Jiajing Emperor is the most intelligent emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he reigned for 45 years, of which more than 20 years lived in the harem, obsessed with alchemy into immortals, strange and quite personality, The personality of the Jiajing Emperor determined what he would do in the future, as early as the beginning of the reign, the ministers experienced the personality temper of the Jiajing Emperor, Zhengde sixteen years, Ming Wuzong died mysteriously, because of his young age, usually obsessed with eating, drinking and having fun, after death there were no heirs, which made the Ming Dynasty suddenly fall into a dangerous situation of seizing power, and handling it carelessly will cause a power vacuum, It was inevitable that chaos would be caused, the ministers were anxious to turn around, and at the critical moment, Yang Tinghe, the head of the cabinet, decided to be succeeded by Zhu Houxi, the royal family of the near branch and the cousin of Emperor Wuzong.
Generally speaking, a relative who could not have been beaten by eight rods suddenly received the news of entering the capital and ascending the throne, the mood is not to say that fan Jinzhongju is as happy and crazy, at least he will rush to arrive overnight, and there are more than a few bodyguards, but Zhu Houxi, the great master, is slowly leisurely, it seems that this matter has nothing to do with him, the cabinet ministers every day look forward to the stars and the moon and finally look forward to Zhu Houxi, but what these old fritters did not expect was that this time it was a thorn in the head.
Before entering the palace, Zhu Houxi gave the officials of the Ministry of Rites a way to get off the throne, and the Ministry of Rites believed that Zhu Houxi should enter the Forbidden City from Donghua Gate according to the etiquette of the crown prince, first go to the Wenhua Hall to recognize the identity of the crown prince, and then inherit the throne, but Zhu Houxi insisted:
"Emperor Wusi, non-crown prince also".
Lao Tzu came to be an emperor, not a crown prince!
At this time, the two sides were deadlocked, and the Rebbe thought that Zhu Houxi should be honest, after all, the throne had not yet sat, but Zhu Houxi insisted on not entering the Forbidden City from Donghua Gate, if it really did not work, this emperor himself was not right, you love to find who to find! At this time, the officials of the imperial court panicked, the succession to the emperor's throne was discussed by Yang Tinghe and the empress dowager, how could it be said that change would change, and then this young master temporarily changed his mind, and he could not find a suitable candidate for a while and a half.
In the end, this struggle ended with Zhu Houxi's victory! Of course this is just the beginning! Later, Zhu Houxi used practical actions to show that he not only had intelligent talents but also extraordinary power and skill, and it was precisely for this reason that the Jiajing Emperor became the most difficult lord to serve except Zhu Yuanzhang in the three hundred years of the History of the Ming Dynasty.
The emperor with such a personality could not tolerate the most subordinates with personality, so the Jiajing Emperor hated two people the most in his life, one was Hai Rui, who cursed himself, and the other was Yang Shen, who could not live with himself.
For Hai Rui, the Jiajing Emperor hated and respected and feared, because Hai Rui scolded all right, but the temper of the Jiajing Emperor absolutely did not allow himself to bow to Hai Rui, so although the Jiajing Emperor admired Hai Rui, he did not use Hai Rui, and could only leave it to his son.
And for Yang Shen, the Jiajing Emperor's emotions were not so complicated, just four words: hate into the bone!
So what exactly made Emperor Jiajing and Yang Shen turn their faces?
This has to start from a famous event in the Ming Dynasty, the great etiquette dispute, after the Jiajing Emperor took the throne, he was not satisfied with being the emperor himself, perhaps the bastards of the ceremonial department when he first entered the palace woke himself up, if he did not justify his name for the throne, then future generations are likely to think that they are the crown prince of the Zhengde Emperor, so that the generations will be chaotic, and he is now an emperor, and it should not be too much to chase an emperor for his father!
The Jiajing Emperor thought very beautifully, but he never expected that he would encounter a group of officials with the hardest bones under the heavens, and the contradictions aroused by this would shake the world.
The emperor has the idea of the emperor, but the official has the rules of the official! You can order our heads to be beheaded, but you can't cut off our backbones, and the Ming Dynasty officials are so hard!
So under the leadership of the first assistant Yang Tinghe, the opposing song chapters flew to the Jiajing Emperor's dragon case one after another, and the Jiajing Emperor also changed from the initial anger to the later panic, he did not expect that the emperor himself was not good at speaking, and looked for the reason for half a day, the Jiajing Emperor stubbornly thought that there must be someone behind the conspiracy to trick the ghost, and this person is Yang Tinghe!
So in order to solve Yang Tinghe, the Jiajing Emperor showed his scheming side, and the final result made the Jiajing Emperor very satisfied, and Yang Tinghe resigned and returned home.
It's time to stop!
The Jiajing Emperor did not expect that this matter had just begun.
