The Prosperous Era of Longwan

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"I don't fight, I just fight when I'm doing my job well, because I can straighten out the court.

No argument, it's because the court is too complicated now, and taking over will have to deal with the mess left by my uncle. "

Yes, according to Wei Guangde, Zhang Juzheng's political reforms have actually left a mess so far, which is difficult to clean up.

Even after that, Zhang Juzheng completed the examination and most of the work of clearing the husband before his death, and implemented a whipping method, but it was still a mess.

Because until Zhang Juzheng died, not all of the reforms he implemented were actually completed. It can only be said that most of them were completed.

This is also the reason why it was so easy for Emperor Wanli to deny them all in one sentence.

From this we can also see how dangerous political reform has been since ancient times.

Xu Jianglan was also slightly shocked when he heard what Wei Guangde said.

But she knew that her man had an idea and should have a solution, otherwise she wouldn't have asked.

"Besides, in the end, everything still depends on the attitude of the palace.

Even if I really want to compete for the position of first assistant, I still have to get the nod from the palace in the end.

Although I still have some face with Your Majesty and the Queen Mother, my uncle has the upper hand to win.

Between me and him, the two palaces should trust and rely more on Uncle Zhang.

When I came out in the afternoon, Chen Ju also revealed the news to me. The two palaces and His Majesty were indeed inclined to seize love. He was also afraid that I would rashly get involved and cause displeasure in the palace. "

Wei Guangde said.

"Then let's stop fighting and let nature take its course."

Xu Jianglan finally spoke, and then told about the gift from the Duke of Dingguo and the invitation from the British Duke this afternoon.

When Wei Guangde saw the invitation handed over by Xu Jianglan, he raised his head and invited Mrs. Wei Xu to visit the house on a certain day. Wei Guangde narrowed his eyes and asked, "What's going on in the British government?"

"It seems that Zhang Guogong's second daughter has reached the age of fifteen and wants to have her hair cut."

Xu Jianglan said.

"I see."

Wei Guangde nodded and said, "I understand, go ahead and know what to say if anyone asks."

The Ming Dynasty Hairpin-making Ceremony, the coming-of-age ceremony for women of the ancient Han nationality, originated from the "Ten-five-year hairpin-making ceremony" in "Book of Rites: Nei Principles", which symbolizes that a woman has reached the age of marriage.

Hairpin, that is, hairpin, represents the symbol of growth of ancient women.

The Hairpin Ceremony, which is the coming-of-age ceremony for Chinese women, is one of the Five Rites. It is named after the "Additional Hairpin" part of the ceremony, that is, wearing jewelry and hairpins on the head.

Before that, little girls were not allowed to wear jewelry on their heads.

The royal family has the magnificence of the royal family, and the nobility also has the magnificence of the nobility. It is so gorgeous that ordinary people can only look forward to it and sigh, and cannot match it.

But regardless of whether the royal family or the common people, they all have to perform their own hairpin ceremony to express their daughter's promise to marry.

In this way, people who want to seek marriage can naturally start to take action.

In the popular parlance of later generations, the hair-raising ceremony means that when a woman is married, she can perform the hair-raising ceremony.

If you are fifteen years old, you can still have hair extensions even if you are not married.

The hairpin ceremony is held by the mother as the host.

Three days before the wedding ceremony, the guest will be given a banquet, and the guest will be accommodated one day before. The guest will be chosen from among the virtuous and courteous women in the marriage.

Hairpin ceremony, crown and clothing, with hairpin and back.

Those who wear hairpins are dressed as one, wearing double hair styles and shirts.

According to Zhu Zi's "Family Rites", only one plus is used for the hairpin ceremony, and the crown is worn with a 褙子, that is, a skirt.

According to the etiquette records, and with reference to the clothing system, fashion changes and related appearances of the Ming Dynasty, the first crown was added, and the coat and skirt were added, hairpins were added, bow shoes were worn, and the clothes were neat and majestic.

