After Emperor Yingzong was restored to the throne, he reigned for another 7 years, crushing the "Change of Cao Shi". After Emperor Yingzong's death, his son Zhu Jianshen, who was also Emperor Xianzong, took the throne, and the first thing he did was to rehabilitate Yu Qian, reigning for 23 years, mainly doing the things of suppressing and appeasing the displaced people, resisting the Tatar invasion, and setting up the West Factory.
Ming Xiaozong
The next Ming Xiaozong was a very accomplished emperor in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, he was kind and generous, strictly frugal, diligent in government affairs, and rectified political and social issues. (It is said that Emperor Xiaozong's personal style is very good, and there is only one empress)
Liu Jin
Ming Wuzong is more strange, although it is not useless, but it is too absurd to compare with his father. The eight eunuchs (eight tigers) led by Liu Jin, who liked all kinds of absurd entertainment, imitated professional experience in the palace, and made themselves a general to lead the troops on a tour, and had a lot of fun, in short, all kinds of greedy misguided countries. Of course, he also did good things, at least the country did not fall into a split and chaos, and later got rid of Liu Jin, who was once in power.
Jiajing
The next one is Jiajing, who is destined to be a personality figure that cannot be bypassed. In the early days of his reign, he was keen on reform, and later because he was the cousin of Emperor Wuzong, he triggered a dispute over who was the emperor's examination, showing extraordinary political acumen, but also opening up the wind of party struggle. Later, it was said that he was cruel and rude to the empress dowager, and the "Change of the Palace of Nongyin" occurred, and he no longer listened to the government of the dynasty. He reigned for 45 years, a total of 24 years did not go to the dynasty, he practiced Dan in the palace, like a Taoist, and finally ate too much elixir and died of mercury poisoning. Isn't such an irresponsible master a world of chaos? It must be said that the cabinet system of the first assistant ministers played an important role in allowing the entire government machine to function normally, and the later Wanli Emperor did the same. In addition, the emperor hid in the deep palace and did not prove that his ears did not hear things outside the window, and he still had the control.
Qi Jiguang
During the Jiajing period, there were incidents such as the "Gengshu Rebellion" of the Mongol invasion, Qi Jiguang's resistance to the Wu, Hai Rui's dismissal of officials, and the removal of Yan Song.
During the Longqing period, the Ming Dynasty ended its hostile relations with the Mongol Khun Tat Khan and opened up trade, which is known in history as "Li Da Feng Gong", also known as "Longqing Peace Conference".
Zhang Juzheng
Emperor Mingshenzong was the Wanli Emperor, the longest reigning emperor of the Ming Dynasty, lasting 48 years. Shenzong succeeded to the throne at the age of 9, and he must have a teacher to take him, and Zhang Juzheng was the first assistant of the cabinet and had great power. As a politician reformer, Zhang Juzheng promoted the "Wanli New Deal" with the main contents of rectifying the rule of officials, strengthening national defense, and tax reform. Through his efforts, the reform was successful, and the decaying Ming Dynasty returned to life. But the reform also touched a large number of vested interests, and after Zhang Juzheng's death, the achievements of the reform were destroyed.
Wanli
This was the early decade of the Wanli Calendar, and after the pro-government, he also exerted great efforts to govern and presided over the "Three Great Marches of the Wanli Calendar". In the later period of the ruling period, the revolutionary will was slack, there was no teacher supervision around him, and he no longer went to the dynasty for a long time. It is said that it is because of excessive alcohol, physical weakness, coupled with obesity, leg diseases and other reasons, unwilling to show his face, began to slacken the government. It is said that Wanli is greedy for money, likes to search around for money, and hides in the palace every day to count.
Fifteen years of the Wanli Calendar
We all know that Huang Renyu's "Fifteen Years of the Wanli Calendar" is about that time, and this book is a treasure book of historiography. The fifteenth year of the Wanli calendar is 1587, and in the words of the author, these events seem to be the end of the subsection, but in essence they are the crux of the big events that have occurred in the past, and they are also the opportunities that will set off waves in the future. Daming has since gone into decline.
Wei Zhongxian
After The Death of Emperor Shenzong, Emperor Guangzong died 29 days after taking the throne, breaking the record. Emperor Xizong was not prepared to succeed to the throne, probably because he did not receive any education and had little interest in handling the affairs of the dynasty, so he did not go to the dynasty, but instead achieved an eighth-level carpenter, and the legend is superb. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were many eunuchs who seized power and chaotic government, such as Wang Zhen, Wang Zhi, Liu Jin, etc., and at this time, a Wei Zhongxian appeared. In terms of power and influence, "Nine Thousand Years" ranked first. Because Emperor Xizong was obsessed with carpentry, Wei Zhongxian took the opportunity to act as an agent for the government, and constantly expanded his power, and won the victory in the struggle against the Donglin Party.
Nurhaci
During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, Nurhaci, the leader of the Jurchens in Jianzhou, gradually unified the Jurchen tribes, and in 1616, he established houjin (different from the previous Jin kingdom). In the battle of Salhu against the Ming Dynasty, the victory of less was more, which seriously threatened the rule of the Ming Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Xizong, The Great Victory of Ning Yuan, commanded by Yuan Chonghuan, caused Nurhaci to die with hatred. His son Emperor Taiji succeeded to the throne, and in 1636, he changed the name of the country to Daqing. Huang Taiji was a bit like Kublai Khan, reusing the Han chinese and laying a solid foundation for the Qing dynasty to go south.
Lee Zi-cheng
Emperor Xizong's younger brother Chongzhen was the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and after he ascended the throne, he got rid of Wei Zhongxian and wanted to do something. But at this time, the Ming Dynasty was already in crisis, in addition to the military threat of Houjin, civil unrest was serious, the peasant revolt began to break out, and the strength of Li Zicheng, the king of the invasion, expanded steadily and unstoppably, and all the way to the city of Beijing. The eunuchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty saw that the general trend had gone, and took the initiative to open the city gate to welcome Li Zicheng into the city. At the time of crisis, there was no one to help the civil and military officials, and Chongzhen desperately hanged himself on the coal mountain. "Not the king of the subjugated country, but the fortune of the subjugation of the country", these ancestors in the front were too capable, and Daming finally came to an end at this time, allowing Chongzhen to catch up. The year was 1644 AD.