Doctors in the late Ming Dynasty

At this moment, Zhang Juzheng once again felt powerless. The first time was when he was stabbed in the back by King Xiao Liao, resulting in the death of his grandfather. At that moment, he vowed to take control of power and make decisions for the people of the world. Decades later, he finally did it

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After many twists and turns, even when faced with Yan Song's rise to power, he abandoned his official position and returned home full of hope, firmly believing that those who were about to be entrusted with great responsibilities would have to endure hardships and strain their bodies and minds.

But now, facing life, old age, illness and death, he feels powerless. Even six years ago, he presided over the reorganization of the Imperial Hospital and selected a large number of famous doctors. But doctors are not gods. They can cure diseases but cannot save lives, nor can they change lives.

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Lu Tiaoyang and Zhang Juzheng are equivalent to Fu Bi and Fan Zhongyan. Although Lu Tiaoyang is from Guangxi, his ancestral home is Hubei. He and Zhang Juzheng are fellow villagers. The two have similar aspirations and have an irreversible relationship. In recent years, Zhang Juzheng's reforms have gone smoothly, and Lu Tiaoyang's

The effect is not small.

With Lu Tiaoyang's promise, Ma Ziqiang and others also expressed that they would fight to the end. Perhaps in history, they were not well-known, but in this reform that has spread across the country and left a strong mark on history.

, they paid not only their hard work, but also their lives.

A year later, Ma Ziqiang was overworked and died of illness; Lu Tiaoyang also resigned and returned home due to illness. Within two years, he died of illness at home. Not long after these old guys fell ill from overwork and died one after another, Zhang Juzheng

He also soon entered the end of the road.

Tan Lun's death in the fifth year of Wanli was just the beginning. These reform leaders defeated all opposition, but they were also defeated by the ruthless hands of time.

In just five years, the reformers were almost wiped out by disease.

I have to say that this is the second joke fate played on Zhang Juzheng.

Looking back in time, in the fifteenth year of Jiajing (1536), Zhang Juzheng entered school and became a scholar. He was only eleven years old at this time.

The next year, Zhang Juzheng participated in the provincial examination, and Gu Lin, who was the governor of Huguang at the time, deposed him. The reason was: Zhang Juzheng was 12 years old, and his young mind needed more tempering to become a great person.

It was also this year that Zhang Juzheng's childhood friend Zhu Xian was appointed to ascend the throne in three years and become the eighth King of Liao.

A friendship that should have become a good story, but fate played a joke on them, which can be said to have changed their lives. Zhu Xian was the eldest son of the former King of Liao. If the former King of Liao had not died early, he would not have been qualified to inherit the throne.

.Because Zhu Xian was young and still had three years left to ascend the throne, his aunt Mao was responsible for everything in the palace during these three years, including the education of the young King of Liao.

Zhang Juzheng's grandfather was a guard of the Prince of Liao, and Zhang Juzheng was Zhu Xian's childhood playmate. Now he is a young scholar well-known to women and children in Jiangling City. Naturally, the Princess of Liao used Zhang Juzheng as an example to spur Zhu Xian?

He said, "If you are so unmotivated, you will be controlled by Bai Gui in the long run." Bai Gui, Zhang Juzheng's nickname.

Three years later, in the 19th year of Jiajing (1540), Zhang Juzheng took part in the provincial examination for the second time and became a 15-year-old Juren. In the same year, 15-year-old Zhu Xian officially ascended the throne and became the eighth King of Liao.
On the occasion of double happiness, a banquet was held in the palace of the Liao prince. For some unknown reason, Zhu Xian summoned his grandfather Zhang Zhen into the palace to give him wine and drank to death on the pretext of celebrating Zhang Juzheng's election.

The death of his grandfather had a great impact on Zhang Juzheng. One was a powerless Juren, and the other was a dignified prince. There was a huge difference in status between the two, and they were even less likely to take revenge.

In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing (1547), Zhang Juzheng became a Jinshi in high school. Two years later (1549), Zhang Juzheng first mentioned one of the diseases of "congestion of blood and qi" in "On Current Affairs", and then listed the five diseases of "bloat, flaccidity and paralysis".

, systematically expounded his ideas for reforming politics.

The first thing to bear the brunt is the "arrogance of the clan", and then the common officials are ill, the officials are irregular, the frontiers are not repaired, and the financial losses are huge.

