Emperor Wanli thought that he could slowly bring down the civil official group and then give in to his opinion, but he really didn't know these civil officials. His critics were far from discouraged. In the emperor's own words, they disregarded punishment in order to gain their current fame.

As early as the early days of the emperor's 'strike', the commentator of Dali Temple, Yu Yuren, criticized the emperor in a letter, saying that he had four problems of 'wine, color and wealth'. It is said that Shenzong "is addicted to alcohol and rots the intestines, lust is devastation, greed for money is demoralized, and Shangqi is born".

Shenzong was furious when he read his book, but Shen Shixing dismissed him on his behalf and reduced him to the people. After a long time, Wanli is a famous book of laziness. Some historians believe that his inertia was inherited from birth, while others suspect that he developed a habit of smoking opium.

The emperor did not appoint a crown prince for a long time, and rumors spread inside and outside the palace and throughout the country. Some rumors are also recorded in the history books. For example, Concubine Gong Wang is an elderly woman who has lost her youth when she meets Wanli. After that, she was blind again, so she could not continue to be favored by the emperor. Another story says that Wanli was seriously ill and was about to lose his life, and one day he woke up and found that Concubine Gong's arm was pillowed under his head, the tears on his face had not dried, and Concubine Zheng was nowhere to be seen. There is also a story that mentions Chang Luo's grandmother, the Empress Dowager Cisheng. She objected to the Emperor's attempt to abandon the elder and the young, and had a special conversation with him for this purpose:

The Queen Mother: "If you really want to do this, how will you explain it to the subjects of the world?" ”

Emperor: "It's easy. I'll just say that he is the son of a palace maid. ”

Queen Mother: "Don't forget, you yourself are also the son of a palace maid!" ”

At this time, there was a crisis at home and abroad, and Yang Yinglong rebelled in the southwest. Neck worship rebelled in Ningxia. Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan invades Korea. The Jianzhou Jurchens in the Northeast, but the civil officials in Beijing are most concerned about who will succeed him on the throne once the official car is driven by the saint today.

There was a civil official named Gu Xiancheng, and his colleague Wang Jiaping criticized the emperor for 'fighting for the country', and the emperor dismissed him as an official in a fit of anger. If there is a shortage of cabinet ministers, the ministry and other officials will "recommend" several candidates for the emperor to choose. And Gu Xiancheng and others listed Wang Jiaping as the first choice in the list of "will push", isn't this clearly against the emperor? Not only that, Gu Xiancheng also offended Shoufu. Once, the first assistant king Xijue talked to him and said, "There is such a strange thing now! The cabinet thinks yes, and the outer court always opposes it; The cabinet thinks it is wrong, but the outer court has done it! ”

Gu Xiancheng replied-for-tat: "Yes! Now things are really strange: what the whole world thinks is right, the cabinet must oppose it; The world thinks it is wrong, but the cabinet agrees. "In this way, he has offended the emperor and the first assistant, can there still be good fruit to eat? The emperor decreed: to "reduce his nationality to the people". This is the twenty-second year of Wanli.

After returning home, Gu Xiancheng and his friends Gao Panlong, Qian Yiyi, Xue Fujiao, Shi Menglin, Yu Kongjian and others opened a academy to give lectures. He also hung a couplet at the door: the sound of the wind, the sound of the rain. The sound of reading, the sound is like an ear; Family affairs, state affairs, and world affairs. Everything cares.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the famous "Donglin Party" was formed!

Donglin College attracts honest scholars to the past. And these people naturally supported the opinion of the founders of the academy, and in their opinion, the prejudice of the Wanli Emperor against his eldest son (which led him to favor his third son to succeed him) was immoral and unceremonial. They opposed the enthusiasm of the Wanli Emperor to appoint Zhu Changxun as the crown prince, which was not inferior to that of any fanatical religious believer.

In the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, the emperor finally succumbed, and the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Changluo, was made the crown prince, and Zhu Changxun was the king of Fu. The edict was issued to the world on the same day. In the first month of the following year, he was the crown prince's concubine Guo. But it seems that the civil servants are not over yet. The Zheng family, who was a man with his sleeves, was next to the emperor day and night, who dared to guarantee that the situation would not change?

