At the end of September of the fifth year of Wanli, Tan Lun, the official minister, died of illness at the age of fifty-eight. Tan Lun has read poetry and books since he was a child. He has a sharp mind, extraordinary intelligence and a calm personality. In the 23rd year of Jiajing's reign, he was a Jinshi. During his tenure as the magistrate of Taizhou, he trained troops to resist Japanese pirates. He achieved three battles and three victories, greatly boosting the military's power.
Later, he led Liu Xian, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and other famous generals to defeat Japanese pirates repeatedly. He successively supervised the military affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi, governor of Shaanxi, governor of Ji Liao, and served as Minister of the Ministry of War.
Tan Lun was the most knowledgeable civil servant in the imperial court after Hu Zongxian. In the fifth year of Wanli, Zhang Han resigned because of obstructing the reform. Tan Lun was appointed by Zhu Yijun as Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, with the title of Prince Shaobao.
Grab, grab, grab. However, less than half a year after taking office, he contracted an illness and died, which made Zhu Yijun sad. After discussing with Lu Tiaoyang and others, he posthumously gave the crown prince Taibao the posthumous title of "Xiang Min". Tan Lun's death was like breaking Zhang Juzheng's arm. Zhang Juzheng in Jiangling heard the news of Tan Zili's death and felt sorry for him.
In early October of the fifth year of Wanli, Li Youzi, who succeeded Tan Lun as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Guo Chaobin, the new Minister of the Du branch, petitioned the emperor to seize Zhang Juzheng's love and return to the capital to serve as director after his three-month vacation.
After two years of emperor's examination questions pointing out "true filial piety" and more than a year of publicity in newspapers, everyone in the court understood that the emperor's determination to change the "Ding You" system had been made early. Coupled with the high political pressure between the government and the opposition at this time, the argument for seizing love was not as strong as before. The original time and space caused big ripples like that.
To be honest, officials in the imperial court were somewhat secretly happy about the emperor's change to the "Dingyou" system. Who wants to delay three years because of the death of his parents? How many three years does an official career last?
In the tenth month of the fifth year of Wanli, on Wuzi, a comet was seen in the southwest. It was as bright as a lamp, several feet long in pale color, and its tail was as bright as a bull's-eye. The "star change" that caused uproar in the original time and space arrived as scheduled. This star change and Zhang Juzheng's "love affair" were mixed together, triggering the first large-scale party struggle in the Wanli Dynasty, and also laying one of the foreshadowings for the demise of the Ming Dynasty. .
The comet, later named C1577V1, finally reached a location where people on earth can observe it after millions of years of journey. At this time in Europe, Danish scientist Tycho Brahe discovered that comets are a type of celestial body and are outside the atmosphere. This discovery provided another small piece of material for Galileo Galilei's discovery of the "heliocentric theory", stimulating that young and talented brain and prompting him to focus more on astronomy.
In the Ming Dynasty at this time and space, the invention and popularization of telescopes had just begun. Because of the high political pressure and the atmosphere of white terror, Yan Guan and Yu Shi were almost silent at this time. The sparse memorials about the "Star Change" were just false stories to show the emperor that the Ming Dynasty's error correction mechanism was not down at this time and was still functioning. is working.
As for the size of this effect, the officials said that it depends on the emperor's mood. If you want it to be big, you can be big, if you want to be small, you can be small.
In these memorials, no one asked the emperor to cultivate provinces, nor did they use mystical phenomena to express dissent. Instead, they asked the emperor to issue an edict, "to warn the ministers and ministers to practice their profession in order to eliminate it." Everyone responded one after another. He said that the emperor was right, but we were wrong. We had not yet understood the essence of the emperor’s reform and were procrastinating in our work, which made God unhappy and sent a comet.
Zhu Yijun, who was raising his legs in the deep palace, once instructed the attendants to sort out all the records of comets in history, trying to logically prove the fallacy of the "comet disaster theory", thereby shaking the idea that "the destiny of heaven cannot be violated" and clearing away ideological obstacles for the reform. obstacle. Unfortunately, however, this "false proof" ultimately turned out to be the opposite of his wish. The attendants used a large number of irrefutable facts from historical data to prove that the appearance of comets was indeed related to disasters.
The attendants on the emperor's side tried to counter-prove: Disasters are a normal state, and comets are a variable. The coincidence of the two does not mean that disasters and comets are related. After all, there have been many greater disasters and signs of national destruction in history. Comet as an echo.
This is a good way of publicity, but it is also very easy to refute this argument: Who stipulated that "heaven" only uses comets to warn? Earthquakes, floods, and strange animals and plants are all warning means!
