Yu Qian, Wang Yangming, and Zhang Juzheng can be said to be the most famous and influential ministers of the Ming Dynasty.
If it weren't for Yu Qian, the Ming Dynasty would probably become the second Southern Song Dynasty after the civil change, and it can be said that Yu Qian continued his life for the Ming Dynasty for 200 years. After the Tumubao Incident, the elite troops and outstanding generals of the Ming Dynasty were all killed, and the emperor was captured. At this time, if Yu Qian had not stood up to preside over the overall situation, the Ming Dynasty would have perished, and at the very least, it would have been like the Southern Song Dynasty.
At that time, the imperial court was in chaos, and most of the ministers asked to move south, and Yu Qian stood up and said to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty: Those who move south can be beheaded. If the world of Jingshi moves at all, the big thing will go, and Song Nandu will not be seenThis sentence is very important, Yu Qian is equivalent to directly giving these people who advocate moving south in the court, do you want to make the Ming Dynasty repeat the mistakes of the past?This big hat is buttoned up, who in the court dares to say anything about moving south?According to this crime, it is light to behead. This sentence immediately stabilized the hearts of the people in the court, and then he deployed various military horses to guard the capital. In the end, he won the battle to defend Beijing. Therefore, what Yu Qian did not only made a great contribution to the Ming Dynasty, but also changed the course of the entire history and made a great contribution to the entire history of China.
So in terms of contribution to the Ming Dynasty, Yu Qian and Shaobao are unparalleled. And Zhang Juzheng is also a top minister, who has lived for the Ming Dynasty for 50 years, and is also in the forefront of all the famous ministers in ancient China, but in terms of his contribution to the Ming Dynasty, he is still worse than Yu Qian.
Among the three people, Wang Yangming contributed the least to the Ming Dynasty, but he was also a generation of famous ministers who could write and martial arts, especially when he founded the Confucian school of thought Yangming Xinxue, which has a wide influence to this day.