The six-dimensional pictures of emperors of all dynasties were exposed, and the ancestors panicked

Chapter 619: Chopping the coffin and killing the corpse!

Cao Wei.

"How about a bet, you two?"

Cao Cao looked at the sky, a gleam of light in his eyes.

He looked at Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and smiled as he proposed a bet.

"Let's bet on how long it will take for the little emperor to start eliminating Zhang Juzheng's influence in the court."

"how?"

Sun Quan glanced at Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's mouth twitched slightly.

"What does Duke Wei want to bet on?"

"No gambling."

Cao Cao ignored Sun Quan and smiled at Liu Bei:

"Xuan De really doesn't gamble?"

"If you win, the title of King of Han in Hanzhong will belong to Xuande?"

Liu Bei was not tempted at all.

Cut to the chase:
"No gambling."

Sun Quan was stunned for a moment, then he understood!

This thief Cao is dancing with a sword like Xiang Zhuang, aiming at Pei Gong!
……

[Before his death, Zhang Juzheng recommended Pan Sheng and Yu Youding, as well as Zhang Xueyan, the Minister of Revenue, Liang Menglong, the Minister of War, Xu Xuemo, the Minister of Rites, Zeng Xingwu, the Minister of Works, and Xu Guo, Chen Jingbang, and Wang Zhuan, the Vice Ministers, saying that they were all "very useful."]

【However. Deputy Minister Zhang Siwei knew that Shen Shixing did not want to be under Pan Sheng, so the two of them together informed the Imperial Censors and Censors, suggesting that they submit a memorial to impeach Pan Sheng.】

【Wanli believed that Pan Sheng was recommended by Zhang Juzheng in his last will and testament, so he issued an order: "Pan Sheng was recommended by Prime Minister in his last will and testament. How can you bring up the past and disturb him?" He did not agree to revoke the order.】

[Zhang Dingsi, Wang Jiguang, Sun Wei, Niu Weibing, and the Imperial Censors Wei Yunzhen and Wang Guo successively submitted memorials to impeach Pan Sheng.]

[Pan Sheng submitted a petition to resign, and Zhang Siwei responded quickly, drafting an edict on behalf of the emperor: "Let him go!"]

【Wanli took advantage of the situation and ordered Pan Sheng to retire with a new title.】

……

Tang Dynasty and Gaozong period
Li Zhi held the heater in his arms and lazily said to Zhangsun Wuji:
"When winter comes, the ground becomes ice and snow three feet thick."

"But when summer comes, under the scorching sun, where can you see a single snowflake?"

"The natural seasons and the political rules are similar in nature."

Chang Sun Wuji stroked his beard and sighed:
"What is the Wanli New Deal? In short, it can be summed up in one sentence: the way of the gentleman prevails, while the way of the villain disappears."

"The emperor is just putting on an act for the world to see, just because Zhang Juzheng was his teacher and recommended two people before his death. How can he refuse his honor?"

“But if someone raises objections, he will definitely change his mind.”

"This is a sign of a counterattack and reckoning."

……

[In October of the tenth year of the Wanli reign (1582), the Minister of Personnel Wang Guoguang was also impeached and dismissed by the censors, and the Minister of War Liang Menglong was appointed as the Minister of Personnel.]

[In December, the imperial censors Li Zhi, Jiang Dongzhi, Yang Keli and others impeached and exposed Feng Bao's crimes, and also implicated Zhang Juzheng in collusion with Feng Bao and concealing a large amount of property.]

[Feng Bao was exiled to Nanjing and lived there idle, and died of illness in the first month of the following year.]

[Liang Menglong, the Minister of Personnel, Zeng Xingwu, the Minister of Works, and others were ordered to retire.]

……

{This is basically your own fault, right?}
{It’s hard to say, actually. At the beginning, Sun Hai and Ke Yong went to the palace with Wanli every day for banquets, rode horses along the long streets, and carried weapons.}
{Feng Bao told this to Empress Dowager Li, and then the story of Huo Guang's dethronement and enthronement came about.}
{In fact, from a unilateral perspective, Feng Bao's act of filing a complaint was not a big problem, but the way he dealt with the problem afterwards was very problematic.}
{Not to mention the threatening behavior of Empress Dowager Li, which frightened Wanli to his knees and admitted his fault. By the way, Feng Bao was watching from the side at this time.}
{Then Feng Bao asked Zhang Juzheng to draft a self-criticism edict on behalf of Emperor Wanli, and to review and admit his mistakes to the cabinet ministers. This was a bit too much.}
{And yet Zhang Juzheng wrote this edict of apology, the wording of which was really...really too derogatory.}
{You all must have experienced the second year of middle school, right? At that stage, the novels you read were all about "if you glare at me, I'll kill your whole family." Eighteen years old is the time to have self-respect, and he is the emperor, and he has to wait until he is thirty before he can rule... These consecutive blows... It really feels like a way to die.}
{Feng Bao also took advantage of Zhang Juzheng to exclude dissidents among the eunuchs. The list of flattering eunuchs Zhang Juzheng listed in his memorial was entirely provided by Feng Bao.}
{Wanli trusted Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng protected Feng Bao...it seems that the source of the resentment is complicated.}
……

Great Sui.

