What kind of hidden dangers did Zhu Zhanji, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, leave?

#历史上的朱瞻基给大明朝留下了怎样的隐患 #

In fact, this question should start from the power struggle between the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty and the civil official clique.

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang rose from the Huai Right Cloth And walked all the way from the sword light and blood shadow, and finally destroyed the Yuan Empire and reached the peak of power. When the Ming Dynasty was first established, the bureaucracy borrowed from the Yuan Dynasty, with Xiang Xiang as the head of the hundred officials. But Zhu Yuanzhang, such an iron-blooded king, experienced a lot of bloody storms from the grass and recklessness, and finally came to the dignity of the emperor, how to tolerate letting others share his power.

In 1380, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang murdered Hu Weiyong for plotting treason, and abolished Zhongshu Province and Cheng Xiang. He was responsible for the affairs of the whole country in six parts and was directly responsible to the emperor. The power of the world was finally gathered in the hands of the emperor alone.

The Yongle Emperor Zhu Di successfully counterattacked the throne through the Battle of Jingnan. Like his father, Zhu Di was equally energetic, but he spent most of his life fighting wars, conquering Annam, and subservient to Wala, Tatars, and Wuliangha. So the cabinet was formed, and the initial cabinet of university scholars was of low rank, but they participated in decision-making, and eventually the university scholars became ministers in terms of authority, but the name changed.

The cabinet is similar to the secretariat, although it can draft documents and formulate plans, but it has no decision-making power, and the decision-making power is still firmly in the hands of the emperor. This power of the cabinet is called voting. Only the emperor's personal approval can officially take effect, that is, The Zhu Batch.

But not all of them have to be written by the emperor, and some can only be done by the people around the emperor. Who is the Emperor's closest to him? There are only eunuchs, that is, eunuchs. The boss of this institution was the Bingbi eunuch, and Wei Zhongxian, who was nine thousand years old during the Chongzhen period, held this position, which was only one thousand years less than the emperor, which showed the great power. Because in some cases, he can give instructions on behalf of the emperor.

After Zhu Di's death, his son Zhu Gaozi served as emperor for only 10 months, and the throne passed to Zhu Zhanji. Zhu Zhanji was called a shoucheng king, and he did not have any other hobbies, that is, he liked to fight cockroaches, so he was called the emperor of the cockroaches. The emperor in "Promoting Weaving" in Liaozhai Zhiyi is talking about him.

Zhu Zhanji was not as diligent as his ancestors and did it himself. Of course, these tasks can only be done by eunuchs. In the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to prevent eunuchs from monopolizing power, they specially established the ancestral rule that eunuchs were not allowed to interfere in political affairs, so eunuchs were not literate, and most of them were illiterate. If it were not for the compulsion of life, who would be willing to take this knife, most of them would be children of poor families, and of course, there would be no opportunity to receive cultural education.

In order to enable the eunuchs to complete their work smoothly, Zhu Zhanji pioneered a system in which eunuchs were set up in the palace to teach eunuchs to read and write.

Eunuchs are not terrible, they are afraid that eunuchs have culture!

After the struggle with the civilian official clique, the eunuch clique finally made up for the shortcomings. Apart from their physical mutilations, eunuchs were not much different from normal ministers, or even more advantageous, because they were the spokesmen for the emperor. In fact, this is also what Zhu Zhanji is happy to see. Since then, the eunuch clique and the civilian bureaucracy have fought bitterly.

The most peculiar thing is that Zhu Zhanji found a teacher for the crown prince Zhu Qizhen, who used to be either a former courtier or a confucian who was full of poetry and books. But this later emperor, Emperor Mingyingzong Zhu Qizhen, his teacher was an uncompromising eunuch, the famous Wang Zhen.

Wang Zhen was originally a disgraced teacher, but later mixed into the ranks of eunuchs, and among the almost illiterate eunuchs, he naturally became a person who read poetry and books, and gradually gained the admiration of Zhu Zhanji.

Finally, under the seduction of this eunuch teacher, Emperor Mingyingzong personally conquered Vala, and finally the entire army was destroyed at Tumu Fort. Fortunately, Bingbu Shangshu Yu qianli turned the tide, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would become the second Southern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the biggest hidden danger that Zhu Zhanji left to the Ming Dynasty was to give eunuchs the opportunity to read and write, so that they had the weapons of thought, and the eunuch dictatorship began.