What kind of emperor was Zhu Houjian

Overall

The Jiajing Emperor reigned for 45 years, the longest actual reign of the Ming Dynasty. In the first two decades of his reign quite a good job, with the innovative spirit of not sticking to the old ways created the situation of the rise of the Middle Kingdom, he followed the trend of history, dare to break with tradition, sympathy for the people, agriculture, industry and commerce, the side of the development of society, should also be seen, many of the buildings of his time, such as Beijing's heaven and earth, sun and moon altar, the obvious mausoleum of zhongxiang, yuanyou palace, etc., still shows the elegance of the artistic creations of the laboring people, and contribute to cultural development; but in the Jiajing twenty-two years, the emperor was the longest reign of the Ming dynasty, the longest. Contribute to the development of culture; but in the twenty-first year after the Jiajing increasingly corrupt, the government is bad, the great rituals of the caning of ministers, the worship of Taoism and the scourge of their own, looking for the emergence of the prison, the misuse of sycophants, headstrong, and the situation is turbulent. Jiajing emperor is an extremely smart and confident emperor, and some arrogant arrogance, but is very cheap, and like to spend money, but also very important face, can deal with, but also only Xu step, Yan Song such as official veterans.

The forty-five years of Emperor Jiajing's reign was a period of budding capitalism in China, "generally regarded as an era of very active economy, development of agricultural technology and production, and large-scale development of textiles and handicraft production."

The Jiajing emperor and his father read holy books but to an obsessive degree, which is still rare in history. This can also be linked to his strong attitude in the rituals of the dispute, in addition to the old ministers with the former dynasty to fight for power factors, Jiajing Emperor is more concerned about his beloved parents to fight for the name, so he disregarded his own power alone, in the crowd, determined to fight for their parents to get a more honored position. Jiajing emperor is a full filial son, but his own personal filial piety and disregard for the world public justice, ultimately too petty and narrow, contrary to the broad and voluminous way for the king, later said he was "in the material of the Lord", seems to be recognized as a conclusive statement.

Later historians say that Jiajing loved no one but himself and his parents. In his forty-five years of rule, he showed no mercy in killing his ministers and officials, and even his harem was filled with his forcefulness. Emperor Jiajing's relationship with his sons could not be described as cordial, and he did not have a crown prince until his death. It can be said that after the death of his parents, Emperor Jiajing no longer had anyone he could cozy up to. Every holiday and the anniversary of the death of his parents, Jiajing emperor always have to screen off the crowd, to the parents of the spirit of long kneeling, tears and silent blessing, look miserable, so that secretly peeped at the courtesan was also moved, but also only at this time, the strong emperor only showed some of the bones of the warmth and vulnerability.

History evaluation

"Ming History" said: "Shizong Royal pole of the beginning of the force to remove all the ills of the world, the open and close to say rule. Gu repeatedly discuss the great gift, public opinion boils, the fortunate ministers false support, looking for the rise of the prison. If the nature of the feelings of the king and relatives of the righteousness of the temple, after respect, the ritual is also appropriate; but worship in the temple, and among the Wu Zong above, is not already too much! If the time is confused, will be tired at the border, thieves fighting in the interior, and advocate Taoism, enjoy the sacrifice of Fuk Jing, the construction of the prosperous Xing, the House of hiding the scarcity of more than a hundred years of affluence and governance of the industry, due to the gradual replacement. Although cut the power of the traitors, authority in the Royal, to also be in the material of the Lord also carry on.

The actual record of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty: "the Lord of the Holy Unseen"; "the Sacred Capital, out of the causation of Xingyun, shoveling out the evils, Pi lifting the king's program, Zhao Xiu people's discipline. The king's program was established, and the human discipline was revised. All of the great governmental decrees of the cause of reform, the production of great ceremonies, Xianqi plan in the sky, will be through the ancient and modern, through the painting from the heart, perseverance and dictation, a wash of the common official traces, by the student to keep the text of the ugly. ...... The officials and ministers run to be accomplished, and the ten thousand surnames pour their hearts to the chemical. In the end, the Ming and Qing were in harmony, the Chinese and foreign suppression of the peace, the sound and education in the south, the spirit of the poor in the Sakoku. The cover of my Taizu, Chengzu Pi made the light of martyrdom, and Hajiyan of the towering, Sheng!

Evaluations

Historian: "(Shizong) in his later years, although not the Royal Palace, but the approval of the consultant, the day without sundial. Though he lived in deep silence, but the tension and relaxation of maneuvering, the authority does not change."