"Zhang Juzheng is really... he has to be smooth when it's time to be smooth!"

Yang Jian was a little angry that he didn't fight back.

Can you write that confession of guilt?

Do you really think you are the emperor's father?

"He is headstrong and self-willed."

Dugu Jialuo said coldly:
"I don't believe that he wouldn't make some harmless concessions when there is a conflict of interest between him and Feng Bao or the royal family."

"After decades of ups and downs in the political arena, he can't read people's expressions?"

"But why can't you give in or read the emperor's expression when he comes to you?"

"Because he doesn't think it's necessary!"

"He still manages the current Wanli just as he managed the ten-year-old Wanli."

"Because he thinks the emperor is still young!"

Yang Jian patted Dugu Jialuo who was inexplicably angry and shook his head:

"No, Garo, he doesn't have time."

The queen frowned and looked at the emperor.

Yang Jian looked at the sky and sighed.

"The emperor is young, his new policies are just beginning, and he has no one to succeed him."

"He's worried."

"He is worried..."

……

[With the death of Zhang Juzheng and the departure of Feng Bao, Wanli was able to break free from the hand that once held him in check and take control of the government, and act completely according to his own wishes.]

[The court and the outside world suddenly lost two intimidating strongmen, and the censors who had been suppressed for a long time felt relieved and suddenly became very active. ]

[Since Feng Bao could be defeated, why couldn't Zhang Juzheng be defeated?] [On December 14, Yang Sizhi, the censor of Shaanxi Province, accused the late Grand Tutor Zhang Juzheng of fourteen major crimes.]

[Compared with some of the impeachment memorials of Zhang Juzheng in previous years, Yang Sizhi's memorial did not have much new content, nor was it surprisingly persuasive. But the fates of the two were completely different.]

[The former aroused Wanli's wrath, and he severely punished the person who submitted the petition.]

【The latter was pleased with this and readily agreed. 】

[In the first month of the eleventh year of the Wanli reign (1583), Zhang Juzheng's sons were stripped of their official titles due to censors' accusations of fraud.]

[In March, an imperial edict was issued to deprive Zhang Juzheng of his title of Grand Tutor of the State and Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince.]

[In April, Wang, the second wife of the deposed Liao King Zhu Xian, wrote a letter to complain, accusing Zhang Juzheng of abusing his power to depose her Liao King title, and claiming that the huge amount of Liao King's Palace's financial power was embezzled by the Zhang family.]

【Therefore, Wanli ordered the confiscation of the Zhang family. 】

[Once this decree was issued, the government and the public were shocked! ]

【Many officials with a sense of justice and even those who were once political enemies of Zhang Juzheng stepped forward to plead for the late Zhang Juzheng, hoping that the emperor would forgive him.】

[Their argument is that no matter how Zhang Juzheng abused his power and acted recklessly, his merits outweighed his faults, and it would never reach the point of confiscating his property.]

【But Wanli refused to listen and claimed:
"Zhang Juzheng betrayed my kindness and disregarded the law, and even occupied the royal palace and cemetery property. How can I tolerate this? Are you ministers going to ask for help?】

【So he ordered the Imperial Household Department's Chief Secretary Zhang Cheng and the Vice Minister Qiu Yu to go there.】

……

{I still don't understand why Wanli hated Zhang Juzheng so much? He was so good to Zhang Juzheng before.}
{It can only be said that the three-foot-thick ice did not form overnight.}
{According to records, Zhang Juzheng treated Wanli with the attitude of a strict teacher treating his students.}
{Once Wanli was reading The Analects, he mistakenly read the word "bo" in "色勃如也" as "bei". Zhang Juzheng corrected him in a stern voice: "It should be 'bo'.}

{The sound was like thunder, and Wanli was "horrified and startled", and all his colleagues present were terrified.}
{In order to cooperate with Zhang Juzheng's teaching, Empress Dowager Li gave Emperor Wanli an even stricter lesson in the palace, "always guarding and monitoring him", "making sure that he would not hear any indecent words, and would not dare to say any obscene things", "if the emperor did not read, she would summon him to kneel", or if he made a mistake, she would "summon him to kneel, and count his faults, and only when he wept and begged to change would the emperor stop."}
{It's no big deal if a child mispronounces a word? Is it necessary to scold him so harshly?}
{You can just guide him by saying: "Look at this word, isn't it the same as the word 'bo' in the idiom 'vibrant and full of energy'?" The little emperor will definitely understand it immediately.}
{He was in power and became arrogant. He also thought that he was a little emperor who didn't pay attention in class and offended the classics. He suddenly felt that he couldn't tolerate it anymore, right?}
{In fact, it was because Zhang Juzheng’s power frightened the emperor. “The palace and government were one, and all the ministers followed his lead. The power of the prime minister was rare in this dynasty. The ministers accepted the award with their hands clasped, which was even more than that of a powerful emperor and a strict father.”}
{The so-called "palace and government as one" means that he combined the power of the inner palace (emperor) and the outer court (government) in one person. He is a real authoritarian ruler!}