Later, with the development of social economy, Sanjia gradually formed.

Although for common people, the hairpin ceremony more expresses the meaning of "there is a girl waiting to be married", of course the Duke's Palace is not so simple, and the etiquette is naturally completed according to the etiquette system.

The ceremony of adding hairpin is like adding the crown of crown.

However, the three plus headdresses of the crown ceremony correspond to the clothes worn. However, the three plus jewelry of the hairpin ceremony, in addition to the correspondence with the clothes, also need to consider the corresponding bun of each plus, and the relationship between the jewelry. Operability.

Taking into account the Ming dynasty's fashion of jewelry on the head, hair, and buns, the first headdress was worn on top of the bun, and the flower hairpin in the bun was worn.

Wearing a coat and skirt, this is also the general term for women's top and skirt attire in the Ming Dynasty.

A coat refers to a coat with a lining, and a single garment without a lining is called a shirt. The shape of the coat and the shirt are the same, and the coat skirt can also be called a shirt skirt.

The most popular skirt in the Ming Dynasty was the horse-faced skirt, which was pleated on both sides and had two smooth sides at the front and back, so it was called the horse-faced skirt.

According to aesthetics and needs, the skirt and edges can also be decorated on the horse-faced skirt. Due to the rich changes in decoration methods and patterns, it became the main style of women's underwear during the Ming Dynasty.

It should be noted that the first crown wears a short coat with a cross-collar, a horse-faced skirt, and bow shoes.

In the Ming Dynasty, both men and women had coming-of-age ceremonies, but the ages were different, that is, women were fifteen years old and men were twenty, each had a coming-of-age ceremony.

The coming-of-age ceremony for men in the Ming Dynasty was also the so-called crowning ceremony. Because the ancients did not have the habit of cutting their hair, long hair became the main image of the ancients.

Since long hair is not conducive to movement, combing and decorating the long hair has become the reason for the crowning ceremony.

Whether it is the crown ceremony or the hairpin ceremony, it is one of the Jia Li, which is also the Jia Li among the Five Chinese Rites.

The five ancient rites include auspicious rites, unlucky rites, military rites, guest rites and honorable rites. Among them, auspicious rites are sacrificial rites, which mainly include sacrifices to gods, earth gods, humans and ghosts.

Specific contents include offering sacrifices to gods of heaven, such as offering sacrifices to the Lord of Heaven, the sun, the moon and the stars, offering sacrifices to gods of earth, such as offering sacrifices to the altar of grain, the Five Emperors, the Five Mountains and mountains, rivers, forests and marshes, and offering sacrifices to human ghosts, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, emperors, saints and teachers.

Evil ceremonies are mainly used for condolences and worries, including funeral ceremonies, famine ceremonies, condolence ceremonies and relief ceremonies.

Military ceremonies are related to military activities, including the master's ceremony, the great equalization ceremony, the great field ceremony, the great service ceremony and the great enfeoffment ceremony.

Guest ceremonies are etiquette for receiving guests, including the ceremonies of pilgrimage, the ceremonies of the meeting, the ceremonies of the princes' engagement with the emperor and the ceremonies of the princes' mutual visits.

Good ceremonies are etiquette used to harmonize interpersonal relationships and communicate and connect feelings, including the etiquette of food and drink, the ceremony of wedding and crowning, the ceremony of guest shooting, the ceremony of feasting and celebration, etc.

It can be seen that both the ceremony of crowning and the ceremony of hairpin are actually very important ceremonies.

The Duke of Ying invited Xu Jianglan to attend the ceremony, which naturally represented respect for Wei Guangde.

Wei Guangde did not consider whether the Duke of Ying wanted to marry into his Wei family. After all, the child was still young, and Wei Fushou was almost fifteen years old, younger than the maid of the Duke of Ying.

Perhaps it was more to do some favors in front of him, who might soon become the Prime Minister.

