There are many dynasties, emperors, and cabinet ministers who want to rectify the officialdom. Those who can succeed have not been recorded in the history of the world of Red Mansions. Those who dare to take action to rectify the officialdom, without exception, will not end well.

Without exception, those who dared to rectify the officialdom were either emperors with stable imperial power or important ministers who held great power. These powerful ministers even had more power than the imperial power. But there was no precedent for success.

Those who dared to take action to rectify the government, whether they were emperors or important ministers, were undoubtedly outstanding people, and they were not just ordinary people. But in the end, they all ended in failure. This shows how difficult it is to rectify the government. It is simply an impossible task.

When a court's official administration is corrupt to a certain extent, it will be difficult to recover, and the dynasty is doomed to fall. Therefore, the emperor or cabinet ministers who hold the most power in the dynasty will not be able to help but take action to rectify the official administration in order to prolong the country.

The reason why there is no successful precedent is actually simple to say. Because you are rectifying the entire ruling class. It is no longer a factional struggle in the court, but is targeting the interests of the entire ruling class. The difficulty is self-evident.

Most of them will use reform methods to rectify their officials. Some reforms are relatively mild and will achieve certain results at first. In addition, the reformers are so powerful that they can overwhelm the entire interest group, but in the end they often end in failure.

After all, one person is fighting against the entire ruling class. Therefore, those who change the law often do not end well in the end. Therefore, the emperor just thinks about it. As for rectifying the government, the emperor today does not have the courage.

The emperor also knew that if he did not improve his officialdom, the Zheng Dynasty would never survive. Doing nothing was obviously not enough. After all, this was his own country. So he should avoid the important and take the easy.

It has been more than a hundred years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The money owed to the Ministry of Revenue by the civil and military ministers is not a small amount. Not to mention collecting all of it, even if it is collected on the second or third floor, it is not a small amount.

Although the Second Mansion of Rongning has taken a good lead, no one has followed suit. Everyone knows what the situation is like in the Second Mansion of Rongning. We are different from them. Besides, it is not just one or two households that owe money in the Ministry of Revenue. As long as everyone agrees,

The emperor has nothing to do with them.

The emperor really has nothing to do with them. The key is that many important ministers in the court owe money to the Ministry of Revenue. And the higher the official position, the more money they owe. In fact, the more powerful you are, the more money you can borrow from the Ministry of Revenue.

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So everything is back to square one. Corruption in government is the root of everything.

When it comes to rectifying the administration of officials, we have to talk about the famous official of later generations - Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng is the only person who can accomplish this. This shows that he is extraordinary. Therefore, he will be called the first famous official in the ages.

Too much.

Zhang Juzheng was in the middle and late Ming Dynasty of later generations. The situation of the Ming Dynasty at that time was similar to that of the Zheng Dynasty today. There were also corrupt officials and foreign invasions. The imperial army was depleted and the treasury was empty.

Zhang Juzheng was born into a scholar's family. He was a scholar. He was literate at the age of five and could understand the Six Classics at the age of seven. He was awarded the title of scholar at the age of twelve. What a genius. He participated in Qiuwei at the age of thirteen, his articles were first-rate, and he had no problem in being elected.

But the examiner saw that he was too young, and success at a young age was not conducive to Zhang Juzheng's growth. So he decided to suppress it. As a result, Zhang Juzheng's wish to become a thirteen-year-old boy was in vain.

So, three years later, Zhang Juzheng was awarded the title of Juren at the age of sixteen. He was awarded the title of Jinshi at the age of twenty-three. Like Li Miao, he ranked ninth in the top two. Then he also entered the Hanlin Academy and became a Shujishi.

Zhang Juzheng also had a low-key and reserved personality. However, his character was not very good, and he did a lot of things even for promotion. As a result, it took Zhang Juzheng twenty-five years to become the first among civil servants.

Forty-eight-year-old Zhang Juzheng was the first assistant. The emperor was too young to govern personally. Therefore, Zhang Juzheng took over all the power. It was equivalent to consolidating the monarch's power and holding the power of the cabinet.

As a result, Zhang Juzheng changed his previous low-key and reserved personality. He began to show his fangs and vigorously rectified the officialdom. He first targeted those officials who were blocking the way.

Then, arrange your own people in useful positions. Those who obey me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish. Regulating officials and governing is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Zhang Juzheng is a smooth man and flexible in handling affairs. The ultimate goal of all is to regulate officials and make the country rich and powerful.

Zhang Juzheng did big things and did not stick to trivial matters. Not long after he started to show his fangs, his father in his hometown passed away. Logically speaking, he should be Ding You. That is, he should return to his hometown and stay for twenty-seven months before leaving the mountain.

