Although Zhu Yijun ascended the throne at the age of ten, his biological mother, Queen Mother Li, was still watching over him.
Therefore, even if Zhu Yijun is the emperor of Ming Dynasty, he cannot mess around.
The Ming Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, so Zhu Yijun had special respect for his biological mother.
He will also obey Queen Mother Li's words.
But as an emperor, who doesn't want to have fun?
Naturally, the eunuchs around Zhu Yijun would do anything to please the emperor.
They would also collect some strange and obscene things from everywhere and present them to Zhu Yijun, in order to win Zhu Yijun's favor and help them advance to the next level in the palace.
Sun Hai, the eunuch beside Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, was particularly good at these methods.
He would always collect some gadgets for Zhu Yijun to play with and please Zhu Yijun.
However, Empress Dowager Li had always been strict with Zhu Yijun, so his unprofessional behavior was not allowed.
As time goes by, Zhu Yijun becomes more and more playful and less diligent than before.
On one occasion, Zhu Yijun was drunk and flirting with a palace maid, and was seen by Feng Bao, the eunuch in charge of the ceremony.
Previously, Zhu Yijun was a bit naughty under Sun Hai's temptation, and now he is even teasing the palace maid.
Feng Bao was from Empress Dowager Li, and he also knew that Zhu Yijun, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, should not do this.
Therefore, Feng Bao reported this matter to Queen Mother Li.
Queen Mother Li was extremely angry when she found out about this.
She didn't expect that Zhu Yijun, who she had taught so carefully, would be so dissatisfied, and in the end just played for fun.
In order to make Zhu Yijun's memory long, Empress Dowager Li asked Zhu Yijun to issue an edict to punish himself.
Zhu Yijun naturally would not write an edict to offend himself, so Empress Dowager Li ordered Zhang Juzheng to write an edict to offend himself for Zhu Yijun.
Zhang Juzheng did not delay and started writing an edict to Zhu Yijun.
Although Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun was young, he still knew what the Sin Ji Edict represented.
That means admitting to the world that you were wrong and begging for forgiveness from the world.
Sinji edicts are usually written by emperors who have failed or made huge mistakes.
And he, Zhu Yijun, was just a little playful, and he actually wanted to punish himself.
This was unacceptable to Zhu Yijun.
I originally thought that Zhang Juzheng, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, would help me beg for mercy in front of Empress Dowager Li and put in a few good words for me.
However, Zhang Juzheng did not expect that Zhang Juzheng did not plead for mercy and started writing the edict without saying anything.
At this time, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun felt even more uncomfortable.
I didn't expect that the chief minister of his cabinet would not think about him, and would not think about him as the emperor.
She was even more obedient to Queen Mother Li.
He, Zhu Yijun, was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He was a majestic emperor and had never suffered any grievances.
But this time, he was punished for such a trivial matter as molesting a palace maid.
This was simply a great shame and humiliation for Zhu Yijun.
Although Zhu Yijun was dissatisfied, he still complied with it honestly.
Facing Empress Dowager Li, Zhu Yijun did not dare to have any rebellious thoughts.
However, although Zhu Yijun issued the edict of sin, he began to resent the eunuch Feng Bao and the chief minister of the cabinet Zhang Juzheng.
After this incident, the eunuch Sun Hai beside him was also sent away.
So far, Zhu Yijun has been living under the strict requirements of Empress Dowager Li and Zhang Juzheng.
Zhang Juzheng has always had strict requirements for Zhu Yijun and did not treat him as an emperor at all.
Instead, treat him as his own student.
If Zhu Yijun did something wrong, Zhang Juzheng would definitely come out and testify.
Sometimes he even reprimanded Zhu Yijun and said many words without mercy.
Although Zhang Juzheng was doing Zhu Yijun's good, slowly, under such strict discipline, Zhu Yijun became a little rebellious.
He hated Zhang Juzheng even more.
Later, after Empress Dowager Li returned power to Emperor Wanli, Zhu Yijun did not attack Zhang Juzheng immediately.
Because Zhang Juzheng is still the chief minister of the cabinet and is extremely capable, he is indeed a rare talent.
Under the management of Zhang Juzheng, Ming Dynasty took on a new look and flourished.
Although Zhu Yijun held a grudge against Zhang Juzheng, he was not a foolish king.
He also knew what Zhang Juzheng brought to the Ming court.
In this way, Zhang Juzheng died of illness in 1582.
On the fourth day after Zhang Juzheng's death, some officials in the court stood up to impeach Zhang Juzheng.
It was said that Zhang Juzheng was corrupt, perverted the law, and engaged in corruption and fraud.
