After the death of Ming Wuzong, Zhu Houxi, the nephew of Ming Xiaozong and the son of King Xingxian, entered the heir to the throne and was for Shizong.

Before and after his accession to the throne, Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet at the time, and Mao Cheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and other powerful ministers led Song Pu'an to force Emperor Sejong to respect his biological parents as the emperor's uncle's parents, which led to a dispute over the Great Rites Debate.

In the end, Sejong swept away the power of eunuchs and powerful ministers and took over the government.

After 1534, Sejong did not look at the dynasty.

Sejong believed in Taoism, trusted the priests, and prayed day and night in the palace.

First, the Taoist priest Shao Yuanjie entered Beijing and was named a real person and a book of the Ministry of Rites.

After Shao's death, he favored Fang Shi Tao Zhongwen.

In October 1542, the Qianqing Palace underwent a Renyin Palace change.

After this incident, until the night before Sejong's death, Sejong moved away from Ouchi and moved to Sinai.

During the Jiajing Dynasty, the country was constantly suffering from external troubles.

The northern Tatars took advantage of the weakness of the Ming Dynasty to enter the Hetao.

In 1550, the Tatar leader Altan invaded Datong, and the Xuanda general Qiu Luan bought Alta with a large amount of money to turn it to other targets.

As a result, I turned to attack Beijing directly, and after plundering on the outskirts of Beijing, he went west, and the Ming army was defeated in the pursuit, which was the Gengxu Change.

On the southeast coast, Japanese ronin and Chinese pirates cooperated with coastal residents to smuggle and raid Shandong, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou pacified the Japanese in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places, laying the foundation for the Longqing switch.

In addition, the Portuguese immigrated to Macao in 1557, but until the death of the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese and Macao were always under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan County, the chief secretary of Guangdong.

In 1566, Ming Shizong died, and King Yu Zhu Zaikun ascended the throne, that is, Ming Muzong, the year name Longqing, and the following year was the first year of Longqing.

After Ming Muzong ascended the throne, the teachers Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng in the mansion were activated.

In the early years of Longqing, Xu Jie, an old minister of Sejong who was at the head of the government, instigated the court officials to impeach Gao Gong, and Gao Gong resigned and returned to his hometown.

Gao Gong was not to be outdone, and a year later he instigated the court officials to impeach Xu Jie. Xu Jie was also forced to officially retire.

The actual government affairs of the imperial court gradually fell into the hands of Zhang Juzheng.

In the last years of Longqing, Gao Gong returned to the dynasty and served as the first assistant of the cabinet.

The famous ministers and famous generals of the Longqing Dynasty gathered, and reached a peace agreement with Mongolia on land, and the history is called I to pay tribute; The sea is open to private trade, known as the Longqing switch in history.

Because of these two measures, the Ming Dynasty reappeared in the Zhongxing atmosphere, known as the Longqing New Deal.

In 1572, Ming Muzong died suddenly due to a stroke, and the nine-year-old crown prince Zhu Yijun succeeded to the throne and changed to Wanli.

Due to his young age as the regent of the Empress Dowager, the important minister Gao Gong was dismissed for confronting the Empress Dowager's trusted eunuch Feng Bao, while Zhang Juzheng received Feng Bao's full support.

Zhang Juzheng was an assistant to the government for 10 years, carried out reforms, and in the field of internal affairs, he implemented the examination law, abolished redundant officials and redundant personnel in government agencies, and rectified the postal and public administration. Economically, the land of the whole country was cleared, the powerful landlords were suppressed, the servitude system was reformed, and a whip law was implemented to reduce the burden on the peasants.

Militarily, it strengthened the rectification of armaments, quelled the riots in the southwest, and reused the three towns of Ji, Chang, and Bao, the famous anti-Japanese generals, to train troops to guard the Great Wall, so that the border was safe.

Zhang Juzheng also used Pan Jitao to control the Yellow River, turning floods into water conservancy.

At the same time, Zhang Juzheng severely punished corrupt officials and eliminated redundant personnel.

Zhang Juzheng rectified the dynasty and reformed the system, which was known as Wanli Zhongxing in history.

