Chapter 877: Thinking of Zhang Juzheng's death
"In this way, the relationship between the Sima family and the Demon Realm is indeed a bit difficult to reconcile. β
The Seven Nights Demon Lord is the most outstanding demon lord in the demon world, and after his death, the demon world was in turmoil, and it was at that time that he was born to flee to the god domain, and finally stirred up trouble in the god domain.
Therefore, many people in the demon world worship Qiye, and it was Qiye who ordered to deal with the Sima family, and no one dared to disobey it.
"Okay, keep a close eye on the Sima family's every move, remember not to let them find out, go down. β
Liang Xu gave an order, and the people standing beside him slowly disappeared in front of him, this was a secret force in his hands, and few people knew about it.
They are specifically responsible for finding out information and the like, which is a bit similar to Jinyiwei, there are many such people in Sima's family, and it is estimated that even Sima Heng doesn't know that there are such people around him.
"You don't even believe in your father-in-law's house?"
looked at Liang Xu three times, and felt that what he was doing was a bit inauthentic, and he actually secretly arranged people around others.
"Brother Three-eyed, you don't understand, after all, the Sima family was a person from the Demon Realm before, you have to think carefully, after all, I'm not alone now, and I can't be so casual, do you understand this?"
The era of one person feeding the whole family without starving has passed, and he is now the young god master of the divine domain, and there are some things that he can't help but do.
Although this is a bit chilling, it is much better for the cold family to cry than for several families.
If there is really a problem, it is not just a problem of one family, but a problem of multiple families in the Divine Domain.
It is better for a hundred families to cry than for one family to cry, it is this reason, so Liang Xu divided this matter very clearly, maybe the Sima family has no problem at all, but Liang Xu does not dare to bet like this, and he can't bet like this.
After all, this is a matter related to everyone's net worth and life, and he can't gamble, and he doesn't dare to gamble.
He now found out why some emperors changed their temperaments so much after becoming emperors, because they had simply too many things to consider, and as a result, they did not only do things for themselves, but also consider them holistically.
"I understand, in fact, the ancestor of this Sima family is very similar to a person named Zhang Juzheng in the Ming Dynasty outside, but it is more tragic than Zhang Juzheng, no matter how to say that the ancestor of this Sima family also used to be the teacher of Qiye, and these Qiye actually uprooted their family. β
Sanyan has read a lot of history books, and he actually knows Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty, but Liang Xu believes that he only knows a little about it.
"Come on, Brother Three-eyed, do you know why Zhang Juzheng was liquidated after his death, there is a certain reason, and the affairs of the Sima family are not at all the same. β
"How can there be anything different?" Sanyan was interested in history, and when he heard Liang Xu say this, he suddenly came to his senses.
"Okay, I'll give you a general introduction, and I'll talk about it as I go. β
Wanli ten years (1582) June, a generation of famous ministers of the Ming Dynasty, Wanli Dynasty power of the world's cabinet chief assistant Zhang Juzheng died of illness, Mingshenzong Wanli Emperor was very sad, ordered the burial of this Ming Dynasty painstaking Ming Dynasty Shoufu, at the same time to give nine altars, gift on the pillar country, "Wenzhong" ordered Jinyi Wei senior officials and ceremonial eunuchs to guard the funeral funeral, the specifications are not high, even in the Ming Dynasty only Zhang Juzheng has this treatment.
Zhang Juzheng was born as a pillar of the country, died of Wenzhong, Zhang Juzheng reached the highest peak of civil officials in the past dynasties, in his lifetime he was the Taifu of Zuozhuguo, the master, the heir of Enyin as an official, unmatched in the court, I don't know how many people envy, jealousy and hate. He assisted Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun to ascend the throne, conscientiously and conscientiously governed the Ming Dynasty, which can be described as painstaking, and when the Wanli Emperor and the Queen Mother usually talked with Zhang Juzheng, they called him Yuanfu or Mr. Zhang, to show respect.
