Shin resigned.
He wrote a private letter to the Wanli Emperor, but he did not expect that if he was not careful, the private letter actually became an open letter. This stabbed the honeycomb, the group of ministers rose up and attacked, and Shen Shixing, who could not withstand the pressure, had to resign in a daze, becoming the first cabinet chief assistant in the Wanli Dynasty's "dispute over the foundation of the country".
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Wanli wants to abolish Chang Li Young</h1>
The eldest son of the Wanli Emperor, Zhu Changluo, was born to Wang, who was originally a palace maid of the Cining Palace. Once, Wanli went to the Cining Palace to ask An Wei to meet the empress, just when the Wang clan was waiting by the side, Wanli rose on a whim, so there was the eldest son Zhu Changluo.
Due to the low status of his birth mother, from the moment of birth, Zhu Changluo was not pleased with the Wanli Emperor, and Wanli even privately called him "Durenzi", which means the son of the palace girl.
Once, Empress Li asked Wanli why she did not make Zhu Changluo the crown prince, but wanli blurted out that he was born of a palace maid, and the angry Empress Li scolded, "You are also the son of a palace girl." Wan Li was afraid, and lay on the ground to accompany the empress dowager, and the matter was over.
The emperor entered the service, and the empress dowager asked why, and the emperor said, "Pidu renzi also." The empress dowager was furious: "Eryidu son of man!" The emperor was terrified, and did not dare to rise on the ground. (Biography of Empress Dowager Li of Ming Shi Muzong)
At this time, Zheng Guifei, who was deeply favored by Wanli, gave birth to the emperor's third son Zhu Changxun at the right time, which further strengthened the determination of the Wanli Emperor to abolish Chang Li and establish a young child.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > courtiers support the eldest son</h1>
Contrary to the Wanli Emperor, most of the ministers did not agree with the Wanli Emperor's abolition of Chang Liyou, and they wrote to the emperor one after another, demanding that Zhu Changluo be named as the crown prince.
In this regard, the attitude of the Wanli Emperor was very clear, ignoring it, doing my own thing, and dragging it out if I could.
In the eighteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo was already nine years old, but he had not yet left the cabinet to give a lecture, so the group of ministers went up to the cabinet and asked the emperor's eldest son to go out of the cabinet to give a lecture, which was actually a disguised recognition of Zhu Changluo's status as a prince.
In the face of the superiors of the courtiers, the Wanli Emperor passed on the grounds that the eldest son of the emperor was too young to withstand the ceremony toss.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Shen Shi Xing xiang and thin mud, neither side can be guilty</h1>
Shen Shixing has always been good at and thin mud, left and right.
Luo Yuren gave Wanli the "Wine Color Wealth Qi Four Neglects" to Wanli accused Wanli of being greedy and lustful day and night, greedy for money and throwing tantrums, and half dead Wanli Qi. As a result, under the conciliation of Shen Shixing, only Luo Yuren was deposed, which not only discouraged Wanli, but also satisfied the Qunchen, preserved Luo Yuren, and did not implicate others, Shen Shixing and the level of thin mud, which can be seen from this.
In the matter of making the crown prince, although Shen Shixing hoped that the emperor's eldest son could continue smoothly, he did not want to offend the Wanli Emperor and Zheng Guifei because of this. So he tossed and turned between the emperor and the ministers, walking the tightrope.
At the repeated request of his courtiers, the Wanli Emperor had no choice but to make a statement, and when the emperor's eldest son was fifteen years old, he was made crown prince. However, there is a precondition, until the emperor's eldest son is fifteen years old, no one is allowed to mention this matter again.
The next edict: "I don't like excitement. If the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty do not bother again, when the future year is established, otherwise the eldest son of the Emperor will be held at the age of fifteen. (Biography of Ming Shi Shen Shi Xing)
When the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo, was almost fifteen years old, Zhang Youde, the chief of the Ministry of Works, suddenly went up to the court and asked for the appointment of the crown prince, which was exactly in the arms of the Wanli Emperor, and Wanli postponed the appointment of the prince for a year on the grounds that the group of ministers had defaulted.
At this time, the ministers stopped doing it, and Xu Guo, the second assistant of the cabinet, pulled several other cabinet members to write a seal, and since Shen Shixing was not in the cabinet at that time, Xu Guo signed Shen Shixing's name on his behalf.
Sure enough, the Wanli Emperor, who had received the recital, was very angry and reprimanded the cabinet chief Assistant Shen for acting duplicitously and slipping his head. Shen Shixing had no choice but to write a secret letter to the emperor explaining. In the secret letter, Shen Shixing told the Wanli Emperor that since he had already decided to appoint a prince, he would have to do it step by step, and how could he change his mind because of one or two people.
Time to seal things. Words: "The subject is suing, and he did not know it at first. The matter of the book has been established, and the holy will has been determined. Virtue does not understand the grand plan, but chen judges the pro-referee, and does not obstruct the ceremony because of the minor ministers. (Biography of Ming Shi Shen Shi Xing)
Originally, Shen Shixing thought of writing a secret letter, explaining it to the emperor, and leaving himself out by the way. As a result, the Wanli Emperor did not think so, in Wanli's view, the explanation was a cover-up, and the disguise was the beginning of the next deception, so he deliberately passed the secret letter to the cabinet in the form of an official document, which Xu Guo and other cabinet members saw.
After Xu Guo saw the secret letter, he also thought that Shen Shixing was slipping his head, so he sent it to the matter to be copied and published, which was equivalent to disclosing the content of the secret letter.
This group of courtiers was indignant, coupled with a sentence in the secret letter, "Don't let the small ministers obstruct the ceremony", which completely ignited the anger of the public, so everyone impeached Shen Shixing.
Shen Shixing, who has lived a lifetime of mud and has been a good person all his life, has finally become the target of everyone. In the nineteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, Shen Shixing resigned from the position of first assistant and returned to his hometown.