Offend the little emperor
In the ten years of Wanli, Zhang died of overwork. After his death, Zhu Yijun, the emperor of Wanli, sent a letter to mourn for several days, giving him the title of "Shang Zhu Guo", giving him the title of "Wen Gong", giving him 1,200 pieces of silver, ordering people to protect him and burying him in Jiangling. This is a great kindness. However, not long after, they turned against others and raided the Zhang family, hoping to dig up huge sums of money, which led to a series of unjust cases. What's going on here?
Emperor Wanli was a ten-year-old child when he ascended the throne. Zhang was born a scholar and learned, and was appointed as the teacher of the little emperor by the queen mother. He is very strict with his emperor students, and his daily life and every move are monitored and supervised by his teacher. Zhang always uses the requirements of sages to regulate the behavior of his students, and he should act like an emperor in every word and deed. Under this strict teaching, Emperor Wanli sincerely respected and feared the teacher, leaving all the state affairs to Zhang, while he devoted himself to reading and learning. In this way, the close relationship between teachers and students, officials and officials could have been a beautiful talk, but things could not always be satisfactory. Zhang is too strict with the emperor.
Emperor Wanli studied calligraphy since he was a child, and his handwriting was excellent. I often write some words to my trusted ministers, and Zhang is also a person who often gets words from the emperor. The little emperor took calligraphy as a hobby, but within two years, Zhang advised the emperor not to be too addicted on the grounds that calligraphy was only the last skill, and forcibly removed the calligraphy class that the emperor had to attend every day. From such a trivial matter, Zhang's tough and uncompromising style hurt the little emperor's heart. Later, another time, the little emperor and two eunuchs around him got drunk in the middle of the night and were fooling around in the palace. As a result, the queen mother severely reprimanded her the next day, and Zhang made a decision to transfer all the eunuchs who played with him around the emperor. He also forced the emperor to publish a book to the people of the whole country, which was so harsh that the little emperor found it really unbearable. In such repeated blows, Emperor Wanli's feelings for Zhang gradually changed from awe to resentment.
Eliminate shadows
In the ten years of Wanli, Zhang, who had always dominated the state affairs, died. Twenty-year-old Wanli was full of confidence and began to lead the government. But not long after, Emperor Wanli discovered that although Zhang was dead, his shadow still affected the court. Emperor Wanli still can't handle state affairs according to his own will, and North Korea is full of officials trained by Zhang. And he gradually found that Zhang, who had always been regarded as a saint by him and asked the emperor to be a saint, was not as sacred as he looked. Zhang's appearance is extraordinary, he is well decorated, and everything he enjoys should be the best. Moreover, Zhang himself likes women, and he also loves the secret art in the room that he has been criticizing. Zhang also has the experience of taking bribes. All this made the sacred aperture on his head fall off. The emperor began to think that Zhang had completely different standards for people and himself. He asks others to be frugal, but he is extremely extravagant. He asked others not to approach women, but he was greedy for beauty, and so on. Besides, now that the emperor wants to lead the government, he must sweep away Zhang's shadow in North Korea and destroy his influence.
So, he first opened an operation on Zhang's staunch supporters and eunuchs who helped him communicate with the harem. At first, Li Taihou had very strict restrictions on Zhu Yijun's study and practice, supervised everywhere, and was often punished and beaten. At that time, Feng Bao, as the eyes and ears of Empress Dowager Cixi, often reported Zhu Yijun's fault to Empress Dowager Cixi, and Empress Dowager Cixi would be punished every time she complained. Therefore, Zhu Yijun was very afraid of Feng Bao, and sometimes he had to please Feng Bao, but he planted hatred for Feng Bao in his heart. Now that he is in power, he immediately caught some misdeeds of Feng Bao and demoted him to Nanking. He also listened to the secret report of eunuch Rizo, and found more than one million gold and silver and countless jewels from Feng Bao's home.
Property search
Those who tasted the sweetness pointed the finger at Zhang after his death. He wants to kill two birds with one stone, on the one hand, he can establish his own authority and take charge of the program; On the other hand, I also want to collect a large sum of money from Zhang's family. In March of the 11th year of Wanli, taking advantage of someone attacking Zhang as an official, he abused power for personal gain, ordered to seize Zhang's honorary titles such as "Shangguguo" and "Taishi", and also ordered to seize posthumous title's "Wenzhonggong", and dismissed a number of officials who had close ties with Zhang in those years. Zhang's son was also demoted. Later, he sent people south to copy Zhang's house, causing more than a dozen descendants of the Zhang family to be shut up in the house and starve to death. Only 12 thousand gold and 102 thousand silver were found. The eunuch sent to deal with this matter felt that the result was not good enough to explain to the emperor, so he arrested Zhang's eldest son and did not do it, and tortured him. Under the torture, Zhang bit at random, saying that there were still 300,000 taels of silver hidden in three people's houses in Zeng Province. As a result, these three families also became the victims of this property raid, and they were all robbed. One of Zhang's sons was forced to commit suicide, and the other attempted suicide twice, which made the ruling and opposition parties uneasy.
In August of the twelfth year of Wanli, the imperial edict announced Zhang's so-called crime and sent all his brothers, sons and grandchildren to the border. At this point, a farce of stealing property ended. Finally brushed away the psychological shadow left by Zhang. It's just that Zhang's painstaking efforts in reform were in vain.