Mingshenzong Zhu Yijun, the thirteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the third son of Ming Muzong Zhu Zaiyuan. In the sixth year of Longqing, Mu Zong died, and ten-year-old Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, with the year name Wanli, and reigned for forty-eight years, making him the longest-reigning emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

After the death of Ming Muzong, he was succeeded by his third son Zhu Yijun, that is, Mingshenzong, with the year name Wanli. His mother was originally a palace maid in King Yu's mansion, and she was lucky enough to give birth to Zhu Yijun, who was still King Yu at the time. Zhu Yijun has been brilliant since he was a child, and he never forgets the history of the Bible.

When he was six years old, he saw Mu Zong galloping on a horse in the palace, so he stepped forward to block the way and admonished: "My father is the lord of the world, and a single horse gallops in the palace, if there is a negligence, it is terrible." Emperor Muzong was deeply moved when he heard this, and immediately dismounted and made him the crown prince, and since then he has loved this child even more.

When Mingshenzong succeeded to the throne, he was only ten years old, and it was difficult for him to take on great responsibilities. But what his father left for him was a very good court team, and there were many virtuous ministers to assist him, especially Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet. Zhang Juzheng had a very harmonious relationship with the empress of Ming Muzong and the biological mother of Ming Shenzong, and they both supported Zhang Juzheng very much, and Feng Bao, a powerful eunuch at that time, was also a rare good eunuch in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Juzheng had a good relationship with the Queen Mother and Feng Bao, and got their full support, so he was able to smoothly implement his own statecraft.

In the first ten years of Wanli's reign, Zhang Juzheng showed his talents and carried out drastic reforms in politics and economy. Militarily, it strengthened armaments, pacified the riots in the southwest, and reused the famous anti-Japanese generals Qi Jiguang Premier Ji, Chang, and Baosan Towns, stabilized the border, and for a time there was a short-lived prosperity in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, China's national strength was the largest in the world, and it far surpassed other countries in all indicators, and the silver stored in the treasury at that time was moldy and hairy after a long time, and many of the grain in the granary rotted because it could not be eaten.

In the tenth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng died of illness, and Mingshenzong gave him a beautiful funeral. However, in the second year, Zhang Juzheng's political opponents impeached Zhang Juzheng and his supporter Feng Bao, and Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng had previously restrained Shenzong too strictly, which made Shenzong's disgust rise sharply at this time. So Mingshenzong pursued Zhang Juzheng's various titles, and soon raided his home and forced his eldest son Zhang Jingxiu to death. and for the crime of Feng Bao bullying the king, he was dismissed from the post of commander of Dongchang, his family property was confiscated, and then all the people who Zhang Juzheng reused were dismissed.

The comprehensive negation of Zhang Juzheng's reform is a sign that Zhu Yijun himself has changed from diligence to laziness and has completely abandoned his efforts to make the country prosperous.

When Zhu Yijun completely got rid of Zhang Juzheng's shackles, his dictatorship began. Since then, Zhu Yijun has completely become another person, the style and demeanor of the former young son of heaven no longer exist, replaced by a long-term residence in the forbidden palace, alcoholism, lust, greed for money, selfish desires, and wantonness.

As the emperor of the rich world, Mingshenzong is still greedy for money and power, he took over all the big things, he didn't do it himself, and he didn't let others do it. Later, even the court was not up, Jiajing had not been to the court for more than 20 years, Wanli broke this record, did not go to the court for 30 consecutive years, and lived in the forbidden palace for many years to enjoy himself.

But why did China win all its wars both internally and externally during this period?

The cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, because the cabinet could preside over daily affairs, not only restrained the emperor to a certain extent, but also maintained the normal operation of the state apparatus without the emperor. Under this political system, an emperor does not need to be too famous, he only needs to reuse a few capable people to do things for him.

In the 20th year of Wanli, a rebellion broke out in Ningxia, and Japan launched a war of aggression against Korea, and in the 17th year of Wanli, a rebellion also broke out in the southwest. Mingshenzong ordered a three-way expedition, known as the three major expeditions of Wanli, and the three major expeditions of Wanli lasted more than ten years to achieve a complete victory, but they lost hundreds of thousands of teachers and consumed tens of millions of taels of silver, resulting in an empty treasury.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty under the rule of Mingshenzong, there was already a budding capitalism in China, and if Mingshenzong could seize this historical opportunity and become a Ming master, then China's fate might be different. However, the fact is just the opposite, most of the Ming Dynasty masters are short-lived, but the faint monarch is a long life, and the Wanli Emperor reigned for 48 years, which is the longest reigning emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

During his reign, there were major events such as the Donglin Party Struggle and the National Capital Dispute, and the Battle of Korea and the Battle of Sarhu, and the Wanli Dynasty became a turning point for the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline.