Yang Weizhen: "Shizong enjoyed the country for a long time. The first is that the government has not been able to make any changes to the way the country is governed. The first thing I want to do is to make sure that I have a good understanding of what I'm talking about. Lent a few decades, figure meandering the world in the palm of your hand, in and out of the world just like the presence of the true Lord of England! Beginning of the end, Xindu (Yang Tinghe), Yongjia (Zhang Zong), Huating (Xu Jie) work is great. The officials are cumbersome and hypocritical. Weaknesses and inertia in military affairs. Weaknesses of the military and political weaknesses. Fang's Han Wu Di. The work is not better."

Hai Rui: "Jiajing, every family is clean."

Zhang Juzheng: "Zhengde years, political disorder. To Emperor Shizong to smart to the saint to succeed the reign of the great, will be the previous bad all corrected, to restore my ancestors of the old, is today to comply with." ; "the World Temple to inherit the Zhengde group of traitors after the chaotic government, and with the power to revitalize, to restore the royal program, discipline, and the country's spirit for the again." The banning of foreign relatives by Emperor Shih Tsung was "a vision beyond the world, the same as that of the two ancestors, which could not be imitated by recent emperors." He was "the first emperor to be able to imitate all the recent emperors."; "He was the first emperor to be able to restore the order of the emperor, and he was the first emperor to be able to imitate all the recent emperors. The emperor's life has been blessed with a long life, and a long life, where there is a record!" "We think that at the age of his majesty, the Emperor is a man of great honor, and that he is a man of great virtue, and a man of great honor. The custom of Emperor Taizu and the sacred message of Emperor Shizu should be followed." "His Majesty was a wise man, and in the twenty years since he succeeded to the throne, he has tried hard to govern, and has been diligent in his studies, and his wisdom and judgments are truly unparalleled to those of previous emperors." ; "Begging the Royal Decree under the Censorship, checking according to the early years of jiajing set the constitutional outline of the matter, and then to clarify, upholding the public opinion, and promote discipline, in order to support the emperor to make the rule of excellence, the common decency of the right, the court respect, and under the law to keep carry on."

Tan Qian: "CLEARING UP THE HABITS, CHENG XIONG LORD ALSO"; "to strict control of the officials, to the wide rule of the people; to the scriptures as a teacher, to the law as a supplement; to the strictness of the repair of the internal governance, to the quiet rule of the border defense."

Mao Zedong: "Alchemy and monasticism, dim and old, sitting in the world for more than 40 years, just do not do anything."

Meng Sen: Jiajing superstitious magic, the use of ministers rely on pandering to invite favor to get lucky, the nation's upright soldiers were suppressed to combat the bureaucratic scholar's morale, habits of this great evil change. The style of the scholar is corrupted, and the politics of the generation is hopeless.

Bu key: "Jiajing dynasty thought, culture towards prosperity, appeared a large number of outstanding people and excellent works. Shizong both advocate and lead the force, but also tolerance and protection of the merits"; "family and country tied, six interest entanglement, Shizong's life journey because of the intricate and mixed, but also because of the color and color, because it is full of hope and loss, full of the pursuit of disillusionment, full of anticipation, and there is no lack of despair." ; "In short, this is a highly endowed emperor, is a scholarly emperor, a responsible, dare to take the responsibility of the monarch. Shizong's character was upright and his talent was outstanding, only that he took more detours in life and in ruling the country."

Mao Peiqi: "In fact, in our opinion, Emperor Jiajing of Ming Shizong, among the 17 emperors in the whole Ming Dynasty, he was the emperor who should have acted, and he launched a great ritual soon after he came to the court. In today's words you can say it's a political movement, right, and this great ritual involved all the officials up and down the court."

The bright moon of the year: he was the smartest emperor ever in the Ming dynasty, among the dozen or so emperors of the Ming dynasty, if we want to sort by IQ level, he was at least in the third place, he was smart, not worse than Zhu Yuanzhang in any way, but also very cunning and good at controlling the big picture; Jiajing was in the daytime is in the meditation of the cultivation of Taoism, and in the evening he was in the change of the zhangzhang, which is the key to his ability to control the group of ministers. At night to change the zhangzhang until five o'clock in the morning, he only lay down to sleep for a while, he never let go of any opportunity to control the group of ministers. Since ancient times there were stupid people who were emperors, but there were no stupid emperors in the Ming Dynasty. Jiajing's monasticism was to live for two more years because he mastered the law of being an emperor and no one could shake him, which was the fundamental of monasticism.

Wang Jiafan: "Emperor Jiajing believed in the formula to the point of obsession, to the point of going off the deep end." . "Instead of "doing nothing", Jiajing, who cultivated a solitary life without forgetting to dictate to the court, was more y impressed by the meanness and viciousness of Legalism, which brought the tyranny of the imperial system to the extreme."

Chen Baoguo: "This emperor is very interesting, he does not wear a dragon robe, does not go to court, but all the things in the dynasty know, but also firmly grasp the military power and military power; I almost never sat in the dragon chair in the play, and 'Han Wu Da Di' is so different, this emperor is very different."