On the second day, Wei Guangde saw Zhang Han's memorial in the duty room. Wei Guangde also fulfilled his promise to Feng Bao and directly drafted "respectfully requesting the emperor's judgment".

After the memorial was drafted, there was no more cabinet work, and the rest depended on Feng Bao's methods.

And Feng Bao did not disappoint Wei Guangde. Within two days, news came from the palace that Emperor Wanli issued an order to directly dismiss Zhang Han, the Minister of Personnel, and replace him with Wang Guoguang, the Minister of Revenue, to take charge of the Ministry of Personnel.

Zhang Han was dismissed because he opposed Zhang Juzheng's "seizing love".

Although Zhang Han's fate was doomed, it became evidence of Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao instigating the young and ignorant emperor to crack down on dissidents under the promotion of some people.

In this sensitive period, the atmosphere in the capital seemed even more weird.

It was also on this day that Zhang Juzheng submitted his second memorial requesting to resign and return to his hometown to observe the mourning period.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng could only fight back against the rumors outside in this way.

This time, Wei Guangde was summoned to Ciqing Palace, where the two empress dowagers and the young emperor were all here. The purpose was naturally to inquire about the matter of "seizing love".

In response, Wei Guangde's answer was to state that there was a precedent of seizing love in the previous dynasty, and if the emperor was interested, he could issue an order to keep Zhang Juzheng.

Wei Guangde did not stand up to oppose "seizing love", but he did not express support for "seizing love", but this was enough for Feng Bao.

After Wei Guangde withdrew from Ciqing Palace, the palace issued another order in the afternoon of the same day, "not allowed", rejecting Zhang Juzheng's memorial requesting Dingyou.

Perhaps because the inner court's attitude towards Zhang Han was too rude and direct, it affected the judgment of the officials in Beijing to a certain extent. Therefore, at this time, although no officials followed Zhang Han's example and publicly stood up to oppose, public opinion did not improve, but became more and more intense.

It can be said that the reputation of the Prime Minister has become extremely bad outside.

If it were not for Zhang Han's dismissal and expulsion this time, others would not want to repeat the same mistake and might have made a fuss long ago.

A few days later, Zhang Juzheng's third memorial was sent to the palace again, still requesting to return home to mourn.

In the past few days, the work of the cabinet began to be idle, because there were not many documents sent to the capital from all over the country, and most of them were about the affairs of the six ministries.

And the affairs of the six ministries were naturally handled slowly because the officials were watching the changes of the Prime Minister.

The performance evaluation law.

If the Prime Minister was replaced, it was still unclear whether the performance evaluation law could continue to be implemented, and who would care about this.

Because fewer memorials were sent to the palace, Wei Guangde and Zhang Siwei had a quiet time these two days. Without the memorials from the six ministries, the official business that needed to be handled every day was reduced by nearly half.

On this day, Wei Guangde finally finished drafting the last memorial, and sighed at the empty desk: "They don't do their work, but always think about something else.

Even if Zhang Shuda really resigned to mourn, what does it have to do with them?"

The performance evaluation law was only pushed aside after all, and it has not become a legal system to constrain officials. Everyone has not taken this law seriously, and thinks that the performance evaluation law can be almost abolished after the change of the prime minister.

However, Wei Guangde did not give the six ministries a note to let them concentrate on their official business.

It's okay to be idle, because there should be a big storm next.

Wei Guangde guessed it and passed the message to everyone around him, just four words, "stand by and watch."

Wei Guangde didn't want the people around him to get involved, because he knew that Zhang Juzheng would most likely stay in Beijing to observe the mourning period, so there was no need for the people around him to offend Zhang Juzheng.

As for the treatment of Zhang Han this time, it can be seen that Zhang Juzheng did not submit a petition to plead for mercy.

