At the same time, the Ganqing Palace in Beijing.
Zhang Juzheng used the lid of the teacup to gently slid the two-rice porridge of candied dates and wolfberry in the porcelain tea bowl. The exquisite porridge spots emitted a faint heat. However, Zhang Juzheng's mind was not on this bowl of morning tea at all. He stared at the luxurious floor-to-ceiling mirror in front of him who had just been tributed by the Youlong Chamber of Commerce to the palace not long ago, or staring at himself in another plane in the mirror, thinking about something.
Zhang Juzheng's face was red, with a beard and chest. Recently, he felt more and more that his qi and blood were too strong, but he was thinner than before. He was already at this age and was actually molting his skin. He asked a famous doctor, but he didn't get better after taking the prescription. This is definitely not a good health phenomenon.
This is the Ganqing Palace. Even as the chief minister of the cabinet, he rarely entered here. The Ganqing Palace is the scope of the emperor's harem. Generally speaking, ministers cannot enter. After the morning court today, he was recruited into the Ganqing Palace. I think there is something important, and this matter is related to him.
Zhang Juzheng had his reasons for this judgment. If it was a major national event, what the court should say in front of the ministers should have said that calling himself into the harem alone must have something to do with him. Moreover, the eunuch who summoned him was arranged by Feng Bao, the chief supervisor of the Sili Dynasty. Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao cooperated tacitly, if Feng Bao thought the matter could be big or small, the eunuch who summoned him was a common eunuch in the harem. If it was a big matter related to the two, a confidant of Feng Bao would be specially arranged. This was a small secret code between Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao.
The person who came to summon this time was Feng Bao's confidant. This is the signal that Feng Bao sent to himself, and it was related to you or me.
Recently, there have been many big and small things in the court. Wanli’s wedding is about to be around. As the chief minister of the cabinet, Wanli’s teacher naturally knows that the luxurious and magical landing mirror of the Youlong Chamber of Commerce’s tribute suddenly overshadowed the auspiciousness of tribute from various places. The colorful clouds chasing the moon in the sky, the rare beasts, and the two ears of the wheat are not as good as the landing mirror of the Western Barbarians’ tribute.
Thinking of tribute, Zhang Juzheng sighed in his heart. He knew very well that this treasure of the country could have been tributed by those foreigners who consider themselves very high?
Those overseas barbarians realized that the mountains were high and the emperors were far away. Although they could not take the Ming Dynasty seriously, they had no intention of submitting to the Ming Dynasty, the heavenly kingdom, to attend court. Those who came must talk about trade, and their minds were all above gold and silver. To pay tribute?
I think it was the method used by the Youlong Chamber of Commerce to buy the heirloom of the Western Barbarians and the king who lost his country. In order to please the royal family, a spring and autumn brushwork naturally became the so-called tribute.
Today's Ming Dynasty is no longer a world-class power in the Tang Dynasty. Of course, Zhang Juzheng still stubbornly believed that the Ming Dynasty could dominate the world. However, compared with the Tang Dynasty's dynasty, the scenic spots of Zheng He's voyage to the West during the Yongle period, and the situation of the national treasury, the current greatness is obviously not as good as that of Daming. Daming really cannot afford the second Zheng He's voyage to the West. In addition, the barbarians in the north are ready to move and internal and external troubles, reform is so important.
This floor-to-ceiling mirror made the whole royal family happy for a long time. Emperor Wanli and Empress Dowager Li liked it even more. The morning court the next day after receiving the mirror, the morning court was moved to the morning court of the court, which opened the eyes of the ministers. The unhidden pride on Emperor Wanli's face and the excitement of getting such a novel treasure. Zhang Juzheng still remembers it now. He also took the lead in flattering and shouting. The power of the Ming Dynasty is spread all over the world, and the Xiyi consorts and bows to offer national treasures. It is really ridiculous to think about it now.
The day of great joy is approaching, so it's okay to say something harsh to encourage the emperor. At this time, it's just a matter of sweeping the royal family's prosperity. Moreover, his own whip method reform has entered the most critical stage of attack. Even if he is against his conscience, he has to flatter. Now he needs the support of Empress Dowager Li and Emperor Wanli.
He was thinking when he suddenly heard footsteps coming from behind the Ganqing Palace. He quickly picked up the porcelain bowl and drank the two rice porridge in the bowl. This was given to him by Emperor Wanli, and he said that Wanli could not see the bowl of porridge moving.
Emperor Wanli, who was only fifteen years old, came to the hall surrounded by Feng Bao and a group of eunuchs. Feng Bao was as old as Zhang Juzheng, and his cheeks were fat but not very greasy. He looked down in front of Emperor Wanli, but he had already left Emperor Wanli, and the cold and heavy breath of the harem leader would gush out.
Emperor Wanli is 15 years old this year. His standardized and rigorous harem life made his body pampered. However, his heavy study life made his spirit very tortured. This dislocation of spirit and physical state made him present an extremely inconsistent mental outlook, but he was young after all, and this sense of incongruity was covered up a lot by his young and slightly fat face.
He has no childhood life. From the perspective of psychoanalysis, this minor is now suffering from a serious mental illness. The innate aggression of human beings cannot be released through the unrestrained play of childhood. His aggression will accumulate. When he grows up, he looks for an outlet or opposes himself. With the blessing of imperial power, once the accumulated aggression is fully released, it may cause bloody storms. If the aggression is directed towards himself, it will be depression or withdrawn. To put it bluntly, a psychoanalyst can predict by analyzing his childhood that he will either be a tyrant or an autistic patient in the future.
To a certain extent, this prophecy is obviously correct. In the future, his aggressiveness is directed towards Zhang Juzheng, and at the same time he also aims his aggressiveness at himself. He is autistic in the harem every day and does not even go to court.
Zhang Juzheng knelt down and bowed, and Emperor Wanli hurried forward: Mr. Yuanfu, please give up the gift!He respectfully helped Zhang Juzheng up, then helped him to the chair, and sat on the throne himself.
Emperor Wanli had extremely complicated feelings for Zhang Juzheng. This prime minister who was good at rectifying the court was his teacher, an example in handling government affairs, and a leader of the ministers. At the same time, he was his minister and his subordinate. He was loyal to himself and respected him, but at the same time he was strict with himself, and often criticized him, teaching himself how to be an emperor who belongs to the world.
Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng who was sitting at his lower head, and remembered his mother Empress Dowager Li’s instructions to him: show this Buddhist scripture and this memorial to Mr. Yuanfu. Remember, first read the Buddhist scriptures for Mr. Yuanfu, and then give the memorials. The order must not be wrong.
Zhu Yijun has now understood a truth. The relationship between the monarch and the minister is the most critical and important task in charge of this country. He understands that some questions can be asked by Zhang Juzheng, but some questions cannot be discussed with the closest royal family members. However, he still does not understand why he should first read the Buddhist scriptures and then read the memorials. In this order, the order must have profound meaning. This should be the truth that the mother should teach him.
