Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582), Han nationality, was born in Fengyang, Anhui and Jiangling, Hubei. His courtesy name is Shuda, his junior name is Zhang Baigui, also known as Zhang Jiangling, his nickname is Taiyue, and his posthumous title is "Wenzhong". Politician and reformer of the Ming Dynasty. One of the outstanding cabinet ministers in Chinese history and the greatest statesman of the Ming Dynasty. A famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, a statesman and reformer in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and the chief minister of the cabinet in the early Wanli period. He assisted Emperor Wanli in carrying out the "Wanli New Deal", which enabled the life of the already dying Ming Dynasty to be extended, and had great historical achievements.

00Zhang Juzheng[1], named Shuda and Taiyue. His ancestral home is Fengyang, Anhui. Taizu of the Ming Dynasty granted the title to his ancestor Zhang Guanbao to Guizhou and made him the seat of thousands of households in Guizhou. Zhang Juzheng's great-grandfather was born as a commoner and was unable to inherit the hereditary official position, so he moved to Jiangling, Huguang. Zhang Juzheng was born on May 24, 1525 AD and died on June 20, 1582 AD. He entered school at the age of 5 and was proficient in the Six Classics at the age of 7

Dayi, passed the scholar examination at the age of 12, took the provincial examination at the age of 13, and wrote a very beautiful article, just because Gu Lin, the governor of Huguang, wanted to Let Zhang Juzheng practice for a few more years before he fails to win. He won the imperial examination at the age of 16, and became a Jinshi in the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing (1547) at the age of 23. He went from editor to lecturer on academic affairs. In the first year of Longqing (1567), he was appointed as the left minister of the Ministry of official affairs and the bachelor of Dongge University. Later, he was moved to the position of Second Assistant to the Cabinet, Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Bachelor of Jianji Palace. In the sixth year of Longqing's reign, Emperor Wanli ascended the throne and his descendants Gao Gong was the chief assistant. Ming Shenzong was young at that time, and Zhang Juzheng presided over the adjudication of all major military and political affairs.

After being in power for 10 years around 2000, he implemented a series of reform measures and achieved certain results. He inventoried the fields hidden by landlords, implemented the "one whip" law, changed the tax system, and improved the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty government; he used famous generals such as Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang to train troops, strengthen the northern border defense, and reorganize the defense of border towns; he used Ling Yunyi and Li Chengliang to train troops. Yin Zhengmao and others put down the rebellion of the southern ethnic minorities and severely punished the imperial court. When Zhang Juzheng became famous, he targeted the civil servant group that had brought him huge benefits. In addition to implementing a whip method, Zhang Juzheng made it possible to uniformly collect money but not goods in taxes, saving a lot of land. He also implemented the examination method. The specific implementation method is similar to today's attendance check method. The method is as follows:

For example, 00 As a prefect (fifth grade), he should write a plan at the beginning of the year, not too little. After writing, he should keep one copy for himself and give another copy to Zhang Juzheng. If the plan is too little, it will be returned and rewritten. After the plan is approved, the prefect will work hard to complete the plan in the next year. If at the end of the year, after checking, it is found that the prefect has not completed anything, the prefect will be demoted to the county magistrate. If the situation persists when we get to the county, we will continue to be demoted until all the officials in the prefecture are removed and we can go home and become common people.

00On June 20, the tenth year of Wanli (1582), Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the cabinet, the Grand Master, the Grand Tutor, and the Grand Scholar of Zhongji Palace, died at the age of fifty-eight. After his death, he was given to Shangzhu Kingdom. , posthumously named Wenzhong. Soon after his death, he was criticized by the eunuch Zhang Cheng and conservative bureaucrats, and he lived in his family. His reputation was not restored until the second year of Tianqi. He is the author of "Zhang Taiyue Collection", "Shu Jing Zhi Jie", etc.

00After more than two hundred years of ups and downs in the Ming Dynasty, by the Jiajing period it was full of diseases and crises. An altar is set up in the Forbidden City every day to perform rituals, and green smoke fills the air. Emperor Jiajing, who fantasized about immortality, was intoxicated by the gorgeous words of "Ode to Qingyun" and entrusted the government affairs to the treacherous prime minister Yan Song with his eyes closed. Yan Song and his son took the opportunity to do evil, taking bribes and perverting the law. In this context, Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the cabinet who was born as a civilian, was pushed to the forefront of history. With his extraordinary courage and wisdom, he reorganized the government, consolidated national defense, and implemented a whip method to revive the dying Ming Dynasty.