In the autumn of 1577, Zhang Juzheng's father died, and according to common sense, he needed Ding worry, but Zhang Juzheng thought that the reform was unfinished and did not want to worry about it.

His political opponents took advantage of this to make a big fuss, and history called it the dispute over love.

In the end, with the support of Mingshenzong and the two empress dowagers, Zhang Juzheng was reinstated, so that his reform was not interrupted.

However, this became an excuse for his political enemies.

At the same time, Zhang Juzheng used his power to let his parents and children enter the Hanlin Academy through the imperial examination.

After his death, Zhang Juzheng was liquidated by political opponents who opposed reform.

Zhang's family members were imprisoned, more than ten people starved to death, and their former official titles were also deprived.

In the early days after Zhang Juzheng's death, Mingshenzong was still able to maintain his interest in court politics, and during his reign, there were major events such as the Donglin Party Struggle and the National Capital Dispute, and there were the Battle of Korea and the Battle of Sarhu.

The Wanli Dynasty was also a turning period for the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline.

And it was the biggest turning point.

This time it's a complete decay.

The dispute over the national capital mainly revolves around the emperor's eldest son Zhu Changluo and the blessed king Zhu Changxun.

Mingshenzong's delay in establishing a prince made the ministers worried.

It was not until 1601 that Zhu Changluo was named the crown prince, and Zhu Changxun was named King Fu.

However, King Fu did not leave Beijing for a long time to become the vassal king. It wasn't until the attack case occurred and public opinion was unfavorable to Concubine Zheng that King Fu left Beijing to become a vassal.

Myojinzong was extremely dissatisfied with the ministers in the dispute over the country, and since 1587, he began to continue not going to the court as a retaliation, and only dealt with some important matters.

Since 1588, the early dynasty often did not see him, and ignored political affairs in the deep palace all day long.

The Donglin Party originated from the Donglin Academy organized by Gu Xiancheng.

The cause of the Donglin Party dispute was the lack of people in the cabinet, and Gu Xiancheng strongly advocated that Li Sancai, the governor of Huaiyang, who had quite a good political achievement, enter the cabinet, but was smeared and scolded by the forces that opposed Li Sancai's entry into the cabinet.

After the dictatorship of the eunuch party, the Donglin Party was severely hit, and it was not until the Chongzhen period that the Donglin Party was reused.

Because the Mingshen Sect ignores the government and politics, the shortage of officials is very serious.

In 1602, there was a shortage of three scholars and ten waiters in the north and south of Beijing; There are three governors in various localities, 66 political envoys and envoys, and 25 prefects.

The Mingshen Sect Committee was at the top, the hundred officials were fighting at the bottom, and the Ming court was completely idle.

There are many parties in the ranks of the bureaucracy, such as the Donglin Party, the Xuan Party, the Kunming Party, the Qi Party, the Zhejiang Party, and so on, but the topic of discussion is not how to improve the government and government, but only the personnel layout.

In the northeast, due to the corruption and degeneration of Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong who was deeply trusted by Mingshenzong, in the later period, he lied about the military situation, deceived the military merit reward, and favored the Nurhachi forces in the military attack target, resulting in serious border troubles in the late Ming Dynasty, and eventually led to the Qing Dynasty entering China.

Therefore, the "History of the Ming Dynasty" said: "The commentator said: The death of the Ming Dynasty is actually the death of the Divine Sect." ”

In terms of military affairs, the Wanli Dynasty was the most meritorious in the three major campaigns of Wanli, winning all three battles to consolidate the Ming Dynasty's frontiers and protect the Joseon Dynasty, but it also consumed the Ming Dynasty's treasury silver.

In 1617, Nurhachi turned against the Ming with the "Seven Great Hatreds", and two years later defeated the Ming army in the Battle of Sarhu, and the Ming Dynasty turned to strategic defense against the Later Jin.

In 1620, Myojin died.

His eldest son Zhu Changluo ascended the throne as Guangzong, Ming Guangzong only reigned for one month, and on August 29, he died suddenly on the fifth watch of September 1 because of taking Li Kezhuo's red pill.

Ming Xizong succeeded to the throne and changed the Yuan Tianqi.