This is actually true.
Although Zhang Juzheng was the most powerful, brilliant, and most helpful cabinet minister in the Ming Dynasty, he did collude with Feng Bao.
And he did live a luxurious life during his ten thousand years.
The collusion between Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao was almost known to everyone in the Ming court, and the two did not go behind anyone's back.
Therefore, in the eyes of many people, Zhang Juzheng fell in love with Feng Bao.
With the support of Feng Bao, the eunuch and eunuch in charge of rituals, he was able to achieve his current status.
The Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, who already hated Zhang Juzheng, immediately ordered people to raid Zhang Juzheng's house.
I don’t know if it was someone arranged by Emperor Wanli to impeach Zhang Juzheng.
The efficiency of searching homes is indeed too high.
After Zhang Juzheng's house was confiscated, his family either starved to death or were exiled.
Zhang Juzheng saved the Ming Dynasty from danger and single-handedly made the Wanli period the most prosperous era in the history of the Ming Dynasty. He also extended the life of the Ming Dynasty for seventy years.
In this way, he was liquidated after his death.
Some people say that it was because Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao colluded to take bribes and pervert the law.
Some people also say that it was because Zhang Juzheng did not position himself correctly and was trying to show off his power in front of the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun.
In fact, the most wrong thing Zhang Juzheng did was to monopolize the power of the government.
At that time, Zhang Juzheng had almost eclipsed Emperor Wanli.
He single-handedly held all the military and political power of the Ming Dynasty.
As an emperor, it is impossible for him to tolerate his ministers being so strong.
The reason why Emperor Wanli would liquidate Zhang Juzheng later was excusable.
As for Zhang Juzheng, he definitely did not want to be a powerful minister with power over the government and the public.
Because at that time, he had long been the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty.
It is not an exaggeration to even call him the second emperor in one sentence.
Zhang Juzheng was a man with dreams, and what he wanted to do must have been opposed by many people at the time.
In order to realize his dream and complete the reform of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng could not place his hopes on others.
It must be that he must take over the power to complete his own reforms.
Only when he holds the greatest power in his hands can his reforms be completed to the maximum extent according to his wishes.
It was precisely because of Zhang Juzheng's reforms that the Wanli ZTE situation emerged in the Ming Dynasty.
As for the matter of being liquidated after death, Zhang Juzheng has probably already thought of it.
His reforms offended too many interest groups, and he knew that those people would definitely not let him go after his death.
Therefore, it is understandable that Zhang Juzheng enjoyed life and was extravagant in his later years.
In the Wanli Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng was right, and so was Emperor Wanli.
What is wrong is the system of feudal society and what is wrong is the conflict of interests.
In this way, the famous prime minister Zhang Juzheng, a man who had extended the life of the Ming Dynasty for seventy years, fell.
Even at the beginning, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun planned to dig out Zhang Juzheng and whip his body.
But in the end he gave up the idea, because Zhang Juzheng's contribution to the Ming Dynasty was too great and could not be erased.
If Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun really dug up Zhang Juzheng and whipped his corpse, then Zhu Yijun would be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
Zhang Juzheng was later liquidated, and his descendants did not end well, as did the eunuch Feng Bao.
After Zhang Juzheng's fall, Feng Bao lost a powerful ally in the court.
Soon, Emperor Wanli also began to liquidate Feng Bao.
Feng Bao's corruption and fraud were even more serious than Zhang Juzheng's.
And he was notoriously corrupt.
Feng Bao made a lot of money during his years in charge of the Supervisor of Ceremonies.
Emperor Wanli showed no mercy to Feng Bao and ransacked his home at a glance.
All of Feng Bao's property was confiscated.
However, Emperor Wanli finally spared Feng's life and demoted him from Beijing to Nanjing.
Zhang Juzheng's ally, the eunuch Feng Bao, stayed in Nanjing until his death.
In the first ten years of the Wanli Dynasty, with the support of the young Zhu Yijun.
Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, carried out drastic political and economic reforms. The government took on a completely new look and the economic situation was greatly improved.
In June of the tenth year of Wanli (1582), Zhang Juzheng, a famous minister of the generation, died of illness. After Zhu Yijun confiscated his house, he began to take charge personally.
After Zhu Yijun took office, he presided over the famous "Three Major Wanli Expeditions".
Three large-scale military operations were launched in the northwest, southwest frontier and Chaoxian of the Ming Dynasty.
They were the battle of Ningxia where Li Rusong (the eldest son of Li Chengliang) put down the rebellion of the Mongols.
Li Rusong and Ma Gui fought against the invasion of the Japanese regime Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the Chaoshan War.
