Although Zhu Yijun ascended the throne at the age of ten, he still has his biological mother Empress Dowager Li watching over his head.

Therefore, even if Zhu Yijun is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he can't mess around.

The Ming court ruled the world with filial piety, so Zhu Yijun still had special respect for his biological mother.

He will do the same with Empress Dowager Li's words.

But as an emperor, there is no one who does not seek pleasure.

And the eunuchs around Zhu Yijun are naturally also trying to appease the emperor, and they will do anything.

will also go around to collect some obscene and ingenious things to give to Zhu Yijun, in order to win Zhu Yijun's favor, so that they can go to the next level in the palace.

Sun Hai, the eunuch beside Emperor Zhu Yijun of Wanli, is particularly good at these ways.

He will always collect some gadgets for Zhu Yijun to play tricks and please Zhu Yijun.

But Empress Dowager Li has always been strict with Zhu Yijun, so his unprofessional behavior is not allowed.

As time goes by, Zhu Yijun's playfulness has become heavier and heavier, and he has become less and less diligent as before.

Once, Zhu Yijun was drunk and molested the palace maid, and was seen by Feng Bao, the eunuch who was in charge of the celebrant and the eunuch.

Previously, Zhu Yijun was already a little stubborn under Sun Hai's bewitchment, and now he is even molesting the palace maid.

Feng Bao is also Empress Dowager Li's person, and he also knows that Zhu Yijun, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, should not do this.

Therefore, Feng Bao reported this matter to the Empress Dowager Li to know.

When Empress Dowager Li found out about this, she was extremely angry.

didn't expect Zhu Yijun, who she had carefully educated, to be so uncompromising, and in the end she only cared about playing.

In order to make Zhu Yijun remember for a long time, Empress Dowager Li asked Zhu Yijun to make an edict against himself.

Zhu Yijun naturally would not write an edict of guilt himself, so Empress Dowager Li ordered Zhang Juzheng to write an edict for Zhu Yijun.

Zhang Juzheng did not postpone it, and directly began to write an edict to Zhu Yijun.

Although Zhu Yijun, the emperor of Wanli, is not very old, he still knows very well what the edict represents.

That is to admit to the people of the world that they were wrong, to beg for forgiveness from the people of the world.

Edicts of sin are generally written by emperors who have made great mistakes.

And he, Zhu Yijun, is just a little playful, and he is about to make an edict against himself.

This made Zhu Yijun unacceptable.

Originally, I thought that Zhang Juzheng, as the first assistant of the cabinet, would help him ask for a favor in front of the Empress Dowager Li and say a few good words to himself.

But I didn't expect Zhang Juzheng to have no intercession, and without saying a word, he directly began to write his own edict.

At this time, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun was even more uncomfortable.

I didn't expect that his cabinet chief assistant would not think about him, and he would not think about him as an emperor everywhere.

For Empress Dowager Li, she was even more obedient.

He Zhu Yijun is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, dignified and supreme, and has never suffered any grievances.

But this time, he actually had to make an edict for such a small matter as molesting the palace maid.

This is simply a great shame for Zhu Yijun.

Although Zhu Yijun was a hundred dissatisfied in his heart, he still did it honestly.

Facing the Empress Dowager Li, Zhu Yijun didn't dare to have a disobedient mind.

But although Zhu Yijun issued an edict against himself, he began to resent the eunuch Feng Bao and the cabinet chief assistant Zhang Juzheng in his heart.

After this incident, Sun Hai, the eunuch beside him, was also sent away.

So far, Zhu Yijun has lived under the strict requirements of Empress Dowager Li and Zhang Juzheng.

Zhang Juzheng has always been strict with Zhu Yijun, and he didn't treat him as an emperor at all.

Instead, they are treated as their own students.

If Zhu Yijun did something wrong, Zhang Juzheng would definitely come out to testify.

even reprimanded Zhu Yijun sometimes, and said a lot of things mercilessly.

Although Zhang Ju is for Zhu Yijun's good, but slowly under this strict discipline, Zhu Yijun is also a little rebellious.

He held a grudge against Zhang Juzheng even more.

Later, after Empress Dowager Li returned the power to Emperor Wanli, Zhu Yijun did not attack Zhang Juzheng at the first time.

Because Zhang Juzheng is still the first assistant of the cabinet, and he is extremely capable, he is indeed a rare talent.

Under the management of Zhang Juzheng, Daming has a new look and is thriving.

Although Zhu Yijun has a grudge against Zhang Juzheng, he is not a faint king.

He also knew what Zhang Juzheng had brought to the Ming court.

In this way, until Zhang Juzheng died of illness in 1582.

On the fourth day of Zhang Juzheng's death, there were officials in the court who stood up to impeach Zhang Juzheng.

said that Zhang Juzheng was corrupt and corrupted.