Zhang Juzheng's family Wanli Emperor sent the plaque is written by the emperor himself: "Er for the salt plum", "Ru Zuo Zhouji" and so on Zhang Juzheng very praised, on the eve of Zhang Juzheng's death, the Wanli Emperor gave Zhang Juzheng such a title "Mr. Taishi Zhang Taiyue" It can be seen that the emperor's favor to Zhang Juzheng has reached a certain point, and this opportunity for monarchs and ministers can simply become a beautiful talk for the ages.
On the fourth day after Zhang Juzheng's death, the court situation changed, Zhang Juzheng's recommendation of the Wuyingdian scholar and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Pan Sheng, was impeached by seven officials such as the Imperial Shi Leishi frame, and was dismissed by the Wanli Emperor, this is not a sudden incident, only premeditated, this person was recommended by Zhang Juzheng to enter the cabinet before his death, and his Zhishi marked the beginning of the end of the Zhang Juzheng era.
This was only the first wave, and soon Zhang Juzheng's old comrade-in-arms Feng Bao also fell, and a storm began to come! Some people began to impeach Wang Zhen, Zeng Xingwu, and other people from Zhang Juzheng's faction, and impeached Zhang Juzheng. In December of the tenth year of Wanli (1852), Yang Sizhi, the imperial historian, wrote to impeach Zhang Juzheng for bullying the lord and seizing power to build the party and other fourteen major crimes, so the Wanli Emperor ordered to copy Zhang Juzheng's house, and cut off his palace rank, and forced the seal book and four generations of edicts given before his death, and showed the world for crimes. And Zhang Juzheng was also in danger of being opened and whipped. family members starved to death or exiled,
The emperor is suspicious of being more saving, and he is beneficial. The official impeached the seal and the province, and impeached Juzheng, and the seal and the province were both offended. New entrants are in the right position. The edict seized the Shangzhu State and the Taishi, and then seized the throne. Those who are quoted by Juzheng are all repulsed. At this time, only six months after Zhang Juzheng's death, Zhang Juzheng fell from the sky to the ground, from the emperor's mouth of "Mr. Yuanfu Taiyue Zhang" to a villain who "arbitrarily disrupted power". One is to go to Zhang Juzhenghua, and the other is that Emperor Wanli is greedy for money. The third is to stabilize the situation in the DPRK.
1. Go to Zhang Juzhenghua
Although Zhang Juzheng assisted the young Zhu Yijun, that is, the Wanli Emperor, he did not find the correct position for the emperor, although the emperor was his student, he was also a monarch, and there was still a distinction between monarchs and ministers, but Zhang Juzheng did not pay attention to these, and embarrassed the emperor. There is such an account in it.
Once when the little emperor Zhu Yijun was reading "The Analects of the Township Party", his father misread "Se Bo Ruye" and "Se Back Ruye", Zhang Juzheng suddenly said sharply behind his back, as "Bo" also, Shenzong was terrified, and the people around him were shocked, and Shenzong was afraid of Zhang Juzheng from then on
Zhang Juzheng left a shadow in the young emperor's heart, even if the queen mother saw that the little emperor did something wrong or was disobedient, she would say, "Let Mr. Zhang hear it, what can I do?" At this time, the little emperor became more and more afraid of Zhang Juzheng. Outside the court, Zhang Juzheng was in charge of the government, and the queen mother and the big eunuch Feng Bao looked at the little emperor in the palace, Zhang Juzheng and the three of them formed an alliance, and he, the emperor, had almost no real power.
When he was in power, he found that there was Zhang Juzheng who he didn't have to do anything, and he couldn't do anything, as if Zhang Juzheng was the emperor, and the ministers in the court were all attached to Zhang Juzheng, and there was only Zhang Juzheng's voice above the court, and if he was disobedient, he was driven away by Zhang Juzheng, which was unbearable for any emperor. But Zhang Juzheng's henchmen were all over the court and outside, and the emperor had no choice. When the emperor was young, when a eunuch sorted out the books read by the emperor, he found that the article on the history book was almost ruined by the emperor, which shows the little emperor's jealousy of Zhang Juzheng.