As well as the Battle of Bozhou where Li Hualong quelled the rebellion of Miao chieftain Yang Yinglong.
It greatly consolidated the territory of the Ming Dynasty and brought the reputation of the Ming Dynasty in surrounding countries to its peak again.
In the middle and late Wanli Dynasty, Zhu Yijun began to indulge in sensuality.
Not only did he indulge in drinking and sex every day, he rarely went to court, and he didn't pay much attention to the memorials presented below.
In the following time, a more important thing happened to Wanli Emperor Zhang Juzheng.
That is to establish a prince.
Officials of the Ming Dynasty believed that Emperor Wanli should establish a prince and determine the candidate for the crown prince as soon as possible.
According to the ancestral teachings of the Ming Dynasty, it is natural that the eldest son should be the crown 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 beloved concubine Zheng.
Moreover, the Zheng family at that time also had a prince, Prince Fu Zhu Changxun.
Because of his love for his 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 court officials.
Regardless of the ancestral precepts of the Ming Dynasty or the previous dynasties, the eldest son was appointed as the crown prince, and there was no direct eldest son.
The Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun wanted to bypass his eldest son directly and make his concubine Zhu Changxun the crown prince. This simply subverted the three views of Ming officials at that time.
Regardless of whether it is according to etiquette or ancestral rules, this is not allowed.
Therefore, regarding the matter of establishing a prince, serious conflicts occurred between Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun and the court ministers.
At that time, almost all the courtiers sided with Zhu Changluo.
In any case, Zhu Changluo is the eldest son of Emperor Wanli.
Regardless of reason and law, Zhu Changluo should be the crown prince.
No matter what, it won't be the turn of Concubine Zheng's son, Prince Fu Zhu Changxun.
With thousands of years of tradition, the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty cannot be changed just because of the preference of Emperor Wanli.
Emperor Wanli had no choice. He simply could not defeat the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.
Regarding the matter of establishing a prince, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun compromised.
In the end, Zhu Changluo was made the crown prince and assumed the throne in the East Palace.
It was from this incident that Emperor Wanli realized a fact.
That is, even as an emperor, there are many things he cannot do.
For example, on the matter of establishing a prince, he did not have the final say alone. He also had to listen to the opinions of the civil and military officials of the court.
In response to this, Emperor Wanli began to become more negative and paid less attention to political affairs.
After the matter of establishing the crown prince was over, Emperor Wanli once again disagreed with the courtiers over the matter of Prince Fu Zhu Changxun.
Because it was not possible to establish Fu Wang Zhu Changxun as the prince, then according to logic, Fu Wang Zhu Changxun would leave the feudal vassal and leave Beijing.
But when it came to the King Fu Kingdom, Zhu Yijun began to treat them differently again.
He actually gave Zhu Changxun, Prince of Fu, "a total of forty thousand hectares" of farmland.
This was once again opposed by the ministers.
No matter Shenzong himself, Concubine Zheng or King Fu Zhu Changxun, they were not reconciled to the outcome of the national war.
Zhu Yijun really wanted to make King Fu Zhu Changxun the crown prince, and there is no need to say more about Concubine Zheng and Zhu Changxun himself.
Who doesn’t want to be the prince and future queen mother?
Relying on the support of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, Prince Fu Zhu Changxun just stayed in Beijing and refused to join the vassal state.
The ministers of the Ming Dynasty also continued to write letters to Zhu Yijun to urge King Fu to join the feudal clan.
The crown prince's position has been decided, and it would be against the rules of etiquette for Prince Fu to continue to stay in Beijing.
But Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun had been fighting with his ministers for so many years and had already become a master.
He said that there was no problem in letting King Fu become the vassal, but King Fu was his favorite prince, so he wanted to give him more fiefdoms.
Who would have known that Zhu Yijun opened his mouth to say 40,000 hectares.
In the Ming Dynasty, one hundred acres was divided into hectares, and 40,000 hectares was equal to four million acres.
Zhu Yijun told the officials of the Ming Dynasty that when you prepare 40,000 hectares of land for King Fu, he would ask King Fu to join the vassal immediately.
As a result, the officials of the Ming Dynasty began a protracted war with the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun over the matter of King Fu's vassalship.
This saw-saw lasted for several years.
And Prince Fu Zhu Changxun also openly stayed in Beijing for several years.
In the end, King Fu left Beijing to join the feudal clan.
However, due to the dispute between Prince Li and Prince Fu, Emperor Wanli and his courtiers were in a stalemate for nearly ten years.
This made Emperor Wanli mentally and physically exhausted, and he immediately began to be lazy and not go to court.
(End of chapter)