But the Wanli Emperor was already full of humiliation and powerlessness in front of the civil official group, he had long lost trust in the civilian official group, and now he was full of hatred, and the emperor's strike continued.

The protests of the ministers kept coming to him, and he did not reply. Because he knew that as long as there was no approval in the notebook, whether it was a fierce refutation or a calm argument, these Zhu criticisms and the original notes would have to be sent to the office in the matter to be copied and published, which happened to fall into the hands of those protesters, so that they could achieve the goal of selling their fame and buying money, and expose their lack of grace. The most appropriate way is to keep these abominable copies in the middle, that is, to detain them in the palace without instructions.

As a result, conscientious officials felt that they could not carry out their tasks and had to submit their resignations. Wanli responded to these resignations with the same attitude, neither accepting the exception of consolation nor allowing resignation. Some officials went away in anger, and the officials pursued them and questioned them, but Wanli also ignored them.

By the end of his reign, the voluntary resignation of a civil servant meant that a position had been abolished, because there was no longer anyone to fill the vacancy. By the forty-second year of Wanli, only one of the six Shangshu in the government was now left, and more than half of the governors, governors, and governors of prefectures and counties across the country were missing. The emperor did not approve the promotion of officials by the officials, nor did he approve the punishment of officials. This is tantamount to destroying the incentive and oversight mechanisms of government agencies.

But Emperor Wanli now has nothing to ask for, since his son can't be the emperor, then give him more pocket money. The land tax and the poll tax are based on the ancestral family law formulated by Ming Taizu, and the tax cannot be increased until the critical moment. Shenzong then levied a commercial tax, which was 3 percent on the trade of goods, except for books and agricultural tools. The other is the notorious "mining tax".

The Divine Sect sent a large number of eunuchs to go out in all directions to collect mining taxes. As long as the "mining tax agent" thinks that there is a place where the mine can be mined, the owner of the property is required to pay the mining tax. These eunuchs did all kinds of evil, accompanied by too many hooligans and villains, extorting money everywhere, pointing to people's ancestral graves, residences, shops, workshops, and fields, saying that there were mineral deposits in the ground and that they had to pay mining taxes. As a result, the world was in turmoil. Only one-tenth of the expropriated property was paid into the inner treasury of the Divine Sect, two-tenths was withheld by the eunuchs, three-tenths was divided among the retinues, and four-tenths of the money was extorted from the good people by the hooligans.

When Emperor Wanli married Zhu Changxun, the blessed king, he spent as much as 300,000 taels of silver. It cost another 280,000 taels to build the royal residence.

When King Fu went to Henan to become a vassal he brought with him a large amount of property. The people silently looked at the young prince, who had built his wealth on their misery, and prayed to Heaven to punish him. Decades later, Li Zicheng's army broke through Luoyang and poured the blood of King Fu and the blood of the deer into the wine, which was named "Fulu Wine". In the history of the Ming Dynasty, Shenzong was often overly portrayed as an absurd, lascivious, and lazy emperor. Judging from the Three Great Expeditions of Wanli, Shenzong was by no means a mediocre emperor. Although we can say that he was very happy, we should not forget that in his letters to the king of Joseon, he always emphasized the fact that the DPRK should strive to protect itself. In fact, the Divine Sect seems to be fully aware of the importance of each military operation. Moreover, in the course of the war, the full trust in the front-line generals and the resolute removal of the generals who made mistakes in command all showed the courage of the Divine Sect.

Compared with the struggle between Wanli Ye and the civil official group, the political reform of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen is more purposeful, and it is not for his own selfish desires! He is very step-by-step and planned!

From the rebirth of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, he has been forbearance until today before he officially threw out his ideas, instead of when the imperial party was established, he began to change the modern era in one go, which can not be said to be a deep city!

Because the reborn Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen knew very well that in order to fight against the powerful and noble arguments as a cover, in fact, it was such a group created by a bunch of Bagu Wen, and he must establish a more systematic political party to fight against it!

Even though the four different political parties of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen cannot be compared with the powerful and great political parties of China in later generations, the cohesion as a political party is what Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen needs! (To be continued......)