This person practices Taoism and cultivates metaphysics, and never goes to court. Why can he firmly control the court?

Emperor Jiajing is a very intelligent man. He is in charge of military power outside and has a Royal Guards inside. Naturally, he is not afraid of the minister's tricks.

Emperor Jiajing reigned for 45 years, and was the emperor who ruled for the longest time in the Ming Dynasty. During his first 2 years in power, he made great achievements, and created the ZTE situation with the innovative spirit of being unconventional. He followed the historical trend, dared to break the tradition, sympathized with the intellectuals, peasants, industry and commerce, and was beneficial to social development. It should also be noted that many buildings of his time, such as the four altars of heaven, earth, sun and moon in Beijing, the Ming Tombs of Zhongxiang, Yuan You Palace, etc., still show the artistic creation of working people and contribute to the development of culture. However, after twenty-one years of Jiajing, it became increasingly corrupt, the state affairs deteriorated, and the situation was turbulent, with the big ceremony and the worship of Taoism, which harmed itself, seeking a big prison, misusing courtiers, and being headstrong. Emperor Jiajing is an extremely clever and confident emperor, and he is arrogant, but he is very stingy, likes to spend money indiscriminately, and is also very proud. Only officialdom veterans like Xu Jie and Yan Song can deal with him.

The forty-five years of Jiajing Emperor's reign was the period when capitalism sprouted in China. "It is generally considered to be an era of very active economy, development of agricultural technology and production, and large-scale development of textile and handicraft production."

Emperor Jiajing and his father are obsessed with reading sage books, which is still rare in history. This can also be related to his tough attitude in the etiquette dispute. Apart from the factors of fighting for power with the old ministers of the previous dynasties, Emperor Jiajing was more concerned about fighting for fame for his beloved parents, so he was determined to fight for a more honorable position for his parents despite his own weakness. Emperor Jiajing is a dutiful son, but he shows his own private filial piety regardless of the justice of the world. After all, he is too stingy and narrow, which violates the broad and mighty way of being a monarch. Later generations say that he is the "master of Chinese materials", which seems to be true.

later historians say that Jia Jing never loved anyone except himself and his parents. In forty-five years of rule, he killed ministers and officials, and he was merciless. Even the harem was filled with his earth. The relationship between Emperor Jiajing and his sons was not harmonious. He never established a prince until his death. It can be said that after his parents died, Emperor Jiajing had no one to get along with. Every holiday and the anniversary of his parents' death, Emperor Jiajing always turns away the crowd, kneels down to his parents' memorial, silently wishes them with tears, and makes the ladies-in-waiting secretly moved by it. Only then does the strong emperor show some warmth and fragility in his bones.

Historical review

Ming Shi praised: At the beginning of the reign of Emperor Sejong, he tried his best to get rid of all the bad policies and the world was suddenly ruled. Gu dieyi discussed the gift, and the public opinion was boiling. Fortunately, I pretended to seek a big prison. The husband's nature is affectionate, the monarch is loyal to the righteousness, and the ceremony is also appropriate; However, I was promoted to the ancestral temple, and I was on top of Wuzong. If there are many different reasons at that time, we will be tired of the border and the thieves will be trapped inside, but we will advocate Taoism, enjoy the Buddhist scriptures, build prosperity, and the government will be accused of being rich for more than a hundred years. Although the power is cut off, the power is in the royal, and it is also the master of Chinese materials.

Records of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty: "The Lord who is sacred and never leaves the world"; "Bow grasp holy endowment, a stroke xing yun, shovel rape tick midges, PiJu Wang Gang, zhaoxiu human discipline. Establish a strong foundation, and promote human discipline. All the major decrees and grand ceremonies are made with great care, and they will understand the past and the present, draw from the heart, resolutely act arbitrarily, wash away the traces of vulgar officials, and keep the ugliness of the text through life. ..... The monarch and his subjects rushed to accept success, and Wan's surname fell in love with it. The quietness of the pawn is harmonious, the Chinese and foreign countries are peaceful, the sound education is combined with the south, and the spirit is poor. Cover up the glory made by my great-grandfather, Cheng Zupi, and the glory is magnificent! "

Comments of past dynasties

Mitchell: "(Sejong) never stopped approving consultants in his later years, although he didn't serve the imperial palace. Although he lives in elegant and upright, he is manipulated by Zhang Chi, and his power is not moved. "