Zhang Juzheng discussed the content of the morning court with Xiao Wanli as usual and expressed appreciation for Wanli's recent performance. Then Wanli immediately entered the topic and gave the "Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra" to Zhang Juzheng's hand through Feng Baozhi's hand. Before Zhang Juzheng's hand touched the book, he just looked at the square, with even glittering book, and felt that this book was not an ordinary thing. When Feng Bao handed the book to Zhang Juzheng, his thick eyelids picked up from a strange angle. He conveyed a warning to Zhang Juzheng through a hidden look.
Zhang Juzheng felt a sense of crisis inexplicably. He took the book and carefully looked through it, and found that it was actually the original Buddhist scripture. Moreover, the material, craftsmanship, font, writing method and grammar of this book were completely unseen. The gaps between each word were exactly the same, and the thinness of the paper was unprecedented.
The so-called calligraphy style means that the fonts of the whole text must be maintained in a unified style. However, Zhang Juzheng looked at the book "Heart Sutra" in front of him. This is no longer a question of whether the style is unified or not, but that even the subtle differences cannot be found!
This Heart Sutra was obtained by Wang Shizhen from Chen Zhao and presented it to the royal family.
At this critical moment, this magical Buddhist scripture was presented through channels he didn't know, which only means one thing that his opponents are already taking action.
Zhang Juzheng held the Buddhist scripture in his hand, his eyes lost their focus. He seemed to see a thousand feet tall thorn bushes growing in front of him, covering the sky and the sun; his feet became a deep sea, deep and strange. He even saw the Ming Dynasty burning in the future in the fire.
He looked at Feng Bao, and Feng Bao looked at his eyes, nose, and heart, and did not look at him.
Zhang Juzheng came to his senses, stroked his beard and said cautiously: Your Majesty, this thing is definitely not an ordinary thing. I don’t know where it came from, and who presented it to Your Majesty?
Wanli explained that this Heart Sutra is the original text of Buddhism, and a wise scholar collected it from Zhejiang and dedicated it to his mother.
Zhang Juzheng understood, until Emperor Wanli was waiting for him to ask who found such a treasure. Under the urging of a strong sense of crisis, Zhang Juzheng's brainstorm began to break out.
After less than ten seconds of silence between the king and his subjects, Zhang Juzheng asked: Who is this wise scholar?
Emperor Wanli replied: It is Mr. Wang Shizhen.
Zhang Juzheng knew that he had a rough grasp of the problems he had to face next.
Afterwards, Emperor Wanli took out a red memorial. Feng Bao quickly lowered his head and took it over it, passing it to Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng stood up, bowed forward slowly and heavily, and stretched out his mottled hands that were molting to take it over. This memorial was the "Heart Sutra Memorial" written by Wang Shizhen.
This is a secret book, which is presented directly to Empress Dowager Li. The secret book does not pass through the cabinet. If Empress Dowager Li judges that the secret book can be given to the cabinet, he will make a public memorial.
In the Wanli Dynasty, party struggles were carried out through secrets, fighting for the foundation of the country, and the three kings were sealed together, the Fu King's Kingdom, the Chu Zong case, the imperial court case, the case of the demon book, and the three major cases, including the struggle between the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party and the Qi Party, were all carried out through secrets. Both sides used secrets to hand over small notes to the emperor, the first power person, to fight against the opponent.
Now I will give him this secret book that Zhang Juzheng had never read. The meaning is that Zhang Juzheng is very obvious. This is a secret book that attacks you. Look, the person who wrote the memorial is Wang Shizhen, who has just made great contributions.
In this memorial, Wang Shizhen praised the prosperity of the Wanli Dynasty directly, saying that a Buddhist scripture unearthed in Zhejiang was unearthed. I, Wang Shizhen, realized that this was a big deal and immediately accepted it and presented it to the emperor. Wang Shizhen analyzed the significance of the original Buddhist scripture unearthed in Zhejiang in the secret commentary, and even looked at the possibility that Buddhism originated in China. At the end of the secret commentary, Wang Shizhen changed the subject and said that there was an important minister in the court who cultivated his ambitions inside and took the tranquility of Kun Dao as his teachings; he was injured outside and was in danger of conspiracy and danger, which implied that Zhang Juzheng was an obstacle to the rejuvenation of the Ming Dynasty's culture and economic rejuvenation, and also alluded to his autocracy and chaos in politics and his intentions were ill!
After reading this secret seal, Zhang Juzheng finally understood what Emperor Wanli or Empress Dowager Li wanted to convey to him.
If you want to understand Zhang Juzheng's current situation, you need to explain the current political situation of the Ming Dynasty.
At present, the triangular balance formed by the three major power figures in the court has loosened. When Wanli ascended the throne, Gao Gong was the one who had the most hope to become the highest center of power on the surface. Gao Gong was the person who was appointed as the orphan whom Wanli's father died. He was Zhang Juzheng's ex-official. However, Gao Gong was still not as good as Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao in power struggle. Gao Gong was covered with buffs at this time, suppressed Xu Jie (Xu Jie, the first opponent in Gao Gong's eyes, had already retired and returned home). He was the chief assistant of the cabinet. Before his death, Ming Muzong held his hand and said that he was the person who was the entrusted by Mr. Tianxia. Under so many favorable conditions, Gao Gong was full of confidence in taking over the highest authority of the Wanli Dynasty. However, he had a good hand and did not understand one thing. This matter was who was the enemy and who was an ally in the newly born Wanli Dynasty.
When Wanli ascended the throne, he was only ten years old, from Gao Gong to the people, everyone knew that Wanli was still learning to be an emperor at this time. The real conclusion was Empress Dowager Li. Gao Gong was busy suppressing the eunuch Feng Bao at this time, hoping that the old Zhu family would rely entirely on the cabinet and rely on himself. However, the royal family could not fully trust the civil servant group. The Silijian composed of the eunuch group was always separated from the royal family and the civil servants. In the imperial system of China, the eunuch group had its inevitability, and at the same time there was the necessity of the eunuch group interfering in the power structure and sharing the royal power. This necessity cannot be affected by institutional reform, ideological progress, and dynasty changes.
Of course, some people raised objections. Since the emergence of eunuchs, eunuchs' dictatorship has indeed continued to occur, but there was also a system of eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty. Why did eunuchs' dictatorship not appear?
The eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty were extremely weak. Doesn’t this mean that the Qing Dynasty took some measures to limit the dictatorship of eunuchs?
In fact, it is not. In fact, the Chinese imperial system has always been in opposition to the three Yuans. Before the Qing Dynasty, it was the structure of imperial power vs civil officials vs eunuchs. The imperial power was dominated and eunuchs were used to check and balance civil officials. The Qing Dynasty had another force. The three Yuan structure of the Qing Dynasty was the structure of imperial power vs Manchu nobles vs civil officials. Manchu nobles replaced the status of eunuchs, so it was essentially the same.