In the 29th year of Jiajing (1550), Zhang Juzheng saw that there was no hope for reform and asked for leave to go home. Zhu Xianqi frequently invited Zhang Juzheng to banquets. It would have been okay if his grandfather Zhang Zhen had not drunk himself to death in the Liao Palace.

You can't go back to the past.

It was also in this year that the Gengxu Revolution occurred that shocked the world. Zhang Juzheng's thoughts changed. Between national hatred and family hatred, he chose the former.

In the next three years, Zhang Juzheng visited various places to observe the people's sentiments, and finally came to the conclusion that "the land is uneven, the poor are unemployed, and the people are suffering from annexation", and the idea of ​​reform was planted from then on.

In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing (1557), Zhang Juzheng returned to politics and served in the Hanlin Academy.

In the forty-third year of Jiajing (1564), Xu Jie recommended Zhang Juzheng as the minister of King Yu Zhu Zaihe. Three years later, in the first year of Longqing (1567), Zhang Juzheng was promoted to King Yu as an old minister (emperor).

The left minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the bachelor of Dongge University officially entered the cabinet and participated in the government affairs.

As Zhang Juzheng moved towards the center of power step by step, it was officially the darkest moment of the Ming Dynasty. The refugees were scattered, disasters occurred, the country's treasury was empty, and funds were scarce. Tatars invaded the Central Plains in the north; chieftains fought for power and profit in the south, and Cen Meng rebelled

; Japanese pirates in the southeast harass the coastal areas, making life difficult for the people. In addition, the political struggle within the cabinet is becoming increasingly fierce.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng no longer cared about personal honor and disgrace, and only wanted to realize his ideal of saving the country and bringing peace to the world. Although he did not fight, the retribution of the King of Liao for his illegal actions still came.

In the first year of Longqing (1567), Huguang Xunxun impeached the King of Liao for committing illegal acts, and Emperor Longqing ordered to deprive Zhu Xian of the real title granted to him by Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty. In the second year of Longqing (1568 A.D.), Xunxun

According to the imperial censor Gao Guangxian, he impeached the King of Liao again for the Thirteen Major Crimes. Emperor Longqing ordered Hong Chaoxuan, the left minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and the Jin Yiwei commanded Cheng Yao to go to Jingzhou to investigate the crimes of the King of Liao.

King Zhu Xian of the Liao Dynasty failed to escape the sanctions of the Ming Dynasty. From then on, the King of Liao Dynasty was exterminated and the palace was confiscated.

But this paved the way for a series of events that followed. In the first year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng "respectfully built a building to honor Chen Han", rebuilt the Zhang Mansion in the east of the city, and honored the Wanli Emperor with a plaque inscribed on it. The name of the building was "Peng"

"Sun", the name of the hall is "Chunzhong", and a couplet in large characters in the imperial book reads: You only have salt and plum blossoms, and you make a boat.

Even so, last year, in the fourth year of Wanli (1576), Liu Tai, the patrol censor, took the lead in attacking Zhang Juzheng, openly claiming that Zhang Juzheng had "slandered the King of Liao and seized his palace for a serious crime." Little did they know that the palace of the King of Liao was in the north of Jiangling City, and Zhang Juzheng

The mansion is located in the east of Jiangling City, completely out of reach.

Zhang Juzheng was the chief minister, so he naturally did not care about him, so the matter was suppressed by Wanli. But precisely because of Zhang Juzheng's silence, this crime was firmly seized by political opponents as evidence.

In the eleventh year of Wanli, the Princess of Liao published an article titled "The traitors plotted to trap the prince, seize the ancestral palace, seize the property, and invade the whole family", accusing Zhang Juzheng of seizing the gold and silver belongings of the Liao Prince's palace, and threatened to "gold treasures are all planned.

"I came to live in the palace". For a time, the government and the public responded, and the public sentiment was turbulent, which eventually led to Emperor Wanli to kill Zhang Juzheng, whose body was still cold.

Less than two years after Zhang Juzheng's death, his family was broken up and his family members starved to death. Seventeen people hanged themselves, including the eldest son Zhang Jingxiu. The rest were sent into exile.

Zhang Juzheng's life experiences are left to history, and the world regrets them infinitely.