Zheng De was born in Xinggong on September 16th in the second year (1507). He and his half-cousins. According to legend, during the Jiajing period, the Yellow River was clear for five days, and the sky was covered with purple clouds, also known as the reincarnation of Yuan You.
Jiajing studied hard since childhood, reciting Tang poems and learning ancient books. His father tutored him to attend all the routine ceremonies and ceremonies in Wang Fu, and often went to Beijing with his father to meet the emperor. Therefore, Jiajing was familiar with the rituals and ceremonies of moving to the DPRK from an early age. After Wang Xing died of illness, Jia Jing, who was only 12 years old, attacked and was assisted by Yuan (1453- 152 1 year), a great official (he was Jia Jing's most trusted counselor and confidant at first after he ascended the throne).
In the sixteenth year of Zheng De (152 1), Zhu Houzhao, the most fatuous emperor of the Ming Dynasty, died in the leopard room. Since Wu Zong had no children, he left no will before his death. He just asked the eunuch to tell Queen Cishou to discuss with the cabinet assistant minister about the heir to the throne. So the cabinet records, Yang Tinghe, a university student, and the empress dowager secretly decided to pass the throne to Xing's eldest son according to the clause of "Brother is the supreme brother" in the Instructions to the Emperor. Empress Dowager Cixi announced the imperial edict, ordering Zhu Houzong to shorten the time of his father's death and go to Beijing as "heir to the throne".
152 1 April 21day, two days after Zheng De's death, a delegation composed of representatives from the department, Xun Gui, the royal family, the cabinet and the court went to Huguang Anlu (now Zhongxiang). Zhu Houzong, the young king of Xing, accepted the imperial edict of the Empress Dowager and was promoted to the imperial palace of the San Francisco municipal government to receive greetings from officials. 152 1 On May 7th, a group of about 40 people surrounded the new emperor and set out from Anlu for 20 days. On the way to Beijing, Zhu Houzong behaved very well, refusing gifts from officials and dignitaries, and regardless of the fatigue of the trip, he ate sparingly and lived frugally. Arrived in the suburbs of Beijing on May 26th and refused to enter the city as a prince. After the mediation of the Queen Mother, he drew up a new plan for enthronement. The next morning, a ceremony was held to welcome the emperor and the title was changed to Jiajing.
After Jiajing succeeded to the throne, the first thing he did was to worship Guoji and establish his orthodox position. He followed Zhu Yuanzhang's precedent of respecting four ancestors and tried his best to respect his biological father as an authentic emperor. At this time, there are two factions in North Korea. One school of opposition, headed by Yang Tinghe, a university student, advocated that Zhu Houzong should take filial piety as his son, respect filial piety as the imperial examination, respect his biological father as his uncle, and respect filial piety. Another group of supporters, represented by Zhang Cong, put forward that "following the unification and not following the heirs" should be admitted to the imperial examination, and filial piety should be regarded as the imperial examination. The two sides had a heated debate on quoting classics, which was the famous "big gift dispute" in the history of the Ming Dynasty. After three and a half years of argument, Emperor Jiajing expelled all opposition forces from the court by high-handed means. 180 people either lost their party membership or were demoted, or were garrisoned or killed with sticks. "Great Etiquette" ended in Jiajing's victory. Emperor Jiajing addressed his biological father as Emperor Gong Rui and his biological mother Jiang Fei as Empress Zhang Sheng. And in Zhongxiang, Du Xing, he built a large-scale emperor's tomb-Xianling, and completed his own Zhao Mu system.
