The departure of Emperor Zhengde marked the end of an old era and the beginning of a new era.
Crown Prince Zhu Zaicheng ascended the throne of the Ming Dynasty very smoothly, and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Yongsheng. 1771 in the Yanhuang calendar was the first year of Yongsheng, officially starting the history of the Yongsheng Dynasty.
Zhu Zaicheng is already in his early forties, which is when he is in the prime of life.
¡° He has always followed the path that Zhu Houzhao once walked, starting from a small county magistrate and working step by step, from county magistrate to prefect to chief envoy of a province.
At the same time, in terms of Zhu Zaicheng¡¯s education, Emperor Hongzhi personally selected teachers for him. The teaching team, with Wang Shouren as the main teacher, also allowed Zhu Zaicheng to receive a new type of education.
Zhu Houzhao also attached great importance to him and sent Zhu Zaicheng to serve in the army for three years. He exercised in the army and became familiar with military aspects.
Since he was a child, he has been trained strictly according to the Ming Dynasty's successor model, and his performance has always been quite outstanding, which satisfied both Emperor Hongzhi and Emperor Zhengde. The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty also praised him.
Although Zhu Houzhao has more than 200 sons and many brothers, his status as prince has always been unshakable. Of course, this has a lot to do with the long-standing princeling system of the Ming Empire. From the day he was born, he He is destined to be the successor of this Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Zaicheng, who was young and powerful and received an extremely strict education, began to reveal some of his thoughts and intentions from the day he ascended the throne of the emperor.
This is not an emperor who is content to remain unknown, but an emperor with his own ideas and goals.
First of all, the first thing he did was to exile all the monks and alchemy Taoist priests raised by Emperor Zhengde in the palace to the desolate Siberia.
These monks and Taoist priests don¡¯t know how much money they deceived from Zhu Houzhao. The money was secondary, but more importantly, they made the palace into a smoky mess, which also brought a lot of stains to Zhu Houzhao¡¯s later years. The refined elixir also made Emperor Zhengde Go faster.
These made Zhu Zaicheng hate them very much. As soon as he came to the throne, he exiled them to Siberia and never came back.
Based on the current situation in Siberia, wherever you are exiled, you will basically be waiting to die, but your death will be extremely ugly, because it is too cold, and the area for hundreds or thousands of miles is an uninhabited area.
Except for a few small towns that are dedicated to deporting prisoners and can be connected to the outside world in the summer, there is no contact or communication with the outside world at all.
The winter is bitterly cold and frozen for thousands of miles. Many criminals who were exiled to these places were directly frozen to death. I don¡¯t know how many of them lost their hands and feet due to freezing.
In addition to rectifying the smoky harem, exiling the monks and Taoists, and cleaning up the eunuchs who bewitched Zhu Houzhao, etc.
??In both the government and the public, Zhu Zaicheng also quickly stabilized people's hearts.
Zhu Houzhao has driven away many cabinet ministers and chief ministers in the past one or two years. The cabinet ministers, six ministers, etc. are like passing through the ranks. They have been replaced over and over again, but no one can satisfy Zhu Houzhao. .
When he arrived at Zhu Zaicheng, he quickly appointed several of his teachers to important positions in the government, into the cabinet, etc. He quickly stabilized the government and the opposition, stabilized people's hearts, and at the same time controlled the government, and quickly took all power. In your own hands.
" Moreover, Zhu Zaicheng specially sent people to Nanyun Province to invite Liu Jin, hoping that Liu Jin could come out and continue to be the chief assistant of the cabinet and lead hundreds of officials to assist him.
After all, Liu Jin had taught him for a while, and he was considered half a teacher. In addition, Liu Jin had enough prestige and ability, so he wanted to invite Liu Jin to come out.
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For Liu Jin, he is also very clear in his heart.
I am actually a veteran of the Hongzhi Dynasty. During the Zhengde Dynasty, I was only in government and opposition parties in the first few years. After that, I have been traveling around the world.
Having been away from the government for many years, the officials in the government have changed one after another. What I said is no longer effective. What's more, once the emperor and his courtiers came, the new emperor may not really like him.
Furthermore, Liu Jin also felt that this new emperor may not be as generous and kind as Emperor Hongzhi and Emperor Zhengde. He should go out into this muddy water by himself, so as not to be in trouble later.
I can be idle and idle, raise my own old, write my own book, as for the Daming EmperorThe suppression of the Jijia faction not only failed to achieve the desired effect, but also aroused the resistance of the Gongjia faction.
They began to continuously spread the ideas and doctrines of their own school all over the world, using overseas colonies and vassal states as their base camps, and continuously penetrated into the Ming Empire.
At the same time, it also vigorously publicized the mistakes made by Emperor Yongsheng, especially his favoring his relatives, wantonly destroying the existing rules of the Ming Dynasty, allowing his relatives to be arrogant, domineering, plundering, ignoring the king's laws, and wantonly destroying the system of the Ming Dynasty.
People from the Gongjia faction even proposed that the imperial power should be subordinated to the civil rights and subject to the supervision of the people. The princes who broke the law should be equally guilty as the common people, let alone those arrogant relatives.
This made Emperor Yongsheng even more angry, and even issued a direct decree to various vassals and colonies, demanding that the spread of these treacherous and unethical doctrines and ideas be strictly prohibited.
Because during this period, the Ming Empire even had a serious conflict with the South African colony, and the two sides almost came to war.
Zhu Zaicheng dispatched three fleets: the Red Sea Fleet, the West African Fleet, and the Indian Ocean Fleet, plus 100,000 troops to suppress the South African colonies.
The South African colony was not to be outdone, and also dispatched a powerful fleet to respond tit for tat. After rapid development over the years, the South African colony has a population size not as large as that of the Ming Dynasty, but it already has tens of millions of people.
With advanced science and technology, a developed economy, and a strong military, it is the most powerful country in the world besides the Ming Empire.
Although the Ming Dynasty is the sovereign state, the South African colonies can listen to some of Ming's words, but when the Ming Empire brings warships and cannons to the gate, the South African colonies will naturally not let others slaughter and bully them.
When the South African colonies dispatched a large number of warships, artillery, a powerful army, and even the air force, people all over the world knew the powerful strength of the South African colonies.
For the first time, I truly realized that besides the Ming Empire, there was another country in the world with such a strong military strength.
Under the tense situation between the two sides, the whole world even stopped breathing.
Fortunately, in the end, the shareholders behind the South African colony and the military generals and nobles of the Ming Dynasty surrendered to Zhu Zaicheng, saying that they were always loyal to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the strong strength shown by the South African colony made Zhu Zaicheng also fearful. Three points, so go down the steps.
The internal war between the Ming people that almost broke out in South Africa can be regarded as the biggest thing in the past ten years.
To be honest, the Ming Dynasty¡¯s generals and nobles were also quite dissatisfied with Zhu Zaicheng because he reused traditional conservative officials and introduced some policies that were not conducive to the development of capitalism.
In addition, the Li family favored Empress Li and treated the Li family calmly. Just like the Zhang family, they offended the Xungui Group of Ming Dynasty and robbed the interests of the Xungui Group. The conflicts between the two parties became more and more serious.
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