{Forget it. He is just greedy for money. He has been coveting Zhang Juzheng's wealth for a long time. After confiscating Feng Bao's property, he wanted to take action against the Zhang family, but he couldn't find a suitable reason.}
{Now I can finally fulfill my wish.}
……

[After Jingzhou prefect Hao Rushong learned the news, he immediately sealed off the gates of Zhang's mansion, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving. By the time Zhang Cheng and his companions arrived in May, seventeen people had starved to death in Zhang's mansion.]

[Through the confiscation of the properties of Zhang Juzheng's brothers, nephews, and grandchildren, they only obtained 10,000 taels of gold and over 100,000 taels of silver.]

[Qiu Yu and others slandered Zhang Juzheng's property as 2 million taels, and forced Zhang Juzheng's eldest son, Zhang Jingxiu, the head of the Ministry of Rites, to admit that he had hidden 300,000 taels in the homes of Zeng Shengwu and others.]

[Zhang Jingxiu could not bear the torture and hanged himself. Before his death, he left a suicide note, which truly recorded the catastrophe of the Zhang family's property being ransacked.]

[Accused Qiu Yu and others of being tortured into confessing, and ridiculed Zhang Siwei for deceiving the emperor.]

[After Zhang Jingxiu's death, the Prime Minister Shen Shixing joined forces with the ministers of various ministries to plead for Zhang Juzheng.]

[Under pressure from his ministers, Wanli issued an edict:
"Zhang Juzheng has been extremely ungrateful to his family and has brought disaster to his relatives. His mother is dying and homeless, and he feels sorry for her and has ordered her to be given an empty house and ten hectares of land for her support. He immediately sent someone to tell Zhang Cheng and others to follow his orders."

Only then was the Zhang family allowed to leave an empty house and ten hectares of land to support Zhang Juzheng's mother.

……

Ming dynasty.

"Your uncle's bastard!"

Zhu Yuanzhang slammed the table so hard that it made a loud bang!

"Zhang Juzheng has devoted all his efforts to the Ming Dynasty!"

"Marquis Zhuge is no better than this!"

"I put all my heart and soul into it! I don't care what happens after my death, I'm helping you! I teach you with all my heart!"

"And now! You little bastard is calling me a traitor?!"

"Fuck you xxxxx!"

Empress Ma looked at the furious Zhu Yuanzhang and was at a loss for what to do.

……

[Do you think Wanli gave up? ]

[No, he avoided the fact that more than ten people in the Zhang family starved to death, and only seized on the excuse that "only two people were hanged, how can it be said that more than ten people starved to death", and began to implicate all the officials who stood up to protect the Zhang family when they were in trouble.]

【When the leaders advocate something, the subordinates will follow suit. Officials are suspicious of and attack each other, and the atmosphere is chaotic.】

[On the ninth day of the eighth month in the twelfth year of the Wanli reign (1584), Wanli ordered the clerk Song Kun to convey his order to the cabinet: “Re-examine Ju Zheng’s crimes.”]

[The Censorate and other government offices followed the order and submitted a memorial impeaching the former Prime Minister Zhang Juzheng. Wanli wrote on it:

Zhang Juzheng slandered the relatives of the vassal, seized the king's tomb and mansion, suppressed the censors, and blocked my hearing.

He privately occupied abandoned Liao land and falsely measured it to cover it up, causing unrest in the country.

He is authoritarian and commits chaos in politics, is ungrateful to his superiors, and is disloyal to the country.

The coffin should have been chopped up and the body mutilated, but considering his many years of service, I will spare him all legal prosecution.

His subordinates Zhang Juyi, Zhang Sixiu, Zhang Shun and Zhang Shu were all sentenced to permanent garrison in smoke-filled and miasma-infected areas and served as exiles forever.

Your Metropolitan Procuratorate will also publish Ju Zheng's crimes in a notice to all provinces. 】

……

Northern Qi Dynasty: Cultural and Propaganda Period
Gao Yang sat cross-legged on the ground.

Fold your hands across your chest.

Look at the sky.

Mr. Zhang, the Prime Minister, the Minister of State, the Minister of Regents, should have opened the coffin and killed the body...

"If anyone says that my Gao family is crazy again, I will not forgive you."

"This Zhu family is much crazier than me."

……

Qing Dynasty and Qianlong period
Qianlong took a sip of tea slowly.

The emperor treats his subjects like grass. He can praise them to the sky or send them to hell.

Even Zhang Juzheng, who had made unparalleled contributions.

No one is exempt from this!
(End of this chapter)