Finally, Zhang Juzheng died of illness, and the emperor could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but he found that it was not like that at all, although Zhang Juzheng was dead, his influence was still there, still existed in this court, and even continued.
"Yu Wei is still here, the official is doing things, and he is still called Mr. Taishi first!"
Although Zhang Juzheng is no longer above the imperial court, his influence is still there, and the people he promoted are still there, and the Wanli Emperor attributed these people to Zhang Juzheng's party "Jiangling Party", these people were all promoted by Zhang Juzheng, and they can be said to be the incarnation of Zhang Juzheng, and many people are in high positions, such as Pan Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Seal, the right waiter of the Ministry of War, Zeng Shengwu, etc., these people are all promoted or recommended by Zhang Juzheng, with a strong Zhang Juzheng imprint, with Zhang Juzheng's label.
Although Zhang Juzheng is dead, but they are the living Zhang Juzheng, which makes the Wanli Emperor very disliked, this country is his country, and Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Juzheng are not allowed to exist, so first take Zhang Juzheng's spokesperson, first get rid of the great eunuch Feng Bao, and then take down Pan Sheng, although there are people who impeach Wang Zhan and Zeng Xingwu, these people have all been dismissed, and the people cited by Juzheng in the Ming history have been reprimanded. After such a cleanup, Wanli finally grasped the power and completed his words to Zhang Juzheng, and no longer Zhang Juzheng could restrain him, and his first goal was completed. Then began to liquidate many Zhang Juzheng himself, depriving him of all the honors given to him before his death or after his death, the fragrant dumplings became stinky shit, Zhang Juzheng's eldest son was also forced to die, and even the emperor wanted to whip Zhang Juzheng's corpse, and finally think about it, after all, he still has merit in assisting the emperor, and he can't whip the corpse.
In the records of Mingshenzong, it is said that Zhang Juzheng is meritorious, and then his authority was shocked and caused disaster, and it can be seen that Emperor Wanli is going to Zhang Juzheng in the Ming Dynasty and reduce Zhang Juzheng's influence.
(Zhang Juzheng) is deep and alert, and has many wisdom. and praise the government, resolutely have the ambition of being the sole one. When he was ordered to be suspicious of the lord and the country, he was the first assistant, took charge of the government, and persuaded the upper to abide by (practice) the ancestral law, and the upper also listened carefully. Ten years of Haiyu (inside) cleared, four Yi subdued, Taicang Su can support several years, the temple accumulation to more than 4 million, into Junde, close to luck, strict examination, comprehensive (nuclear) name, clear post, nuclear acres, inquire about economic talents. It is a pity that its partiality is taboo, the small instrument is easy to win, the official is clamped, the letter is relied on, and when he is spoiled and pampered, the root has been broken. Authoritarian shock, woe and swagger. No wonder there are few deaths, and the humiliation follows. β
Second, the Wanli Emperor was greedy for money
The emperor can be short of money, in fact, the Wanli Emperor is really short of money, the inner treasury is in short supply, his younger brother King Lu is going to get married, and he wants to be a vassal domain, these all need money, the emperor is also waiting for money to buy rice and put it in the pot, this person is poor and can do anything, before this, the Wanli Emperor has tasted the sweetness, and he got a lot of money when he copied Feng Bao's house.
As a result, Cheng re-entered, and it was rumored that the two of them had made a relationship, and said that their treasures exceeded heaven. The emperor is excited. The left and right also talked about protecting evil, and Li Zhiji, the imperial history of the four-dimensional gate, talked about Xu Jue and the crimes of coercion and adultery. The emperor was in custody and imprisoned. At that time, Feng Bao Zhang Juzheng and Empress Dowager Li were the troika of the Ming Dynasty, Empress Dowager Li did not say, Feng Bao had a huge amount of money, did Zhang Juzheng have it, and copied Feng Bao's house with so much money, that Zhang Juzheng could only be more than him. And he came with whatever he wanted. At that time, a royal history book called Yang Keli said, "The late scholar Zhang Juzheng hid the first field of the abandoned Liao Mansion and begged to investigate it"? Moreover, the Liao princess also said that all the money of their family went into Zhang Juzheng's pocket at that time.