The dispute between the country's capital mainly revolves around the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo and the blessed king Zhu Changxun, and Mingshenzong's delay in establishing the crown prince made the ministers worried. It was not until later that Zhu Changluo was named the crown prince, and Zhu Changxun was named King Fu, but King Fu did not leave Beijing for a long time to become the vassal king. It wasn't until the attack case occurred and public opinion was unfavorable to Concubine Zheng that King Fu left Beijing to become a vassal.

Mingshenzong was extremely dissatisfied with the ministers in the dispute over the country, and began to continue not going to the court as a retaliation, and only dealt with some important events. The early dynasty often couldn't see him, and he didn't pay attention to political affairs in the deep palace all day long.

The Donglin Party originated from the Donglin Academy organized by Gu Xiancheng, and the cause of the Donglin Party dispute was the lack of people in the cabinet, and Gu Xiancheng strongly advocated that Li Sancai, the governor of Huaiyang, who had quite a political achievement, enter the cabinet, but was smeared and scolded by the forces that opposed Li Sancai's entry into the cabinet, and the Donglin Party arose, and other parties in the DPRK and China concentrated their firepower to attack the Donglin Party. After the eunuch party dictatorship, the Donglin Party was hit hard, and it was not until the Chongzhen period that the Donglin Party was reactivated.

Donglin party struggle refers to the struggle between the Donglin party and other factions such as the eunuch party in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin party struggle lasted for many years in the Ming Dynasty, and even the Donglin party struggle continued to exist under the rule of the Qing government, it can be said that the political impact of the Donglin party struggle on the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty was very large, especially during the reign of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the power of the Donglin party was the largest, and it was precisely because of the strength of the Donglin party that the Ming Dynasty's finances were stretched.

During the Wanli period, Gu Xiancheng was dismissed from his post and returned to his hometown because he offended the emperor, Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong, Qian Yiyi, etc. gave lectures in his hometown of Wuxi Donglin Academy. They advocated opening up their voices and implementing reforms in current politics, and received strong support from many scholars, but they were fiercely opposed by courtiers and eunuchs.

At this time, some officials from Zhejiang also formed a party, became the Zhejiang Party, and some formed the Chu Party, and there were more Qi Parties, etc., these factions attacked each other with the Donglin Party, and then the Donglin Party officials and the Eunuch Party and the Zhejiang Party and other factions also controlled the government and belittled the officials of other parties, and even mastered the official assessment system Jingcha, making it called the tool of struggle for party struggle, and vigorously attacked people who were not their own party, these parties fought with each other, and gradually formed a partisan struggle that affected national politics, known as the Donglin Party dispute, which is the cause of the Donglin Party dispute。

Each party in the Donglin party struggle had its own victories and defeats, which intensified in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, and even this Donglin party struggle extended to the rule of the Qing government, which used a large number of Ming officials.

Donglin party struggle is the struggle between the Donglin Party and the eunuch party and other political groups in the late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, most of the Donglin party are gentlemen who know the straight and do not know the song, and they attach great importance to their personal reputation, which even exceeds the interests of the country, fighting for will and not fighting for right and wrong, although the Donglin Party can find the shortcomings of current politics, but there is no way to improve, so the Donglin Party is really a party that is powerless to reform.

Gu Xiancheng was dismissed by the emperor after lecturing in the Donglin Academy, and then intensified, and the eunuch party, Zhejiang party, Chu party, Qi party between the struggle can be called each has its own victory or defeat, Donglin party people think very high, once they disagree with their own political views, they will often list others as villains, and can not unite officials of different parties, it is because of these characteristics of the Donglin party that the Zhejiang, Chu and Qi parties have become a party with the eunuch party, so the Donglin party struggle has become a struggle between the eunuch party and the Donglin party on the surface.

When Wei Zhongxian was in power during the Ming Dynasty, he fought against the persecution of the Donglin Party, and when Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne of Ming Sizong, the eunuch party headed by Wei Zhongxian was suppressed, and the power of the Donglin Party rose again in the imperial court, and the Donglin Party advocated the abolition of taxes on industrial and commercial households, which led to the emptiness of Chongzhen's treasury and the overstretched finances, and the party struggle played a role in fueling the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty used a large number of old officials of the Ming Dynasty, so that the Donglin party struggle continued to the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and the Kangxi period, the party struggle and the Manchu elite struggle were entangled, but the main struggle during the Qing Dynasty was no longer the Donglin party struggle.

Through the process of the Donglin Party, it can be seen that the harm of the Donglin Party struggle to the imperial court is far greater than the benefits, and the various parties have won and lost each other, so that the supreme ruler and the emperor are helpless.

In the northeast, due to the corruption and degeneration of Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong who was deeply trusted by the Mingshen Sect, in the later period, he wantonly lied about the military situation, deceived the military merit reward, and favored the Nurhachi forces in the military attack target, so that the border troubles in the late Ming Dynasty were serious, and eventually led to the Qing Dynasty becoming the ruler of China.

