Emperor Mingguangzong Zhu Changluo, the eldest son of Emperor Wanli of The Ming Dynasty, was known as the "Son of Heaven in January" by later generations because he reigned for only one month.
On the first day of August in the forty-eighth year of the Wanli Calendar (1620), Zhu Changluo officially succeeded to the throne as emperor, declaring that the next year would be the first year of Taichang and would be for Emperor Mingguangzong. Zhu Changluo died a month after he ascended the throne, and the actual era name of the following year was the Apocalypse used by his son Emperor Xizong. The first year of Taichang was set as August to December of the 48th year of the Wanli calendar. Although Guangzong's reign was short, it improved the long-standing situation.
Emperor Mingguangzong Zhu Changluo, Emperor Taichang
<h1>Emperor Guangzong's ascension to the throne brought hope to the government, the opposition, and court politics. This hope came from a series of new policies of the Guangzong, including the most important problems that the government and the opposition needed to solve at that time. </h1>
The most criticized mining tax collector during the Shenzong period. On the day of Emperor Shenzong's death, Zhu Changluo immediately ordered it to be banned. The decree said: "In the previous year, the mining and taxation were made, and the three halls and two palaces were not built, and the treasure was empty, and it was expedient to adopt." Recently, due to the rebellion of the Liaodong slave chieftains, the household department has increased the amount of land and grain per mu, and now the mining tax will be stopped. Zhang Ye, Ma Tang, Hu Bin, Pan Xiang, and Qiu Chengyun, the tax supervisors of Qitong and Wan, all withdrew. It was then emphasized in the form of a divine edict. (Recorded in the Records of the Ming Guang Sect)
In addition to banning the mining supervisor, on the day of Shenzong's death, Zhu Changluo also issued an internal deposit of one million taels to liaodong sergeant. At that time, the war in Liaodong was rising, the military salaries were short, and the household department and the military department were constantly asking for salaries. Therefore, the internal payment is very much in line with people's wishes.
Ming Qing Mausoleum, where Emperor Taichang was buried
In The will of Emperor Shenzong, there is a paragraph that reads, "Suggestions, abandonments, and mining taxes misrepresent the courtiers, and use them as appropriate." Within a month of Emperor Guangzong's succession, officials who had been belittled by Emperor Shenzong for various reasons were greatly used, almost every day, up to eighteen people a day. Since it was mainly the Donglin Party members who were hit in the dispute over the foundation of the country, the Donglin people accounted for a large proportion of the users. In the last years of Emperor Shenzong's reign, the cabinet as the political center had only one cabinet minister for a long time, first Ye Xianggao and then Fang Congzhe, each of whom struggled to support. At this time, the leaf will be recalled again. "Shangqin Dian's Right Attendant Shi Jikai, Nanjing's Right Attendant Shen Huai, Jusheng Libu Shangshu, and Dongge University Scholar, entered the cabinet to do things, and from the auxiliary minister Fang from Zhe to ask for it. He Zongyan, Zhu Guozuo, Liu Yiyi, Han Ye, Shangshu of the Ministry of Ascension, and Fellows of Dongge University also entered the cabinet to do things. He also summoned the auxiliary minister Ye Xiang to be higher than the field. ”
During the time of the Divine Sect, there was a serious shortage of officials in various departments, and those who rebelled were not easy to go to Beijing for a while. As a result, personnel adjustments have become an obvious phenomenon, and the order of promotion and reform has been repeated. This is the case with Shi Jikai and others entering the cabinet. At the beginning of his reign, he only once gave the examination to select fifty-five officials of the scattered museum, "On the second day of the first month, he ordered the selection of officials to be selected by the examination and selected the officials, and they were supplemented by the will and testament." On the same day, the patrol was carried out according to the salt differences, and the Nanjing patrolled the differences, a total of more than fifty people. ”
In the Ming Dynasty system, every summer was required to pay a hot trial, because the Shenzong was slacking off the government, and the Punishment Department repeatedly refused to ask for it, resulting in the drowning of the prisoners. Before the crown prince took the throne, he issued an edict to allow it to be carried out, and repeatedly urged the situation, "The exhortations are many, and the encouragement is encouraged."
In the last year of the Shenzong Dynasty, due to the burning of the three main halls, the former dynasty was overgrown with weeds and desolate. Moreover, the Wenhua Hall of the Hundred Officials Shang Dynasty was very narrow, and after Emperor Guangzong ascended the throne, he ordered the construction of the Imperial Pole Gate and the Imperial Pole Hall. "The imperial cabinet spread the word about the construction of the Imperial Pole Gate Hall and the construction of the project on a selected day. With the narrow hall of Wenhua, the hundred officials are inconvenient to worship also. ...... Two million in the house, and the work starts immediately. ”
Emperor Mingguangzong was originally married to Empress Xiaoyuanzhen of the Guo clan
This kind of decadent work varies from one to another, changing the appearance of the Shinto Sect and giving people a feeling of hope. But these newly begun jobs were greatly affected by The Death of Emperor Guangzong. There has not been much unfolding in the country's actual government, and it has not even had time to carry out it. Even the divine will and testament were not carried out. Not only that, but the addition of officials was not completed. Most of the officials who were employed were still on the road, and some of them may not even get the news of the use of the people due to the road. As a result, the so-called upright gentlemen have not yet filled the court.
National Palace Museum, Taipei, "Portrait of the Emperor of the Apocalypse"
The death of Emperor Guangzong left many problems for the inner court. Emperor Xizong's "early" ascension to the throne brought eunuchs such as Wei Zhongxian around him into the political core, and engaged in power struggles with the old people of Shenzong and Guangzong, resulting in the stability of the court. The occurrence of the palace transfer case is also directly related to the premature death of Guangzong. The "History of Ming" praises: Guangzong Qiande Jiuzhang, Hai Nei belongs to Wang, and the heir serves January, the day does not leave the year, the measures are not unfolded, the three cases are disputed, the party disaster is blazing, and the mournful husband!