Zhang Juzheng was born in a poor family, but he was talented, 12-year-old Zhongxiucai, 16-year-old Zhongjuren, 23-year-old Zhongjinshi, was selected as a Shujishi, and soared all the way.
At the age of 39, Xu Jie recommended Zhang Juzheng to be the attendant of Yuwang Zhu Zaiyuan. Zhang Juzheng served as the secretary of the Guozijian and had many contacts who might enter the officialdom in the future.
At the age of 41, Ming Shizong died, and Zhang Juzheng was promoted to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and entered the cabinet to become the core**.
At the age of 47, he became the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty and surpassed the emperor in power.
Zhang Juzheng's reform made him famous through the ages, and during the Jiajing and Longqing periods, politically: ** lengthy and corrupt officials. Economically; The government treasury is empty and the finances are in difficulty. Militarily: the armament is abandoned, and the border troubles are intensifying.
Zhang Juzheng carried out reforms in line with the trend, and politically, he implemented the examination method, ordering six departments to supervise the localities, six departments to supervise six departments, and the cabinet to supervise six departments.
Economically, a whip law was adopted, based on the state and county, and all taxes were combined into one article, and the total income was one income. All taxes and levies were converted into silver taels and paid according to the amount of land.
Militarily, Qi Jiguang guarded Jimen, and Li Chengliang guarded Liaodong.
After Zhang Juzheng carried out reforms, he rectified politics, appeased the people, enriched the national treasury, and achieved unprecedented feats. Zhang Juzheng began to enjoy the glory and wealth, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition. After taking power, Zhang Juzheng became more and more greedy for enjoyment, and every time he served the table, he had to base 100 dishes; Zhang Juzheng has 7 wives and concubines on record; Qi Jiguang, the general of the anti-Japanese army, once regularly entered the sea seal to Zhang Juzheng. In the first year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng built the Taishi Mansion in his hometown in Jiangling, spending 200,000 taels of silver; Zhang Juzheng's luxury sedan chair, there are 32 sedan chair drivers alone, and there are maids to take care of Zhang Juzheng's daily life. Zhang Juzheng's mother was summoned to see the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, and she was exempted from the state ceremony and the family ceremony.
Zhu Yijun and his two mothers called Zhang Juzheng "Mr. Yuanfu Zhang.""。In addition to serving as the first assistant, Zhang Juzheng was also in charge of Wanli's educational affairs, Zhang Juzheng had to check the scriptures and history taught by Zhu Yijun every day, and if he was fluent in endorsement, Mr. Zhang would praise the sage of the Son of Heaven; If he stammered, Mr. Zhang would immediately question him with his identity as a strict teacher, making him unable to embarrass himself. For more than ten years, Zhu Yijun has been spinning like a spinning top, never stopping and spinning alone. Childhood, youth, and youth, Zhu Yijun learned a lot of things, and also accumulated a lot of grievances, anger, and resentment.
In terms of material resources, it turned out that on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there were fireworks and new palace lamps outside the noon gate, and Zhang Juzheng proposed that extravagance and waste be abolished. Wanli once wanted to repair and decorate the palace rooms for his two mothers as a sign of filial piety, but Zhang Juzheng thought that the palaces were already very rich and perfect, and there was no need to decorate them. For Zhu Yijun to tell the monarch to pay attention to the food and clothing of the subjects of the world, as for the pearl and jade playthings, they can't eat when they're hungry and can't be clothed when they're cold, so they don't deserve the attention of Ming Jun. When Wanli is a little older, he has no real power, and he must also suppress his own nature so as not to be punished by his teacher Zhang Juzheng. For the emperor, it is difficult to endure the constraints of other rights above the imperial power, the contradiction between the monarch's power and the relative power.
In the tenth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng was critically ill, and Zhu Yijun was sad, and once said, "Mr. has made great contributions, and I have nothing to do, just take care of Mr.'s children and grandchildren." It's just that the world is impermanent and the king is unpredictable. Zhang Juzheng was alive, Zhu Yijun was afraid in his heart, the shadow was in his chest, as soon as Zhang Juzheng died, he pretended to cry, but he quickly wiped away his tears and began to retaliate. Let's take a look at how he looks after his children and grandchildren. In April of the twelfth year of Wanli, the raiders went to Zhang's house to seal the door, and the children of Zhang's house hid in the empty house, not daring to come out, and there was no food. Until the 5th of May, when the door of the house was opened, more than 10 people had died of starvation.
The raiders severely tortured and tortured to extract a confession, and the eldest son, Zhang Jingxiu, could not stand the torture and hanged himself; The second son was assigned to fill the land of the army and miasma. The third son attempted suicide and was sent to the frontier and died in a miasma. The four sons became the people; Five sons committed suicide and died; Six sons are missing.
Zhang Juzheng is a successful prime minister, but he is not an excellent teacher. He saved the Ming Dynasty from danger, but he did not teach his student Zhu Yijun well. Zhang Juzheng's strictness and long-term repression distorted Zhu Yijun's mind, once the power was in his hands, he was vindictive** Zhu Yijun neither became an excellent student nor an excellent emperor.