In the early days of Ming Xizong, a large number of Donglin Party members were used, which intensified the Donglin Party dispute, and Ming Xizong lost patience with the government as a result, and Wei Zhongxian took the opportunity to intervene in politics and win over the Qichu and Zhejiang Parties, known as the Eunuch Party.

In 1622, the White Lotus Rebellion led by Xu Hongru broke out in Shandong.

In addition, popular uprisings, mutinies, and anti-rent struggles broke out frequently in various localities.

After 1624, the eunuch party grasped the government, Wei Zhongxian arbitrarily wielded power, and his minions spread all over the country, and vigorously attacked the Donglin party, using the "Gong Attack Case, Red Pill Case, and Palace Removal Case" as an excuse to instigate his henchmen to forge the "Donglin Party Point General Record" and report it to the imperial court.

In 1625, Ming Xizong issued an edict and burned down the national academy.

A large number of Donglin Party members were imprisoned and even executed, and the chaos of the government during the Apocalypse led to the intensification of internal and external troubles.

Among these things, Wei Bao also played a role.

However, Wei Bao hid it very well, and the Donglin Party did not particularly hate Wei Bao.

At least the vast majority of the Donglin Party did not hate Wei Bao.

Because Wei Bao's written investigation and anti-corruption are aimed at the entire bureaucracy, including the eunuch party, not just the Donglin party.

Wei Bao's political influence on the Ming Dynasty is not big, nor is it small, but it is only hidden in the torrent of history, and it does not go beyond the scope of history.

Basically, what is the original history, what is still the same in Wei Bao's life, nothing has changed.

The same is true of the territory.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty has not changed much in Wei Bao's life.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, more than 40 guards were set up in the border area of Outer Mongolia as the frontier front, including Dongshengwei, Huanhewei, Kaipingwei, Daningwei, etc., all of which were important frontier areas of the Ming Dynasty, and their direction was roughly Yinshan, Daqingshan, and Xilamulun River.

After Yongle, due to the cold weather and poor farming, the border gradually moved south. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the revival of Mongolia, the border moved inward again, and the Great Wall was built to defend against Mongolia.

Zhu Yuanzhang placed the Liaodong Capital Division to run Liaodong, and later Zhu Di appeased the Jurchen tribe and set up the Nuer Gandu Division in 1411, with a total of more than 130 health offices.

In 1435, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty withdrew the garrison of Liuguan in Nuergan, and the number of guards increased to 384 during the Wanli period.

In the late Ming Dynasty, after the rise of the Later Jin, it gradually occupied Liaodong.

In 1393, Zhu Yuanzhang moved to Tielingwei and tacitly agreed to replace Goryeo's Lee Joseon to occupy the area east of the Yalu River and south of the Tumen River.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were successively Hami, Shazhou, Anding, Aduanwei, Quxian, Chijin Mongolia, Handongzuo and other guards in the northwest, and the northwest border of the Ming Dynasty covered present-day Xinjiang.

In 1472, Hamiwei was captured by Turpan and later restored in 1482.

During the Hongzhi period, three losses and three recoveries, after 1528, the west of Jiayuguan was occupied by Turpan.

In 1370, the Tubo Xuanfu made He Suo Nanpu and others lead the Tubo tribes to surrender, and then set up Wusizang and Duoganwei in the Qinghai-Tibet region to command the envoys.

After the unification of Tibetan areas was completed, Ming Taizu asked the Tibetans to lose horses for endowment, undertake forced labor, or steam black tea and import rented rice, emphasizing that "it is indispensable for the people to be virtuous and the soil to be endowed."

In 1407, Ming Chengzu sent Liu Zhao, He Ming and others to set up post stations in Tibetan areas, and in 1414, he sent Zhongguan Yang Sanbao to Tibetan areas to summon the local officials to restore the post stations, and after years of hard work, the post road to and from the West was finally safe and unimpeded.

In 1382, the Ming army pacified the whole territory of Yunnan, in addition to the official prefecture and set up three Xuan and six consolation, Yongle years to add the Diwu Thorn, the Great Ancient Thorn, the Bottom of the three Xuan Comfort Division, the ruling range includes present-day Burma, most of Laos and northwest Thailand to the Bay of Bengal, the middle and late Ming Dynasty these areas are mostly abandoned or annexed by neighboring countries.

