Why didn't Emperor Jiajing go to court for thirty years?

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Ming Shizong Zhu Hou? Apricot? Germany became emperor in the sixteenth year (1521), and he refused to go to court at the age of thirty from the fifteenth year of Jiajing (1536), until he died at the age of sixty in the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), and ignored the state affairs for thirty years. Many people say that he is obsessed with the Taoist technique of praying for elixir, so he doesn't go to court, just as the old man said, "He is an alchemist, a fatuous old man, who has been sitting in the world for more than forty years, but he just doesn't do anything." In fact, there are other reasons why Jiajing did not go to court for 3 years. /cefc1e178a82b91c4519cfa788da9773812ef7f? X-BCE-process = image/resize, m _ lfit, w _ 45, h _ 6, limit _ 1/quality, q _ 85

First, the officials make admonitions. In the Ming Dynasty, the officials were so fierce that they were not afraid of death, not greedy for profits, and went on wave after wave, only for the sake of eternal fame, which made emperors all have a headache, but they could do nothing about it. Jiajing had just come to power when he encountered a big etiquette incident. He wanted to honor his biological parents, but the records of Yang Tinghe and other old ministers asked him to change his parents. In the end, Jiajing ignored the opposition of the courtiers and went his own way to honor his biological father to promote Xian Di and promote Xian Di's memorial tablet? The ancestral temple is ranked above the Ming Wuzong. For this reason, many officials were killed, and Yang Tinghe's son Yang Shen was exiled to Yunnan. On the surface, it seems that Jiajing has won a complete victory, and the ministers prostrated themselves at his feet to pay homage. In fact, the officials in the bones have been disappointed with the autocratic emperor and feel that he is hopeless and unreasonable. Therefore, every time Jiajing went to court, the officials either impeached each other or remained silent, which made Jiajing particularly annoyed. Later, when I saw these guys, I was annoyed, so I was out of sight, so I hid in the deep palace every day to approve the throne, and sent Xia Yan, Yan Song, Xu Jie and other spokespersons outside to run the court affairs. As a result, rumors spread everywhere, which eventually led to the very famous Harry scolding the emperor. /a814c86e61d95a1ba68f17f4ad163d9ca7f? X-BCE-process = image/resize, m _ lfit, w _ 45, h _ 6, limit _ 1/quality, q _ 85

Second, the maid-in-waiting committed treason. In the twenty-first year of Jiajing (1542), more than a dozen maids headed by Yang Jinying almost strangled Jiajing, which was called "the change of Yin Palace" in history. The story about this is that Jiajing didn't know who said that using virgin menstrual blood as medicine can prolong life, so from the age of 2, he kept asking the people to collect the blood of menarche from virgins aged eight to twelve, and the maids didn't look at the humiliation, so they took risks. In fact, the main reason is that Jiajing was temperamental and moody after taking Dan medicine. He often hit people because of a slight mistake, killing more than 2 people before and after, which finally led to the tragedy. After this chaos, Jiajing did not go to court. Originally, the officials and courtiers were watching his jokes, but this incident happened, which is embarrassing. Jiajing was also a very proud man, so he took refuge in the deep palace and spent all his days dealing with maids, eunuchs, Taoist priests and several cronies until his death. /622762df73918f192d6235a3d269758eec47f? X-BCE-process = image/resize, m _ lfit, w _ 45, h _ 6, limit _ 1/quality, q _ 85

Third, the art of control. Jiajing worships Taoism, and Taoism pays attention to inaction. Han Fei expressed a view in Jielao and Yulao, and repeatedly mentioned that Qi Huangong indulged in drinking and ruled the world. A good emperor who really has the ability to eat barbecue, sing songs, drink a little wine and soak up girls every day and govern the country. Like Zhu Yuanzhang, those who are ignorant and do everything day and night are all bad emperors. But the premise of being such an emperor is that there must be a capable prime minister like Guan Zhong, and any theorem without sufficient and necessary conditions is hooliganism. Liu Chan, the late ruler of Shu Han, is such an emperor. Zhuge Liang worries about everything, but it's none of my business if the sky collapses. Emperor Jiajing also wanted to learn from Qi Huangong's Empress Liu, so Yan Song was able to rule the imperial court for twenty years. But Yan Song was not Guan Zhong, nor Zhuge Liang. He was a big traitor, so he made a mess of the Ming Dynasty. After Jiajing, the Wanli emperor did not go to court for forty years, which can be said to be a strong grandfather. Therefore, Jiajing's failure to go to court is caused by various reasons, not simply superstition of Taoism.