Every existing political system in the world cannot avoid a problem of decentralization of power and power struggle. These two are causal relationships. Because there is decentralization, there must be a struggle of power. Decentralization is inevitable. No matter how powerful the central government is, it cannot further centralize power under the productivity conditions of that year (the productivity conditions here are reflected in communications, transportation, logistics, information processing tools, etc. The central government of that era did not have modern communication means and could not directly command all parts of the country). If it wants to complete effective rule, it must delegate power to civil servants and local officials. This has led to the formation of oppositional civil servant groups. For example, the Donglin Party, which was very representative in the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial power could not tolerate the infinite expansion of the political power of civil servant groups, so eunuch forces must be introduced to reach checks and balances.
To put it another way, Chen Zhaoxing didn’t have to hire a great scholar like Liu Yuanqing. With the prestige of the White Lotus Saint Son, he was a natural way to run a school in the White Lotus territory. But why should he invite Liu Yuanqing, or even just ask Liu Yuanqing to assign a college teacher to deal with it?
This involves what academies were in the Ming Dynasty.
In the eyes of modern people, academies are just schools. The function of schools is to teach and educate people. How can there be any complicated things?
But it was different in the Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, the academies did exercise the functions of schools. On the other hand, the academies were the main venue for activities of opposition political forces. It can even be said that the academies were a symbol of opposition political forces. They were a place where intellectuals gathered, discussed the government affairs, formed cliques, expressed political opinions, and influenced the government affairs.
The Donglin Party, an opposition force that was famous for later generations, was the main center of political activities.
The Fuli Academy, headed by Liu Yuanqing, is an important position of the Wang Yangming School today. If it can obtain the support of Liu Yuanqing's school, it means that the college area run by Chen Zhao will have some possibility of autonomy.
The attitudes of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty towards the academy were very complicated and subtle. On the one hand, the emperor hoped that the academy could help the court to cultivate more knowledgeable, wise and upright literati, and the academy was very autonomous, without spending a penny of the court, and fully exerted its role in academic research. On the other hand, the emperor did not want the academy to form an opposition political force, which was not conducive to the stability of centralization. The emperor knew very well that once the academy became famous, the prestige of the academy would directly overshadow the local government. This was by no means exaggerated. For the level of Liu Yuanqing, local officials would not even touch Liu Yuanqing's butt hair. Such a great literati with all kinds of talents all over the world, who knows how many fellow villagers and classmates he had in the court?
Who knows where one of his students is working as an official?
The location of Fuli Academy, the people will go to the academy for whatever things happen to them and find these scholars to solve problems. If merchants want to gain local market recognition, they have to sponsor the academy, which is even more useful than bribing local officials. Liu Yuanqing's academy is one of the local political power centers.
The reason why the people support academies is that, first, the academies teach and educate people, provides the people with a channel for class leap. Second, compared with local governments, academies pay more attention to safeguarding the interests of the people. If local governments dare to oppress the local people, the academies that hide and hide their dragons and crouch their tigers will immediately put pressure on local officials. Their energy can reach the sky and listen directly, and the academies will naturally gain the support of the people.
Therefore, if Chen Zhao could open a college under the name of Liu Yuanqing, it would prevent local officials from doing anything to him.
Pull the topic back to Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng.
Now the person in power is Empress Dowager Li, and the importance of eunuchs is even more prominent. How is Empress Dowager Li so close to Gao Gong, a civil minister who is a man?
Empress Dowager Li could only control the government and the country through Wanli and Silijian, so Gao Gong suppressed the eunuch Feng Bao and was equivalent to beating Empress Dowager Li's brothers and sisters.
Therefore, Gao Gong's most fundamental problem is that he did not see clearly the inevitability of the separation of the three-way system of the Chinese imperial system. He attempted to form a dual structure in the court between imperial power and civil officials and completely eliminated eunuchs. This is obviously a fantasy.
Zhang Juzheng, who has a more keen political sense, saw this clearly, so he joined forces with Feng Bao, the eunuch closest to the royal family, to share power with Feng Bao. Feng Bao supported Zhang Juzheng in front of Empress Dowager Li. Fighting Gao Gong was equivalent to supporting himself, and Gao Gong was equivalent to pushing Wang Bang into the opponent's hand.
Moreover, Gao Gong's speech is too straightforward. Such people will be valued by Chen Zhao because speaking the truth in a straightforward manner is a quality that Chen Zhao attaches great importance to. A group of riddles in power will inevitably lead to the entire regime full of unspoken rules and gangs in officialdom, which will lead to a reduction in administrative efficiency, breeding of corruption, open and secret struggles, and forming cliques. It cannot be said that this is the result. The gangster in officialdom will learn to let these problems be deeply hidden in the deepest part of the system, making the political system lose the ability to self-criticize and turn the blade inward.
At this time, everyone in the world knew that Wanli, who was only ten years old, could not rule, but everyone in the world would not say this. Only Gao Gong said openly and bluntly when he was in the cabinet: How can the ten-year-old emperor rule the world?
This sentence was caught by Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, and changed it to How could the ten-year-old emperor be the master?It was passed to Empress Dowager Li, and Empress Dowager Li was shocked after hearing this.
This suddenly turned into a bad thing. The nature of a sentence changed from being unblocked to being deliberate rebellion. If Gao Gong could join forces with Feng Bao, even if he spoke this sentence with a big mouth, Feng Bao could help him hide it. Even if he couldn't hide it, it would not have been changed to such disrespectful words.
Gao Gong neither realized the limitations of the triad system nor did he control his mouth because he was in a high position. Even if he held so many good cards in his hand, he could not withstand his troubles.
The imperial system has its limitations. In order to maintain the stability of the three-dimensional structure, the thief-thick black science in the officialdom must exist, and open and secret struggles must exist. The government formed by Chen Zhao in the future can avoid these problems to a large extent, because the White Lotus Sect itself is a religious organization and is faith-oriented. This does not mean that the government under the future is not a three-dimensional opposition, nor is it still an apparent three-dimensional opposition. The imperial system is the current productivity situation. Pay attention to this premise, that is, under the current productivity situation, the imperial system is the most effective political system tested by the entire Chinese civilization.
The tripartite opposition of religious political system is the monarch vs church forces vs officials. Speaking of this, do you feel a little familiar?
That's right, the feudal system in Europe at this time was very similar to this ternary opposition structure, with the imperial emperor vs. the pope vs. the feudal lord.
Of course, there are still many differences among them. At this time, the highest imperial power in Europe had no, or only a very weak ruling relationship with the Pope of the Holy See. However, in Chen Zhao's future political system, he was the monarch and the Pope, so this was a seemingly ternary and actually binary political structure, namely the central vs. the local government.
The central and local governments, this expression is so familiar to the Chinese who live in modern times. We were surprised to find that our political system is binary. Why don’t we have a third party to form a balance of power?
The root cause is the development of productivity.
Do you still remember why the imperial power could not curb the expansion of opposition political power?
Because the productivity level in this era is too low, for example, once the peasant uprising in Zhejiang occurs, it will take more than a week to send this information to Beijing at a rapid pace. The information received by the emperor is always lagging behind, and it has happened for a long time. By the time the emperor's instructions are sent back, half a month has passed since the incident occurred in the local area, and the daylily has become cold. Therefore, the emperor cannot let the place become another primordial in the dual system. There must be another force, so that the two of them can compete for power.