Because the Mingshenzong did not pay attention to the government affairs, the phenomenon of shortage of officials was very serious, and there was a shortage of three scholars and 10 squires in the north and south of Beijing; there was a shortage of three governors in various localities, 66 political envoys and envoys, and 25 prefects. The Mingshen Sect Committee was at the top, the hundred officials were fighting at the bottom, and the Ming court was completely idle. There are many parties in the ranks of the bureaucracy, such as the Donglin Party, the Xuan Party, the Kunming Party, the Qi Party, the Zhejiang Party, and so on, but the topic of discussion is not how to improve the government and government, but only the personnel layout.

In terms of military affairs, the three major expeditions of Wanli were the most frequent, and they won all three battles to consolidate the frontier of the Ming Dynasty and protect the Joseon Dynasty, but they also consumed the silver of the Ming Dynasty's treasury. Nurhachi rebelled against the Ming with seven hatreds, and two years later defeated the Ming army in the Battle of Salhu, and the Ming Dynasty turned to strategic defense against the Later Jin.

Mingshenzong died, and his eldest son Zhu Changluo ascended the throne as Mingguangzong, who reigned for only one month and died suddenly at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve at the age of thirty-nine.

The red pill case is one of the three strange cases of the Ming Dynasty, in the first year of Taichang in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Changluo of the Ming Guangzong was seriously ill, and the Taoist priest Li Kezhuo offered the red pill, calling himself the elixir, and died after the Guangzong served. Some people suspected that it was Zheng Guifei of Shenzong who instigated the poisoning, and immediately launched a series of actions to track down the culprit, during which party strife and personal enmity were mixed in, and many people died in a row.

Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, Zheng Guifei was worried that Zhu Changluo would retaliate against her because of her previous suspicions, and took measures to collude with Li Xuanzhi, who was favored by Zhu Changluo, and asked Zhu Changluo to make Li Xuanzhi the queen, and Li Xuanzhi reciprocated Li by asking Zhu Changluo to crown Zheng Guifei as the queen mother. Presented beauties to Zhu Changluo to please Zhu Changluo, and Zhu Changluo accepted all the beauties sent by Concubine Zheng Guifei.

The number of beauties sent by Zheng Guifei is eight, Zhu Changluo, who loves beauties, is naturally indulged in beauties night and night, and his body, which was already weak because of the depression of life, suddenly has to take on so many political affairs, and he is greedy for beauties. The body was not good, so the medical officer Chen Xi was summoned for a consultation, and Zhu Changluo, who wanted to be a good emperor, dragged the sick body to meet the ministers, and the ministers saw that the emperor was haggard, and his holy appearance suddenly decreased.

But he did not control himself, and he fooled around with these people. One night, in order to seek excitement, Zhu Changluo took a red pill, and as a result, he was manic, laughing wildly, and his spirit was extremely excited. Early the next morning, Wu Zan, who was in bed, hurriedly invited the imperial doctor Cui Wensheng to diagnose and treat, Cui Wensheng didn't know that the emperor was yin deficiency and kidney exhaustion, and thought it was the evil heat inside, so he took a pair of fierce medicine to relieve fire and laxative, and as a result, Zhu Changluo had diarrhea more than 30 times overnight, and he was in danger. This is a big disaster, and the court is arguing with each other, and the noise and scolding are endless.

Yang Lian, a major minister, wrote a letter accusing Cui Wensheng of misusing laxatives, but Cui Wensheng retorted that it was not misuse, but that the emperor used red pills to cause serious illness. The Donglin Party immediately emphasized that not only did Cui Wensheng use the medicine improperly, but also ruined the emperor's reputation with the red pill.

Zhu Changluo, who was critically ill, was lying on the sickbed, as if he was thinking about the red pill and wanted to take it. Li Kezhuo of Honglu Temple immediately took a red pill, after Zhu Changluo took it, there was no movement, and in the evening Zhu Changluo asked to take another pill, and Li Kezhuo took another red pill. As a result, after a while, the emperor covered his heart with his hands, stared at his eyes and struggled a few times, and died with a whimper. Zhu Changluo has only been on the throne for 30 days, and the era name has not yet had time to be formulated.

The last minister who had just entered the cabinet and had nothing to do with either side was able to calm down the public discussion, Li Kezhuo was sentenced to exile, Cui Wensheng was demoted to Nanjing, and the Red Pill case was over, but there were still aftermaths in the Red Pill case.

During the Apocalypse, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian was in power, and he wanted to overturn the case for the Red Pill case. So Sun Shenxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who denounced Fang Congzhe, was expelled from the official position, took away all official titles and titles, and was condemned to exile, and the Donglin Party who criticized Cui Wensheng was also punished, and Gao Panlong threw himself into the pool and died. During the Chongzhen period, Wei Zhongxian was punished and the case was turned back.

After Chongzhen's death, the Southern Ming Dynasty once again used this as the theme to provoke party disputes, until the Ming Dynasty completely collapsed. The party strife caused by the small red pill is simply a disaster for the country and the people, and future generations cannot but take it as a warning.