This is actually true.

Although Zhang Juzheng was the most powerful, the most powerful, and the most helpful cabinet chief assistant to the Ming Dynasty, he did collude with Feng Bao.

And in his 10,000 years is indeed a luxurious life.

The collusion between Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao was almost well known in the Ming court, and the two did not carry people behind their backs.

Therefore, in the eyes of many people, Zhang Juzheng is because of Feng Bao.

With the support of Feng Bao, the eunuch who holds the seal, he has today's status.

Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who already hated Zhang Juzheng, ordered someone to raid Zhang Juzheng's house.

I don't know if it was Zhang Juzheng who was impeached by someone arranged by Emperor Wanli.

The efficiency of copying homes is really too high.

After Zhang Juzheng's house was raided, his family was either starved to death or exiled.

Saving the Ming court from danger, single-handedly making the Wanli period the richest era in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Juzheng, who continued his life for 70 years.

In this way, he was liquidated after his death.

Some people say that it was because Zhang Juzheng colluded with Feng Bao and bent the law for bribes.

Some people also say that it was because Zhang Juzheng did not put himself in the right position and held it up in front of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun.

In fact, the most wrong thing Zhang Juzheng did was to monopolize the power of the government.

Zhang Juzheng had almost set Emperor Wanli in the air at that time.

He held all the military and political power of the Ming court.

As an emperor, it is impossible to tolerate his courtiers being so strong.

The reason why Emperor Wanli would liquidate Zhang Juzheng later is also understandable.

As for Zhang Juzheng, he definitely doesn't want to be a powerful minister who leans towards the government and the opposition.

Because at that time, he was already the most powerful person in the Ming court.

It is not an exaggeration to even call one sentence two emperors.

Zhang Juzheng is a person with dreams, and what he wants to do must have been opposed by many people at that time.

In order to fulfill his dream and complete the reform of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for Zhang Ju to pin his hopes on others.

That must be to monopolize power in order to complete its own reforms.

Only when he has the greatest power in his hands will his reforms be completed according to his own ideas to the greatest extent.

It is precisely because of Zhang Juzheng's reform that the Ming Dynasty has a situation of Wanli Zhongxing.

As for the matter of being liquidated after death, it is estimated that Zhang Juzheng has already thought of it.

His reforms had offended too many interest groups, and he knew that those people would not let him go after he died.

Therefore, in his later years, it is understandable that Zhang Juzheng enjoyed life and was poor and luxurious.

In the Wanli Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng was right, and Emperor Wanli was not wrong.

What is wrong is the system of feudal society, and what is wrong is the conflict of interests.

In this way, a generation of famous ministers Zhang Juzheng, a man who had continued his life for the Ming Dynasty for 70 years, fell like this.

Even at the beginning, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun planned to dig up Zhang Juzheng and whip his body.

But in the end, he dispelled this idea, because Zhang Juzheng's contribution to the Ming court was too great to be erased.

If Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun really dug up Zhang Juzheng and whipped his corpse, then I am afraid that Zhu Yijun will also be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

Zhang Juzheng was liquidated later, and his descendants did not end well, and the same was true for the eunuch Feng Bao.

After the fall of Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao lost powerful allies in the imperial court.

Soon, Emperor Wanli also began a liquidation of Feng Bao.

Feng Bao's corruption and fraud are even more serious than Zhang Juzheng's.

And he is notorious for embezzlement.

Feng Bao has made a lot of money in the years he has been in charge of the celebrant supervisor.

Emperor Wanli was also unmerciful to Feng Bao, and took him away at a glance.

All of Feng Bao's property was confiscated.

However, the Wanli Emperor eventually saved Feng's life and demoted him from the city of Beijing to Nanjing.

Zhang Juzheng's ally, the great eunuch Feng Bao, remained in Nanjing until his death.

In the first ten years of the Wanli Dynasty, with the support of the young Zhu Yijun.

Zhang Ju, the first assistant to the cabinet, is carrying out drastic political and economic reforms, and the government has taken on a new look and the economic situation has also greatly improved.

In June of the tenth year of Wanli (1582), a generation of famous ministers Zhang Juzheng died of illness, and Zhu Yijun took his home and began to govern himself.

After Zhu Yijun became in power, he presided over the famous "Three Great Expeditions of Wanli".

Three large-scale military operations were launched in the northwest, southwest frontier and Chaoxian of the Ming Dynasty.

They were Li Rusong (Li Chengliang's eldest son) to pacify the Mongols in the battle of Ningxia, which rebelled.

Li Rusong, Magui's super fresh battle against the invasion of the Toyotomi Hideyoshi regime of the Japanese state.

and the Battle of Banzhou, where Li Hualong pacified the rebellion of Yang Yinglong, the Tusi of Miao Territory.