Zhang Juzheng: "During the Zhengde period, the political system was disordered. Emperor Sejong succeeded to the Great Unity with wisdom and holiness, and corrected all previous abuses to restore the old of my ancestors, which is what should be observed today. " "After the World Temple inherited Zhengde's gang rape and chaos, it used its power to shake it up, restore the imperial program, and punish the law and discipline, and the national spirit was renewed." "Sejong's forbidding consorts to be knighted is a" transcendental view, which is the same as that of the second ancestor, which is beyond the reach of modern emperors. " "Yao before the vibration, Mao Hui make mood, total king, gauge copy forever. Save your life with eternal coagulation, start the prosperous period, and have a great discipline! " "I secretly thought that my emperor was at the age of Yingmiao, and everything was only the first thing, and the charter was a strong ancestor. Then it is appropriate for Taizu to customize and sai-jo's oracle to follow suit. " "sai-jo was always wise, and in the twenty years after reunification, he made great efforts to learn, and his English was determined, which was beyond the reach of the previous emperors." "I beg to go to Duchayuan, look up the constitutional principles laid down in the early years of Jiajing, and then add a statement, uphold the public opinion, and promote the discipline, so as to help the emperor to make great efforts to govern, to be honest and upright, to be respected by the court, and to have laws to abide by."

Tan Qian: "Sejong enjoys the country for a long time. There are no two in this dynasty. Rites and music articles are bad. After decades of fasting, the world is in the palm of your hand, and China and foreign countries are as close as ever, and true English is the master! From the beginning to the end, Xindu (Yang Tinghe), Yongjia (Zhang Cong) and Huating (Xu Jie) have made great contributions. Bureaucracy is complicated and false. The military is lazy. People's resources are wasted, and it is also the beginning. Fang zhihan wudi. Work is not better than it. " "Li Ge is a habit, and he is sincere." "Strictly control the collectors and treat the people with leniency; Taking Jing Shu as a teacher and law as a supplement; Treat the internal governance with strictness and treat the border defense with quietness. "

Wang Jiafan: "Emperor Jiajing believed in magic to the point of fascination, even possessed." "Jiajing lived alone and never forgot to be arbitrary. It was not so much" inaction "as" the meanness and cruelty of the Legalists ",which brought the imperiousness of the imperial system to the extreme."

Mao Peiqi: "In fact, in our opinion, Emperor Jiajing of Ming Shizong was the one who should have done something among the 17 emperors in the whole Ming Dynasty. He launched a big ceremony shortly after he went to court. In today's words, it can be said that it is a political movement. This big etiquette involves all the officials in the imperial court. "

Bu Jian: "The ideology and culture of Jiajing Dynasty flourished, and a large number of outstanding figures and works appeared. Sejong not only has the power of advocating and leading, but also has the power of tolerance and protection "; "Home and country are bound by six interests, so Sejong's life journey is complicated and complicated, and it is also full of hope and loss, full of pursuit and disillusionment, full of expectation, and also full of melancholy." "What's more, this is a gifted emperor, a learned emperor, a responsible and courageous monarch. Sejong has a good character and outstanding talents, but he has taken more detours in life and governing the country. "

Ming Yue: He is the cleverest emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Among more than a dozen emperors in the Ming Dynasty, if you want to rank by IQ level, he is at least the third. He is as clever as Zhu Yuanzhang, and he is very cunning and good at controlling the overall situation. Jiajing devoted himself to monasticism during the day and changed the throne at night, which was the key for him to control his ministers. He didn't lie down and sleep for a while until five o'clock in the morning, and he never missed a chance to control his ministers. There have been fools who have been emperors since ancient times, but there were no stupid emperors in the Ming Dynasty. Jiajing practiced Buddhism in order to live for two more years, because he mastered the law of being an emperor, and no one can shake him, which is the foundation of Buddhism.

Attached is a brief introduction of Emperor Jiajing:

Zhu Houzong (September 16, 157-December 14, 1566), the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the grandson of Ming Xianzong, the nephew of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, the cousin of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, and the second son of King Zhu Youti of Xing Xian. As a result of the decision of Empress Zhang (the mother of Wu Zong in Ming Dynasty) and Yang Tinghe, the cabinet record, Zhu Houzong, a cousin of Wu Zong, a close relative of the royal family, succeeded to the throne. From 1521 to 1566, he reigned (the reign time was second only to that of Ming Shenzong in the Ming Dynasty), and his title was Jiajing. There was a dispute with Yang Ting and other courtiers on the issue of discussing his father's promotion and offering the title of king, which was called the "big ceremony discussion" in history. In the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Shizong reorganized the imperial platform, lightened the taxes, and fought against the Japanese pirates. Later, Shi Yu called it the "revival period". Later, he believed in Taoism and was obsessed with alchemy, which led to the "Renyin Palace Change" and stopped managing politics. In 1565, alchemist Wang Jin and others forged "Zhu Pin Xian Fang" and "New Book for the Aged" to make a elixir to offer to Shizong in the Ming Dynasty. In 1566, Ming Shizong died at the age of 6. Temple number Sejong, posthumous title, Qin Tian, Ying Yi, sacred Xuan Wenguang, Wu Hongren, Emperor Xiao Su, was buried in the Yongling of the Ming Tombs in Beijing.