, film and television dramas do not necessarily have to be written according to facts, for some other factors, film and television dramas may not be completely consistent with history, so historical dramas are not the true manifestations of history.
The Ming Dynasty is an interesting dynasty, many directors also like to start from here, not in the film and television drama to mention the person Of Wei Zhongxian, but the feeling that Wei Zhongxian in the film and television drama gives us is often a heinous bad person.
So what kind of person is Wei Zhongxian in history, is he really a person who does all the bad things and does not do the good things? Today we will take a more comprehensive look at Wei Zhongxian from the following historical events.
First of all, I would like to make it clear that what I am saying today is not overturning the case for Wei Zhongxian, nor do I think that Wei Zhongxian is a good person, after all, in his struggle against the Donglin Party, he has killed many loyal people. However, in addition to these well-known bad things, Wei Zhongxian also did a lot of good things.
The period of Wei Zhongxian's development and growth was the time of the Chongzhen Emperor. The Chongzhen Emperor was actually a relatively good emperor, at least subjectively speaking, he wanted to save Daming and let the people live and work in peace and contentment.
Unfortunately, at this time, Daming, like a patient with terminal cancer, has no medicine to save, and all everyone can do is to slow down its demise. When it comes to slowing down the demise of the Ming Dynasty, we have to mention two people, one is Yuan Chonghuan, and the other is Wei Zhongxian.
It is said that Yuan Chonghuan slowed down the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and perhaps everyone can understand that Yuan Chonghuan made it impossible for the Jurchens to enter Guannei on the Liaodong front, and in the war with the Jurchens for many years, Yuan Chonghuan was a headache for the Jurchens.
When Yuan Chonghuan was in a hurry in the capital, he defeated Emperor Taiji and relieved the siege of the capital. However, Yuan Chonghuan was at odds with Wei Zhongxian, and later under the trap of Wei Zhongxian and others, coupled with the counter-plan of emperor Taiji, Yuan Chonghuan was questioned by the Chongzhen Emperor.
Hearing this, everyone may be angry again, Wei Zhongxian actually disagreed with Yuan Chonghuan and impeached Yuan Chonghuan. However, although Wei Zhongxian was at odds with Yuan Chonghuan, this did not mean that he did not support the liaodong war.
When Wei Zhongxian was alive, he held a lot of power, and he also suggested that the Chongzhen Emperor begin to collect some commercial taxes. At that time, the Ming Dynasty could be said to be poor and poor, and faced with strong enemies, years of war, the military expenses required were also very large, so Wei Zhongxian's suggestion this time can be said to help the Chongzhen Emperor solve the military expenses of Liaodong.
"You are Ming Jun, and it is right that you want to save Daming, but the Donglin Party members are all a bunch of pedantic scholars, and relying on them Daming will inevitably perish" This is a sentence that Wei Zhongxian gave to the Chongzhen Emperor before he died, this sentence does not sound like a rumor, but rather like a loyal word, but unfortunately the Chongzhen Emperor did not understand.
It turned out that Wei Zhongxian was right, after Wei Zhongxian's death, the Donglin Party once again took power, and they began to reduce taxes, which seemed to be a kind of benevolence to the people, resulting in insufficient military spending in the Liaodong War.
Wei Zhongxian was in constant war with Daming, but he could not tell Daming what to do, not long after Wei Zhongxian's death, Huang Taiji called, and sure enough, as Wei Zhongxian said, the people of the Donglin Party did not stop Huang Taiji.
Wei Zhongxian, as a eunuch, had made many mistakes, but it was still somewhat inappropriate to refer to him as an unforgivable person.