During the three-day holiday of Longevity Festival, government affairs should not be discussed, but rules are dead and people are alive. Especially the dozen or so ministers who discussed government affairs all had crane patches on their chests, and many of them even wore bright red silk clothes. If you are given clothes such as python clothes, bullfighting, flying fish, etc., then the nature of them will be different.
Under this situation, even if the emperor himself came over in person, he would certainly not say that they had violated the rules. He could only say, "I am deeply gratified that you all love your Majesty and are loyal to the country."
Although the emperor sat far away, the throne was in the highest position after all. The two tables of the cabinet and the seven ministers began to "talk to each other", so he could clearly see what was going on.
In normal times, these six pavilion elders plus the seven ministers of the imperial court, a total of "Thirteen Taibao", would start "talking small talk" with each other under such circumstances. Generally, they could only write odes on the spot, that is, birthday wishes to the emperor. Poetry. However, when writing birthday poems, not everyone will write a lengthy poem - it only takes a few sentences, why do you still improvise a Han Yuefu poem?
Moreover, the expressions on the ministers' faces were wrong. They all looked solemn and looked as if they were facing a national crisis. They were obviously not talking about happy topics.
The emperor frowned slightly and observed for a while. Judging from Gao Pingshi's continuous verbal sparring with Xu Xuemo, Shi Xing and Wang Xijue, Zhu Yijun guessed that they were discussing the "Innovation Station Shu" at this time.
But until this moment, Zhu Yijun clearly noticed that although Gao pragmatic faced a round of battles from several important ministers, he always remained calm and confident. The minister who launched an offensive against him shut up while talking. .
The outcome of the competition can be decided immediately. Zhu Yijun was very pleased with this and felt relaxed.
But after Shen Shixing's personal exit, the situation was still a bit wrong. Zhu Yijun sensitively discovered that Gao Pragmatic seemed to be acting more as a listener at this time. Even if he occasionally spoke, the speaking time was very short. It seemed that Just asking for some details.
At the same time, Shen Yuanfu himself didn't look quite right. Zhu Yijun believed that if Mr. Shen was also talking about issues related to "Innovation Station Shu", then judging from the expressions on his and Gao Pragmatic's expressions, it was clear that the situation was advantageous. Why is his face so solemn?
This is obviously unreasonable.
In fact, Zhu Yijun has always been a very smart person. He has learned many ways of thinking under the influence of Gao Pragmatism for many years. He is especially good at analyzing characters by combining all aspects of intelligence, so he quickly thought of the incident reported by Jin Yiwei.
Yes, Mr. Shen turned out to be not really arguing against pragmatism, but resorting to procrastination, using one big thing to suppress another big thing. He was forcing pragmatism to weigh which thing was more important, or... …more urgent.
Zhu Yijun suddenly realized that he could guess how Gao Pingshi would decide on this matter without even thinking about it.
As Gao Pragmatic's classmate for ten years, he is very aware of Gao Pragmatic's style: in peacetime, domestic affairs must be given priority; in times of war, defeating the enemy must be given priority.
Being pragmatic will definitely choose to contain the danger in Tumen first! Zhu Yijun was determined in his heart.
The evaluation of Emperor Wanli by later generations is very interesting. If a person has only read Yuan Tengfei's books, he will think that Wanli is an out-and-out rubbish, a miser, and a saboteur; if a person has only read "History of the Ming Dynasty" , will think that Wanli is a mediocre and foolish king; if a person has only read "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", he will think that Wanli is a man who is not brave enough and is willing to fall; if a person has only read "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" ”, one would think that Wanli is a very complicated, strange, and often contradictory person.
We can understand them, really, every statement can be understood, because what they saw was indeed the performance of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun in a certain aspect.
Yuan Tengfei is a history teacher, a person with vested interests, an out-and-out Song fan, and an out-and-out angry young man. He views Wanli from the perspective of the civil servants and gentry, so Emperor Wanli is indeed not a good person.
"History of the Ming Dynasty" is supposed to be a trustworthy history, but due to well-known reasons, any place related to certain things in this book is often maliciously portrayed. Especially in the second half of the book, the ugly face of the author has nothing to do with the BBC in later generations.
It's as disgusting as if they were drawn from the same mold.
At that time, Mingyue was a scholar with humanistic feelings. In the world at that time, there were not many people with humanistic feelings. He happened to be one, which was very rare. He analyzed Wanli from the perspective of human nature. Although limited by space and style,
Maybe he can't say too much, but from his perspective, readers can still realize that Wanli is a real person of flesh and blood who existed in this world.