Yushi Yang can immediately pursue the crime of juzheng, referring to the juzheng construction of the Liaoshu people's constitution and prison. The concubine of the concubine was wronged because of negligence, and said: "The concubine has a lot of money, and he is all right." "It's clear-sighted, that's easy to do, these money are all greedy for you, shouldn't be given to you, should belong to my emperor, so Emperor Wanli asked the Jinyi guards to copy Zhang Juzheng's home, making the chickens fly and dogs jump, and finally how much money did you get from Zhang Juzheng's house, 10,000 taels of gold, and more than 100,000 taels of platinum. was still dissatisfied with this, and at that time, he wanted the Zhang family to confess and store the silver outside, and his eldest son finally had no choice but to say that there were 300,000 gold deposited in Zeng Xingwu, which led to Zeng Xingwu being killed with a cane.
10,000 taels of gold, more than 100,000 taels of platinum. His eldest son, the head of the Ministry of Rites, was not sentenced to punishment, and falsely accused himself of sending 300,000 gold to Shengwu, Seal and Fu Zuozhou, etc., and hanged himself. In the end, the money went into the inner treasury of the Wanli Emperor, and there is another proof that the Wanli Emperor was greedy for money, saying that the Wanli Emperor raided the house for money, and said that whenever I gave the treasure of the house to the emperor, he was very happy.
"The Supreme calls me a son, and every time I don't get into the treasure to play, I like it. β
In the later period, the mine tax supervisor was widely distributed, so that the extortion of the whole country could be more proven. Mr. Monson pointed out: "The strange goods of the emperor are not as good as the emperor." Therefore, Emperor Wanli's greed for money is rare among emperors, he got a lot of money from Feng Bao, and thought that he could also get a lot of expenses from Zhang Juzheng, so he copied Zhang Juzheng's home, these can also be said in the past, after all, you are dead, I am still afraid of what you do.
3. Stabilize the situation in the DPRK
What does stabilizing the situation have to do with the liquidation of Zhang Juzheng, it has a relationship, and it has a big relationship! When Zhang Juzheng was the first assistant, the cabinet has become the actual administrative center, the six ministries completely bowed to him, for those who dared to disobey Zhang Juzheng, the domineering Zhang Juzheng was dismissed, and now Zhang Juzheng is dead, these people began to re-mention the old accounts, and there is no longer a figure like Zhang Juzheng, in order to stabilize the situation, the Wanli Emperor must do something, take the dead Zhang Juzheng on the one hand can deter those who follow Zhang Juzheng, on the other hand, let those who have been dismissed because of Zhang Juzheng's demotion be grateful to the Wanli Emperor, so that the government will be completely stabilizedγ This is also a kind of emperor's mental technique, which was taught to Wanli by Zhang Juzheng at the beginning, and he didn't expect to use it on Zhang Juzheng himself.
After Emperor Wanli raided Zhang Juzheng's home, Zhang Juzheng's guilt was completely decided:
"Zhang Juzheng slandered his relatives, restrained the officials, and blocked me Cong. Privately occupy acres of waste Liao land, pretend to measure and cover up, and stir up the sea. Authoritarian and chaotic government, reckless and disloyal to the country. should have cut off the coffin and killed the corpse, and thought of serving for many years, so I would have spared the law. Zhang Juyi, Zhang Sixiu, Zhang Shun, and Zhang Shu all ordered the miasma to fill the army. β
This reformer of the Ming Dynasty, Shoufu, who delayed the demise of the Ming Dynasty, was finally condemned as a criminal minister by his student emperor, and became a stinky shit, and in the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), the Emperor of the Apocalypse restored Zhang Juzheng. However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty was also declining. And the Wanli Emperor also died thirty-six years after the liquidation of the teacher, leaving the Ming Dynasty in a mess, and some people even say that the Ming Dynasty died in Wanli.