Zhang Juzheng has shown his fangs, how could he go to Dingyou? If you don't say it, time waits for no one. If Dingyou really does die and loses his power, it will be a problem whether he can come out again. Or whether he can survive is a problem.

Zhang Juzheng offended all ruthless characters. So, the little emperor stole his love. But Zhang Juzheng's opponents stopped. Finally, an opportunity came up. Your father is dead, and you still won't step down.

As a result, the little emperor issued another decree. If anyone mentions Zhang Juzheng and Ding You again, I will kill him. So, no one dared to ask Zhang Juzheng to step down.

Zhang Juzheng has great power and continues to attack the ruling class. These days, a large amount of land is in the hands of the ruling class. They do not pay taxes and use methods to hide the land.

Zhang Juzheng gradually started to clear land across the country, and based on this, he redrawn the fish scale atlas. He exposed all the hidden land of the ruling class. Then he used a whip method to make everyone pay taxes together.

Zhang Juzheng implemented the examination method for officials, which improved the efficiency of departments at all levels, and clarified responsibilities, rewards and punishments, so that the decrees issued by the imperial court could be implemented to the end.

It took Zhang Juzheng ten years to make the treasury of the Ming Dynasty full. The grain reserves were sufficient, and the grain reserves in the Guangtai Warehouse could supply the Ming Dynasty for ten years.

In the military, famous generals like Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang were cultivated. As for the military strength of the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that it was at its peak. Foreigners did not dare to invade.

It's a pity that Zhang Juzheng only served as the first assistant for ten years before he died of illness. It is said that it was caused by fatigue. Wasn't he tired? What Zhang Juzheng did was to make an enemy of the entire ruling class. He must have racked his brains to avoid death from exhaustion.

If Zhang Juzheng is allowed to serve as chief minister for a few more years, the history of the Ming Dynasty will be rewritten. If Zhang Juzheng is allowed to serve as chief minister for ten more years, the modern history of China will have to be rewritten.

In this way, Zhang Juzheng served as the chief minister for ten years, and the Ming Dynasty's reign was at least extended for at least a hundred years. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty would have been destroyed long ago.

Zhang Juzheng began to be liquidated after his death. He offended the entire ruling class. The little emperor had grown up. Zhang Juzheng began to take power after his death.

Zhang Juzheng's death was destined to have a bad end. He was almost whipped to death. All the children in his family suffered the same misfortune. Their homes were confiscated and sent to the army. There were not a few children who starved to death on the way to the army. This shows how many people hated him at that time.

Zhang Juzheng is deep in his bones.

These people were the ruling class at that time, and many of them were powerful. When Zhang Juzheng was alive, they did not dare to do anything. After Zhang Juzheng's death, they vented their hatred on his children and family.

After Zhang Juzheng's death, the policies he formulated were completely negated. A few years later, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty discovered that Zhang Juzheng's method still worked. So he began to rehabilitate Zhang Juzheng and confer a royal title on Zhang Juzheng.

So, the emperor also started to do what Zhang Juzheng did. In the end, he couldn't do it. Because there was only one Zhang Juzheng in history. Even if he was the emperor and had great power, it would not work.

There is no second person in history who can make it. The Ming Dynasty was corrupted by officials and could not escape the fate of destruction in the end.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng's first famous minister, later emperors, and important ministers were all learning from Zhang Juzheng, his examination method, and his one whip method.

The later Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty could be regarded as a wise emperor. He also had great power and a solid foundation. Yongzheng just wanted to copy Zhang Juzheng's style. The result was that he was similar in appearance but not in spirit.

Therefore, it is impossible to achieve the effect that Zhang Juzheng had at that time. The key issue is in spirit rather than form. It is true that there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. The situation is also constantly changing. How can it be so easy to attack the entire ruling class?

In my opinion, the greatness of Zhang Juzheng does not lie in the test method or his whipping method. It lies in his ability to implement his policies to the end. The key lies in his decrees, which officials at all levels can follow without hesitation.

Execution without compromise.

Moreover, many of those who carried out his decrees to the letter were his enemies. He hated them to the core. But these people still had to carry out the orders. This is the charm of Zhang Juzheng.

In later generations, I have seen the evaluation of Zhang Juzheng by many famous officials. It is only funny. Many of them actually used moral standards to evaluate Zhang Juzheng. Can a gentleman be the first assistant? Can he regulate the government?

As a political figure like Zhang Juzheng, when he needs to achieve his political goals, he needs to do whatever it takes and do big things regardless of trivial matters. Therefore, Zhang Juzheng must have done many unrighteous things during his tenure as the first minister. Is this important?
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