In 1406, the Ming army attacked Annam, reaching as far south as the area of Ninanju.

The following year, the Ming Dynasty set up the Jiaozhi Political Envoy Division, and Annan officially became an administrative region of the Ming Dynasty, with 15 prefectures, 41 prefectures, and 208 counties, with a total of 3.12 million people.

In 1427, the Ming Dynasty dismissed the political envoys and abandoned Annan.

Annam gained independence from China again and established the Later Li Dynasty.

In 1540, Mo Dengyong asked for surrender, and the Ming Dynasty reduced the state of Annan to the commander of the capital of Annan.

In 1553, Portugal leased Macau and obtained the right to moor ships, and in 1557, it obtained the right of abode, and the Portuguese had to pay rent to the Ming government, and the Ming Dynasty still had the sovereignty of Macao.

In 1624, Dutch colonists entered southern Taiwan and built the city of Tsurelangi. In 1626, Spanish colonists entered northern Taiwan. In 1642, the Dutch drove out Spain and occupied most of Taiwan.

In 1661, Zheng Chenggong attacked Taiwan, expelled the Dutch the following year, and set up Chengtianfu to govern Tianxing and Wannian counties.

In 1376, it was changed to the provincial envoy department, but it is still customarily called "province".

In 1370, a metropolitan guard was set up in each province, and in 1375, it was changed to a metropolitan commander.

After abandoning Annan in 1427, the Ming Dynasty set up two capitals and thirteen political envoys throughout the country, including Beizhili, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan as the five northern provinces, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, and Sichuan as the five central provinces, and Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan as the five southern provinces.

A total of 16 divisions, five elements divisions, and two left-behind divisions have been set up.

Thirteen of them are the capital divisions with the same name as the political envoys, and the other three are the Wanquan Division, the Daning Division, and the Liaodong Division.

The Five Elements Division is Shaanxi, Ganzhou Wei, now Zhangye, Sichuan, Jianchangwei, Huguang Yunyangwei, Fujian Jianning Mansion, Shanxi Datong Mansion.

The two left-behind divisions are the Zhongdu Left-behind Division set up during the Hongwu period and the Xingdu Left-behind Division placed in Chengtianfu during the Jiajing period.

In addition, in the Qinghai-Tibet region of the ****, there are Wusi Tibetan Division, Duogandu Division; In the northeastern Jurchen tribe, there was a Nuer Gandu Division, under the jurisdiction of 131 guards, and the number increased to 384 in the Wanli period.

In addition, the northwest eight guards are located in the area west of Jiayuguan, and the above are all detention guards, which are different from the nature of the capital division and the capital division in the mainland.

Now there is a large Mongolian tribe to take refuge in its entirety, which has not happened for many years in the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the Emperor of the Apocalypse Zhu Youxiao and Wei Zhongxian, in fact, whether it is the Eunuch Party Group or the Donglin Party Group, they all admire Wei Bao very much, and they can let a tribe of more than 100,000 people take refuge, which can greatly enhance the prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

It can even be said that Wei Bao's prestige has been improved.

Otherwise, the courtiers, as well as the Ming Dynasty, have begun to wonder if the Ming system is not working.

The guard system is the Ming Dynasty court in all parts of the country military important places to set up guard garrisons, there are 5,600 guards, under which there are thousands of households, hundreds of households, general flags and small flags and other units, each guard is subordinate to the five military governor's office, also subordinate to the military department, something from the levy to send out, nothing to return to the guard.

The source of the army is the hereditary military household, and each household sends one person to serve as a soldier in the Zhengding Zhiwei Station, and the soldiers take turns guarding the garrison and the tuntian, and the income from the tuntian is used to supply the needs of the army and generals.

Its goal was to raise soldiers without consuming the country's financial resources, but after Xuanzong, it became impossible to maintain it, and the living standards and social status of the soldiers gradually declined, and the number of deserters gradually increased, so the armament gradually became obsolete.