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Xu Jie was born in Xuanping, Zhejiang in 1503, while his father was working there as the assistant county magistrate. Allegedly, when Xu was less than one year old, he fell into a well but lived on. While he was about five years old, he plummeted from a mountain, but his clothing snagged on a branch and saved him from death.
Xu Jie may refer to: Xu Jie (Southern Tang) (Chinese: 徐玠 ; pinyin: Xú Jiè , 868–943), Southern Tang politician Xu Jie (Ming dynasty) (Chinese: 徐階 ; pinyin: Xú Jiē , 1503–1583), Ming dynasty politician
After the Longqing Emperor ascended the throne, Senior Grand Secretary Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng jointly drafted the posthumous edict of the Jiajing Emperor. This edict aimed to correct the abuses of fasting and large-scale building projects during his reign and to restore the positions of diligent court officials who had been wrongly accused. [1]
According to the law, Zhang was supposed to leave his office to mourn, and it was proposed that Xu Jie, who retired in 1568, be recalled to take charge of the Grand Secretariat. Zhang requested to be relieved of his duties, but the fourteen-year-old emperor decided that he could not do without him and canceled his mourning. [ 11 ]
However, Xu Jie, Senior Grand Secretary at the beginning of the Longqing Emperor's reign, had already rejected the cooperation of Grand Secretaries Gao Gong and Guo Pu when writing the Jiajing Emperor's "final edict". Instead, he invited Zhang Juzheng, who was then the director of the Hanlin Academy.
Meanwhile, officials Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng work with the Prince to counter the Yan faction’s harmful "rice-to-mulberry" policy, which causes famine and unrest in Zhejiang. Local uprisings, led by farmers like Qi Dazhu, escalate as corrupt officials profit from silk trade deals, while Governor Hu Zongxian secretly opposes the ...
The work was attributed to the emperor's mother. Empress Ma was the wife of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the dynasty, and Empress Xu was the wife of the Yongle Emperor, the first monarch in the new branch of the dynasty. Additionally, the emperor changed the Yongle Emperor's temple name from "Taizong" to "Chengzu".
Xu Da, Ming dynasty general; Xu Datong, Chinese political scientist and legal scholar; Xu Deshuai, A Hong Kong footballer for South China; Xu Demei, Chinese javelin thrower; Xu Jie (Ming dynasty), (1503-1583), 44th Senior Grand Secretary of the Ming Dynasty; Xu Jun, Chess player; Xu Ling, Writer and editor