Note that on this issue, we cannot unilaterally link the advanced level of communication means to whether science and technology is advanced. On the surface, it seems that the advanced level of communication means depends on the development of science and technology, but there is a prerequisite. The soil and premise of scientific and technological development are whether productivity is advanced. Agricultural countries cannot produce strong technology. Even if the national strength is gathered to develop science and technology, the developed technology has no profitable productivity foundation. An agricultural country gathers national resources to study a cutting-edge electronic chip technology, but there is no room for application. Not only can science and technology create value, it will be targeted by developed countries with stronger productivity.
Looking at the moment, how can these things be left?
With the blessing of modern communications, the central government can instantly mobilize the national army, and decentralized central members can arrive at any place in the country within three hours and take over local power directly. This is unimaginable in ancient times. If there were such productivity conditions in ancient times, would it be necessary to develop a three-way political structure?
Therefore, under the basis of modern productivity, the binary political structure was established, and in the future, even a monistic political structure could appear. This picture is not unimaginable. For example, when everyone has implanted nanomechanical or ultra-micro brain computers, the central government can even directly command every member of the country, and even local political forces have been eliminated. This shows that how the state political system is presented depends entirely on the level of productivity and production relations of the people living in this country. An agricultural country cannot force democracy or communism. If a feudal restoration is forcibly carried out in an industrial country, the feudal court will inevitably be subverted and overthrew. If a democratic politics is forcibly carried out in an agricultural country, the democratic regime will inevitably degenerate into dictatorship, and the manifestation of the state political system will not be changed by the will of a few people.
The topic was a bit far-reaching. After Gao Gong was defeated by Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, the new Wanli Dynasty ushered in a new and old three-dimensional structure opposition. The royal family represented by Empress Dowager Li, the agent of Emperor Wanli, the civil servant group represented by Zhang Juzheng, and the eunuch represented by Feng Bao, the eunuch of the Silijian. They restrain each other, rely on each other, and oppose each other.
During the two years of Wanli's wedding, Zhang Juzheng's political power reached its peak and had already threatened the imperial power. On the one hand, it was because Emperor Wanli was indeed young and the imperial power was slightly weak. On the other hand, Zhang Juzheng recognized the political status of the eunuch group, and the eunuch group also hoped that Zhang Juzheng could grasp the civil servant group and thus consolidate the political interests of the eunuch group.
This is a necessary condition for Zhang Juzheng to implement reform.
However, now there are variables. The imperial power party has realized Zhang Juzheng's strength. They need to introduce checks and balances against Zhang Juzheng. However, due to the lack of legitimate candidates and excuses, they cannot count on Feng Bao. Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng have a good relationship. The civil servant group facing Zhang Juzheng cannot be said to be stinky fish and rotten shrimps, at least it is really much worse than Zhang Juzheng.
Now, a Wang Shizhen came out halfway. This character wrote a very good memorial and was known as the banner of the literary world. The only political wish of a literary master is to be able to write the national history of the Ming Dynasty and be satisfied if he can become the Lantai Shiling. Moreover, the Zhu family does owe others what he has. During the reign of his father, Yan Song was tyrannical and unjustly killed Wang Shizhen's old father. Now Wang Shizhen has presented such a precious Buddhist original scripture, which can even shake the ideology of Buddhism originating from India. This is a huge contribution that can be recorded in history.
The royal meaning represented by Empress Dowager Li is very obvious. The meaning she passed on to Zhang Juzheng was as follows:
Mr. Yuanfu, you see, our royal family is not going to go against your wishes. Wang Shizhen made such a great contribution. You have also seen the magic of the original Buddhist scriptures. You have to admit their contributions, right?
Moreover, the royal family was indeed unfair to the Wang family in the past, but now it is reasonable. Our royal family also needs to listen to what others are saying. Wang Shizhen said that you should cultivate your ambition inside and take the tranquility of Kun Dao as your teaching; if you are injured outside, you should be in danger of conspiracy and danger. Look, people say that you are tyrannical and chaotic, which is the root of the world's uneasiness!
Of course, our Zhu family still trusts you. How can we think you are really autocratic and chaotic?
But the words are divided into two parts. Mr. Yuanfu, you can't bully Wang Shizhen too much. The royal family wants to reward Wang Shizhen, so you can't stop Ah!
Did Zhang Juzheng understand the implicit meaning of the royal family?Of course, he understood, not only did he understand, but he had even expected it, and had already done the trick of dealing with this situation.
Your Majesty, during the reign of Emperor Renzong, he set the rules of secrets and secrets, so that all the ministers in the department should have urgent matters and not be allowed to report them in person. If you complain about your private affairs, beg for personal kindness, and the party will not allow them to fight against each other, I hope Your Majesty will remember them in mind.
Zhang Juzheng did not answer any questions that the royal family wanted him to answer, but first performed his duties as an emperor teacher and pointed out the problems in this secret book. Zhang Juzheng said, "Your Mah, this secret is for the serious matter, and in Wang Shizhen's secret book, the first half is about the serious matter, and there is no problem, but the impeachment and attack on me in the second half is obviously within the scope of the party's common attacks and differences, and it is not allowed to appear in the secret matter. This is a rule passed down by the emperor's ancestors, you must remember it!
Zhang Juzheng's counterattack was very clever, which left Emperor Wanli, an immature emperor, completely speechless and could only nod to express his education. In fact, the so-called rules passed down from ancestors have long been abolished. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, wasn't Zhang Juzheng the actual prime minister!
However, the rule that Zhang Juzheng has introduced has not been abolished on the surface, and can be expressed.
Zhang Juzheng snatched a quick move. After suppressing Wanli's momentum, he continued to talk about the secrets of this book and expressed the following content:
He discovered the key issue in Wang Shizhen's memorial. Wang Shizhen was indeed the actual treasure presenter, but who discovered this original Buddhist scripture?
If it was discovered by Wang Shizhen himself, there was nothing to say. The credit was all his. I, Zhang Juzheng, had nothing to say, but Wang Shizhen just said in the memorial that the original Buddhist scriptures appeared in Yuhang, Zhejiang, and did not say who was the first discoverer!
Wang Shizhen made contributions, but shouldn’t the biggest contribution be the first person to discover it?
Then the reward should be the first person to be found. If Wang Shizhen wants to reward, he can only reward one contribution. However, Wang Shizhen does not talk about discovering the person and only mentions the contribution, and obviously wants to monopolize all the contribution.
This statement was justified and was completely reasonable. Emperor Wanli could not find any angle to refute it, and could only admit that Zhang Juzheng was right.
After pointing out the issue of secrets and conspiracy with Wang Shizhen, Zhang Juzheng finally talked about Wang Shizhen's accusations against him. Zhang Juzheng positively refuted the remarks in secrets. Instead of giving to himself, he cited many counterexamples of his lack of autocracy and snatching himself from this topic.
After a Tai Chi period, Wanli suddenly realized that the cards he had prepared with his mother had played completely, and Zhang Juzheng, who was still alive, still had the initiative in the dialogue. Emperor Wanli suddenly felt a chill in his heart!