In the early days of Jiajing, Zhu Houzong made great efforts to reform the disadvantages of the former dynasty, reused the former ministers, killed Wu Zongqin, trusted Qian Ning, returned farmland to the people, encouraged farming, controlled floods, and eliminated more than 100,000 craftsmen in military schools, which greatly eased the fierce social and economic contradictions at that time, thus resulting in the situation of "reviving Jiajing". Emperor Jiajing reigned for 45 years and was known as the "Lord of Sinoma" in history. He learned a lesson from the chaos of eunuchs in power in the previous dynasty, strictly controlled eunuchs, and centralized power was revived and strengthened. In order to consolidate border defense and coastal defense, the Great Wall was built on a large scale, and the border defense forces were adjusted to resist foreign invasion. Repelled the repeated invasions of Mongols, launched the Battle of Ordos and the Battle of Annan, and effectively strengthened the north-south border defense. At the same time, in the southeast coast, the consolidation of coastal defense, especially Qi Jiguang's anti-Japanese struggle, has effectively cracked down and put out the Japanese invasion and piracy.
In the late Jiajing period, Emperor Jiajing devoted himself to metaphysics, worshiped Taoism and ignored state affairs for 20 years. The alchemists and Taoists used the superstition of Sejong's dream of immortality and the phenomenon of spiritual prosperity to fool Jiajing in every way. Tao Wenzhong, a Taoist priest, became a prominent figure with three orphans, Dr. Guanglu, Zhu Guo, Shaofu, Shangshu and Gongchengbo, and a college salary. Ministers in power have catered to Sejong's hobbies. They were known as the Qing Dynasty in history, and made no achievements in politics, especially in Yan Song, where the autocratic power and imperial power politics became increasingly corrupt. Yan Song controlled the cabinet for 20 years from 1542 to 1562, trying to please Sejong, and his politics was corrupt and dark. 1565 In April, Sejong was sentenced to death for the treason of Yan Song's son Yan Shifan. Yan Song was demoted to a civilian and lost all his property. Yan Song became a tramp in the imperial court and died at the end of the same year.
1566 (forty-five years of Jiajing) In February, Hai Rui, the master of Yunnan, risked his life to remonstrate and severely criticized Sejong's mistake in governing the country, which shocked the ruling and opposition parties. This is the famous "Hai Rui dismissed from office" incident. Jiajing ordered Harry to be arrested and imprisoned until Mu Zong, the son of Sejong, was released from prison and reinstated.
Emperor Jiajing's literary accomplishment is high, and his poems are well written, which is rare for emperors in past dynasties. At the same time, during the Jiajing period, Sejong ordered Guo Xun to engrave The History of the Three Kingdoms and The Water Margin, which spread all over the world. He also attached importance to education, built academies all over the country and re-recorded the Yongle Grand Ceremony, which became the most unsolved mystery in the cultural history of China.
Emperor Jiajing was moody and headstrong, and had deep internal and external grievances. Palace life has been spent in a tense atmosphere. Jiajing almost died at the hands of ladies-in-waiting. After the attempted murder of a maid-in-waiting, Jia Jing, who was only 30 years old, completely withdrew from the normal life of the imperial court and the Forbidden City and lived in the Yongshou Palace in the West Garden of the Imperial City, with little direct contact with bureaucrats. But he refused to give up any power, ruled through inner cliques, and formed a court, obsessed with pursuing immortality through drugs, religious rituals and secret teachings.
1564 (forty-three years of Jiajing) 65438+ February, Sejong fell ill and went into ointment blindness. He misses his hometown Zhongxiang very much and wants to go back to his birthplace to enhance his vitality. However, every time he was dissuaded by ministers, Jiajing never returned to his hometown Zhongxiang after he went to Beijing to inherit the system, except that his mother Jiang died in Zhongxiang in the eighteenth year of Jiajing and was buried with his parents to inspect Feng Shui. 1566 12 14 In the early morning, Emperor Sejong Jiajing suddenly fainted and was unconscious. At noon, he died in Gan Qing Palace at the age of 60. In the third year, his third son, Yuji, became Emperor Qin Long of Mu Zong. On March 17th, the first year of Qin Long, Emperor Jiajing was buried in Yong Ling, Dayu Mountain.