Investigating its essence, Dong Zhongshu's "theory of induction between heaven and man" was nothing more than a helpless means of restraining the imperial power. Because it is logically self-consistent, overthrowing this theory must be scientifically accomplished and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Zhu Yijun wanted to use the records of historians in the past dynasties who were influenced by the thoughts of heaven and man to prove that comets had nothing to do with disasters. It was equivalent to using the historians' knife to cut their handle.
Even in the 21st century, when science has flourished, there are still many people who believe in the theory of telepathy between heaven and man. The most typical example is the major disasters in 1976. Zhu Yijun, who has traveled back to the Ming Dynasty, thinks of this year and still murmurs in his heart.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun, who felt that he still had a long way to go, could only make an appointment with Zhu Zaiyu, put forward some ideas about comets to him, and asked him to organize astronomy experts from the Royal Academy of Geosciences to verify them.
In addition, some articles discussing the relationship between comets and disasters also appeared in newspapers in the two capitals. The pros and cons debated endlessly, but for Zhu Yijun, it was better than nothing.
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The love dispute between Huixing and Zhang Juzheng did not cause political turmoil, but because now the emperor used a knife to kill Wushuang - no one dared to make a sound like a stick and a horse.
嘘戅 wonderful book garden miasm戅. But this does not mean that the implementation of the emperor's reform edict was smooth sailing. On the contrary, because the assassinations of the emperor and Zhang Wenming triggered a nationwide major case and the ensuing mass arrests, many of the grassroots ruling class represented by the landlords and gentry became ignorant and did not even understand the content of the reform. Begin to resist the implementation of reform policies.
They have too many means of resistance. The implementation of any county government is inseparable from the propaganda and leadership of the gentry elders. As long as they collectively avoid the county government officials, they can make everyone Most of the county administration was suspended.
Not to mention, many squires also control county schools through their own children. If the county magistrate wants to complete the "civilian governance" assessment, it is an unbearable burden for the county magistrate if the students of the county school give negative evaluations in the scholar forest.
By the end of October, the number of arrests in the fifth year of Wanli had exceeded 50,000, and nearly a thousand wealthy gentry were ruined as a result. And their in-laws and old friends can almost contact more than half of the gentry in the country. Due to the resistance to the Jin Yiwei's chaos in the prison, the resistance to the reform at the grassroots level of the empire was huge - many local officials were squeezed out from above, and they were ready to die.
In the fifth year of Wanli's reign, the Ming Empire was brewing with a torrent of chaos, and people were panicking and not knowing where to go.
These intense pressures, on the one hand, prompted some insightful thinkers and scholars to consider the future of the country; on the other hand, they also stimulated a nationwide discussion - the assassination of the emperor and the tragic death of Zhang Wenming were not secrets, and were accompanied by two events Various gossips and rumors, and the contents of the reform were also spread to every corner of the empire.
Of course, the one who bears the brunt of the greatest pressure is the Jin Yiwei headed by Wang Tong. Wang Tong had already obtained the emperor's consent and moved the family members of the middle and high-ranking members of Jinyiwei away from their homeland according to the principle of voluntariness, changing their identities. He himself moved into the pro-military captain's mansion and took charge of the biggest case since Taizu day and night.
Yang Junqing, a fellow Jinyiwei officer stationed in Nanjing, could not move his home. Under overwhelming pressure, Yang Junqing, who had repeatedly tortured Dong Jianxiong in person to no avail, finally understood that it was time for the Yang family to take sides.
Are you adhering to the position of standing with most of the country squires and redressing injustice? Or should we stand on the emperor's side, use whether we oppose the reform as the criterion, and eliminate opposition voices? This is a matter of life and death for the family.
And Yang Junqing finally saw clearly why the emperor was not as determined as Zhang Juzheng to find out the real culprit behind the murder of Zhang Wenming. Zhang Juzheng wanted to avenge his father's murder. Of course, the more accurate the target of revenge, the better; the emperor wanted to eliminate the opponents of the reform from the ruling class through two major cases, one in the south and one in the north, and serve as a warning to the rest. Therefore, the real culprit behind Zhang Wenming's case was , might as well be vague.
Therefore, under the command of Yang Junqing, the Jin Yiwei in the southern part of the empire kept following the clues to find out the truth about Zhang Wenming's case; Wang Tong, the commander of the Jin Yiwei stationed in the capital, ordered the Jin Yiwei at all levels to collect lists of those who opposed the reform - the Great Purge was approaching Now, where will the Yang family go?
