To solve this question, we must first understand Zhang, a civil servant in Ming Dynasty. He was praised as "outstanding prime minister" by later generations because of his great achievements in history, and he was one of the top ten celebrities in ancient China.
After more than 200 years of ups and downs in the Ming Dynasty, Jiajing was riddled with diseases and crises. Emperor Jiajing was intoxicated by the flowery rhetoric in Ode to Qingyun, and entrusted the state affairs to the traitor Yan Song. Yan Song and his son took the opportunity to take bribes and pervert the law. In this context, the cabinet first assistant Zhang was pushed to the wave of history. With his extraordinary courage and wisdom, he took the lead in consolidating national defense by bringing order out of chaos and practicing whipping, so that the Ming Dynasty, which was in danger, was revived. But there is an old saying that "a beautiful tree will be destroyed by forest air" and "Gao Zhen is the master of merit". Such a talented person was a natural thorn in the side of other officials and emperors at that time.
Some people may say that although Zhang may threaten the emperor's position, as a student of Zhang, how can Emperor Wanli "bite the hand that feeds him"? This involves the special circumstances at that time. In the sixth year of Qin Long (1572), Mu Zong died and ten-year-old Zhu Yijun acceded to the throne. The emperor is young, the queen mother supervises the country, and Zhang temporarily presides over the overall situation. Since he acceded to the throne, there is no need for him to intervene in the affairs of the court, and Zhang has handled it properly. The idle emperor Wanli gradually became fond of drinking. Therefore, Zhang gave him a good political lesson and advised him to quit this bad habit quickly. However, after all, when I grew up, I began to resist and rebel against Zhang in the rebellious period. He thinks drinking is part of his resistance. Instead of giving up drinking, it got worse and worse, and later it got into trouble. In the eighth year of Wanli (1580), Shenzong was drunk and unconscious, and ordered people to beat up the eunuch's adopted son. This is not the first time. Feng Bao didn't want to tell Li Taihou about it.
Li Taihou's godson is very strict, and now he threatens to destroy evil for the whole world, abolish this disappointing emperor and change Zongshen's younger brother Lu Wang as emperor. Zongshen was afraid and quickly admitted his mistake. Later, this incident ended with Zhang writing an article "Conscience for Shintoism", but the mind of Shintoism gradually "matured", and great changes took place in a blink of an eye, and Zhang gradually became resentful.
This mood lasted until Zhang died, and the young Wanli finally came to power. Before Zhang's bones were cold, a storm came.
Zongshen first pointed the finger at Feng Bao, copied his home, and found a large number of gold, silver and jewels. It took more than a month for the huge property to be counted. He is a greedy man, and now he has become red-eyed, unable to sit still, and began to think of Zhang's so-called extravagance and decadence.
Zhang's political reform offended a large number of officials. Throughout ancient and modern times, no matter which reform will touch many people's vested interests, because Zhang's work of cleaning up Zhang Tian in the political reform violated the vested interests of the upper class, he was in a confrontation with powerful people before his death. After his death, the wall fell down and everyone pushed him. With the emperor's weather vane, many people followed suit to retaliate against him, even if someone begged him against the wind, there was no wave. Yang Wei, a senior official of the official department, once opposed the property raid, thinking that Zhang's overwork might hurt people's hearts. It is not advisable to take Yao and Shun as an example. But god is crazy. Under the temptation of money and unwilling resentment accumulated all the year round, what is "chilling of subjects"? He believes that Zhang is a heinous corrupt official and is bent on taking money from his property.
Who would have thought that under the malicious revenge (of course, mainly the emperor's strong support), the means were extremely cruel, not only ransacked a lot of money, but also gave the Zhang family a serious warning! Lian Zhang's descendants were also liquidated, and Zhang, the eldest son, committed suicide, leaving a bloody book, which made people angry. The wave of opposition to intercession in the imperial court rose, and cabinet records all interceded in succession. Pan Jixun thought that "the prison was too urgent" and asked the emperor to give special relief to Zhang's mother in her 80 s.
It was the opposition of ministers that made Zongshen yield and hastily ended the farce. We can't absolutely say that there was no intercession after Zhang's death, but the intercession was successful and it was done, and the tragedy could not be redeemed. At this point, Zhang and his story, which Liang Qichao called "the only great politician in the Ming Dynasty", came to an end. There is no Zhang in the world and no one can save this dying dynasty. We also see that this dynasty is heading for extinction step by step.