After more than 200 years of turmoil, from Zhu Yuanzhang as emperor to Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, it was full of diseases and crises. In the Forbidden City, an altar is set up every day to repair it, and the smoke fills the air. Emperor Jiajing, who dreamed of immortality, was intoxicated by the gorgeous rhetoric in Ode to Qingyun, closed his eyes and entrusted the state affairs to the traitor Yan Song. Yan Song and his son took the opportunity to do evil and take bribes. In this context, Prime Minister Zhang, a civilian, was pushed to the front of history.
In the early stage, Zhang Fuzheng, with his extraordinary courage and wisdom, made great efforts to consolidate national defense, resist the Japanese aggressors, and implemented the flogging law economically, so that the dying Ming Dynasty could be revived. Zhang also was praised as an "outstanding prime minister" by later generations because of his great historical achievements.
In the process of rectifying official management and practicing economy, Zhang is not only honest and upright, but also strict with his family. As early as when the cabinet was struggling and political life was in jeopardy, he wrote: "I would like to serve the dust brake with the deepest heart and not seek personal gain." When my son returned to Jiangling for the exam, he told him to rent a car. On his father's birthday, he asked his servant to take a birthday present and ride a donkey to celebrate his birthday. In the eighth year of Wanli, Zhang's younger brother, Zhang, was seriously ill and went back to his hometown for treatment. Zhang Lu, the governor of Baoding, made an exception and sent someone to "investigate". Zhang immediately replied to a letter saying that he should not set an example for the court to enforce the law. For the Ming dynasty, Zhang was indeed a rare talent for clean government at this time.
This is politics. Private life is private life. Zhang also has a luxurious side. For example, he spent a lot of money to make a sedan chair for 32 people. Very exquisite, with living room, bedroom, kitchen and golden couple service. He tried to show off all the way and received countless gifts. Usually hundreds of dishes in a meal are still too "nowhere to go". In his later years, Zhang Yue became more and more decadent, completely following Confucius' teachings of gluttony, coveting pleasure and living a decadent life. He is not only greedy, but also lewd. Not only delicious, but also love beautiful women.
When Zhang was the first assistant, he strongly supported his cronies and appointed his disciples. Every time he promoted a cadre, he bluntly said when talking with the cadre: "He came thousands of miles to be an official just to eat and wear; I want to eat and wear, I want to be an official. " Although the words are not pleasant to hear, the truth is extremely profound. Zhang, who has worked hard for most of his life, has lost interest in delicacies, raw seafood, famous tea and good wine, and his appetite has lost.
The more you eat, the sharper your mouth, the sharper your tongue, the greater your appetite and the higher your taste. Therefore, Zhang's eating level is getting higher and higher, forcing chefs to constantly change their patterns and their skills are constantly improving and reaching the peak. Zhang also created a famous dish called "Chicken Tongue Soup", which was not in China's cookbook. Chicken tongue is not chicken marrow and chicken brain, which is not difficult to find, but how many chicken tongues does it take to make a bowl of chicken tongue soup? Zhang's food and greed can be seen from this.
Zhang has seven concubines, not including many concubines and long-term and short-term sexual partners. In order to maintain strong sexual desire and store enough androgen, Zhang often eats something that can strengthen yang. Food, color and sex are highly consistent with him. Tan Lun, minister of the Ministry of War, once worked as a teaching assistant.
When Qi Jiguang was guarding Dengzhou, he specially assigned fishermen nearby to capture a kind of "beaver" in the Yellow Sea, commonly known as "beaver", take its penis and testicles, and send them to Beijing regularly to make soup for his immediate boss. At the same time, he also used a lot of "aphrodisiacs".
According to Wang Shizhen, a scholar in Ming Dynasty, Zhang was very excited after drinking this soup. Although it was a few cold days, his head caught fire, causing his hair to fall off and his body to burn his head. Even in the ice and snow, he can't wear a hat. Because Zhang doesn't wear a hat in winter, other officials are bald and don't wear hats in winter. This has become a unique and beautiful scenery in Beijing during the Wanli period.
Due to long-term use of various aphrodisiacs and excessive indulgence, the first generation of famous Zhang is getting weaker and weaker. Finally, I was very ill, and a large intestine came out of my anus, bleeding and miserable. He died at 58. Wang Shizhen also said in the Biography of Cabinet Records since Jiajing that Zhang Shoufu's death was actually caused by an aphrodisiac overdose. Zhang's life is not just hemorrhoids as he said, but because he ate too much aphrodisiac, the medicine was too dry, and he died of fire after eating coolant.
After Zhang died, he was named "Zhu Guo" and "Wen Zhong". Ten days before his death, Emperor Wanli named him "Emperor Tai Shang", and he was the only person in the Ming Dynasty who was granted this position before his death. Later, Emperor Wanli ordered his family, some old, weak women and children, to be imprisoned in Zhangfu because they had no time to quit. Seventeen people, including three babies, starved to death.