It greatly consolidated the territory of the Ming Dynasty and made the reputation of the Ming Dynasty in the surrounding countries reach its peak again.

In the middle and late stages of the Wanli Dynasty, Zhu Yijun began to indulge in lustful dogs and horses.

Not only is he addicted to wine every day, but he doesn't go to court much, and he doesn't care much about the twists and turns presented below.

In the following time, something more important happened to the Wanli Emperor Zhang Juzheng.

That is to establish the crown prince.

Officials of the Ming court believed that the Wanli Emperor should appoint a crown prince and determine the candidate for the prince as soon as possible.

According to the ancestral training of the Ming Dynasty, it is natural to ask the eldest son of the prince to be the prince.

At that time, Zhu Yijun's eldest son was Zhu Changluo of Mingguangzong.

But Emperor Wanli didn't like Zhu Changluo very much, but only loved his favorite concubine Zheng.

And the Zheng family at that time also had a prince, that is, Zhu Changxun, the blessed king.

Because of his love for the concubine Zheng, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun once wanted to make Zheng's son Zhu Changxun the crown prince.

However, it was strongly opposed by the Ming courtiers.

Whether it is the ancestral training of the Ming Dynasty or the successive dynasties, the eldest son is the prince, and there is no grandson.

And Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun wanted to directly bypass the eldest son and wanted to set up his concubine Zhu Changxun as the crown prince, which simply subverted the three views of the Ming officials at that time.

Whether it is according to the ritual law or the ancestral system, this is not allowed.

Therefore, in the matter of establishing the crown prince, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun had serious contradictions with the ministers of the imperial court.

At that time, almost all the courtiers were on Zhu Changluo's side.

In any case, Zhu Changluo is the eldest son of Emperor Wanli.

With reason and law, it should be Zhu Changluo to be the prince and prince.

No matter what, it can't be the turn of Zheng Guifei's son, Fuwang Zhu Changxun.

Thousands of years of tradition, the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty cannot be changed because of the preference of Emperor Wanli alone.

Emperor Wanli had no choice, he couldn't resist the Manchu Dynasty at all.

Regarding the matter of establishing the crown prince, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun compromised.

In the end, Zhu Changluo was appointed as the crown prince and was in the East Palace.

It was from this incident that Emperor Wanli recognized a fact.

That is, even as an emperor, there are many things he can't do.

For example, in the matter of establishing the crown prince, he is not alone in the matter, but also listens to the opinions of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

In this regard, Emperor Wanli began to be more negative, and he was even more indifferent to the major affairs of the court.

After the matter of establishing the crown prince was over, Emperor Wanli once again disagreed with the courtiers because of the matter of Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu.

Because he was not able to establish Fuwang Zhu Changxun as the crown prince, then according to reason, Fuwang Zhu Changxun would go out to join the domain and leave Beijing.

But in the affairs of the Fuwang Domain, Zhu Yijun began to treat differently again.

He actually gave the Fu King Zhu Changxun Wangfu Zhuangtian "40,000 hectares".

This was once again opposed by the ministers.

Whether it is Shenzong himself, or Zheng Guifei or Fuwang Zhu Changxun, they are not reconciled to the result of the battle for the country.

Zhu Yijun really wants to make Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune, the crown prince, and Zheng Guifei and Zhu Changxun themselves don't need to say more.

Who wouldn't want to be the crown prince and the future queen mother.

With the support of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, Zhu Changxun, the blessed king, stayed in Beijing City and did not leave, and he did not return to the domain.

And the ministers of the Ming Dynasty also kept writing to Zhu Yijun to urge King Fu to go to the domain.

The crown prince's position has already come to fruition, and it is not in accordance with the etiquette system for King Fu to continue to stay in Beijing City.

But Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun has been fighting with his ministers for so many years, and he has already cultivated to perfection.

He said that there was no problem in letting King Fu become a vassal, but King Fu was his favorite prince, so he wanted to give more fiefs.

Who knew that Zhu Yijun's opening was 40,000 hectares.

The Ming system of 100 acres is an acre, and 40,000 hectares is 4 million acres.

Zhu Yijun told the officials of the Ming court, when you prepare 40,000 hectares of land for King Fu, he will let King Fu immediately become a vassal.

As a result, in the matter of King Fu's vassal establishment, the officials of the Ming Dynasty began a protracted war with Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun.

This tug-of-war is several years.

And the blessed king Zhu Changxun also stayed in Beijing for several years.

In the end, King Fu still left the city of Beijing and went out to become a vassal.

However, because of the establishment of the crown prince and the establishment of King Fu, the Wanli Emperor and the courtiers were in a stalemate for nearly ten years.

This made Emperor Wanli emaciated, and he directly began to be lazy and not go to court.

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