Under the influence of "Ming Dynasty 1566", many young people began to be interested in the Jiajing Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, and people began to discuss Xiaoge Lao and Yan Song extensively, Zhang Juzheng and Xu Jie, and of course, the most important Emperor Jiajing and Hai Rui.
I have to say that this drama is so good that it makes people's impression of historical figures plump, especially the performance of Emperor Jiajing, which allows us to see the peak of power.
So the question is, in the real historical records, is Emperor Jiajing's power tricks really so powerful?
Set the time back to the 16th year of Zhengde, when Ming Wuzong died in the leopard room, but because he had no descendants, and did not arrange ** people, so Yang Tinghe arranged for the son of King Xingxian to succeed to the unification, this person is Emperor Jiajing.
——Summarizing the history of the Ming Dynasty, the opening of Emperor Jiajing is undoubtedly amazing, because he ascended the throne as a vassal king, and he was the only one who did not rely on violent struggle to obtain the throne.
That alone is a record-set.
However, it is precisely because he has not gone through an arduous struggle that he does not have firm authority and does not have a solid foundation. Generally, in this case, the emperor can easily become "Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty", and he will become the plaything of the ministers.
In fact, it is true that when Emperor Jiajing first ascended the throne, he encountered the Great Rites Controversy, and the first assistant Yang Tinghe led the entire civil official system and forced him to recognize his uncle as his father.
This incident is very serious, because it not only means that the emperor will be arbitrarily arranged by the civil officials from within the filial piety system, but also will be suppressed by the civil officials in terms of legal principles and authority.
An emperor who has no foundation, in the face of this pressure, most will choose to compromise, and once compromised, it will be difficult to rise again.
But this little emperor is really amazing, he grasped the key point of the problem, fought against the entire court with one person, and refused to give up his father.
At that time, the court was boiling, and the civil official group forced the emperor to compromise like a man-eating tiger, and even Yang Tinghe, the first assistant, firmly believed that the emperor had no backhand, and in the end he could only compromise.
But the fact slapped these people hard, this little emperor was born to be the emperor's material.
He grasped the core, he is the emperor, he naturally represents honor and authority, like a light in the night, but the enemy is not an iron bucket, there will always be some down-and-out people who will pounce on him like moths.
In fact, he waited for Zhang Xuan, who betrayed the civil official group and firmly supported the emperor's recognition of his father. And it is precisely because of the appearance of this person that a gap in the civil official group has been directly torn apart, and more and more people have "taken refuge" in Emperor Jiajing.
And Emperor Jiajing also relied on Zhang Xuan to gather these people, and then used them as an example to "coerce and induce", and more civil officials fell to him. The result was quite successful, the civilian-official group was torn apart, and Yang Tinghe, who did not dare to tear his face to the emperor, could only resign in disgrace.
It is precisely because of this that Emperor Jiajing sighed to Zhang Xuan:My father and son were all gone.
The opening work of the little emperor shocked everyone, and everyone saw the appearance of a natural emperor, and the little emperor also grasped the essence of the emperor from this bold practiceThe emperor is the light
As long as you take advantage of this feature, it will naturally attract people's attention. Moreover, any powerful enemy can be stabbed in the back, and his own safety depends on constantly cultivating these traitors.
This logic is quite terrifying, even quite ***, but this emperor has used him to the extreme, I don't believe we can look at what history has written about him.
After the little emperor took power, three powerful ministers appeared under him, and the first to appear was Xia Yan.
This person is quite upright and handsome, and because of his loud voice and good temperament, Emperor Jiajing took a fancy to him from the beginning and promoted him to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.
During that time, Emperor Jiajing was very kind to him, rewarded him with the silver medal of "erudition and talent", gave him the right to seal his words, gave him every poem first, and discussed it with him whenever he encountered something.
But Xia Yan was already sixty years old when he entered the cabinet, so his energy was not as good as before, and he lost his enterprising spirit, and often made mistakes when dealing with trivial affairs. And more importantly, Xia Yan insisted on his own opinion, refused to help the emperor write green words to pray to heaven, refused the fragrant leaf crown given to him by the emperor, and opposed feudal superstition.
