diskusbooks Chapter 307 Chapter 307 Is there any emperor who doesn’t attend court for three years?
Chapter 307 Chapter 307 Is there any emperor who doesn’t attend court for three years?
Chapter 307 307 Is there any emperor who does not attend court for thirty years?
Wang Buli's words spread quickly.
In short, it's just polite words like the emperor is thinking about everyone.
If you encounter any injustice while doing things, you can go to Wang Buli to talk about it.
So many people shouted out in joy.
It has to be said that among the simple views of the people, they need a "Judge Bao" who can make decisions for them.
Wang Buli's name is still quite popular in the areas around Yingtian Prefecture.
When Lu Tang, the head of the Ministry of Works, heard someone shouting loudly, he immediately became nervous.
If this group of unruly people cause chaos and harm the life of the prince consort, his entire family would be in danger.
The most important thing is, it is best not to cause trouble under the emperor's feet.
So he hurriedly asked a group of soldiers to follow him and run forward, shouting loudly that they were not allowed to make any noise, and asked those who needed to queue up for food to continue queuing up and not to go and watch the fun.
When they reached the source of the crowd, the soldiers roughly pushed aside a path and Lu Tang discovered that the prince consort was sitting nearby talking to the craftsmen next to him.
Anyway, a group of people gathered around and watched Wang Buli's excitement while eating.
When Lu Tang saw this scene, and saw a group of yamen runners protecting Wang Buli, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He wiped the hot sweat from his face.
"My Lord, would you like another bowl of rice?"
When Lu Tang saw Wang Buli glance at him, he quickly added something.
Wang Buli sat aside and finished the rice in his bowl, indicating that he had enough.
He didn't make things difficult for him. He stood up, patted his butt, handed the empty bowl to him, and told Lu Tang to find a place to rest for a while.
It's very hot at noon.
Lu Tang responded quickly and led Wang Buli out of the crowd.
Many craftsmen gathered together, and the one who was eating quietly was patted by a worker next to him.
"The Prince Consort was talking to you just now, why didn't you pay attention to him?"
"I don't know what to say. Eating is more important."
"Well, you are really good."
Soon their conversation was drowned out by all the noise. Everyone was talking about being able to take a two-hour break at noon, working more in the morning and evening, and having some cold mung bean soup to drink.
The food is not bad and can fill my stomach. I also get paid for working, and my life is becoming more and more promising.
Wang Buli was taken into the woods by Lu Tang.
There is a hammock tied next to the two trees, where Lu Tang usually rests.
Wang Buli tried it and felt a slight breeze blowing here, which was quite cool. It seemed that Lu Tang was a person who knew how to enjoy life.
Further away, there was a group of craftsmen who had just finished their meal, sitting or lying on the ground leaning against a tree to rest.
No one will come here to bother the officials.
Wang Buli took off his shoes, lay on them, swaying, looking at the emerald green leaves, with some sunlight leaking through.
When the breeze blows around, the cicadas chirp continuously, urging people to sleep.
……
Zhu Yuanzhang took Zhu Biao away from his busy schedule and into the fairyland, and Zhu Biao felt that he could finally relax for a moment.
He worked intensively every day and only had a half-day break every five days. Even though Zhu Biao was young, he still found it difficult to catch up.
Zhu Yuanzhang, however, was looking at the younger generation of Wanli, thinking that he would like to see what achievements he could make after he killed Zhang Juzheng.
Better not to disappoint me too much.
After Zhang Juzheng's death, the central court began to take actions to cut off his influence.
Zhu Yuanzhang carefully observed that after Zhang Juzheng's death, no one from the emperor to the ministers had made any achievements, but instead they kept trying to cut ties with Zhang Juzheng for justice.
Zhang Juzheng himself was accused after his death of accepting bribes, living an extravagant life, placing incompetent cronies in important positions, abusing his power, and arranging for his sons to pass the civil service examinations and enter the Hanlin Academy.
He colluded with eunuch Feng Bao, suppressed public opinion, deceived the emperor, and even attempted to usurp the throne.
Although some of the accusations were based on facts, most of them were brought forward by court officials who had suffered during Zhang Juzheng's reign and were eager to defend themselves at his expense.
In short, they tried to completely change his policies, stop his reforms in official procedures, and eradicate his influence whenever they could.
His successor, Zhang Siwei, who had been protected and recommended by Zhang Juzheng, served in the position of Prime Minister for a year before he understood the opinions of the emperor and his ministers (the public). He immediately stopped Zhang's previous land surveying work and began a thorough anti-Zhang campaign.
Many people who had connections with Zhang Juzheng were held accountable by "people all over the world".
After Qi Jiguang died, Wanli did not give him any pension.
Li Chengliang was quite smart. Long before he was impeached because of Zhang Juzheng, he had bribed court officials lavishly and had someone speak for him, so he barely got through.
As for Qi Jiguang, most of his money was given to his subordinates. He had no money to bribe people in the court, and his later years were extremely miserable.
After Zhang Juzheng's death, local officials no longer implemented the performance evaluation system and threw it all aside. They could finally breathe a sigh of relief and stop working.
Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows.
It is true that when a person dies, it is like a light going out.
Many things that are beneficial to the Ming Dynasty will not be inherited by future generations.
Instead, he threw it aside and ignored it.
However, when Zhu Yuanzhang discovered that Wanli was personally ruling the government, he was not successful in this regard either.
Just the prime ministers he selected were afraid to do anything, for fear of being impeached by the censors below.
