dc.description.abstract | Shen Shixing, his style name Ru Mo and literary name Yao Quan, later called Xiuxiu Jushi, was born in Wu County.(Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province.) In the year forty-one of Jiajing, the title of the regin of Emperor Shi Zong of Ming Dynasty, he got the first place in the highest imperial examination and awarded Xiu Zhuan, name of a government position. Then, he took charge of the Hanlin Academy as a Left Shuzi, also a title of the government position.
The official career of Shen Shixing was going well, and he had never experienced frustrations until leaving the position. Shen Shixing adopted generous attitude in manner of dealing with people and administration. Shen Shixing was diplomatic when dealing with the Emperor、cabinet colleagues and the ministers. He was good at splitting difference and reconciling a dispute, so he had less political enemies. Before he resigned the commisson two years ago, he suffered the criticism fully by few parts of the supervisors. But he kept harmonious interaction with most of courtiers, so it was not hard to impetus affairs of the country during he charged of the premier. His excellent coordinated ability and human relations skill was helpful to maintain the political situation of the Wan Li age stable.
There were a little weaknesses in the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty. The prime minister’’s authority was contradictory to the Emperor’’s authority in the Ming Dynasty. And that why Zhang Juzheng sufferes Ming Shenzong Emperor’’s liquidation after the death. Because the lesson for Zhang Juzheng lay not far behind, Shen Shixing understood that he could not to adjust or modify national system basically. So what he could do was to straighten out the relationship between the Emperor and the ministers, and to balance all the conflict and benefit of various aspects. In this way, it was easier to impetus the affairs of the country. So Shen Shixing strictly adhered to the duty of being a prime minister, and he defined his role as a coordinator who tring hard to subside the dispute between the Emperor and civil official. Therefore being a prime minister, Shen Shixing did not carry out drastic reforms, but it was not mean he did nothing. He tried hard to maintain the friendly relations beteen the cabinet and the Emperor, so it can guarantee that achieve all policies displaying. At last, although Shen Shixing resigned for implication of the“state foundations”, he influenced political trend of the Wan Li age by arranging human affairs attentively and making a concession to civil official group.
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