Chapter Fourteen Zhu Houzhao is not a good emperor
As a son, classmate Zhu Houzhao is very lucky because he has the best father: Zhu Youtang, Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty.
But as an emperor, Zhu Houzhao was very unfortunate because his father left him a very powerful opponent: the civil servant group.
Anyone who is familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty can find out the demeanor of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty from the vast historical materials, and the civil servant group left by Emperor Hongzhi is even more difficult to deal with.
As a wise emperor, Emperor Hongzhi had his own standards for selecting ministers. Regardless of their administrative abilities, most of the ministers he selected were perfect in terms of moral character.
For example, Li Dongyang, who has "no flaws in his body", and Wang Hao, who is "the poorest man in the world".
Moreover, a closer look at the resumes of Ge Lao and the six ministers revealed that all of them were unique talents. Although they were not geniuses like San Yang and Zhang Juzheng, these people combined could firmly rank among the top three in the Ming Dynasty.
For Emperor Hongzhi, these people were powerful helpers. But for the playful and playful Emperor Zhengde, these people were undoubtedly stumbling blocks on the road to revolution.
Since that morning, with the secret support of the big bosses, the civil service group began to fight unyieldingly against the will of the otaku Zhu Shou.
The first person to speak was the Six Sections. They were in charge of admonishment and supervision. They kept submitting memorials and quoting scriptures. In short, they just said: Your Majesty, just kill us. Anyway, we will not pass your arbitrary orders. .
What is a disorderly life? If the emperor grants three official positions, is it a disorderly life?
So what else was there in the Ming Dynasty that was not chaotic?
These words to the ministers were a bit heart-wrenching, and they were obviously meant to refer to the monks as scolding the bald man.
But this is the style of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty. They are not afraid of death, and they really are not afraid of death. For these people, reputation is more important than life.
So we often see tough men like Dai Mian, Jiang Qin, and Yang Jisheng rushing to die, and then happily saying: "I can be regarded as leaving my name in history."
Therefore, it was not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty to scold treacherous ministers and destroy the emperor's face.
The otaku Zhu Shou used his brute force to suppress the resolution of the court meeting, and the civil servants had the same attitude: I will definitely not cooperate, and it will be non-violent non-cooperation.
Next up were the supervisory censors of the Thirteen Roads. Speaking of Liu Yu, one of the three giants in Yizhou, he was the boss of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but more than a hundred censors were determined not to give face to their bosses, and they were like snowflakes. He flew towards Liu Jin and Liu Eunuch's desk.
Why Liu Jin?
It's very simple. The otaku emperor has no consciousness to deal with the affairs of the world. He is busy having sex with the newly minted Concubine Wang Zhao.
Well, the drama is on hold for now.
Let’s talk about Eunuch Liu’s reaction first: This is going to turn the world upside down!
Then Boss Liu became extremely angry: It has only been quiet for a few days. Is it because my method, Old Liu, is not iron-blooded enough to stop the child from crying at night?
After reading the previous article, everyone should still have fresh memories of the great political changes in the winter and October of the first year of Zhengde. Yes, it was the reactionary group of fifty-three people, the Hongzhi veterans headed by Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and Han Wen, who were defeated by Emperor Zhengde. He joined forces with Liu Jin and knocked him to the ground.
In the political turmoil of the Ming Dynasty that lasted for more than half a year, the decisive role was not Liu Laobo, who was known as "a ruthless man with an iron hand and a cold-blooded sword", but the stubborn emperor Zhu Houzhao.
The fifty-three people who were killed were of the same age, fellow villagers, colleagues, disciples, and old friends. With these forces gathered together, let alone Boss Liu, even if the Eight Tigers were tied together, they would not be opponents.
Their only natural enemy is the emperor Zhu Houzhao, who is sitting on the dragon throne, and his mind is full of things like "wives, Cuju (football), and wrestling".
Therefore, when the battle was at its most intense, the emperor made a final decision: If you are said to be a reactionary group, you are, and you are not!….
As for those officials who dared to talk nonsense, the emperor also said: Whoever acts arbitrarily and makes trouble again will be severely punished!
The emperor cannot make mistakes, so the only ones who can make mistakes are his ministers.
The officials are not willing to give in. Since the emperor is unreasonable, let's go to hell: "In the leap month of Gengxu, the staff will be given to Shizhong Aihong, Lu Chong, Liu Qian and Nanjing to Shizhong Daimi, Yushi Bo Yanhui and others Twenty-one people were under the palace. In the second month of the 18th month, Wang Liangchen, the imperial censor, was at the Meridian Gate, and the Chinese and Dutch School was at the Duchayuan."
Suddenly, there were countless casualties.
While bleeding, while sending the Eight Tigers to seize critical positions, Zhu Houzhao acted like an emperor with both hands, directly defeating the united civil servant group.
But since the death of Zhu Chongba and Zhu Di, the powerful father and son, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty never again killed the ministers and the ten clans.
Generally speaking, Zhu Houzhao was a very gentle emperor. Unlike his two murderous and domineering ancestors, he had a very broad mind.
This description is very inconsistent. In fact, when I read "Records of Ming Wuzong", this sense of contradiction floated before my eyes all the time.