As a scholar, Huang Renyu put aside his prejudice against people and interpreted the Wanli Dynasty from a historical perspective, which was relatively thorough and in-depth. But unfortunately, in the turbulent Wanli Dynasty, even the Wanli Emperor himself
It's hard to say whether he is the protagonist or not. It is more likely that he is just a background that future generations will find pity, pitiable or even pathetic.
Without Gao's pragmatic intervention, Emperor Wanli's life would have been a life of struggle with powerful ministers, civil servants, and gentry groups. Since there is a struggle, there must be winners and losers.
Unfortunately, he has his grandfather's IQ, but not his grandfather's persistence; he has his father's wisdom in employing people, but not as smooth and tolerant as his father; he has the military sensitivity like the ancestor, but does not have the integrity of his words.
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Therefore, without the existence of high pragmatism, Emperor Wanli's life is destined to be a tragedy - even if he is smart enough.
In the first twenty years of his life, he was shrouded in a shadow named Zhang Jiangling. He was constantly oppressed in the shadow of powerful ministers, growing and learning until one day he realized: I am the emperor, I am the emperor.
emperor.
Therefore, he was unwilling, he resented, and he endured it. During this period of time, he was so diligent, studied so hard, and was so good at thinking and making judgments. And all of this was actually just to paralyze that person, to
He can restore the glory of his ancestors and be worthy of his status.
In the world after he became sensible, his feelings for Zhang Jiangling were always the feelings of a puppet emperor towards his powerful ministers. On the surface, he was trembling, but in fact, he was filled with murderous intent.
He would not think about whether Zhang Jiangling was a capable minister, because such thinking was not necessary for the emperor at all.
Zhang Juzheng in history is different from Gao Pragmatism at this time. Zhang Juzheng can be replaced, but Gao Pragmatism, at least for now, cannot be replaced by anyone.
What's more, no matter how great the impact of taking down the deceased Zhang Juzheng is, it will not be greater than taking down Gao Pragmatic at this moment: Zhang Juzheng almost only represents himself, but Gao Pragmatic represents a powerful group. This group has a lot of culture.
There are military forces, officials and merchants, and any move could cause chaos in the world.
Emperor Wanli in history discovered when he was 20 years old that the shadow hanging over his head finally dissipated. He couldn't wait to erase the humiliation and all the oppression this person had brought to him, as if this person
Never existed. After erasing the evidence of this person's existence, a 20-year-old young man couldn't wait to take over the government, work hard to govern, and revitalize the Ming Dynasty.
Then, he was hit on the head by the civil service group. The constant struggle with the civil service group made him realize that although he was an emperor, he was useless: he did not have his own team. The previous team was left to him by that person.
After cleaning up everything about that person, he discovered that he was actually just a loner.
What can he do to fight against the huge civil servant group? As long as any of his orders go against the wishes of the civil servant group, they will never leave the Forbidden City.
So he was unwilling to give in. He started to fight, start to quarrel, and began to endlessly fight with the civil service group. In the end, he found that no one was interested in him. Although no one in the civil service group was far from his opponent, from then on
On the whole, he is far from the opponent of the entire civil service group.
So he understood and compromised. It was not that he had purged everything about that person's existence, but that another group of people wanted to purge everything about that person's existence.
His life lost its meaning, and he began to reflect on everything he had done. Since his existence could not change anything, then why did he exist? He was disappointed and failed. He refused to go to court in anger and gave himself to
He locked himself up.
Since everything is the same with or without me, why do you need me? But life is very long after all. After experiencing a long fall, he found that he needed to find some meaning for his existence. After all, he was still the emperor, and he still wanted to
For the sake of Ming Dynasty, do something more for yourself.
He summarized for a long time and found that the fundamental reason for his failure was that he had no people of his own and no money of his own.
Without people, there is no right to speak; without money, there is nothing you can do in this world. There are too many holes in Ming Dynasty, as if it were a bottomless pit, but having new goals, he still wants to fill them.
What's funny is that the civil service group has become monolithic since that man's death - well, actually it's not monolithic, but even if it's not monolithic, no one is his own member of Emperor Wanli.
He was not as lucky as his grandfather, because he did not find another Zhang Cong. He could only find the closest person to him - the eunuch. After so many years of struggle, he has understood why the Ming Dynasty became like this.
He is a smart man, so he wants to change.
It is not possible to directly tax the people, and it is already very difficult for the people; the money given to the noble clans will not be obtained in vain, because they may not be the basis of the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but they must be the basis of the rule of the Tianjia; then we have to recruit the gentry
The taxes of the landowners, the taxes of the civil servants who enclosed the land.
