But one thing must be admitted: if measured by the comprehensive quality of being an emperor, this wonderful Jiajing emperor is a relatively high one in the whole ancient history of China!
As one of the few lucky people in the Ming Dynasty who succeeded to the throne as a vassal Wang Shizi, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houzong was born in Xing's family. He is completely different from the children of the general Zhuang guest Wang family in eating, drinking and having fun. On the contrary, he received a good family education from an early age.
He even studied in Huguang Fu Xue. Among these Fu Xue students, his academic performance is among the best.
Moreover, after his father died, he took care of the affairs of the palace as a prince, and even sent a group of men to take charge. Can be called a natural management talent.
When the cousin emperor Zheng De died and a huge throne pie hit his forehead, he was only fourteen years old, but he was yourself. Faced with the constraints of a group of veteran ministers headed by Yang Tinghe in Beijing, he made full use of his own strength to promote famous ministers such as Zhang Cong and Xia Yan, and made a name for himself? Gift wars? Under the banner of father's birthright, let this group of courtiers fight fiercely with each other and quietly hold power firmly in their hands.
Such an imperial wrist is a genius!
However, when he ascended the throne, he was full of ideals.
When he was a vassal Wang Shizi, he looked down on his cousin Ming Wuzong. He has been eating, drinking and having fun all his life. Even at the age of twelve, he set the ideal of reviving the Ming Dynasty one day.
When the king was in power, he kept his promise from the beginning.
Later generations often talk about the smoky scene of a big gift dispute at the beginning of his accession to the throne, but it was in this farce that he quietly started a drastic political reform in the Ming Dynasty: silver was officially established as the legal tender in China after his accession to the throne.
The industrial and commercial reform was fully rolled out, and Jiajing era became a period of rapid industrial and commercial development in China.
He even trusted Zhang Cong to carry out drastic bureaucratic rectification, and later Zhang? Test method? , but also completely inherited the reform of his early reign.
His first twenty years in power? Jiajing Zhongxing? Really comes from his strong ruling level.