Zhang Juzheng used the lid of the teacup to gently slid the two-rice porridge of candied dates and wolfberry in the porcelain tea bowl. The exquisite porridge spots emitted a faint heat. However, Zhang Juzheng's mind was not on this bowl of morning tea at all. He stared at the luxurious floor-to-ceiling mirror in front of him who had just been tributed by the Youlong Chamber of Commerce to the palace not long ago, or staring at himself in another plane in the mirror, thinking about something.
Zhang Juzheng's face was red, with a beard and chest. Recently, he felt more and more that his qi and blood were too strong, but he was thinner than before. He was already at this age and was actually molting his skin. He asked a famous doctor, but he didn't get better after taking the prescription. This is definitely not a good health phenomenon.
This is the Ganqing Palace. Even as the chief minister of the cabinet, he rarely entered here. The Ganqing Palace is the scope of the emperor's harem. Generally speaking, ministers cannot enter. After the morning court today, he was recruited into the Ganqing Palace. I think there is something important, and this matter is related to him.
Zhang Juzheng had his reasons for this judgment. If it was a major national event, what the court should say in front of the ministers should have said that calling himself into the harem alone must have something to do with him. Moreover, the eunuch who summoned him was arranged by Feng Bao, the chief supervisor of the Sili Dynasty. Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao cooperated tacitly, if Feng Bao thought the matter could be big or small, the eunuch who summoned him was a common eunuch in the harem. If it was a big matter related to the two, a confidant of Feng Bao would be specially arranged. This was a small secret code between Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao.
The person who came to summon this time was Feng Bao's confidant. This is the signal that Feng Bao sent to himself, and it was related to you or me.
Recently, there have been many big and small things in the court. Wanli’s wedding is about to be around. As the chief minister of the cabinet, Wanli’s teacher naturally knows that the luxurious and magical landing mirror of the Youlong Chamber of Commerce’s tribute suddenly overshadowed the auspiciousness of tribute from various places. The colorful clouds chasing the moon in the sky, the rare beasts, and the two ears of the wheat are not as good as the landing mirror of the Western Barbarians’ tribute.
Thinking of tribute, Zhang Juzheng sighed in his heart. He knew very well that this treasure of the country could have been tributed by those foreigners who consider themselves very high?
Those overseas barbarians realized that the mountains were high and the emperors were far away. Although they could not take the Ming Dynasty seriously, they had no intention of submitting to the Ming Dynasty, the heavenly kingdom, to attend court. Those who came must talk about trade, and their minds were all above gold and silver. To pay tribute?
I think it was the method used by the Youlong Chamber of Commerce to buy the heirloom of the Western Barbarians and the king who lost his country. In order to please the royal family, a spring and autumn brushwork naturally became the so-called tribute.
Today's Ming Dynasty is no longer a world-class power in the Tang Dynasty. Of course, Zhang Juzheng still stubbornly believed that the Ming Dynasty could dominate the world. However, compared with the Tang Dynasty's dynasty, the scenic spots of Zheng He's voyage to the West during the Yongle period, and the situation of the national treasury, the current greatness is obviously not as good as that of Daming. Daming really cannot afford the second Zheng He's voyage to the West. In addition, the barbarians in the north are ready to move and internal and external troubles, reform is so important.
This floor-to-ceiling mirror made the whole royal family happy for a long time. Emperor Wanli and Empress Dowager Li liked it even more. The morning court the next day after receiving the mirror, the morning court was moved to the morning court of the court, which opened the eyes of the ministers. The unhidden pride on Emperor Wanli's face and the excitement of getting such a novel treasure. Zhang Juzheng still remembers it now. He also took the lead in flattering and shouting. The power of the Ming Dynasty is spread all over the world, and the Xiyi consorts and bows to offer national treasures. It is really ridiculous to think about it now.
The day of great joy is approaching, so it's okay to say something harsh to encourage the emperor. At this time, it's just a matter of sweeping the royal family's prosperity. Moreover, his own whip method reform has entered the most critical stage of attack. Even if he is against his conscience, he has to flatter. Now he needs the support of Empress Dowager Li and Emperor Wanli.
He was thinking when he suddenly heard footsteps coming from behind the Ganqing Palace. He quickly picked up the porcelain bowl and drank the two rice porridge in the bowl. This was given to him by Emperor Wanli, and he said that Wanli could not see the bowl of porridge moving.
Emperor Wanli, who was only fifteen years old, came to the hall surrounded by Feng Bao and a group of eunuchs. Feng Bao was as old as Zhang Juzheng, and his cheeks were fat but not very greasy. He looked down in front of Emperor Wanli, but he had already left Emperor Wanli, and the cold and heavy breath of the harem leader would gush out.
Emperor Wanli is 15 years old this year. His standardized and rigorous harem life made his body pampered. However, his heavy study life made his spirit very tortured. This dislocation of spirit and physical state made him present an extremely inconsistent mental outlook, but he was young after all, and this sense of incongruity was covered up a lot by his young and slightly fat face.
He has no childhood life. From the perspective of psychoanalysis, this minor is now suffering from a serious mental illness. The innate aggression of human beings cannot be released through the unrestrained play of childhood. His aggression will accumulate. When he grows up, he looks for an outlet or opposes himself. With the blessing of imperial power, once the accumulated aggression is fully released, it may cause bloody storms. If the aggression is directed towards himself, it will be depression or withdrawn. To put it bluntly, a psychoanalyst can predict by analyzing his childhood that he will either be a tyrant or an autistic patient in the future.
To a certain extent, this prophecy is obviously correct. In the future, his aggressiveness is directed towards Zhang Juzheng, and at the same time he also aims his aggressiveness at himself. He is autistic in the harem every day and does not even go to court.
Zhang Juzheng knelt down and bowed, and Emperor Wanli hurried forward: Mr. Yuanfu, please give up the gift!He respectfully helped Zhang Juzheng up, then helped him to the chair, and sat on the throne himself.
Emperor Wanli had extremely complicated feelings for Zhang Juzheng. This prime minister who was good at rectifying the court was his teacher, an example in handling government affairs, and a leader of the ministers. At the same time, he was his minister and his subordinate. He was loyal to himself and respected him, but at the same time he was strict with himself, and often criticized him, teaching himself how to be an emperor who belongs to the world.
Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng who was sitting at his lower head, and remembered his mother Empress Dowager Li’s instructions to him: show this Buddhist scripture and this memorial to Mr. Yuanfu. Remember, first read the Buddhist scriptures for Mr. Yuanfu, and then give the memorials. The order must not be wrong.
Zhu Yijun has now understood a truth. The relationship between the monarch and the minister is the most critical and important task in charge of this country. He understands that some questions can be asked by Zhang Juzheng, but some questions cannot be discussed with the closest royal family members. However, he still does not understand why he should first read the Buddhist scriptures and then read the memorials. In this order, the order must have profound meaning. This should be the truth that the mother should teach him.