After all, Zhang Juzheng was the chief minister. Although Wei Guangde was temporarily in charge of the cabinet, he was not the chief minister yet, and it was not his turn to plead for mercy.

A few days later, when Zhang Juzheng submitted the fourth memorial, this time he did not insist on returning to Jiangling to mourn for his father, but instead requested to take away his salary to observe the mourning period and take leave, planning to return home to bury his father the following year.

This time, everyone with a discerning eye understood that Zhang Juzheng really did not want to leave the throne of the chief minister, and he still wanted to stay.

But no one knew how this memorial, which was two days late, was finally formed in Zhang's mansion.

Only those who were well-informed heard a little rumor, that is, Zhang's mansion was not calm.

Yes, Zhang Juzheng was not stupid. Once his fourth memorial was submitted, how would the outer court view him.

To this end, Zhang Juzheng not only thought about it himself, but also called together the staff in the mansion to discuss it.

Like all officials in the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng had his own staff to provide reference opinions for their work.

For example, the previous performance evaluation method and the land survey method were not actually completed by Zhang Juzheng alone, but he outlined the outline and listed the key points, and the staff in the mansion brainstormed to complete it.

That is, at the end, he was required to personally confirm the final draft.

However, this time, his fourth memorial caused a lot of disputes in Zhang's mansion.

Zhang Juzheng's retainer and tribute student Song Yaoyu stood from Zhang Juzheng's perspective, analyzed Zhang Juzheng's reputation, integrity and current situation, and believed that it was the best policy for Zhang Juzheng to resign and observe the mourning period.

There were actually quite a few staff members who held similar opinions. They saw that many people were in an awkward position for Zhang Juzheng, so they had a fierce debate with Zhang Juzheng and the retainers who supported Zhang Juzheng to stay in office in the mansion.

However, what they didn't know was that it was not only Zhang Juzheng himself who decided whether Zhang Juzheng would stay or go, but also the intention from higher levels.

Yes, Feng Bao brought news from the inner court that the empress dowager and the emperor hoped that he would continue to complete the new policy and completely improve the financial difficulties of the court.

Therefore, even if Zhang Juzheng had a deeper understanding of his environment at this time, he was powerless.

The objections of Song Yaoyu and others were not accepted, and Zhang Juzheng still chose to send this fourth memorial to the palace.

When the news came out, the officialdom in the capital was in an uproar.

Because of "ritual", ancient China regarded warmth and humility as virtues.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, he had to ask for three resignations to complete the procedure, and the same was true for the prime minister's request to return to his hometown to observe the mourning period.

It can't be said that the emperor will agree to let you leave as soon as you ask.

This seems very cold-blooded to outsiders.

After the three requests and three resignations, the fourth memorial was the time to express his true feelings. However, Zhang Juzheng expressed at this time that he would continue to stay in office, but asked to wear plain clothes and a corner belt to work in the cabinet, serve as a lecturer every day, resign from salary, and observe the official system.

However, Zhang Juzheng never expected that it had always been like this, but this time he was out of his mind.

In modern times, three requests and three resignations or three resignations and three resignations is not only a ritual form, but also a political strategy.

Through this ritual, he showed his humility, prudence, sincerity and noble qualities, thereby winning the respect and support of others.

However, there were too many people in the court and the public who wanted him to leave.

The old trick of three requests and three resignations they performed naturally could not be hidden from those political veterans. There were many officials in the court who disliked Zhang Juzheng's seizure of love.

In the eyes of most literati, mourning is the foundation of filial piety and an unchanging ancestral law. Yang Tinghe, the chief minister of the Zhengde Dynasty, strictly implemented the mourning system without any discount.

Now, Zhang Juzheng, as the head of all officials, openly violated the rules, neither resigned nor returned home, which was really the behavior of a treacherous minister.

As a result, not only did many officials who were dissatisfied with Zhang Juzheng begin to collude, but even some officials who supported Zhang Juzheng began to turn against him. (End of this chapter)

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