A famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, a politician and reformer in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the first assistant of the cabinet in the early Wanli period, and assisted the Wanli Emperor

The "Wanli New Deal" enabled the life of the dying Ming Dynasty to be extended, and it has great historical merits.

Zhang Juzheng, the word uncle, the number Taiyue. His ancestral home is Fengyang, Anhui Province. Ming Taizu sealed the ancestor Zhang Guan to return to Guizhou, for the return of thousands of households.

Zhang Juzheng's great-grandfather was born and could not inherit the hereditary official position, so he moved to Huguang Jiangling. Zhang Juzheng was born on May 24, 1525 and died on June 20, 1582.

He entered school at the age of 5, was able to pass the Six Classics at the age of 7, was admitted to Xiucai at the age of 12, and participated in the township examination at the age of 13, and wrote a very beautiful article.

At the age of 16, he was promoted to a person, and at the age of 23, he was a jinshi in the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing (1547), and he was promoted from an editor to a bachelor to lead the Hanlin affairs.

In the first year of Longqing (1567), he was appointed as the left attendant of the Ministry of Officials and a scholar of Tokaku University. Later, he was transferred to the second assistant of the cabinet, and was a scholar of the Ministry of Officials and a scholar of the Jianji Temple.

In the sixth year of Longqing, Emperor Wanli ascended the throne and descendant Gao Gong was the first assistant. At that time, Mingshenzong was young, and all military and political affairs were presided over by Zhang Juzheng.

In the 10 years since the country was in power, a series of reform measures have been implemented, and certain results have been achieved. He inventoried the fields hidden by the landlords and carried them out

"One Whip Law", which changed the tax system, improved the financial situation of the Ming government; Famous generals Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang were used to train troops, strengthen the northern border defense, and rectify the defense of border towns; used Ling Yunyi, Yin Zhengmao and others to quell the rebellion of ethnic minorities in the south; Strict purge of the imperial court.

When Zhang Juzheng became famous, he targeted the class that had brought him huge benefits - the civil official group.

In addition to the implementation of a whip law, Zhang Juzheng made the tax unified collection of money and not things, saved a lot of land, and implemented the examination method, the specific implementation method is similar to today's attendance, such as a prefect (five products), at the beginning of the year to write a plan, not too little, after writing a copy of their own, to Zhang Juzheng a copy.

If the plan is too small, it should be returned and rewritten. After the plan is approved, the prefect will have to work hard to complete the plan for the next year.

If at the end of the year, after checking, it is found that the prefect has not completed anything, then the prefect will be demoted to the prefect.

If this is still the case in the county, then it will continue to be lowered until all the officials in the prefect are cut down and they go home to become ordinary people.

On June 20, 1582, the first assistant of the cabinet, Taishi, Taifu, and Zhang Juzheng, a scholar of the Zhongji Temple, died, at the age of fifty-eight, and was given to the pillar country after his death.

Soon after his death, he was attacked by the eunuch Zhang Cheng and the old bureaucrats, and his family; It was not until the second year of the apocalypse that his reputation was restored.

He is the author of "Zhang Taiyue Collection", "Straight Interpretation of the Book of Books", etc. After more than 200 years of ups and downs, the Ming Dynasty was already full of diseases and crises during the Jiajing period.

In the Forbidden City, an altar is set up every day to repair Jiao, and the green smoke is filled. Emperor Jiajing, who fantasized about immortality, was intoxicated by the gorgeous rhetoric of "Ode to Qingyun", and entrusted the government to the treacherous minister Yan Song with his eyes closed.

Yan Song's father and son took the opportunity to do evil and bend the law for bribes. In the transfer of power of the then cabinet chief, under the entrustment of Xu Jie, in the context of such an era, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet from a civilian background, was pushed to the forefront of history, with his extraordinary courage and wisdom, the rectification of the dynasty, the consolidation of national defense, the implementation of a whip law, so that the dying Ming Dynasty regained vitality.