Zhang Juzheng discussed the content of the morning court with Xiao Wanli as usual and expressed appreciation for Wanli's recent performance. Then Wanli immediately entered the topic and gave the "Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra" to Zhang Juzheng's hand through Feng Baozhi's hand. Before Zhang Juzheng's hand touched the book, he just looked at the square, with even glittering book, and felt that this book was not an ordinary thing. When Feng Bao handed the book to Zhang Juzheng, his thick eyelids picked up from a strange angle. He conveyed a warning to Zhang Juzheng through a hidden look.
Zhang Juzheng felt a sense of crisis inexplicably. He took the book and carefully looked through it, and found that it was actually the original Buddhist scripture. Moreover, the material, craftsmanship, font, writing method and grammar of this book were completely unseen. The gaps between each word were exactly the same, and the thinness of the paper was unprecedented.
The so-called calligraphy style means that the fonts of the whole text must be maintained in a unified style. However, Zhang Juzheng looked at the book "Heart Sutra" in front of him. This is no longer a question of whether the style is unified or not, but that even the subtle differences cannot be found!
This Heart Sutra was obtained by Wang Shizhen from Chen Zhao and presented it to the royal family.
At this critical moment, this magical Buddhist scripture was presented through channels he didn't know, which only means one thing that his opponents are already taking action.
Zhang Juzheng held the Buddhist scripture in his hand, his eyes lost their focus. He seemed to see a thousand feet tall thorn bushes growing in front of him, covering the sky and the sun; his feet became a deep sea, deep and strange. He even saw the Ming Dynasty burning in the future in the fire.
He looked at Feng Bao, and Feng Bao looked at his eyes, nose, and heart, and did not look at him.
Zhang Juzheng came to his senses, stroked his beard and said cautiously: Your Majesty, this thing is definitely not an ordinary thing. I don’t know where it came from, and who presented it to Your Majesty?
Wanli explained that this Heart Sutra is the original text of Buddhism, and a wise scholar collected it from Zhejiang and dedicated it to his mother.
Zhang Juzheng understood, until Emperor Wanli was waiting for him to ask who found such a treasure. Under the urging of a strong sense of crisis, Zhang Juzheng's brainstorm began to break out.
After less than ten seconds of silence between the king and his subjects, Zhang Juzheng asked: Who is this wise scholar?
Emperor Wanli replied: It is Mr. Wang Shizhen.
Zhang Juzheng knew that he had a rough grasp of the problems he had to face next.
Afterwards, Emperor Wanli took out a red memorial. Feng Bao quickly lowered his head and took it over it, passing it to Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng stood up, bowed forward slowly and heavily, and stretched out his mottled hands that were molting to take it over. This memorial was the "Heart Sutra Memorial" written by Wang Shizhen.
This is a secret book, which is presented directly to Empress Dowager Li. The secret book does not pass through the cabinet. If Empress Dowager Li judges that the secret book can be given to the cabinet, he will make a public memorial.
In the Wanli Dynasty, party struggles were carried out through secrets, fighting for the foundation of the country, and the three kings were sealed together, the Fu King's Kingdom, the Chu Zong case, the imperial court case, the case of the demon book, and the three major cases, including the struggle between the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party and the Qi Party, were all carried out through secrets. Both sides used secrets to hand over small notes to the emperor, the first power person, to fight against the opponent.
Now I will give him this secret book that Zhang Juzheng had never read. The meaning is that Zhang Juzheng is very obvious. This is a secret book that attacks you. Look, the person who wrote the memorial is Wang Shizhen, who has just made great contributions.
In this memorial, Wang Shizhen praised the prosperity of the Wanli Dynasty directly, saying that a Buddhist scripture unearthed in Zhejiang was unearthed. I, Wang Shizhen, realized that this was a big deal and immediately accepted it and presented it to the emperor. Wang Shizhen analyzed the significance of the original Buddhist scripture unearthed in Zhejiang in the secret commentary, and even looked at the possibility that Buddhism originated in China. At the end of the secret commentary, Wang Shizhen changed the subject and said that there was an important minister in the court who cultivated his ambitions inside and took the tranquility of Kun Dao as his teachings; he was injured outside and was in danger of conspiracy and danger, which implied that Zhang Juzheng was an obstacle to the rejuvenation of the Ming Dynasty's culture and economic rejuvenation, and also alluded to his autocracy and chaos in politics and his intentions were ill!
After reading this secret seal, Zhang Juzheng finally understood what Emperor Wanli or Empress Dowager Li wanted to convey to him.
If you want to understand Zhang Juzheng's current situation, you need to explain the current political situation of the Ming Dynasty.
At present, the triangular balance formed by the three major power figures in the court has loosened. When Wanli ascended the throne, Gao Gong was the one who had the most hope to become the highest center of power on the surface. Gao Gong was the person who was appointed as the orphan whom Wanli's father died. He was Zhang Juzheng's ex-official. However, Gao Gong was still not as good as Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao in power struggle. Gao Gong was covered with buffs at this time, suppressed Xu Jie (Xu Jie, the first opponent in Gao Gong's eyes, had already retired and returned home). He was the chief assistant of the cabinet. Before his death, Ming Muzong held his hand and said that he was the person who was the entrusted by Mr. Tianxia. Under so many favorable conditions, Gao Gong was full of confidence in taking over the highest authority of the Wanli Dynasty. However, he had a good hand and did not understand one thing. This matter was who was the enemy and who was an ally in the newly born Wanli Dynasty.
When Wanli ascended the throne, he was only ten years old, from Gao Gong to the people, everyone knew that Wanli was still learning to be an emperor at this time. The real conclusion was Empress Dowager Li. Gao Gong was busy suppressing the eunuch Feng Bao at this time, hoping that the old Zhu family would rely entirely on the cabinet and rely on himself. However, the royal family could not fully trust the civil servant group. The Silijian composed of the eunuch group was always separated from the royal family and the civil servants. In the imperial system of China, the eunuch group had its inevitability, and at the same time there was the necessity of the eunuch group interfering in the power structure and sharing the royal power. This necessity cannot be affected by institutional reform, ideological progress, and dynasty changes.
Of course, some people raised objections. Since the emergence of eunuchs, eunuchs' dictatorship has indeed continued to occur, but there was also a system of eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty. Why did eunuchs' dictatorship not appear?
The eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty were extremely weak. Doesn’t this mean that the Qing Dynasty took some measures to limit the dictatorship of eunuchs?
In fact, it is not. In fact, the Chinese imperial system has always been in opposition to the three Yuans. Before the Qing Dynasty, it was the structure of imperial power vs civil officials vs eunuchs. The imperial power was dominated and eunuchs were used to check and balance civil officials. The Qing Dynasty had another force. The three Yuan structure of the Qing Dynasty was the structure of imperial power vs Manchu nobles vs civil officials. Manchu nobles replaced the status of eunuchs, so it was essentially the same.