This made the emperor unhappy, and then Yan Song, who was pulled up by Xia Yan, seized the opportunity, he tried his best to please the emperor, regarded the fragrant leaf crown that Xia Yan looked down on as a treasure, and tried his best to write green words every day.
This caused the emperor to look at him differently and began to use him really. After that, there was the well-known fighting method between Yan Song and Xia Yan.
According to historical records, Yan Song used the reconquest of the Hetao incident to turn a war to recover the land into a cloudy ominous omen by contacting a Taoist priest trusted by Jiajing.
Emperor Jiajing was very superstitious, so he was uneasy, and then under Yan Song's arch fire, he first killed Zeng Miao, who had military merits, and then unjustly killed Xia Yan.
In this way, Yan Song became the new first assistant, and he began the era of controlling the government and the sky, and this is the background in the TV series.
However, Emperor Jiajing seems to be more and more stupid, he only knows to listen to Yan Song's slander, kill Shen Lian, kill Yang Jisheng, exploit the people, indulge the invasion of foreign enemies, and the court almost collapsed.
And just when Yan Song was doing whatever he wanted, Xu Jie, who he promoted, also seized the opportunity, taking advantage of Yan Song's old age and indulgence, quietly flattered the emperor, and he also bought a channel priest and wrote green words desperately.
Then through the so-called farce of moving to Nangong, he began to drive a wedge between Yan Song and the emperor.
Then through the Taoist priest's fictitious providence, he said that Yan Song's father and son were traitors, constantly inducing the emperor, and finally destroyed Yan Song in the 41st year of Jiajing, and Xu Jie came to power and became the new first assistant.
Seeing this, many people may be full of question marks, doesn't it mean that the little emperor is invincible at the beginning, and he has mastered the emperor's password? Why is it that he is recorded in the historical records as if he was a fool being played by the minister? Could it be that the emperor has really become stupid?
Of course not, it is these seemingly "stupid" contents that highlight the horror of this emperor.
I don't know if you have found common ground in this period of history, the defeated cabinet chiefs and assistants were all stabbed in the back by the younger brother, and they were all brought down because they made the emperor dissatisfied or uneasy.
The most important thing is that history records that the emperor did not bring down them because he was bad, but because the emperor was confused and induced. And these people were deprived of everything in a word, and the entire group was wiped out, but nothing happened to the imperial court, and the vacancy was quickly filled.
In fact, behind these confusions and stupidity, there is still the logic mentioned above, the emperor's sense of security is constantly cultivating betrayers of the cabinet.
We can understand that the emperor regarded the cabinet chief as a "tool", and he never believed in this tool, but just used it. But in order to avoid the owner of the tool kidnapping, so he has been cultivating a spare tire next to him.
When the tool works, he uses it very boldly.
For example, Yan Song is in charge of power alone, and the benefits he reaped, and the people he cleaned up, it is difficult to say that they are not seeking profits for the emperor, and they are scolding their lives for the emperor.
And once Yan Song may threaten himself, he will directly train a spare tire to replace people, and he will also win a reputation for clearing the darkness, creating a strange logic of beating people with a stick, but the sin is on the stick.
Similarly, when tools begin to have their own consciousness, such as Xia Yan, who doesn't respect him and doesn't give him an honest minion, he directly pretends to be confused and lets the betrayer kill.
In this way, he took advantage of the fact that the first assistants were all betrayed to the upper position, leaving a deep scar of distrust within the civil official group, and the ministers only knew that they were desperately trying to curry favor with the emperor, and Jiajing would never encounter the crisis of the Great Rites Discussion again.
This is Emperor Jiajing's imperial mental technique.
The whole process is not as exciting as in the TV series, but it is more dark than the TV series.
In the eyes of the emperor, the other ministers were not human beings at all, but his tools. For the sake of his own interests, he can sacrifice the interests of the country, sacrifice anyone who is kind to him, a proper and extremely selfish refined egoism.
If you want to say, what do the Jiajing Emperors in history have in common with the TV series? That may be the last entrustment of Emperor Jiajing to his son: virtuous and not idle, sometimes they can't help them, they will be used when they are virtuous, and they will be deposed if they are not virtuous.