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Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun, his temple name was Shenzong.

The third son of Emperor Muzong Zhu Zaijing of the Ming Dynasty, his mother was the imperial concubine Li.

The thirteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, with the reign name Wanli, reigned for forty-eight years and was the longest reigning emperor in the Ming Dynasty.

It lasted longer than Zhu Yuanzhang.

The short-lived and water-soluble characteristics of the Ming Dynasty emperor did not seem to apply to him.

During the reign of Zhu Yijun, the early days of the Ming Dynasty were prosperous and prosperous.

However, this momentum was relatively short-lived and was called the Wanli ZTE by later generations.

If Emperor Wanli could maintain his position, the situation of the Ming Dynasty might be in a new world.

It may not be destroyed in the hands of Zhu Youjian. At least it will not be a problem to extend the life of the Ming Dynasty for a few more decades.

It's a pity that Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun did not maintain it, and it was just a short-lived flash in the pan.

Moreover, Wanli ZTE mainly relied on Zhang Juzheng.

If it weren't for Zhang Juzheng, it would probably be tough enough.

Zhu Yijun was established as the prince at the age of six and ascended the throne in June of the sixth year of Longqing (AD 1572).

Zhu Yijun was born in Prince Yu's Mansion on August 1563, the 9nd year of Jiajing (September 4, ). He was the third son of Emperor Muzong Longqing of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zaihe.

Because the grandfather of Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun and the father-in-law of Longqing Emperor Zhu Zaihe, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houcong was superstitious in Taoism and never talked about establishing a heir.

He even directly issued an edict that anyone who dared to discuss the matter of establishing a crown prince would be directly executed.

Therefore, after Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun was born, no one would dare to tell Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houcong about this, let alone name Zhu Yijun.

It was not until Zhu Yijun's father, Longqing Emperor Zhu Zaihe, ascended the throne that he named Zhu Yijun.

This year, Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun was four years old.

He spent four years without a name, and it wasn't until he was four years old that he got his own name.

Speaking of which, it is really miserable.

Compared to ordinary people, they are not as good as others. At least they have names soon after they are born.

Emperor Wanli had to wait until he was four years old to have his own name.

On March 1568, the second year of Longqing (), Zhu Yijun was officially established as the crown prince and assumed the throne in the East Palace.

Originally, Zhu Yijun had two older brothers, but his two older brothers died early, so the position of crown prince eventually fell to the tough-minded Zhu Yijun.

I don’t know if this is God’s compensation for him not having a name for four years.

In the sixth year of Longqing's reign, Emperor Muzong of the Ming Dynasty died at the age of thirty-six, after reigning for six years.

In the same year, Zhu Yijun, who was only ten years old, ascended the throne, changed his reign name to Wanli, and was known as Shenzong in history.

The assistant ministers of the cabinet that Mu Zong Zhu Zaiye left to the ten-year-old Emperor Wanli were: Gao Gong, the first assistant, Zhang Juzheng, and Gao Yi, the second assistant.

From this, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun began his career as Ming Emperor.

I thought that being an emperor meant being one and the same and ruling the world.

But soon, Zhu Yijun didn't think so.

Because Gao Gong, the chief minister of the cabinet, had a disagreement with Feng Bao, the eunuch beside him.

Feng Bao was considered an old eunuch in the inner palace of the Ming Dynasty. He was the person next to Empress Dowager Li and the person who watched Zhu Yijun grow up.

Although Zhu Yijun didn't like Feng Bao very much, he still trusted him and was even a little afraid.

Because of Empress Dowager Li, Feng Bao gained more prestige in Zhu Yijun's eyes.

It was precisely because he was afraid that Feng Bao would complain in front of Empress Dowager Li that Zhu Yijun would pretend to be serious in front of Feng Bao.

Therefore, after Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun came to the throne, logically Feng Bao should be the eunuch in charge of the Li Supervisor, one of the most powerful people in the world.

Moreover, with the support of Empress Dowager Li, Zhu Yijun did not object to this request.

However, Gao Gong, the chief minister of the cabinet, did not agree with this proposal and was very opposed to it.

Because he doesn't like Feng Bao as a person, and his relationship with Feng Bao is not good.

As the chief minister of the cabinet, he was unwilling to let someone who could not get along with him hold such an important position as chief of ceremonies and eunuch.

Gao Gong recommended Chen Hong and Meng Chong to Emperor Wanli, but Zhu Yijun was not interested in these two people at all.

He had almost decided to let Feng Bao take the position of superior ceremonial supervisor and eunuch, so he did not adopt Gao Gong's opinion.

Zhu Yijun naturally did not pay attention to the people recommended by Gao Gong.

Feng Bao also hated Gao Gong deeply.

It turns out that Feng Bao has long been the admiral of the East Factory and also in charge of the affairs of the Royal Horse Supervisor.