Every existing political system in the world cannot avoid a problem of decentralization of power and power struggle. These two are causal relationships. Because there is decentralization, there must be a struggle of power. Decentralization is inevitable. No matter how powerful the central government is, it cannot further centralize power under the productivity conditions of that year (the productivity conditions here are reflected in communications, transportation, logistics, information processing tools, etc. The central government of that era did not have modern communication means and could not directly command all parts of the country). If it wants to complete effective rule, it must delegate power to civil servants and local officials. This has led to the formation of oppositional civil servant groups. For example, the Donglin Party, which was very representative in the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial power could not tolerate the infinite expansion of the political power of civil servant groups, so eunuch forces must be introduced to reach checks and balances.
To put it another way, Chen Zhaoxing didn’t have to hire a great scholar like Liu Yuanqing. With the prestige of the White Lotus Saint Son, he was a natural way to run a school in the White Lotus territory. But why should he invite Liu Yuanqing, or even just ask Liu Yuanqing to assign a college teacher to deal with it?
This involves what academies were in the Ming Dynasty.
In the eyes of modern people, academies are just schools. The function of schools is to teach and educate people. How can there be any complicated things?
But it was different in the Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, the academies did exercise the functions of schools. On the other hand, the academies were the main venue for activities of opposition political forces. It can even be said that the academies were a symbol of opposition political forces. They were a place where intellectuals gathered, discussed the government affairs, formed cliques, expressed political opinions, and influenced the government affairs.
The Donglin Party, an opposition force that was famous for later generations, was the main center of political activities.
The Fuli Academy, headed by Liu Yuanqing, is an important position of the Wang Yangming School today. If it can obtain the support of Liu Yuanqing's school, it means that the college area run by Chen Zhao will have some possibility of autonomy.
The attitudes of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty towards the academy were very complicated and subtle. On the one hand, the emperor hoped that the academy could help the court to cultivate more knowledgeable, wise and upright literati, and the academy was very autonomous, without spending a penny of the court, and fully exerted its role in academic research. On the other hand, the emperor did not want the academy to form an opposition political force, which was not conducive to the stability of centralization. The emperor knew very well that once the academy became famous, the prestige of the academy would directly overshadow the local government. This was by no means exaggerated. For the level of Liu Yuanqing, local officials would not even touch Liu Yuanqing's butt hair. Such a great literati with all kinds of talents all over the world, who knows how many fellow villagers and classmates he had in the court?
Who knows where one of his students is working as an official?
The location of Fuli Academy, the people will go to the academy for whatever things happen to them and find these scholars to solve problems. If merchants want to gain local market recognition, they have to sponsor the academy, which is even more useful than bribing local officials. Liu Yuanqing's academy is one of the local political power centers.
The reason why the people support academies is that, first, the academies teach and educate people, provides the people with a channel for class leap. Second, compared with local governments, academies pay more attention to safeguarding the interests of the people. If local governments dare to oppress the local people, the academies that hide and hide their dragons and crouch their tigers will immediately put pressure on local officials. Their energy can reach the sky and listen directly, and the academies will naturally gain the support of the people.
Therefore, if Chen Zhao could open a college under the name of Liu Yuanqing, it would prevent local officials from doing anything to him.
Pull the topic back to Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng.
Now the person in power is Empress Dowager Li, and the importance of eunuchs is even more prominent. How is Empress Dowager Li so close to Gao Gong, a civil minister who is a man?
Empress Dowager Li could only control the government and the country through Wanli and Silijian, so Gao Gong suppressed the eunuch Feng Bao and was equivalent to beating Empress Dowager Li's brothers and sisters.
Therefore, Gao Gong's most fundamental problem is that he did not see clearly the inevitability of the separation of the three-way system of the Chinese imperial system. He attempted to form a dual structure in the court between imperial power and civil officials and completely eliminated eunuchs. This is obviously a fantasy.
Zhang Juzheng, who has a more keen political sense, saw this clearly, so he joined forces with Feng Bao, the eunuch closest to the royal family, to share power with Feng Bao. Feng Bao supported Zhang Juzheng in front of Empress Dowager Li. Fighting Gao Gong was equivalent to supporting himself, and Gao Gong was equivalent to pushing Wang Bang into the opponent's hand.
Moreover, Gao Gong's speech is too straightforward. Such people will be valued by Chen Zhao because speaking the truth in a straightforward manner is a quality that Chen Zhao attaches great importance to. A group of riddles in power will inevitably lead to the entire regime full of unspoken rules and gangs in officialdom, which will lead to a reduction in administrative efficiency, breeding of corruption, open and secret struggles, and forming cliques. It cannot be said that this is the result. The gangster in officialdom will learn to let these problems be deeply hidden in the deepest part of the system, making the political system lose the ability to self-criticize and turn the blade inward.
At this time, everyone in the world knew that Wanli, who was only ten years old, could not rule, but everyone in the world would not say this. Only Gao Gong said openly and bluntly when he was in the cabinet: How can the ten-year-old emperor rule the world?
This sentence was caught by Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, and changed it to How could the ten-year-old emperor be the master?It was passed to Empress Dowager Li, and Empress Dowager Li was shocked after hearing this.
This suddenly turned into a bad thing. The nature of a sentence changed from being unblocked to being deliberate rebellion. If Gao Gong could join forces with Feng Bao, even if he spoke this sentence with a big mouth, Feng Bao could help him hide it. Even if he couldn't hide it, it would not have been changed to such disrespectful words.
Gao Gong neither realized the limitations of the triad system nor did he control his mouth because he was in a high position. Even if he held so many good cards in his hand, he could not withstand his troubles.
The imperial system has its limitations. In order to maintain the stability of the three-dimensional structure, the thief-thick black science in the officialdom must exist, and open and secret struggles must exist. The government formed by Chen Zhao in the future can avoid these problems to a large extent, because the White Lotus Sect itself is a religious organization and is faith-oriented. This does not mean that the government under the future is not a three-dimensional opposition, nor is it still an apparent three-dimensional opposition. The imperial system is the current productivity situation. Pay attention to this premise, that is, under the current productivity situation, the imperial system is the most effective political system tested by the entire Chinese civilization.
The tripartite opposition of religious political system is the monarch vs church forces vs officials. Speaking of this, do you feel a little familiar?
That's right, the feudal system in Europe at this time was very similar to this ternary opposition structure, with the imperial emperor vs. the pope vs. the feudal lord.
Of course, there are still many differences among them. At this time, the highest imperial power in Europe had no, or only a very weak ruling relationship with the Pope of the Holy See. However, in Chen Zhao's future political system, he was the monarch and the Pope, so this was a seemingly ternary and actually binary political structure, namely the central vs. the local government.
The central and local governments, this expression is so familiar to the Chinese who live in modern times. We were surprised to find that our political system is binary. Why don’t we have a third party to form a balance of power?
The root cause is the development of productivity.
Do you still remember why the imperial power could not curb the expansion of opposition political power?
Because the productivity level in this era is too low, for example, once the peasant uprising in Zhejiang occurs, it will take more than a week to send this information to Beijing at a rapid pace. The information received by the emperor is always lagging behind, and it has happened for a long time. By the time the emperor's instructions are sent back, half a month has passed since the incident occurred in the local area, and the daylily has become cold. Therefore, the emperor cannot let the place become another primordial in the dual system. There must be another force, so that the two of them can compete for power.