Zhu Yuanzhang discovered that these censors did not do any practical work and were just finding faults every day to achieve their goal of attacking other factions, right?
This is completely contrary to his original intention of setting it up.
Zhang Juzheng's policies were abolished.
The court's control over the Ming's extensive bureaucracy further declined.
At this time, some small factions of officials in the Ministry of Personnel, officials in charge of education, and officials in the Ministry of Personnel were not under the control of the grand secretaries.
Through impeachment, these people finally realized how great their influence in the court was.
So they were busy arguing and trying to purge Zhang Juzheng's followers, rather than trying to restore and revive.
The most important thing is that the emperor was not decisive enough.
This undoubtedly does not help control the situation, but instead makes it worse.
"Dad." Zhu Biao's face was a little ugly when he saw this: "Wanli has always been under the wing of Zhang Juzheng and thought that handling state affairs was very simple.
But when he really started to deal with it, he found that he couldn’t adapt to it at all.”
Zhu Yuanzhang could not deny it.
Without the guidance of the older generation, if one has to deal with such complicated government affairs right away and does not have the mentality of a strong person, it is easy to collapse.
"Wanli neither lived up to the ideal of a virtuous ruler that his subjects expected, nor did he have the personal ability to act like a powerful 'tyrant'. This really disappointed us."
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Wanli's methods were too immature, his ideas and mentality were immature, and he was not as good as Jiajing's.
Jiajing's situation at that time was even worse than Wanli's.
Even if you do something like Zhang Juzheng, will you still implement his policies?
Just like the King of Qin killed Shang Yang but continued his reforms.
Emperor Wanli also tried to make several cabinet ministers his confidants.
Unfortunately, it was too clumsy and unsuccessful.
He is no match for those experienced officials in the officialdom.
In particular, the consequences of his targeting Zhang Juzheng made many ministers dare not confide in the emperor anymore.
Who dares to work wholeheartedly for the Ming Dynasty?
In the end, even his family suffered such a miserable fate!
What's worse is that the emperor didn't do this in secret.
The other ministers suspected that the cabinet was conspiring with the emperor, and they did not stand on their side and refused to cooperate with the cabinet's work at all.
Benefited from Wanli's suppression of the cabinet.
The other six ministries began to fight back desperately. Who would still listen to the cabinet?
Wanli had no cards to play, and he could not restrain the censors who were speaking nonsense.
He didn't even learn Jiajing's ruthlessness to make people shut up.
Then, the court officials began to conflict with each other over the issue of appointing a crown prince.
The establishment of the crown prince must, of course, be carried out in accordance with the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang. However, Wanli did not want to establish the eldest son as the crown prince, but wanted to establish the second son as the crown prince.
Outrageous.
After the ministers argued with him, he actually ignored the affairs of state.
Then a scene appeared that made Zhu Yuanzhang so angry that his beard was about to fly.
After being hit by reality, Wanli began to indulge in alcohol and sex, and ruined himself!
"This is outrageous." Zhu Yuanzhang angrily slapped the sofa and said, "He really disappoints me."
But it’s still a little early for Lao Zhu to say this.
Because of the dispute over the country's foundation, Wanli began to slack off.
He sent people to move all the confiscated property of Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng into the palace so that he could enjoy his life, and he also sent eunuchs to collect mining taxes.
Such enjoyment and disregard for state affairs made Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widen.
He looked at Zhu Biao beside him with some disbelief.
Zhu Biao was not mentally prepared for such behavior from his descendants.
"Dad, maybe he was spoiled since he was young. He will be fine after a while."
Zhu Biao tried to make up for it.
Zhu Yuanzhang, a diligent official, could not bear to see this situation.
As a result, both father and son found Wanli's behavior too difficult to understand.
As the great emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he never left the palace, took care of state affairs, went to the suburbs, temples, or court, met people, approved things, or spoke.
Many people wanted to retire and return home, but the emperor did not approve, so they just ran away and went home and stopped serving him.
Of course, you won’t get any retirement pay, let alone any money after you die.
As a result, there were not enough officials in the government offices, and many of them did not do their jobs.
"Is there any emperor in the world who doesn't attend court for thirty years?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned and had many things to say in his heart.
Zhu Biao was also stunned and didn't know what to say.
What an ambitious emperor! After getting rid of the powerful ministers, he found that he was incompetent and simply stopped working!
"Really, it's really a hopeless situation!"
Zhu Yuanzhang clenched his fists and cursed angrily.
With this emperor setting an example, wouldn’t the emperors who came after him follow suit?
"I am so heartbroken. How could the throne fall into the hands of such a person?"
Zhu Biao didn’t know how to comfort his father. After all, he was his own son!
But what made Zhu Yuanzhang feel better was that
Wanli did not attend court, there was no eunuch rebellion, no external relatives interfering in politics, and no powerful ministers like Yan Song and Zhang Juzheng. The factional struggles in the court were also within the controllable range.
Despite ignoring everything, the Ming Dynasty still fought three major battles and achieved complete victory.
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and wanted to see what was going on.
The first battle was the Battle of Ningxia. The leader was a Mongolian whose father and brother were killed. He fled to the Ming Dynasty and served as a soldier for his entire life before being promoted to deputy general.
After Lao Bai retired and his son inherited the position, according to custom, the Lao Lao family retained more than a thousand "householders", still commanded by his son.
"What does house-servant mean?"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at those well-equipped soldiers with great confusion in his eyes.