When Emperor Muzong Zhu Zaihe of the Ming Dynasty ascended the throne, there was a vacancy for the eunuch in charge of the ceremonial department.

According to his qualifications, Feng Baoying should succeed him in this position, but President Mu Zhu Zaihe did not like Feng Bao.

I don't know whether it was because he felt that Feng Bao was incompetent or for some other reason. Anyway, he didn't promote Feng Bao to be the chief of etiquette and eunuch.

Seeing that there was a vacancy for the eunuch in charge of the imperial eunuch, Gao Gong, then a bachelor, recommended Chen Hong, the eunuch of the royal eunuch.

Feng Bao was very dissatisfied as he watched helplessly as the position of eunuch, eunuch and eunuch, who had already obtained it, was taken away by others.

But he didn't dare to do anything.

One is the Ming Emperor and the other is an important minister in the cabinet. He has no choice.

Feng Bao began to hate Gao Gong because of this.

It was not until the eunuch Chen Hong was dismissed that the position of the eunuch, the eunuch in charge of etiquette, became vacant again.

Logically speaking, it should be Feng Bao this time.

But Gao Gong came out to cause damage again.

This time Gao Gong recommended eunuch Meng Chong.

The eunuch Meng Chong was originally in charge of the Shangshan Supervisor. It is logically impossible for him to be in charge of the Li Supervisor. Even if it were his turn, it would not be Meng Chong's turn.

Twice in a row, Gao Gong stopped Feng Bao from taking the position of superior ceremonial supervisor and eunuch in charge.

This made Feng Bao start to hate Gao Gong even more.

Soon, he waited for the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun to ascend to the throne.

Zhu Yijun also had the idea of ​​​​letting Feng Bao serve as the eunuch of the Chief of Ceremonies, but he was still rejected by Gao Gong, the then chief minister of the cabinet.

However, in the end, with the support of Empress Dowager Li and Emperor Wanli, Feng Bao still took the position of eunuch in charge of the ceremony.

But he and Gao Gong's Liangzi were completely connected, and he was determined to get rid of Gao Gong.

Gao Gong on the other side also wants to get rid of Feng Bao because he thinks Feng Bao is too arrogant.

Once when he went to court, Feng Bao stood beside the ten-year-old Wanli Emperor's throne and refused to get down.

But just like Emperor Wanli, he looked down at all the officials in the court from a high position.

Feng Bao's move shocked the officials of the Ming Dynasty.

You must know what the high platform of Fengtian Temple represents.

That represents supremacy and superiority.

That was a place where only the emperor could set foot.

Others, including eunuchs or palace maids, must kneel on it.

No one can stand on it except the emperor of Ming Dynasty.

But the eunuch Feng Bao just stood there openly, as if nothing happened.

It can be seen that Feng Bao is arrogant and domineering deep in his heart.

Gao Gong, the chief minister of the cabinet, made up his mind at that time to expel Feng Baogui.

Feng Bao was not only in charge of the Supervisor of Ceremonies but also the Admiral of the East Factory. His power extended from inside the palace to outside the palace.      simply has the power to dominate the world.

This kind of eunuch cannot be kept.

Immediately, under Gao Gong's signal, the Sixth Section and the officials began to impeach Feng Bao.

They dug out all the corruption and perversion of the law that Feng Baoli had done and prepared to submit it to Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun.

Let Zhu Yijun drive Feng Bao away.

Gao Gong planned to draft an imperial edict to expel Feng Baogui after the memorial was approved.

But he seemed to have forgotten that Feng Bao was in control of the Director of Ceremonies.

All memorials will be reviewed in his hands before being submitted to Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun.

Gao Gong also underestimated Feng Bao's courage and thought that Feng Bao did not have the courage to stop the imperial court's memorial.

But Feng Bao did just that, he was so bold.

Feng Bao directly blocked all Gao Gong's impeachment memorials and hid them.

Taking advantage of this gap, Gao Gong quickly went to Zhang Juzheng to discuss countermeasures.

It turns out that Feng Bao had already hooked up with Zhang Juzheng, the second minister of the cabinet.

Feng Bao wanted to overthrow Gao Gong not in a day or two, but by relying on his own strength alone, so he found Zhang Juzheng.

Hope to join forces with Zhang Juzheng to deal with Gao Gong.

And Zhang Juzheng also had the idea of ​​overthrowing Gao Gong.

Because Zhang Juzheng wanted to monopolize power to implement his own New Deal reforms.

If Gao Gong is still the chief minister of the cabinet by then, his New Deal reforms will never be implemented.

Moreover, Zhang Juzheng knew very well that his reforms also required the power of other channels, such as the power of the eunuch Feng Bao.

He can handle matters in the court by himself, but he also needs a helper.

Feng Bao is this best helper.