Note that on this issue, we cannot unilaterally link the advanced level of communication means to whether science and technology is advanced. On the surface, it seems that the advanced level of communication means depends on the development of science and technology, but there is a prerequisite. The soil and premise of scientific and technological development are whether productivity is advanced. Agricultural countries cannot produce strong technology. Even if the national strength is gathered to develop science and technology, the developed technology has no profitable productivity foundation. An agricultural country gathers national resources to study a cutting-edge electronic chip technology, but there is no room for application. Not only can science and technology create value, it will be targeted by developed countries with stronger productivity.
Looking at the moment, how can these things be left?
With the blessing of modern communications, the central government can instantly mobilize the national army, and decentralized central members can arrive at any place in the country within three hours and take over local power directly. This is unimaginable in ancient times. If there were such productivity conditions in ancient times, would it be necessary to develop a three-way political structure?
Therefore, under the basis of modern productivity, the binary political structure was established, and in the future, even a monistic political structure could appear. This picture is not unimaginable. For example, when everyone has implanted nanomechanical or ultra-micro brain computers, the central government can even directly command every member of the country, and even local political forces have been eliminated. This shows that how the state political system is presented depends entirely on the level of productivity and production relations of the people living in this country. An agricultural country cannot force democracy or communism. If a feudal restoration is forcibly carried out in an industrial country, the feudal court will inevitably be subverted and overthrew. If a democratic politics is forcibly carried out in an agricultural country, the democratic regime will inevitably degenerate into dictatorship, and the manifestation of the state political system will not be changed by the will of a few people.
The topic was a bit far-reaching. After Gao Gong was defeated by Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao, the new Wanli Dynasty ushered in a new and old three-dimensional structure opposition. The royal family represented by Empress Dowager Li, the agent of Emperor Wanli, the civil servant group represented by Zhang Juzheng, and the eunuch represented by Feng Bao, the eunuch of the Silijian. They restrain each other, rely on each other, and oppose each other.
During the two years of Wanli's wedding, Zhang Juzheng's political power reached its peak and had already threatened the imperial power. On the one hand, it was because Emperor Wanli was indeed young and the imperial power was slightly weak. On the other hand, Zhang Juzheng recognized the political status of the eunuch group, and the eunuch group also hoped that Zhang Juzheng could grasp the civil servant group and thus consolidate the political interests of the eunuch group.
This is a necessary condition for Zhang Juzheng to implement reform.
However, now there are variables. The imperial power party has realized Zhang Juzheng's strength. They need to introduce checks and balances against Zhang Juzheng. However, due to the lack of legitimate candidates and excuses, they cannot count on Feng Bao. Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng have a good relationship. The civil servant group facing Zhang Juzheng cannot be said to be stinky fish and rotten shrimps, at least it is really much worse than Zhang Juzheng.
Now, a Wang Shizhen came out halfway. This character wrote a very good memorial and was known as the banner of the literary world. The only political wish of a literary master is to be able to write the national history of the Ming Dynasty and be satisfied if he can become the Lantai Shiling. Moreover, the Zhu family does owe others what he has. During the reign of his father, Yan Song was tyrannical and unjustly killed Wang Shizhen's old father. Now Wang Shizhen has presented such a precious Buddhist original scripture, which can even shake the ideology of Buddhism originating from India. This is a huge contribution that can be recorded in history.
The royal meaning represented by Empress Dowager Li is very obvious. The meaning she passed on to Zhang Juzheng was as follows:
Mr. Yuanfu, you see, our royal family is not going to go against your wishes. Wang Shizhen made such a great contribution. You have also seen the magic of the original Buddhist scriptures. You have to admit their contributions, right?
Moreover, the royal family was indeed unfair to the Wang family in the past, but now it is reasonable. Our royal family also needs to listen to what others are saying. Wang Shizhen said that you should cultivate your ambition inside and take the tranquility of Kun Dao as your teaching; if you are injured outside, you should be in danger of conspiracy and danger. Look, people say that you are tyrannical and chaotic, which is the root of the world's uneasiness!
Of course, our Zhu family still trusts you. How can we think you are really autocratic and chaotic?
But the words are divided into two parts. Mr. Yuanfu, you can't bully Wang Shizhen too much. The royal family wants to reward Wang Shizhen, so you can't stop Ah!
Did Zhang Juzheng understand the implicit meaning of the royal family?Of course, he understood, not only did he understand, but he had even expected it, and had already done the trick of dealing with this situation.
Your Majesty, during the reign of Emperor Renzong, he set the rules of secrets and secrets, so that all the ministers in the department should have urgent matters and not be allowed to report them in person. If you complain about your private affairs, beg for personal kindness, and the party will not allow them to fight against each other, I hope Your Majesty will remember them in mind.
Zhang Juzheng did not answer any questions that the royal family wanted him to answer, but first performed his duties as an emperor teacher and pointed out the problems in this secret book. Zhang Juzheng said, "Your Mah, this secret is for the serious matter, and in Wang Shizhen's secret book, the first half is about the serious matter, and there is no problem, but the impeachment and attack on me in the second half is obviously within the scope of the party's common attacks and differences, and it is not allowed to appear in the secret matter. This is a rule passed down by the emperor's ancestors, you must remember it!
Zhang Juzheng's counterattack was very clever, which left Emperor Wanli, an immature emperor, completely speechless and could only nod to express his education. In fact, the so-called rules passed down from ancestors have long been abolished. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, wasn't Zhang Juzheng the actual prime minister!
However, the rule that Zhang Juzheng has introduced has not been abolished on the surface, and can be expressed.
Zhang Juzheng snatched a quick move. After suppressing Wanli's momentum, he continued to talk about the secrets of this book and expressed the following content:
He discovered the key issue in Wang Shizhen's memorial. Wang Shizhen was indeed the actual treasure presenter, but who discovered this original Buddhist scripture?
If it was discovered by Wang Shizhen himself, there was nothing to say. The credit was all his. I, Zhang Juzheng, had nothing to say, but Wang Shizhen just said in the memorial that the original Buddhist scriptures appeared in Yuhang, Zhejiang, and did not say who was the first discoverer!
Wang Shizhen made contributions, but shouldn’t the biggest contribution be the first person to discover it?
Then the reward should be the first person to be found. If Wang Shizhen wants to reward, he can only reward one contribution. However, Wang Shizhen does not talk about discovering the person and only mentions the contribution, and obviously wants to monopolize all the contribution.
This statement was justified and was completely reasonable. Emperor Wanli could not find any angle to refute it, and could only admit that Zhang Juzheng was right.
After pointing out the issue of secrets and conspiracy with Wang Shizhen, Zhang Juzheng finally talked about Wang Shizhen's accusations against him. Zhang Juzheng positively refuted the remarks in secrets. Instead of giving to himself, he cited many counterexamples of his lack of autocracy and snatching himself from this topic.
After a Tai Chi period, Wanli suddenly realized that the cards he had prepared with his mother had played completely, and Zhang Juzheng, who was still alive, still had the initiative in the dialogue. Emperor Wanli suddenly felt a chill in his heart!
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