Zhu Houzhao liked to make trouble, played with women, burned palaces, went out to the Great Wall to fight the Mongols, and made himself the Duke of the country. Anyway, he did all the things that an emperor should not do.
It stands to reason that this is a typical foolish king, for sure.
However, the self-contradictory and inconsistent "Records of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty" also wrote: Jiang Yao, the prefect of Yangzhou, disgraced the emperor, and Emperor Zhengde was just joking and did not blame him.
There was also the "Sixteen People Killed" victory at Yingzhou, a great battle involving about 100,000 people, but it ended with only sixteen Mongolians killed. Moreover, the little prince was so beaten that he did not dare to invade the border for two years. What a strange thing this is.
Why are there so many conflicting records?
In fact, you will understand if you look at the time when "Wuzong Shilu" was written. Emperor Jiajing was in power at that time, and Zhu Houcong was the cousin of Emperor Zhengde. As a guy who won the Tianzi No. 1 lottery prize, Zhu Houcong had no interest in replacing him. Brother said good things.
Especially in the years-long dispute over the great etiquette, Zhu Houchong did not hesitate to turn against his ministers and started a war with Yang Tinghe and others. This battle directly affected the posthumous reputation of classmate Zhu Houzhao.
Because the so-called great etiquette is whose father is the orthodox: Zhu Houzhao's father Xiaozong, or Zhu Houcong's father Xingxian Wang?
This battle for his father made Zhu Houcong hate his cousin so much that he came up with this extremely weird "Wuzong Records". It is different from all the emperors' records. There is no praise in the whole book, but it has the style of an unofficial history: How come it is curious, how interesting it is, how it is written.
In short, just one sentence: If you make me unhappy for a moment, I will make you unhappy even if you die.
Therefore, after understanding the dirty water thrown by Comrade Zhu Houcong, we can understand why the reactionary group of fifty-three people was not killed. Moreover, Comrade Zhu Houzhao also laughed at those Kedao officials who came one after another to die.
"Okay, let them talk," Emperor Zhengde said with a smile, looking at Liu Jin who was filled with resentment. "Take a few colorful sticks and hang them in front of each government office. If there are still people who don't like it, you can spank them.
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Zhu Shou, the otaku who inherited all of Zhu Houzhao's memories, did not carry out his arrogance to the end at this moment, nor did he listen to Liu Jin's words and kill others as a warning. Instead, he continued to follow the same path: Whatever I say, it will be. If you don't accept it, I will beat you until you do.
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So in the next few days, the ruthless Boss Liu began to send countless people to beat people's butts everywhere. By the way, he also stole the Shuntian Mansion Yamen's errand: allowing the local eunuchs to interfere with local administration.
This is the tone jointly set by the emperor and Boss Liu, allowing civil servants and eunuchs to interact with each other. In short, civil servants cannot be allowed to focus on dealing with the emperor...
The resistance of the civil servants did not last long. The chief assistant Li Dongyang was the first to give in: he submitted his resignation. He was followed by Wang Hao, and then some ministers and censors.
Resigning from office, no matter what dynasty or era, is the last way to resist. In this self-humiliating way, Li Dongyang made his final protest to the emperor: I can't prove that Yizhou is Xiaoliuqiu, but I can give up my son.
Dry!
We can live without Prime Minister Wang, but we cannot live without Prime Minister Li. The otaku Zhu Shou, who had been staying in the palace and playing court drama, had no choice but to step forward.
First, he rejected the resignations of the two elders, and then after the court meeting, he pinned the ministers and censors who were about to resign in front of the Meridian Gate and spanked them severely. An old censor was even beaten.
Beaten to death on the spot.
Now, the world is peaceful.
Some people may find it strange: even though people were killed, how could everything be calm?
In fact, this is the fun part of history. If you study the history of the Ming Dynasty carefully, you will find an interesting phenomenon, that is, "seeking benevolence and gaining benevolence".
Playing against the emperor is the most common choice for civil servants who are bent on fame. Opposing for the sake of opposition is their footing. In their eyes, this is benevolence.
Of course, if Confucius had a spirit in heaven, he would definitely be so angry with these disciples and disciples that he would come alive.
It doesn't matter what the emperor says or what he does. For civil servants, if they seize a reliable reason and resolutely oppose the emperor, they will not hesitate to die.
Therefore, in the history books of the Ming Dynasty, words such as "benevolence and righteousness" appear endlessly, making people want to vomit.
The emperor newly established the three nobles of Yizhou. No matter what the starting point is, or even where the Yizhou is, in short, this is in conflict with the laws of the ancestors, is unkind, and is evil.
The civil servants protested and expressed their position. As for whether the emperor would change his position after hearing this, it was none of their business.
For civil servants with good reputations, death is not terrible.
The scary thing is: he died without a name.
Therefore, after the emperor expressed his attitude, the civil servants had made enough fuss, people had died, and reputations had been gained. Let the emperor do whatever he wanted.
Without a fatuous and chaotic emperor, how could there be honest and famous ministers?
This was the famous mentality of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, when Li Dongyang and others appeared in the court meeting again, looking at their calm faces, even Zhu Shou, an otaku with low political IQ, was made to laugh in anger.
However, Zhu Shou was not interested in dealing with these ridiculous-faced civil servants because Luo Xiangluo's articles of association for Donghai Company had already been sorted out.