Yang Tinghe had just retired, and the Jiajing Emperor couldn't wait to hurry up and take care of the matter of pursuing his father, and just when Jiajing was happily preparing to correct his father's name, he suddenly found that another person was stopping him.
This person was Yang Shen, who had caused a lifetime of psychological shadows to the Jiajing Emperor, and he was Yang Tinghe's son.
Yang Shen and The Jiajing Emperor Dou fa was also holding their breath, originally a good official of the second generation, as a result, his father was driven away by Jiajing, which was not only related to the emperor's family affairs, but also related to the etiquette of the world and the backbone of the readers, and he was obligated to receive the banner of "protective rites" from his father's hand!
Immediately after Yang Shen and the jinshi Wang Yuanhua of the same year gathered more than 200 imperial court officials and shouted a rather encouraging slogan:
One hundred and fifty years of national nourishment, the battle of death and righteousness, is today!
Note that this slogan is very interesting, and can be interpreted like this: We, the readers, are provided by the state, not by your emperor alone, so if you are wrong, we must work with you to the end, which is responsible for the country!
Thus began the great ceremonial controversy that shook history!
These more than 200 people went to Zuo shunmen together like weeping and mourning, and wept loudly, expressing serious protests against the jiajing emperor's arrogant behavior and unreasonableness! Bursts of crying made the Jiajing Emperor's heart grow hairy when he listened, and those who didn't know thought that the new emperor had died again!
Emperor Jiajing began to send people to persuade, but it had no effect, and finally The Jiajing Emperor finally became angry, and he ordered that if he did not leave again, he would prepare to go to court on the spot, but the Jiajing Emperor never expected that it was okay not to give this order, after giving this order, many officials who did not want to make trouble also rushed over and knelt down and cried together, for the Jiajing Emperor, this was a huge protest, and for the literati, this was a good opportunity to leave a name in history.
As a result, 16 were killed on the spot, and Yang Shen was also beaten to the skin, which was a huge insult to the literati, and since ancient times, there is a saying: a soldier can be killed and cannot be disgraced. The Jiajing Emperor had to try to challenge this monument in the reader's heart, then he would be stuck with you to the end!
Ten days later, Yang Shen dragged the sick body and united 6 ministers to continue to cry in the court, the Jiajing Emperor was so annoyed that he exiled Yang Shen and others to the frontier in one breath, and Yang Shen's exiled area was Yongchangwei in Yunnan, bordering Burma, which showed that the Jiajing Emperor was indeed not prepared to see Yang Shen, and he did not want him to go back alive.
This place is 5,000 miles away from the capital, and it is remote and desolate, because of its upright personality, it offends too many people, along the way, the car and horse lawton, not only to eat and sleep in the wind, but also to always beware of the assassin's poison and assassination, just like this, Yang Shen actually survived strongly, perhaps Yang Shen did not know that this was 35 years.
The Jiajing Emperor did not forget Yang Shen with the passage of time, and during the 45 years of his reign, there were 6 times of amnesty for the world, but each time he did not forget to point out Yang Shen and resolutely did not pardon him, which shows that the Jiajing Emperor hated him to the bone.
In addition, the Jiajing Emperor also asked Yang Shen about the situation, of course, Yang Shen's popularity is still good, whenever the Jiajing Emperor asked this question, the ministers always had a sad face, saying that Yang Shen had a very bad life in Yunnan, not only "old and sick", but also lack of clothes and food, the Jiajing Emperor only showed the smile of the victor.
Twenty-eight years after Jiajing, Yang Shen was 60 years old at this time, no longer the spirited youth of that year, after 24 years of exile, his wish at this time was very simple, go home to see.
According to the Daming Law, prisoners who have reached the age of 60 can redeem themselves and return home, but no official dares to accept Yang Shen's appeal. When Yang Shen was nearly seventy years old, with the acquiescence of local officials in Yunnan, he went to stay with friends in Luzhou, which was closer to his hometown of Xindu, Sichuan. Unexpectedly, this matter was known to the inspector, who was afraid that the emperor would surrender his guilt and sent someone to escort Yang Shen back to Yongchang.
Yang Shen came from it, sang a long song and cried, and wrote a heart-wrenching "Feelings of Illness":
Seventy years of life has been whiteheaded,
Clearly the law allows for rest.
The return of Hugh has been made a bashan,
Heavy to the point of being turned into a prisoner of the Yunnan Sea.
In the end, Yang Shen did not return to the hometown he thought about day and night.
In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, Yang Shen died of illness in Yongchang at the age of 71, exactly 35 years after he was exiled.
One day shortly before his death, he looked back on his life of honor and humiliation, ups and downs, and wrote down the "Linjiang Immortal":
The water rolling in the east of the Yangtze River, the waves exhaust the heroes.
Success or failure turns empty.
The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red a few degrees.
White-haired fisherman on the river, used to watch the autumn moon and spring breeze.
A pot of turbid wine is a happy encounter.
How many things in ancient and modern times are in the process of laughter.