I don't ask Feng Bao to help him much, I just ask Feng Bao to stop messing up things when he reforms.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, who had a common enemy, came together.

I started planning how to bring down Gao Gong.

Although Gao Gong is a capable person, he is also talented and loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

But the high arch still has its shortcomings, and they are fatal.

That is, the high arch cannot accommodate people.

During his tenure as the chief minister of the cabinet, he could be said to be domineering.

Everything he dislikes, or in other words, everything he dislikes, and everything that disagrees with his political views will be attacked by him.

He also forced away many ministers of the DPRK and China, and even many people in the cabinet.

At the same time, Gao Gong also received a lot of notoriety and offended many people.

As for the bad blood between Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong, it was caused by the gap between Zhang Juzheng's mentor and Gao Gong.

When Xu Jie drafted the imperial edict of Emperor Jiajing, he did not call Gao Gong, who was the cabinet minister at the time, but called his favorite disciple Zhang Juzheng.

And Gao Gong was not broad-minded enough, leaving a gap between him and Zhang Juzheng.

After Gao Gong took the position of chief minister of the cabinet, he became even more arrogant and domineering.

He held the power tightly in his own hands and did not allow any different voices to appear.

In response to this, Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng directly began to make arrangements.

He told Empress Dowager Li that Gao Gongyi was very commanding and specialized in governing the country.

When Emperor Mu Zong and Zhu Zaiye passed away, Gao Gong said sadly in the cabinet: "How can a ten-year-old prince rule the world?"

Feng Bao told Empress Dowager Li this sentence with added embarrassment.

He falsely accused Gao Gong in front of Empress Dowager Li and said: "Gao Gong said whose child Prince Zhu Yijun is, how can he be in charge of the people of the world."

Queen Mother Li was very surprised when she heard this.

What does it mean? Gao Gong obviously has evil intentions.

He actually said such words to the orthodox heir to the throne of the Ming Dynasty.

Even the prince cannot be the master of the people in this world, then who else can do it?

Could it be someone else?

It didn't take long for what Feng Bao said to reach Zhu Yijun's ears.

After Zhu Yijun heard this, he was extremely surprised and his face changed drastically.

But Gao Gong has always been the chief minister of the cabinet left by his father Zhu Zaiye, and he can also be regarded as the minister of Tuogu.

So Zhu Yijun didn't do anything to Gao Gong, but he was already a little dissatisfied with Gao Gong in his heart.

In addition, Gao Gong himself has offended many people in his daily life, and he is indeed a bit bossy.

Therefore, with the efforts of Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun finally decided to take action against Gao Gong.

After getting the consent of Empress Dowager Li, Zhu Yijun asked Gao Gong to become a scholar.

In other words, Gao Gong could resign and return to his hometown to retire.

Facing Empress Dowager Li and Emperor Wanli, Gao Gong had no choice but to resign from his position as chief minister of the cabinet and return to his hometown to retire.

As soon as Gao Gong left, Zhang Juzheng, with the help of Feng Bao, naturally became the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty's cabinet.

After Zhang Juzheng took the position of chief minister of the cabinet, he was actually not much different from Gao Gong.

The same is true of monopoly of power, military and political power in one hand.

Almost all matters in the Ming Dynasty were decided by Zhang Juzheng.

Thanks to Zhang Juzheng, he is a capable person, and a very powerful one.

Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty might have perished decades in advance.

But Zhang Juzheng forcefully extended the life of the Ming Dynasty for another seventy years.

Under his series of reforms, the Ming Dynasty took on a new look and became the richest period in the country during the entire Ming Dynasty's 276 years.

In 1573 AD, Zhang Juzheng started a series of reforms with the support of Emperor Wanli.

No matter whether it was in the economy, military or administrative regulations, reforms began to be carried out.

In 1574 AD, Zhang Juzheng appointed Qi Jiguang to guard Jimen and Li Chengliang to guard Liaodong.

With Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang in charge of Liaodong, the situation in Liaodong was completely controlled by the Ming court.

The security of the northern border was guaranteed.

In 1580 AD, under Zhang Juzheng's one-whip reform, the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty skyrocketed.

The people's lives became richer, and the entire Ming Dynasty's economy was unprecedentedly prosperous.

It directly reversed the decline of the Ming Dynasty that began in the Jiaqing Dynasty, and even gave people hope for the Ming Dynasty to take off.

This is what history calls the ‘Wanli Zhongxing’. ’

However, the protagonist of this Wanli resurgence is not the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun, but Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty cabinet.

Although everything was going in the best direction, problems still occurred in the end.

The emergence of this problem directly led to the decline of the Ming Dynasty.

Wanli ZTE became a short-lived flash in the pan.

The most famous saying in history, "The death of Ming Dynasty was actually caused by Shenzong." It was from this time that the signs began to appear.

(End of this chapter)