Zhang, a native of Jiangling, Huguang, is called Uncle, Shaohao, Shaohao Taiyue. Also known as Zhang Jiangling, the greatest politician and reformer in Ming Dynasty, and one of the outstanding cabinet records in China history.
the Ming dynasty began when Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, and after more than 2 years of turmoil, by Jiajing, 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 flowery rhetoric in Ode to Qingyun, and 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. Under this background, Senior Minister Zhang, a commoner, was pushed to the front of history.
in the early days, Zhang Fuzheng, with his extraordinary courage and wisdom, made great efforts to govern, consolidate national defense, resist the Japanese aggressors, and implemented the flogging method economically, which revived the dying Ming dynasty. 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 the son returned to Jiangling for the exam, he told his son 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 returned to his hometown for treatment. Zhang Lu, the governor of Baoding, made an exception and sent an "investigation". Zhang immediately returned it with 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 honest and clean talent for governing the country at this time.
this is politics and 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 a living room, bedroom and kitchen, served by golden couple. He tried his best to show off all the way and received countless gifts. Usually, a meal of hundreds of dishes is still too "nowhere to go". In his later years, Zhang became more and more decadent and corrupt, completely obeying Confucius' teachings of "gluttony", coveting pleasure and living a decadent and corrupt life. He is not only greedy, but also lewd. Not only is it delicious, but it also loves beautiful women.
when Zhang was the first assistant, he strongly supported his cronies and hired 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, and 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 any interest in delicacies, raw seafood, famous tea and good wine, and can't afford any appetite.
The more you eat, the sharper your mouth, the sharper your tongue, the greater your appetite and the higher your taste. Therefore, Zhang's level of eating is getting higher and higher, forcing chefs to constantly change their patterns, and their craftsmanship is also improving and reaching the peak. Zhang also created a famous dish called "Chicken Tongue Soup", which is not found in China's recipes. 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 corruption can be seen from this.
Zhang has as many as seven concubines, not including numerous 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, the 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 cook soup for his immediate boss Zhang. 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 several 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.
As a result of eating various aphrodisiac tonics for a long time and indulging in excesses, Zhang, a first-generation famous doctor, gradually collapsed. Finally, he was very ill, and a large intestine came out of his 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 was not just hemorrhoids, as he said, but he died because he ate too many aphrodisiacs, the medicine was too dry, and he got angry after eating coolants.
after Zhang's death, he was named "Zhu Guo" and "Wen Zhong". Ten days before his death, Emperor Wanli named him a "Grand Master", and he was the only person in the Ming Dynasty who was awarded 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.