So he invented the salt mine tax supervisor, and he sent his close eunuchs to collect taxes and get money for me. With money, I can compete with the civil service group.
The result? As a result, the eunuch was beaten to death by the gentry's domestic slaves, and the gentry incited the domestic slaves and tenant farmers to cause a civil uprising.
Want to take money from us? Go ahead and dream of your dreams! Since ancient times, the imperial power has not been extended to counties. Your Majesty, you have crossed the line! Do you understand?
Then, the civil servants who controlled public opinion began to scold him again, and of course they even scolded the eunuchs. But he still did not give up. Even if no eunuchs were willing to go down, he persisted and promised the eunuchs benefits, saying that since you risked your lives for
If I take the money, we'll give it 40 or 60.
Finally, someone was willing to go down, and he smiled as he watched his money increase day by day. Although the money collected each time was actually not much, the Ming Dynasty is big enough, and a small amount can be accumulated into a lot. When I have money,
, I have the right to speak, I can compete with civil servants, I can work hard to govern and revitalize the Ming Dynasty!
But his luck still seemed to be not very good. He fought several big battles in a row and spent most of the little money he had worked so hard to earn. Although the money gradually increased, it was a pity that he was getting old. Then, he died.
However, his son listened to the deception of the ministers and spent most of his life savings in less than a month...and then his son died.
Looking back on his life, the liquidation of Zhang Juzheng was said to be repaying kindness with hatred, but they don't know where Zhang Juzheng's "kindness" to him as an emperor came from? Since ancient times, kindness has been bestowed from the top to the bottom. How can there be kindness from the bottom to the bottom?
The truth above!
If there is, it means that during the previous period, it was basically upside down, and the monarch and his ministers changed positions. Which emperor can really tolerate this kind of birdiness!
The collection of mineral taxes even dug up the ancestral graves of the civil service group. Therefore, the civil service group still scolded him until the Tatar Qing Dynasty, and even concocted the theory that "the Ming Dynasty died in Wanli" - stop making trouble, okay? Wanli didn't pay for the war.
, with the complete victory of the three major conquests, the Ming Dynasty renewed its majesty. It is hard to say whether the Ming Dynasty can have the Taichang Dynasty, let alone the Apocalypse and Chongzhen Dynasty!
Wanli's problem is that he is not as stubborn as his grandfather, who is as smelly and hard as the stones in the pit, and he is not as stubborn as his father who does not care about personal honor and disgrace. What's more, he has never found his own Zhang Cong and Gao Gong.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, none of these problems are due to his lack of wisdom, but now he has overcome all the above problems because of his high pragmatism.
He is not as tough as Jiajing, but Gao Jingshi has enough skills to solve various difficult and complicated diseases. The civil servant group that he cannot deal with is now divided into three factions by Gao Jingshi, and then he pulls one faction, attacks another faction, and stabilizes the political situation of the court.
Although the struggle seemed fierce, the final decision-making power fell into the hands of the emperor.
He is not as forbearing as Long Qing, but Gao Jingshi is not as stubborn and straight-tempered as Gao Gong. He and Gao Jingshi are both smart people and have been classmates for many years. The two tested each other's bottom line and quickly reached a compromise. From then on, you
Be your holy king, and I will be my wise minister. We, the king and ministers, can help each other and prosper together, creating an everlasting story. How beautiful it is!
Zhu Yijun let out a breath of turbid air, turned to look at the hourglass, waved to Chen Ju who was waiting on the side, called him over and said: "After the banquet is over, you send someone to see pragmatism, and bring the Jinyiwei
Give him all the information submitted. Then you tell him... just tell him what I want to do next, and come up with an idea early. In addition, if he thinks this matter will eventually lead to a war, let him arrange how to fight.
Right—but it’s best to let Zhou Yong speak out.”
"Yes, Your Majesty, I understand." Chen Ju did not call himself a slave this time, because it was a political matter, so he used "I", but he added another question: "Uh, Your Majesty... Do you want to fight this battle or not?"
Do you want to ask Da Situ? Do you have anything to explain?"
Well, in fact, Chen Ju did not ask the emperor "Does he have anything to explain", but "Does he have anything to imply" - it was just eunuch talk.
But Zhu Yijun just smiled, shook his head and said: "I have nothing to explain. Pragmatists will definitely consider these things more carefully than I do. Just keep your words."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Chen Ju bowed and accepted the order again.
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